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201K CENTURY HISTORY 



OF 



Delaware County, Ohio 



AND 



REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



EDITED AND COMPILED BY 

JAMES R.. LYTLE 
DELAWARE. OHIO 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples" 



PUBLISHED BY 

BIOGRAPHICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 

GEORG2 RICHMOND. Pres. : C. R. ARNOLD. Secy axd Treas 

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



1908 






7 






I 2- 



preface 




HE aim of the publishers of this volume and of the author of the 
history has been to secure for the historical portion thereof full and 
accurate data respecting the history of the county from the time of 
its early settlement, and to condense it into a clear and interesting 
.narrative. All topics and occurrences have been included that were 
essential to this object. Although the original purpose was to limit the narra- 
tive to the close of 1906. it has been found expedient to touch on many matters 
relating to the year [907, and also, in some measure to the current year 1908. 

It is impossible to enumerate here all those to whom thanks are clue for 
assistance rendered and kindly interest taken in this work. We would, how- 
ever, mention Rev. A. C. Crist and Dr. S. W. Fowler as those to whom we 
feel under an especial debt of gratitude. 

In the preparation of the history reference has been made to. and in some 
cases extracts taken from, standard historical and cither works on different 
subjects treated of. 

The reviews of resolute and strenuous lives which make up the biographical 
department of this volume, and whose authorship is for the most part inde- 
pendent of that of the history, are admirably calculated to foster local ties, to 
inculcate patriotism, and to emphasize the rewards of industry dominated by 
intelligent purpose. They constitute a most appropriate medium of perpet- 
uating personal annals, and will be of incalculable value to the descendants 
of those commemorated. These sketches, replete with stirring incidents and 
intense experiences, are flavored with a strong human interest that u ill 
naturally prove to a large portion of the readers of this book its most 
attractive feature. 

in the aggregate of personal memoirs thus collated will be found a vivid 



epitome of the growth of Delaware County, which will fitly supplement the 
historical statement, for the development is identified with that of the men 
and women to whom it is attributable. The publishers have endeavored to 
pass over no feature of the work slightingly, but to fittingly supplement the 
editor's labors b\ exercising care over the minutest details of publication, and 
thus give to the volume the three-fold value of a readable narrative, a useful 
work of reference, and a tasteful ornament to the library. We believe the 
result has justified the care thus exercised. 

Special prominence has been given to the portraits of representative 
citizens which appear throughout the volume, and we believe that they will 
prove not its least interesting feature. We have sought in this department to 
illustrate the different spheres of industrial and professional achievement as 
conspicuously as possible. To all those who have kindly interested themselves 
in the successful preparation of this work, and who have voluntarily contributed 
most useful information and data, or rendered other assistance, we hereby 
tender our grateful acknowledgements. 

THE PUBLISHERS. 
Chicago, 111. 



Bote 



All the biographical sketches published in this volume were submitted to 
their respective subjects or to the subscribers, from whom the facts were 
primarily obtained, for their approval or correction before going to press : and 
a reasonable time was allowed in each case for the return of the type-written 
copies. Most of them were returned to us within the time allotted, or before 
the work was printed, after being corrected or revised : and these may there- 
fore be regarded as reasonably accurate. 

A few. however, were not returned to us : and. as we have no means of 
knowing whether they contain errors or not, we cannot vouch for their 
accuracy. In justice to our readers, and to render this work more valuable 
for reference purposes, we have indicated these uncorrected sketches by a smal' 
asterisk I *), placed immediately after the name of the subject. They will all 
be found on the last pages of the book. 

THE PUBLISHERS. 



Contents 



CHAPTER I. 



Geology and Topography 17 

Bed Rock Geology — The Ice Age — Water Supply— Soils — Surface Features — Timber -Agricultural Products — 
Mineral Spring's. 

CHAPTER II. 

Indian Occupation ...41 

Prehistoric Races— The Red Race — The Delawares — Relations Between the Settlers and the Indians —War ot 
1812 — Anecdotes. 

CHAPTER III. 

Settlement of tfif. Northwest Territory and Organization of the State of Ohio 54 

Boundaries Denned — Derivation of Title and Early Explorations — AcHevement of George Rogers Clark — State 
Cessions and Indian Treaties — Settlement — Indian Wars — St. Clair's Defeat — Wayne's Campaign and Battle of 
Fallen Timber — Organization of the Northwest Territory — Organization of the State of Ohio. 

CHAPTER IV. 



Settlement and Organization of Delaware County • '- 

Derivation of Title — First Settlement — Growth of Population — First Events — Pioneer Industries -Early Roads 
and Taverns — Organization of the County — Early Political History — County and Other Officials. 

CHAPTER V. 

Delaware — The County Seat 104 

When Laid Out and by Whom —Its Settlement and History — Early Military Importance— Stores and Eatly In- 
dustries -Growth of Population — Incorporation — Citv Government Organized — Roster of Officials— Public 
Buildings — Water Works — Fire Department — Cemeteries. 

CHAPTER VI. 

Transportation Facilities ' '-' •' 

Early Roads and Stage Coaches — Turnpikes— Proposed Canal -The Railroad Era— First Successful Railroad — 
Other Railroad Enterprises— Railroad Shops Located in Delaware — Electric Railways. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Manufactures 

Manufacturing Possibilities of Delaware County— Early Mills and Mill Machinery -A Tragic Occurrence- 
Chair Manufacture— Lumber, Furniture, Etc. — Flour Mills— Distilleries— Leather— Textile Prodm i- 

Mills — Oil Enterprises— P'oundries, Etc. — Artificial Ice— Light, Heat and Power— Brooms -Evaporated I ds 

— Clay Products — Cigars — Creameries — Lime and Stone— Gas Manufacture. 



i::o 



CONTENTS 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Banks and Banking 153 

A History of the Banks of Delaware Counts — Past and Present. 

CHAPTER IX. 

Public Institutions . . . . 1 ili 

The Ladies' Christian Union — Delaware County Infirmary — Children's Home of Delaware — Home for the 
Aged— Jane M. Case Memorial Hospital-Girls' Industrial Home. 

CHAPTER X. 

The Press ls.S 

Newspapers and Editors of the Past and of the Present. 

CHAPTER XI. 

Education (I 1 [93 

Introductory— Public Schools of the City of Delaware — District Schools aDd Early Teachers — St. Mary's 
Parochial School — Statistics — Delaware City Library — Delaware County Historical and Archeological Society. 

CHAPTER XII. 

Education (III 217 

Ohio Wesleyan University. 

CHAPTER XIII. 

Religious or Church History of Delaware County 2-17 

First Churches and Pioneer Ministers -General History of Religious Organizations- Churches and Clergy of 



Today. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



The Bench and Bar 297 

Early History First Court and First Lawyers —The Present Bar and Its High Standing. 

CHAPTER XV. 

The Medical Profession :;(2 

Delaware County Medical Men of the Past and of the Present. 

CHAPTER XVI. 

Military History of the County 379 

Revolutionary War — War of 1812— Seminole War— Mexican War — War of the Rebellion- Spanish-American 
War. 

CHAPTER XVII. 

Fraternal and Benevolent Organizations - 410 

Masons — Knights of Pythias — Independent Order of Odd Fallows — Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 
— Ancient Order of Hibernians — Improved Order of Red Men — Other Societies. 

CHAPTER XVIII. 

Townships and Towns 435 

Settlement and Organization of the Townships — Settlement and Founding of the Towns — Sketches of Ashley. 
Galena, Sunbury, Ostrander, Lewis Center, Powell, Radnor, and other towns. 

i :al (97 



1Tnbex 



Biographical 



PAGE 

Adamson, J. I 7-7 

Albright, Werter B 332 

Alexander, Dr. R. C 367 

Alkire, Emanuel 893 

Andrews. Dr. Frank 365 

Andrews, Dr. Hugh B 68l 

Andrews, Joseph H 681 

Armstrong, Charles 73% 

Armstrong, George 738 

Athf rton, Lee 717 

Au-tin. Prof. Cyrus I! ., D. D. 681 

Avery, Dr. J. W ^,7.^ 

Ave ry, R M 835 

A\ res, Isaac 562 

A3 r - Ji ihn J 669 

Ayres, Col. Jacob 562 

Bagley, Andrew J 606 

Bank of Ashley, The 660 

1 r, Judge Gideon G 328 

Barbour, Dr 349 

Barnes, James M 303 

Barnes, Dr. Lewis 368 

Barrj . Ge W 341 

Ba • n. Clay W 793 

Baxter, George W 867 

Beau, Hiram 573 

Beech< r, Harry II 329 

Bell, Stanley ''74 

Benedict, Griffith G 7-'i 

tt, Dr. A. E 367 

Benton. Benj. T 528 

ton, Run P 339 

Beiil m, Edw. W 528 

n, J. R 528 



PAGE 

Berlett, Ji hn 799 

Besse, Dr. Henry 37' 

Bevan, David 667 

Hi \ an, David, Sr 535 

Bevan, William 535 

Bigelow, Dr. Alpheus 346 

Bird, Aimer J 409 

Bird, Oliver Perry (99 

Bishop, James 530 

Bishop, Levi 530 

Bishop, Wesley 530 

Blakeley. I heodore F 778 

Bliss, Dr. David P 362 

Blymer, Dr. S 369 

Bonner, Dr. O. W 361 

Bi Higher, John F 824 

Bovey, Emanuel 504 

B"\ ey, William C 504 

Brandebury. Edw F 330 

Breece, Lewis 694 

Breece, Tobias C 694 

Brewster, Dr. Charles B.... 361 

Brickcr. William M 896 

Brooks, Cyrus C 326 

Buck, Dr. Arthur H 356 

Buck. Israel E 306 

Bucky, Dr. Wm. C 365 

Bumstead, Dr, Lencius 371 

Burkard, Ferdinand J 730 

Burnside. Thomas 751 

Burr. Dr Jona II 34'' 

Campbell, Dr. J. C 373 

1 inniK II. William Razil 750 

( larlsi in, Charles s'i7 



PAGE 

Carney, Dr. Elijah 347 

Carpenter, Geo. W 330 

Carper, 1 lonier McK 310 

Carr, S. T 701 

Carr, Wray H N43 

Carson, Cicero T 614 

( 'arson, Wm 013 

(.'alter, Hugh 556 

Carter, James E 530 

Carter. John H 893 

Cumbers Dr. Jas 349 

Charles, Bruce 598 

Charles, Simon 598 

Chase Rev. Ira 634 

Cherry. Dr. James M 369 

Chidester, Dr. Cyrus W 360 

Clark. Elihu '140 

Clark, Isaac . 640 

Cleaver. Amos (i 573 

Cleaver, Samuel M 574 

Cline, Corfington 662 

(line, Samuel D 662 

Cochran, Dr. M. M 367 

Cole, Capt. Elias 839 

Cole, Edson B ?u 

Cole. Ji seph 530 

Cole. Thomas 523 

Cole. Til. mas M SJ, 

( '' ne, ( 1 phas (K57 

Cone. Hon. John A Si 7 

Cone, Judge John \ 321 

Cone, John W 608 

Cone, Titus King 607 

Conklin, A. V., M. D 600 

Conklin, Dr Abraham V 358 



10 



INDEX 



PAGE 

Conklin, Ashton Stover 687 

Conklin, John 687 

Constant, Dr. Win. T 356 

Cook, John J 894 

( 1 10k, Justine 300 

Coomer. Dr. H. N 365 

Copeland, Dr. Eleazer 346 

Conner, Henry M 720 

Courter, Peel Teed 720 

Courtright, Fleetwood ........ 623 

Courtright, John 623 

Cowels, Dr. G. E 376 

Cowgill, Charles C 767 

Cowgill. John 723 

Cowgill, Otway C 328 

Cowles, G. E., M. I) 768 

Cowles, Leonard H 299 

G x, Robert J 502 

Coyncr, Gei >rge 850 

C03 lier, Judge ( ,eo 334 

Crane. Dr. A. M 368 

Crane, Elbert 616 

Crane. Howard Clifton, M. D. 6t6 

Crawford. Col. James M 593 

Crawford, Col. James W 305 

Cray, Dr. C. Churchill 374 

Cray. Dr. Mice B 374 

( 1 ego, Charles 699 

Crego, J. Monroe 699 

Crickard, James 604 

Crickard, Dr, Win. F 350 

Crickard, William ]•.. M. I).. 604 

Crist. Rev. A. C 559 

Crist. Hun. Harvey W 33S 

CritchtieM, Leander J v 311 

Cruikshank, A. S 782 

Crumb, James II 637 

Crumb, Lyman Jerome 637 

Cryder, Charles 58) 

Cryder, John M 582 

Culver. Henry S 324 

Cummins, Dr. S. P 368 

Cunningham, Geo. 672 

( unningham, Joseph II (172 

Cum 11. I apt J. F 785 

Dalton, Dexter X 732 

1 '.a ids, Benjamin F 699 

I >a\ ids, I lavid 699 

Davids, Sylvanus 700 

I lavis, H. H 704 

D; /is, Robert R 743 

Day, Dr. H. M 371 



PAGE 

Decker, Alexander X t>2? 

Decker, Frederick 625 

De Good. Orlin C 860 

Dickerson, Lewis 609 

Dickerson, Ruben G 609 

Dill, Augustus B 551 

Dill, Joel W 550 

Dilsaver, Guj Ernest 576 

I lisbennett, Thomas W 892 

Donavin. Col. George B 885 

Donovon, Taylor 668 

Dumm, Dr. A. W 366 

Dunlap, Calvin C 83! 

I )ye, Thomas F 533 

Eati Hi, Henry J 316 

Eckelbery, Dr. Frank E 371 

Edwards, Dr J 371 

Ekelbery, Dr. Norton 367 

Elsbree, Collins P 701 

Elsbree. George F 701 

Eulenburg, Count Botho.... 657 
Eulenburg. Countess Nell) 

Lytle 657 

Fury. Jesse M 744 

Et ails, I In mas 659 

Evans, Wesley 7. 659 

Faircliild. Belli. M 748 

Fairchild, Sherman 74S 

Farmers Savings Bank Co., 

The 738 

Fay. I'.eiij \ 544 

Fay. 1 lavid 544 

Fay, Dr. D. C 375544 

Feaster. Dr. II. F 559 

Field, Dr. Erastus 370 

Finch, Judge Sherman 302 

Foster, I )r, 1 ieo. F 371 

Fi iv\ ler, I >r Silas W 376 

Fowler, Silas W.. \|. D ^.v, 

Fi eese, I saac Marion 771 

Freshwater, Judge Benj. 1".. 320 

Fryman, Gee 38S 

I- 1 5 man Thomas \ 588 

Fuller, Judge David T 302 

Furniss, Dr. Henry 373 

1 i.ii'i iel, I [orace 321 

( iabriel, I .uiher 521 

( rage, 1 )r. Fred. 1 36r 

Gardner, Irvin X 583 

1 iardner, J ma 583 



( iardner. Joseph 583 

Gardner, Seth 777 

( iaynor, John 513 

Gaynor, John Francis 513 

Gerhard Dr. M 348 

Gerhardt, Dr. John H 31.7 

Gerhardt, J. H.. M. D 718 

( .ill. Judge John S :^<i 

Gillett, Allen 836 

Ginn. Muses 692 

Glick, Lyman T 596 

Click. Melvin Cass 596 

Glover, Hon. John J 318 

Cuihnan. I lenry C .3 14 

Gorselene. Dr. V. H 37? 

Graham, John 344 

Graham, Milo D 343 

1 irasser, John P 690 

Gregg, I )r. Henry 340 

Grifhn, Thomas J 333 

Griffith, Mrs. Emma Cli 

berlain 836 

G lrich, Aaron S 876 

G01 drich, Allison Ebenezer. . 875 

Grant, Charles T 704 

Haas. J. E 616 

I I.ms, Hun. William E 616 

Haggett. Dr. Walter M 373 

Hall, Dr. Edw. M 330 

Hall. Edward M.. M. D. 668 

Hall, Wm. A 324 

Hamilton, Eugene D 328 

Hamilton, Dr. Lewis 376 

Harris. William, A. B. 786 

Harsh, Caleb 1 ig 

Harsh. James W 619 

I Crier. James A. H 834 

Hawes, Clinton ( > 08 

Hawley Dr. X 345 

Hawes, Benj. A 

I I awes, ( Irlando 

I la/ltun. Wain S15 

Healy, Ebenezer '77 

Healy, Frcm .1 677 

Hedges, Dr. W. B 361 

Heinlen, Abram 693 

Hemstead, Edwin Luthbei). . ' r 1 

Hendrixson, Dr. Alex 367 

Hill Murtlo S79 

Hills Chauncey 510 

Hills, Fred Palmer 509 

Hills. James Harvey 509 



I X I )EX 



i 1 



PAGE 

Hills, Dr. James H 346 

Hills, Dr. Ralph 347 

Hippie, Jackson 317 

1 1' idges, James B 581 

Hodges, Nathaniel W 581 

Hogans, George F 825 

Hoskins, Alonzo Fleming... 679 
Hough. Lieut. -Col. Benson 

Walker 712 

Hough. Benson \V 338 

I [oskins, Jacob 679 

I fowald, Jacob 845 

Hovvald. J. F 605 

Howell, Dr. D. W 349 

Howland. Andrew 60s 

Hughes. Dr. D. E 358 

Hughes, Rev. Jos. S 524 

Hughs, Joseph E 524 

Hubbell, Hon. Jas. H 308 

Humes. Edward 337 

Humphreys, David 318 

Humphreys. Morris 714 

Humphreys. William M 713 

Hunt. Dr. John P. 372 

Hunt, Dr. Maurice P 372 

Huntley. Albert 803 

Ingalls, Joseph B 627 

Ingalls, Pearl Parker I 27 

Jackson, James B 750 

Jackson. James William 505 

Jackson. John S 565 

Jackson, Louis B 750 

Jacobs Alexander M 633 

James, Anson 744 

James. Dr. J. K 357-531 

James, Jonathan Kelley, M. 

D 531 

James, Lemuel 744 

James. Rev. Evan P 531 

Jamison. Harry J 846 

Jarvis, Henry John 82] 

Jaj He n. Fred. M 324 

Jew ell. Harry W 336 

Jewell. Harry W., B. A 769 

Jewett. James 825 

Johnston. Dr. Wm 349 

Jones, Carroll H 336 

Jones, David 628 

Jones. Edward 303 

Jones, Edward D 723 

Jones. Edgar 719 



PAGE 

Jones. Evan T 73 1 

Jones, George W 628 

Jones Hon. Thomas C 863 

Jones, Ji ihn P 719 

Jones, John P 741) 

Jones. Gen. John S 313 

Jones, Nicholas 689 

Junes Perry J 502 

Ji >nes, Philip 719 

Jones, Rees T 709 

Join-.. Rees W 709 

Jones, Thomas 850 

.lines. Thomas B 689 

Jones, Thomas Give 822 

Jones, Thomas S 502 

Jones, Timothy Gomer 730 

Jones. Dr. Titus K 375 

Jones. T. K., M. D 073 

Jones, William 749 

Jones. Wm 673 

Jom-. Wm. B 333 

Ji mes, William W 569 

Kauffman, Frank A 330 

Kearney, Dr. Ben. F 362 

Keifer. Dr. H. A 367 

Kelli gg, R. H 861 

Kendrick, H. E 531 

Kent, Edward 626 

Kent. Elijah . . . ■. 626 

King. F. D 597 

Kinnel. Jacob 854 

Kinney, Dr. Charles E 371 

Kims. Dr. H. C 305 

Kirby, ( jeorge 556 

Kistler, Dr. Henry 366 

Kistler, Henry B., M. D. .. . 805 

Kohler, Charles 737 

Kroninger, Jacob 833 

Kroninger, John 544 

Laird, Gilbert W 774 

Lamb, Dr. Reuben 344 

Langworthy, Dr. James 347 

Lathrop, Dr. H 348 

Lea. den. John C 316 

Lea. Thomas W 658 

Lee, Charli s B 759 

Leonard. Harry 530 

Leonard. I larry 337 

Lett . Joel (173 

Liggett Ji ab 553 

Liggett. Milton 553 



PAGE 

Little, Charles Otis sfiS 

I ittle, Dr. John A 351 

Little, William 87, 

Loofbourrow, I )r. I'.. F. . . . 

Lupton, Dr. L. S 371 

Lybrand, Edwin G 335 

Lybrand. Hon. Archibald. . 

Lybrand, R. G 554 

Lyon, Rev. Aan n J., D. D... 527 
Lytle, James Robert, V M 

Maddux, Henry C 883 

McAlester, Fred A 340 

McAllister. Coridon - 

McCable, Robt. L 

McCann, Dr. J *-, 

McCarty. Dr. J. T 

McCarty. I. T.. M. D 670 

McClary, Silas C 345 

McClure, James 521 

McCurdy, John 070 

McCur.lv, Wesley G 

Mel), well, Dr. John 

McElroy, Judge Charles H.. . i< 

McElwee, Charles F. 

McElwee Joseph s 

McGonigal, Dr. M. A 

McGonigle, Joseph ,, 

McGonigle Rodney D 639 

Mi Gonigle, Robt. J 

Mclntyre. Dr. Win 372 

McKay, Hugh Boyle S3, 

McKenzie,. William W 639 

MeMaster. Benjamin F. ami 

Lyman P -_,- 

MeMaster. Robt. (i 728 

McWilliams, William H. ... --, 

Main. Dr. A. E ,74 

Maloney, J. p '.^ () 

Mann. Dr. Austin I) . . . . 374 

Mann. Dr. H. C 349 

Mann, Silas J s ; - 

Marble, Nathan 

Marks. H. R 

Marks. Winfield Scotl 
Marriott. Hon. Francis M.. . . 

Marriott, J. Coleman uo 

Marriott, William H. . 

Marsh Lucius P 

Matthews, W. B 894 

Maxwell, C. H 

Mercer, Dr 



12 



INDEX 



PAGE 

Meredith, Meredith 732 

Michener, Dr. F. E 361 

Miller, Albert C 524 

Miller Brothers 638 

Miller, Charles C 733 

Miller, George F 822 

Miller, George W 740 

Miller, Henry 734 

Miller, Hiel 529 

Miller, H. H 639 

Miller. Dr. J. H 373 

Miller, Jacob 529 

Miller, Jacob A 744 

Miller, John 740 

Miller, John Hiel, M. D 529 

Miller. John J 730 

Miller. John J 743 

Miller, Martin 549 

Miller. Nathan 5.-4 

Miller. O. F 038 

Miller. Dr. W. M 347 

Mills. George P 500 

Morehouse, Geo. \Y 374 

Morrison. Dr. F. \Y 371 

Moses, Andrew F 652 

Moses, Albert Ingham 862 

Mi isi s, Flavel 652 

Mi ses, Salmi m 816 

Mi ises, Salmon 652 

Mosher, Dr. E. E 307 

Moulton, Dr. Samuel 345 

Mi 11 >re, Sidney 41:7 

M01 ire, Samuel Andersi in. . . 701 

Murray, Dr. Francis M 369 

Murray. Rich 300 

Myers, Christian 573 

Myers, Samuel B 573 

Nash, John Washington 707 

Newhouse, Alex 533 

Newhouse, Anthony 505 

\i vsliniise. John Richey 787 

Newhouse, Samuel 534 

Newhouse, Thomas B 534 

Newhouse, Win 565 

Nye, William C 523 

< )usi 3 . Ed« aril 340 

Owen. Griffith C 512 

Ousi y, James 340 

1 >u ( 11 John P 512 

1 1 ■ turf, Hon, Norman F. . . 331 

1 )w< 1. Eugene S 335 



PAGE 

Owen, Franklin A 332 

Owens. Thomas 566 



Peel, Lester Gilead 

Peet, Win. J 673- 

Peet, William L 

Perfect, Dr. Marie 

Perkins, David T 

Perkins, Schuyler 

Berry. Albert T 

Perry, 1 [enry 

Berry Blatt H 

Pern', Robert 

Peters. Abram 

Peters, Oscar A 

Pickett, Dr. Charles H 

Plumb, Hon. Preston B 

Pollock, E. I 

Poppleti m. I km. Early F 

I'- ppleton, Hon. Early Frank- 

lyn 

Porterfield, Judge E. Lee.... 

Porter. William Ross 

Potter, Christopher 

Potter, Dr. Lyman 

I '1 'iter, Francis 

Potter, Geo. F 

Potter, Israel 

Potter, Nicholas 

Potter, Stephen 

I '1 ii ier Stephen 

Bulls William 

Pounds, Dr. A. J 

Powell. ( Jen Eugene 

Powell, John 

Pi iwell, I Ion. Thomas E. . . . 

Powell, Hun Thos. W 

Powell, Hun. Thomas W.... 

I '"\\ell, Robert 

Powers, Benjamin 

Bi wers, George W 

Powers, Robt. B 

B h its. Dr. Royal X 

Price. John H 

Price. John R 

Price, Rees 

Prouty, Byron 

I'ngb. John E 

Bui ford. Dr. W. Henry 



(.78 
7.3I 
73 1 
360 
687 
687 
662 
662 
662 
6S3 

753 
.147 
823 
680 
3'5 

870 
339 
76.1 
570 
36S 

571 

572 

753 

570 
543 
5/1 
555 
362 
S04 
574 
789 
300 
794 
574 
618 
60S 
698 
346 
702 
704 
704 
82S 

^7 
35o 



Quitman, I [on. John A 301 

Ranney. Isaac 307 



PAGE 

Ransburge, Dr. C. C 347 

Ray. Dr. Kingsley 347 

Reid. M. Clason 301 

Reid, Sherman 501 

Reid, Col. Wm. P 309 

Reid. Hon. Wm. P 501 

Richey, F. H 722 

Richey, Isaac N 320 

Richey James 320 

Richey, James M 320 

Richey, James M 722 

Rittenhouse, Hamilton W.... 690 

Rittenhouse, Henry 691 

Rittenhouse, Henry G 332 

Rittenhouse. Joseph H 332 

Rittenhouse, Samuel 332 

Robinson Bros Soo 

Robinson, Harry W 806 

Robinson, Dr. J 365 

Robinson. Sherwin S 806 

Rodefer, Albert P 740 

Rodefer, Silas 749 

Rogers, Henry M 741 

Rogers, Dr. Ivadale 360 

Rogers, Jeremiah 742 

Rogers, Samuel 741 

Ropp, Dr. W. T 358 

Rosenthal. Jacob G 71 r 

Bus,, Dr. D. R 368 

Rosette, Judge Egan 307 

Rutherford, Archibald H 734 

Salmon, James Standley 760 

Sampsell, Dr. N. S 369 

Schaaf, Peter J 304 

Schaaf. Peter J.. Sr 504 

Schaffner, Jacob M 372 

Schaffner, John 372 

Scheble, Dr. Miranda 31^ 

Scott, Tilden Seymour 738 

Sedgwick, Kimball 733 

Seeds, Thomas Mercer 781 

Seese, George Henry 653 

Selover, James R 331] 

Semans, Dr. Edw. M 330 

Semans. Dr. Wm. M 330 

Shaffer, Rev. John Franklin. 3S4 

Shaffer. John S 584 

Sharp. Clinton E S78 

Sharp. I [enry F. 824 

Sheldon. Henry G 331 

Shivclv. Charles M 814 

Shoemaker, \1l.1m S 7X0 



INDEX 



'3 



r IG1 

Shoup, James '1" 332 

Shuey, Dr. A 375 

Slmr. Samuel P 827 

Shuster, Geo 703 

Sinister, George Albert 703 

Sii gfried, Adam 560 

Siegfried, Jacob 561 

Siegfried, Win 561 

Silverwood, Horace A 742 

Simm~, Dr. \V. M. T 367 

Simpson. 1 >r. L. P. 371 

Skeels, Dr. Daniel 349 

Slack. Dr. Gen 36] 

Slack. Wellington 739 

Smart. Joseph Williams 835 

Smith. Franklin Elliott 661 

Smith, Dr. Geo. M 347 

Smith. Dr. Helen K 359 

Smith. Hon. Henry R 629 

Smith. Dr. Robt. B 371 

Smith. Rodney 691 

Smith, Hon. Thomas R 691 

Snodgrass. Dr. J. M 368 

Spalding, Dr. Noah 345 

Spencer, Dr. Charles H 371 

Sperry. Charles F 660 

Staley, Charles H 770 

Stanbery, Charles 586 

Stanbery, Jonas 586 

Stark, Cepter 757 

Stanbery, Charles 853 

Stan-berry, John Rathhone. . . 586 

Stayman, George F 700 

Stayman, V. D 700 

Ste'dman, Charles Curtiss.... 654 

Steyle, Rev. Philip 821 

Stickney, Dr. Frank A 368 

Stickney, Frank Albert, M. D. 814 

Stone. Timothy C 853 

Stokes, George 633 

Sycks, J. M 711 

I alley, Charles Francis, M. 1). 617 

Talley. Dr. Charles F 374 

Talley, Nelson E 017 

Taylor, Dr. V P 366 

Taylor, Dr. Alonzo W 366 

I h mas, James 684 

Thonia-. lames R 6S4 



PAGE 

Turner. Charles I" 513 

Turner, Ephraim 513 

(Jchtritz, Baron Edgar von.. 697 
Uchtritz, Baroness Viola 

Lytic von 698 

Ulrey, Asa 816 

l"liv_\. Charles M 503 

Union Handle and Manufac- 
turing Company. The.... 734 
L'tley. Dr. John 366 

Van Deman, Rev. Henry.... 540 

Van Deman. Hon. Jchn D... 340 

Van Deman, Dr. Joseph H.. 352 

Van Kirk, Dr. Charles C... 366 

Why. Ji ihn 851 

Vergon, Frederick P 519 

Vergon, John G 70N 

Wa Id ron. DeLacy 770 

Wallace. John 024 

Wallace, John C X44 

Wallace, Robert 624 

Warren, John H 773 

Wasson, W. McC 714 

W'atkins. Charles R 527 

Watkins, Edward 52} 

Watkins, John W 777 

Watson, Hon. Cooper K 303 

\\ .:iis Dr. Win 365 

\\ iant, Thomas N72 

Welch. Dr. Calvin 372 

Welch, Dr. Ella D 365 

Welch. Rev. Herbert. A. M., 

D. D„ LL. D 345 

VV. Her, Dr. G. B 370 

Weller, Victor P... M, D. .. . 832 

Westbrook, Dr. Albert Ernest 613 

W( -tin 1 10k, Solomon 613 

Wherry. John 638 

Whipple, Edward 740 

Whipple, Frank F 664 

Whipple, James Clark 859 

Whipple. Lewis 740 

Whipple, Ni ah 664 

Whitacre, Dr. F. R 375 

White. Arthur J 335 

White, ( ieo 747 

White. I >r I torace 360 



PAGE 

White. Hi- J. H 353 

White. Zenas Leonard 747 

Wickliam. Asa 

Wickham, Emmett M 333 

Wickliam, Hon. Emmett Mel 

ville (.4.) 

Wickham, Kitridge II 651 

Wigton, Elmer A 643 

W igti 11 S3 1-. ester 04.} 

Wigton, Thomas 045 

Wiles, Capt. Clifton W 619 

Willey, Dr. Arthur J 374 

Willey, Dr. Perry W [67 

Willey. Perry W., M. 1). . . S05 

Willianr.s. Edson R 339 

Williams, Hon. Hosea 852 

Williams, Dr. T. B 350 

Williams. Dr. Tlios J 366 

Williams, Victor Arnold 626 

Williams, William 020 

Williams. William W 599 

Willis 1),-. P. A 349 

Wilsi 11. Austin B S40 

Wilson, Dr. Eugene 375 

Wilt. J. F 720 

Wintermute, A. P ' 682 

Wintermute, Dr. J. C 167 

Wintermute. J. Perry 500 

Wintermute, Dr. Robert C. . 369 

Winston. Thomas J 313 

Wise. Dr. L 367 

Wolfley, 1 ieorge T 1^2 

Wolllcy. Leo 683 

Woodworth, Dr. John B 357 

W Iworth, Dr. William H. 357 

Wornstaff. Chesley 553 

Wi rnstaff, Lewis 55.1'?- 

Wornstaff, Lloyd K 514 

Wornstaff. Sperry 732 

Wright, David 707 

Wright. Hiram 707 

Wylie, Abraham P 648 

Wylie, J. K 648 

Yates Henry 1) 731 

young, I leiiry Clay 891 

rick 738 

fler, William 738 



Wlustvations 



Churi hes. 

Asbury M. E. Church 364 

Baptist Church, Ostrander 812 

Baptist Church, Radnor 320 

Baptist Church, Sunbury 464 

First Presbyterian Church, Delaware 268 

Methodist Episcopal Church, Ashley 364 

Methodist Episcopal Church, Sunbury 364 

Old Stone Presbyterian Church, Scioto Town- 
ship 812 

Presbyterian Church, Ostrandcr 812 

Presbyterian Church. Radnor 320 

St. Mary's Catholic Church and Parochial 

Residence 364 

St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Delaware 268 

St. Paul's M. E. Church. Delaware 26S 

William S'reel M. E. Church. Delaware 268 

Crystal Spring Farm 68 

Delaware Children's Home 168 

Delaware City Hall 112 

I (elaware City Library 168 

Delaware County Court House 112 

Delaware County Infirmary 168 

Delaware County Infirmary — Insane Ward 168 

Delaware County Jail It2 

Girls' Industrial Home. 

Administrate n Building 176 

Assembly Hall 176 

Central School Building 176 

G utage No. 8 176 

Honor Cottage 176 

Hume for Aged People, Delaware 168 

Jane M. Case Memorial Hospital, Delaware 168 

Knights of Pythias Hall. Sunbury 464 

Masonic Temple. Ashley 158 

Moore's Masonic Temple, Delaware 112 

Ohio Wesleyan University 

Art Hall 230 

Charles Elliott Slocum Library 230 

I iott Hall 230 

Gray Chapel and University I hill -'00 

John Edwards Gymnasium 230 

Monnett Hall 230 

Perkins Observatory 200 

S, urges Hall 230 

Old Barnes Homestead. Delaware 158 



PACE 

President Hayes' Birthplace. Delaware 112 

Public Square Looking North. Sunbury 464 

Residences. 

Residence of Allison E. Goodrich. Liberty 

Township 68 

Residence of Clay W. Barton, Berkshire Town- 
ship 792 

Residence of F. P. Hills, Delaware 320 

Resilience of V. T. Hills. Delaware 15S 

Residence of Mi's. Silas J. Mann, Harlem 

Township 68 

Residence of Dr. Herbert Welch, Pres. 0. 

W. U 200 

Residence and Barn of Hiram Wright, Scioto 

Township 706 

Sandusky Street Looking South, Delaware 112 

Si H00LS. 

High School, Ashley 158 

High School, Delaware 200 

Public School, Ostrander 812 

Public School, Radnor 320 

Public School, Sunbury 464 

West School Building, Delaware 200 

Sunbury Co-operative Creamery 464 

Three Dollar Bill Issued by Bank of Delaware, 

1818 '5 X 

Town Hall, Sunbury 4''l 

V. M. C. A. Building, Delaware 364 

Portraits. 

Atherton Lee 7'6 

Baxter, George W 866 

P,evan, David 666 

Bevan, Mrs. Eliza D 666 

Bush, Mr. and Mrs. David 848 

Cole. Capt. Elias 838 

Conklin, Ashton Stover 686 

Courtwright, Fleetwood — 

Crawford. Col. James M 590 

Crawford. Mrs. Sarah H 59' 

Crist, Rev. A. C " ;S 

Curren, Capt. J. F "84 

Dunlap, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin and Family.... 830 

F.ulcnhurg. Count Botho 656 

Eulenburg Countess Nelly (Lytic) 656 

Fowler. Silas W„ M. D 538 

Gardner, Mr. anil Mrs. Seth 776 



[NDEX 



PACK 

. Varon S 873 

G Irich, Mrs Sarah H 874 

Mr. and Mrs. Wain and Daughter... 814 

. Erem J 676 

Hills, Fred Palmer 506 

. Chauncey 507 

Hodge-. James B . 578 

a -. Mrs. Mary II 579 

Huntley, Albert .802 

J nes, Mr. and Mrs. William W. and Family. . 568 

K< hler, Charles 736 

Lyon, Rev. Aaron J.. D. D 526 

Lytic. James Robert, A. M Frontispiece 

Lytle. Mrs. Cornelia Chase Frontispiece 

. James William 602 

, Henry C 882 

1, Silas J S56 



1 IG1 

Mann. Mrs. Julia S 856 

Miller, Martin 548 

Moore, Sidnej o 

• McMaster, Benjamin F 726 

McMaster, Lyman P 726 

Nash, John Washington 7(1(1 

Stark, Cepter 75(1 

Steyle, Rev. Philip 820 

Stokes, George 632 

Uchtritz, Baron Edgar von 606 

Uchtritz, Baroness Viola (Lytle) von 696 

Vergon, Frederick P 518 

Westbrook, Dr. Albert Ernest 612 

White, Zenas L 74 n 

Wigton, Elmer A (142 

young, Henry Clay 888 

Young, Mrs. Emma H 889 



Ristory of Delaware County 



CHAPTER. I. 



GEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY 

Bed Rock Geology — The Ice Age — Water Supply — Soils — Surface Features — Timber — 
Agricultural Products — Mineral Springs. 



GEOLOGY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 

Geology is the history of the earth as that 
history is read from the rocky structure and 
surface configuration of the earth itself. To- 
day we find changes constantly taking place 
over the land about us. Every shower and 
every freshet leaves the surface changed and 
sweeps toward the sea land waste. The min- 
eral content of such springs as the Odevene 
shows that material is being removed from 
below the surface, that changes are going on 
there, though concealed from our direct in- 
spection. The study of geology teaches us 
that we live on a constantly changing earth, 
that in a very real sense this earth is not dead 
but living. We should be prepared to expect 
that a study of the geology of Delaware Coun- 
ty would show us that past conditions here 
were very different from those today — indeed 
that several different kinds of conditions have 
held at successive epochs of the long period of 
our county's history, geologically considered. 

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BED ROCK GEOLOGY. 

The oldest rocks of the county are the beds 
of limestone, shale and sandstone which make 
what we may call the bedrock, the solid rock, 
as contrasted with the unconsolidated surface 
deposits of clay, sand and gravel which over- 
lie and conceal them. They run in north and 
south belts across the county. West of the 
Olentangy River the surface rock i> practically 
all limestone; between the Olentangy and 
Walnut Creek it is black slate; on Big Wal- 
nut the Berea sandstone outcrops, and this 
formation or an overlying formation of sandy 
shales forms the surface east to the county 
border. These rock formations are not hori- 
zontal but drop or dip to the east at the rate 
of twenty feet to the mile, so that the lime- 
stones which are at the surface on the western 
boundary of the county are some 800 feet be- 
low the surface on its eastern boundary. The 
succession of rocks which one would pass 
through in going down below the surface on 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



the eastern border of the county would be as 
follows : 

Formation Rock Thickness in feet 

Cuyahoga Sandy Shales — 

Sunbury Black Shale 10 

Berea Sandstone 30 

Bedford Red and Gray Shale 75 

Huron Black Shale 275 to 300 

Olentangy Blue Clay 30 

Delaware Blue Limestone 30 

Columbus Gray Limestone 80 

Monroe Magnesian Limestone ... — 

Several of these formations are of econ- 
omic importance. The Columbus limestone, 
on the Scioto, and near Radnor, is burned for 
lime. The Delaware limestone on the Olen- 
tangy and especially at Delaware is used for 
road-metal and for building. The Olentangy 
clay at Delaware is used as one of the mate- 
rials in the manufacture of tile. The Berea 
sandstone is the extension into central Ohio of 
the great sandstone formation of Berea and 
Amherst, and was formerly quarried at Sun- 
bur}-. 

These bedrock formations point to geo- 
graphic conditions very different from those 
existing today. The rocks are all old sea-bot- 
tom deposits, the lime muds, muds and sands 
of an interior sea. Their composition shows 
this. The Berea sandstone layers are marked 
li\ the ripple marks made by the currents of 
the shallow sea of that time. The limestones 
consist in large part of the fragments and 
sometimes whole shells and skeletons of the 
animals then living. What the exact limits of 
that sea were no one knows. It extended be- 
yond the present Ohio basin in all directions, 
to an extensive land mass in eastern and cen- 
tral Canada and to a land mass which we de- 
nominate Appalachia, stretching along the At- 
lantic coast east of the present Blue Ridge. 
For uncounted centuries sands and muds were 
swept into this inland sea and organic deposits 
("first limestone and later coal) accumulated, 
until forces which had been long gathering 
head 'were able to make themselves felt, and 
the area between the Ohio and the Atlantic, 
crowded together as in an immense vise, was 



pushed up above sea level and in part thrown 
into great folds. The strongly folded area 
was in central and eastern Pennsylvania; the 
Ohio region was raised above sea level but was 
subjected to only slight folding. This period 
of uplift was the Appalachian Revolution; it 
closed the earliest and longest of the geologic 
periods, the Paleozoic period. In Ohio it 
marked the passage from water conditions and 
rock deposit to land conditions and land sculp- 
ture by atmospheric agencies and streams. 

The land conditions thus inaugurated have 
lasted on until the present. Little is known 
definitely of the conditions in central Ohio 
during this long period. It is a fundamental 
teaching of geology that streams will cut their 
beds to near sea level, and that then the inter- 
stream areas will be lowered by valley-side 
wash until the whole land area is not far above 
sea level — a lowland plain produced by ero- 
sion. It is another fundamental teaching of 
geology that broad areas are slowly uplifted 
through the action of internal forces; and in 
this case a lowland plain formed by erosion 
might by uplift be again exposed to erosion, 
might ultimately be reduced a second time to a 
lowland plain. It is likely that this process of 
uplift and subsequent reduction of the land 
surface to a lowland plain has been several 
times repeated in central Ohio. A large part 
of the surface of central Ohio today stands be- 
tween 900 and 1,000 feet above sea level. It 
was probably formed by stream action and near 
sea level. Since its formation it has been raised 
to its present altitude. In southern Ohio it has 
been dissected by streams since its uplift so 
that the Ohio River region is a hilly country. 
In central Ohio this plain does not seem to 
have been cut up to the same degree and what 
inequalities it did possess have been largely 
concealed beneath a mantle of glacial drift. 

1 HE ICE AGE. 

This long period of normal land conditions 
was closed by the Great Ice Age and the de- 
velopment of the Canadian ice sheet. There 
were two centers of accumulation, one east and 
one west of Hudson's Bav. These two ice 



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fields grew and merged into one which ex- 
tended north to the Arctic, west in British 
Columbia nearly if not quite to the foot of the 
Rockies, east to the Atlantic and south to the 
line of the Ohio and Missouri Rivers. At the 
time of its maximum extent its margin crossed 
the Pennsylvania-Ohio boundary in central 
Columbiana County, extended west to Mans- 
field, then south to Lancaster, and from there 
southwest through Chillicothe to the Ohio in 
Brown County, the ice sheet thus covering 
about two-thirds of the State. 

The Ice Age is sometimes spoken of as if 
it were the time of the formation, development 
and disappearance of a single continental gla- 
cier. In reality it was much longer and much 
more complex than this. Several times did the 
ice sheet form, advance south from its Cana- 
dian home, retreat and then readvance. How 
long- the whole story was, no one knows, but 
reasonable estimates make it several hundred 
thousand years. 

As the ice sheet moved south into Ohio it 
found a surface deeply covered with residual 
soil formed from the age-long decay of the 
underlying rock. The ice pushed this before 
it or dragged it under it ; it pushed away the 
more or less rotted rock which lay between the 
soil and the sound rock, and it slowly ground 
away the upper portion of the sound rock, for 
wherever we find the bed rock under the later 
glacial deposits it is today sound and un- 
weathered. The upper surface of the bed rock 
was polished and scratched. The polishing 
was done by the finer material, the clay, which 
was dragged along between the ice and the bed 
rock. Coarse particles and corners of rock 
made the scratches characteristic of such sur- 
faces, and from the study of which the direc- 
tion of ice motion can be known. These gla- 
ciated surfaces are often well shown on the 
limestone and sandstone, but are poorly pre- 
served on the shale surfaces. They show well 
about the limestone quarries near Radnor. 

The ice during its advance was thus erod- 
ing. During its retreat it was depositing the 
bowlder clay or till, which now lies on the bed 
rock. As its name implies, the bowlder clay 
consists of two parts, a brownish yellow, oc- 



casionally blue, clay in which are scattered 
bowlders of different kinds of rock up to sev- 
eral feet in diameter. The clay is in part com- 
prised of the "rock flour" made by the glacier 
as it ground away the underlying rock surface 
or rubbed together the rocks which it was car- 
rying beneath it. With this rock flour was 
mixed the soil which the glacier found over 
the surface when it invaded the region. The 
bowlders were torn by the glacier from the sur- 
face over which it came. In all except the 
eastern part of the county a large percentage 
of these bowlders is limestone ; they agree then 
with the bed rock of the county and need not 
have been carried far by the ice. In the eastern 
part of the county where the bed rock is sand- 
stone the bowlders are in large part sandstone. 
A considerable portion of the bowlders are 
crystalline rock, granite and other rocks and 
belong to types not found in the county or even 
in the State ; those have been brought from 
north of the Great Lakes, from the gathering 
ground of the continental ice sheet. 

The whole surface of the county is covered 
by this mantle of glacial drift, a covering vary- 
ing in thickness up to a hundred feet and aver- 
aging from twenty-five to forty feet. At the 
time of ice occupancy this was spread out to 
make a nearly level plain, concealing inequali- 
ties in the rock surface much as the mason's 
trowel spreads over a rough brick or stone 
surface a coat of mortar to give an even sur- 
face. When the ice retreated from the region 
this glacial plain probably extended continu- 
ously across the county. Since that time the 
larger streams have cut their valleys below this 
surface to a maximum depth of fifty to seven- 
ty-five feet, but that surface still is largely un- 
touched back from the rivers, and makes the 
present upland surface and the most conspicu- 
ous feature in the scenery of the county. 

The general drift surface back from the 
streams is level or gently rolling. There are, 
however, two belts of more rolling character, 
some two to three miles across, which run from 
northeast to southwest across the county. 
These tracts are seen only back from the stream 
lines; they may rise to a height of fifty feet 
above the upland south of them and they have 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



a steeper slope to the south than to the north. 
These belts of higher country are belts of ex- 
cessively thick drift deposits, and mark po- 
sitions where the front of the melting glacier 
stopped in its gradual retreat north across the 
State. They are the moraines of recession of 
the ice sheet. One, the Powell moraine, ex- 
tends from Jerome, through Powell, south of 
Orange and then runs northeast to Big Wal- 
nut at Galena. From Galena its front follows 
the west side of the Big Walnut to beyond 
the county line. This is the better developed 
of the two moraines and all the railways be- 
tween Columbus and Delaware have cuts 
where they pass from the plain north into the 
moraine. The other moraine is well shown 
about Ostrander, makes the high country east 
of the Scioto due west from Delaware, but is 
less conspicuous near the Olentangy. It again 
shows clearly east of the Olentangy some four 
miles northeast of Delaware and thence con- 
tinues northeast through Ashley to Ah unit Ver- 
non, where it unites with the Powell mo- 
raine. 

It is interesting to consider what was hap- 
pening when the stop was made by which the 
moraine through Ostrander was made. The 
northwestern part of the county was covered 
with ice, reaching southeast to within two 
miles of Delaware. The remainder of the 
county, but recently abandoned by the ice, was 
covered with glacial deposits, probably but 
poorly concealed with vegetation. The melt- 
ing of the ice produced large streams flowing 
away from the ice front. It was these streams 
which laid down the coarse gravels which are 
now found in the upper bottoms but which 
at that time made a level floor, twenty t<> thirty 
feet above the present stream beds. These grav- 
els were laid down along the Scioto and Olen- 
tangy Rivers and Delaware Run. 

A considerable part of the drainage re- 
sulting from the melting of the ice surface 
found its way through cracks in the ice to 
tlic bottom <>f the ice sheet and then followed 
a subglacial course to the ice margin. Along 
such courses beneath the ice gravel deposits 
were laid down and these, when the ice re- 
treated to the north, were left as more or less 



continuous sand ridges (eskers) rising above 
the general level. This is the origin of the 
series of ridges which are found in the tri- 
angle between the Scioto River and Hocking 
Valley Railroad, for six miles south of Pros- 
pect. When such streams ended their sub- 
glacial course at the ice margin they deposited 
nn ire or less sand and gravel among the 
knolls of the moraine itself. The most con- 
spicuous area of such origin lies south and a 
little east of Radnor. 



WATER SUPPLY. 

The water supply of the county is chiefly 
from wells, the supply of the city of Delaware 
being drawn from a gravel well and from rock 
wells sunk in the bottoms of the Olentangy 
some three miles above the city. 

The geology of the wells is simple. On 
the uplands all wells commence in the gla- 
cial clay. If after reaching the ground water, 
a vein of sand is reached in digging the well, 
either above or at the surface of the bed rock, 
water may be obtained: if not, the well must 
be carried down into the bed rock until a 
supply is reached. The clay will not furnish 
water, for while it may stand below the sur- 
face of the ground water, its texture is so close 
that water will not flow fast enough from it 
into the well to make an adequate supply. In 
the bottoms the problem of obtaining water is 
simpler. The ground is so low that water is 
everywhere near the surface while the open 
texture of the sands and gravel gives a good 
well as soon as ground water is reached. It 
is only where an excessive amount of water is 
needed, as in the case of the supply for the city 
of Delaware, that the gravel wells are inade- 
quate and that it is necessary to eke out this 
supply by other means, in this case wells to the 
rock. 

The most important matter connected with 
the water supply of a family or city is its 
purity. There is a great underground sheet 
of water filling the openings between the rock 
and soil particles. This is the ground water. 
The surface of this ground water rises in times 
of rain and sinks in times of drought and 



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21 



comes to the light only where it makes the sur- 
face of ponds and permanent streams. This 
under-ground supply comes, of course, from the 
rainfall. All the rainfall which does not join the 
immediate run-off soaks through the loose up- 
per rock until it reaches the surface of the 
ground water. In so doing it runs danger of 
infection. The rainfall is itself nearly pure. On 
and immediately below the surface it gathers 
more or less impurity, either organic or inor- 
ganic. Such impurities may not be harmful; 
generally they are not, but at the same time 
that the chance is offered for the water to 
take up these harmless impurities, the water 
has the opportunity to take up disease germs, 
especially those of typhoid fever. Fortunately, 
the water which is thus always impure and 
occasionally infected is usually naturally puri- 
fied. It is known that the upper layers of the 
soil are inhabited by countless bacteria and 
these microscopic forms of plant life feed on 
the organic matter which is in the soil work- 
ing its way from the surface to the ground 
water. By this agency, this organic matter is 
destroyed, is reduced to simpler and harmless 
forms and any disease germs which may have 
been in the water are either destroyed or else 
die from lack of food or from other unfavor- 
able external conditions. As wells draw their 
supply from the underground water which is 
normally thus "filtered," or better "disin- 
fected" in passing below the surface, they are 
usually pure. They may, however, become 
contaminated in two ways. If they are im- 
properly made, water from the surface may get 
into the well either at the top or through the 
sides. Or if wells are sunk in the neighbor- 
hood of cess-pools, they are liable to infection. 
In that case infected matter may work directly 
along a buried sand vein from cess-pool to 
well, and the well become a source of disease. 
In such cases the natural disinfection by the 
soil bacteria is impossible, while mere filtra- 
tion through sand, apart from the action of 
organisms, does not purify. By dilution with 
the ground water and by unfavorable environ- 
ment the disease germs may have their strength 
impaired, but it remains true that wells in 
the neighborhood of cess-pools are unsafe. 



A large part of the rainfall never gets be- 
low the surface. It makes the wet weather 
run-off and goes at once to the streams. In 
dry weather the stream flow is maintained by 
the ground water contributions. In so far as 
river water is made of run-off it is liable to in- 
fection. Surface water is not suitable for 
drinking purposes. Exceptionally it may be, 
in the case of small streams whose whole drain- 
age area is known to be free from sources of 
contamination. But in the case of a stream of 
any size, no individual can know that the drain- 
age basin above a certain point is free from 
sources of infection. The Olentangy River 
has been condemned as a source of water sup- 
ply at Delaware because in time of low water 
it is exposed to contamination from the sew- 
age of Galion and from private sources, while 
in time of the spring freshets it is probably 
quite as dangerous by reason of the washing 
which the rains give the frozen land sur- 
face, sweeping to the streams the winter's 
wastes, which may be easily infected by reason 
of cases of disease. 

One of the most interesting things con- 
nected with the water supply of the county is 
its sulphur springs. These are so named from 
the hydrogen sulphide contained in the water 
and which gives it its characteristic odor. 
Quite as interesting as this gaseous constitu- 
ent, is the mineral content of the water. An- 
alysis shows that the water of the Odevene 
spring* in Delaware contains 361 grains of 
mineral matter per gallon and nearly one-half 
of this is common salt. The water of these 
springs is really salt water. The composition 
of the impurities carried suggests that the wa- 
ter has followed a long and deep underground 
course, reaching levels much lower than those 
touched by the water of ordinary springs. In 

•InlsWTruman Thomasof Sunbury hired a man to dig a well. 
This well, which resulted in the Odevene spring, was drilled for - - 
or oil. The man got down about twenty-four feet, when he was over- 
come by gas and had to be nulled out. Thinking it was damp, a light- 
ed candle was sent down in a bucket, but it had not descended more 
than six feet when it ignited, sending a column of flame up for forty 
feet with an explosion like a ten-pound cannon. The well b 
about forty-eight hours with a flame about two feet high, when wa- 
ter seeped in and put it out- 
There is a gas well on the farm formerly owned by 0. 11. Hough. 
inside of Sunbury corporation limits, that is about 2400 feet deep. but 
which is now plugged. It is supposed by oil and gas men that this 
i territory is on the outskirts of the gas and oil belt.— [Ed 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



this course it derives its chlorides from the 
limestones which, being old sea bottom de- 
posits, probably still contain a part of the salt 
water with which they were saturated at the 
time of their formation ; while the hydrogen 
sulphide was derived from the decomposition 
of organic matter buried in the limestones and 
subject to slow decay. 

SOILS. 

The soils of the county are derived from 
the mantle rock, either glacial till or stream- 
laid gravels. As this difference between gla- 
cial till and stream-laid gravels corresponds in 
general to the difference between uplands and 
bottom lands, we may speak of upland soils 
and bottom land soils. As the valley sides 
which run from the upland to the back edge 
of the lowland are underlaid by glacial till, 
their soils belong with the upland soils. 

Upland Soils. — Almost everywhere under 
the upland is found the brownish yellow gla- 
cial bowlder-clay. The scattered bowlders 
are ordinarily inconspicuous in the soil layer. 
As a result of a number of mechanical and 
chemical processes the upper foot or so of this 
clay has been changed to soil, to a layer ca- 
pable of supporting plant life. Two kinds of 
upland soils have been distinguished by the 
United States Bureau of Soils in its survey 
of the southern part of the county — the Miami 
Clay Loam and the Miami Black Clay Loam. 

The Miami Clay Loam is the common 
soil of the county, making up nine-tenths of 
its surface. This soil is light yellowish brown 
at the surface, passing below into a compact 
brownish yellow silty clay sub-soil. The 
clayey character of the soil is due to its deri- 
vation from the glacial bowlder clay. Its 
silty character is due to the fact that that 
clay is made up of finely ground rock which is 
not properly speaking clay and which gives a 
different feel to the glacial clay when it is 
moistened and rubbed between the fingers, 
from the feel of true clay. The Miami Clay 
Loam is uniform over wide areas. It is es- 
sentially a grain and hay soil and is well 
adapted to general farming purposes. Back 
from the streams where the surface is level 



or only gently rolling the natural drainage is 
defective and ditching and tile draining is 
necessary. 

Two varieties of the upland clay loam are 
to be distinguished. The first is the some- 
what poorer soil which underlies the valley 
sides. These areas are better drained and 
drier than the uplands and hence the soils con- 
tain less humus. They are exposed to rain 
wash and so lose much of their finer and richer 
portions. For both reasons they are poorer 
and the yield is from ten to thirty per cent, 
less than on the uplands. The second variety 
i if upland soil js the Miami Black Clay Loam, 
found in the depressions of the upland surface, 
either at the heads of shallow streams or in 
low basins without outlet. Here the surface 
has been moister, vegetation ranker and hence 
a larger portion of vegetable matter has be- 
come incorporated with the soil. The mineral 
content of the soil is not unlike the common 
upland soil. 

Bottom Land Soils. — The streams which 
flowed away from the ice front as it retreated 
north across the county were heavily loaded 
with gravel and sand which they laid down 
in the valleys. Since that time the rivers have 
been cutting into these gravels and into the 
underlying rock, so that flood stages of the 
present rivers cover a part of the bottom de- 
posits but not all. The higher portions are 
covered with a soil called by the Bureau of 
Soils the Miami Gravelly Loam. It is open, 
usually contains considerable rock fragments, 
and is, on account of its position, nearly al- 
ways adequately drained. It is admirably 
adapted for corn, when the drainage is not 
too free and the soil in consequence droughty. 

Another type of soil covers the lower parts 
of the bottoms which are now subject to over- 
flow. Here the annual additions of clay by 
the flooded streams and the abundant growth 
of vegetation have combined to produce a 
dark soil more clayey than any other of the 
region, the Miami Loam. It covers the flat 
first bottoms and makes an excellent soil, 
though subject to the danger of floods. 
Lewis G. Westgate. 

Professor of Geology in Ohio Wesleyan 
University. 



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TOPOGRAPHY. 

Delaware County is located near the geo- 
graphical center of Ohio, and is hounded on 
the north by Marion and Morrow Counties ; 
on the east, by Licking and Knox ; on the 
south, by Franklin, and on the west, by Union 
County. It comprises 283,289 acres, of which, 
according to the 1907 agricultural statistics, 
2 37>966 acres are farm lands, divided as fol- 
lows : Cultivated, 72,903 acres; pasture, 142,- 
205 acres; woodland, 21,168 acres; lying 
waste, 1,690 acres. The principal rivers are 
the Scioto and Olentangy, which flow nearly 
parallel across the county from north to south. 
The former, which is the larger stream, enters 
the county between Thompson and Radnor 
Townships and forms their boundary-line ; 
thence it crosses Scfoto Township in a south- 
easterly direction, leaving the county as a part 
of the boundary line between Concord and 
Liberty townships. The Olentangy enters the 
county about midway of the northern bound- 
ary of Marlborough township, and courses in 
a southerly direction through the tier of town- 
ships south of Marlborough. These streams 
with their many tributaries give the county an 
excellent drainage system. Since the forests 
which held back the water have been cut off, 
the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers suddenly in- 
crease to great volume after long and heavy 
rains, or when the snow melts rapidly in the 
warm days of spring. The water-power fur- 
nished by these streams is described in the 
chapter on manufactures. 

SURFACE FEATURES. 

The eastern portion of the county is rolling, 
particularly in the sandstone districts. The 
whole limestone district, which embraces all 
that part of the county west of the Olentangy 
River, except that underlaid by the water- 
lime, is moderately undulating, the surface be- 
ing worn by erosion into shallow depressions, 
which, near their junction with larger streams, 
become ravines bounded bv steep bluffs. The 
district of the waterlime is flat, especially in 
the townships of Radnor, Thompson and Scioto. 



The deeply eroded valleys of the Scioto and 
Olentangy constitute the most marked topo 
graphical features of the county. In the south- 
ern part of the county, these valleys are deeply 
cut in the underlying rock. The divide be- 
tween them, at a point west of Powell, is 125 
feet above the Scioto. The descent ot the 
Olentangy is usually very gentle, occupying 
sometimes a space of a mile or more on either 
side; while the valley of the Scioto is narrower, 
and its banks more frequently rocky and pre- 
cipitous. In the northwestern part of the 
county, the valley of the Scioto is strikingly 
different from the southern part ; the bluffs are 
never rocky, and the general level of the coun- 
try is little above the level of the water in 
the river. The following table of altitudes, 
which was prepared by the Big Four railroad, 
is interesting : 

Ft. Above Ft. Above 

Lake Erie Ocean 

Morrow County Line 405 970 

Ashley 412 977 

Eden 405 970 

Delaware 378 943 

Berlin 381 946 

Lewis Center 387 952 

The soil generally is dependent on the na- 
ture of the northern drift. In this the various 
essentials (State geological survey), such as 
iron, lime, phosphorous, silica, magnesia, alu- 
mina and soda, are so thoroughly mixed and 
in such favorable proportions that the strength 
and fertility of the soil are very great. Its 
depth has the same limit as the drift itself, 
which is, on an average, about twenty-five feet. 
The soil is more gravelly and stony in the roll- 
ing tracts. The stones come partly from the 
underlying rock, but mainly from the drift. 
They are common along the valleys of all 
streams and creeks and in shallow ravines. 
The northwestern part of the county has a 
heavy, clayey soil, with some exceptions. This 
clayey flat land is comparatively free from su- 
perficial bowlders. Very little gravel can be 
found, except in the line of gravel knolls that 
passes northwestwardly through Radnor 
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ever, show a great many northern bowlders, 
as in other parts of the county. Besides these 
general characteristics of the soil, a great many 
modifications due to local causes will be seen 
in passing over the county. There are some 
marshy accumulations which, when duly 
drained, are found to possess a soil of remark- 
able ammoniacal qualities, due to decaying 
vegetation. The alluvial river margins possess 
a characteristic soil, strongly contrasting with 
the general clayey lands of the county ; they are 
lighter and warmer, while they are usually re- 
newed, like the countries of Lower Egypt, by 
the muddy waters of spring freshets, and are 
hence of exhaustless fertility. One of the chief 
obstacles which the pioneetr farmer had to 
overcome was the immense quantities of sur- 
face-water which covered a large part of the 
arable lands of the county. At first, open 
drains were dug, but in the black lands these 
filled up rapidly, and to avoid this, drains, in 
si >me parts of the county, ten to twenty feet 
wide were plowed. Later, in some of the best 
flat lands, oak planks were set up at the sides 
of the ditches, and the tops covered over with 
staves of the same material, placed just low 
enough not to interfere with the plowing. 
This method drained off the surface-water, 
and at the same time permitted the cultivation 
of crops. By this method some of the white- 
elm swamp lands were made to produce corn 
as well as the best bottoms. Drains were also 
constructed of poles and broken stnne. As 
soon as the method of underdraining by means 
of tile was demonstrated to be a success, tile 
factories sprang up all over the county, and 
thousands of acres have been reclaimed to 
bring forth bountiful crops, and the work of 
tiling is still going on, year after year. 

TIMBER. 

The entire county was originally wooded, 
and in certain localities the timber was heavy. 
The prevailing varieties are those common to 
this part of the State, and consist of many 
of the different kinds of oak, hickory, black 
and white walnut, ash, birch, sugar and other 
kinds of maple, and many other species. Many 



of the more common shrubs, such as hazel, 
willow, sumac, etc., are also to be found in 
profusion. The work of clearing the land of 
its timber has been going steadily on since the 
arrival of the first pioneer. In those days it 
was necessary to clear land in order to raise 
the necessary crops, and the value today of 
the timber that the early settlers were com- 
pelled to destroy would in many instances be 
more than the present value of the land. It 
is to be deplored, however, that while the work 
of cutting off the timber still continues, little, 
if any. effort is being made by the farmers of 
Delaware County to replace the forests. The 
shortsightedness of this policy from an eco- 
nomic point of view receives so much atten- 
tion in the many agricultural journals, one or 
more of which nearly every farmer reads, to 
say nothing of the valuable pamphlets on this 
subject distributed freely by the federal gov- 
ernment, that it is unnecessary for us to dwell 
at length upon it in -these pages, much as we 
would like to do so. 

FRUIT CULTURE. 

Wild grapes and plums were found here 
in abundance by those who left the comforts 
of civilization to make their homes in this 
wilderness, and for some time, these with ma- 
ple syrup and sugar sufficed as dessert. It 
was not long after the first settlers arrived here 
before small apple orchards were set out in 
different parts of the county; but it is impos- 
sible at this late day to sav when, where or 
by whom this was done. 

For many years Delaware County has been 
kept before the eyes of the horticulturalists 
of the country; latterly, through Mr. F. P. 
Vergon, one of our oldest citizens, who is 
recognized as one of the great orchardists of 
the country and the "Father of the Grass 
Mulch System," which is explained in these 
pages. In an earlier day. Delaware County 
was advertised far and wide as the home of 
the Delaware grape, the finest of all American 
grapes. Yet. notwithstanding this promi- 
nence, fruit-growing has never reached large 
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doubt, is due. largely, to climatic conditions. 
The variableness of temperature, especially in 
the winter season, when the thermometer fre- 
quently drops from a point above freezing to 
one registering the extremes of cold, the early 
frosts in the fall and the late frosts in spring, 
give this county a climate which can hardly 
be called ideal for fruit-raising. It has been 
demonstrated, however, that with proper care 
and attention, hardy fruits can be grown here 
with profit. Probably every farmer in the 
county grows some fruit for his personal use, 
and in these family orchards will be found 
apples, pears, plums, peaches and cherries ; 
small fruits are also grown to some extent, 
with a constantly increasing acreage, as the 
towns grow in population, affording better 
markets. 

About 1837, B. J. Heath and his family 
settled in Concord Township, bringing with 
them from Xew Jersey a grape vine, which 
they planted and nurtured with care. In 1853. 
Mr. Heath brought a basket of grapes from 
this vine to Mr. Abram Thomson, the editor 
of the Delaware Gazette, and Mr. Thomson, 
who was an enthusiastic horticulturalist, recog- 
nized immediately that here was a grape of 
unusual merit, and to him belongs the credit 
of naming the grape and of bringing it into 
public notice. He sent specimens of the fruit to 
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, which 
presented Mr. Thomson with a vase and a sil- 
ver medal. A Dr. Grant, of Iona Island, in the 
Hudson River, became the largest individual 
propagator of the grape, and had Mr. Thom- 
son's portrait painted in oil, presenting it to him 
as a mark of his appreciation. At one time Mr. 
Thi mson lost nearly 20,000 young vines in a 
greenhouse which was destroyed by fire. Mr. 
Thomson also brought the grape to the atten- 
tion of Maj. P. Barry, who was at that time 
editor of the Horticulturalist. Its superior 
qualities were instantly recognized. and 
brought to the attention of the public by the 
Major. A big excitement in the horticultural 
world resulted from the introduction of this 
grape, and a furor in grape culture was de- 
veloped, which has been often referred to as 
the ''grape fever." 



The wildest ideas prevailed, and the most 
extravagant anticipations and expectations 
were entertained as to the profits of grape 
growing, and thousands of persons embarked 
in this pursuit without either the skill or the 
knowledge requisite for success ; and the result, 
so far as the great mass of inexperienced culti- 
vators was concerned, was just what might 
have been expected — failure. During this 
time, the demand for vines became so great, 
that they were sold in immense quantities at 
prices ranging from $1 to $5 each, and even 
then, the propagators of the vines were taxed 
to the utmost to keep up with the demand. 
Thousands of horticulturalists went to Xew 
[Jersey in the hope of finding more vines like 
the original. Mr. Heath had secured it from 
an old Frenchman named Paul H. Provost, 
and this gave rise to the story that his vine 
had been sent from France with a lot of other 
vines, about the beginning of the nineteenth 
century: but the most careful and thorough 
searching never brought to light a similar vine, 
either here or. in foreign lands, and it is now 
the opinion of those best able to judge, that the 
original vine was a chance seedling which 
sprang up in Mr. Provost's garden from some 
native grape. 

Among the early and most successful prop- 
agators of the Delaware grape in this county, 
we may mention the late George \Y. Campbell 
and F. P. Vergon. As secretary of the Ohio 
State Horticultural Society for many years. Mr. 
Campbell was widely known, and his efforts 
helped to make the Delaware grape a success 
from a commercial standpoint. In this con- 
nection it is not out of place to mention that 
in 1857. Air. Campbell established a grape and 
small fruit nursery with greenhouses in Dela- 
ware, from which he shipped all over this 
country, and to nearly every quarter of the 
civilized world, as many as seventy varieties 
of grape vines, including the Delaware. This 
nursery was maintained for many years, and 
small-fruit plants of all kinds as well as green- 
house and bedding and flowering plants were 
propagated here, supplying not only the local 
demand, but going to all parts of the country. 
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the propagation of the Delaware vine by the 
"layering"' process. Some years before the 
"grape fever'' broke out, the elder Vergon had 
received a vine from Mr. Heath, and planted 
it beside his house. Mr. Campbell suggested to 
the youthful F. P. Vergon that he "layer" 
his vine. This was done, and young Vergon, 
upon selling the vines to Mr. Campbell, found 
himself in possession of $37, which, as he says, 
"was quite a bunch of money for a young 
man in that day." He realized at once, how- 
ever, that he had made a mistake in disposing 
of his vines, and the next morning, heading 
off Mr. Campbell, he was at Mr. Heath's place 
and purchased all the young vines he had for 
sale. Beginning in this way, Mr. Vergon 
continued the propagation of these vines for 
eighteen years, dating from 1855, on an ex- 
tensive scale, selling them mostly to Mr. 
Campbell, and always at wholesale. It is de- 
plorable that in the county where the Dela- 
ware grape originated, there is not a grape 
vineyard of any importance. 

At an early day, Titus Knox had an apple 
orchard of twelve acres in Trenton Township. 
It was a good-bearing orchard in 1845, ani ' '* 
now owned by his grandson, Alonzo Knox. 
Amzi Swallow, of the same township, also had 
a twelve-acre apple orchard. William Little 
and Rev. VanDeman, whose names are so 
prominently identified with the early history 
of the county, set out apple orchards. Horace 
P. McMasters of Brown Township, at a later 
date, had an orchard yielding from one to 
two thousand bushels of apples annually, and 
this was considered quite an orchard in those 
days. About i860, John Veley, of Troy Town- 
ship, set out an apple orchard of seven acres, 
and about twenty years ago he set out twenty 
acres more in trees. Quite a number of good- 
sized orchards, many of them quite young, are 
now to be found in the county. The excep- 
tional success of F. P. Vergon, as an orchard- 
ist, no doubt has had much to do with stimulat- 
ing the interest in this branch of horticulture. 
In another part of this chapter will be found 
a paper by Mr. Vergon. in which he sets forth 
the methods to which he attributes his success. 
Mr. Vergon's orchard covers between fifty and 



sixty acres. Three or four acres of this was 
set out fifty years ago, and about three acres 
thirty years ago ; the balance was planted in 
1888'. Reuben L. Hudson, a neighbor of Mr. 
Vergon's, has a fifty-acre orchard, thirty acres 
of which are nineteen years old, and twenty 
acres are ten years old. "Cobb"' Gavitt, as he 
is familiarly known, and who resides near 
Ashley, has an orchard of from twenty-five to 
thirty acres, which is twenty-five years old. 
Samuel Willey & Sons have a sixty-acre or- 
chard in Troy Township, which is in its seventh 
year. They also have 600 pear trees and 100 
cherry trees. James Ousey has twenty acres 
of apple trees in Delaware Township, which 
are seven years old. William H. Fisher, of 
Liberty Township, has an apple and peach or- 
chard of about four acres, and a -number of 
others in this township are starting similar 
orchards. Among others in the county who 
have orchards, we may mention Ezra W. 
Koeple, Thomas A. Kennedy, Walter M. 
Glenn, of Delaware Township, who has forty 
acres of trees two years old, and Dr. J. H. 
Miller, who has a three-year-old orchard of 
sixty-five acres, on what is known as the Hana- 
walt place. A reference to the statistics which 
we include in these pages will show that other 
fruits are not grown extensively enough to 
warrant extended notice here. 

Delaware is fortunate in having as one of 
its citizens the most successful apple grower 
in the State of Ohio, a man who is known and 
looked up to as an authority in all the apple 
producing regions of this country. We refer 
to Mr. F. P. Vergon, who has been called by 
the Ohio Experiment Station, "The Father of 
the Grass Mulch System." The following 
article, which has appeared in substance in a 
number of the most widely circulated publica- 
tions devoted to such subjects as agriculture 
and fruit growing, has been furnished for use 
in this chapter by Mr. Vergon : 

"I have said so much on the system of 
grass mulch for fruit — in which I am a pio- 
neer — that it may seem monotonous for me to 
say any more, so I will take the short cut 
acn iss the field and be as brief as possible. 

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that grows out of the ground, if sufficiently 
decomposed so as not to be in the way about 
the orchard, will answer a good purpose. Grass 
mulch means not to plow or cultivate the or- 
chard. After you once commence this system, 
leave it continually in grass. Timothy is not 
desirable. 

"How the work is done. Mow the orchard 
once or twice a year, as the case may require; 
rake and drop opposite the trees ; place it 
around the trees out to or beyond the drip of 
the branches ; put on sufficient so that grass 
or weeds will not grow through it, say eight 
or ten inches thick, evenly spread. If very 
dry and fluffy, put it on heavier; it will soon 
settle down. If the ground is improverished, 
coarse manure is very much better. In this case, 
let the grass lie where the machine drops it. 
It is surprising how trees will grow if not 
permitted to suffer for want of moisture ; water 
is a wonderful factor. 

"Perhaps one of the greatest objections to 
this system is, to the minds of many, that they 
cannot realize from the crops in the early his- 
tory of the orchard; but I believe there is no 
other way so successful to get the land back 
to its primitive condition — rich, porous, and 
full of humus. 

"It should be remembered, if the location 
is a good one. good orchard land, rich, you 
are laying the foundation for an orchard that 
will last for generations, if this system is ad- 
hered to. It is true that trees can be grown 
quite successfully by the system of cultivation 
up to ten or twelve years old. By this time 
the land is impoverished ; the last fiber burned 
out of the ground ; humus entirely exhausted ; 
si imething else must be done. 

"The mulch system is quite easily managed, 
and not expensive until the trees are ten or 
twelve years old. After this the problem, or 
expense, increases with the growth of the 
trees. Fortunately the revenue increases as 
well. This is easily understood. As the trees 
gn >w larger, the territory to mow decreases, 
and the territory to mulch increases ; conse- 
quently, a large portion of the mulch must 
come from some other source than the orchard. 
The greater part of my orchard is nineteen 



years old this spring, planted thirty-five feet 
each way, on rolling tablelands ; frost drain- 
age good. 

"This territory was a beautiful blue grass 
pasture. I had grazed it with short-horn cat- 
tle thirty-five or forty years. I am glad to 
say this same grass grows in the orchard, wis 
never plowed up, and we are out of the mud 
and dirt, year in and year out, in doing all the 
orchard work, which is a very great item in 
comfort and pleasure. With this system, the 
trees have made uniformly strong growth each 
year from the time they were planted. In some 
of the varieties that grow fastest, and spread 
most, the branches in many places have locked 
horns, and this means a spread of thirty-five 
feet on trees nineteen years old, this spring. 
I believe this to be a remarkable growth. Of 
course many of the slower growing varieties 
will not shake hands for many years. 

"To supply the necessary mulch, we seeded 
twenty acres of bottom land to mammoth 
clover, which yielded at least three tons per 
acre, and was all used for mulch. In addition 
I bought the straw of nearly one hundred acres 
of heavy grain for the same purpose, and com- 
pleted the mulch business where most needed, 
just before winter set in. 

"This is somewhat expensive; but the work 
on the ground, except clipping and letting the 
grass lie where it is cut, is done for years. 
After all, it is certainly cheaper than to culti- 
vate every season ; plow, cultivate and harrow 
all summer ; in the fall seed with some catch 
crop, that very often does not catch, and have 
the orchard washing away all winter and 
spring. In fact, it would be impossible to carry 
on this system with our low-headed trees. I 
never believed mutilating the roots and mil- 
lions of fibers is the right thing to do : I kin nv 
it is not with all other plants that grow out 
of the ground, large or small, and I do not 
think apple trees are the exception. 

"To keep the mice from the trees, we use 
fine cinders that come from slack coal (no 
clinkers), a bushel to one and one-half per 
tree, according to size: Lay it up in cone 
style at the base of the trees. It is not a ferti- 
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and doesn't wear out. A little wind or sun 
easily gets the snow oway from the little black 
cones, and gives the trees a safe and com- 
fortable appearance. 1 have not lost a tree 
since we began using cinders. We tried wire 
screen, which, perhaps looks more plausible 
than are many of the things suggested and 
used, but this was not satisfactory. After 
placing it around the tree and pressing it in 
the ground a little, it looked all right, but 
was heaved up by the frost an inch or more — 
just right for the mice to get in their work. 
I cannot emphasize too much the use of cin- 
ders. If I were not within hauling distance. 
I would have it shipped in by the carload. It 
costs but a trifle. Rabbits have done us but 
little harm. They seem to be contented with 
cutting some of the tips from low branches of 
bearing trees. \Ye never pasture with any 
stock whatever; it cannot be done without dam- 
age to the orchard. 

"As to the results of the grass mulch sys- 
tem, it must be apparent that the ground is 
becoming richer all the time, with the best 
natural fertilizer, I will call it, for the welfare 
of the orchard. We have a reservoir of humus 
all over the orchard, but more especially under 
the trees, from the slow decomposition of the 
mulch on the under side. Here, especially, is 
where the bacteria delight most to put in their 
guild work, where it is always nit list. 

"Our orchard land is underlaid with shale, 
but quite deep; has a good depth of rich loam 
by nature, with a brash red clay sub-soil (no 
gravel). Yet it has become so porous that 
practically all the rainfall is absorbed in the 
ground. 1 am very sure that the water never 
runs out from the mulch under the trees, not 
even on the side hills. EJow different it is 
with dust mulch, especially after drouths in 
the summer, when rain is so much needed. It 
frequently comes in torrents; the ground is 
puddled in an in-taut, and the water runs off 
almost as slick as from a goose's back; and. 
if the land is hilly or rolling (as usually the 
besl orchard land is), cuts out gullies, and 
washes much of the best soil into the valleys 
and streams. In the next place the tempera- 



ture is in a measure equalized ; the ground 
under the mulch trees is never so hot in the 
summer and never freezes much in winter. It 
is quite possible for the roots to be injured by 
very hard freezing. Some time since. I tested 
the' temperature of the ground in the heat of 
summer, under the trees, with thermometers. 
Under one, the ground was perfectly clean ; 
the other was mulched. In each case, the bot- 
tom of the thermometer rested on the ground, 
and both in the shade of the trees. I watched 
them for several days, at 6 o'clock A. M., i 
o'clock P. M„ and 6 in the evening; the tem- 
perature did not run quite even, but the aver- 
age was two and one-half to three degrees 
cooler under the mulched tree. I was quite 
satisfied with this experiment. Extreme tem- 
peratures are not best, and the escape of hu- 
midity is prevented. These conditions also 
hold good in spring time; the ground warms 
up slower under the mulch and the bloom is 
retarded several days. 

"Things of less importance — apples that 
drop are clean, and are not usually bruised. 
Even the leaves are caught up in the mulch 
in the fall, and are where they will do the 
most good. It is quite generally conceded 
now. that apples color better and keep better 
where mulch is used. If this be the case, and 
I think it is, they are of better quality also, 
and I verily believe the trees are longer lived. 

"I 'got onto' this system from my pio- 
neer days — clearing up primitive forest. The 
leaves, bark, rotten branches, etc., were eight 
to twelve inches deep, and are added to each 
year, while decomposition is going on under- 
neath. A better mulch could not be provided 
for the timber by any artificial means. Here 
Nature has done her own plowing for thou- 
sands of years. I have never forgotten how 
hard it was to walk on this mulch in the winter 
time — being heaved up by the little needles 
of ice and line earth, honeycomb fashion, under- 
lie ith. The ground was always moist and rich 
under this mulch. Tt seemed to me this would 
he an ideal condition to have under my trees. 
Nature is certainly a wonderful teacher, and 
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peare who says that the student of nature may 
find 

'Tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 
Sermons in stones and good in everything.' 

I have learned mi >st from the voiceless tongues 
of the trees. 

"I am very sure with this system it is pos- 
sible for the trees to ripen annual crops, and 
form fruit buds for the next year. Under 
other conditions, the trees frequently suffer so 
severely from drouths that the crop is not well 
matured, and fruit buds are not formed for 
the following season. Failure of crops very 
seldom dimes from freezing-out in spring- 
time. It is for want of bloom and vigorous 
trees. It has been proved that well grown ap- 
ples contain over ninety per cent, of water. 
I am glad that it is possible to retain it in 
the ground ; otherwise we would not have so 
much water to haul out at harvest time. In 
the fall of 1906, we harvested our eleventh or 
twelfth consecutive paying crop annually since 
1893 or 1894. I can't recall the season, but 
one year, our apples, when as large as big 
marbles, were frozen, in June, as hard as rocks, 
Xo human being can prevent a calamity of that 
kind. This section of the orchard that is 
twenty years old this spring (1908), and 
yields ten to twenty bushels per tree — sorted 
in the orchard, all handled in crates of one to 
one-half bushels (a tree can easily be mea- 
sured), hauled in every day and stacked up 
in our cold storage. 

"Some trees of my own planting in the sec- 
tion of the old orchard forty-five years old, 
have harvested forty-five bushels and over per 
tree. These old friends do not bear such uni- 
form crops any more. They can afford in 
their declining years to take a little more rest. 

"A few weeks ago, looking over the or- 
chard, I saw plenty of fruit buds, as I thought, 
and cut small branches of different varieties, 
and set them up in a jardiniere filled with 
water in a warm room. Now they are in 
bloom, and I am reminded of when the 'apple 
trees are in blossom and the bobolinks are 
singin'.' 



"In conclusion, it seems to me quite pos- 
sible to have the orchard in such a condition, 
by supplying its every want, as to overcome 
sufficiently the unfavorable elements, so as to 
have a crop annually." 

Joseph H. Cunningham, florist, Delaware, 
is the only one in this county who is engaged 
in this business on a scale of any importance. 
He learned the business with the late George 
W. Campbell, who was one of the foremost 
Ohio horticulturalists of his day. In 1890. 
Mr. Cunningham established himself at his 
present location on West William Street, with 
a greenhouse J2 x 20 feet in dimensions. His 
business has grown steadily, and he now has 
10,000 feet of glass. He does a general flor- 
ist's business, and a glance at his shipping re- 
ceipts for almost any day will show shipments 
going to points as widely separated as Phila- 
delphia and San Francisco, and New Orleans 
and St. Paul, Minnesota. 

The difficulty the early settlers met with 
in acquiring stock can hardly be appreciated 
at this day. Sheep were unknown and horses 
were only less unfamiliar. Cattle ami hogs 
were easily kept, so far as feeding was con- 
cerned, but another difficulty involved them. 
The woods abounded with wolves and bears 
which soon learned the toothsome qualities of 
beef and pork. Endless devices were invented 
to protect these valuable adjuncts of the early 
settlement from these wild marauders, but with 
limited success. Time and again were the 
early settlers aroused from their sleep to find 
the hope of a winter's supply in the clutches 
of a bear or hopelessly destroyed by wolves. 
Hogs were allowed to breed wild in the woods. 
Occasionally they were brought into a pen for 
the purpose of marking them by sundry slits 
in the ears. Such occasions were frequently 
the scene of extreme personal danger, and 
called forth all the intrepid daring inculcated 
by a life in the woods. The animals, mi ire 
than half wild, charged upon their tormentors. 
and then it was expected that the young man 
would quickly jump aside, fling himself upon 
the back of the infuriated beast, and. seizing 
him by the ears, hold him still enough to make 
the necessary marking. These hogs were sold 



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to itinerant buyers, who collected them in 
droves, taking them to Zanesville, swimming 
the Muskingum on the way. The shrewd set- 
tler always sold his hugs with the understand- 
ing that the buyer was to deliver them him- 
self. This often proved the larger part of the 
bargain, and the dealer, wearied out and dis- 
gusted, would be glad to compromise the mat- 
ter by leaving the hogs and a good part of the 
purchase-price with the settler. A hog turn- 
ing 200 pounds was considered a heavy-weight, 
and a drove averaging this would be the pride 
of a dealer and the envy of his fellows. At an 
early day Stephen Bennett and David and Jo- 
seph Prince of Berkshire Township followed 
the business of driving hogs to Baltimore. The 
task of driving such herds of swine as they 
took to market can hardly be appreciated at 
this day. On account of their wildness they 
were likely to stampede at the first opportunity, 
and numbers of hogs were lost on every trip. 
At an early time Stephen Bennett broughl 
sheep from Kentucky and traded them for 
hogs, and it took a good hog in those days to 
buy a sheep. 

This is a good com country, and raising 
and feeding all kinds of live stock has always 
been a profitable ami popular occupation with 
the farmei. The first blooded cattle were 
brought to Delaware County about [826 by 
Judge Hosea Williams and Wilder Joy. These 
were bought in Pickaway County, and among 
them wa> a dark roan shorl horn bull that 
was a tine animal for that day. most of the line 
breeds in this section having been crossed un- 
til the stock was deteriorating. Gilbert Van 
I bun broughl some Durhams into the county 
about [836, and a few years later a few were 
purchased by a Mr. Jones 'if Radnor (which 
niie of the vcr\ numerous citizens of that name 
we have been unable to learn), from M. S. 
Sullivant of Columbus, from that time to the 
present the grade of the cattle bred in the 
county hi- constantl) been improving, owing 
to the efforts of a few men in different sec- 
tions who have maintained fine herds. Among 
those of the earlier day we may mention T. F. 
Joy, X. Leonard, Norman Perfect, T. C. 
Jones and Uiaunev Hills. The latter gentle- 



man, in 1854. purchased a small farm in Troy 
Township, which he named "Crystal Spring 
Farm." By subsequent purchases he increased 
the size of this farm until it included some 
400 acres. This place has ever since been fa- 
mous as the home of the best of thoroughbred 
shorthorn cattle. Shropshire sheep and York- 
shire hogs. The foundation for this reputation 
was laid at that time by the purchase of the 
fine young shorthorn bull, Master Miller, 693. 
and the beautiful young Rose of Sharon heifer. 
Fanny Fern by Prince Charles the 2nd 
"321 13," from the Messrs. Renick. At this 
time, and fur the next six years, T. C. Jones 
was associated with Air. Hills, the firm name 
being Hills & Jones. In 1862 the herd was 
divided. Mr. Hills's success as a breeder of 
short-horns was well attested many years ago 
by the choice of numbers of his herd for ex- 
port to Great Britain, where they graced the 
pastures of Lord Dunmore at Stirling, ami 
produced descendants that were most success- 
ful in the show-ring. Two animals that Mr. 
Hills bred were shipped to England by the 
purchaser and sold for about $7,500. For 
many years F. P. Vergon was successful as a 
breeder of short-horn cattle. Among others, 
we' mav mention John Worline, of Marlbor- 
ough, who is one of the oldest short-horn 
breeders in the county, and keeps a herd of 
perhaps twenty-five registered cattle. The 
breeding business established by T. C. Jones 
was continued by bis son. Arthur H., until 
about 1902, when he sold the herd at auction. 
At that time 1 tough Bros., of Berkshire Town- 
ship, purchased some of the Jones stock, and 
since that time have been breeding short-horn 
ami polled Durham cattle. They now have 
about eights- head, of which thirty are regis- 
tered. Some of their fine animals have been 
imported from Canada. Price & Hills, of 
Radnor Township, also have a herd of these 
cattle. For many years, T. R. Smith, of 
Berlin Township, was a breeder of Devonshire 
cattle. M. I',. Shoemaker and Son bred 
Highbred Hereford cattle for a number of 
years prior to [900. Their farm was near 
Ashley, and they had a bull and a small herd 
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have smaller herds of fine stuck. In the south- 
ern part of the county dairying seems to be 
growing in favor. The facilities for shipping 
milk to Columbus where the demand is con- 
stant, and the close proximity of good cream- 
eries, has given an impetus to this department 
of agriculture. 

Undoubtedly Capt. V. T. Hills as a breeder 
of Red Polled cattle has made Delaware 
G mntv more widely known among cattle 
breeders in the United States than any other 
individual. It is claimed by breeders of these 
cattle that they combine the capacity of milk 
and beef production in the same individual to 
an equal if not to a greater degree than any 
other breed. In 1887 Capt. Hills purchased 
eight cows and one bull — the best that were 
to be had in England. By the time the herd 
reached Delaware County, it numbered seven- 
teen. The Bull Pando, 1254, proved to be a 
very valuable animal, leaving his impress on 
many of his get. He was one of the very 
great bulls of the breed. The cows of this 
importation were a useful lot. Chic was never 
beaten in the show ring; she was first at the 
World's Columbian Exposition, and champion 
cow over all breeds in the "General Purpose - ' 
class, twenty-seven prize cows of all breeds 
competing. Other importations were made 
from time to time, the last, in 1900, compris- 
ing eighteen cows and two bulls. For ten or 
twelve years, beginning with the year 1890, 
Capt. Hills exhibited at leading- fairs all over 
the country, taking over 400 honors. Two of 
the five cows ( Trvste, No. 5169, aged thirteen 
years, and Mayflower 2nd. No. 8025, eight 
years) representing this breed in the official 
milk test conducted in the Model Dairy at the 
Pan-American Exposition, in 1901. were 
owned by Capt. Hills, and were it not for the 
energy and personal work of Capt. Hills, who 
was prevailed upon by the earnest solicitation 
of the committee appointed by the Red Polled 
Cattle Club of America, to select these five 
cows, the breed would not have been repre- 
sented at the test. There were ten breeds, 
represented by five cows each, in the test — 
Jerseys, Guernseys, Ayrshires. Holsteins. 
Polled fersevs, Shorthorns, Brown Swiss, 



French Canadians, Dutch Belted and Red 
Polls. Experienced men, furnished by the 
various breeders' associations, spent months in 
making selections of representative cows of 
the several breeds, with the result that the 
Ayrshires, Jerseys, Holsteins, Shorthorns and 
French Canadians were said by competent au- 
thority to be "the finest lot of cattle of these 
breeds ever seen together." With these five 
herds the Canadian Government sent at its 
own expense, one general superintendent, and 
with each of the herds was a manager, expert 
in compounding rations, as well as an ex- 
perienced feeder or care taker. The Red Poll- 
were in charge of a herdsman only. Mr. P. K. 
Krider, who had never compounded a balanced 
ration in his life. Capt. Hills's cow, May- 
flower 2nd. won second place in butter profit 
out of the fifty cows tested, excelling all the 
Jerseys, all the Ayrshires, all the Holsteins 
and four of the five Guernseys. In writing the 
foregoing, we have made free use of a pam- 
phlet issued by the Red Polled Cattle Club of 
America, in 1903. 

In fat stock shows, steers from Capt. 
Hills's herd have been shown with credit. Of 
one shown in 1900. the expert of the Breed- 
er's Gazette said, in speaking of the slaughter 
test: "Star presented one of the most beauti- 
ful and profitable carcasses on the hooks. He 
had roasts of equal thickness of the cham- 
pion's, and much better marbled, and he had 
no more excess of fat. His rounds were not 
so well filled, however, down in the lower 
parts where the meat is cheap." 

In October, 1902, Capt. Hills sold the 
larger part of his herd at public auction in 
Chicago. There were eighty females, four- 
teen bulls and fifteen calves at foot, and the 
prices paid at this sale made an average price 
of $283 per head for all ages. Capt. llill> 
still maintains a small herd at his farm in 
Scioto Township. A herd of these cattle is 
also kept' by Mr. James Raney. of Baltimore, 
on his farm in Scioto Township. 

The breeding of fine sheep has long been 
an important industry in this county. Mam- 
years ago, Miner Tone, of Liberty Township, 
owned one of the finest herds of sheep in the 



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State. This flock passed into the possession 
of R. K. Willis, who for many years gave the 
most careful and intelligent attention to sheep 
breeding. Thomas Jones, of Delaware Town- 
ship, also bred fine sheep. Wesley Bishop, of 
Troy Township, has been engaged in the Me- 
rino sheep industry since 1880 on Pleasant 
Hill Farm. He has the largest flock of pure 
bred Merino sheep in Delaware County, and 
has done much toward raising the sheep 
standard in this section. One of the best 
known Merino collections in the country is 
owned by C. H. Bell, of Ashley. The flock 
was founded more than forty years ago by 
the father of the present owner, and for the 
past twenty years has been making fame by 
its winnings at the big State and international 
shows. In 1888. the Bell flock won all the 
firsts and seconds at the Ohio Centennial 
show, and the younger Bell has kept the flock 
up to the high standard established by his 
father. Many of the rams bred here bring 
from $100 to $200 each. In 1904, R. D. Mc- 
Gonigle & Sons started in the Merino busi- 
ness with upwards of thirty fine sheep. They 
have established a notable flock, from which 
they have sent prize winners to State fairs in 
Ohio, Virginia, Illinois. Michigan and Xew 
York. J. C. Wood, of Delaware, proprietor 
of Wood's Big Walnut Farm in Porter Town- 
ship, started his flock about eleven years ago, 
and has some of the best bred sheep in the 
State. Mr. Wood is one of the active and in- 
fluential members of the Delaine Merino As- 
sociation. William E. Gallant, of Delaware 
Township, also has a flock of these sheep. In 
March. 1905, there came to Delaware Town- 
ship one of the best-known sheep breeders in 
the United States. S. M. Cleaver. A recent 
issue of the American Sheep Breeder says the 
coming of Mr. Cleaver will bring Delaware 
more in the eye of the Merino sheep public 
than any other spot in America. The same paper 
also says: "As a judge and critic of Merino 
sheep he is the best man of his time, and has 
no equal in the mating of sire and dam." 
Maplewood Stock Farm, the present scene of 
Mr. Cleaver's labors, is located in the southern 
part of Delaware Township, where the C. D. 



& M. interurban line crosses Sandusky Street. 
Mr. Cleaver has always been prominent in 
organizing the different associations of Me- 
rino l.ieeders, in seyeral of which he has held 
official position. In 1905, he helped organize 
the Consolidated Association of Merino Breed- 
ers, ami has been its secretary since that time. 
He is also secretary of the American Delaine 
Merino Sheep Association of Delaware. Mr. 
Cleaver ceased exhibiting a number of years 
ago, and since that time he has supplied many 
exhibitors with prize-winning stock. He owns 
some of the most noted rams in the country — 
Gold Standard, Fortune, Improver and Oil 
King having a reputation with breeders every- 
where. 

The Shropshire flock, which was started at 
Crystal Spring Farm in 1876 and is now kept 
by Mr. F. P. Hills on Oakland Farm, Peru 
Township, Morrow County, is the oldest in 
the State of Ohio. The foundation stock was 
imported from several of the most dis- 
tinguished breeders in Great Britain, and nu- 
merous additions were afterward made from 
the flocks of Joseph Beach, J. Pulley, J. Bowen 
Jones, H. Lovatt, Thomas Fenn, T. S. Minton, 
Messrs. Evans & Everell. W. Ward and others 
who rank high as breeders of this popular 
breed in their native home. The strongest 
point in their favor in this country is their 
great value for crossing upon other breeds 
lacking in mutton qualities — notably the G >m- 
mon Merino, which compose probably ninety 
to ninety-five per cent, of all the sheep in the 
United States. The half-bloods make good 
feeders and command the highest prices in our 
markets, being largely purchased for exporta- 
tion to England, there being no embargo upon 
them, and sell from three to five cents more 
than our beef. Shropshires clip about eight 
pounds of medium combing-wool, which sells 
higher than any other sort. Rams weigh from 
150 to 250 pounds, and ewes from 150 to 200 
pounds, when in good condition. They are 
prolific, and mature early. 

T. R. Smith raises sheep on an extensive 
scale, and there are many others who have fair- 
sized flocks of high-grade sheep, raised and 
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may mention Lester Peet and Coridon McAl- 
lister, of Thompson Township. 

Among the large and important flocks of 
Merino sheep in the county, is that of H. P. 
Miller, of Sunbury, which has been established 
over forty years. Mr. Miller's Delaine rams 
are registered in either the Standard or the 
Improved Delaine Association. They present 
a strong combination of desirable features, 
rather than any one single feature. 

There are many fine herds of swine in the 
county, the favorite breeds being Duroc, Po- 
land China, Chester White. Many years ago 
Chauncy Hills introduced Yorkshire hogs, and 
more recently the firm of Price & Hills, of 
Radnor, have introduced the Hampshire 
breed. Charles Davis also has a herd of this 
breed. 

For upwards of forty years the breeding 
of fine draft horses has received considerable 
attention. The most popular breed, because it 
may possibly be best adapted to this section. 
is the Percheron or Percheron-Norman, named 
for Le Perche and Normandy, in France, 
where they are extensively bred and whence 
they are imported into the United States. The 
first horse of this breed was brought into Ohio 
by Thomas Jones, who later, in 1879, came to 
Delaware Township and settled on a farm on 
the Radnor Pike, which he named "Alder- 
brook." Among the early importers of these 
horses to this count)-, we may mention Covell 
Brothers, of Delaware, who were also inter- 
ested in the Radnor Importing Company and 
the Delaware Importing Company. These 
concerns sent representatives to France at dif- 
ferent times, to purchase horses for importa- 
tion. Among other individuals who were in- 
terested in importing, breeding or dealing in 
this breed at that time were W. H. Case, John 
and Edward Thompson, Capt. Solomon Wei- 
ser, Stephen Thomas of Radnor. Dr. John M. 
Rapp, and others. Some of the present day 
breeders and dealers are F. P. Hills, \Y. W. 
Ferguson. H. Domigan, Lewis Slack and 
Hough Brothers. 

Welsh Mountain Ponies. This breed of 
ponies has existed in the mountainous districts 



of Wales for centuries, and is a pure and dis- 
tinct variety of the horse. Their distinguish- 
ing characteristics are beauty of form, docility 
and hardihood; in all qualities which make 
ponies valuable, it is thought they have no 
equal. In England, where ponies are much 
used, they are very popular — no other breed 
more so, and frequently sell as high as $200 
a head. Two head of these ponies were im- 
ported by the late Thomas Jones of Delaware 
from Liverpool in August. 1885, who selected 
them in person in the breeding district of 
Wales. From that time to the present these 
ponies have been bred at Alderbrook Farm, 
which has been managed by Mr. Jones's 
daughter. Miss Winnifred Jones, since [899, 
when advancing years compelled her father to 
retire from active business life. For about ten 
years F. P. Hills engaged in breeding these 
animals of which he had some splendid repre- 
sentatives. Among those who are m iw breed- 
ing Welsh ponies in this county are David 
Dyer and John Gregg in Berkshire Township, 
and R. J. Pumphrey of Delaware. 

Shetland ponies. In 1887, Corrington 
Gavitt, better known by the familiar sobriquet 
of "Cobb" Gavitt. of the firm of Cobb Gavitt 
& Company, proprietors of Evergreen Park- 
Shetland Pony Farm, near Ashley, imported 
the foundation stock of his present herd. They 
were purchased from the Marquis of Londi m- 
derry, Bressy, Shetland Isle, who has the 
largest ami best herd in the world. About 
seventy-five of these ponies are always to be 
found at Evergreen Park, whence they are 
shipped all over the country. Twenty-seven 
Shetland ponies were raised here in 1907. 
Thomas Jones, of Delaware Township, also im- 
ported and bred Shetlands. Tom Thumb, which 
he brought to this country, died in 1905 at the 
age of thirty-six years. In [898, Livingston 
Brothers, of Leonardsburg, purchased fr< im 
Mr. Jones two mares by Tom Thumb, and 
since that time they have been engaged in 
breeding. They now have eleven ponies on 
their place. 



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The following interesting figures are taken from the 1907 Abstract of Agricultural Statistics for Delaware County: 



PRODUCT 



ACRES SOWN FOR HAR- 
VEST IN 1000 



BUSHELS PRODUCED 
IN 1000 



ACRES SOWN FOR HAR- 
VEST IN 1007 



Wheat 

Rye 

Buckwheat . . . 

Oats 

Winter Barley 
Spring Barley. 
Corn 



.14,001'. 
. ...604 
13. 



.10,054. 
13. 



.39,190. 



260,729. 

. . 7, 269. 
....154. 



.16,754. 
....486. 



..409,393. 

60. 

125 . 

.1,560,275. 



, 12,737. 

15. 

9. 

34,040. 



Ensilage Corn, 378 acres planted in 1907. 

Sugar Corn 33 acres planted 72 tons produced 

Tomatoes 5 acres planted 1,250 bu. produced 

Peas 6 ' + acres planted 5,400 bu. produced 

Irish Potatoes 629 acres planted 04,521 bu. produced 

Sweet Potatoes 1 acre planted 50 bu. produced 

Onions 4}s acres planted 875 bu. produced 

Meadow, acres in grass other than clover, 43,321' tons of hay produced, 48,894. 

Clover, acres grown, 2,190; tons of hay produced, 2,460; bushels of seed produced, 474; acres plowed under, 93. 

Alfalfa, acres grown, 234; tons of hay produced, 525. 

Milk: Gallons sold for familr use, 278,705. 

Butter made in home dairies, 323,331 lbs. 

Butter made in factories and creameries, 515, 147 lbs. 

Cheese made in factories and creameries, 83,844 lbs. 

Eggs, 970,980 dozen. 

Sorghum, 1 acre planted; 109 gallons of syrup produced. 

Maple trees from wriich sugar or syrup was produced in 1907, 22,809; 

Bees: Number of hives, 283; pounds of honey produced, 3,317. 



pounds of sugar. 30; gallons of syrup, 3,919. 



Orchards Acres of Apple Trees 2,319; 

Orchards Acres of Peach Trees IPs: 

Orchards Acres of Pear Trees 1 s + ; 

Orchards Acres of Cherry Trees % l /z : 

Orchards Acres of Plum Trees 'A%; 



bushels of fruit produced 133,908 

bushels of fruit produced 257 

bushels of fruit produced 108 

bushels of fruit produced 71 

buskels ot fruit produced 14 



Number of Beef Cattle owned in April, 1907 571 

Number of Milch Cows owned in April, 1007 9,339 

Number of all other Cattle owned in April, 1C07 6,782 



Total. 



.16,002 



Number of Sheep owned in April, 1907, 41,208. 
Pounds of Wool shorn, 235, 136 
Number of Hogs owned in April, 1907, 18,344, 
Number of Hogs for summer market, 10d7, 6,632. 

Number of domestic animals which died from disease in 1900: 

Horses 143; value $13,005 

Cattle 162; value 4J00 

Sheep 816; value 2 i 10 

Hogs 279; value 1689 



MINERAL SPRINGS. 
(By Dr. S. W. Fowler.) 



Delaware possesses some of the most valu- 
able mineral springs in the world, and each 
spring is charged with medicinal and thera- 



peutical properties which have the most bene- 
ficial influence on mankind, both in health and 
disease. Many watering places and health re- 
sorts enjoving the patronage of many thou- 
sands of people, would be overjoyed with water 



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of such wonderful therapeutic values as is 
found here. If these waters had been properly 
developed, Delaware would now be unable to 
furnish accommodations, and if they would 
now advance the work, hundreds, yea thou- 
sands, of those who know of these waters, 
would be the strongest advocates ; for they 
stand ready to give testimony of the beneficial 
results of these chalybeate and sulphuretted 
waters. 

Long before tradition taught our fore- 
fathers about them, the wild animals could 
have been seen here, drinking from these 
springs. Xot only to quench their thirst were 
these waters beneficial, but they had a marvel- 
ous influence upon their vitality. The Indian 
told the white man how he found the buffalo, 
the deer, and the bears and cattle congregated 
here : how the various tribes came here to se- 
cure their meats while the animals visited 
these waters, and how the different tribes 
finally pitched their tents in the valleys and 
hills along the Olentangy River and the Dela- 
ware Run. They were wont to relate to the 
white frontiersman the marvelous benefits the 
old and the young derived from the waters. 
They fully appreciated that these mineral 
springs possessed something far better, more 
pure, and greater than other waters in the river 
and streams, as well as other springs in other 
localities. 

The white pioneer soon learned also that 
these springs possessed something which made 
them better than other waters : and located 
near them to enjoy their health-giving prop- 
erties. He, too, saw with surprise, animals, 
both wild and domestic, seeking these springs, 
and only ceased coming to them when they 
were shut out by the fences. 

For over half a century, thousands of peo- 
ple annually followed the same law and in- 
stinct, not fully appreciating the medicinal 
powers in these mineral waters, until some 
years ago, when a few enterprising and pro- 
gressive citizens connected with the University 
and city, believed that these waters con- 
tained valuable medicinal agents of great value 
to humanity, and possessed by but few mineral 
springs in the world. Acting upon their belief. 



they had them analyzed. The analysis proved 
that each and every mineral spring possessed 
medicinal qualities of uncommon and beneficial 
influence to mankind. This wonderful revela- 
tion made by them, proved that the waters 
were not only similar, but far superior to many 
others whose fame had spread far and near. 
These white and black and saline sulphur and 
chalybeate springs in this locality are far su- 
perior in every respect to many in this and 
foreign lands. The analysis has proven that 
Delaware's Sulphur springs are better and 
stronger than those of Virginia, where thou- 
sands visit annually. They are better, and 
possess more valuable ingredients than those 
of Pennsylvania or Colorado. 

The temperature of springs, as well as the 
waters charged with certain medicinal agents, 
render them more or less valuable for thera- 
peutical purposes. As a rule, spring waters 
have a temperature of 33 degrees. When the 
temperature is higher than 36 degrees, they 
are known as thermal springs. These are 
often of more or less value independently of 
the power of the water to dissolve mineral 
substances and the gases they contain. Yet 
when a spring is thermal, and contains the 
important gases, and holds in solution valu- 
able mineral agents, they become of far greater 
importance to mankind. 

Such are the springs in this locality. These 
sulphur springs have a temperature of 60 de- 
grees, and the chalybeate springs 57 degrees, 
while the famous Wildbad Spring of Germany 
has a temperature of 61 degrees: the Clifton, 
of New York. 54 degrees; Carlsbad. 131 de- 
grees ; the Warmbrunn, Germany, 68 degrees ; 
the Hot Springs of Arkansas, 90 degrees to 
108 degrees; and the Great Geyser of Ice- 
land, 180 degrees. The composition of mineral 
waters varies according to the strata through 
which the water passes, as well as to the pres- 
sure and previous composition under which it 
is in contact with the deposits. Waters vary 
in composition in the same locality, yet come 
to the surface in close proximity to each other, 
as is witnessed in this locality. We see the 
same conditions at Saratoga. New York. 
Coming by pressure to the surface, these wa- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



ters are found to possess different therapeuti- 
cal values one from the other, yet each and 
every one possessing rare and valuable medici- 
nal virtues. 

When the great mineral strata below has 
been thoroughly drilled into, and other springs 
have been carefully developed and located, 
there will be no reason why the waters will 
n. it be sought after for drinking and bathing 
purposes, and the curing of all forms of dis- 
eases equal to, if not far more, than those in 
other localities of less value. 

The rare mineral combinations so univers- 
ally present in these mineral springs, and with 
which the people should have been more deeply 
interested, are not so different from those 
whose waters have cured many diseases, and 
given happiness to many individuals. The 
oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, carbonate 
and bi-carbonate of sodium; the sulphate and 
chloride of sodium; the carbonate and bi-car- 
bonate of calcium ; the different forms of in m 
combined and re-combined by nature's law, 
are of the highest therapeutical value when 
properly used. 

The classification of mineral waters is ex- 
ceedingly difficult, yet all are based upon the 
predominence of some certain constituents, or 
constituents imparting to them certain medi- 
cinal and therapeutical values to be used in 
different diseases or in various ways. The 
special or principal constituent giving the pe- 
culiar character to the mineral waters, acting 

o 

as a cathartic or as a laxative, is the bi-car- 
bonate of magnesia and bi-carbonate of soda, 
and the chloride of sodium. The tonic mineral 
waters contain bicarbonate of iron or oxide of 
in n. The alterative mineral waters contain 
iodide of sodium and chloride of potassia and 
sodium. The diuretic properties of the mineral 
waters depend upon the bicarbonate of lithia 
and the protoxide of hydrogen. It will lie well 
to remember this when studying and discussing 
tli- qualities ami uses of these mineral water-. 
That the carbonic acid gas, sulphuretted 
hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are the life- 
giving principles of all of our mineral springs, 
we can no longer doubt. They contribute to 
the solubilitj of the ^alts contained in the 



waters, and render them more palatable and 
more agreeable to the stomach. The perfect 
solubility of these salts enhances the medi- 
cinal power of the mineral waters, and hence 
are more valuable for drinking and bathing, 
and curing of diseases. Once let the gases be 
driven off or escape, and the water evaporated, 
and it will be found it will take more than 
ten times the amount of rain water to re-dis- 
solve them. The absence of these gases in the 
strongest iron springs of Europe, render them 
worthless, or nearly so. When comparing 
these springs with many others, there is found 
a much larger amount of gases in them, thus 
making them of the highest benefit in curing 
diseases and for every day use. The gases 
seem to travel through some of the springs and 
escape ; but in the case of the springs in this 
li cality, the springs are most thoroughly and 
firmly impregnated with them. 

While many famous mineral springs con- 
tain bicarbonate of maenesia, which acts as a 
laxative and an anti-acid in some stomachs, 
the Delaware springs contain not only the 
same, but added to them is the sulphate of 
magnesia and chloride of sodium, acting more 
mildly and safely as a laxative and carthartic 
as well as correcting the "sour stomach," es- 
pecially seen in those addicted to the use of 
alcohol, and those, too. who overindulge in 
eating at unusual hours. By using these wa- 
ters, the "heartburn" and sick headache soon 
disappear. These waters start the torpid liver, 
and arouse the intestinal inaction, and stimu- 
late metabolic changes. The medical profes- 
sion well know and highly appreciate the use 
of the carbonate and bicarbonate of sodium, 
found so abundantly in these springs, and can 
testify to their highly beneficial influence as 
medicinal agents, especially in correcting the 
morbid secretions of uric acid. As found in 
the waters of these springs, the acids hold in 
solution aluminates. the phosphates, etc.. ren- 
dering them thus highly beneficial in all forms 
of rheumatism. With a little labor, many 
valuable testimonials could Lie furnished giving 
proof of remarkable cures in this disease. 
When used for bathing and drinking, the ef- 
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The Chalybeate springs, known as the Le- 
nape or Hills' Springs, furnish one of the best 
tonic waters in the country. The iron con- 
tained in the waters, when taken into the body, 
builds up the red corpuscles of the blood, 
stimulates the appetite, and enriches the whole 
body. That most important agent so demanded 
by the whole animal creation, chloride of so- 
dium, or common salt, is abundantly found in 
the chalybeate springs, and in each and every 
one of our springs. 

Every physician can testify how this agent 
increases the solubility of the albumen of the 
blood, and prevents the rapid destruction of 
red corpuscles. It stimulates the secretion of 
gastric juice, increases the flow of bile., and the 
more rapid interchange of the fluids in the 
body, called osmosis. Acting on the kidneys, 
there are increased secretion and excretion of 
the urine. The great influence salt has on the 
body one cannot estimate until one has used 
the water so remarkably supplied with it. The 
only method of proving its action is by care- 
fully watching and recording the therapeutical 
effects on the patient. The same is true of all 
the waters. The effects have been watched and 
recorded, and many are ready to give testimony 
of astonishing and bewildering results. Chemical 
analysis fails to decide the exact medicinal ef- 
fects, independently of the careful and faithful 
observation of the beneficiary. The afflicted, 
who have used the waters and been benefited, 
always furnish the best and most reliable evi- 
dence. Blessed as the locality is now with 
many different mineral springs of the highest 
medicinal value, many more can be developed 
by systematic drilling, equally as good, if not 
better, and at the same time locate them so that 
sanitariums, hotels and bath houses can be 
erected with great advantage, to accommodate 
those wishing to come here for pleasure and 
treatment. 

The Odevene Spring will always be of 
commercial interest, as the water is finding an 
unlimited demand. It is shipped in large 
aim mnts to various parts of the country, and 
is having a growth never dreamed of by the 
citizens of Delaware. The steady development 
of the Saratoga springs has been going on un- 



til now they have world-wide renown. What 
has been done there can be done here, and 
should have been done lung before this. Let 
five to ten wells be drilled in the most pleasant 
parts of the city, and soon we will see hotel and 
sanitarium accommodations made for the large 
number resorting here for health and pleasure, 
and many as permanent citizens, to use the 
waters, and will see the population doubled in 
ten years. 

The first spring at Saratoga was discov- 
ered in 1767, "the High Rock Spring." by Sir 
William Johnston. Tradition tells of the In- 
dians using from it long before this. The Con- 
gress Spring was discovered in 1792. Then 
followed others in rapid succession, until now 
they have over thirty, all properly analyzed and 
recorded, each one possessing rare medicinal 
properties, and which over 300,000 people an- 
nually visit for health and pleasure. Why 
should not the various sulphur and chalybeate 
springs of this city cause it to become the Sara- 
toga of Ohio and the west ? 

All of these springs of any repute range 
from 60 to 200 feet below the surface. With 
the exception of the High Rock Spring, all 
are tubed. 

It is the duty of every scientific and medi- 
cal writer interested in our city, to investigate, 
write and make reports upon the history, prob- 
able origin, chemical properties, the therapeuti- 
cal value, and the medicinal importance of each 
and every spring. In this manner a vast and 
valuable fund of information can be collected 
for the city, and for all coining here to use the 
water for various forms of diseases. This 
should have been done long before this, and the 
benefits would have accrued to the town. It 
has only been of recent date that the Odevene 
Spring waters have been brought prominently 
before the people, and its possibilities cannot 
be estimated. The reason for this rapid growth 
is the marvelous therapeutic action of the prop- 
erties found in the water. It is only too fre- 
quently stated by the wise and the unwise, the 
learned and the unlearned, that these, as well 
as all mineral waters, have no medicinal val- 
ues, and the same results can be attained by 
using artificially prepared waters. The argu- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



ment only confirms the benefits arising from 
the use of these waters as nature furnishes 
them to us ; yet all differing in power as cath- 
artics, laxatives, diuretics and elixir waters, as 
discussed and taught in medical books. The 
action of these same agents chemically pre- 
pared, act upon the organs by irritation, caus- 
ing secretion and elimination, while these same 
agents in these mineral waters are natural to 
the body, acting as powerful oxidizers of the 
disintegrated or broken-down tissues, and 
eliminating from the body by the different 
organs, the waste matter. These waters, 
charged with important elements, again fur- 
nish the blood with powerful restoratives to 
build up tissue, and to cure disease. That the 
Odevene stimulates the liver secretion, and 
acts as a cholagogue, we have abundance of 
evidence. Those using it report the laxative 
or cathartic effects, and the more rapid digestion 
and relief from distress in the stomach. The 
gastrointestinal irritability is relieved and 
cured. The dark, swarthy complexion changed 
to a ruddy, healthy color, and the whole sys- 
tem, through the glandular organs is strength- 
ened and invigorated. The weak and debili- 
tated heart and arteries gain power and 
strength. The nervous system .is electrified 
and set going. To give a list of the dis- 
eases influenced and cured by these waters 
would take too much space, and would be 
confusing. These mineral waters, like all 
others, should be used by the sick under regular 
and strict rules, and always under the care of 
a physician or nurse, who have carefully in- 
vestigated their use. Those in health need 
no help, and are ready to testify to the benefits 
derived from using the waters for bathing and 
drinking. 

The Odevene Spring is owned and operated 
by the "Odevene Spring Company." It is lo- 
cated east of the campus of the Ohio Wesleyan 
University, and a little west of die Olentangy 
River, and near the junction of the C, C. C. 
& St. L. Railroad, and the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road. A company drilled this well int.. the 
rock and struck this valuable thermal mineral 
spring water at the depth of 400 feet. The 
well is in the great lime nick strata, and the 



sulphur component renders the water valuable 
in many forms of disease. Their bottling 
works are nearby the spring, where they work 
a number of hands, washing the bottles, filling, 
labeling and packing ready for shipping. They 
have arranged for a portion of the water to 
flow from the well, to accommodate the hun- 
dreds of people who visit it daily for drinking 
and other purposes. Over twenty thousand gal- 
lons flow from the well daily. The medicinal 
effects of the water have been thoroughly 
tested, and endorsed, not only by the local 
physicians, but by other leading physicians. 
They prescribe it daily with the utmost confi- 
dence to those of a sedentary habit, and to 
those suffering from bilious disorders. The 
water, containing the laxative salts, chloride 
of sodium or common salt, bicarbonate of 
magnesium, the chloride of magnesia, induce 
effects that are mild, pleasant and certain, and 
without irritating the intestinal tract, or im- 
pairing the digestive functions; on the other 
hand, promoting the appetite, and stimulating 
digestion and assimilation. The chloride of 
calcium acting powerfully upon the glands of 
the skin, the kidneys, and the mucous mem- 
brane, is an agent of great value as a curative 
power. The various forms of eczema and the 
enlargement of glands are cured when the 
water is systematically used for drinking and 
bathing. The same can be said of the White 
and Black sulphur waters, as thousands of 
people, who have for many years used them, 
can testify. 

We will speak also of the Magnetic 
Springs, properly called Chalybeate Springs. 
The Lenape Spring, owned by Mr. C. E. Hills, 
has been analyzed and tested for years. The 
ingredients contained in these waters are of 
great benefit to the blood and the body. Many 
chalybeate springs in this country, as well as 
in Europe, are visited for the purpose of drink- 
ing, bathing and treatment. Those at Rich- 
mond, Va. ; Sharon, Pa. ; the Bedford, Brighton 
and Cheltenham in Europe, where large num- 
bers visit annually, are renowned. Yet the 
chalybeate springs of our own city have nearly 
the same chemical composition; and in addi- 
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making them of far more value as curative 
agents than those mentioned. 

That we may prove that what has been 
said is true, we append the following analysis 
of our springs, and a few of the most noted in 
when the patient needs a tonic. 

The Odevene natural spring water was 
analyzed by the celebrated consulting and 
analytical chemist, A. A. Brenneman, of New 
York. He gives the following composition: 

Temperature 60 degrees, density 10,040, total solid 
375.11 per gallon. 

Potassium Chloride , 18.65 g r - 

Si idium Chloride 145-87 gr. 

Lithium Chloride Traces 

Calcium Chloride 15.26 gr. 

Magnesium Chloride 55-93 gr. 

Calcium Sulphate 102.47 g r - 

Calcium Bicarbonate 33-S/ gr. 

Magnesium Bicarbonate 2.64 gr. 

Alumina and Iron 0.05 gr. 

Silica 0.37 gr. 

Ni 1 Organic Matter 

Less the Carbonic acid and water of 

Bicarbonates 361.32 gr. 

The important gases spoken of before, and 
of such vast importance in all mineral wa- 
ters, are in large quantities in this spring : 

Sulphuretted Hydrogen 2.924 per gal. 

Nitrogen 5.810 per gal. 

Oxygen 0.158 per gal. 

By the analysis, we see the water, as stated, 
is not only a strong mineral, but a highly saline 
sulphuretted one. This chemist further says: 
This sulphuretted hydrogen gas is entirely free, 
no sulphide occurring in the water, except the 
traces of sulphide of iron, and this in suspen- 
sion. He says further, by way of compari- 
son with other mineral waters, that this spring 
is exceeded by only one other in sulphuretted 
hydrogen gas. A United States gallon con- 
tains in cubic inches as follows : 

Weilbach well, Germany 1.161 

Cave well, N. Y 2.754 

White Sulphur well, N. Y 0.8*4 

Florida well, N. Y 3765 

Odevene well, Delaware, 2.924 



Taking the analysis of these wells, we find 
the Odevene of greater value in this gas and 
its combinations in the curing (if disease, and 
as a valuable mineral water. 

The Lenape Magnetic Springs were known, 
like the other springs, to the Indians long be- 
fore the coming of the white man. The Lenni- 
Lenape tribe of Indians camped in the vicinity 
of these waters. 

There are two of these springs only a few 
feet apart, giving a discharge of 8,400 gallons 
each day. Though so near together, the wa- 
ters differ materially in their composition, as 
will be seen in the analysis. Unlike the other 
springs, it has a magnetic influence, making 
it one of the marvels of nature. Its use in 
various diseases has been carefully tested, and 
found to be of great value. No. 1 acting on 
the liver, kidneys and blood, while No. 2 acts 
more directly upon stomach diseases and the 
bowels, as well as on the blood. Having such 
large quantities of iron, its use is especially 
adapted to the diseases affecting the blood, or 
when the patient needs a tonic. 

No. 1 Lenape analysis is as follows : 

Temperature 57 degrees, density 1.0520, total solid 
per gallon 55.695. 

Sodium Chloride V346 

Calcium Chloride 0.634 

Potash Sulphate r 334 

Lime Sulphate 6.201 

Magnesia Sulphate 0.934 

Lime Bicarbonate 27.421 

Magnesia Bicarbonate 15.211 

Iron Oxide - i4 

Silic a ! ' .054 

Organic matter 004 



Tttal 55.695 

No. 2 Lenape analysis is as follows : 

Temperature 57 degrees, density 1.0620. total solid 
per gallon 40.64. 

Sodium Chloride 2 . 1 5 

Lime Sulphate j. I2 

Magnesia 2 .?r 

Magnesia Carbonate 12.U 

Lime Carbonate 17 7 ! 

Potassia Traces 

Organic matter D .8l 

Iron Oxide , T 

Alumina Traces 



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When these waters have been used regu- 
larly and systematically, they improve the se- 
cretions and the appetite, relieve the decom- 
position of food in the stomach, and stop the 
eructation of gas, cure the diseased mucous 
membranes, and stimulate the torpid liver and 
intestine to action, build up the broken-down 
corpuscles, and thus stimulate the whole or- 
ganism. These waters being strongly anti- 
acid, they combine with the gastric juices, and 
act as a laxative and cathartic, and act most 
beneficially on all cases of rheumatism. 

The oldest and most famous spring is the 
White Sulphur Spring on the campus of the 
Ohio Wesleyan University. Thousands of 
students and visitors from all parts of the 
United States and the world have the most 
perfect knowledge of it, and are ready to give 
testimony as to its value. How long it has 
been flowing, tradition fails to tell. The rich, 
sulphuretted odor of this, as well as of the 
five others of the same nature, appearing along 
the Delaware Run for two miles to the north- 
west, can be detected long before reaching 
the springs. The visitor, oil the first visit, 
is disgusted and nauseated with the taste and 
odor, which is so powerful; but after a few 
visits he likes it, and many are found there 
daily praising it in the highest terms. Daily, 
hundreds are seen with vessels, drinking and 
carrying the water away. 

These sulphur springs are more bountifully 
supplied with sulphuretted hydrogen and car- 
bonic acid gases than any other springs in the 
country. In each gallon of water can be 
found 96 cubic inches of sulphuretted hydro- 
gen gas, and 36 cubic inches of carbonic acid 
gas. The large amount of chloride of sodium, 
ami the different forms of chloride of lime. 
compounded with magnesia, renders the water 
most valuable as a powerful anti-acid, acting 
to cure dyspepsia, toning up the mucous mem- 
brane of the sti >mach and intestines, and restor- 
ing the, digestion. They start tin- torpid liver, 
and pancreatic and intestinal action, restoring 
the digestion, and acting as a mild laxative 



and cathartic. The composition of the 
water also shows' diuretic properties, to 
the beneficial influence of which on the kid- 
neys many testify. Thus we find we have a 
mild cathartic refrigerant, diuretic anti-acid, 
and an anti-septic water, to bless and benefit 
mankind, as found in but few other localities. 
The gaseous products found in one gallon of 
water by analysis : 

Sulphuretted hydrogen gas.... 96 cubic inches 

Carbonic acid gas 24 cubic inches 

White Sulphur Spring of Delaware — temperature 
60 degrees, density 1.0026, total solids; gases — Sulphur- 
etted hydrogen 96, carbonic acid gas 24. 

The deposit resulting from the evaporation 
of several gallons of water from the White 
Sulphur Springs was as follows : 

Chloride of Sodium 48 gr 

Calcium Sulphate 8 gr. 

Calcium Bicarbonate 20 gr. 

Sulphate Magnesium 16 gr. 

Bicarbonate Magnesium 8 gr. 

Carbonate of Soda 5 gr. 

The sulphuretted springs known as the 
C. O. Little Springs, west of the city, con- 
taining white and black sulphur, are equally 
valuable, but have never been analyzed. 

These sulphuretted waters, possessing these 
mineral substances and abundance of gases, 
can be readily distinguished from the others 
by the odor as well as by drinking. Those 
found in Europe, and in various parts of the 
United States, are far inferior to those in out- 
locality. Those in Virginia and in Pennsyl- 
vania do not conform to these in power of 
medicinal influence. The famous Harrogate 
Sulphur Spring has a density of 1.01113, and 
a temperature of 48 degrees. The celebrated 
Clifton Springs, of New York, to which so 
many go annually, do not compare with either 
the White Sulphur Springs or the Odevene 
Springs of Delaware, yet it is classed with 
the leading mineral springs of the world. 



CHAPTER II. 



INDIAN OCCUPATION. 



Prehistoric Races- 



-The Red Race — The Delawares — Relations Between the Settlers and the 
Indians — War of 1812 — Anecdotes. 



Delaware County may have been the home 
of man before the glacial period. There seems 
to be evidence, at least, that Ohio was occu- 
pied by human beings prior to this great geo- 
logical epoch. Paleoliths have been found in 
the Little Miami Valley similar and under 
similar conditions to those unearthed by Dr. 
Abbott in the glacial terraces of the Delaware 
River. As to whether pre-glacial man ever 
had a home in Delaware County, however, in 
our present state of knowledge, could be 
nothing more than a matter of profitless specu- 
lation. 

That the Mound-Builder lived here there 
is abundant evidence. The State of Ohio it- 
self, from the standpoint of pre-historic oc- 
cupation, is one of the most interesting por- 
tions of the entire globe. In no other equal 
area have so many of the Mound-Builder's 
works, consisting of fortifications, effigies, 
mi >unds, etc., been found. On this point we 
quote from the recent work of Gerard Fowke 
on the "Archeological History of Ohio." 
"The total number of mounds in Ohio has been 
estimated at ten thousand. This is probably 
under rather than over the correct figure: for 
while they are almost unknown in the north- 
western counties and are comparatively scarce 
in some parts of the rugged hill lands of the 
south and southeast and along the main water- 
sheds, there is scarcely a township in any other 
part where they are not found. In the neigh- 
borhood of every stream in the southern half 
of the State, except some of those flowing 



through rough or swampy country, the sur- 
face is so dotted with them that signals could 
be transmitted from one to another for a hun- 
dred miles or more. There is scarcely a point 
along the Scioto below Circleville, or on either 
Miami in the lower half of its course, or in the 
valley of any tributary to these streams, where 
one may not be within a few minutes' ride 
of some permanent evidence of alxiriginal 
habitation. The same is true of the Cuyahoga 
and some other rivers belonging to the Lake 
Erie basin. On the summits of steep hills ; 
in bottom lands subject to overflow, on every 
terrace bordering a stream; on plateaus and 
uplands ; wherever there is cultivable or na- 
turally drained land, a good point of observa- 
tion, an ample supply of water, a convenient 
topography for trails — the Mound-Builder has 
left his mark. Even in places where it would 
seem a nomad would not care to go, except 
as led by excitement or the necessities of the 
chase, and then for as brief a time as possible, 
such evidence is not lacking of pre-historic 
residence, or, at least, sojourning."' 

"The most notable mounds in the State 
are: The Serpent Mound, in Adams County. 
which is more than a thousand feet in length ; 
Fort Ancient, in Warren County, the length 
of whose surrounding embankment is about 
five miles, and estimated to contain '128.800 
cubic yards of material: Fort Hill, in High- 
land County, enclosing an area of thirty-five 
acres ; Graded Way, in Pike County : and for- 
tifications at Newark covering - over a thou- 



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sand acres. The largest mound in the State. 
at Miami'sburg, is sixty-eight feet in height 
and 800 feet in circumference at the base." 

While Delaware County possesses none of 
these more irryportant of the works of the 
Mound-Builders, and while there is nothing 
characteristic in the mounds and earthworks 
found in the county to distinguish them from 
those in many other parts of the State, yet there 
are many interesting evidences that these peo- 
ple once lived within the limits of the county. 
In nearly every township are to be found 
mounds and fortifications of various descrip- 
tions, which, though fast becoming obliterated, 
still remain to attest the activity of a people 
whose character and history are shrouded in 
the oblivion of the past. Many relics, such 
as stone hammers, hatchets, flint arrow-heads, 
spear-heads, pestles, pipes, and rleshers, have 
been found at various times, and many inter- 
esting collections have been made by citizens 
of the county. In June of the year 1906, a 
si >ciety known as The Delaware County Ar- 
cheological and Historical Society was or- 
ganized and incorporated by a number of citi- 
zens who are interested in the collection and 
perservation of relics of this character, as well 
as in other matters pertaining to the archeo- 
logy and history of the county, and there is 
now in the possession of various members of 
this organization a large number of relics 
which, as soon as permanent quarters are se- 
cured, will be open to the inspection of the 
public. As illustrating something of the in- 
terest which has been shown in matters of this 
kind we append a list of the various articles 
of archeological interest which have been col- 
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versity there is also a large and very interest- 
ing collection. 

For the past quarter of a century little in 
the way of archeological investigation has been 
done in the county. There has been no sys- 
tematic effort to investigate the various earth- 
works that exist, and perhaps much that con- 
cerns the character and habits of their build- 
ers still lies hidden in the unexplored recesses 
of the mounds themselves. The larger part 
of the mounds within the county are to be 
found in the southern portion and along the 
Olentangy River. One of the most notable 
is in the southwestern part of Orange Town- 
ship on a farm now owned by Dr. Peasley. of 
Columbus, and on the east bank of the Olean- 
tangy. "It bears all the marks of having been 
a fort, and with the river — and a large ravine 
which enters the river at almost right angles — 
forms a semicircle, or, more properly speaking, 
a quadrant, and incloses something near ten 
acres of ground. Several gateways, or open- 
ings, in the wall surrounding it, which is of 
earth, from five to eight feet high, are guarded 
by mounds on the inside of the enclosure." 
It is a misfortune that no scientific exploration 
of this mound has ever been made as it would 
undoubtedly be replete with interest for the 
archeologist. On a farm belonging to A. E. 
Goodrich, in Liberty Township, there is a 
circular mound, perhaps forty or fifty feet in 
diameter, which, until it had been largely ob- 
literated by the cultivation of the land on which 
it lies, was one of the most perfect works of 
its kind to lie seen anywhere. There was an- 
other mound on Mr. Goodrich's barn lot a 
number of years ago, which has been entirely 
removed. During the process of grading there 
was found, some distance below the surface, 
three skeletons in a good state of preservation.' 
One of them was apparently that of a man 
considerably above medium stature, while the 
other two were smaller. 

There is an ancient fortification located on 
thi' cast side of the Olentangy about four 
miles south of Delaware. Like the one farther 
down the river, before mentioned as being 
built at the intersection of a ravine with the 
river, this one is likewise located between two 



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ravines at the point of their intersection, about 
half a mile from the river, and could have 
been intended for no other purpose than that 
of defence. The embankment with the ditch 
outside of it contains about twenty acres. 
"The height of the embankment is now about 
five feet from the bottom of the ditcli and the 
embankment itself is about five hundred feet 
in length, with an opening or gateway near 
the southern extremity. There seems to have 
been a line of fortifications extending all along 
the river for considerable distance, perhaps all 
the way to the Scioto and thence to the 
Ohio." ' 

Mounds, mostly sepulchral, in addition to 
those already mentioned, have been discovered 
in various other parts of the county. In the 
issue of the Delaware Herald for September 
-'5' l &79> there is an account of a mound 
which was evidently explored more thoroughly 
than most of those which have been known to 
exist here. "Saturday we were shown some 
interesting relics consisting of a queen conch 
shell, some isingglass (mica), and several 
peculiarly shaped pieces of slate which were 
found on the farm of Solomon Hill, Concord 
Township, Delaware County, Ohio. The 
mound is situated on the banks of a rocky 
stream. The nearest place where the queen 
conch shell is found is on the coast of Florida ; 
the isingglass in New York State, and the 
slate in Vermont and Pennsylvania. Two 
human skeletons were also found in the mound, 
one about seven feet long, the other a child. 
The shell was found at the left cheek of the 
large skeleton. A piece of slate about one by 
six inches was under the chin. The slate was 
provided with two smooth holes, apparently 
for the purpose of tying it to its position. An- 
other peculiarly shaped piece, with one hole, 
was on the chest, and another with some ising- 
glass was on the left hand." In an article pre- 
pared by Mr. R. E. Hills, of Delaware, a num- 
ber of years ago, for a former county history, 
he calls attention to several other mounds 
which have been located from time to time, 
particularly one on the "Broom Corn Farm" 
in Troy Township, and another in Porter. In 
both of these many interesting relics have been 



found. In more recent years some very inter- 
esting discoveries were made by Mr. Burgher 
on his farm in Radnor Township, and. like 
most of the others, on the bank of a stream, 
though, in this case, it was the Scioto instead 
of the Olentangy. They consisted mostly of 
human skeletons, together with some parched 
corn evidently deposited with the body at the 
time of burial. 

In the article of Mr. Hills before alluded 
to, he gives an account of the investigations 
made in certain mounds in the eastern part 
of the county, and, inasmuch as they constitute 
about the only efforts of a strictly scientific 
character to discover the important features 
and contents of mounds within the county, we 
deem it worth while to quote this part of the 
article in full. "A mound near Galena was 
recently opened by Prof. John T. Short, of 
the Ohio University, under the direction and 
for the benefit of the Peabody Museum of 
American Archeology and Ethnology ; and we 
are under obligations to Prof. F. \V. Putnam, 
curator of the Museum, for the privilege of 
using Prof. Short's report in this connection, 
and to Prof. Short himself for kindly fur- 
nishing a copy of his report for this pur- 
pose." 

He says: "In the month of August, 1879, 
the writer, in company with Mr. Eugene Lane 
and Air. David Dyer, opened three mounds 
in Delaware County, Ohio. Two of these 
formed part of a system of mound works situ- 
ated on the estate of Jacob Rhodes, Esq.. in 
Genoa Township. * * * The peninsula 
or tongue of land situated between Big Wal- 
nut Creek and Spruce Run is an elevated area 
having nearly perpendicular sides, washed by 
the streams over a hundred feet below. The 
central figure, the mound A (referring to a 
plate) stands within a perfectly circular en- 
closure B, measuring nearly 570 feet around. 
Now it is but about three feet higher than the 
natural level, but formerly was ten feet higher. 
Its present owner reduced it by plowing it 
down. The trench is inside of the enclosure, 
and no doubt furnished the earth for both the 
embankment and the mound. Its present 
width is twenty-seven feet, and it was formerly 



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about seven feet deep. The circle has an 
opening about twenty feet in width on the east, 
from which a graded way of about the same 
width, and probably 400 feet in length — no 
doubt of artificial construction — affords a de- 
scent at an angle of about thirty degrees to 
the stream below. On the north side of the 
entrance and continuous with the embankment, 
is a small mound measuring ten feet in dia- 
meter and four feet in height. It may have 
served as a point of outlook into the deep ra- 
vine below, as from it alone the entire length 
of the graded way is visible. A shaft six feet 
in diameter was sunk in this mound to a depth 
of four and one-half feet, but we discovered 
nothing that could be removed. Charcoal, a 
few calcined animal bones, and burnt clay, were 
all that was found. The large mound situated 
in the center of the enclosure, measured sev- 
enty-five feet through its major axis and sixty- 
eight feet through its minor axis. Its present 
height is about twelve feet above the natural 
level, though the distance to the bottom of 
the trench is three or four feet or more. It 
is probable that the mound was perfectly 
round, as its symmetry has no d<>ul>t been de- 
stroyed, in part, by the removal from its sur- 
face of about twenty-five wagon loads of flat 
sandstones (each a foot square, more or less, 
and about three inches thick) for the purpose 
of walling neighboring cellars. The stones 
were brought from the ravine below and made 
a complete covering for the mound. Extend- 
ing out from the mound on the west, the re- 



mains of a 



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crescent-shaped platform. 



twenty-five feet across at its greatest width. 
are still visible. A small excavation was made 
four years ago in the top of the mound, by the 
son of the present owner, but the digging was 
abandoned before any depth was reached or 
anything was discovered. I excavated the 
mound by causing a trench four feet wide to 
be dug from the northern side of the mound 
to its center. * * * A single layer of 
flat stones, like those on the outside of the 
mound, was found to start at the base and 
to cover what at one time mu>t have been re- 
garded as its finished surface. At the center 
this inner layer of stones was situated about 



three feet below the present surface of the 
mi und. This was the only trace of stratifica- 
tion observable in the structure and is sug- 
gestive of the section given by Squier and 
Davis to illustrate stratification in altar 
mounds. Aside from this, the indications were 
distinct that the earth had been dumped down 
in small basket- or bag-fulls. This is con- 
firmatory of the observations of Prof. E. B. 
Andrews in the mounds of southern Ohio. 
* * * On the undisturbed surface of the 
ground, at the center of the mound, I un- 
covered a circular bed of ashes eight feet in 
diameter and about six inches in thickness. 
The ashes were of a reddish clay color, except 
that through the center of the bed ran a seam 
or layer of white ashes — no doubt calcined 
bones, as at the outer margin of the bed in 
one or two instances the forms of the bones 
was traceable, but so calcined that they pos- 
sessed no consistency when touched or un- 
covered. Ranged in a semicircle around the 
eastern margin of the ash heap, were several 
pieces of pottery, all broken, probably in the 
construction of the mound or by its subsequent 
settling. The pottery was exceedingly brittle 
and crumbled rapidly after exposure. It was 
almost impossible to recover any fragments 
larger than the size of the hand, though a 
couple of pieces were taken out which indi- 
cated that the size of the vessel to which they 
belonged was much larger than any which to 
my knowledge have been taken from Ohio 
mounds; it was probably twelve or fourteen 
inches in height. The vessel was ornamented 
with a double row of lozenge or diamond- 
shaped figures. * * Although the dec- 
oration on these vessels 1 produced by a pointed 
tool before the clay was baked) indicated an 
attempt at art of a respectable order, the ma- 
terial employed was nothing more than coarse 
clay and pounded sandstone — instead of 
pounded shells, as is more frequentlv the case. 
However, numerous fragments of finer work- 
manship were taken out. Evidently an attempt 
had been made to glaze the vessel. I could not 
help being impressed with the thought that 
the mound marked the site where cremation 
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* * * About 300 yards southwest of the 
mound just described are the remains of a 
circular enclosure 300 feet in diameter. The 
embankment has been reduced by plowing un- 
til it is now scarcely two feet in height. The 
precipitous sides of both the Big Walnut and 
Spruce Run render an ascent at this point im- 
possible. The circle is visible from the mound 
and is possibly an intermediate link between 
the mound and another system lying west at 
a point two miles distant. 

"On the estate of E. Phillips, Esq., one 
mile south of Galena, in the same count}-, I 
opened a mound of 165 feet in circumferance 
and about four feet in height. * * * Xo 
bones nor pottery were found. * * * Mr. 
Dyer states that about a couple of years ago 
a large mound, measuring seventy feet in dia- 
meter and fifteen feet in height, constructed 
entirely of stone, and situated on the farm of 
Isaac Brimberger, three miles south of Ga- 
lena, was partly removed by its owner fi >r the 
purpose of selling the stone. Immediately 
under the center of the mound and below the 
natural level, a vault was discovered. The sides 
and roof of the mound consisted of oak and 
walnut timbers, averaging six inches in dia- 
meter and still covered with bark. * * * 
The timbers were driven perpendicularly into 
the ground around the quadrangular vault 
while others were laid across the top for a roof. 
Over all the skin of some animal had been 
stretched. Inside of the vault were the re- 
mains, apparently, of three persons, one a child, 
and fragments of a coarse cloth made of 
vegetable fiber and animal hair. * * * 
The preservation of the wood is due, probably, 
to the presence of water, with which the vault 
seems to have been filled." 

Mr. Hills, in his able article, states the fol- 
lowing conclusions with regard to the Mound- 
Builders in Delaware County : "Our knowl- 
edge of the other remains in the county is 
meager, but enough is known to enable us to 
classify it with the other counties bordering 
the Scioto River to the Ohio. It appears to 
have been near the northeast corner of the ter- 
ritory of the race which occupied Ohio. Indi- 
ana and Illinois, as the most of the permanent 



works discovered have been south and west of 
here, although many fine specimens of im- 
plements have been found in Marion County. 
north of Delaware." 

As was previously stated, for many years 
practically no effort at systematic investiga- 
tion of the mounds, or any one of them, in 
the county has been made, and little can be 
added to what was set forth at the time Mr. 
Hills prepared his article. In the year 1897 
a visit was again made to the Galena mounds 
by the curator of the State Museum and to 
various other points of archeological interest 
in the county, but his report contains little 
that would add to the information already in 
our possession. We give, however, the sum- 
mary of the present knowledge possessed re- 
garding the mounds and other matters of ar- 
cheological interest relative to Delaware 
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The Mound-Builders have long since passed 
away. Aside from the earthworks which they 
constructed and the relics found within them, 
no source of information remains to us by 
which to determine anything as to their char- 
acter, history, or fate. Even the Indians 
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later discoveries. Whether the Mound-Build- 
ers were a race distinct in themselves, ulti- 
mately conquered and exterminated by the 
Indians, or whether they were simply the pro- 
genitors of the Indian tribes, are questions 
which remain unanswered and are destined, 
perhaps, always to be so. 

THE RED RACE. 

Of the successors to the Mound-Builders, 
In iwever, considerably more is known. In- 
deed it has not been much over a hundred 
years since the only residents of Delaware 
County were the red men, and a hundred years 
is a period comparatively brief when we con- 
sider the length of time that has elapsed since 
the date where historical knowledge begins. 
It is scarcely correct, however, to speak of 
the Red Men as residents. The term implies 
a more permanent attachment to a locality than 
could be attributed to them. With their no- 
madic habits, they were not long confined to a 
single place, and we find the various tribes 
wandering over widely extended areas. 

When the white man first came to the Ohio 
Valley he found a number of tribes inhabiting 
the Northwest Territory. Among those which 
are known to have been in the region which is 
now Delaware County there were the Dela- 
wares. Shawnees, Mingoes, Wyandots, Sene- 
cas, and perhaps others. Since the first of 
these have given the county its name, and are 
known to have had a more permanent location 
here than some of the others, it is not inap- 
propriate to give some accounts of their char- 
acter and history. 

The Delawares took their name from the 
Delaware River on the banks of which they 
were located when first discovered by the Euro- 
peans, and which, in turn, took its name from 
Lord De la Wane, who first explored it. 
Their real name, however, was Lenni Lenape. 
While this name is usully interpreted to mean 
"original men." it is stated by Drake in his 
edition of Schoolcraft's book on the Ameri- 
can Indians that the orthography does not 
justify the assertion. "Lenni is 'the same as 
Illini in the Illinois and Iiuiiui in the Chip- 



pewa, the consonants / and n and the vowels 
o and i being interchangeable in the Algonkin. 
Lenape is in the same language, and, under the 
same rule, the equivalent of inabi and iabi, a 
male. The true meaning is "manly men" — a 
name involving a harmless boast. 

According to the traditions of the Lenni 
Lenape, their organization antedated that of 
most of the other Indian tribes. They regarded 
themselves as having occupied in former ages 
a pre-eminent position for prowess, valor and 
wisdom. They pointed to a "Golden Age" 
in the remote past when their claims to su- 
periority over the other tribes was recognized 
in the term "Grandfather," which these tribes 
applied to them. The Iroquois were called 
by the Lenni Lenape, "Uncle," which the Iro- 
quois reciprocated by calling the Lenni Le- 
nape, "Nephew." The other tribes were 
called by them "Brother" or "Younger 
Brother." When the Delawares were subdued 
by the Iroquois in after years, these traditions 
of their former greatness, from which they 
had fallen, rested heavily in their memories. 

It was a further tradition among the Dela- 
wares that they had once occupied the western 
part of the country, but, crossing the Missis- 
sippi, had gradually moved eastward until they 
had taken up a more permanent abode on the 
river which gave them their English name. In 
the course of their migration eastward they 
bad exterminated the Allegans who occupied 
the principal ranges of the Allegheny Moun- 
tains. They had formed an alliance with the 
Iroquois by whom they were afterward sub- 
dued and reduced to "women." Whatever 
truth there may have been in their traditions, 
however, when the European settler came, 
they were found on the banks of the Dela- 
ware. The Dutch carried on a friendly traf- 
fic with them, exchanging for the skins of 
animals the superior products of European art 
and manufacture. 

In 1682 William Penn. the great Quaker, 
who believed that the rules of justice applied 
to dealings with the Indians as well as other 
races, came to the American shore. Instead 
of seeking to eject the Delawares from their 
lands by sheer force of superior prowess, he 



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met them in friendly intercourse and negoti- 
ated with them a treaty by which he bought 
their lands, and by which both parties agreed 
that the same moral law should apply to both 
races alike. This treaty was kept unbroken by 
the Delawares for sixty years. So favorable 
was the impression made upon them by Penn's 
fairness that the name "Quaker" came, with 
them, to be synonymous with "good men." 

At the time of the treat}- with I'enn, how- 
ever, or shortly afterwards, the Delawares 
were brought into subjection to the Iroquois. 
At the Lancaster treaty in 1744. in the presence 
of a large assembly of tribes, the Iroquois de- 
nied the right of the Delawares to sell their 
lands. "Canassatego, an Iroquois chief, up- 
braided them in public council for some for- 
mer act of this kind. Speaking in a strain of 
mixed irony and arrogance, he told them not 
to reply to his words but to leave the council 
in silence. He peremptorily ordered them to 
quit the section of country where they then 
resided and to move to the banks of the Sus- 
quehanna." Accordingly, the Delawares, 
cowed into submission, left the banks of the 
Delaware where their home had been for many 
years and turned to the West, from which, 
according to their traditions, they had formerly 
come. It is said that at the opening of the 
Revolution the Delawares shook off the Iro- 
quois yoke and that, a few years later, at a 
public council, the Iroquois admitted that they 
were "no longer women." 

The Delawares first settled on the Susque- 
hanna, in their western migration. Here, how- 
ever, they were subject to the constant in- 
trusion of the white settlers, as well as the 
aggressions of the Iroquois. Proceeding west- 
ward they took up their abode along the 
Muskingum, and later on the Auglaize in 
Northwestern Ohio, and while here they took 
part in the various wars which have been men- 
tioned in the preceding chapter. They were 
represented at St. Clair"s defeat and at the 
battle of "Fallen Timber," and afterwards 
participated in the treaty at Greenville. They 
were faithful to the United States during the 
War of 1812. resisting all the overture- of 



the British to again take up arms against the 
Americans. 

From Ohio they removed to the White 
River, a branch of the Wabash, in Indiana. 
Later, as the advancing frontier of civiliza- 
tion encroached upon their territory, they 
ceded their lands and removed, for the most 
part, to a tract in Missouri which had for- 
merly been granted to them jointly with the 
Shawnees by the Spanish. From here they 
again migrated to Kansas, locating on the 
Kansas and Missouri rivers. Finally, they re- 
moved to Indian Territory, where they now 
reside, and occupy a reservation in conjunction 
with the Cherokee Nation. Their present 
number is about 1.750. In the War of the 
Rebellion the Delawares enlisted one hundred 
and seventy-two men for the Union army, out 
of a population of two hundred males. They 
officered their own companies and made good 
soldiers in every respect. 

It was to the tribe of the Delawares that 
the band of Moravian converts belonged, 
wdiose shameful massacre at Gnadenhutten is 
one of the foulest blots that stains the annals 
of our early history. The Moravian Mission- 
aries, Count Zinzendorf and Heckewelder. had 
labored with great success among the Indian 
tribes. Their first converts were made in New 
York and Connecticut. Owing to the preju- 
dice of the English, however, in 1747 the mis- 
sion was transferred from Shickomico, in 
Dutchess County. New York, to Bethlehem 
on the Susquehanna. Here was established an 
Indian colony, free from all the savage vices 
that characterized the other Indian tribes. 
They cultivated the land and abstained 
from participation in the Indian wars 



that raged 



along the frontier from 



Quebec to New Orleans. It was the 
misfortune of these Delaware Indians 
to fall under the suspicion of the English as 
being in sympathy with the French. Their 
doctrines of peace met with little response 
from the other Indian tribes or even from the 
rough white settlers on the border. In conse- 
quence they were subjected to constant perse- 
cution from both the whites and the red men. 
Forced from the Susquehanna they took up 



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their abode on the waters of the Muskingum. 
Here, as before, they addressed themselves to 
the peaceful pursuits of agriculture and graz- 
ing. They were allowed to remain unmolested 
until the war for independence broke out. 
When this occurred they found themselves be- 
tween Fort Pitt and Detroit, a British and an 
American stronghold. They could not under- 
stand the struggle and refused to join the war- 
like parties that passed through their territories 
or to ally themselves with either of the belliger- 
ent forces. Their attitude only served to create 
suspicion. The white frontiersmen, accus- 
tomed only to the savage side of the Indian 
nature, could not understand that any other 
could exist. The Indians themselves were, for 
the most part, incapable of appreciating the 
doctrines of peace and non-resistance believed 
in and adhered to by these innocent .Moravian 
converts. At length a Wyandot war party, 
no doubt instigated by the white renegades, 
Girty, Elliott and McKee, appeared on the 
Muskingum and compelled the peaceful Dela- 
wares to remove to Sandusky. Many of their 
cattle and hogs were killed and the inhabitants 
of three towns, numbering between three ami 
four hundred, were removed, leaving behind 
the fields which they had cultivated and the 
homes and chapels which they had erected. 

After living at Sandusky for a year the 
Delawares were permitted to return to the 
Muskingum. The settlers on the Monon- 
gahela looked on this return as a hostile 
movement. The British posts at the Maumee, 
Detroit and Michilimacinac had not yet been 
surrendered, and it was known that the Indian 
tribes throughout the Northwest still mani- 
fested tin- most bitter hostility towards the 
white settlers, shown later by the fierce strug- 
gles with St. Clair and Wayne. Almost any 
kind of a pretext would have sufficed, how- 
ever, to provoke an attack on the Moravians, 
in view of the prejudice which existed against 
them. On their return to the Muskingum a 
company, headed by Colonel Williamson, de- 
termined to exterminate them. Gnadenhutten, 
Salem and one or two other settlements were 
taken. "Cnder deceitful promises the Indi- 
ans gave up all their arms, showed the whites 



their treasures, and went unknowingly to a 
terrible death. When apprised of their fate, 
determined upon by a majority of the rangers, 
they begged only time to prepare. They were 
led two by two. the men into one and the 
women and children into another 'slaughter- 
house,' as it was termed, and all but two lads 
were wantonly slain. * * * Some of 
Williamson's men wrung their hands at their 
cruel fate and endeavored, by all the means in 
their power, to prevent it, but all to no pur- 
pose." 

It was shortly after this inhuman massacre 
that the ill-fated expedition of Colonel Craw- 
ford against the Wyandots took place. Per- 
haps aroused to the fiercest spirit of revenge 
by the massacre of their brethren, even though 
they could not sympathize with their spirit, the 
Wyandots apparently sought to wreak ven- 
geance on Colonel Crawford and party. Alter 
completely routing them and capturing Colonel 
Crawford with a number of the party, they 
burnt Colonel Crawford at the stake after sub- 
jecting him to the crudest tortures that all 
their devilish ingenuity could devise. 

The Indians probably had several villages 
within the present limits of Delaware County. 
Little is known regarding any of them, how- 
ever, beyond what is stated by Howe in his 
History. Two villages are there mentioned 
as having been located mostly within the pres- 
ent limits of the City of Delaware and belong- 
ing to the Delaware Nation. One of them 
occupied the ground near what is now the east 
end of William Street and on the Delaware 
Run. It is probable that the spot on which 
Monnett Hall now stands was once dotted with 
Indian wigwams. The other village was in 
the west end of the present city. A corn field 
of 400 acres is said to have been cultivated. 
There is also a tradition that a battle was once 
fought on the Delaware Run between the 
Delawares and the Shawnees. It is known that 
the red men were attracted to the vicinity of 
Delaware in vast numbers by the famous sul- 
phur spring located on what is now the Uni- 
versity campus. This spring was called "Medi- 
cine Waters" by the Indians. There was also 
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short distance north of Delaware in Troy 
Township. 

RELATIONS BETWEEN SETTLERS AND INDIANS. 

Delaware County was included within the 
territory ceded to the United States under the 
terms of the famous Greenville treaty, made 
"ii the 2nd of August. 1795. It was not long 
after that time that the permanent location of 
the Delawares and other tribes in Delaware 
County ceased. 'With the coming of the white 
man and the alienation of their title to the 
land, they betook themselves further north to 
the territory that was reserved for them. They 
often visited the county afterwards, however, 
h ) hunt and to fish in its streams, and to trade 
with the white settlers, and many interesting 
experiences with them were related by the 
early pioneers. Their intercourse with the 
whites was. almost without exception, of a 
friendly character, though it is said that many 
of the early settlers entertained towards them 
an inveterate hatred and did not consider it 
really criminal to kill them. "They brought 
cranberries, maple sugar (sometimes mixed 
with meal ) and molasses in coon-skins, to sell 
to the whites. * * * Cranberries were a 
great article of commerce with the Indians 
and a drove of fifty ponies, laden with this 
fruit, has been seen to pass through Delaware 
at one time, going to Columbus and other 
points south." They would resort to any de- 
vice to satisfy their native thirst for "fire- 
water." It is related that an Indian came late 
one evening to the house of Colonel Byxbe. 
Delaware's founder, and demanded that a keg 
which he had with him should be filled with 
whiskey. Mrs. Byxbe was the only occupant 
of the house at the time. She went to the 
room used as a bar ( the house itself being a 
tavern ) . struck a light and suddenly dis- 
covered that she was surrounded by aboul 
twenty natives of the forest. On the promise 
of the red men that they would leave the place 
quietly, however, when the purpose of their 
coming had been accomplished, the fearless 
woman led the way to the cellar where she 
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filled their keg, after which they departed in 
accordance with their proi 

While Delaware Count}' was never the 
scene of any of the great battles fought with 
the Indian tribes, while it was never so much 
as invaded by the red men with hostile pur- 
pose, after the coming of the white settlers 
yet the inborn savagery of the Indian nature 
could not but be a source of constant appre- 
hension to the pioneer so long as these natives 
of the forest remained in close proximity to 
bis settlements. As we have said, the inter- 
course of the whites with _the Indians was, for 
the most part, friendly; but, should circum- 
stances arise to call it forth there was always 
the danger that the white man might become 
the prey of the Indian's uncurbed savagery. 
An incident is related in the early history of 
Troy Township illustrative of the dangers 
which might arise. The Delawares and 
Wyandots, who frequented the locality, sent a 
war party into Pennsylvania to commit depre- 
dations upon the inhabitants. Among others, 
they captured a young white girl and started 
for their camp on Clear Run in Troy Town- 
ship. A part}- of whites, among whom were 
two brothers of the captured girl, organized to 
pursue them. They followed the Indians to 
a point on the Olentangy River north 01 
Delaware, where the old stone mill is situated, 
but here they seemed to lose all trace of the 
Indian band. ' They were about to give up 
their pursuit as hopeless when one of the party 
happened to notice smoke ascending above the 
trees a mile or two farther north. Cau- 
tiously approaching the spot they suddenly 
came upon the savages and drove them into 
the woods, rescuing the captured girl un- 
harmed. This incident took place on what has 
since been known as the Crystal Springs Farm, 
owned by Air. Chauncy Hills. 

\\ e have alluded to the hatred which many 
of the early settlers entertained towards the 
Indians. In this connection we quote two 
incidents related in "Howe's History." "One 
time, after the last war, a dead Indian was 
seen floating down the Scioto on two logs, 
lashed together, having his gun and all his 
accoutrements with him. He had been shot 



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and the people believed the murderer was 
George Shannon, who had been in service 
considerably during the war. and who one 
time went out, not far from Lower Sandusky, 
with a small company, fell in with a party of 
warriors and had to retreat. He lingered be- 
hind until he shot and killed one. As sm.hi 
as he tired, several Indians sprang forward to 
catch him alive, but, being swift on foot, he 
could easily keep ahead, when he suddenly 
came to an open field across which he had to 
run or be cut off. The Indians gained the first 
side just as he was leaping the fence on the 
other, and fired at him, one ball entering his 
hip. He staunched the blood by stuffing the 
hole with a portion of his shirt, that they 
might not track him, and crawled into the 
brush, but they gave up the chase, thinking 
they had not hit him, and being convinced of 
his superior neetness. Shannon got into camp 
and was conveyed home, but he was always 
lame afterwards and fostered an unrelenting 
desire for vengeance towards the whole race, 
not excepting the innocent and the harmless. 
"A^ late as 1820 two Indians were mur- 
dered on Fulton's Creek (Thompson Town- 
ship). A party came down there to hunt, as 
was customary with them every fall, and Henry 
Swartz ordered them off. They replied, "No, 
the land belongs to the white man — the game 
to the Indian." and insisted that they were 
friends and ought not to be disturbed. A few 
days after two of their number were missing, 
' and they hunted the entire country over with- 
out finding them, and at last found evidence 
of human bones where there had been a fire, 
and immediately charged Swartz with killing 
and burning them. They threatened venge- 
ance "ii him, and for several years he had to 
be constantly on his guard to prevent being 
waylaid. It was never legally investigated. 
but the neighbors all believed that Swartz. 
aided probably by Ned Williams, murdered 
and disposed of them in the manner the Indi- 
ans suspected, and at one time talked of driv- 
ing them out of the settlement. Thev were 
considered bad men and never prospered after- 
wards." 



When the war of 1812 broke out, there 
was great apprehension on the part of the set- 
tlers lest the county would be invaded by the 
Indians. The county itself, being just south 
of the Greenville treaty line, was one of the 
border counties. Accordingly steps were im- 
mediately taken by the inhabitants for its pro- 
tection. There seems to have been at least 
four block-houses erected within the limits of 
the county. One of these was at Norton, one 
in Kingston Township, another in Berlin 
Township and another in Delaware. Inas- 
much as it was nearest the border, the one at 
Norton was, perhaps, of most importance, and 
was the largest of any. It was known by the 
name of Fort Morrow, and was built in a dense 
fi nest unbroken for miles around. The fol- 
lowing description will undoubtedly be of in- 
terest. 

"The fort consisted of two block-houses 
situated short distance from each other, in 
direction northeast by southwest. Between the 
two was the brick tavern of Nathaniel Wyatt. 
The whole was surrounded by a palisade of 
strong oaken timbers substantially set in the 
ground and then sharpened on the top. One 
of the blockhouses was built by the citizens 
of round logs. The first story was run up to a 
height of about eight feet, and the second was 
made to project over that of the first about 
four feet. The floor of this projection had 
small openings or port-holes thus enabling 
those inside to better defend against a close 
attack or attempt to set the structure on fire 
by the besieging party. The upper story con- 
tained embrasures so arranged that rifles 
could be discharged in any direction. The door 
was composed of three-inch plank, double 
barred across and upright. To test it, a volley- 
was fired into it at short range. In the story 
below slept the children and above the grown 
people stood sentry. The other was built by 
the government and did not differ materially 
from that built by the citizens, except that the 
logs were hewn and the structure more com- 
pactly built." The words "Fort Morrow" 
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The block-house in Kingston Township 
was located at the intersection of the north and 
south road, known as the Sunbury Road, with 
the Mansfield Road, the place being known as 
Starks' Corners. At the time of the war of 
181 2, there were no settlements to the north 
of the Kingston colony, and it was deemed ne- 
cessary to take this precaution against pos- 
sible incursions of the Indians. Its use never 
became necessary, however, save at the time of 
"Drake's defeat," when the settlers were scared 
into it for a brief period. 

"Drake's defeat" was in itself responsible 
f( ir the erection of the block-house in Berlin 
Township. After the panic caused by this 
rather ludicrous incident, the settlers there de- 
termined not to take chances for the future. 
Accordingly there was erected just south of 
where the roads cross near Cheshire, a struc- 
ture of hewed logs, the building having two 
stories the upper projecting over the lower, 
and being forty feet square. The only aper- 
ture in the lower story was closed by a door 
made of a double thickness of three-inch 
planks, barred and cross-barred. In the upper 
story were rifle embrasures and convenient 
openings in the floor of the projection which 
could be used for defence in case of a close 
attack. After the fort had been stocked with 
ammunition and provisions it offered a compar- 
atively secure retreat in the event of an attack 
from hostle Indians. There was at least one 
occasion on which most of the settlers betook 
themselves to it for protection from an expected 
onset, but the alarm proved to be groundless. 
The structure was afterwards used as a school- 
house. 

The blockhouse in Delaware was located 
(Hi the northeast corner of Sandusky and Wil- 
liam Streets. The structure was not origin- 
ally intended for a blockhouse, being a one- 
story brick building which had been used for 
a store. Around this a high palisade of strong 
puncheons was constructed. 

While it was no more than a matter of 
reasonable precaution that these various 
strongholds of defence should have been con- 
structed, yet there seems never to have been 
anv real occasion for their use. The known 



hostility of certain tribes, however, and their 
sympathy with the British, were amply suffi- 
cient to give ground for the apprehensions of 
the early settlers during the War of 1812. 
Living as we do in an age when civilization has 
long since thrust the red man far out to our 
western country, and in large measure tamed 
his savage nature, when it is difficult to even 
imagine our locality as an unbroken forest 
whose only human occupants were savages, 
we perhaps cannot appreciate the real dangers 
which our pioneer fathers encountered, and 
the real fearlessness which they exhibited when 
they took the first steps towards opening the 
way for the advance of civilization. The dan- 
gers, were, nevertheless, real, and their bravery 
as great as that which has characterized any 
effort ever put forth by human kind. Dela- 
ware County was never actually invaded and 
with the termination of the "second war for 
independence" the fear of Indian incursions, 
for the most part, ceased. 

We have several times alluded to "Drake's 
defeat." This event, famous in local annals, 
was for years after its occurrence, mentioned 
by the inhabitants of the county in much the 
same manner as other localities will refer to 
the time of their "great flood," or fire, or hur- 
ricane, or some other equally disastrous visita- 
tion. While, as it developed, the Indians were 
in reality altogether innocent in the matter, 
yet. since it would not have taken place had 
it not been for the constant apprehension of 
Indian depredations, the narrative of its oc- 
curence would seem to properly belong in this 
somewhat brief account of the relations which 
the early settlers sustained towards the red 
men. 

After Hull's surrender in the War of 1812 
there was nothing to prevent the Indians from 
making hostile raids on the northern frontier. 
Inasmuch as Delaware County was directly on 
the border, there was, as we have already men- 
tioned, ample occasion for dread on the part 
of the settlers. Lower Sandusky was threat- 
ened with attack, and a company was organ- 
ized by Captain William Drake, in the northern 
part of the county, to march to its assistance. 
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miles north of the settlement at Norton. Cap- 
tain Drake was something of a practical joker. 
It is probable, too, that he wished to test the 
courage of his men. After the men had all 
become securely wrapped in the embrace of 
Morpheus he quietly stole out into the bushes. 
Here he suddenly discharged his gun and came 
running frantically into camp crying, "Indi- 
an^! Indians!" at the top of his voice. A plat 
of ground had been designated the night be- 
fore on which the company would form in case 
of attack. Here the more courageous of the 
band attempted to draw themselves up in bat- 
tle array to resist the coming onslaught, the 
sentinels having previously taken up the cry 
of Indians, supposing that the original alarm 
proceeded from one of their own number. 

Captain Drake, soon perceiving the con- 
sternation and confusion into which his ruse 
had thrown the company, and fearing that 
they might all disgrace themselves by a pre- 
cipitate flight, quickly proclaimed the hoax and 
attempted to quiet the panic which he had 
created. There was a lieutenant in the com- 
pany, however, who, not waiting for any fu- 
ture developments or willing to risk even the 
chance of the most hasty investigations, took 
to his heels with all the expedition which the 
tear of being immediately scalped would na- 
turally occasion. In his mad flight the shouts 
of his companions attempting to recall him 
were transformed by his imagination into 
the blood-curdling warwhoop of Indian sav- 
ages. As he increased the distance between 
himself and the others who endeavored to re- 
strain him, and the sound of their voices died 
away, it was only so much evidence that they 
had all succumbed to the tomahawk and scalp- 
ing knife of the red men. This, at any rate, was 
the story which he broughl to the Radnor set- 
tle! i lent at which he arrived at daybreak, his 
flight having taken him in this direction, al- 
though he had intended to make for his home 
south of the place where the company had en- 
camped for the night. 

The horrible tale of wholesale massacre 
soon had its effect on the settler- at Radnor. 
The community was thrown into a panic ami 
preparations were begun for immediate flight. 



The story was communicated by each one to 
his neighbor, and. no doubt, lost nothing of 
its grewsome details in the telling. On foot, 
on horse-hack, in wagons, by any method that 
offered the easiest and quickest means of 
escape, the people lied from their impending 
doom. The same scene was repeated in most 
of the other settlements to which the news 
of the "massacre" was communicated. The 
mob of frenzied fugitives struck Delaware just 
a little after sunrise. In their mad haste they 
did it it take time to stop for the communica- 
tion of details but simply cried out as they 
rushed along, "The Indians are upon us!" 
While great alarm was immediately manifested 
in the village yet it is said that not a great 
number of the villagers joined in the flight. 
They at once betook themselves to the. forti- 
fications, however, and took immediate steps 
to put the community in a state of defence. 
Set mts were sent out to ascertain the truth 
of the reports. At Norton they found the 
people quietly engaged in their usual occupa- 
tions. It was too late, however, to reach many 
of whose who had fled. 

The demoralization spread to the eastern 
part of the county. Most of the settlers, not 
stopping to question the truth of the reports, 
prepared for flight. Swollen streams and vari- 
ous other obstacles, that, under ordinary cir- 
cumstances would have seemed insurmount- 
able, apparently offered no impediment to es- 
cape. Women, ordinarily timid, under the ex- 
citement of the hour, became brave as lions. 
Many ludicrous stories are related of incon- 
gruities on the part of the panic-stricken set- 
tlers in the preparations they made for flight. 
Articles of clothing and food were indiscrim- 
inately jumbled together. One woman, after 
wrapping a package of tallow candles in her 
silk dress stowed it away in the bottom of a 
wagon. The result can easily be imagined. 
Another, after the panic was over, found a 
hag containing pies, bread and various other 
articles of food together with a pair of old 
hoots, in a confused mass, stored away for 
an emergency. A family named Penrv drove 
so fast that they bounced a little boy. two or 
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ware, but did not notice it until they pro- 
ceeded rive or six miles further in their flight. 
They decided that it would be an unjustifiable 
risk to return for him, however, and left him 
to his fate. He fortunately escaped the In- 
dian tomahawk as well as other dangers and 
lived for many years. One woman, in her 
hurry, forgot her babe ; and returning, grabbed 
a stick of wood from the chimney corner, 
leaving the babe quietly sleeping in its cradle. 

Meanwhile Captain Drake and his' com- 
pany proceeded quietly on their way to Lower 
Sandusky, altogether unconscious of the 
widespread demoralization and disaster of 
which the captain's joke had been the innocent 
cause. The whole incident would seem to us 
m (w, perhaps, to savor more of the charac- 
ter of a huge joke than as being of the nature 
of a great calamity. A calamity, however, it 
really was. In the hurried preparation of the 
settlers for flight everything was left in the 
wildest confusion. When they returned from 
their mad stampede they found everything in 
a disorder that required much time and pa- 
tience for its restoration. Door and gate had 
been left open, and thus free access to field and 



larder had been given. Waste and devasta- 
tion everywhere were the result and a burden 
placed upon the settlers, ordinarily hard 
pressed for even the necessities of life, which 
they could ill afford to bear. 

Moreover, so panic-stricken had many of 
those who participated in the flight become 
and so thoroughly frightened by the possible 
dangers of living on the extreme frontier, that 
they never even returned to the homes which 
they had so hastily deserted. The larger por- 
tion of those who "escaped" had fled to 
Worthington or Franklinton, but many kept on 
even so far as Chillicothe. The incident itself 
gives us a striking illustration of the terrors 
of border life and the strain which anyone 
who had the bravery to face them must have 
endured. It is easy to see only the ludicrous 
side of the occurrence and to forget, in the 
security of our civilized life, that the danger, 
while only fancied in this instance, might as 
easily have been real. Had there been no rea- 
sonable possibility of an actual Indian massacre, 
no report of that character could ever have 
created such a panic. 



CHAPTER. III. 



SETTLEMENT OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY AND ORGANIZATION 

OF THE STATE OF OHIO. 

Boundaries Defined— Derivation of Title and Early Explorations— Achievement of George 
Rogers Clark — State Cessions and Indian Treaties — Settlement — Indian Wars — St. 
Clair's Defeat — Wayne's Campaign and Battle of Fallen Timber — Organization of the 
Northwest Territory— Organization of the State of Ohio, 



Delaware County is one of the civil sub- 
divisions of the first State formed out of the 
old Northwest Territory. Of itself it consti- 
tutes but a small portion of that vast domain 
which embraced within its limits all of the 
present States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 
Michigan and Wisconsin. Yet the history of 
Delaware County cannot be properly written 
without some account of the more important 
events that concern the exploration, develop- 
ment and organization of the territory as a 
whole. Long before the first white man had 
set foot on the soil of what is now Delaware 
County, her destiny was being shaped by 
events of even greater importance than any 
that have transpired within her own borders; 
and long prior to her organization as a county, 
wars were being fought, treaties made, and 
laws enacted through which alone her very ex- 
istence was made a possibility. While the 
present work contemplates particularly an ac- 
counl of those events which are peculiar to 
Delaware County as a separate civil subdivis- 
ion of the State, and while the reader must Tie 
referred to the larger and more pretentious 
histories of the Northwest Territory and Ohio 
for fuller information regarding them as a 
whole, yet it is deemed necessary to a proper 
understanding of the history of the county 
to review some of the leading events that 



characterized the development of the entire 
domain, and to present, in outline, some of the 
chief circumstances that have contributed to 
the present condition of prosperity and power 
occupied by this widely extended area. No 
portion or our nation's history is more replete 
with interest and importance. 

Our purpose shall be, not so much to give 
a consecutive account of events in the order of 
their occurrence as to present, in outline, the 
different lines of development that go, as a 
whole, to make up the history of the state and 
territory. The chief topics that will receive 
consideration are: I. The derivation of the 
title; 2, the settlement; 3, the various Indian 
wars; 4, the organization. 

t 

DERIVATION OF TITLE. 

The claims first asserted to lands in the 
Western Hemisphere by European monarchs 
were based on discoveries made by their sub- 
jects. Accordingly we find all that vast re- 
gion between the Allegheny and the Rocky 
Mountains, originally known by the general 
name of Louisiana, claimed by France, in con- 
sequence of the explorations, chiefly, of Father 
Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and La Salle. 
In 1673 Marquette, accompanied by M. Joliet, 
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southward from there to the Wisconsin River, 
which they followed to its junction with the 
Mississippi. They then descended the Missis- 
sippi for a 1,000 miles, and, on their return to 
Canada, urged in the strongest terms the im- 
mediate occupation of this vast and fertile re- 
gion watered by the Mississippi and its tribu- 
taries. There are other accounts of the discov- 
ery of the [Mississippi, but the one ascribing it 
to Marquette seems to be the first that is au- 
thentic. 

Between the years 1678 and 1682 La Salle 
with Father Hennepin, conducted a series of 
explorations around the great lakes and along 
the [Mississippi, going as far south as Peoria 
Lake, Illinois. Here they erected a fort, after 
which La Salle returned to Canada. Father 
Hennepin explored the region now embraced 
within the limits of Ohio and is said to have 
published a volume containing an account of 
his discoveries "in the country between New 
Mexico and the frozen ocean," together with 
maps of Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan, 
and a plat of the larger streams of Ohio. In 
[683 La Salle went to France and induced 
the French Government to fit out an expedi- 
tion for the purpose of planting a colony at 
the mouth of the Mississippi. The expedite in 
failed completely, however. La Salle being 
murdered by one of his own men. 

The French still persisted in their efforts 
to gain possession of this vast region, west of 
the Alleghenies and the English colonies. Un- 
der the command of M. DTberville a second 
expedition sailed from France, entered the 
mouth of the Mississippi (March 2, 1699), 
and explored the river for several hundred 
miles. A chain of trading, missionary and 
military posts was ultimately established ex- 
tending from New Orleans to Quebec by way 
of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, and 
thence, by way of Mackinaw and Detroit, to 
Lakes Erie and Ontario. This route was aft- 
erward shortened by following the Ohio River 
to the Wabash, and then following the latter 
upward and down the Maumee to Lake Erie. 
The French colonies, increasing steadily in 
numbers and strength, aroused the jealousy of 
the English, who. to check their advancement, 



formed what was known as the Ohio Com- 
pany. This company made some attempts to 
establish trading houses among the Indians. 
The French, however, established a chain of 
fortifications back of the English settlements 
and thus secured to themselves the entire con- 
trol of the Mississippi Valley. 

Inasmuch as this same territory was 
claimed by the English Crown, it is necessary 
to consider the basis of the rights which she 
asserted. Her chief ground for claiming title 
to the territory west of the Alleghenies. was a 
treaty made with the Six Nations in the Ohio 
Valley. It was claimed that these nations had 
placed their lands under the protection of the 
British Crown. It was further asserted that in 
1744 the British had purchased lands of these 
Six Nations by treaty at Lancaster, Pennsyl- 
vania. In 1748 the Ohio Company, organized 
by a number of Virginians and Londoners, ob- 
tained a charter from the British Government 
with a grant of 6,000 acres of land on the Ohio. 
The English, reverting to the times of the Ca- 
bots, claimed that by right they held the entire 
country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 
bounded by the parallels of latitude defining 
their Atlantic Coast settlements. Inasmuch 
as France claimed the region drained by the 
Mississippi and its tributaries, together with 
the Great Lakes and their tributaries. Ohio 
was within the disputed territory. When the 
surveys for the lands of the Ohio Company 
were begun, the Governor of Canada entered 
a vigorous protest by establishing the line of 
forts to which we have before alluded. The 
dispute over this territory between the French 
and English was finally settled by the treaty 
following what is familiarly known in history 
as the French and Indian War. By the terms 
of that treaty, made in Paris in 1763. the 
British Crown came into undisputed possession 
of all the vast territory northwest of the 
Ohio. 

The territory included within the present 
limits of Ohio, together with the entire do- 
main northwest of the Ohio River of unknown 
extent, was originally claimed by Virginia. 
Her title rested upon three grants fr< im the 
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in j 606 by James I. to Sir Thomas Gates, Sir 
George Somers and others, authorizing them 
to establish two colonies, the first being known 
in history as the "London Company," and the 
second as the "Plymouth Company." The 
grant to the London Company covered a strip 
of sea coast fifty miles broad between the 34th 
and 41st parallels. In 1606 King James 
granted a second charter to the London Com- 
pany. The territorial limits of the first char- 
ter were extended to embrace the whole sea- 
coast, north and south, within two hundred 
miles of Old Point Comfort, extending "from 
sea to sea, west and northwest." A third 
charter, granted in 16 12, annexed to Virginia 
all the islands within three hundred leagues of 
the coast. 

Virginia, however, was not undisputed in 
her assertion of title to the whole of this ex- 
tensive region. Both Connecticut and Massa- 
chusetts claimed portions of the territory. In 
[662 Charles II. granted to certain settlers 
upon the Connecticut all the territory between 
the parallels of latitude which include the pres- 
ent State of Connecticut, from the Atlantic to 
the Pacific oceans. The claims of Massachu- 
setts were founded on a similar charter 
granted thirty years later. New York also 
had claims which she asserted. 

ACHIEVEMENT OF GEORGE ROGERS CLARK. 

By the treaty of peace, signed at Paris, 
September 3, 1783, the claims of the English 
monarch to the whole of the northwest terri- 
tory were ceded to the United States. "The pro- 
visional articles which formed the basis of the 
treaty, more especially as related to boundary, 
were signed al Paris, November 30, [782. Dur- 
ing the pendency of the negotiation of these 
preliminary articles. Mr. Oswald, the British 
commissioner, proposed the River Ohio as the 
western boundary of the United States, and but 
for the indomitable perseverance of the Revo 
lutionary patriot, John Adams, one of the 
American commissioners, who opposed the 
proposition, and insisted upon the Mississippi 
a> the boundary, the probability is that the 
proposition of Mr. Oswald would have been 



acceded to by the United States Commission- 
ers." That the British were prevented from 
making a reasonable claim to the territory 
northwest of the Ohio was due, in large meas- 
ure, to the fact that this extensive domain was 
wrested from their hands during the Revolu- 
tionary war through the valor and foresight 
of General George Rogers Clark. On the out- 
break of the Revolution he saw through the 
whole plan of the British who held all the out- 
posts. Kaskaskia, Detroit, Vincennes and Ni- 
agara. It was the hope of the British that b) 
means of these outposts they might encircle 
the Americans anil also unite the Indians in 
a common war against them. Clark knew 
that many of the Indian tribes were divided 
in their feeling or but indifferent in their sup- 
port of the British. He conceived the idea 
that if the British could be driven from their 
outposts, the Indians could be easily awed into 
submission or bribed into neutrality or friend- 
ship. Acting upon this theory, and first en- 
listing the support of Patrick Henry, then 
governor of Virginia, he organized an expe- 
dition which was entirely successful in wrest- 
ing control of the country west of the Ohio 
from the British. To him, as well as to John 
Adams, is due unlimited credit for the fact 
that the Ohio River was not made the bound- 
ary between Canada and the United States. 

STATE CESSIONS AND INDIAN TREATIES. 

At the close of the Revolutionary war, the 
title to the British possessions having passed 
to the several colonies, each one, as a sov- 
ereign and independent state, claimed the 
right of soil and jurisdiction over the lands 
which had been originally granted it in its 
charter. As we have already observed, sev- 
eral states laid claim to portions of the vast, 
unappropriated tracts northwest of the Ohio. 
It was insisted by those states whose char- 
ters gave them no claims to any portion of 
this territory that inasmuch as the entire de- 
main had been won from the British by the 
united efforts of all the colonies, the lands 
themselves should be approprated for the bene- 
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upon the states themselves which claimed 
ownership in these lands, that they should cede 
them for the common benefit of all. Respond- 
ing to this demand the State of Virginia, on 
March i. 1784. ceded to the United States 
her claims to ownership and jurisdiction over 
the entire part of the country embraced in her 
charter lying northwest of the Ohio. She 
made a condition, however, that in case the 
lands King south of the Cumberland river 
were not sufficient to satisfy the bounties in 
land which she had issued to her soldiers dur- 
ing the Revolutionary War, then this de- 
ficiency was to be made up out of lands in this 
territory, lying between the rivers Miami and 
Scioto. The jurisdiction over all the land, 
In 'wever, passed to the United States. Like- 
wise Connecticut, on September 13, 1786, re- 
linquished to the United States all her claims 
to lands lying within this same territory, with 
the exception of the tract known as the West- 
ern Reserve. This she deeded to the United 
States May 30. 1800. The president, how- 
ever, immediately conveyed the fee of the soil 
to the governor of the State for the use of 
grantees and purchasers claiming under her, 
similar to the manner in which Virginia had 
also been allowed the fee of the soil in a cer- 
tain portion to satisfy her military warrants. 
Massachusetts and New York also gave up 
their claims, thus giving to the United States 
a clear title to the whole of this vast region 
in so far as it had been claimed by European 
p' iwers. 

There still remained, however, the claims 
of the Indians to the lands as the original pos- 
sessors of the soil. It was necessary that these 
should be disposed of before the white settlers 
could- rightfully take possession. Accordingly 
a treaty was made with the Six Nations, em- 
bracing the Mohawks, Onondagas, Senecas, 
Cayugas. Oneidas and Tuscaroras, at F >rt 
Stanwix. October 27, 1784. By the terms of 
this treaty, all the lands west of a line drawn 
from the mouth of Oswego Creek, about four 
miles east of Virginia, to the mouth of Buffalo 
Creek and on to the northern boundary of 
Pennsylvania, thence west along that boundary 
to its western extremity, thence south to the 



Ohio River, were ceded to the United States. 
There were other Indian nations, however, lie- 
sides those mentioned, who also asserted own- 
ership over this territory. They included the 
Wyandot, Chippewa, Delaware and Ottawa 
Nations. With these also the United States 
made a treaty at Fort Mcintosh on the 21st 
day of January. 1785. By this treaty the 
boundary line between the United States and 
the Wyandot and Delaware Nations was de- 
clared to begin "at the mouth of the river 
Cuyahoga and to extend up said river to the 
Portage, between that and the Tuscaroras 
branch of the Muskingum, thence down that 
branch to the crossing-place above Fort Laur- 
ens, then westerly to the Portage of the Big 
Miami, which runs into the Ohio, at the mouth 
of which branch the fort stood which was 
taken by the French in 1752; then along said 
Portage to the Great Miami, or Omee River, 
and down the south side of the same to its 
mouth; then along the south shore of Lake 
Erie to the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, 
where it began." "The United States allotted 
all the lands contained within said lines to the 
Wyandot and Delaware Nations, to live and 
hunt on, together with such of the Ottawa 
Nations as lived thereon, saving and reserving 
for the establishment of trading posts, six 
miles square at the mouth of the Miami or 
Omee River, and the same at the Portage, on 
that branch of the Big Miami which runs into 
the Ohio, and the same on the Lake of San- 
dusky where the fort formerly stood, and also 
two miles square on each side of the Lower 
Rapids of the Sandusky River." This treaty 
was afterwards renewed and confirmed by 
Governor St. Clair, and the Wyandot, Chip- 
pewa, Pottawatomie, and Sac Nations at Fort 
Harmar in 1789. 

On the 3rd of August, 1795, a treaty was 
made with the Delawares, Ottawas, Pottawat- 
omies and Eel River Indians by General 
Wayne after the close of his successful cam- 
paign against them. The basis of this treaty 
was the previous one at Fort Harmar, the 
boundaries made at that time being reaffirmed, 
and the whites secured on the lands now oc- 
cupied by them or granted by former treaties. 



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This treaty marked the close of the Indian 
wars. 

A treaty was made with the Indians at 
Fort Industry, on the present site of Toledo, 
in 1805, by which the United States acquired, 
fi ir the use of the grantees of Connecticut, all 
that part of the Western Reserve which lies 
west of the Cuyahoga. The lands west of 
Huron and Richland Counties, and north of 
the Indian boundary line fixed by Wayne's 
treaty at Greenville, to the western limits of 
Ohio, were purchased by the United States in 
1 8 18 by a treaty made at St. Mary's. The 
lands ceded at this time were called the New 
Purchase. Certain reservations were made 
within the purchased tracts to the Delawares, 
Wyandots, Senecas, etc., which were subse- 
quently ceded to the United States, the last 
by the Wyandots in 1842, they then being the 
only Indian tribe left within the State. Thus 
through a long series of explorations, wars 
cessions and treaties has the title of the 
United States to lands of Ohio been derived. 
The organization of the Northwest into a ter- 
ritorial subdivision and the subsequent forma- 
tion and admission to the Union, of the State 
of Ohio, has been reserved for later considera- 
tion. 

SETTLEMENT. 

The first English attempt at settlement of 
winch we have any record, within the present 
limits of the State of Ohio, was at a point in 
Shelby County on Loramie Creek, about six- 
teen miles northwest of the present city of 
Sidney, and since known by the name of 
Loramie's Store. Here some English traders 
established themselves about the year 1749, 
and gave it the name of Pickawillany from 
the tribe of Indians there. The settlement 
however, was doomed to he of short duration. 
As we have heretofore seen, this location was 
clearly within the limits claimed bv the 
French, and immediately aroused them to 
action. They could not endure so evident an 
invasion of their country, and gathering a 
force of the Ottawas and Chippewas, their 
allies, they attacked the fort in June, 1752, 



having first demanded its surrender of the Mi- 
ami-, who had granted the English the priv- 
ilege of its erection. In the battle that ensued, 
fourteen of the Miamis were slain and all of 
the traders captured. They were either burned 
or taken to Canada as prisoners. 

The real history of the occupation of Ohio 
by English settlers begins with the settlement 
at Marietta, on April 7, 1788. We have al- 
ready traced the various steps by which the 
title to the lands became vested in the United 
States, and through which alone the settlers 
could be secure in their possession. The final 
cession by the various states claiming rights in 
the northwest territory, to the Central Govern- 
ment, was the occasion for the formation of 
various land companies in the East, having for 
their purpose the settlement of this western 
d iuntry. The Ohio Company, before men- 
tioned, emerged from the past and again be- 
came active. In the year 1786 Benjamin Tup- 
per, a Revolutionary soldier, and General Ru- 
fus Putnam, circulated a pamphlet proposing 
the formation of a company for the purpose of 
settling the Ohio lands. It invited all those 
interested to meet in February in their respec- 
tive counties and choose delegates to a conven- 
tion to be held at the "Bunch of Grapes" 
Tavern in Boston on March 1, 1786. The 
purpose was to be the formation of a company 
and the adoption of definite plans for establish- 
ing a settlement in the Ohio Valley. On the 
day appointed eleven persons appeared, an out- 
line was drawn up, and subscriptions began at 
once. The principal features of the plan were 
as follows: "A fund of $1,000,000, mainly 
in continental certificates, was to be raised for 
the purpose of purchasing lands in the western 
country, there were to be 1000 shares of $1000 
each, and upon each share $10 in specie were to 
be paid for contingent expenses. One year's 
interest was to be appropriated for the charges 
of making a settlement and assisting those un- 
able to move without aid. The owners of 
every twenty shares were to choose an agent 
to represent them and attend to their interests, 
and the agents were to choose the directors. 
The plan was approved, and in a year's time 
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On the 8th of March. 1787. a meeting of 
the agents chose General Parsons, General Ru- 
fus Putnam and Rev. Manassah Cutler, direc- 
tors for the Company. The selection of Ma- 
nassah Cutler was extremely fortunate for the 
success of the enterprise, as few men could 
have been better fitted, both in character and 
ability, to conceive and execute a project of 
such importance as this would prove to be. A 
contract was made with the Treasury Board by 
Cutler and Winthrop Sargent, as agents for 
the Board of Directors of the Ohio Company, 
on October 27, 1787, by which there was con- 
veyed to the company a vast region bounded 
on the south by the Ohio River, west by the 
Scioto, east by the seventh range of townships 
then surveying, and north by a due west line 
drawn from the north boundary of the tenth 
township from the Ohio direct to the Scioto, 
for the consideration of $1 per acre. Later, 
in 1792, the boundaries of the purchase were 
fixed as follows: The Ohio on the south, the 
seventh range of townships on the east, the 
sixteenth range on the west, and a line on the 
north so drawn as to make the grant 750,000 
acres, besides reservations, this grant being 
the portion which it was originally agreed the 
company might enter into at once. In addition 
J 14.285 acres were granted as army bounties, 
and 100,000 acres as bounties to actual settlers. 
While these preliminary arrangements for the 
occupation of the new territory were being 
carried out, Congress was likewise providing 
a plan for its government. The famous in- 
strument known as the Ordinance of 1787. un- 
der which the first organization of the terri- 
tory was effected, was passed on July 13th of 
that year, but of it we shall speak more in de- 
tail later on. 

In the winter of 1787 General Rufus Put- 
nam and forty-seven pioneers proceeded as far 
as the mouth of the Youghiogheny River, 
and, having built a boat for transportation 
down the Ohio, proceeded in the spring to the 
mouth of the Muskingum, where they landed 
on the 7th of April, 17S8. Fort Harmar had 
previously been built at the mouth of the Mus- 
kingum, and it was on the opposite side of this 
river that the pioneers established their settle- 



ment which they later called Marietta, in h 
of Marie Antoinette. 

This was the first permanent settlement es- 
tablished within the limits of Ohio. An at- 
tempt at settlement within the limits of Ohio 
had been made in April, 1785, at the mouth of 
the Scioto on the present site of Portsmouth 
by four families from Redstone. Pennsylvania. 
Difficulties with the Indians, however, com- 
pelled its abandonment. With regard to this 
first occupation of the soil of Ohio, George 
Washington wrote: "No colony in America 
was ever settled under such favorable auspices 
as that which has commenced at the Mus- 
kingum. Information, property, and strength 
will be its characteristics. I know many of the 
settlers personally and there never were men 
better calculated to promote the welfare of 
such a community." 

Soon after their arrival the settlers be- 
gan the erection of a stockade fort, which oc- 
cupied their time until the winter of 1791 . 
During the early years of the settlement, how- 
ever, the Indians were friendly, no hostilities 
being experienced. One of the pioneers de- 
scribes the progress of the colony during its 
first year as being all that could be expected, 
arrivals coming faster than provision could be 
made for them. By the close of the year 1 790 
eight settlements had been made within the 
Ohio Company's purchase, two at Belpre, one 
at Newbury, one at Wolf Creek, one at Duck 
Creek, one at the mouth of Meigs' Creek, one 
at Anderson's Bottom, and one at Big Bot- 
tom. 

Not long after the grant of lands was 
made to the Ohio Company, John Cleves 
Symmes, of New Jersey, contracted with the 
Treasury Board for the purchase of a large 
tract of land lying between the Great and Lit- 
tle Miami Rivers. The terms of his purchase 
were similar to those of the Ohio Company. 
In July. 1788. he got together thirty people 
and eight four-horse wagons who started for 
the West. After meeting with Mr. Stites and 
a company from Redstone, Pa., they pro- 
ceeded, under his leadership, to the mouth of 
the Little Miami, where they arrived before 
the 1st of January. 1789, and located on a 



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tract of 10.000 acres which Stites had pur- 
chased from Symmes. This settlement, which 
they named Columbia and which was located 
about five miles above the site of Cincinnati. 
was the second settlement within Ohio terri- 
tory. 

In 1788 Mathias Denman purchased of 
Symmes a tract of land opposite the Licking 
River, and, in company with Robert Patterson 
and John Filson, to each of whom he sold a 
third interest in his purchase, projected the lo- 
cation of a town on the present site of Cincin- 
nati. There is some uncertainty as to the ex- 
act time when a settlement was first made here. 
but it seems to have been late in 1788 or early 
in 1789. Symmes himself had contemplated 
building his main town at North Bend, near 
the mouth of the Great Miami. The fact, 
however, that this point, as well as Columbia, 
suffered severely during a great flood which 
occurred in 1789, while Losantiville, as Cin- 
cinnati was then called, escaped, had much to 
do with the fact that the latter soon out- 
stripped the others in its growth. Ensign 
Luce, who had been commissioned by General 
Harmar to establish a fort, decided that North 
Bend was not a suitable location for that pur- 
pose, and, contrary to the wishes of Symmes, 
selected Losantiville. Fort Washington was 
thus established here. About the 1st of Janu- 
ary. Governor St. Clair organized the county 
of Hamilton and constituted Cincinnati its 
seat of justice. The settlement at once began 
an active growth, outstripping that of all the 
others in the Ohio Valley. 

At the time Dr. Cutler secured the grant 
of lands for the Ohio Company, he likewise 
secured a large additional tract, as he him- 
self writes, "for private speculation, in which 
many of the prominent characters in America 
are concerned: without connecting this specu- 
lation, similar terms and advantages could not 
have been obtained for the ( )hi<> Company." 
A company was at once formed known by the 
name of The Scioto Land Company, which 
contracted with Cutler and Sargent on behalf 
of the Ohio Company for a tract of land west 
and north of the Ohio Company's purchase. 
Joel Harlow was senl to Europe, as the ; 



of the company, to make sales of the lands thus 
contracted for. He sold parts of the land to 
companies and individuals in France. It de- 
veloped, however, that the lands which Barlow 
had presumed to sell were included within the 
Ohio Company's purchase, and that the pur- 
chasers were without title. In ignorance of 
tin'-, fact, however, two hundred and eighteen 
of these purchasers sailed from Havre de 
Grace, in France, on the 19th day of Febru- 
ary, 1791, and arrived in Alexandria, D. C, 
■ m the 3rd of May following. On their ar- 
rival they proceeded to Marietta, where fifty 
of them landed, the remainder going to the 
present site of Gallipolis. which the agent of 
the campany assured them was within their 
purchase. Prior to their arrival General Put- 
nam had had the site cleared and buildings 
erected for their reception. As before stated, 
however, the lands to which alone they could 
lay any claim, were still farther to the West. 
Morei iver, the Scioto Land Company, by hav- 
ing failed to make good the payments on its 
contract, forfeited its title to the land which it 
had purchased, thus leaving the settlers them- 
selves without any vestige of title. These set- 
tlers, unlike the hardy pioneers who came, 
from New England, were little accustomed to 
toil or to the privations of frontier life. Their 
condition was pitiable in the extreme and many- 
gave up in despair, some seeking homes in the 
East and a few returning to France. Every 
effort to secure titles to the lands on which they 
had settled having failed, they petitioned Con- 
gress for assistance and in June. 1798, a grant 
was made to them of land on the Ohio above 
the mouth of the Scioto River. The tract in- 
cluded 24,000 acres and is known as the 
French Grant. 

During the progress of the various cam- 
paigns against the Indians, conducted succes- 
sively by General Harmar. General St. Clair. 
and General Wayne, and of which some ac- 
count will be given later, the settlement of 
( )hio was interrupted to a large extent. Prior 
to the treaty made with the Indians by Gen- 
eral Wayne in 1795. however, a start had been 
made in several counties, in addition to those 
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mentioned. The settlement at Gallipolis has 
already been described. There were also small 
settlements in Adams.. Belmont and Morgan 
Counties. They were block r hi mse settlements 
and were in a continual state of defence. The 
first was settled in the winter of 1790-91 by 
General Nathaniel Massie, near where the 
town of Manchester now is. This was the 
first settlement within the bounds of the Vir- 
ginia Military District and the fourth in the 
State. In spite of the dangers due to the hos 
tility of the Indians, it continued to grow and. 
in two years after peace was declared, Adams 
County was constituted by order of Governor 
St. Clair. 

During the Indian war a settlement was 
commenced near the present town of Bridge- 
port in Belmont County, by Captain Joseph 
Belmont, a noted officer of the Revolutionary 
War. Shortly afterwards a fort, called Dil- 
lie's Fort, was built on the Ohio, opposite the 
mouth of Grave Creek. In 1794 a company of 
men located on the present site of Hamilton 
in Butler County. The town was first laid 
out under the name of Fairfield. These were 
about all the settlements begun prior to the 
close of the Indian War and they were, fi ir the 
most part, of a temporary character and main- 
tained only at constant risk and great loss of 
life. With the termination of the war. how- 
ever, and the cessation of Indian hostility emi- 
gration took a new impetus, and from that 
time the growth of the State's population was 
constant and vigorous. 

Early in the spring of 1796 the first set- 
tlement was begun in Montgomery County. 
The town of Dayton was laid out in Novem- 
ber of 1795. It was within the tract originally 
covered by Symmes' purchase. Judge Symmes, 
having been unable to pay for his purchase, 
the land reverted to the government and the 
settlers found themselves without title. Con- 
gress, however, came to their aid. permitting 
them to enter their lands at the regular gov- 
ernment price. 

It was likewise in 1796 that the first settle- 
ments were made in the Western Reserve. 
The mouth of the Cuyahoga River had always 
been considered an important place in the 



West and destined to become a great commer- 
cial mart. A corps of surveyors laid out the 
town of Cleveland in September, 179'). It 
was named in honor of General Moses Cleave- 
land, the agent of the land company which 
had made large purchases in the Western Re- 
serve along the Cuyahoga River. Mahoning 
County was settled about the same time, as 
were also the counties of Ashtabula, Ross, 
Licking, Madison, Trumbull, and Warren. In 
a sketch of such a limited character as this we 
cannot pursue the history of the individual set- 
tlements further. It was not long until the set- 
tlers had penetrated to every portion of the 
State, clearing the land, starting industries of 
various kinds, and preparing the way for the 
marvelous prosperity which has ever since 
characterized the history of the Common- 
wealth. 

INDIAN WARS. 

Ohio has had its full share of conflict with 
the various tribes of Indians which were the 
original possessors of its soil. Being the first 
State in the Vast region northwest of the Ohio 
River within whose limits settlement by the 
English was begun, it naturally became the 
scene of the early struggles through which 
the savage tribes were subdued and the land 
made possible of habitation for the white man. 
While we have given, in tracing the deriva- 
tion of the title to the lands, the various Indian 
treaties which formed a link in that title, we 
have reserved for statement, here, a brief ac- 
count of the wars which led up to the making 
of these treaties, or their enforcement. With 
regard to the wars which took place prior to 
the organization of the government of the 
territory, we quote the concise account given 
in Howe's History : 

"After Braddock's defeat in 1755 the In- 
dians pushed their excursions as far east as 
the Blue Ridge. In order to repel them, M; 
Lewis, in January, 1756, was sent with a party 
of troops on an expedition against the Indian 
towns on the Ohio. The point apparently 
aimed at was the upper Shawanese town, situ- 
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of the Great Kanawha. The attempt proved 
a failure, in consequence, it is said, of the 
swollen state of the streams and the treachery 
of the guides. In 1764, General Bradstreet. 
having dispersed the Indian forces besieging 
Detroit, passed into the Wyandot country by 
way of Sandusky Bay. He ascended the bay 
and river as far as it was navigable for boats, 
and there made a camp. A treaty of peace 
was signed by the chiefs and head men. The 
Shawnees of the Scioto River and the Dela- 
wares of the Muskingum, however, still con- 
tinued hostile. Colonel Boquet, in 1764. with 
a body of troops, marched from Fort Pitt into 
the heart of the Ohio country on the .Mus- 
kingum River. This expedition was con- 
ducted with great prudence and skill and 
with scarcely any loss of life. A treaty of 
peace was effected with the Indians, who re- 
stored the prisoners they had captured from 
the white settlements. The next war with the 
Indians was in 1774, generally known as Lord 
Dunmore's. In the summer of that year an 
expedition under Colonel McDonald was as- 
sembled at Wheeling, marched into the Mus- 
kingum country, and destroyed the Indian 
town of Wapatomica, a tew miles above the 
site of Zanesville. In the fall the Indians were 
defeated after a hard-fought battle at Point 
Pleasant, on the Virginia side of the Ohio. 
Shortly after this event Lord Dunmore made 
peace with the Indians at Camp Charlotte, in 
what is now Pickaway County. 

"During the Revolutionary War most of 
the western Indians were more or less united 
against the Americans. In the fall of 1778 
an expedition against Detroit was projected. 
An a preliminary step it was resolved that the 
forces in the West, under General Mcintosh, 
should move up and attack the Sandusky In- 
dians. Preliminary to this. Fort I. aureus, so 
called in honor of the I 'resident of Congress, 
was Innlt upon the Tuscarawas, a short dis- 
tance below the site of Bolivar, Tuscarawas 
County. The expedition to Detroit was aban- 
doned, an. I the garrison of Fort Laurens, after 
suffering much from the Indians and from 
famine, was recalled in August, 1771;. A 
month or two previous to the evacuation of 



this f< 'it Colonel Bowman headed an 
expedition against the Shawnees. Their 
village, Chillicothe, three miles north of 
the site of Xenia, on the Little Mi- 
ami, was burned. The warriors showed an 
undaunted front and the whites were forced to 
retreat. In the summer of 1780 an expedition 
directed against the Indian towns in the forks 
ot the Muskingum, moved from Wheeling 
under General Broadhead. This expedition, 
known as the 'Coshochton campaign,' was 
unimportant in its results. In the same sum- 
mer General Clark led a body of Kentuckians 
against the Shawnees. Chillicothe, on the 
Little Miami, was burnt on their approach, 
but at Piqua. their town on the Mad River, 
six miles below the site of Springfield, they 
gave battle to the whites and were defeated. 
In September, 1782, this officer led a second 
expedition against the Shawnees. Their 
towns, Upper and Lower Piqua, on the Miami, 
within what is now Miami County, were de- 
stroyed, together with the store of a trader 

"There were other expeditions into the In- 
dian country, which although of a later date, 
we mention in this connection. In 1786 Col- 
onel Logan conducted a successful expedition 
against the Mackachack towns, on the head 
waters of Mad River, in what is now Logan 
County. Edwards, in 1787, led an expedition 
to the head waters of the Big Miami, and, in 
17SN. Todd led one into the Scioto Valley. 
There were also minor expeditions at various 
times into the present limits of Ohio. 

"The Moravian missionaries, prior to the 
war of the Revolution, had a number of mis- 
sionary stations within the limits of Ohio. 
The missionaries, Heckewelder and Post, were 
on the Muskingum as • early as 1762. In 
March, 1782, a party of Americans, under 

Colonel Williamson, murdered, in cold bl 1. 

ninety-four of the defenceless Moravian In- 
dians, within the present limits of Tuscarawas 
O unity. In the June following. Colonel Craw- 
ford, at the head of about 500 men, was de- 
feated by the Indians three miles north of the 
site of Upper Sandusky, in Wyandot County. 
He was taken prisoner and burnt at the stake 
with horrible tortures." 



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Although by the various treaties which we 
have heretofore mentioned, the English had 
secured title to the lands northwest of the 
Ohio, yet the Indians did not take kindly to 
the coining of the white settlers, and it was 
not long after their arrival that they began 
to show themselves hostile. That they were 
instigated, in some measure, by the British, 
cannot be doubted. Much could be traced to 
the malicious influence of the British superin- 
tendent of Indian affairs. Colonel McKee, his 
assistant. Captain Elliott, and the notorious 
white renegade. Simon Girty. A treaty con- 
firming the former one made at Fort Mcin- 
tosh, was made with the Indians at Fort Har- 
mar in the year 1789. It had little effect, how- 
ever, in staying Indian hostilities. In 1790 
a company of 36 men went from Marietta to 
a place on the Muskingum known as Big Bot- 
tom. In view of the apparent unfriendliness 
of the Indians, the postponement of the set- 
tlement was advised by General Putnam and 
others. Moreover proper precautions were not 
taken against possible attacks. In an un- 
guarded moment these settlers were set upon 
by the Indians and twelve of them killed. The 
settlers throughout the new territory immedi- 
ately became alarmed and block-houses were 
erected for their protection. In 1789 Fort 
\\ ashington was built within the present limits 
of Cincinnati, and a few months later General 
Harmar arrived with 300 men and assumed 
command. It was determined by Governor 
St. Clair and General Harmar to send an 
expedition against the Maumee towns and se- 
cure that part of the country. While St. Clair 
was forming his army and arranging for this 
campaign three expeditions were sent out 
against the Miami towns. One against the 
Miami villages, not far from Wabash, was 
led by General Harmar. With about fourteen 
hundred men, of whom less than one-fourth 
were regulars, he marched from Cincinnati in 
September. 1790. When near the Indian vil- 
lages an advanced detachment fell into ambush 
and was defeated with severe loss. General 
Harmar, however, succeeded in burning the 
Indian villages and destroying their standing 
corn, after which he commenced the return to 



Cincinnati. Having received intelligence, 
however, that the Indians were returning to 
their ruined towns, he detached about a third 
of his remaining force, with orders to bring 
the Indians to an engagement. In the en- 
gagement which followed, more than one hun- 
dred of the militia were killed and all but 
nine of the regulars, the remainder being 
driven back to the main force. The expedition 
served little purpose other than to make the 
Indians, if anything, bolder than before. An 
army under Charles Scott was sent against 
the Wabash Indians. Nothing was accom- 
plished save the destruction of towns and 
standing corn. In July another army under 
Colonel Wilkinson, was sent against the Eel 
River Indians. It became entangled in ex- 
tensive morasses on the river and accomplished 
no more than the other expeditions which had 
preceded it. 

st. clair's defeat. 

Encouraged by the meager success of the 
whites in these expeditions, the chiefs of the 
Miamis, Shawnees and the Delawares now be- 
gan the formation of a confederacy among 
all the tribes of the northwest territory, which, 
they conceived, would be strong enough to 
expel the whites beyond the Ohio. While 
they were making ready, however, Governor 
St. Clair was engaged in the organization of 
a new army. He gathered together a force 
consisting of 2,300 regulars and 600 militia. 
It was his purpose to establish a chain of 
forts from the Ohio, by way of the Miami and 
Maumee Valleys, to the lakes. The plan was 
favored by Washington and General Knox, 
then secretary of war. It was said that a spirit 
of idleness, drunkenness and insubordination 
characterized the army at this time and had 
much to do with the defeat which followed 
later. On September 17. the army began its 
march and moved to a point on the Great 
Miami, where Fort Hamilton was established, 
the first in the chain mentioned above. The 
army then proceeded forty-four miles further 
on and erected Fort Jefferson, about six miles 
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Darke County. On the 24th of October it 
again began its march through the wilderness, 
marshy and boggy and infested with savage 
foes. By the 3rd of November a stream was 
reached which St. Clair supposed to be a 
branch of the St. Mary of the Maumee, but 
which in reality was a tributary of the Wabash. 
The point was on what is now the line between 
Darke and Mercer Counties. The army had 
been so far depleted by desertion at this 
time that only about 1.400 men were left. St. 
Clair sent the first regiment, under Major 
Hamtramck. to pursue the deserters and secure 
the advancing convoys of provisions which 
it was feared the deserters intended to 
plunder. When they halted on the banks 
of the stream before mentioned, it encamped 
in two lines and threw up some slight fortifi- 
cations against the Indians who wore known to 
be in the neighborhood. On the next morning, 
about half an hour before sunrise, it was at- 
tacked furiously by the Indians. The evil ef- 
fects of the insubordination before mentioned 
and the lack of sufficient drill were now made 
manifest. The army was thrown into hope- 
less confusion. It is probable that the whole 
disposable force of the tribes in the North- 
west participated in the attack on St. Clair's 
army at this time. After losing about 800 
men it began its retreat, which was a disgrace- 
ful, precipitate (light. After reaching Fort 
Jefferson it proceeded, by way of Fort Hamil- 
ton, back to Fnrt Washingti m. 

This defeat was one of the worst ever suf- 
fered by an American army at the hands of the 
savage tribes, outrivaling even Braddock's de- 
feat in this regard. It left the entire frontier 
exposed to the onslaughts of the savages, wdio 
were determined now, more than ever before, 
to exterminate the whites entirely. Execra- 
tions were heaped upon St. Clair who led the 
army to its terrible defeat. Under a more 
forceful commander, perhaps the result might 
have been different, yet the defeat was due. 
not alone to the inefficiency of St. Clair, but 
to the general demoralization of the soldiers 
whose insubordination we have before men- 
tioned. 



Plans were immediately formed for another 
campaign against the Indians. General 
Wayne, whose bravery and ability, as well as 
Ins experience during the Revolution, rendered 
him peculiarly well fitted for the task, was 
called to take command of the army which was 
raised. He immediately began the work of 
drill and organization. 

Meanwhile efforts were being made by the 
United State- to conciliate the Indians and 
avoid the necessity of warfare. The Iroquois 
were induced to visit Philadelphia, and were 
partially secured from the confederacy which 
we have before mentioned. Five independent 
embassies were sent among the western tribes 
in an effort to win them over and prevent war. 
All the embassadors were slain, however, ex- 
cept Putnam, who succeeded in reaching the 
Wabash Indians and effecting a treaty which 
was later rejected by Congress on account of 
its terms. A great council of the Indian-, in 
which were represented all the tribes of the 
Ni nthwest, and many others, assembled at 
Auglaize during the autumn of 1792, and pre- 
pared an address to the" President wherein they 
agreed to abstain from hostilities until they 
could meet with the whites at the rapids of 
the .Maumee in the following spring for a con- 
ference. The President appointed commis- 
sioners who, in accordance with the arrange- 
ment, met the representatives of the tribes at 
the appointed place. The Indians, however, 
would consent to nothing save the Ohio Riiver 
a- the boundary of their lands. This being 
1 nit 1 if the question for the whites, the negotia- 
tions came to an end. 

Wayne's campaign and battle of 
fallen timber. 

Nothing was now left save war. General 
Wayne, on being informed of the termination 
nf the efforts at securing a treaty, immediately 
began active preparations for a campaign 
against the Indians. Pending the negotiations 
with the Indians he had been sending out 
so luts and spies on errands of discovery and 
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tared. All his information showed plainly that 
the Indians were receiving constant aid and 
encouragement from the British. He had 
spent the winter of 1793-94 at a fort which he 
had built on a tributary of the Great Miami, 
and which he called Greenville. The present 
town of Greenville is near the site of the fort. 
On the 26th of July, 1794. General Scott, with 
1,600 mounted men from Kentucky, joined 
General Wayne at Greenville, and two days 
later the entire army moved forward, reaching 
the junction of the Auglaize and Maumee on 
the 8th of August, where they erected Fort 
Defiance. As Wayne's army moved north- 
ward the Indians abandoned their towns and 
collected their entire force, amounting to about 
two thousand men. near a British fort, erected 
in violation of the treaty of 1783, at the 
rapids of the Maumee. Before attacking the 
Indians, however. Wayne made still another 
attempt to conciliate them. He sent Christo- 
pher Miller, who had been naturalized among 
the Shawnees. and taken prisoner by Wayne's 
spies, as a messenger of peace. Miller returned 
with the message that if the Americans would 
delay for ten days the Indians would, within 
that time, decide the question of war or peace. 
Knowing the Indian character, however, 
Wayne determined to move forward. On the 
1 8th of August, having marched forty-one 
miles from Auglaize, and being now near to 
the enemy, a fortification was erected which 
they called Fort Deposit. They remained here 
until the "20th, when they again took up their 
March. After having proceeded about five 
miles the foe was encountered. In striking 
contrast with the condition of St. Clair's army 
at the time it had suffered its crushing defeat, 
the army was now well disciplined and fully 
able to cope with the enemy. The conflict 
which ensued was one of the fiercest in the 
history of Indian warfare. The Indians were 
completely routed and many of them were 
slain, while the American loss was compara- 
tively slight. This celebrated engagement is 
what is familiarly known as the battle of Fal- 
len Timber. It was fought almost under 
the walls of the British fort. When the com- 
mander of that fort demanded an explanation 



of Wayne as to why he had fought so near 
and in evident hostility to the British, \\ 
replied, not only by telling him he had no 
rights in the country, but by also marching 
ward and devastating the Indian country. 

While the Indians were not immediately 
subdued by the crushing defeat received from 
Wayne, yet it went a long way towards break- 
ing the strength of their hostility. Recogniz- 
ing, at length, that opposition to the encroach- 
ments of the whites was useless, and that their 
ultimate subjugation was only a matter of 
time, they were willing to sue for peace. They 
arranged to meet General Wayne in June, 
1795, at Greenville and form a treaty. This 
plan was carried out and the Greenville treaty, 
which marked the close of the Indian wars in 
the West, was the result. 

ORGANIZATION OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 

After the title to the lands northwest of 
the Ohio had become vested in the United 
States, and active perparations for their settle- 
ment began to be made, it became necessary 
for Congress to provide some form of govern- 
ment for the territory. The matter was one 
calling for the exercise of the highest states- 
manship, and various plans were under dis- 
cussion before a final settlement was reached. 
At one time Congress, under the influence of 
the Southern States, voted down Jefferson's 
proposition excluding slavery forever from 
the territory. It was likewise proposed to di- 
vide the territory into ten states to be known 
as Sylvania, Michigania. Cheresonisius, Assen- 
ispia, Mesopotamia, Illinoia, Saratoga. Wash- 
ington, Polypotamia and Pelisipia, the ultimate 
arrangement being, however, that there should 
be no less than three nor more than five states. 
The instrument which was finally adopted for 
the government of the Northwest Territory, 
and ever since popularly known as the "< )r- 
dinance of 1787," was. in large measure, the 
result of the efforts of Rev. Manassah Cutler, 
before mentioned as being instrumental in se- 
curing the grant of lands to the Ohio Com- 
pany. It was passed on the 13th of July, 
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exclusion of slavery from the territory for- 
ever ; 2nd. — Provision for public schools, giv- 
ing one township for a seminary and every 
sixteenth section (this gave one thirty-sixth 
of all the land for public education) ; 3rd. — ■ 
Freedom in religious worship and opinion; 
4th. — The equal distribution of estates; and 
5th. — Protection in civil liberty. It also pro- 
vided for the appointment of a governor who 
should likewise be commander of the militia, 
a secretary, and for three judges. The gover- 
nor and the judges were to have the power to 
adopt and publish such of the laws of other 
states as should be suitable to their circum- 
stances. Whenever there should be 5,000 free 
male inhabitants, of full age, in the district, 
they were to have authority to elect repre- 
sentatives to a General Assembly, which was 
to consist of the Governor, a Legislative 
Council and a House of Representatives. 
There was the further provision that not less 
than three n< ir mi ire than five states were to 
be formed out of the territory, the states to 
be admitted to equal standing with the original 
states of the Union whenever they had a popu- 
lation of 60,000, or sooner if consistent with 
the general interest. The principles embodied 
in the ordinance were in the form of 
a compact irrevocable save by consent 
of both Congress and the states that 
should be formed out of the territory. It was 
li\ reason of this fact that the South was af- 
terwards powerless when they endeavored to 
have the territory opened to the admission of 
slavery. 

In October, 1 7S7, Congress appointed Gen. 
Arthur St. Clair, who had been an officer in 
the Resolution, governor of the new territory, 
Winthrop Sargeant, secretary, and Samuel H. 
I 'arsons. John Armstrong, and James M. Var- 
num, judges. Subsequently Armstrong de- 
clined the appointment and John Cleves 
Syrnmes was given his place. Governor St. 
Clair arrived at the Marietta settlement on 
July 9, 1788, and immediately began his du- 
ties. On the 25th, the first law, relating to 
the militia, was published, and the next day 
the governor issued a proclamation creating 
all the country that had been ceded by the In- 



dians, east of the Scioto River, into the county 
of Washington. After organizing the militia 
he next erected the Courts of Probate and 
Quarter Sessions, and proceeded to appoint 
civil officers. Rufus Putnam, Benjamin Tup- 
per and Winthrop Sargeant, were made jus- 
tices of the peace. The 30th day of August, 
the day the Court of Quarter Sessions was ap- 
pointed, Archibald Cary, Isaac' Pierce and 
Thomas Lord were also appointed justices. 
Return Jonathan Meigs was appointed clerk 
of this Court of Quarter Sessions. Ebenezer 
Sprout was appointed sheriff of Washington 
County and also colonel of the militia; Wil- 
liam Callis, clerk of the Supreme Court; Rufus 
Putnam, judge of the Probate Court, and Re- 
turn J. Meigs, Jr., clerk. 

On September 2nd, the first court was held. 
It is thus described by the American Pioneer: 
"The procession was formed at the Point 
(where most of the settlers resided), in the 
following order: The high sheriff, with his 
drawn sword ; the citizens ; the officers of the 
garrison at Fort Harmar; the members of the 
bar; the supreme judges; the governor and 
clergymen ; the newly appointed judges of the 
Court of Common Pleas, Generals Rufus Put- 
nam and Benjamin Tupper. 

"They marched up the path that had been 
cleared through the forest to Campus Martius 
Hall (stockade), where the whole counter- 
marched, and the judges, Putnam and Tupper, 
took their seats. The clergyman. Rev. Dr. 
Cutler, then invoked the divine blessing. The 
sheriff, Ebenezer Sproat, proclaimed with his 
solemn 'Oh yes' that a court is open for the 
administration of even-handed justice to the 
poor and to the rich, to the guilty and to the 
innocent, without respect of persons; none to 
be punished without a trial of their peers, and 
then in pursuance of the laws and the evidence 
in the case. 

"Although the scene was exhibited thus 
early in the settlement of the West, few ever 
equalled it in the dignity and exalted char- 
acter of its principal participators. Many of 
them belonged to the history of our country 
in the darkest as well as the most splendid 
period of the Revolutionary war." 




CRYSTAL SPRING FARM, OWNED BY F. P. HILLS, DELAWARE 





'I HE ALLISON E GOl ©RICH HOME, 
LIBERTY It >\\ NSHIP 



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About the 1st of January, 1790, Governor 
St. Clair, with his officers, went to Fort Wash- 
ington, on the present site of Cincinnati, and 
established the county of Hamilton, in which 
was comprised all the country 'contiguous to 
the Ohio, from the Hocking River to the 
Great Miami. He also appointed a corps of 
civil and military officers and erected a Court 
of Quarter Sessions. A short time later he 
likewise organized the county of St. Clair, 
whose limits, however, were comprised within 
the present State of Indiana, and Illinois, in- 
cluding the country from the Wabash to the 
Mississippi. Before the close of 1795 the gov- 
ernor and the judges published sixty- four 
statutes. Among other things they provided 
that the common law of England, and all its 
statutes made previous to the fourth year of 
James I., should be of full force in the terri- 
tory. Wayne County was organized in 1796, 
Jefferson and Adams in 1797, and Ross in 
1798. 

As has before been stated, the Ordinance 
of 1787 provided that whenever there should 
be 5.000 persons in the territory they should 
be entitled to a representative assembly. On 
October 29, 1798, Governor St. Clair pro- 
claimed that the population had reached the re- 
quired number, and ordered an election for 
the third Monday in December. The repre- 
sentatives thus elected met in Cincinnati, Janu- 
ary 22,\i799, and, under the provisions of the 
Ordinance, nominated ten persons, from whom 
the President should select five to constitute 
the Legislative Council. The persons chosen 
were : Jacob Burnet, James Finley, Henry 
Vanderburgh, Robert Oliver and David Vance. 
The Territorial Legislature again met at Cin- 
cinnati on the 24th of September, when a 
great amount of business was done. They 
repealed some of the laws that were already 
in force, adopted others, created and filled new 
offices and devised various plans and methods 
for carrying on the government of the new 
territory. The only lawyer in the body was 
Mr. Burnet, upon whom, by reason of his 
profession, a great amount of the work de- 
volved. He seems to have acquitted himself 
well in the position in which he was thus 



placed. The whole number of acts passed and 
approved by the governor was thirty-seven. It 
is worthy of note that a bill authorizing a 
lottery was passed by the Council but rejected 
by the Legislature. 

Among other duties which devolved on this 
session of the Legislature was the election of 
a delegate to Congress. The choice fell upon 
William Henry Harrison, the secretary of the 
territory at that time. He at once resigned his 
office and proceeded to Philadelphia to take 
his seat in Congress which was then in ses- 
sion. He was successful in obtaining many 
important advantages for his constitutents, 
among others a measure subdividing the sur- 
veys of the public lands and permitting them 
to be sold in smaller tracts, thus making it 
possible for them to be purchased by individu- 
als without first coming into the hands of 
speculators. 

At this first session of the Legislature Gov- 
ernor St. Clair saw fit to veto eleven acts which 
were passed by it. The greater part of them 
related to formation of new counties, a right 
which the governor claimed was vested in him 
alone. The attitude of the governor served 
to increase his unpopularity with the people, 
whose confidence he seems to have lost, in 
large measure, after his disastrous defeat at 
the hands of the Indians. 

In the year 1800 Congress took up the 
matter of dividing the Northwest Territory 
into two parts. The great extent of the terri- 
tory rendered extremely difficult and unsatis- 
factory the operations of the government. By 
reason of the loose administration of justice 
in its western part, that portion had become a 
rendezvous for criminals of various character, 
with the consequent effect of deterring better 
citizens from settling there. The judiciary 
was likewise wholly inefficient as regarded 
civil cases. The far western frontier, being 
at such a great distance from the seat of both 
the national and territorial governments, could 
neither feel for them the attachment or fear 
their restraint to the extent that a closer re- 
lation would establish. In consequence, on the 
7th of May an act was passed dividing the 
territory, the line of division being "a line be- 



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ginning at the Ohio, opposite to the mouth 
of the Kentucky River, and running thence to 
Fort Recovery, and thence north until it inter- 
sects the territorial line between the United 
States and Canada." The same form of gov- 
ernment was provided for the new territory 
as prevailed in the old. Chillicothe was made 
the seat of government for the old territory 
and St. Clair retained as governor, while St. 
Vincent's on the Wabash River, was made the 
capital of the "Indiana Territory." and Wil- 
liam Henry Harrison appointed its governor. 

ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE OF OHIO. 

The second session of the General As- 
sembly was held at Chillicothe in 1801. Gov- 
ernor St. Clair had, meanwhile, been growing- 
more and more unpopular. The abuse heaped 
on the governor and the Legislature at Chilli- 
cothe became so great that they decided to re- 
nn ive the capital from that place to Cincinnati. 
Out of this agitation, however, and the general 
discontent with the governor, there had been 
rapidly arising a general sentiment in favor 
1 1 the formation of a State government. This 
sentiment was in a minority, however, so far as 
the General Assembly was concerned. A 
measure was introduced there proposing that 
the Ordinance of 17X7 be so changed that the 
Scioto River, together with a line drawn from 
its intersection with the Indian boundary to 
the western extremity of the Reserve, should 
be the western limit of the most eastern State 
to be formed out of the territory. To protest 
against this proposition the minority sent 
Thomas Worthington to Washington. While 
he was on his way a resolution introduced into 
the Legislature for choosing a committee to 
address Congress with regard to the proposed 
-tale was defeated. A further attempt pro- 
viding for taking the census of the territory 
was postponed by the Council. 

Worthington, however, was successful in 
his mission to Congress, and on the 30th of 
April that body authorized the calling of a 
state convention for the purpose of forming a 
constitution, provided it was found expedient. 
"The act of Congress, providing for the ad- 



mission of the new state into the Union, offered 
certain propositions to the people. These were, 
first, that Section Sixteen in each township, 
or, where that section had been disposed of, 
other contiguous and equivalent lands, should 
be granted to the inhabitants for the use of 
schools; second, that thirty-eight sections of 
land, where salt springs had been found, of 
which one township was situated on the Scioto, 
one section on the Muskingum, and one section 
in the United States Military Tract, should 
be granted to the state, never to be sold or 
leased, however, for a longer term than ten 
years; and third, that one twentieth of the 
proceeds of the public lands sold within the 
state, should be applied to the construction of 
roads from the Atlantic, to and through the 
same." These propositions were offered on 
the condition that the convention should pro- 
vide, by ordinance, that all lands sold by the 
United States after the 30th day of June, 1802, 
should be exempt from taxation by the state 
for five years after sale. 

The convention met at Chillicothe on the 
1st day of November, 1802. While it believed 
the consideration offered to the state hardly 
sufficient for the tax exemption required, it 
decided to accept the conditions of Congress, 
providing their propositions should be suffi- 
ciently enlarged "so as to vest in the state, for 
the use of schools. Section Sixteen in each 
township si ild by the United States, and three 
other tracts of land, equal in quantity, re- 
spectively, to one thirty-sixth of the Virginia 
Reservation, of the United States Military 
Tract, and of the Connecticut Reserve, and to 
give three per centum of the proceeds of the 
public lands sold within the state, to be applied 
under the direction of the Legislature, to roads 
in Ohio." Congress acceded to this modifica- 
tion and there was thus nothing to prevent the 
formation of the new state. 

The time for the meeting of the General 
Assembly came while the constitutional con- 
vention was in session, but, owing to the prob- 
ability that the territorial government would 
si 1 si 11 m be superseded by that of the state, they 
deferred meeting. On the 29th of November 
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and completed its labors, adjourned. The 
constitution, though never submitted to the 
people, was submitted to Congress and ac- 
cepted by that body, and an act passed admit- 
ting Ohio to the Union, February 19, 1803. 
The constitution framed by this convention 
continued in force until the adoption, in 185 1, 
of the present one. The territorial govern- 
ment ended and the state government began 
on March 1, 1803. 

By the new constitution it was provided 
that the first elections under the new govern- 
ment should be held the second Tuesday of 
January, 1803. Accordingly at that time Ed- 
ward Tiffin was chosen governor and Jere- 
miah Morrow sent to Congress. A General 
Assembly was also elected, which met on 
March 3rd and chose the following officers : 
Michael Baldwin, speaker of the House, 
and Nathaniel Massie of the Senate; 
William Creighton, Jr., secretary of state; 
Colonel Thomas Gibson, auditor; William 
McFarland, treasurer; Return J. Meigs, Jr., 
Samuel Huntington and William Spriggs, 
judges of the Supreme Court; Francis Dun- 
levy. Wyllys Silliman and Calvin Pease, presi- 
dent judges of the First. Second and Third 
Districts, and Thomas Worthington and John 



Smith. United States Senators. The Assembly 
also passed such laws as were necessary. Up 
to the time of the adoption of the state consti- 
tution there had been organized the following 
counties: Washington, July 27, 1788; Hamil- 
ton, January 2, 1790; Adams, July 10, 1797; 
Jefferson, July 29, 1797; Ross, August 20, 
1798; Clermont, Fairfield and Trumbull, De- 
cember 9, 1800; Belmont, September 7, 1801. 
Eight additional counties were created by the 
Assembly at its first session, viz. : Gallia, 
Scioto, Butler. Warren, Greene, Montgom- 
ery, Franklin and Columbiana. 

The seat of government was first located 
at Chillicothe. In the year 1810 an act was 
passed changing its location to Zanesville, but 
at the next session of the General Assembly 
it was again taken back to Chillicothe, and 
commissioners appointed to determine upon a 
definite location. It is said that they first re- 
ported in favor of Dublin, a small town on the 
Scioto about fourteen miles above Columbus. 
At the session of the Assembly of 181 3- 14. 
however, the proposal of parties owning the 
site of Columbus was accepted and in 1816. 
the first meeting of the Assembly was held 
there. 



CHAPTER IV. 



SETTLEMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF DELAWARE COVNTY 

Derivation of Title — First Settlement — Growth of Population— First Events — Pioneer In- 
dustries — Early Roads and Taverns — Organization of the County — Early Political 
History — County and Other Officials. 



We have already traced in a former chap- 
ter the various steps by which the title to the 
lands of the Northwest Territory, and thereby 
of Delaware County, became vested in the 
United States Government. It now remains to 
say a word as to the manner in which the 
first settlers in Delaware County derived title 
from the United States. Previous mention 
was made of the fact that Virginia, in ceding 
her claims to the territory northwest of the 
Ohio to the general government made a con- 
dition that she was to retain the right to ap- 
propriate a certain portion of that land, if ne- 
cessary, to satisfy her military bounties, issued 
during the Revolutionary War. In accordance 
with this understanding the State of Virginia 
ultimately appropriated a tract north of the 
Ohio and west of the Scioto Rivers. All that 
part of Delaware County which lies west of 
the Scioto is, in consequence, within the tract 
known as the Virginia Military Lands. All 
that part of the county which lies east of the 
Ssioto is within the tract known as the United 
States Military Lands, excepting the "salt res- 
ervation" in Brown Township, which will be 
mentioned later. The United States Military 
Lands are so called from their having been ap- 
propriated by Congress, through an act passed 
June. 1796, to satisfy certain claims of the 
officers and soldiers of the Revolution. There 
is a difference in the method of survey of 
these lands and that of the Virginia Military 



Lands. The United States Military Lands 
were divided into townships of five miles 
square and these again into quarter-town- 
ships of 4,000 acres each. Further subdivi- 
sions of the quarter-township's into forty lots 
of 100 acres each were made in some cases. 
The place of each township is ascertained by 
numbers and ranges. 

The Virginia Military District is not sur- 
veyed into townships or any regular form. 
Every person holding a Virginia military land 
warrant was permitted to locate it at any place 
in the district and in whatever shape he pleased, 
in so far it did not conflict with some else. 
In consequence, there has been much more liti- 
gation growing" out of a conflict of boundaries 
in this district than in the United States Mili- 
tary Lands. 

It will be recalled that in the act passed 
by Congress through which the State of Ohio 
was constituted, certain tracts within the state, 
known as salt reservations, were granted to 
the State of Ohio and reserved from sale. One 
of these tracts was in Brown Township, in 
Delaware County, and consisted of 4,000 
acres in the northeast section. On the failure 
of the reservation, however, to fulfill expecta- 
tions so far as salt production was concerned, 
permission was granted to the State by an 
act of Congress of December 28, 1824, to sell 
the lands, and an act was likewise passed for 
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ary 2j 18.26. From one of these various 
sources have the first settlers in Delaware 
grained title to their lands. 



FIRST SETTLEMENT. 

Something over a hundred years has now 
passed since the first white settler in Delaware 
County cleared the unbroken forest for the 
erection of his cabin. The lips that could re- 
count from personal recollection the tale of 
hardship and heroism, of peril and privation, 
that marked this event of such prime import- 
ance to the county's present populace, have 
long since been sealed in death, and the story 
itself has, to some extent, become enshrouded 
in the misty uncertainties of the past. There 
is always a romantic interest that attaches to 
first occurrences, especially such as this; and 
had the record of toil and struggle that marked 
the opening up of Delaware County to civili- 
zation been carefully chronicled and preserved, 
it would now be read with intensest interest 
by those who claim the county as their home. 
Pioneer life here, perhaps, was different in no 
marked degree, from pioneer life in general; 
yet incidents that might be trifling to the world 
at large would be far from being so to us with 
whose present well-being and happiness they 
are so indissoluble linked. Everything that 
might concern the early struggle with the 
wilderness here would possess for us the inter- 
est felt in our own kith and kin. At the pres- 
ent day when even the poorest has comforts 
and luxuries that the whole world scarce 
dreamed of for a thousand years, when space 
itself presents no difficulties to easy communi- 
cation with our fellow-beings, it is difficult to 
even imagine the lonely cahin in the great, 
deep forest, which gave scant shelter to the 
pioneer, from driving storms and winter's 
cold, or to think of him as being far from the 
sound of a friendly voice, often endangered by 
attack from savage beast or savage red man, 
and hard-pressed for even those things with- 
out which life itself could not be sustained. 
Yet all this was gladly assumed and cheer- 
fully endured by those who paved the way 
in Delaware County for the coming of the 



white man's government and the white man's 
civilization. All this was necessary that we 
might enjoy our present security and comfort. 
And while we celebrate the heroes of the camp 
and the battlefield, while we applaud great 
achievement in every sphere of human activity, 
let us accord a place equal to that of any to 
the pioneer, and to the pioneers of our own 
county in particular. 

Delaware County drew its early popula- 
tion from widely separated sources. Natur- 
ally the larger part hailed from the sta'tes in 
our own country already populated. Some 
came from beyond the seas. The restless energy 
that led the hardy emigrants to seek homes 
in our land soon after its discovery again led 
their descendants to move further to the west- 
ward. The battle with the wilderness was 
fought and won ; and the population of Dela- 
ware County today inherits the same elements 
of intelligence, enterprise and strength that 
might be expected from such an ancestry. 

It is generally conceded that the first set- 
tlement in Delaware County, at least the first 
to have a marked influence on its further de- 
velopment, was in Liberty Township. The 
claim has not been allowed, however, to go un- 
questioned. It is asserted that a man by the 
name of Gilbert Van Dorn settled within the 
limits of Trenton Township as early as 1783. 
There is also said to have been a white settler 
warned Saybrook who came to Orange Town- 
ship in 1798, and another in Troy in 1801. 
The time is now too far past, however, to de- 
termine as to the accuracy of these statements, 
and there would seem to be justice in claiming 
the honor of the first settlement for Liberty 
Township, inasmuch as that is the first of 
which we have definite knowledge, and is un- 
doubtedly the first that had a marked influence 
on the subsequent development of the county. 

In the year 1801, on May 1st, after a jour- 
ney from the State of New York lasting for 
two months and eighteen days, during which 
all the experiences incident to travel through a 
new and undeveloped country were encount- 
ered, Nathan Carpenter and Avery Powers 
landed on the east bank' of the Olentangy 
River, or Whetstone, as it was then called, 



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five miles south of the site of the present city 
of Delaware. Carpenter was a man of wealth, 
of indomitable enterprise, and had been a 
captain in the Revolutionary War, an experi- 
ence in hardship and endurance which was 
well calculated to tit him fur this enterprise 
which he undertook not many years after the 
war's termination. He had lived first in Con- 
necticut, but at the close of the Revolution 
had removed to Chenango Count}-, New Vi >rk. 
It was while here that he fell under the in- 
fluence of the excitement, prevalent at the time, 
over the opening up of the territory north- 
west of the Ohio to colonization, and he de- 
termined to become one of the pioneers in its 
settlement and development. From his home 
in Chenango County, in company with Avery 
Powers and several others, he started out in 
the dead of winter and when the ground was 
covered with snow, for the unknown and un- 
tried region which was to be his home for the 
future. Carpenter's family accompanied him, 
but the family of Powers did not come until 
later. On their arrival cabins were erected 
and the lonely life in the wilderness was be- 
gun. 

It was not long, however, until others ar- 
rived. In April of the year 1802, Thomas 
Cellar and Josiah McKinnie established them- 
selves on the Olentangy, two miles below Car- 
penter in the same township, Thomas Cellar 
being the owner of a tract of 4.000 acres 
within the present township limits. About two 
years later three brothers, John. Ebenezer and 
Aaron Welch, together with a brother-in-law, 
(apt. Leonard Monroe, settled in the neighbor- 
hood of the Carpenters. A few years later 
there was added to the Liberty Township set- 
tlement Ebenezer Goodrich, George and Seth 
Case, and David Thomas. 

Before the Liberty settlement had received 
all these additions, however, colonists were be- 
ginning to erect their cabins in other parts of 
the county. One of the earliest after the ar- 
rival of Carpenter and Powers., was Henry 
Perry, who. unlike most of the others, was 
not a Xew Englander, but came direct from 
Wales and thus became the fore-runner of the 
Welsh colony, which has numbered among its 



members many of the county's most substantial 
citizens. He settled in the region which has 
since been organized into Radnor Township, 
and his cabin stood about three-fourths of a 
mile from the site of the present village of 
Radnor. There is an interesting story re- 
lated in connection with this settlement. 
Perrv had brougfit his two bovs, then only 
nine and eleven years of age, with him. When 
it became necessary for him to return to Phila- 
delphia to pilot the remainder of his family 
to their new home, he left the two boys all 
alone in the cabin in the wilderness. The win- 
ter was one of exceptional severity, the cabin 
open, "having neither daubing, fireplace or 
chimney," and food extremely scarce. Yet 
these boys withstood bravely all these hard- 
ships, fearlessly encountered all the clangers 
of the unbroken forest, and in addition made 
a considerable clearing- by the time their father 
returned. It was such courage as this which 
conquered the wilderness and appropriated it 
for the purposes of a civilization of which the 
native red men never so much as conceived. 
The ground on which Perry settled had been 
originally purchased by David Pugh. This 
man laid out a village on his land which he 
called Xew Baltimore and which he antici- 
pated would some day develop into a large and 
flourishing town. It was not the first town, 
however, which was laid out in Delaware 
County. That honor belongs to Berkshire. 

The date of Perry's settlement in Radnor 
Township was 1803. The next year marks 
the coming to the county of a man who was 
to have perhaps more to do with the shaping 
of her destinies during the early years of her 
history than any other. Colonel Moses Byxbe 
was a native of Berkshire County, Massachu- 
setts. He was a man of exceptional energy, with 
great decision and force of character. He had, 
before his coming to Ohio, accumulated large 
wealth and acquired a position of commanding 
influence in his native town of Lenox. In his 
business of tavern and store-keeper he had 
come into possession of a number of military 
land warrants, which he located in what are 
now the townships of Berkshire and Berlin. 
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8,000 acres. He threw all his energies into the 
task of colonizing his western possessions and 
soon succeeded in organizing a colony of emi- 
grants who set out for their new homes in 
June of the year 1804, arriving at the place 
on Alum Creek which was afterwards called 
Berkshire in honor of their native county. 
There is said to have been a still earlier settle- 
ment within the bounds of Berkshire Town- 
ship, however, in the person of Thomas Cow- 
gill, who is reputed to have built his cabin in 
the southern part of the township in 1801. 
As was the case with the other settlements 
which we have mentioned as having perhaps 
preceded the Liberty Township settlement, 
however, if this one in Berkshire Township 
really did exist it had little influence on the 
later development of the county. At a point 
where Colonel Byxbe's colony located was 
laid out the ^ first town in Delaware County, 
preceding by a year the town which had an 
existence on paper, at least, in Radnor Town- 
ship, and which was platted in 1805. Had 
Colonel Byxbe adhered to his original inten- 
tions. Berkshire would now have been, per- 
haps, a place of much larger .population and 
proportions than it is. For reasons which will 
appear when we come to speak more particu- 
larly of the township and of the city of Dela- 
ware. Colonel Byxbe abandoned his efforts in 
behalf of Berkshire and devoted himself to the 
building up of the town of Delaware. He 
made a number of journeys between his native 
state and his possessions in Delaware County. 
and many among the early settlers were in- 
duced to become such through his influence. 
The next township to receive the pioneer 
was Berlin, and here, too, the first settlement 
was made on a tract owned by Byxbe. The 
first settler was George Cowgill, who came in 
1805, and he was closely followed by David 
Lewis, Sr., and his family, who located on a 
tract which had been purchased by Joseph 
Constant of Peekskill. New York. Not long 
afterward came Joseph Eaton, Sr.. and John 
Johnston, with their families, from Hunting- 
don. Pennsylvania, and later David fsaac, 
Philander Hoadley and Chester Lewis, from 
Waterbury, Connecticut. 



A beginning having been made, it was not 
long until every township in the county had 
been started on the pathway to civilization 
through the advent of the white settler. In 
1806 Scioto was occupied, the first family here, 
that of Richard Hoskins. like the one in Rad- 
nor, having come originally from Wales. 
Genoa, Kingston, Delaware, Marlborough, 
Trenton, Harlem, and perhaps Porter, received 
their first inhabitants as early as 1807. Be- 
tween this period and the year 18 12 all the 
remaining townships in the county were oc- 
cupied, and what a few years before had been 
a desolate, unbroken wilderness, now began to 
teem with the life of the new population which 
was henceforth to render the region forever- 
more an uncongenial habitation for the native 
child of the forest. 

GROWTH OF POPULATION. 

It may be interesting here to note the 
growth of the population. The first year in 
which a census seems to have been taken was 
in 1810, before all the townships, even, had 
yet been occupied. In that year Delaware 
County had 2,000 inhabitants. It is to be re- 
membered, however, that the extent of the 
county's limits were greater at that time than 
they were later on after a part of its territ' >ry 
had been taken to help in the formation of 
other counties, a matter which will be dis- 
cussed hereafter. In 1820 there were 7,639 
people in the county, in 1830. 1 1 .523. and in 
1840, 22,060. At the time of the next census, 
in 1850, the present boundaries of the county 
had been fixed and the population then was 
21,817. In i860 it was 23.902; in 1870, 25,- 
175; in 1880. 27.381. This was the high- 
water mark in the county's growth in popula- 
tion, as the census in subsequent decades shows 
an actual decline. In 1890 the number of 
inhabitants was 27.189. and at the last ceii-us 
in 1900 it was only 27.401. There is nothing 
in this decrease of population in the past few 
years that would indicate an unhealthful con- 
dition of affairs, and the experience of Dela- 
ware County is not. in this respect, an ex- 
ceptional one. A number of counties in the 



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state could be cited" where an exactly similar 
condition exists. Yet their condition, as well 
as that of Delaware County, has been one of 
constant and unbroken prosperity. The causes 
which brought the early settler to the com- 
munity have simply ceased, in later times, to 
operate, and where there has been growth in 
recent years, as there has been in some cases, 
it has been from an influx of laborers into the 
county seat towns, where especial facilities for 
the establishment of manufacturing plants are 
afforded. 

FIRST EVENTS. 

There seems to be considerable uncertainty 
as to who has the honor of being the first ad- 
dition to the population of Delaware Count)-, 
not from emigration but by birth upon its soil. 
There have been at least three claimants for 
the distinction, two of them in Liberty Town- 
ship and one in Berlin. If the dates which have 
been handed down to us are correct, Jeremiah 
Gillies was born in Liberty Township on Au- 
gust 7, 1803. In the same township Benjamin 
Powers was born October 6, 1803. The 
"County Atlas," published in 1875, asserts 
that J. C. Lewis, who was born in Berlin 
Township, September 29, 1806, was the first 
white child born in the county. If either of 
the dates given above, however, are correct, 
there would appear to be little ground for the 
claim which is made for Lewis. 

The first death, as well as the first birth, 
is a matter of interest. Death did not enter 
the pioneer settlement until three vears after 
its founding, and then it claimed the wife of 
< aptain Carpenter. She died on the 7th of 
August. 1804, and was buried on a knoll on 
the Carpenter homestead which is supposed to 
have been a burying ground of the ancient 
inhabitants of the territory. The next to suc- 
cumb was one of the Welch brothers, men- 
tioned among the early settlers of the town- 
ship. 

PIONEER INDUSTRIES. 

Much has been written (in the varied ex- 
periences encountered in pioneer life; and, to 



those of us who have come on the scene of 
action long after the forests were cleared and 
all the various enterprises and industries that 
characterize the modern community were in 
full swing of their activity, the details of life 
in this former day are always of absorbing 
interest. As our particular purpose here, how- 
ever, is to recount those facts which have to 
do exclusively with Delaware County, we 
must refer the reader to other works for the de- 
scription of pioneer life in general. Could the 
facts now be obtained, through which the story 
of the beginning of each enterprise that is now 
interwoven with the social and business life of 
Delaware County could be written, it would 
possess for us an interest equal to that which 
we have in events of much larger importance 
in themselves, though not so vitally interwoven 
with our own personal affairs. It perhaps did 
not occur, however, to the humble tavern- 
keeper of the early times, or the pioneer mer- 
chant or miller or blacksmith, that they were 
making history; and the record that has come 
down to us of the early activities in these vari- 
ous lines of enterprise, are extremely meager. 
As regards the early store-keepers of the 
county we can not do better than quote the 
statement found in the county history pub- 
lished in 1880: "With all our research we 
have been unable to learn who opened the first 
sti ire in Delaware, or whether the first store 
in the county was in Delaware or Berkshire. 
We are inclined to the opinion, however, that 
the honor belongs to Berkshire, as it was laid 
out as a town sometime before Delaware, prob- 
ably three or four years before, and doubtless 
a store was established soon after. Major 
Brown is said to have been the first tradesman 
at the place, but did not remain in business 
very long. Stores were not so much of a 
necessity then as they are now. After Brown 
sold out a man named Fuller brought a stock 
of goods to the place, but neither did he re- 
main long. * The first merchant at 
Delaware of whom we have been able to learn 
anything was Hezekiah Kilbourn, but at what 
date he commenced business we could not 
learn. Lamb and Little were also among the 
pioneer merchants of Delaware, as was An- 
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store — a kind of branch concern — in Thomp- 
son Township at quite an early date, which was 
carried on by one of the Welches as agent of 
Walker. Williams & Cone were early mer- 
chants at Delhi, and a man named Dean kept 
a store on Goodrich's farm in Liberty Town- 
ship for a number of years. In what is now 
Concord Township, was established one of the 
early stores of the county. It was owned and 
operated by a couple of men named Winslow, 

* * and consisted of a box of cheap 
goods exposed for sale in a small tent, at the 
mouth of Mill Creek. Shortly after this mer- 
cantile venture Michael Crider opened a small 
store on the farm of Freshwater and eventu- 
ally moved to Bellepoint." In the early days 
the mercantile business was no slight under- 
taking. Without any of our modern facilities 
for safe and rapid transportation, all goods 
had to be brought overland from points in the 
far distant East, principally Philadelphia, at 
great expense and risk, and it is not strange 
that we find that many a person who attempted 
the enterprise was compelled to abandon it 
after a loss. Naturally the stores were not 
of the specialized character that they possess, 
at least in the larger places, today, but con- 
tained commodities of every variety that could 
be used in the primitive settlements. The set- 
tlers depended, too, on providing themselves 
with many of the necessities for which we are 
now accustomed to look to our merchants. 

There were two commodities which, to 
most, are almost absolute essentials to exist- 
ence and which the early settlers had the 
greatest difficulty in obtaining. These were 
flour and salt. In consequence we find among 
the earliest activities of the Delaware County 
pioneer, an effort to provide a supply of these 
articles. It will be remembered that mention 
has already been made of the fact that there 
was supposed to be a "Salt Lick" in Brown 
Township, and that by reason of this very im- 
pression a whole quarter section of land therein 
was reserved to the State. 

One of the earliest attempts to produce 
salt in the neighborhood was by Dr. John Loof- 
bourrow, one of the first settlers of Brown 
Township. Having learned from the Indians 



where they obtained their salt, he, in com- 
pany with a colored servant, began the manu- 
facture of the commodity and, for several 
years, succeeded in obtaining a moderate 
quantity. Some years later, however, some 
other parties who thought they saw possibili- 
ties of salt production greater than those which 
were being used, leased a larger area of land 
in this section from the State and commenced 
boring wells. They failed to find salt water 
in paying quantities, however, and the em ire 
tract which bad been reserved was ultimately 
sold by the State as has already been stated. 
An effort was made near the present village 
of Stratford, at one time, to find salt water. A 
shaft was sunk and there really was found to 
be salt water in the vicinity. As the digging 
had to be done by hand, however, without 
any of our modern facilities, the attempt was 
soon abandoned. It was likewse thought at 
one time that salt could be obtained in the re- 
gion which is now Porter Township, but here 
too the expectations proved to be ill founded. 
The price of salt ranged from $5.00 to $6.00 
per bushel. As illustrating the difficulties en- 
countered and the hardships which the early 
settlers were compelled to undergo in order 
to obtain this article we quote the following 
incident from the "County Atlas" : "David 
Lewis, Jr., (a resident of Berkshire) dug out 
a canoe and prepared for a voyage in quest of 
of salt. From the time of leaving until his return 
his chances for a fire with which to cook food 
depended on his flint in the musket-lock and 
his 'punk' which he carried with him. The 
tiny craft completed, he loaded it with deer, 
raccoon and other skins, shoved out into Alum 
Creek and started down stream. The first 
night found him at Worthington. He went to 
Chillicothe and. selling his load, bought a 
bushel of salt for which he paid five dollars. 
Lewis could not ascend the current and. 
abandoning his canoe, shouldered his purchase, 
and started by way of Indian trail and bridle 
path for home. His shoulders were worn by 
the weight of his precious burden, but he was 
near home, when, in crossing a stream on a 
log, unfortunately his feet slipped and he fell 
into the water. The salt was gone and he 



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was home again, his shoulders smarting with 
the brine and his mind chafed at the loss." 

Flour was just as difficult to obtain as salt. 
The even greater necessity for its production 
led the early settlers to turn their attention first 
of anything, so far as manufacturing enter- 
prises were concerned, to the establishment of 
mills. It is related of Jacob Foust, one of the 
earliest settlers of Troy Township that, when 
his wife was sick and could obtain nothing 
to eat which she relished, he shouldered a 
bushel of wheat and carried it all the way to 
Zanesville, seventy-five miles distant, to have 
it ground. Owing to the limited capacity of 
the few mills that really did exist in the earlv 
times great hardship was entailed on the pio- 
neers. It is recounted of one man that he 
traveled a distance of one hundred and fifty 
miles, from mill to mill, in a vain effort to 
have a sack of wheat ground, finally return- 
ing with the wheat. The rude block and 
pestle served the purpose of the pioneer before 
the erection of mills, but it was a very imper- 
fect and laborious method of obtaining meal 
and hominy. 

EARLY ROADS. 

Another matter to which the settlers early 
gave attention was the construction of road-. 
At first there were nothing but the "blazed" 
pathways and the old Indian trails. These 
could suffice, however, for but a short time 
as the population increased. Accordingly we 
find that the first business transacted by the 
count)- commissioners on the organization of 
the county related to the construction of a 
road. The entry on the commissioners' record 
is as follows: "June 15. [808. A petition for 
a county road on west side of Whetstone 
(Olentangy) River, beginning at the Indian 
line; thence t<> south lines of the county, as 
near the river as ground and river angles will 
permit. Petition granted, and Messrs. 
Byxbe, Nathaniel Wyatt and Josiah McKin- 
nie appointed viewers, and Azariah Root, sur- 
veyor." This road was afterward abandoned 
when the Columbus and Sandusky Pike Road 
was given a charter. The road as fust con- 



structed was used as a military road during 
the War of 181 2, the supplies to our army at 
Fort Meigs being transported over it. The 
road constructed later by the Columbus and 
Sandusky Pike Road Company runs a little 
west of this road and about where the pres- 
ent pike is located. The old road is still made 
use of by some of the farmers as a lane. The 
first road company chartered in central Ohio 
by the legislature was this Columbus and 
Sandusky Pike Road Company, and Delaware 
County had several of the incorporators — 
William Little, Reuben Lamb, Hosea Wil- 
liams, Ezra Griswold and Milo Pettibone. In 
about a decade, however, the charter was re- 
voked, as the road was not constructed ac- 
cording to specifications, and the matter was 
placed in the hands of a Board of Commission- 
ers. The toll gates were done away with, but 
for a long - time the road was in a very unsatis- 
factory condition. It is hard to realize, in this 
modern era. the annoyance to which travelers 
were subjected by the toll gates. It is easy to 
understand, however, the mood which led 
many a one to evade them, when possible, and 
to appreciate the state of mind which would 
be experienced when the traveler, after floun- 
dering through the mud would be compelled to 
pay directly for the privilege. The stage- 
coach was the only public means for transpi >r- 
tation of passengers and, in the palmy days of 
this institution the fare was five cents per pas- 
senger. 

Delaware County is abundantly blessed 
with good roads at the present time, having ap- 
proximately 1600 miles of road, at least one- 
fourth of which is already piked or in the proc- 
ess of being so. The pikes have, until re- 
cently, been largely confined to the western 
part of the county, their cost of construction 
here being much less than in the east. At the 
present time, however, in accord with the gen- 
eral movement for good roads that is asserting 
itself throughout the State, many miles of road 
in the eastern part of the county are being 
piked and it will not be long until this portion 
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The pioneer tavern was an institution of 
great importance, just as it is in later times, 
though in lesser degree, under another name. 
It was not long after the county began to be 
settled until we find these hostelries being es- 
tablished in various parts of the county as the 
need for them arose. They were compelled to 
pay a license in early times and, among the 
first records of the county commissioners is to 
be found an order fixing the price of licenses 
at $6.00 for the town and $4.00 for the coun- 
try. It was afterwards raised, in 1814, to 
$13.00 and S7.00. As descriptive of the first 
tavern established in the town of Delaware and 
typical of the institution itself, we quote from, 
an article by Dr. Ralph Hills in the Western 
Collegian, a paper formerly published in Dela- 
ware : "The Pioneer Tavern was a few rods 
south-east of the 'Medicine Water." It was 
on the plateau just east of the ridge that lies 
south of the spring, and terminated near there, 
some three or four rods om\ ard from the pres- 
ent street. The first house was a double 
roomed one, with a loft, standing north and 
south, facing the east, and was built of round 
logs, 'chinked and daubed.' In course of time, a 
second house, two stories high, was added, built 
of hewed logs, and placed east and west, at 
right angles with the south end of the first 
building, with a little space between them. In 
this space was the well with its curb, and its 
tall, old-fashioned, but easy-working 'well- 
sweep.' Around at the southwest of this was 
the log barn and the blacksmith shop, and a 
double granary or corn-crib, with a space be- 
tween for its many purposes, as necessary, in- 
deed, as the kitchen is for household purposes. 
Here was the grind-stone, the shaving-horse, 
the hewing block, the tools of all kinds and the 
pegs for hanging up traps of all sorts. Here 
the hog was scalded and dressed, the deer, 
raccoon and 'possum were skinned, and their 
skins stretched and dried, or tanned. Here 
also were the nuts cracked and dried. For 
many reasons it has a bright place in the 
memories of boy-hood. How few know the 
importance of the pioneer tavern in early days. 
It was, of course, the place of rest for the 
weary traveler, whether on foot or on horse. 



It was many a day before a 'dearborn' or a 
'dandy-wagon' was known on the road. But 
it was much more than this and seemed the 
emporium of everything. It was the market 
place for all; the hunter with his venison and 
turkeys ; the trapper with his skins and furs ; 
and the knapsack peddler — the pioneer mer- 
chant — here gladdened the hearts of all with 
his 'boughten' wares. At this tavern, too, 
were all public gatherings called, to arrange 
for a general hunt, to deal out justice to some 
transgressor of the unwritten but well known 
pioneer laws. In fact it was here, at a later 
period, that the first organized county court 
was held, with the grand jury in the tavern 
loft and the petit jury under a neighboring 
shade tree." 

It was only seven years after the Liberty 
settlement was started that Delaware County 
was organized into a separate civil subdivis- 
ion of the state. It is interesting to trace the 
evolution of the Ohio counties. We have al- 
ready mentioned the fact in a former chapter 
that the first county to be established in the 
present territory of Ohio was Washington, 
which, in the beginning, embraced about one- 
half of the present area of Ohio. The second 
county to be established was Hamilton. Al- 
though it included, at the first, only a strip be- 
tween the two Miamis, it was afterwards en- 
larged to include an area extending to the 
Scioto River which was the western boundary 
of Washington. It would seem that the terri- 
tory which is now Delaware County was on 
the boundary line between these two original 
counties, portions of it lying in both of them. 
It had likewise been included within the boun- 
daries of several other counties before it was 
set off as a separate division. The sixth 
county to be formed was Ross, which included 
Delaware. Franklin was formed from Ross 
and Delaware was taken off of Franklin. The 
original boundaries of Delaware County, how- 
ever, were originally more extensive than they 
are now. Three different times has its terri- 
t< try been taken to form other counties. Tn 
1820 a large part of Delaware County went 
to the formation of Union County. In 1824 
Marion County took a slice off of the northern 



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part, and in 1848 Morrow County took five 
whole townships, leaving the present area of 
Delaware County about 500 square miles. 

ORGANIZATION OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 

The Act of the Legislature creating Dela- 
ware County was passed February 10. 1808. It 
provided that from and after the first day of 
the next April the county of Delaware should 
be vested with all the privileges, powers and 
immunities of a separate and distinct county. 
and stipulated that an election should be called 
for the first Monday of the next May. At this 
election the following officers were chosen, 
viz.: John Welch, Ezekiel Brown and Avery 
Powers, commissioners; Rev. Jacob Drake, 
treasurer; Dr. Reuben Lamb, recorder; Solo- 
mon Smith, sheriff, and Azariah Root, sur- 
veyor. 

The first thing necessary after the passage 
of the act establishing the county itself, was 
the location of the county seat; and for this 
purpose special commissioners were appointed 
by the General Assembly. Only a short time 
previous to the organization of the county the 
town of Delaware had been laid out by Moses 
Byxbe and Henry Baldwin, a resident of 
Pittsburg. By the act which created the 
county, Delaware was made the temporary seat 
of justice, pending the choice of a permanent 
location; and both Delaware and Berkshire, 
laid out some years before, as has already been 
mentioned, now became contestants for the 
honor. Had Moses Byxbe retained the early 
interest which he had in Berkshire, perhaps it 
might have been successful, but he had now de- 
voted all his energies to building up the town 
of I lelaware and this, together with its natural 
advantages, decided the matter in its favor. 
The inhabitants of Berkshire, however, per- 
sisted in their efforts fur a number of years, 
in the hope thai the) might still secure the 
honor. 

A court house was not provided for until 
the year 1815, when the commissioners let a 
contract for the building of .me at a cost of 
$8,000. This structure was afterwards burned 
and business, as well as eourt. was conducted 



in various rooms in the town until the erection 
of the present structure in 1870. at a cost of 
$81 1.000. The Court House is a substantial 
brick building, well adapted to the require- 
ments of such a building. The first session of 
the Common Pleas Court was held in the tav- 
ern of Joseph Barber, already mentioned, and 
was conducted by Judge Belt, of Chillicothe. 
Owing to the diminutive character of the 
building, the grand jury were under the neces- 
sity of conducting their deliberations under a 
shade tree nearby, while the petit jury occu- 
pied similar quarters in the neighborhood, both 
under the espionage of constables. The first 
civil case was an action brought by Jacob 
Drake against Elias Palmer for boarding, 
money loaned, and other claims. The first case 
to be considered by the grand jury was that of 
the State of Ohio against Valentine Martin. 

The first jail was built of logs and was lo- 
cated on the hill overlooking the Delaware run 
at the corner of Franklin and what is now Uni- 
versity Avenue. It was twelve by twenty-four 
feet and a rather crude affair. The pris- 
oners showed their contempt for it by securing 
an exit to the roof and then crowing lustily 
before taking their departure. There have 
been three other jails built since then, one- in 
1814 and another in 1850. The present jail, 
which is not without claims to architectural 
beauty, was erected in 1878. The contract 
for the building was let at $22,000, but extras 
were added until the total cost amounted to 

$25,845.35- . 

The original act creating Delaware County 

authorized the Associate Justices to divide the 
c< unity into such townships as were necessary. 
The first division was into three townships, as 
follows : "All east of the eighteenth range 
was made the township of Berkshire; all west 
and north of the north line of the fourth tier 
of townships, and a continued line west was 
made the township of Radnor; all south of 
Radnor and west of Berkshire was made the 
township of Libert}-. As the population in- 
creased, however, other divisions were found 
necessary. Townships were established from 
time to time by the commissioners until the 
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ty-four. The names of these were: Berk- 
shire, Bennington, Berlin, Brown, Concord, 
Delaware, Genoa, Harlem, Harmony, Kings- 
ton, Liberty, Lincoln, Marlborough, Orange, 
Oxford, Peru, Porter, Radnor, Scioto, Sun- 
bury. Thompson, Trenton, Troy and West- 
field. As has already been mentioned, a num- 
ber of these townships have gone to form other 
counties, and one. Sunbury, has been entirely 
obliterated in the re-arrangement of township 
lines, though its territory still remains within 
the county. 

We have already mentioned the towns of 
New Baltimore and Berkshire as having been 
laid out during the first years in which settlers 
came to the county, the former, however, never 
having had any existence except on paper. The 
next town to be platted was Norton, laid out 
by James Kilbourne, and the next, the present 
county seat, which was laid out by Henry 
Baldwin and Moses Byxbe, the first site having 
been on the east side of the Olentangy, but 
afterwards removed to the west side of the 
river. This was on March 10, 1808. We give 
herewith a tabular statement of the towns 
which have since been laid out within the 
county : 

Name. Date. Original Proprietors. 

Galena (originally called Zoar) April 20, 1816 William Carpenter. 

Sunbury November 9. 1816 William and Laurence Myers. 

Delhi (now Radnor) August 7, 1833 Edward Evans 

Bellepoint September 16, 1835 James Kooken. 

East Liberty March 16. 1836 William Page & E. Lindenberger. 

Olive Greene May 10, 1836 C. Lindenberger and Festus Sprague. 

Rome September 2, 1836 D. Price and Amos Sarles. 

Eden September 27. 1836 D. G. Thurston and Isaac Leonard. 

Williamsville December 8. 1836 Anson Williams. 

Freedon April 23, 1841 Jesse Locke and J. G. Jones. 

Centerville March 2. 1848 Edward Hartwin and B. Roberts. 

Cheshire March 10, 1849 F. J. Adams. 

Ashley (originally Oxford] May 15, 1849 L. Walker and J. C. Avery. 

Harlem July 2.^, 1849 A. Washburn and James Budd. 

Stratford May 11, 1850 Hosea Williams and H. G. Andrews. 

Edinburg 

Leonardsburg March 13. 1852 S. G. Caulkins. 

Ostrander March 20, 1852 James Ligget. 

Orange Station July 29, 1852 George and H. J. Jarvis. 

Lewis Center j u l y 3 g. ^2 William S. Lewis. 

Tanktown (now Berlin) April 3, 185S John B. Black. 

Powell February 1. [876 A. G. Hall. 

Hyattsville February 6. 1876 H. A. Hyatt. 

Radnor March 9, 1876 Thomas Edwards. 



The following excellent review of the early 
political history of the county was written a 
number of years ago by Hon. James R. Hub- 
bell, a sketch of whose notable career will be 
found in the chapter on the "Bench and Bar" : 

"In the early history of Delaware County 
there was but little party strife. The act of 
the General Assembly creating the county was 
passed the last year of the administration of 
Thomas Jefferson, and the exciting events of 
the War of 1812, which soon followed, wiped 
out the old Federal party which so bitterly as- 
sailed Mr. Jefferson. The war treasures of 
Mr. Madison and the Republican party in Con- 
gress were earnestly supported by the citizens 
generally throughout the county. The scram- 
ble for the 'loaves and fishes' of office, com- 
pared with a later date, was almost nothing. 
But few offices were sought for their emolu- 
ments. The most lucrative offices were filled by 
appointment and not by popular election. The 
most important offices, then as now, was that 
of county auditor, which was filled by appoint- 
ment of the county commissioners. It was not 
until the year 1821 that the office was made 
elective by the popular vote. The county treas- 
urer, surveyor and recorder of deeds were also 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



appointed by the commissioners. The pn >se- 
cuting attorney and clerk of the cdtirt were 
appointed by the court. . These officers were 
made elective by the law of 1833. In most 
cases the offices were filled by faithful and 
competent men. The appointing power con- 
ferred by the legislature upon the commission- 
ers and the court, although anti-Republican 
in principle, seems to be, judging from the ex- 
perience of the past, the best calculated to se- 
cure efficiency and competency in office. Ex- 
perience has shown that the less frequently 
changes are made, the better it is for the pub- 
lic service. The early records of the county 
show, under the appointing power, but few 
changes. From 1820 until [830, the duties of 
the county auditor were faithfully discharged 
by Solomon Smith, an honest and competent 
officer, and he was succeeded by General Sid- 
ney Moore, who efficiently and satisfactorily 
performed the duties of the office during the 
period of another decade. 

"In 1822 Thomas Reynolds succeeded his 
brother-in-law, the Rev. Joseph Hughes, in the 
office of clerk of the court, which he retained 
until 1838, when he voluntarily resigned. Mr. 
Reynolds was a man remarkable for his per- 
gonal attractions, and possessed qualifications 
for public and official duties of a high order, 
and his resignation of the office was a matter 
of universal regret with both bench and bar, 
as well as the public. The office of county 
surveyor, for about twenty years (from 1822 
to 1842) was filled by James Eaton, a skilful 
and accurate officer: he was subsequently pro- 
moted to the office of county auditor and State 
senator. Of those who figured most conspicu- 
ously in early politics and on official stations 
were Joseph Eaton, Azariah Root, Solomon 
Smith. Elias Murray, 1 'anion Sprague and 
Sidney Moure ami his brother, Emery Moore. 
During the eight years of the administration 
of James Monroe (the fifth President), be- 
tween the years 1817 and 1S25. there was no 
party politics. This period in our national his- 
tory has been called the "era of good feeling," 
and during this time Delaware County seemed 
peculiarly favored and exempt from political 
animosity and strife. 



"The Presidential election of 1824 was at- 
tended with unusual excitement — probably the 
most exciting of any election that has ever 
taken place in the country, with the exception 
of the Presidential election of 1800, which re- 
sulted, in the success of Mr. Jefferson over the 
elder Adams. At this election the Presidential 
candidates were General Jackson, of Tennes- 
see ; Henry Clay, of Kentucky ; John O. 
Adams, of Massachusetts, and William H. 
Crawford, of Georgia. Each of these dis- 
tinguished gentlemen had his friends, who 
supported their favorite candidates from per- 
sonal preference and not from considerations 
of party. At that election Mr. Clay was the 
choice of a majority of the voters of Delaware 
County, as he was of a majority of the voters 
of the State of Ohio, but he was not elected. 
In the Electoral College General Jackson led 
Mr. Adams by a small plurality, and Mr. 
Crawford was in number the third on the list 
of candidates and Mr. Clay was dropped fn >m 
the canvass. Neither candidates having a ma- 
jority of the electoral vote under the constitu- 
tional rule, upon the House of Representatives 
devolved the duty of making choice of Presi- 
dent, each state by its delegation in Congress 
casting one vote. Mr. Adams was chosen by 
the casting vote of the State of Kentucky. Mr. 
Clay was a member of the House of Represen- 
tatives, and its speaker, and it was doubtless 
owing to Ohio's great influence and popularity 
that the delegation from Kentucky was in- 
duced to cast its vote of that state for Mr. 
Adams, an Eastern man. in preference to Gen- 
eral Jackson, a Western and Southern man. 
By that act Mr. Clay was instrumental in or- 
ganizing political parties that survived the 
generation of people to which he belonged, and 
ruled in turn the destinies of the Republic for 
more than a quarter of a century. In the new 
Cabinet Air. Clay was placed by Mr. Adams at 
the head of the State Department, which gave 
rise to the charge of 'bargain and sale' be- 
tween the President and his chief secretary, 
that threw the country into a blaze of excite- 
ment from center to circumference. At this 
nine no one doubts the patriotism and honesty 
of Henry Clay, but the charge was so persist- 



AXD REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



83 



ently made by the partisians of General Jack- 
sun, it greatly injured Mr. Clay in the public 
estimation, and contributed largely to the gen- 
eral's success in the Presidential race of 1828. 
At the Presidential election following party 
lines were closely drawn between General 
Jackson and Mr. Adams, but the result of a 
hot and bitter contest was a small majority 
for the Adams electoral ticket in the county, 
as there was in the State. General Jackson, 
the hero of Xew Orleans, was most trium- 
phantly elected both by the electoral and popu- 
lar vote, and on the following 4th of March the 
political power and official patronage of the 

tuntry passed into his hands. At this time 
parties were known here, as elsewhere through- 

1 lUt the country, as the Jackson and anti-Jack- 
son party. Delaware was almost uniformly 
classed by her vote as anti-Jackson. In 1S24 
Governor Jeremiah Morrow. anti-Jackson, was 
re-elected Governor of Ohio, receiving a small 
majority over Allen Trimble, of the same poli- 
tical faith and his principal competitor. Cap- 
tain Elias Murray. anti-Jackson, was. at the 
same election, returned to the House of Rep- 
resentatives in the State Legislature, and re- 
elected in 1825. Allen Trimble was elected at 
the October election in 1826 to succeed Gover- 
nor Morrow, receiving quite a large majority 
in the county and State ; Pardon Sprague, 
anti-Jackson, was chosen successor to Captain 
Murray in the State. Legislature, and re-elected 
in 1827. In 1828 Governor Trimble was re- 
elected over Hon. John W. Campbell, the Jack- 
son candidate, long a distinguished member of 
Congress from Ohio. Governor Trimble's ma- 
jority was little less than three thousand in 
the popular vote, and a little over two thou- 
sand in the county. Milo D. Pettibone. anti- 
Jackson, at the same election, was elected Mr. 
Sprague's successor in the Legislature. Mr. 
Campbell was a member of Congress when Mr. 
Adams was chosen President by the House of 
Representatives, and was known to be opposed 
to Mr. Adams and for General Jackson. Im- 
mediately upon the accession of General Jack- 
son to the Presidency, Mr. Campbell was re- 
warded for his friendship and fidelity to the 
General's fortunes with the appointment of 



United States District Judge for the District 
of Ohio. While holding a term of his court in 
Columbus, in the summer of 1833, he was 
taken suddenly ill, came to Delaware for the 
benefit of the sulphur spring water, and in a 
few days died — we believe, of cholera. At the 
election of 1829, Col. B. F. Allen, who was 
known as a friend of the Administration, was 
returned to the Legislature. He was succeeded 
by Amos Utley, of Berkshire, in 1830. The 
senatorial district, of which Delaware County 
was a part, was composed of Crawford. Mar- 
ion and Delaware Counties during this period. 
and from about the year 1828 to the year 1832. 
Charles Carpenter, anti-Jackson — a merchant 
living in Sunbury — then quite a young man. 
represented the district. He was from Lu- 
zerne County, in the Wyoming Valley, and the 
family connection in the eastern part of the 
county was quite numerous and influential in 
its early history. Senator Carpenter subse- 
quently moved West — we think to Missouri — 
where he held several official positions and 
died soon after the close of the late Civil 
War. 

"In 183 1. General Storm, who was anti- 
Jackson, was elected to the Legislature by a 
small majority, over B. F. Allen, the Jackson 
candidate. General Sti >rm obtained his mili- 
tary title by being elected by the Legislature 
to the office of Major General in the 'Peace 
Establishment.' He died before the close of 
his legislative term, greatly lamented by his 
constituents and a numerous family connec- 
tion. He was quite young and his friends had 
predicted for him a successful political ca- 
reer. 

"In the Presidential campaign of 1832 
such was. or had become, the popularity of 
General Jackson, he swept everything before 
him. Colonel James W. Crawford, who was 
a lieutenant in the company commanded by 
Captain Elias Murray in the War of 18 12. 
was elected as the Administration candidate, 
the successor of Senator Carpenter, and Cap- 
tain John Curtis, Administration candidate, 
was returned to the House of Representatives 
and re-elected in 1833. General Sidney Moore 
was re-elected auditor and his brother, Emery. 



8 4 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



re-elected sheriff. The entire anti-Administra- 
tion county ticket was elected, except the Whig 
candidate for the Legislature. At the election 
in 1832, Robert Lucas, the Jackson candidate, 
was elected governor over Darius Lyman, the 
candidate on the Clay ticket, by several thou- 
sand majority, although Delaware County cast 
a majority of her votes for Mr. Clay for Presi- 
dent and Mr. Lyman for Governor. It was 
about this time that the two great parties as- 
sumed distinctive names. The Administration 
party took the name of Democrat, and the op- 
position that of Whig. Delaware County was 
a Whig county. In 1834 Emery Moore was 
elected to the State Legislature, and General 
Andrew H. Patterson, then postmaster at 
Delaware and a Democrat, was elected sheriff 
as the successor of Mr. Moore. General Pat- 
terson was a most remarkable man in many 
particulars. He was a saddler by occupation 
and his education in early life had been neg- 
lected, but he had great tact and shrewdness in 
the management of men, and was the most 
successful electioneer Delaware County ever 
had. He was re-elected sheriff in 1836, and 
in 1838 was elected to the Legislature over 
Judge Hosea Williams, Whig, by a majority 
of twelve votes, and in 1839 was elected by a 
majority of several hundred votes over Hon. 
T. W. Powell, the Whig candidate. General 
Patterson met with pecuniary losses in late 
life, moved West, and it is believed he never 
retrieved his fortune. 

"The Whigs carried the county in 1836 
for General William H. Harrison for Presi- 
dent, and Joseph Vance, Whig, for Governor, 
over their opponents, by large majorities, and 
the entire Whig ticket was elected, except Dr. 
Carney, the Whig candidate for the Legisla- 
ture, who was defeated by Colonel B. F. Al- 
len, Democrat, by a majority of nine votes. 
The importance of one vote is to be seen in 
the result of this election. Upon the Legisla- 
ture chosen at this election devolved the duty 
of electing a senator in Congress to succeed 
the Honorable Thomas Ewing, whose term 
would expire the 4th of March following. Mr. 
Ewing was a candidate for re-election and was 
the favorite of his party in Ohio and the West. 



Colonel Allen had known Mr. Ewing in early 
life and his friends claimed, or represented in 
all parts of the county, that he would support 
Mr. Ewing if he were the choice of the county. 
On election day printed petitions were pre- 
sented at every election precinct for names, 
asking the Representative to support Mr. 
Ewing for re-election. The ruse accomplished 
its object. Colonel Allen was elected by a ma- 
jority of nine votes and his vote elected the 
late Governor William Allen over Mr. Ewing. 
To whit extent, if at all. Colonel Allen was a 
party to the fraud, it is not known. He was a 
man of great firmness, but he was a zealous 
partisan, and possibly he may have yielded to 
the influence and demands of his party, his 
conviction of duty, against his will, although 
ordinarily an honest man. At the following 
election in 1837, Dr. Carney, on the 'Ewing 
Fraud,' as it was called, was elected over 
Colonel Allen by over a hundred; and, in 1838 
Allen was elected to the State Senate. It was 
at this election the late William Shannon, of 
Lawrence, Kansas, was elected Governor of 
Ohio over Governor Joseph Vance, Whig, but 
the Whig ticket for the county offices was 
elected, except Judge Williams, who was de- 
feated by General Patterson for Representa- 
tive. In 1839 the entire Democratic ticket, 
for the first time after its organization, was 
elected, viz. : William W. Warner, commis- 
sioner; Albert Pickett, Jr., recorder; George 
W. Stark, treasurer, and Morgan Williams, 
assessor. The average majority for these 
candidates was 300. The 'hard cider' cam- 
paign of 1840 greatly increased the forces of 
the Whig party, and the Whig ticket was 
elected by an average majority of over 600, 
viz.: Emery Moore was again chosen, to the 
State Legislature; Colonel John F. Dunlap, 
county auditor; Peleg Banker, re-elected sher- 
iff; Horatio P. Havens, commissioner, and D. 
T. Fuller, prosecuting attorney. It was during 
the memorable campaign of 840, the (Liberty 
Party' was organized, and a ticket for. Presi- 
dent and Vice-president nominated. For sev- 
eral years previous the anti-slavery agitation 
had been making, slowly but unmistakably, it*- 
deep impressions on the public mind, and more 



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85 



especially the minds of the religious portion of 
the people, but it was not until about this pe- 
riod that the friends of the cause of emancipa- 
tion proposed political action. James G. Bir- 
ney, a former slave-holder of Kentucky, but 
then a resident of Michigan, was at the head of 
the ticket, and Thomas Morris, of Ohio, placed 
second. The electoral ticket for the candidates 
received about one hundred votes in the county. 
This vote was taken principally from the Whig- 
party. Four years later the vote of the party 
was largely increased. This organization was 
possibly premature and misguided, but no 
party was ever actuated by loftier and purer 
motives. The Anti-slavery movement was 
not. at that time, larger than the cloud the 
Hebrew prophet saw, that so rapidly spread 
over the whole heavens, and filled the earth 
with refreshing showers. At this time no one 
expected to live to see the institution of negro 
slavery in America abolished, but in less than 
the period allotted by Providence to a genera- 
tion of men, by an amendment to the Federal 
Constitution, slavery and involuntary servitude 
of every species, in all the States and terri- 
tories belonging to the American Union, was 
forever abolished. 

"But notwithstanding the drafts the An- 
ti-slavery party, the Temperance party and 
other parties from time to time, made upon 
the Whigs, they continued to be the dominant 
party until the repeal of the Missouri Com- 
promise in 1854, which led to the organization 
of the Republican party which then was, and 
still is, in the ascendency in Delaware County." 

Vote of Delaware County for Governor 
beginning with the first vote after the organi- 
zation of the county : 

1808 — Republican, S. Huntington (elec- 
ted). 123. Republican, T. Worthington, 21. 
Republican, T. Kriker. 

1810 — Republican, R. J. Meigs, 21. Re- 
publican. R. J. Meigs, Jr., (elected) 17. Re- 
publican, Thomas Worthington, 152. 

18 12 — Vote for Governor, Delaware 
County, omitted in the Senate Journal. R. J. 
Meigs, Federalist, elected. 

1814 — Republican, Thomas Worthington 
(elected), 131. Federalist, O. Looker, 196. 



1816 — Republican, T. Worthington (elec- 
ted), 300. James Dunlap, 167. Ethan A. 
Brown, 42. 

1818 — Republican, Ethan A. Brown 
(elected), 578. James Dunlap, 132. 

1820 — Democrat. Ethan A. Brown (elec- 
ted), 726. Jeremiah Morrow, 34. Wm. H. 
Harrison, 5. 

1822 — Democrat, Jeremiah Morrow (elec- 
ted), 50. Wm. W. Irwin, 742. Federalist, 
Allen Trimble, 419. 

1824 — Democrat, Jeremiah Morrow (elec- 
ted), 141. National Republican, Allen Trim- 
ble, 950. 

1826 — National Republican, Allen Trim- 
ble (elected), 846. Democrat, John Bigger, 
127. Republican, Alex. Campbell, 103. 

1828 — National Republican, Allen Trim- 
ble (elected), 758. Democrat, John W. Camp- 
bell, 379. 

1830 — National Republican, Duncan Mc- 
Arthur (elected), 769. Democrat, Robert Lu- 
cas, 381. 

1832 — Democrat, Robert Lucas (elected), 
769. Whig and Anti-Mason, Darius Lyman, 
841. 

1834 — Democrat, Robert Lucas elected), 
850. Whig, James Findlay. 660. 

1836— Whig, Joseph Vance (elected), 1,- 
35J. Democrat. Eli Baldwin, 1,158. 

1838 — Democrat, Wilson Shannon (elec- 
ted), 1,668. Whig, Joseph Vance, 1,770. 

1840 — Whig, Thomas Corwin (elected), 
2,386. Democrat, Wilson Shannon, 1.761. 

1842 — Democrat, Wilson Shannon (elec- 
ted), 1,876. Whig, Thomas Corwin, 2,141. 
Abolitionist, Leicester King. 112. 

1844 — Whig, Mordecai Bartley (elected), 
2,456. Democrat. David Tod, 203. Abolition- 
ist, Leicester King, 159. 

1846 — Whig. William Babb (elected). 2,- 
01 1. Democrat, David Tod, 1.576. Aboli- 
tionist, Samuel Lewis, 195. 

1848 — Whig, Seabury Ford (elected), 2,- 
205. Democrat. John B. Weller, 2,006. 

1850 — Democrat, Reuben Wood (elected). 
2,015. Whig, William Johnston, 2.347. Aboli- 
tionist. Edward Smith. 150. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



185 1 — Democrat, Reuben Wood (elected), 
1,787. Whig, Samuel F. Vinton. 1,670. Ab- 
olitionist, Samuel Lewis, 158. 

1853 — Democrat. William Medill (elec- 
ted), 1,787. Whig, Nelson Barrere, 104. 
Abolitionist, Samuel Lewis, 1,639. 

1855 — Republican, Salmon P. Chase (elec- 
ted), 1.602. Democrat. Wm. Medill, 1.245. 
American, Allen Trimble. 259. 

1857 — Republican, Salmon P. Chase ( elec- 
ted), 2,007. Democrat, H. B. Payne, 1,576. 
American, P. VanTrump, 24. 

1859 — Republican, Wm. Dennison, Jr., 
(elected), 2,358. Democrat, Rufus P. Ranney, 
1,776. 

1861 — Republican, David Tod (elected), 
2,661. Democrat. Hugh J. Jewett, 1.437. 

[863 — Republican, John Brough (elected), 
3,173. Democrat, C. S. Vallandigham, 1,475. 

1865 — Republican, Jacob D. Cox (elected). 
2.480 (Home Army) 11 — total. 2,491. Dem- 
ocrat, George W. Morgan, 1,668 (Home 
Army) 1 — total. 1,669. 

1867 — Republican, R. B. Hayes (elected), 
2,727. Democrat, A. G. Thurman, 2.31 1. 

1869 — Republican, Rutherford B. Hayes 
(elected), 2,685. Democrat. George W. Pen- 
dleton, 2,043. 

1871 — Republican, Edward F. Noyes 
(elected), 2,610. Democrat, George W. Ale- 
Cook, 2,072. 

1873 — Republican, Edward F. Noyes 
(elected), 2,095, Democrat, William Allen, 

[,937- 

[875 — Republican, Rutherford 11. Haves 
(elected), 2,835. Democrat. William Allen, 
2.708. 

[877 — Republican, William II. Wesl 
(elected), 2,383. Democrat, Richard M. 
Bishop, 2,501. 

1879 — Republican, Charles Foster ("elec- 
ted ). 3,246. Democrat. Thomas Ewing, 3.014. 



1881 — Republican. Charles Foster (elec- 
ted). 3,066. Democrat, John W. Bookwalter. 

-'•''43. 

1883 — Republican, Joseph B. Foraker, 3,- 
403. Democrat, George Hoadley (elected), 

1885 — Republican, Joseph B. Foraker 
(elected), 3,179. Democrat, George Hoadley, 

2,9I5- 

1887 — Republican, Joseph B. Foraker 

(elected), 3,159. Democrat, Thomas E. Pow- 
ell, 3,048. 

1889 — Republican, Joseph B. Foraker, 3,- 
335. Democrat, James E. Campbell (elected), 
3,017. 

1891 — Republican, William McKinley 
(elected), 3,149. Democrat, James E. Camp- 
bell, 2J>J- ? .^ 

1893 — Republican. William McKinley 
(elected), 3,490. Democrat, L. T. Neal, 2,- 
526. 

1805 — Republican, Asa S. Bushnell (elec- 
ted), 3,405. Democrat, James E. Campbell. 
2.426. 

1897— Republican, Asa S. Bunhnell (elec- 
ted), 3.386. Democrat, Horace L. Chapman, 
3,051. Prohibitionist, John C. Holliday, 112. 
Total vote of county, 6,747. 

1899 — Republican, George K. Nash (elec- 
ted), 3,587. Democrat, John R. McLean, 3,- 
031. Prohibitionist, Seth H. Ellis, 175. Total 
vote cast, 7,109. 

1 90 1 — Republican, George K. Nash (elec- 
ted). 3.550. Democrat, James Kilbourne, 2.- 
962. Prohibitionist, E. Jay Pinney, 117. Total 
vote cast. 6,692. 

1903 — Republican. Myron T. Herrick 
(elected), 3.552. Democrat, Tom L. Johnson, 
2,871. Prohibitionist, Nelson D. Cramer. 168. 
Total vote cast, 6,771. 

1905 — Republican. Myron T. Herrick. 3,- 
130. Democrat, John M. Pattison ( elected 1 . 
3.419. Prohibitionist. Aaron S. Watkins, 126. 
Total vote cast, 6.842. 



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87 



Tabulated Vote for Governor, Representatives and Principal County Officials 
From October, 1824. to October, 1834, and for October, 1838 



October. 1824 





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Representative 


Commissioner 


Sheriff 


Coroner 


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5 
10 
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21 
6 
38 
13 
18 
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8 
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16 
9 


11 
2 
2 


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137 
73 
33 
26 
12 
51 
14 
19 
3 


13 
13 


64 
16 


31 
18 
8 
9 
14 
11 
9 
12 
6 
6 
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5 
3 
3 
6 
28 
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4 
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28 
14 
2 
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3 
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26 
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41 
31 
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117 
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135 
86 
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56 
68 
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143 
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141 


310 


196 


214 


38 


29 


560 


467 


366 


307 


229 


184 


662 


396 


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60 



October. 1825 





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October. 1830 





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588 


626 


280 


214 


97 


82 


43 


313 


291 


231 


192 


70 


161 


66 


331 


267 


331 


121 


15 


25 



AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



TABULATED VOTE— Continued 



October. 1832 



91 





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Congress 


Representative 


Sher 
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Aud- 
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October 8. 1833 





Representative 


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54 
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692 


290 


262 


160 


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214 


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69 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



TABULATED VOTE— Continued 



October. 1834 







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No record Is to De found from 1834 to 1835 and then nothing until 1S69. 



October. 1838 





Governor 


Congress 


Represen- 
tative 


Auditor 


Sheriff 


Commis. 
sioner 


Pros'cut'sr 
Attorney 


Coroner 


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100 
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72 
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40 
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AXD REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



93 



The Vote for Governor, Secretary of State, and President, of Three Leading 
Parties, From 1869 to the Last State Election in 1906 

(In 190") a constitutional amendment was passed making all National, State and County elections come in the 
eveD-numbered years, and the terms of all State and County Officials were extended until after the 1908 election.) 



1869 



1870 





Governor 

1S69 


Secretary o f 
State. 1S70 








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PRECINCTS 


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Berkshire 

Berlin 


190 

150 
157 
72 
751 

86 

MJ 
100 
117 

ei 

.36 
158 

120 
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1U 
50 
72 
34 


so 
103 
73 
127 
439 
130 
135 
23 
135 
47 
73 
74 
37 
51 
1S5 
118 
129 
84 




194 
138 
121 
73 
698 
85 
58 
96 
110 
62 
118 
164 
103 
ISO 
120 
49 
75 
88 


76 
99 
88 
87 
473 
95 
103 
28 
108 
45 
80 
79 
26 
53 
152 
125 
116 
74 










Concord 

Delaware 

Genoa 




Kingston 

Liberty 

Marlborough.. 

Orange 

Oxford 




Scioto 

Thompson 

Trenton 

Troy 






2685 


2043 




2541 


1907 











1871 



1872 



VOTING 
PRECINCTS 



Berkshire 

Berlin 

Brown 

Concord 

Delaware 

Genoa 

Harlem 

Km-'ston 

Liberty 

Marlborough . 

Orange 

Oxford 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Thompson 

Trenton 

Troy 



Governor 
1871 



& 5 



2072 



Secretary of 
State. 1872 



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1872 



President 
1872 



03 

n 



1873 



1874 



VOTING 
PRECINCTS 



Berkshire 

Berlin 

Brown 

Concord 

Delaware twp 
Delaware. lst. 
Delaware, 2nd 
Delaware, 3rd 

Genoa 

Harlem 

Kingston 

Liberty 

Marlborough. 

Orange 

Oxford 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Thompson 

Trenton 

Troy 



Governor 
1873 






177 


86 


130 


HI 


84 


M 


59 


HI 


911 


84 


232 


82 


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21)0 


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229 


fa 


89 


m 


1112 


H» 


18 


86 


109 


47 


38 


98 


73 


119 


89 



Secretary 
of State, 1874 



s.5? 



1875 



1876 



1876 





Governor 
1875 


Secretary of 
State. 1876 


President 

1S76 


VOTING 

PRECINCTS 

t 




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Berkshire.. . 
Berlin 


143 
38 
93 
131 
112 
122 
239 
262 
llll 
162 
45 
157 
39 
90 
126 
38 
66 
245 
141 
129 
90 


234 

lilt 
146 
91 
137 
291 
385 
59 
88 

85 
125 
52 
135 
150 
118 
181 
104 
56 
62 
92 


9 

6 
15 

4 
13 

9 
45 

1 

1 
16 

3 

3 
16 

3 
20 
38 
1 
4 


138 

143 

99 
123 
119 
131 

291 
142 
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35 
162 

58 
114 
113 

41 

CO 
217 
138 
HI 

96 


260 
163 
133 

100 
141 

340 

446 
66 

91 
61 

99 
152 

56 
141 
172 
138 
209 
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67 

7S 
102 


6 

20 
4 

11 
9 

38 
..... 

23 
■) 

8 
1 
H 

1 

11 
39 

2 


139 
136 
92 

137 
123 
133 

271 
293 
146 
156 

37 

l.-,:; 

52 
llll 
108 

66 

62 
242 
137 
138 

97 


247 
173 
143 
103 
1411 
3)16 
450 
65 
94 
93 
101 
160 
55 
153 
178 
135 
218 
129 
73 

105 


5 
8 




9 




2 


Delaware twp ... 

Delaware, 1st wd 
20 wd 
:>d wd 


5 
9 
40 

1 


Harlem 


12 


Liberty 


10 


Marlborough 


1 
5 












5 




29 


Thompson 


1 
4 












2708 


2*15 


221 


2793 


3140 


191 


2S09 


3237 


147 



94 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



TABULATED VOTE— Continued 



1877 



1878 



VOTING 
PRECINCTS 



Berkshire 

Berlin . 

Brown 

Concord 

Delaware twp .. 
Delaware. 1st wd 
Delaware. 2d wd. 
Delaware, 3d wd. 
Delaware. 4th wd 
Delawa re 51 h wd 

Genoa 

Harlem 

Kingston 

Liberty 

Marlborough 

< ►range ._ 

Oxford. 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Thompson 

Trenton 

Troy, 



Governor 
1ST 7 



5x 



- 






Secretary 
of State. 1878 



05.. 

a 



1879 



1880 



1880 





Governor 


Secretary of 


President 






1379 




Slate 1S8U 




1H.SU 








r. 


Es- 


r. z 


,. 




■i^ 


*M 


i 


VOTING 
PRECINCTS 


- O 




9 js 

3* 


T 01 
?.? 
= f 
OO 

EH 


|3 


S3 


■ — 
rt-s 

1-3 


■as 


a 


Berkshire 


263 


154 


10 


253 


164 


10 


264 


146 


5 


Berlin 


177 


139 


ii 


176 


L71I 


12 


K- 


Us 


II 




133 
90 
129 


115 

160 

III 


82 

;i 

14 


143 
97 
142 


124 
185 

126 


21 
2 

l.; 


145 
104 
146 


lis 
Is7, 
119 


111 






Delaware Tp.-- 


111 


Delitu art' CitT 




















First H'anl ." 


'.'.i7 


71 


15 


238 


72 


9 


255 


69 


HI 




1-7 


'.'1 


6 


192 


100 


a 


193 


93 




Third " 


158 


113 


..,, 


173 


115 


18 


177 


115 


16 


Fourth " 


96 


162 


9 


88 


183 


1 


'.10 


167 




Fifth 


MS 


294 


6 


159 


27 s 




165 


270 


1 




95 
10! 

11U 


165 
l«2 
36 


5 

a 

5 


llll 
113 

114 


158 
146 

15 


3 
8 


106 
120 
122 


1.1 

35 








Kingstown 


1 


LiblyPre. No i 


.2 


100 


;i 


67 


III,'. 




73 


93 




" No. 2 


,2 


87 




81 


83 


5 


87 


7S 


3 


Marlborough 


61 


17 


2 


67 


I'- 




m 


I'.l 




Orange 


155 


103 


21 


161 


ll-) 


16 


161 


'.« 


15 


Oxford ... 


103 
122 


19 
61 


3 
2 


l'.tT 

Kill 


l 19 
76 


2 
4 


'.'ii.; 
Kill 


125 
68 


1 




1 


Radnor . .. 




1-7 


9 


261 


-I 


4 


264 


74 


3 


Scioto 


134 


237 


37 


151 


.'l' 


29 


HI) 


I. 


2. r > 




7'.! 


146 




S5 


117 


1 


85 


156 


1 




7- 
1H7 


146 
108 


8 


85 
114 


1 .I 
1112 


11 


88 
115 


139 

102 


12 


Trov 












3014 


S46 


3403 


J . 


IS1 




'.".«.s 


151 



188! 



1882 



VOTING 
PRECINCTS 



Berkshire 

Berlin 

Brown 

I loncord 

Delaware Twp __ 
Delaware City 

First Ward.. 

Second " 

Third " . 

Fourth " . 

Fifth '■ . 

Genoa 

Harlem 

Kingston 

Liberty 

Precinct No. 1 

•• 2 

Marlborough 

Orange 

Oxford 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Thompson ... 

Trenton 

Troy 



1883 



1884 



Governor 


Secretary of 








l"l 




State. 1882 






u 

- 


<A 






0) 






« . 


R* 


a. 03 


£3 






















- 03 


= ! 






6 - 

•5B 


'.<? 








a 


< 


°g 


ft 3 
A 
en 






225 


156 


10 


223 


153 


16 






182 


128 


10 


176 


125 


8 






117 


91 


31 


131 


83 


20 






7a 


161 


5 


Ml 


140 


4 






139 


107 


15 


122 


120 


19 






236 


53 


37 


262 


62 


12 






178 


77 


12 


163 


119 


6 






154 


109 


3'.) 


1711 


120 


27 






si) 


151 


12 


88 


163 


7 






143 


267 


8 


151 


310 


9 






89 


122 


7 


85 


11 9 


9 






1* 


131 


23 


93 


127 


11 






116 


35 


4 


08 


31 


5 






65 


69 


17 


61 


74 


5 






70 


7U 


9 


67 




5 






61 


40 


'2 


62 


39 


2 






141 


80 


30 


117 


63 


23 






177 


119 


7 


175 


1211 


•) 






135 


62 


•> 


127 


68 


o 






230 


7U 


10 


2111 


73 


21 






126 


20S 


44 


104 


I'm 


32 






66 


134 


7 


57 


130 


11 






62 


1117 


26 


55 


94 


20 






103 


96 


1 


110 


95 








3066 


2643 


388 


3015 


2701 


276 







1884 





Governor 


Secretary 


Pi 


esident 






1583 




of State, 


1S84 




1884 






ra r 


i >. 


0) 


a;S 


*5 




o'„ 


■a 


-■ = 


VOTING 
PRECINCTS 


— X 
art 
o r- 
cc o 


i- 
o ^ 
0) o 

aw 


V?. 

£ E 

6.3 

o 

CO 


IE 0! 

Cj Q 

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r- U 


is 


O £ 

as 


CO 

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217 


161 


23 














(1) Rome Precinct 
(2>Sunbury " 








156 


97 


10 


161 


s'.i 


6 








119 




19 


120 


74 


15 


1ST. 

139 

92 


124 

113 
178 


5 

21 

4 


169 
132 
97 


141 
129 
175 


7 
19 
6 


171 
142 
96 


134 

115 
171 


12 




20 






Delaware twp — 


152 


128 


19 


137 


125 


21 


134 


123 


25 


Delaware City 




















First Ward 


'.'.','.' 


77 


17 


288 


74 


24 


284 


70 


32 




1S1 


122 


8 


203 


129 


11 


209 


117 


is 


Third " 


168 


132 


25 


148 


155 




143 


118 


39 


Fourth " 


130 


175 


5 


123 


157 


17 


122 


142 


22 


Fifth " 


17s 


315 


1U 


185 


32s 


5 


183 


328 


9 




HI. 


143 


3 


His 


156 


10 


111 


115 


10 




98 

122 


151 

13 


8 
5 


106 

122 


147 
41 


16 
3 


1114 
122 


150 

42 


17 




3 


Li berty 




















Precinct No. 1. 


54 


92 


3 


81 


9.". 


4 


83 


92 


. 


Precinct No. 2.. 


81 


36 


5 


77 


84 


4 


83 


81 


1 


Marlborough 


3s 


44 




111 


is 




67 


1- 






156 
188 


95 

145 


21 
4 


153 
218 


92 
119 


Is 


153 
219 


sl 
13S 


is 


Oxford 


3 




132 


66 


3 


131 


71 


4 


13U 


70 


7 




233 


98 


10 


253 


si; 


8 


249 


si 


12 




lis 


2:;'.' 
Ill 


41 
11 


162 

;i 


237 
149 


41 
5 


148 
74 


247 
151 


33 


Thompson 


4 




108 


131 
114 


1 


93 

lot; 


135 

102 


21 

6 


94 
111 


138 
100 


20 




5 








3403 


3113 


276 


3492 


3174 


309 


3513 


3078 


343 



AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



95 



TABULATED VOTE Continued 



1885 



1886 



Governor 
[Sso 



VOTING 
PRECINCTS 



Berkshire 

Galena Prec't. 
Rome Prec't .. 
SunburvPrec't 

B.-rlln 

Brown 

Concord 

Delaware Twp. 
Wara no. 1 
•' No. 2 
'• No. 
" No 
" No 

Genoa 

Harlem 

Kingston ._ 

Liberty Pre No. 1 
Ward No 

Marlb -rong-h 

Orange 

Oxford 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Thompson 

Trenton 

Troy 



«i3 



Secretary of 

State iss; 



- 



1887 



1888 



1888 





Governor 


Secretary of 


President 




1SS7 




State, 1888 


ISSS 




VOTING 




a— 

: 
I 5 
\z 






Og 


> 

Z Z 


. o 


So 


x £; 
<55 


PRECINCTS 


a ■- 
x c 
°&) 


z — 


a 


a 




15 = 

X 




Berkshire 




















Galena Prec't- . 


57 


24 


1 


62 


25 


2 


62 


25 


2 


Rome " . 


Sll 


78 


13 


83 


74 


30 


83 


74 


13 


Sunbury " .. 


ll'.l 


BO 


2s 


119 


62 


20 


119 


61 


211 


Berlin 


159 


121 


26 


166 


Kill 


12 


166 


130 


12- 




131 
94 


127 
169 


21 
4 


144 
98 


121 
168 


is 
2 


144 
'.18 


121 
167 


IX 


Concord 


2 


Delaware Twp.. 


137 


11R 


27 


142 


121 


25 


142 


122 


24 


Delaware City... 




















Ward no. 1 


254 


100 


42 


2X6 


70 


40 


285 


70 


41 


•■ 2 


IIS 


125 


53 


2117 


II , 


43 


206 


115 


13 


" 3 


112 


133 


38 


147 


129 


32 


II- 


129 


32 


" 4 


Ml 


ISO 


2' 1 


94 


177 


25 


93 


177 


25 


'■ 5 


145 


321 


12 


267 


324 


14 


206 


324 


15 


Genoa , 


93 


133 


19 


111 


132 


16 


111 


131 


16 


Harlem 


95 


145 


27 


98 


141 


22 


98 


143 


21 


Kingston 


1(11 


42 


9 


116 


Ml 


3 


117 


19 


3 




SO 


94 


8 


76 


'.14 


S 


76 


94 




Precinct No. 1 


8 


Precinct No. 2 


77 


UK 


9 


88 


'.11 


5 


88 


91 





Marlborough 


HI 


HI 




69 


16 


1 


69 


16 


1 


Orange 


145 


90 


22 


142 


92 


25 


142 


92 


25 


* »xford 


22" 


137 


15 


217 


232 


10 


216 


131 


10 


Porter 


139 


59 


8 


132 


65 


9 


132 


65 


9 


Radnor 


223 


!9 


IT 


233 


SO 


22 


234 


::< 




Scioto 


138 


23S 


41 


114 


225 


41 


144 


225 


41 


Thompson 


62 


.128 


3 


61 


135 


4 


61 


135 


4 




S3 

lit; 


12U 
91 


27 
11 


Ml 

112 


133 

95 


31 

7 


80 
112 


133 
95 


31 


Troy 


7 








3159 


3048 


503 ! 


3434 


3010 


450 


3432 


3004 


450 



IK. VI 



1890 





Governor 
1889 


Secretary 

of State. 1890 




VOTING 
PRECINCTS 


go 






1-3 

a 


~ o 

& 


S o 
si 
=■? 
~ o 
T- 








Berkshire 

Galena Precinct 

Rome 

Sunbury 
Berlin 


55 
S5 
108 
155 

111 
101 
132 

310 
220 
140 
90 
190 
90 
99 
113 

69 

63 
136 

214 
135 

228 

147 
54 

71 
109 


29 
SI 
64 
140 
117 
169 
117 

64 
108 
129 
181 
306 
IX! 
it:; 

35 

no 

92 
48 
78 
139 
61 
72 
235 
137 
144 
85 


4 
11 
13 
20 
19 

30 

54 
42 
46 
29 
21 
15 

3 

11 

6 
6 

13 
8 

19 

46 
6 

30 


54 
89 

117 
Ml 
128 

Ml 

133 

303 
190 
145 
99 
221 
74 
82 
109 

60 
74 
59 
97 
205 
166 

126 
42 
70 
99 


26 
70 
60 
124 
129 
150 
126 

70 
108 
123 

156. 
2S1 
122 
139 
28 

90 
85 

41 
57 

139 
58 
63 

209 
93 

115 
S5 


3 
15 
16 
IS 
22 
1 
31 

42 
50 
40 
20 
17 

20 

8 
6 
I 

20 
5 
6 

16 

49 
1 

38 
5 








Concord 

Delaware twp 

Delaware 

First Ward 
Second " 

Third " 

Fourth " 

Fifth 




Harlem 




Liberty 

Precinct No. 1.. 
Precinct No. 2.. 

Orang'e 
















Thompson 




Troy 






3335 


3017 


508 


3138 


2711 


461 





1891 



1892 



1892 





Governor 1S81 


Secretary of 
State 1S92 


President 1892 


VOTING 

PRECINCTS 






* 

^JZ 
X 

< 


u 


< 

= o 

iz a 

~c-< 


6 - 


■5 a 

2 O 
- X 

ax 


- s 

csj 

o 


= - 

is a 
a 


Berkshire 

Berkihire Prec't 
Galena 
Sunbury 

Berlin 

Brown 

Concord 

Delaware Twpt. 

Delaware 

1st \v ml 
2nd Ward 
Mrd Wara 
4th Ward 
5th Warn 
6th Ward 

Genoa 


44 
86 
123 
146 
134 
85 
125 

255 
190 
162 

90 

60 
220 
75 
82 

1111 

60 

7n 
55 
137 
192 
lis 
267 
in- 
45 
71 
100 


23 
67 
58 
138 
120 
129 
109 

.56 
105 
119 
158 

2 13 
M 

133 

IIS 
33 
S5 
79 
30 
63 

[36 
45 

62 
171 

89 
111 

80 


2 
11 
11 
11 
17 

1 
19 

36 
48 
29 
20 

4 
21 

5 
12 

7 
1 
19 

5 
9 

15 
4 


54 
84 
109 
152 
128 
99 
142 

259 
187 
146 
83 
69 
202 
96 
-l 
101 
58 
74 
54 
145 
200 
127 
218 
127 
53 
84 
101 


20 
74 
59 
1.16 
124 
139 
104 

161 
115 

I 08 
'69 

226 

85 

115 

121 
31 
.Ml 
'- 
39 
61 

119 
58 
57 

203 

-6 

125 

95 


5 
12 
11 
15 
13 

3 
30 

35 

48 
18 

6 
26 

9 
13 

•> 

7 
9 
2 
26 
12 
3 
16 
29 
1 
15 
2 


54 

85 
112 
151 
129 

in 
144 

262 
189 
145 

M 
69 
207 
96 
83 
102 
61 
75 
54 
145 
201 
132 
222 
12S 
54 
84 
100 


21 
75 
59 
138 
123 
139 
106 

65 

119 
111 

16S 

228 
88 
11- 
120 
30 
-J 
71 
39 
62 
121 

59 

21 15 

86 

125 
94 


5 
12 
11 
16 
13 

3 
31 

36 
7s 
50 
19 

6 
25 

9 

1 ; 
2 
7 
9 
2 
26 
12 
3 
17 
29 
1 
22 
3 


Kingston 

Liberty, Prec't 1 

Precinct 2 

Marlborough ... 

Orange 

Oxford 

Porter ..^ 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Thompson 








3149 


2625 


352 


3230 


267S 


440 


32177 


2710 


480 



96 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



TABULATED VOTE— Continued 



1893 



1894 



VOTING 
PRECINCTS 



Berkshire 

Berkshire Prct. 

Galena 

Sunburv 

Berlin 

Brown 

Concord 

Delaware twp, . 
Delaware 

First Ward... 

Second " 

Third " . . 

Fourth " .... 

Fifth " .-■- 

Sixth " .... 

Genoa 

Harlem. 

Kingston 

Liberty 

Precinct No. 1 

Precinct No. % 
Marlborough.... 

Orange 

Oxford 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto.. 

Thompson 

Trenton 

Troy 



Governor 
1S93 



Secretary 

Of State IS'.i-l 



*u 



S&H 



-7 



1897 



1898 



1895 



1896 



1896 





Governor 


Secreturv of 


President 






1895 




State. 1896 




1896 




VOTING 


»! 




ffi 


S " 


is 




->> 
5c 




cs a 

St 


PRECINCTS 


7iX 


ll 

4o 


-*2 


?. c 

5* 


s2 


CO 
r 


55 


5o 


■'J 


Berkshire 




















Berkshire Prct 


m 


•22 


2 


58 


25 




55 








SI! 


57 


10 


99 


77 


6 


100 


1 1 


5 




114 


52 


'J 


111 


94 


1 


111 


94 






154 
137 
81! 
125 


96 

103 
124 
93 


13 
18 

20 
23 


ll!l 
156 
84 
111 


150 

1114 
19S 
187 


2 
4 
1 


162 
158 
63 
142 


151 

166 

1!".' 
138 


2 




2 




1 


Delaware Twp 






341! 


70 


35 


311 


98 





..us 






2d 


246 


98 


45 


275 


111 


10 


275 


115 


9 


3d " 


1«5 


106 


48 


189 


131 


. 


1-9 


11*1 


6 


4th ■' 


112 


no 


21 


nu 


193 


li 


110 


194 


6 


5th " 


82 


239 


9 


111 


271 


3 


112 


271 


3 




190 


83 


15 


224 


115 


4 


123 


120 






109 

ou 

KM 

74 


101 
116 

25 
66 


8 

2 S 

5 


123 
93 

US 
69 


is: 

154 
43 
131 


2 


123 

94 
117 
69 


13, 
154 
46 
133 


2 










Liberty, Pr'ct 1.. 




■> 


9U 


70 


7 


93 


92 


2 


93 


92 


2 


Marlborough 


iii; 


12 


8 


74 


52 


6 


76 


54 


6 




158 


64 


18 


171) 


88 


7 


178 


91 


, 




234 

II. • 


19 
32 


14 
5 


244 
123 


172 
92 


1 


:44 
122 


172 
93 


1 


Porter 






228 
116 
39 


55 
165 
64 


11 
26 
4 


233 
134 

49 


103 
312 

lis 


"i 


233 
131 

18 


1113 
313 
159 






4 


Thompson 






109 


111 
83 


21 
t! 


97 
101 


154 
115 


1 


96 
101 


155 
11 5 


6 




1 








3409 


2426 


113 


3796 


3568 


78 


3789 


3601 


63 



VOTING 
PRECINCTS 



Berkshire 

BlrkshirePree't 
Galena 
> u n bury 

Berlin 

Brown 

Concord 

Delaware Twp 

Del'ware 1st Wei 
2nd 
3rd 

4th 
5th 
6th 

Genoa 

Harlem 

Kinsston 

Liberty' Pr'ct 

Marlborough 

Orang-e 

Oxford 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Thompson 

Trenton 

Troy 



Governor 1897 



■:i 
gg 



Secretary of 

State 1893 






1899 



1900 



VOTING 
PRECINCTS 



Governor 
1SW 



Berkshire 

Berkshire Prct 

Galena 

Sunbury 

Berlin 

Brown 

Concord 

Delaware Twp 
Delaware, 1st wd 
2d 
:;d 
4th 
5th 
0th 

Genoa 

Harlem . 

Kingston 

Liberty, Prec't 1 
.. ;, 

Marlborough .. 

Orange 

Oxford 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Thompson 

Trenton 

Troy 



35K 3031 



Secretary .if 
State, 19U0 



-7. 



* -■ 

c o 

m5 



1900 



President 
1900 



£5 » 



25 
86 
SO 
150 
149 
176 
113 
91 
131 
,129 
168 
2l!ti 
119 
143 
168 
39 
102 



1765 3337 in 



c ° 



.-9 




46 


3 


S'i 


12 


163 


1 


73 


3 


■ 87 




980 


4 


139 




l.,l 


6 


101 


1 



AXD REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



97 



TABULATED VOTE Continued 



1901 



1902 



1903 



1904 



VOTING 
PRECIXCTS 



Del'warelst Wd 
2nd 
3rd 
4th 
5th 
fith 

Berkshire 
I-lerkslitre Pr'Ct. 
Galena 
Sunbury 

Berlin 

Brown 

Concord 

Delaware Twp. 

Genoa 

Harlem 

Kingston 

LlDerty 1st Pr'ct 
" 2nd •• 

Marlborough ... 

Orange 

Oxford 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Thompson ... 

Trenton 

Troy 



Goyernor 1901 



Hft 



Secretary of 
State 1903 



~ SI 



T'.l 
114 

IIS 

120 

r.i; 
109 

23 
63 
72 

lit 
ill 
H9 

ss 
110 
32 
92 
H7 

:» 
82 

lis 
60 
61 

217 

130 

83 



am 

6* 



VOTING 
PRECINCTS 



Delaware. 1st wd 
2d 
3d 
4th 
Berkshire 

Berkshire Prct 

Galena 

Sunbm v '■ 
" Village " 

Berlin 

Brown 

Concord 

"elaware Twp.. 

Genoa 

Harlem 

Kingston 

Liberty. 1st Prct 
2d 

Marlborough 

Orange. 

Oxford 

" Ashley Prct 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Warrensb'gPct 

Ostrander 
" Village 

Thompson 

Trenton 

Troy 



Governor 
1903 



-^ 



S& 



Jo 



§1 



3552 2S7J 



Secretary of 
State. 1904 



4111 



126 
173 

am 
290 

27 
47 
17 
43 
96 
137 
150 
97 
urn 
128 
22 
98 
69 
33 
7° 
60 
54 
58 
64 

1U2 
-■> 

57 
90 
124 






1905 



1906 



VOTING 

PRECINCTS 



Del'ware 1st Wd 
2nd 
3rd 
4th 

Berkshire 

Berkshire Pr'ct 
Galena 
*»nbury 

Sunbury Village 

Berlin 

Brown 

Concord 

Delaware Twp 

Genoa 

Harlem 

Kingston 

Liberty 1st Pr'ct 
2nd 

Marlborough 

Orange 

Oxford 

" AshleyPr'ct 

Porter 

Radnor 

Scioto 

Warrensb'gPrct 

Cstrander Pr'ct 

Ostrander Vil 

Thoriipson 

Trenton 

Troy 



Goyernor 1905 



si 



Secretary of 
State loot; 



3054 287S 357 



si 



; - 



x< 



98 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



MEMBERSHIP OF THE OHIO SENATE FOR DELAWARE COUNTY, DELAWARE DISTRICT, COMPOSED 
OF DELAWARE, MUSKINGUM, FRANKLIN, MADISON AND UNION COUNTIES. 

t,, ~ , . , , „ ( Robert McConnell 

Eleventh General Assembly. 1012 - , , Rarr 

„ .,, _ . . ,, _ (Robert McConnell 

Iweltth General Assembly, 1813 - ] \ m g arf 

™ . . „ , . , . .-, , Robert McConnell 

rh,rteenth General Assembly, 1814 1j osephFoos 

„ , r* 1 a ,, o ( E. Buckingham, Jr. 

Fourteenth General Assembly, 1815 ] t , f oos 

T-fi 1 ^ 1 v 11 o /- J E. Buckingham, Jr. 

Filteenth General Assembly, 1816 -j -,. T , J 

■" '1 nomas Johnson 

c.. , . „ , , ,,0 ) George Jackson 

Sixteenth General Assembly, 1017 "j y, t 1 

Seventeenth General Assembly, 1818 ) T \ f,' 

■" 'J oseph Foos 

t-.- , . ,, r. , , , , I Samuel Sullivant 

Eighteenth General Assembly, i8iq \ T , — 

■" 'J oseph b 00s 

m- . ., ^ , , 110 (Joseph Matthews 

.Nineteenth General Assembly, 1820 r T r , „ 

J 'J oseph r 00s 

-r- . • ,, /- ' 1 a 1 1 o I Thomas I. Janes 

twentieth General Assembly, 1821 • T , _ J 

J 1 J oseph b 00s 

Twenty-first General Assembly, 1822 Jjf 10 ™** 1 Janes 

J I Henry Brown 

Marion, Crawford and Sandusky Counties Added. 

-r , , r . , . 1 1 o I Ebenezer Buckingham 

1 wenty-second .... General Assembly, 1821 - T „ . & 

J J (James Kooken 

T\,.„„ f ,1 • j r- , , , , o \ Ebenezer Buckingham 

1 wenty-third General Assembly, 1824 < T , „ & 

( Joseph Foos 

. . i 

District Changed to Include only Four Counties — Delaware, Marion, Sandusky and 
Crawford. 

Twenty-fourth .... General Assembly, 1825 David H. Beardsley 

Twenty-fifth General Assembly, 1820 James Kooken 

Twenty-sixth General Assembly, 1827 James Kooken 

Twenty-seventh . . . General Assembly, 1828 Charles Carpenter 

Twenty-eighth General Assembly, 1829 Charles Carpenter 

District Changed to Include only Three Counties— Delaware, Marion and Crawford. 

Twenty-ninth General Assembly, 1830 Charles Carpenter 

Thirtieth General Assembly, 1S31 Charles Carpenter 

Thirty-first General Assembly, 1832 James W. Crawford 

Thirty-second .... Geenral Assembly, 1833 James W. Crawford 

Thirty-third General Assembly, 1834 Robert Hopkins 



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99 



Thirty-fourth General Assembly, 1835 Robert Hopkins 

Thirty-fifth General Assembly. 1836 Hezekiah Gorton 

Thirty-sixth General Assembly, 1837 Hezekiah Gorton 

Thirty-seventh .... General Assembly, 1838 Benjamin F. Allen 

Thirty-eighth .... General Assembly, 1839 Benjamin F. Allen 

Thirty-ninth General Assembly. 1840 James H. Godman 

Fortieth General Assembly, 1841 James H. Godman 

Forty-first General Assembly. 1842 James AlcCutchen 

District Changed to Include only Delaware and Crawford Counties. 

Forty-second General Assembly, 1843 James McCutchen 

Forty-third General Assembly, 1844 Thomas W. Powell 

Forty-fourth General Assembly, 1845 Thomas W. Powell 

Forty-fifth General Assembly, 1846 James Eaton 

Forty-sixth General Assembly, 1847 James Eaton 

District Changed to Include Franklin and Delaware Counties. 

Forty-seventh .... General Assembly. 1848 William Dennison, Jr. 

Forty-eighth General Assembly. 1849 William Dennison, Jr. 

Forty-ninth General Assembly, 1850 Abram Thompson 

Sixteenth District — Delaware and Lickin g Counties. 

Fiftieth General Assembly, 1852 John C. Alward 

Fifty-first General Assembly. 1854 Charles Follett 

Fifty-second General Assembly, 1850 Daniel Gardner 

Fifty-third General Assembly, 1858 William P. Reid 

Fifty-fourth General Assembly, i860 Thomas C. Jones 

Fifty-fifth General Assembly, 1S62 John A. Sinnett 

Fifty-sixth General Assembly, 1864 James R. Stanbury 

Fifty-seventh General Assembly, 1866 Willard Warner 

Fifty-eighth General Assembly, 1868 Lewis Evans 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly, 1870 Early F. Poppleton 

Sixtieth General Assembly, 1872 John B. Jones 

Sixty-first General Assembly, 1874 William P. Reid 

Sixty-second General Assembly, 1876 John W. Owens 

Sixty-third General Assembly, 1878 John W. Owens 

Sixty-fourth General Assembly. 1880 F. M. Marriott 

Sixty-fifth General Assembly, 1882 John D. Jones 

Sixty-sixth General Assembly. 18,84 John O'Neil 

Sixty-seventh General Assembly, 1886 -. i- , c - 

J ■" I Edwin Sinnett 

c - . • , ,, „ . . , , 000 ) Toseph G. Huffman 

Sixtv-eighth General Assemb v, 1888 ju, ■ , „ ^ 

& ■ I Daniel H. Gannon 

Sixty-ninth General Assembly, 1890 Edwin Sinnett 

Seventieth General Assembly, 1892 No Senator 

Seventy-first General Assembly, 1894 No Senator 

7 



IOO 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Seventy-second . 


. General 


Assembly, 


1896 


Charles N. Shryock 


Seventy-third . . . 


. . General 


Assembly, 


1898 


William E. Miller 


Seventy-fourth . . 


. . General 


Assembly, 


1900 


No Senator 


Seventy-fifth .... 


. . General 


Assembly, 


1902 


Norman F. Overturf 


Seventy-sixth . . . 


. General 


Assembly, 


[904 


Norman F. Overturf 


Seventy-seventh . 


. General 


Assembly, 


1906 


W. L. Atwell 



MEMBERSHIP OF THE OHIO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

(Delaware County had no representative until the Eleventh General Assembly) 

Eleventh General 

Twelfth General 

Thirteenth General 

Fourteenth General 

Fifteenth General 

Sixteenth General 

Seventeenth General 

Eighteenth General 

Nineteenth General 

Twentieth General 

Twenty-first General 

Twenty-second . . . General 

Twenty-third General 

Twenty-fourth .... General 

Twenty-fifth General 

Twenty-sixth General 

Twenty-seventh . . . General 

Twenty-eighth .... General 

Twenty-ninth .... General 

Thirtieth General 

Thirty-first General 

Thirty-second .... General 

Thirty-third General 

Thirty-fourth .... General 

Thirty-fifth General 

Thirty-sixth General 

Thirty-seventh .... General 

Thirty-eighth General 

Thirty-ninth General 

Fortieth General 

Forty-first General 

Forty-second General 

Forty-third General 

Forty-fourth General 

Forty-fifth General 

Forty-sixth General 

Forty-seventh .... General 

Forty-eighth General 

Forty-ninth General 

Fiftieth General 

Fiftv-first General 



Assembly, 


1812 


James Curry 


Assembly, 


181 3 


James Curry 


Assembly, 


1814 


James Curry 


Assembly, 


1815 


James Curry 


Assemblv, 


1816 


Benjamin Carpenter 


Assemblv, 


[817 


Toseph Eaton 


Assemblv. 


1 8 1 8 


Reuben Lamb 


Assembly, 


1819 


Joseph Eaton 


Assemblv, 


1820 


Aaron Strong 


Assembly, 


1 S j 1 


Joseph Eaton 


Assemblv. 


1822 


Leonard H. Cowles 


Assemblv, 


1823 


Leonard H. Cowles 


Assemblv, 


1824 


Elias Murray 


Assembly, 


1825 


Pardon Sprague 


Assemblv, 


1826 


Pardon Sprague 


Assembly, 


1827 


Pardon Sprague 


Assemblv, 


1828 


Milo D. Pettibone 


Assemblv, 


I S_>( ) 


B. F. Allen 


Assemblv. 


1830 


Amos Utlev 


Assembly, 


1 83 1 


John Storms 


Assemblv, 


1832 


Tohn Curtis 


Assemblv. 


1833 


Tohn Curtis 


Assembly, 


1834 


Emery Moore 


Assemblv, 


183s 


Emery Moore 


Assemblv, 


1836 


B. F. Allen 


Assembly, 


1837 


Elijah Carnev 


Assemblv, 


1838 


Andrew H. Patterson 


Assembly, 


1839 


Andrew H. Patterson 


Assemblv, 


1840 


Emery Moore 


Assemblv, 


1 841 


Tames Griffith 


Assemblv, 


[842 


Geo. W. Sharp and L. E. James 


Assemblv, 


1843 


Tohn Casev and Wm. Smart 


Assemblv. 


[844 


Tames B. Shaw 


Assembly, 


184^ 


Tames B. Shaw 


Assemblv, 


1846 


T. B. Fisher 


Assemblv, 


1847 


Albert McWright 


Assemblv, 


1 848 


David Gregory 


Assemblv, 


[8 4 q 


Tames R. Hubble 


Assemblv. 


[8 5 


Wray Thomas 


Assemblv, 


1852 


John Converse 


Asserfibl] . 


1854 


John Converse 



AXD REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 101 



Fifty-second General Assembly, c8=;6 1 ,,-■„■ u , 

„• - \\ llliani Hendren 
[857 j 

Fifty-third General Assembly, 1858I ,, u ,, ., 

° f fames K. Hitbbell 
1859 1 - 

Fifty-fourth General Assembly. [860 | ,, , ,, 

0/ - Ravmond bun 
[861 i 

Fifty-fifth General Assembly. [862 I ^ R Hulj]jle 

[863 ' J 

Fifty-sixth General Assembly, 1864 I James R. Hubble (resigned) 

1865 I "0. D. Hough 

Fifty-seventh General Assembly, [866 I _, .. , 7 , 

• l867 | U. D. Hough 

Fifty-eighth General Assembly, 1868' ... , — 7 

- ft • ., . Alfred E. Lee 

[809 ' 

Fifty-ninth General Assembly, 1870 ! rT ,, „ T 

' rQ ' [ Ihomas F. Joy 

1 O j 1 ' 

Sixtieth General Assembly, 1872 { _ _, • 

,o„- Eugene Lowell 

Sixty-first General Assembly, [874 / 

' T o ' > T. 1'.. \\ llbams 

Sixty-second General Assembly, 1876 . 

r o - John A. Carothers 

Sixty-third General Assembly, 1878 1 

■ jg' J- David H. Elliott 

Sixty-fourth General Assembly, 1880 

18^1 John S. Jones 

Sixty-fifth General Assembly, [882 , 

1883 f J° hn S - J ones 

Sixty-sixth General Assembly, [884. 

188" - George L. Sackett 

Sixty-seventh General Assembly, [886 

,00, j George L. Sackett 

Sixty-eighth General Assembly, 1888 ' 

1889 1 J° hn S - Gil] 
Sixty-ninth General Assembly, 1890 * 

t8oi / Ro'hn K. Willis 

Seventieth General Assembly, 1892 I 

T gg, Rolhn k. \\ illis 

Seventy-first General Assembly, 1894 \ Samuel Lewis 

Seventy-second . . . General Assembly, 1896 Samuel Lewis 

Seventy-third General Assembly, 1898 Thos. R. Smith 

Seventy-fourth .... General Assembly, 1900 Thos. R. Smith 

District again Changed, this time to include Delaware and Morrow Counties. 

Seventy-fifth General Assembly, 190-' Arthur H. [ones 

Seventy-sixth General Assembly, 1904 Arthur H.Jones 

Seventy-seventh . . . General Assembly, 1906 H. W. Crist. 



102 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Delaware County has ha.d the following 

Congress of the 



James R. Hubble, Thirty-ninth C< >ngress, 
Eighth District, 1865-1866. 









Earlv F. Poppleton, Forty-fourth 


Con- 








gress 


Ninth District. 1 


875-18/6. 










John S. Junes, Fort} 


'-fifth Congress. \ 


STinth 








District, 1877-1878. 














Ta.ble of Covinty Officials 




PROBATE JUDGE 


CLERK OF COURT 


SHERIFF 


PROS. ATTORNEY 


AUDITOR 


TREASURER 


1S69 

1870 


Benjamin C. Walters 


Benj. F. Loofbourrow 


William Brown 


John S. Jones 


Josephus F. Doty 


James Cox 


1871.. 


Benjamin C. Walters 


Benj. F. Loofbourrow 


William Brown 


John S. Jones 


Josephus F. Dotv 


.blllleS COX 


1872 


Benjamin C. Walters 


John Chapman 


Joseph H. Crawford 


Jackson Hippie 


Josephus F. Dotv 


James Cox 


1S73 


Benjamin C. Walters 


John Chapman 


Joseph H. Crawford 


Jackson Hippie 


Thomas P. Myers 


Junes COX 


1S74 


Benjamin C. Walters 


John Chapman 


George L. Sackett 


F. M. Marriott 


Thomas P. Myers 


Ezekiel Brown 


1875 


Franklin B. Sprague 


John T. Evans 


George L. Sackett 


F. M. Marriott 


Stephen C. Courey 


John H. Warren 


1S76 


Franklin B. Sprague 


John T. Evans 


George L. Sackett 


John J. Glover 


Stephen C. Courey 


John H. Warren 


1S77 


Franklin B. Sprague 


John T. Evans 


George L. Sackett 


John J. Glover 


Stephen C. Courey 


John H. \\ arren 


1878 


Franklin B. Sprague 


John T. Evans 


George L. Sackett 


John J. Glover 


Stephen C. Courey 


John H. Warren 


1879 


Franklin B. Sprague 


John Chapman 


Win. H. Cutler 


Henry C. Culver 


Stephen ( " Courey 


John H. Warren 


1880 


Franklin B. Sprague 


John Chapman 


Wm. H. Cutler 


Henry C. Culver 


1 Jharles ^ ■ \^ ebster 


Cicero Coomer 


1881 


Rllt'llS * Yl ! prill.'!" 


Chas. M. Jaynes 


Wm. 11. Cutler 


Henry C Culver 


Charles W . Webster 


Cicero Coomer 


1882 


Rufus Carpenter 


Chas. M. Javnes 


James E. White 


James T. Shoup, Jr. 


Charles W. Webster 


Cicero Coomer 


1883 


Rufus Carpenter 


Chas. M. Javnes 


James E. White 


James T. Shoup. Jr. 


Charles W. "V\ ebstei 


Edward E. Neff 


1884 


Rufus Carpenter 


Chas. M. Javnes 


James E. White 


James T. Shoup. Jr. 


( :naries w. \\ eDstei 


Edward E. Neff 


1885 


Rufus Carpenter 


Chas. M. Jaynes 


James E. White 


Frank A. Kauffman 


Charles W. \\ ebstei 


X Porter Fergusoi 





Rufus Carpenter 


Chas. M. Javnes 


Win. J. Davis 


Frank A. Kauffman 


John J. Ramage 


X Porter Fergusoi 


1887 


Rufus Carpenter 


Chas. M. Jaynes 


Wm. J. Davis 


Frank A. Kauffman 


John J. Ramage 


N. Porter Fergusoi 


1888 


N. F. Overt urf 


John A. Shoemaker 


Wm. J. Davis 


Frank A. Kauffman 


John J. Ramage 


N. Porter Fergusoi 


i 9 


N. F. Overturf 


John A. Shoemaker 


Wm. J. Davis 


Geo W. Carpenter 


John J. Ramage 


X' Porter Fergusoi 


1890 


N. F. Overturf 


John A. Shoemaker 


Wm. J. Davis 


Geo W. Carpenter 


John J. Rami-' 


Elias Cole 


1891 


X. F. 1 iverturf 


John A. Shoemaker 


Thos. R. Griffith 


Geo W. Carpenter 


John J. Ramage 


Elias Cole 


1892 


X. 1-'. 1 iverturf 


John A. Shoemaker 


Thos. R. Griffith 


Geo W . < larpenter 


John J. Ramage 


Elias Cole 




X. F. Overturf 


John A. Shoemaker 


Thos. R. Griffith 


Geo w . ' iarpenter 


Lyman P. Lewis 


Elias Cole 


1894 


Benj. F. Freshwater 


Newton M. Miller 


Thos. R. Griffith 


Geo W. Carpenter 


Lyman P. Lewis 


Cyrus B. Arlams 


L895 


Benj. F. Freshwater 


Newton M. .Miller 


Stephen P. Thrall 


George Coyner 


Lyman P. Lewis 


Cyrus B. Adams 


1896 


Benj. F. Freshwater 


Newton M. Miller 


Stephen P. Thrall 


George Coyner 


Lyman P. Lewis 


Li Wis Slack 


1897 


Benj. F. Freshwater 


Newton M. Miller 


Sir, .hen P. Thrall 


George Coyner 


Lyman P. Leu is 


l.r» is Slack 


1898 


Benj. F. Freshwatei 


Newton M. Miller 


Stephen P. Thrall 


1 teorge < !oynei 


Lyman P. Lewis 


Lewis Slack 


1899 


Benj. 1'. I'nsliw Hi 1 


Newton M. Miller 


Jacob M. Schaffner 


1 teorge 1 ' >yner 


Frank Warren 


Lewis Slark 


190O 


E. Lee Porterfield 


Burton P. Benton 


Jacob M. Schaffner 


George < Joyner 


Frank Warren 


J. L. Andersen 


1901 


E. Lee Porterfield 


Burton P. Benton 


Jacob M. Schaffner 


Edward T. Humes 


Frank Warren 


J. L. Anderson 


1902 


E. l.ee Porterfield 


Burton P. Benton 


Jacob M. Schaffner 


Edward T. Humes 


Frank "\\ arren 


J. L. Anderson 


1903 


E. Lee Porterfield 


Burton P. Benton 


A. C. Williamson 


Edward T. Humes 


Frank Warren 


J. L. Anderson 


1904. ...'.. 


E. Lee Porterfield 


Burton P. Benton 


A. C. Williamson 


Edward T. Humes 


Frank Warren 


Walter S. Pollock 


.... 


E. Lee Porterfield 


rton P. Benton 


A. C. Williamson 


Edward T. Humes 


A. S. Conklin 


Walter S. Pollockf 


1 


John A. Cone 


Edson R. Williams 


A. C. Williamson 


Edward T. Humes 


A S. Conklin 


Walter S. Pollock' 


1907 


John A. Cone 


Edson R. Williams 


Caleb M. Leonard 


F. A. McAllister 


A. S. Conklin 


Walter S. Pollock 


1908 


John A. Cone 


Edson R. Williams 


Caleb M. Leonard 


F. A. McAllister 


A. S. Conklin 


Walter S. Pollock 

















AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



103 



named persons to represent it in the 
Vnited Stages: 



Archibald Lybrand, Fifty-fifth Congress, 

Eighth Di>tiici, 1897-1898. 

Archibald Lybrand, Fifty-sixth Congress, 
Eighth District, 1899-1900. 



From 1870 to Da^te 



RKCORDER 


COMMISSIONER 


SFRVEYOR 


INFIRMARY DIRECT'R 


CORONER 








* Jacob Sheets 
/ ' Je< irge Nelson 


















Hosea Main 




Elijah B. Adams 


Roswell Cook 


S. Davidson 


M. L. Griffin 


A. A. Welch 


Elijah B. Adams 


Hugh Cole 


S. Davidson 


George Neilson 


A. A. Welch 


Elijah B. Adams 


Chas Arthur 


S. Davidson 


John B. Jones 


A. A. Welch 


Elijah B. Adams 


Roswell Cook 


S. Davidson 


George W. Stover 


A. A. Welch 


Elijah B. Adams 


Wells Andrews 


S. Davidson 


Chas T. Grant 


Marshall L. Griffin 


Elijah B. Adams 


W. Siegfried 


L. B. Denison 


Chas T. Grant 


Marshall L. Griffin 


Elijah B. Adams 


Zenas Harrison 


L. B. Denison 


Henry C. Olds 


Elam C. Yining 


Elijah B. Adams 


Nelson R. Talley 


L. B. Denison 


George W. Stover 


Elam C. Yining 


Elijah B. Adams 


A. H. Packard 


L. B. Denison 


Jonas Waldron 


Elam C. Yining 


Abel Rawn 


Zenas Harrison 


L. B. Denison 


John Shea 


J. W. N. Vogi 


Abel Rawn 


Louis Bush 


L. B. Denison 


M. Smith 


James H. Hughes 


Abel Rawn 


A. H, Packard 


L. B. Denison 


Longwell 


James H. Hughes 


Abel Rawn 


J. C. Ryant 


L. I:. Denison 


Henrv B. Cullins 


James H. Hughes 


Abel Rawn 


Geo. \V. Jones 


1 . 1 ;. 1 ienison 


M. Smith 


James H. Hughes 


G ' '. Dunham 


.1 \\\ Newell 


L. B. Denison 


D. Main 


R. C. Wintermute 


(!. C. Dunham 


J. C. Ryant 


L. B. Denison 


Henrv B. Cullins 


R. C. Wintermute 


(',. C. Dunham 


Geo. W. Jones 


L. B. Denison 


Henry B. Cullins 


R. C. Wintermute 


Fiank P. Sprague 


John L. Thurston 


Edmund S. Miner 


Horace Strong 


R. C. Wintermute 


Frank P. Sprague 


Silas J. Mann 


Edmund S. Miner 


J. C. Main 


R. C. Wintermute 


Frank P. Sprague 


Marshall Field 


Edmund S. Miner 


Samuel A. Moore 


Wilbur N. Leonard 


Frank P. Sprague 


«'has F. Miller 


Edmund S. Miner 


James A. Wilson 


Wilbur N. Leonard 


Frank P. Sprag 


Silas J. Mann 


Edmund S. Miner 


('ink 1'. Dwinnell 


Wilbur N. Leonard 


Frank P. Sprague 


Marshall Field 


Edmund S. Miner 


Samuel A. Moore 


Wilbur X. Leonard 


Prank P. Sprague 


Chas 1'"". Miller 


Edward S. Mendenhall 


James A. Wilson 


C. W. Chidester 


James E. Rodgers 


DeLacy Waldron 


Edward S. Mendenhall 


Clark 1'. Dwinnell 


C. W. Chidester 


James E. Rodgers 


1 Coridon McAllister 

ph C. Kirkpatrick 


Edward S. .Mendenhall 


Thompson Clark 


C. W. Chidester 


James E. Rodgers 


, Chas F. Miller 
I R. J. Pumphrey 


Edward S. Mendenhall 


Thos. E. Stark 


C. W. < ihidester 


James E. Rodgers 


DeLacy Waldron 


Edward S. Mendenhall 


John Lane, Sr. 


A. E. Mm 


James E. Rodgers 


Lyman P. McMaster 


Edward S. Mendenhall 


Thompson Clark 


A. E. Main 


J James E. Rodgers (died) 
( G. W. Tracy (appointed) 


' R. .1 Pumphn y 


John B. Taggart 


chas W. Blymer 


A. J. Pounds 


Joseph H. Andrews 


Geo, Cleveland 


John B. Taggarl 


John Lane, Sr, 


A. J. Pounds 


Joseph H. Andrews 


Meredith Meredith 


John B. Taggart 


Edward Welch 


Frederick 1. Gagi 


Joseph H. Andrews 


Stephen Potter 


John B. Ta^'jr 


u Blymer 


Frederick 1 . ' . 


Joseph H, Andrews 


Geo. Cleveland 


John B. Taggarl 


F. It. Whitehead 


Frederick 1 . Ga 


Joseph H. Andrews 


Meredith Meredith 


John B. Taggart 


\ J. W. PlilTner, unexpired 
I term of B. McPherson 


Frederick L. Gage 


Joseph H. Andrews 


Stephen Potter 


Edward S. Mendenhall 


H .1 Jarvis 


■ ! y Willey 


H. D. Blackledge 


John L. Edwards 


Edward S. Mendenhall 


r 11. \\ lniehead 


Perry Wiliey 


H. D. Blackledge 


c'Minr. holds over 


Edward S Mendenhall 


John W. Pflffner 


Perry Willey (resigned) 


11. D. Blackledge 


Comr. holds oyer 


Edward S. Mendenhall 


John W. Pflffner 


I u-A.l 1. i'.m k (appointed) 



CHAPTER. V. 



DELAWARE— THE COUNTY SEAT. 

When Laid Out and by Whom — Its Settlement and History — Early Military Importance 
— Stores and Early Industries — Grozvth of Population — Incorporation — City Govern- 
ment Organized — Hosier of Officials — Public Buildings — Water Works — Fire Depart- 
ment — Cemeteries. 



At the time of the creation of Delaware 
County by the Act of the Legislature, Febru- 
ary 10, 1808, the town of Delaware hail no ex- 
istence either dn paper or in fact. There can 
be little question, moreover, that had Muses 
Byxbe retained the interest which he originally 
had in the Berkshire settlement, the history of 
the comity seat would be altogether different 
from what it is. Its very establishment seems 
to be a monument to the bad faith of its 
founder. It was the original purpose of Mr. 
Byxbe to make Berkshire Corners not only 
the county seat of the new count}- which he 
knew would soon be erected, but if possihle, 
the capital of the State as well. It was on this 
expectation and on the promises of Byxbe to 
use his influence to this end thai many of the 
first settlers were induced to join his enter- 
prise and become purchasers of land in the 
large tract which he had originally acquired. 
It was not long, however, until the plans of 
Byxhe seem to have undergone a change. Me 
disposed of the larger part of his holdings in 
Berkshire Township, as well as those in Ber- 
lin, Kingston, Genoa and Brown, and we 
shortly find him interested in an entirely differ- 
ent part of the county. In the month of De- 
cember, [800, Abraham Baldwin, of \\-w II 1 
ven, Connecticut, purchased of the Government 
a tract of eight thousand acres, which included 
the northeast section of Delaware Township 



and the third section of Brown. Air. Baldwin 
was a man of unusual attainments and enter- 
prise. He was a graduate of Yale University, 
and later a tutor in that institution. He served 
in the Revolutionary War and afterwards 
practiced law in Savannah, Georgia. He was 
a member of the State Legislature, for some 
time president of the University of Georgia, a 
Representative in Congress and a United 
States Senator. He was never married, and 
at his death the large tracts of land which he 
owned in Ohio as well as other states 
went by devise to his three half-broth- 
ers and two half-sisters. As these 
heirs were widely separated it was not 
long before this propertv passed into the 
control of one of them, Henry Baldwin, a 
lawyer in Pittsburg. Shortly after the erec- 
tion of Delaware County, an arrangement 
was entered into between Baldwin and Byxbe, 
through which Byxbe came into possession of 
the undivided one-half of the tracts in Dela- 
ware and Brown Townships, with the excep- 
tion of two tracts of two hundred and fifty 
aires each out of the northeast corner of each 
section, previously sold by Abraham Baldwin 
to one William Wells. Judge Baldwin was. 
for many years, a part owner of the land on 
which Delaware was located, although from 
the first he delegated the entire control of it 
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attention of his own to the founding of the 
city. He came from a family noted for their 
intellectual qualities and attainments and was 
himself one of the distinguished men of his 
time. Born in 1779, and graduating from 
Yale in 1707. he went to Pittsburg, where he 
became a noted lawyer. He was a representa- 
tive in Congress from 1817 to 1822. He was 
appointed by President Jackson an associate 
justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
States, in which capacity he served for many 
years. Though brilliant intellectually, he is 
said to have been a man of somewhat dissi- 
pated habits, through which he ultimately lost 
a considerable portion of the large fortune of 
which he was, at one time, possessed. He died 
in 1844. 

With the shifting of Byxbe's interest from 
Berkshire to his newly acquired possessions in 
Delaware Township he immediately set to 
work to secure for them the advantages which 
the settlers of Berkshire had all along expected 
to enhance the value of their own property. 
The first matter of concern was the location 
of the county seat. As no town as yet existed 
in their territory it was necessary for Baldwin 
and Byxbe to establish one. The first location 
chosen by them was on the east bank of the 
Olentangy. Here they platted a town and 
recorded the plat in Franklin County, although 
it was never recorded in Delaware County. 
Byxbe, with all the resources at his command, 
at once began his efforts to secure the location 
of the county seat at his newly founded town. 
As might have been expected, his efforts met 
with bitter opposition from the Berkshire set- 
tlers, who had relied on his former promises 
and had just reason to accuse him of disloy- 
alty to their interests. Byxbe had a consider- 
able following, however, among those who 
were under obligations to him in various ways 
and whose interests were largely involved with 
his. and this, together with the natural ad- 
vantages of Delaware itself, terminated the 
controversy in his favor, the special commis- 
sioners locating the countv seat at Delaware in 
March, 1808. 

Fo» reasons which are not now definitely 
known, but probably owing to superior ad- 



vantages on the other side of the river, the 
first site chosen for the town on ,the east bank 
was soon abandoned, and on May 9, 1808, a 
new site on the west bank was selected and a 
town platted which was the real beginning of 
the present city of Delaware. The following 
extract taken from the plat as recorded, will 
indicate the original location and extent of the 
town. "This town is laid off into 186 lots, 
containing, by estimation, ~~ l /2 square poles 
each, be the same more or less, 6^4 rods by 
\2y 2 rods, excepting lots Nos. 53, 54, 55, 56, 
89, 90, 91 and 92, which by the variation of 
William Street from west 17 degrees to the 
north, from Washington Street to Liberty 
Street. The streets which run from north to 
south are Henry, Union, Sandusky, Franklin, 
Washington and Liberty Streets and those 
running from east to west are North, Winter, 
William, Abraham. Tammany and South 
Streets, which cross the other streets at right 
angles. All the streets are four poles wide ex- 
cept William, Abraham and Sandusky Streets, 
which are six poles in width. The lots or 
squares including Delaware Run, or which are 
not numbered, extending from east to west 
through the town, are reserved for future dis- 
posal, or for the benefit of the town, as the pro- 
prietors may think proper hereafter." There 
was included in this plat that part of the pres- 
ent city of Delaware bounded by Central 
Avenue, Henry, South and Liberty Streets, 
South Street at that time running through to 
Liberty. It is apparent that patriotic impulses 
evidently inspired the founders in the naming 
of the streets of their newly created town, and 
it is said that it was the purpose of Byxbe, 
originally to call the town itself Warrentown in 
honor of General Warren. Some of the streets 
were named after those who were connected 
with the early history of the town. Most of 
the original names remain to the present time, 
although North Street is now Central Avenue, 
while Abraham Street has become University 
Avenue and Tammany, Park Avenue. Abra- 
ham Street was named for the original owner 
of the property: Henry, for one of the proprie- 
tors; William, for a brother of Henry Bald- 
win, who had an interest in the property, and 



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Winter, developed from a corruption of Wit- 
ter, the maiden name of Airs. Moses Byxbe. 
Delaware Run then flowed in its natural 
course, and William Street deflected to the 
north after crossing Washington Street to 
avoid it. The square hounded by Union Ave- 
nue, Washington Street, Park Avenue 
and Liberty Street, was reserved for a 
parade ground, and was used for that purpose 
for years. About the time the city was or- 
ganized, it was converted into a park, and Dr. 
Merrick, who was then president of Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, was instrumental in having 
hundreds of shade trees planted here. Another 
square bounded by Abraham, Franklin and 
Sandusky Streets and Delaware Run was set 
aside for public buildings. The square 
bounded by Central Avenue. Sandusky, Frank- 
lin and Winter Streets, was given by the pro- 
prietor for a burying ground, and for religious 
purposes. The little town remained as thus 
originally laid out for a period of nearly thirty 
years, no additions being made until the year 
1836. On the occasion of his final visit to 
Delaware in 1824, Judge Baldwin presented 
the parade ground and the sulphur spring 
property to the village. 

With the location of the town and its selec- 
tion as the county seat, the active settlement 
of Delaware began. Indeed even before this 
the first settler had made his appearance. In 
the fall of 1807 Joseph Barber erected a log 
house just southeast of the sulphur spring on 
the ground now constituting a part of the uni- 
versity campus. He did not remain in the 
neighborhood for any great length of time, 
however, and his influence on the further 
growth of the village was slight. 

As soon as his efforts to have Delaware 
made the county seat had proved successful, 
Mr. Byxbe began preparations to transfer his 
residence from Berkshire, there. He erected a 
frame dwelling on the north side of William 
Street, between Henry and Union Streets, re- 
serving the whole square on which his house 
Stood for his own use. Having sold his house 
ami farm in Berkshire, in the early part of 
M.iv he removed his household goods to his 
new residence and with his family came to 



Delaware to reside. In the settlement of 
nearly every community there has always been 
some one man who, through superior energy 
and ability, as well as through firmer faith in 
the future development and passibilities of 
the place, has taken the lead in all the various 
enterprises necessary to insure its success. Col. 
Byxbe certainly bore this relation to Delaware 
in its early history. His fertile mind was con- 
stantly planning for the future of the town ; 
his indomitable energy was constantly expend- 
ing itself, both in inducing new settlers to take 
up their abode in the village, and in providing 
for the establishment of the various en- 
terprises which were necessary for the 
comfort and prosperity of the incoming 
settlers. Self interest, no doubt, was his ani- 
mating motive. He seems never to have had 
the genuine respect of the community, even 
though they were ready to follow him as their 
leader and recognized the great value of his 
ability in shaping the early progress of the 
town. 

Along with Byxbe came a number of other 
settlers who were to have a prominent part in 
the early history of the community. In Berk- 
shire were a number of families who were 
closely attached to the Byxbe interests who had 
just recently come to that settlement from 
Pennsylvania, and who, as soon as the interests 
of Byxbe himself had shifted, followed his for- 
tunes likewise in the newlv established settle- 
ment. Among" them may lie mentioned Si ilo- 
mon Smith, Azariah Root, Nathan Messenger. 
Reuben Lamb and Rev. Jacob Drake. The lat- 
ter built the first brick house to be erected in 
Delaware, on the southwest corner of William 
and Franklin Streets, it being notable for the 
fact that his wife laid all of the inner wall her- 
self, masons being a scarcity in those days. 
Drake was a Baptist preacher and a surveyor 
as well, and he also' served as the first treasurer 
of the newly established county, and as the first 
mayor of Delaware. His resignation addressed 
to William Little is now in the possession of 
Robert Powers, of The First National Bank. 
It was he, too, who, in connection with the 
Rev. Joseph Hughes, established the first paper 
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hewed logs on the corner of Abraham and 

Henry Streets. He was the first county sur- 
veyor. Nathan Messenger was the son-in- 
law af Colonel Byxbe, who erected a house for 
him on the southeast corner of Sandusky and 
William Streets. Solomon Smith was the first 
sheriff of the county and came from Chilli- 
cothe where he had been a teacher. Aside from 
Byxbe himself, few persons, perhaps, occupied 
a more prominent position in the early life of 
the community than Reuben Lamb. He prac- 
ticed medicine for a number of years and was 
also the first county recorder. 

Among other settlers who came in a short 
time may be mentioned Silas Dunham, who 
came from the Berlin Settlement; Noah 
Spaulding. from .Berkshire; Joab Norton, 
from Orange ; Aaron Welch and Ira Carpen- 
ter, from Liberty; Nathaniel and William Lit- 
tle, Paul D. and Thomas Butler, from Worth- 
ington. and Jacob Kensell. The settlement 
soon took on a vigorous growth, Colonel 
Byxbe was the guiding spirit in all its various 
activities. He was constantly devising and 
putting into execution plans for the prosperity 
of the community. He was an associate judge 
of the newly created court. He promoted the 
building of the new road which should unite 
the settlement with the older communities al- 
ready established. He established the first 
store, in which he placed his son, and he also 
erected the first saw mill and grist mill within 
the limits of the town. In addition to this he 
was the first postmaster, and later he was pro- 
prietor of a tavern. He was his own sales 
agent in the disposal of the large tracts of land 
which he owned jointly with Baldwin. It is 
easy to see the stimulating effect the restless 
activity of such a one must have had on the life 
of the village. 

From the time he first became interested in 
that part of the count}-, it had probably been 
Colonel Bixbe's ambition to make the town 
which he should found the capital of the State. 
Up until 1810 the capital had been at Chilli- 
cothe. and from that time until 1812 at Zanes- 
ville. It finally became necessary, however, to 
determine upon a definite location, and a num- 
ber of places became competitors for the honor. 



There seem to have been nine of them in all. 
and they held out widely varying inducements 
to the special commission appointed by the 
Legislature to select the site. The offer of 
Byxbe and Baldwin was as follows, viz., that 
they would give the grounds, erect the build- 
ings, and lay off four thousand acres in town 
lots, one-half the proceeds arising from the 
sale of which should go into the treasurv of 
the State. The only other offer which bore 
any comparison to that of Baldwin and Byxbe 
was the one made by four parties who were 
interested in the tract on the Scioto 
opposite the town of Franklinton. For quite 
a while the contest was in doubt. At length. 
however, the special commission reported in 
favor of the proposition of Byxbe and Bald- 
win. When the legislature came to act upon 
it, they rejected the report and decided in fa- 
vor of the site opposite Franklinton. The loss 
of the capital was, no doubt, a severe blow to 
Delaware and its immediate prosperity. The 
possibility that the capital' would lie located 
here had undoubtedly served to enhance the 
value of property and to attract settlers. With 
its prospects in this direction suddenly cut off, 
there could not but result a depression in the 
general activity of the community, from which 
it took many years for it to recover. 

EARLY MILITARY IMPORTANCE. 

Delaware was a place of considerable mili- 
tary importance during the War of 1812. It 
was situated on the most practicable route be- 
tween Chillicothe. the state capital at that time, 
and the scene of operations around Sandusky 
and Detroit, and it was, for a time, the head- 
cpiarters of General Harrison. "Among the 
earliest troops to be called out was a company 
of light horse belonging to the State Militia, 
on the muster rolls of which were to lie found 
the familiar names of Elias Murray, as cap- 
tain ; James W. Crawford, as first lieutenant : 
David Prince as second lieutenant, and Joseph 
Prince. Robert Jamison, Sylvester Root, Mor- 
ris Cowgill, Alexander and William Smith, 
Ralph S. Longwell, John Slack, J. Harter, 
Forest Meeker. John Wilson. Thomas Dun- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



ham and James Carpenter, as privates. This 
company was employed as a raiding force, and 
was called out at different times for a period 
of service not exceeding at any time over forty 
• lavs. Each man furnished his own horse and 
equipments, and over his shoulder was slung 
the inevitable canteen of whiskey. * * * The 
company was ordered to Detroit and made a 
raid into Canada. Tearing down some fine 
farm buildings west of the river, they made 
rafts of the lumber thus obtained and crossed 
to the Canadian shore. There they destroyed 
property of all kinds, burning mills, hay and 
grain, and recrossing without loss. * * * 
A company of infantry, raised by Captain Foos 
in the northern part of the county, drew a 
number of men from Delaware Township and 
village, and, among others, Erastus Bowe, 
who settled in Brown in- 1809. This company 
went to Fremont, then known as Lower San- 
dusky, and helped to build Fort Croghan, Air. 
Bowe breaking the ground for that purpose. 
After Hull's surrender this company disbanded 
and returned to Delaware. 

The war, coming as it did so soon after 
the misfortune Delaware suffered in failing to 
have the state capital located here, did much 
to relieve the depression of business conse- 
quent on that unfortunate event. The forces 
of General Winchester and others were cen- 
tered along the line of Urbana, St. Mary's and 
Fort Defiance, while the troops, artillery and 
supplies from Pennsylvania came by way of 
Canton, Wooster and Mansfield to Fort Meigs, 
the place of rendezvous, while the Virginia 
and Kentucky re-enforcements came by way of 
Chillicothe. along the various roads leading 
through Delaware County. In February, 
181 3, General Harrison concentrated the 
greater part of his troops at Fort Meigs and 
then retired with his headquarters to Delaware, 
where he occupied rooms in Colonel Byxbe's 
house. Also Governor Shell))-, of Kentucky, 
came in command of the troops belonging to 
his state, and made his headquarters in the 
cabin which had formerly been erected by 
Barber, heretofore mentioned as the first house 
built in Delaware. Later the Virginia troops 
arrived and camped just north of the village. 



Naturally the presence of so many soldiers 
gave a great impetus to the general business 
activities of the place. As usual. Colonel 
Byxbe was alert to the opportunities thus pre- 
sented, taking large contracts for supplying 
the army with the various necessities required 
during their stay in the community. The one 
store in the village, had, for the time being, 
a great increase in its patronage, and the set- 
tlers found a ready market for whatever they 
had to sell that could be consumed by an army. 
A recruiting station was opened in Delaware, 
ami many, inspired by motives of patriotism 
or lured by love of adventure or expectation of 
gain, joined their fortunes with the troops. 
General Harrison had sold all of his teams and 
pack animals to save wintering them, and when 
the time came for the army to move north- 
ward all the available teams in the community 
were pressed into service. 

STORES AND EARLY INDUSTRIES. 

As is always the case in a newly started 
settlement, the mercantile business for the first 
few years was one of little importance. There 
was but one store in Delaware up to the time 
of the war of 1812, and that was conducted 
by Moses Byxbe. Jr.. a son of Colonel Byxbe. 
The son, however, seems to have been wholly 
lacking in the business ability and enterprise 
of his father and soon came to grief. Various 
unsuccessful speculations finally landed him in 
the county jail. One of the earliest merchants 
in Delaware was William Little. He was a 
saddler by trade, and, coming originally fn >m 
Connecticut, first located in Worthington. 
Later, however, attracted by the outlook for 
the newly established settlement at Delaware, 
he came here and shortly went into trade. He 
bought out a stock of goods which had been 
sent up from Worthington as a branch busi- 
ness and established himself in a small brick 
building on the southwest corner of Sandusky 
and Winter Streets, where he continued for a 
number of years. Joseph L. Webb was another 
of the early store-keepers of Delaware. He 
came in the year 181 9, induced to do so 
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who happened to meet him on one his trips 
east. Webb came of a wealthy family in New 
York, lured away from the comforts of his 
eastern home by the apparent possibilities of 
great wealth in the western frontier. The 
year after his arrival he set up in business in 
the same building in which Moses Byxbe, Jr., 
had conducted his unsuccessful venture, but 
he seems to have had no greater success than 
had the building's former occupants. After 
continuing in business for a time he closed up 
with a loss of $10,000 and returned to the 
East. Horton Howard, a Quaker, was an- 
other of the early store-keepers. He occupied 
a yellow wooden building on the east side of 
Sandusky m Street. Hezekiah Kilbourn opened 
a store in 1823 on the northwest corner of 
Sandusky and Winter Streets but sold out in 
the following year to Caleb Howard and An- 
thony Walker, who went into business in his 
building. After they dissolved partnership 
Walker went into business with Hosea Wil- 
liams. Dr. Lamb, the first physician in the 
community, next occupied the Kilbourn build- 
ing, and, as was natural, a considerable part 
of his stock consisted of drugs. In 1831 
Alexander Kilbourn erected a frame building 
on Sandusky Street and started a general 
store. This building is still standing, having 
been moved, however, to a location just south 
of the present office building of Marriott & 
Freshwater. 

The mercantile business in the early day 
was fraught with difficulties such as can scarce 
be imagined at the present time. We quote, 
in this connection, some interesting facts from 
a former county history: "Philadelphia was 
the nearest point from which the western mer- 
chant could buy his goods from original 
sources, and from there they had to 
be shipped in huge wagons over a 
tedious and uncertain journey. Mr. Lit- 
tle was in the habit of going to Phila- 
delphia once a year, spending some weeks or 
two months on the trip, and waggoning his 
goods home, frequently at a cost of $18.75 
per hundred. These invoices included, at a 
later day, a full line of dry goods, embracing 
velvets, satins, silks, cassimers and the com- 



moner goods. Then there were hats, shoes, 
crockery, hardware, medicines and groceries. 
For year after year money was very scarce, 
and all business became a system of barter, 
and goods were exchanged almost exclusively 
for produce. The trade with Indians was very 
large, the natives coming in for fifty miles 
around, sometimes fifty at a time. They 
brought cranberries, maple sugar and syrup, 
pelts and furs, and bought only the finest 
goods. The wi imen would take only the finest 
broadcloths for blankets and petticoats, while 
the men chose the brightest prints for shirts. 
The ordinary prints which now sell for 8 cents 
per yard sold then for $1.00, while the higher 
priced sold for Si. 50 per yard. Every store 
had upon its counter a flask of whiskey with 
a glass and it was expected that every < me 
who came into the store would avail himself 
or herself of the hospitality thus set forth. 
Sugar made by the Indians or settlers found 
its way in large quantities to the stores where 
it was traded off to the Kentuckians. who came 
with large wagon loads of tobacco every 
spring to exchange for commodities. This 
was in large demand among the Indians, who 
made a mixture of tobacco and sumac leaves, 
calling it 'Kinnikinic' " 

In the early days there was no institution 
of greater importance, perhaps, than the 
tavern. The most prominent and influential 
citizens did not hesitate to engage in it, and 
the number of taverns in existence at that 
time in the village would now, perhaps, be con- 
sidered out of proportion to the size of the 
place. We have, in a former chapter, quoted 
a description of the pioneer tavern from the 
pen of Dr. Hills. Barber's cabin, the first to 
be erected in Delaware, was, likewise, the first 
building to be devoted to the purpose of tavern 
keeping, and Barber himself was its first 
keeper. It was a sort of center for all the 
various activities of the neighborhood. Here 
the people gathered to exchange their go>-i]> 
as well as to hear news of the outside world 
from any chance stranger that happened along. 
Here all the public gatherings were arranged, 
all the notices were posted, and even the first 
court was held. Barber did not Ions: con- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



tinue in the business, but soon sold out to a 
man by the name of Spaulding, who. in turn, 
sold out to Robinson. While it was without 
a competitor for a time, yet it was not long 
until Colonel Byxbe joined the business of 
tavern keeping to his various other activities, 
erecting a brick house for that purpose east of 
his dwelling on William Street. It was un- 
doubtedly of great advantage to Colonel Byxbe 
to be in a position where he could have the 
opportunity to early impress every incoming 
stranger with the possibilities of his newly 
founded town. "A long wooden building was 
built at an early date where Solomon Smith 
first entertained the public, and Mrs. Byxbe. 
desirous of entertaining those who came to 
attend court, persuaded Colonel Byxbe to buy 
him out, and for some time continued the 
business. He was succeeded in the same busi- 
ness, after an interval of some months, by 
Ezra Griswold, in 1821. In the meanwhile 
Aaron Welch built a tavern opposite the Epis- 
copal Church, on Winter Street, where lie 
entertained the public several vears, and in 
1816 built a large brick building on Sandusky 
Street. Air. Welch died before it was com- 
pleted, but it served its purpose for years. 
Contemporary with the later years of Mr. 
Welch as tavern keeper, was Elam Vining, 
Sr., who occupied for several years the Mes- 
senger House, on the southeast corner of Wil- 
liam and Sandusky Streets. Another hotel 
stood on the northeast corner of Winter and 
Sandusky Streets. An early proprietor was 
Major Strong and another was a Mr. Hinton 
— a distant relative of Otho Hinton, of later 
tame — who was succeeded by a Mr. Dunbar. 
It was during the time of the latter gentleman, 
in 1817. that President Monroe, making a 
trip through the West, came with a large suite 
on horseback from Sandusky, and stopped 
with Dunbar over Sunday. The death of Mr. 
Dunbar's wife soon forced him to retire from 
the business and. in [818, General Sidney 
Moore and Pardon Sprague bought him out. 
Mr. Moore was married on Sunday, February 
[St, and the following day the new couple took 
possession of their new business. In (822 Mr. 
Griswold moved from the building he first 



occupied as a hotel and printing office, into a 
brick building erected by Jacob Drake, on the 
southwest corner of North and Sandusky 
Streets, where he continued the double busi- 
ness for many years. 

On September 9, 1826, Colonel Moses 
Byxbe diedi For two years before his death 
he had been deranged. During all the early 
years of the town he had been the prime mover 
in all her activities. Being a man of indomi- 
table energy combined with exceptional execu- 
tive ability, he was remarkably well fitted to 
successfully combat the difficulties encountered 
in establishing a settlement on the frontier. 
The beautiful city of Delaware, as she exists 
today, is a monument to his enterprise and 
courage. While he thus possessed these quali- 
ties so necessary to the performance of the 
task which he set for himself, yet he seems 
never to have had the sincere love and respect 
of the community with which he surrounded 
himself. Hard and grasping in his disposition, 
and knowing no criterion but success, his 
methods were not always such as could com- 
mand the approval of those who believe in 
justice and fair dealing at all times and under 
all circumstances. All his efforts seem to have 
been inspired solely for the purpose of acquir- 
ing wealth rather than through the patriotic 
desire of reclaiming the wilderness for civili- 
zation for its own sake alone. In his life 
purpose he was eminently successful, amassing 
a fortune which, in those days, might well have 
been called princely. Yet. towards the latter 
part of his life, he became involved in financial 
difficulties, largely through the recklessness of 
his son. who seems to have inherited little of 
his father's capacity for business; and it was 
probably owing to this fact that he lost his 
mental faculties before the close of his life. 
Byxbe had. beside his son Moses, already men- 
tioned, another. Appleton, who was an im- 
becile. He also had three daughters who 
married respectively Hon. Elias Murray. Rev. 
Joseph Hughes and Hon. L. H. Cowles. all 
men of prominence and influence in the com- 
munity at the time. 

As descriptive of Delaware in the early 
day we cannot do better than quote the larger 





DELAWARE COUNTY COURT HOUSE 

(Showing part of Jail in lower left-hand corner.) 



MOORE'S MASONIC TEMPLE, DELAWARE 







RESIDENT HAYES'S I:IKTI [PLACE, DELAWARI 



(President Hayes was born in the old wooden structure serving as 
an L. The bi ick building in front was erected afterwards ) 




SANDUSKY STREET, LOOKING 

SOUTH, DELAWARE 




DEL VWARE O )UN PY I Ml 




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part of an address delivered by Cyrus Piatt, 
fi ir years one of the prominent citizens of the 
town, at a meeting- of the Delaware Pioneer 
Association, August 25, 1898: "That old 
brick house at the southwest corner of William 
and Union Streets was built and occupied by 
Dr. Reuben Lamb as his residence about the 
year 1810. He was one of the first settlers 
of the town. * * * It seemed to be the 
intention of the original proprietors and early 
pioneers of the town to make William Street 
the principal street of the town, both for busi- 
ness and residences. Nearly all the buildings 
put up on William Street, east of Sandusky 
Street, were substantial brick houses, generally 
two stories high, with front door in the middle, 
opening into the hall where the stairs were lo- 
cated. The original Byxbe residence was built 
in this style, as many of you may remember. 
A short distance east of this Byxbe house, 
fronting on the street, was a small, brick 
building, say about 20 feet square, used by 
Air. Byxbe, Sr.. for his office. * * * In 
this office building the first post-office was 
opened and continued there for several years. 
Henry Street, north of William, was not then 
opened, and an apple orchard extended from 
the Byxbe residence clear down to the river 
bank, north side of William Street. 

"Dr. Lamb owned considerable ground ad- 
joining his residence on the west side, extend- 
ing south to the run. Directly south of his 
residence he put up a frame building near the 
run in which he and Mr. Hayes, the father of 
the late Ex-President R. B. Hayes, conducted 
the business of distilling whiskey, an article 
which, at that time, was considered one of the 
necessities of life, if used in moderation. The 
taverns all kept it in their liars for the specul 
aco nnmodation of travelers. 

"I do not know just when the exodus oi 
residents on William Street to Sandusky 
Street commenced. As new settlers came in 
who wanted to engage in business they gave 
the preference to Sandusky Street. Mr. Wil- 
liam Little built a one-story brick house on the 
southwest corner of Sandusky and Winter 
Streets and opened a store there. * * * 
Joseph L. Webb rented a room on the north- 



east corner of William and Sandusky Streets, 
opened his goods and commenced business 
there. In the year 182 1 Mr. Webb put up a 
two-story frame building that combined store- 
room and residence, where S. P. Shur's store 
now is, and opened his stock of goods in this 
store-room, and his family occupied the resi- 
dence. The ground between this building of 
Mr. Webb's and Mr. William Little's one- 
story brick store on the corner above, was 
vacant and used by Mr. Webb as a garden, 
and was enclosed by a high board fence ex- 
tending from the corner of Mr. Little's store 
down to Mr. Webb's house. The only other 
structure on the west side of Sandusky Street 
between Winter and William, were Thomas 
Butler's saddle shop and residence, on the 
ground now occupied by Templar Hall build- 
ing, and a two-story frame near the corner of 
William Street, built and occupied by Dr. 
James H. Hills with his family, who were 
among the early settlers here. 

"The only buildings on the east side of 
Sandusky Street, between Winter and William. 
were a frame on the corner where the Hi itel 
Donavin is now located, in which Pardon 
Sprague kept tavern ; the residence of Mr. 
William Little, a large two-story brick, stand- 
ing on a large lot, some twenty feet back from 
the street, on ground now occupied by the 
First National Bank, and the large building ad- 
joining it on the south. The residence and 
cabinet shop of Mr. William Mansur were 
about where the 'Gazette' office is now located. 
Mr. Hezekiah Kilbourne, an eastern man, 
bought the ground extending from Winter 
Street north on the west side of Sandusky 
Street to the alley, and built a one-story 
brick store room on the corner of Sandusky 
and Winter and opened a general stock of 
goods in it. I think it was he who built the 
large two-story brick residence that was owned 
and occupied for several years by Mrs. Kil- 
bourne, widow of Alexander Kilbourne, de- 
ceased, that stood on the ground now occupied 
by the Steeves Block and the Hill's Bros, 
wholesale grocery store. 

"In due course of time Dr. Lamb bought 
the Kilbourne corner store, and all the ground 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



adjoining, of Airs. Kilbonrne, and added to 
the building on the west end, fronting on 
Winter Street, and on the north side fronting 
on Sandusky Street, with a wide porch on 
that side, carrying the building up two lull 
stories, thus making of it a commodious and 
pleasant residence. When the work of re- 
modeling this house was completed Dr. Lamb's 
family left the William Street house and 
moved into their new house which sunn be- 
came noted for hospitality by entertaining 
visitors from neighboring towns and socinl 
evening gatherings of neighbors. When Bishop 
Chase and other clergy came here to hold 
service in St. Peter's Church, they were enter- 
tained usually at the Lamb mansion, as I learn 
by mother's diary. * * * There were no 
houses south of the run, no 'South Delaware' 
in those early days. That part of town was 
all open commons and used for pasture. Cows 
would be turned loose in the morning and 
allowed to roam where they pleased in search 
of pasture, and we would have to hunt them 
up and drive them home in the evening." 

One of the most historic mansions in Dela- 
ware, built in the early day, and which, by rea- 
son of its being" later the birthplace of Presi- 
dent Hayes, ought to receive mention here, is 
what was known as the Messenger House on 
East William Street. When it was first built 
it was regarded as the finest residence here 
although it has long since fallen from its f< ir- 
mer glory, so far as appearances are con- 
cerned. It is thus described by one of the 
older citizens who has long been a resident of 
the town: "It was a small brick house, two 
stories high, with a pitched roof, one side 
facing William Street. The front door was 
in the middle of this side, with a room on 
each side. There were four frame windows 
in the lower story, two on each side of the 
door and five in the upper. The root was 
shingled and a log L added to the back side. 
The brick part was about jo by 30 feet, and the 
log part 10 by 15 feet. The log part has since 
been rebuilt and a frame addition takes its 
place. With this and a few other slight 
changes the house remains the same as it did 
three-quarters of century ago." It was in 



this house that one of the first schools in the 
place was established. For a time it did duty 
as a store room, but for a number of years 
now it has again been doing service as a 
dwelling. 

GROWTH OF POPULATION. 

For a number of years after the War of 
1812 the growth of Delaware was slow. The 
lands of the "New Purchase" coming into the 
market, sadly arrested the prosperity of the 
town and interfered greatly with its expan- 
sion. In 1 836 Judge T. W. Powell and 
Samuel Rheems platted a tract of land just 
south of the original boundaries of the town 
between Sandusky and Liberty Streets, and a 
little later M. D. Pettibone made another ad- 
dition just south of that of Powell and 
Rheems. The unsold Baldwin lands just north 
of the town limits were also platted about the 
same time, and there were then no further ad- 
ditions made until 1843. Since then the town 
has gradually expanded in various directions, 
new additions being made as its growth in 
population would seem to warrant. 

The village, as incorporated in 1816, in- 
cluded the tract originally platted by Baldwin 
and Byxbe in laying out the town on the west 
side of the river. As new additions were made, 
however, from time to time, the town outgrew 
its original boundaries, and it was but natural 
that an agitation should arise for an extension 
of the corporation limits. It was not until 1852, 
however, that any measures were taken with 
this end in view. In that year the question of 
extending the corporation limits across the 
river was submitted to a vote of the people 
and was carried by a vote of 270 to 12. The 
territory taken in at this time included the 
larger part of the present limits of the corpora- 
tion on the east side of the Olentangv, extend- 
ing as far south as Vine Street, and including 
a part of the fair grounds. In 1868 there was 
a general extension of the corporation limits on 
all sides, bringing the dimensions of the town 
pretty near to what they are at the present 
time. There have been several extensions since- 
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the north which fixed the northern boundary 
of the town where it is at present. In the 
next year Lot 13 on the east side of the river 
was added. There was no further enlarge- 
ment of the corporation boundaries then until 
1893 when the west portions of lots 18 an 1 
1 9 were brought within the corporation limits 
and the western boundary of the town estab- 
lished as it is today. The only extension since 
then has consisted of a small tract just north- 
east of the bend in the Olentangy River in the 
north part of the town. The corporation. 
boundaries, as thus established, embrace an 
area of nearly four square miles, extending 
approximately two and one-third miles both 
from north to south and from east to west in 
its most extended portions. 

The growth in the population of the town 
is a matter of equal interest with the extension 
of her physical boundaries. "In the fall of 
1808 thirty-two votes were polled, and, adopt- 
ing the ordinary rule of counting five persons 
for each vote, the number of inhabitants for 
the whole township would reach 150. But. 
without invalidating this rule it will be ob- 
served that the circumstances of the early set- 
tlement of Delaware were unusual, and that 
this number is an overestimate. A number 
of voters are known to have been men with- 
out families, or whose families were not in 
the township (the law in this latter respect not 
being then in vogue, or not enforced as now ) ; 
others, as Dr. Lamb and Jacob Drake, had 
very small families ; and other families were so 
grown to maturity as to have more than their 
proportion of voters, as in case of the Byxbe 
family. These conditions were unusually 
prominent, and it is probable that there were 
not over 100 inhabitants in the whole town- 
ship. In the winter of 1816 a wood chopper 
standing on the hill where Monnett Hall now 
stands, on one of those clear frosty mornings 
when the smoke goes straight up into the air, 
looked over the valley and counted the evi- 
dences of thirty-two houses in the little town. 
In 1820 we meet with an estimate that places 
the number of houses at fifty and another, by 
actual count, places the number near sixty in 
1823. Adopting the ordinary rule of five to 
a dwelling, we find the number of inhabitants 



in the town in 1816, 150; in 1820, about 250; 
and in 1823 nearly 300." The census of 1830 
gives the city a population of ^32; of 1840, 
898; of 1850, 2,074; of i860, 3,889; of 1870, 
6.000; of 1880. 6,894; of 1890, 8.224; of 
1900, 7,940. It would seem from this that, 
just as in the case of the entire county, there 
has been an actual decrease in the city's popu- 
lation in the preceding decade. Many, how- 
ever, were inclined to doubt the correctness of 
the census of 1900, as there is every indication 
that the population of the city has been con- 
stantlv increasing. At the present time, from 
a careful enumeration made in the interest of 
the Sunday schools of the city, during the past 
year, it is a conservative estimate to place the 
number of inhabitants at 10,000. 

INCORPORATION. 

Delaware was first incorporated in 1816, 
a special act for that purpose having been 
passed by the Legislature. The powers granted 
to the village do not seem to have been very 
extensive and many of the various functions 
necessary for its government were still per- 
fi irmed by the township officers. The general 
management of the affiairs of the village was 
placed in the hands of a Board of Trustees, 
elected by the people. This form of govern- 
ment continued until 1849, when, through M. 
D. Pettibone, who was the member of the 
Legislature from the county at the time, an- 
other act was secured from the Legislature 
providing for a Town Council consisting of 
eight members, with powers considerably 
greater than those which had theretofore been 
given to the Board of Trustees. This new 
Council chose from their number a mayor. 
recorder, treasurer and assessor. They also 
elected a marshal, though from outside of their 
number, together w;ith a street committee of 
three men, two of whom were not members 
of the council. In 1841 the people again 
sought a change in their government, and 
again an act was passed conferring still larger 
powers upon the Council. 

CITY GOVERNMENT ORGANISED. 

It was not until 1873 that Delaware rose 
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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



In that year, after a petition had been pre- 
sented to the Council, the matter was submitted 
to the people at the spring election and decided 
in favor of the change. In the following July 
the city was divided off into three wards. In 
1875 it was re-apportioned into five. This di- 
vision continued until 1891 when there was a 
re-division of the city into six wards. Again 
in 1899 there was a change in the boundaries, 
though not in the number of the wards. A 
few years ago came the decision of the Su- 
preme Court rendering void all of the Special 
Acts passed from time to time for the gov- 
ernment of the various municipalities through- 
out the commonwealth and making necessary 
the enactment of a code which sin mid apply tu 
all alike. Under this act, passed in 1902, 
the city of Delaware was again re-organized, 
in common with every other municipality in 
Ohio, and has continued on the basis then 
established to the present day. Under the 
former regime, after the village had been 
merged into the city, the officers consisted of a 
mayor, marshal, solicitor, street commissioner, 
two members of the Council from each ward, 
a clerk of the Council and a city engineer, the 
two latter, together with the police, being ap- 
pointed by the Council, while all the others 
were elective. The county treasurer served 
also as the treasurer of the municipality. The 
changes made by the code in the various mu- 
nicipal offices, inasmuch as they are common to 
every municipality of the same class in the 
State, need not be enumerated here. We give 
herewith, however, a complete list of the per- 
sons who have filled the various offices in the 
municipality since it rose to the rank of a city 
in 1873. Although the chief of police has not 
been an elective officer since the enactment of 
the code, yet we include him with the other 
officers since he is the direct successor of the 
mershal, who was elective under the old 
regime : 

[872 — Mayor. John 1). Van Deman ; clerk, 
Edward A. Pratt; marshal, (.'. V. < Kvston; so- 
licitor, fackson Hippie; street commissioner, 
William Owston. 

1S71 — Mayor. \Y. ( ). Semans ; clerk. Ed- 
ward A. Pratt; marshal. J. A. Andersi n; so- 



licitor, fackson Hippie: street commissioner. 
W. H. Adams. 

1876 — Mayor, J. A. Barnes; clerk, Ed- 
ward A. Pratt ; marshal, C. V. Owston ; so- 
licitor, G. G. Banker ; street commissioner, 
William Hollenbaugh. 

1878— Mayor, C. H. McElroy: clerk. Ed- 
ward A. Pratt: marshal, C. V.' Owston; so- 
licitor, G. G. Banker; street commissioner, 
George Clark. 

1880— Mayor, F. M. Joy; clerk, Edward 
A. Pratt; marshal. W. J. Davis; solicitor, G. 
G. Banker ; street commissioner, George 
Clark. 

1882 — Mayor, H. L. Baker; clerk, George 
Clark ; marshal, W. J. Davis ; solicitor, G. G. 
Banker ; street commissioner, Peter F. En- 
gard. 

[884— Mayor, H. L. Baker; clerk. Matt. 
H. Wagner; marshal. Chas. F. Miller; solici- 
ti >r. Frank A. Kauffman : street commissioner, 
Geo. Dennis. 

1886— Mayor, Henri E. Buck: clerk. Matt. 
H. Wagner; marshal, Chas. F. Miller; solici- 
tor, N. F. Overturf (resigned as solicitor 
March 5, 1888, and H. H. Beecher was ap- 
pointed to fill out his unexpired term) ; street 
commissioner, Peter T. Engard. 

1888 — Mayor. James K. Newcomer ; clerk, 
Matt. H. Wagner; marshal, P. S. English; so- 
licitor, H. H. Beecher; street commissioner, 
Peter T. Engard. 

1890 — Mayor, Henry S. Culver; clerk, 
John T. Evans; marshal, P. S. English; so- 
licitor, H. H. Beecher ; street commissioner. 
P. T. Engard. 

1892 — Mayor. H. S. Culver; clerk. Aimer 
Geiner; marshal. P. S. English; solicitor, H. 
H. Beecher ; street commissioner, Richard 
O'Keefe. 

1894 — Mayor, H. L. Eaker; clerk. Abner 
Genier (succeeded before expiration of term 
by W. H. Altrock); marshal. P. S. English; 
solicitor, Clarence Jones; street commissioner, 
Richard O'Keefe. 

1896 — Mayor, W. R. Carpenter; clerk, E. 
E. Naylor; marshal. H. W. Vogt; solicitor, 
Clarence fones ; street commissioner, Julius 
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1898— Mayor. John McClure; clerk. E. E. 
Naylor; marshal, P. W. Keefe; solicitor, 
Charles W. Knight ; street commissioner, Ju- 
lius Bobo. 

1900 — Mayor, John McClure; clerk, E. E. 
Naylor; marshal. William Matthews; solicitor, 
Chas. W. Knight ; street commissioner, \Y. \Y. 
Williams. 

1902 — Mayor. H. C. Clippinger; clerk, E. 
E. Naylor; marshal, William Matthews; so- 
licitor, B. W. Hough; street commissioner, 
W. W. Williams. 

1903 — Mayor. H. C. Clippinger; president 
of council, E. I. Pollock; auditor, F. D. King; 
treasurer. H. L. Clark ; solicitor, B. W. Hough ; 
Board of Public Service, F. T. Evans, E. S. 
Mendenhall, John Shindoler; chief of police, 
William Matthews. 

1905 — Mayor, H. H. Beecher ; president 
of council, E. I. Pollock; auditor, F. I). King; 
treasurer, H. L. Clark; solicitor, E. S. Owen; 
Board of Public Service, Prof. Richard Per- 
sons, W. B. Campbell, J. C. Swickheimer ; 
chief of police, William Matthews. 

Delaware officials elected or appointed to 
serve during 1908-09 — Mayor, W. E. Haas; 
president of the Council and vice-mayor, J. 
R. Selover; auditor, F. D. King; solicitor, 

E. S. Owen ; treasurer, H. L. Clark. Mem- 
bers of Council : J. R. Selover, president ; 

F. D. King, clerk ; 1 st Ward, F. J. Klee ; 2nd 
Ward, Victor Hardin ; 3rd Ward. W. J. 
Davis ; 4th Ward. J. F. Gaynor ; Members- 
at-large. Dr. J. H. Miller, Adam Siegfried, 
A. J. Arehart. Board of Public Service : 
Prof. Richard Parsons, W. B. Campbell, 
Chris Potter; clerk, F. D. King; superintend- 
ent of streets, Frank Rutter; superintendent 
of cemeteries and parks, D. Grinton ; city en- 
gineer and superintendent of sewers, George 
Irwin. Board of Public Service: Dr. A. J. 
Willey. Edward R. Thompson. Board of 
Education : Dr. A. J. Pounds. W. F. Dodge. 
Dr. E. M. Semans ; superintendent of schools, 
W. McK. Vance ; truant officer, T. M. Baily. 
City Examining Board: William McK. 
Vance, Henry T. Main ; clerk, John Shoe- 
maker. Board of Librarv Trustees : D. H. 
Battenfield, V. D. Stavnian, H. T. Main. 
Board of Health: E. C. Hudspeth. Dr. J. K. 



James, J. W. Pfiffner, J. J. McGough and 
Mayor Haas. Chief of police, James W. 
Spaulding. 

PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 

For a number of years the government of 
the village and city was administered from the 
old building on West Winter Street, erected 
in 1824, for use as a Methodist Church. Later 
it had done service as a school building; and 
when the corporation came into possession of 
it in i860 it was fitted up as a market-house, 
council-room and lock-up. Court was. for a 
time, held in the council chamber, and the 
lower part of the building was used as an 
engine house. Its usefulness, however, was 
inevitably bound to diminish sooner or later, 
as the constantly enlarging city required more 
extensive and commodious quarters for the 
maintenance and government of its various 
interests, and for which the facilities afforded 
by the old church building were wholly inade- 
quate. Consequently, in the latter part of the 
seventies, there began to be an agitation look- 
ing towards the erection of a building which 
should meet the needs of the city. In March 
of the year 1879 a committee which had been 
appointed by the Council for that purpose, re- 
ported favorably on a project to erect an en- 
gine-house, council-room, mayor's office, etc., 
calling attention to the fact that the time was 
especially opportune, inasmuch as the entire 
indebtedness of the city. $16,000, would be 
cancelled within the next two years, and recom- 
mending that the Legislature be asked to au- 
thorize a bond issue of $6,000. Later the 
plans seem to have undergone an enlarg'ement 
in the public mind and in the spring election 
of the year 1879, the people voted, by a ma- 
jority of 449, to build a City Hall. The 
Council, soon after, took steps to secure a bond 
issue of $35,000, advertised for plans for the 
construction of the building, and appointed a 
building committee, consisting of C. B. Adams. 
W. T. Watson and F. Bonneman, members of 
the Council. The plan submitted by Mr. F. 
F. Schnitzer was accepted and the Shoub 
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and Sandusky Streets was chosen as the site 
for the new building, and purchased at a cost 
of $10,000. The work on the building was 
done, at first, under the direct supervision of 
the Council, through their committee, but later 
a contract was let for its completion. It was 
finished in the year 1882, having cost some- 
thing over a hundred thousand dollars, and is 
now one of the most commodious and ser- 
viceable structures of its kind to be found in 
any city of the size of Delaware, providing as 
it does, aside from its beautiful auditorium, a 
place for the administration of all the various 
departments of the city government. 

WATER WORKS. 

An improvement which meant much to the 
city was the introduction of a svstem of water 
works. In 1888. The Delaware Water Com- 
pany was incorporated by eastern capitalists. 
The same year the City Council granted the 
company a franchise for the use of the streets, 
and the following year the mains were laid, 
machinery was installed and the plant was 
completed. The water was turned on and the 
system was accepted and approved by the city 
on October 30, 1889. Up to the present time 
about 22>-2 miles of water-mains have been 
laid, and 256 fire hydrants have been placed. 
The water was originally taken from wells in 
the gravel fiats near the Olentangy, about 
three miles north of the city. Later, four 
wells, each 225 feet deep, were bored through 
the solid rock. Three of these are eight 
inches and one is six inches in diameter. Sev- 
enty-five or eighty per cent, of all the water 
served to the people of Delaware comes from 
these wells, and it is claimed that not a case of 
typoid fever in this city has ever been traced 
to this water supply. The plant consists of 
two pumping-engines having a daily capacity 
of 2,000,000 gallons each, and an air com- 
pressor for forcing water from the deep wells 
to the surface. One new 150-horsepower 
boiler was installed about a year ago, and be- 
sides this there are two 75-horsepower boilers. 
The steam and pumping outfit is in duplicate, 
one set being always idle, which insures a 



never-failing supply of water. About 9,000 
people are served with water. There are 
about 1,550 individual services, fifty per cent, 
of the water being measured through meters. 
Hon. F. M. Marriott has been president of the 
company for a number of years, and Capt. 
C. W. Wiles has been secretary and superin- 
tendent since 1892. 

FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

No department of the city is characterized 
by greater efficiency than that of the fire de- 
partment, evolved from the self-constituted or- 
ganization of pioneer days. In the infantile 
days of Delaware, the fire alarm was a signal 
for every able-bodied citizen to rush forth, 
bucket in hand, and do his utmost to put out 
the fire, and this continued to be the method 
of fighting fires until the middle thirties. In 
1834 two engines were purchased by the 
Council, small affairs described as "small rec- 
tangular boxes, with a pump worked by levers, 
at which four men, by crowding could find 
mom to work." In October, 1834, the Coun- 
cil took the first steps in the organization of a 
fire department, laying out the city in two dis- 
tricts. No. 1 , of which Henry Moore was made 
Captain, including all that part north of Win- 
ter Street, and No. 2, captained by Edward 
Potter, all south of that street. In each a 
company was organized to include a captain, 
one or two subordinate officers and twenty- 
five men. the director of operations at the fires 
being the captain whose engine first arrived 
at the scene of action. In 1838 two small 
engine houses were erected, one on the south- 
west corner of William and Sandusky Streets, 
and the other on the Court House lot. In 
1846 a large hand-engine of the Hunneman 
pattern was purchased for $675. and other 
necessary apparatus brought the expenditure 
at the time up to $978.50. The Council also 
purchased a hose-reel and hook and ladder 
truck for $147.58, and these additions to the 
departmental equipment necessitating more 
n null, the west end of the William Street mar- 
ket-house was fitted up as a fire station. A 
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of a company organized to take charge of the 
new engine, known as the Olentangy Engine 
Company ; the Neptune Hose Company : the 
Rough and Ready Hook and Ladder Com- 
pany: and the Protection Company, which 
worked one of the smaller hand engines. It 
was officered by a chief engineer and two as- 
sistants. The Protection Company disbanded 
after a brief existence. Another company 
was organized in 1856, Washington Fire 
Company No. 2, for which a new engine and 
hose-reel were purchased, at a cost of Sj5i,- 
184.88. In 1857 two substantial brick struc- 
tures were completed at a cost of $1,500. one 
on the corner of the parade grounds and the 
other at Franklin and North Streets. The 
east part of the city made a demand for bet- 
ter fire protection, and in 1864 a second-hand 
engine was bought of the city of Cleveland for 
$800, a company was organized, and a station 
erected for the sum of $3,20.4.76. but the lat- 
ter was not completed until in 1868. De- 
cember 15, 1870. the city bought a brass-plated 
Silsby Rotary engine of the third size, for 
which the old market-house was fitted up. 
The first fire team was then purchased and 
George H. Aigin appointed engineer. This 
was an important step in advancement, and 
was followed in 1874 by the purchase of an- 
other Silsby rotary of the second size. 'Sir. 
Aigin was transferred to the new engine, 
known as W. E. Moore, No. 2, and \Y. E. 
Kruck became engineer of the old engine. 
Delaware No. 1. The hose-reels, until this 
time manned by volunteer companies, were 
next replaced by a horse hose-reel, and in 
1876 the hook and ladder wagon was fitted 
for horse power. All of the apparatus was 
housed in one building, and the company con- 
sisted of seventeen men and the chief. The 
city fixed the annual appropriation at S3. 500, 
out of which came the expense of keeping the 
teams, and the yearly salaries of two engineers 
and two drivers, the others receiving fifty cents 
per hour for service. 

The engine-house at City Hall had, when 
it was installed, at the time of the building's 
erection, two steam fire-engines, a hook and 
ladder wagon and hoset-cart. with four horses. 
In 1895 a new hose-wagon was purchased. 



One of the steam engines was replaced with 
a chemical in 1885. January 1, [908, Station 
No. 2, on Potter Street, was completed an 1 
occupied. It is a two-story brick building and 
was erected at a cost of $3,767. When the 
city purchased the lot on which Station No. 
2 was built, there was a two-story brick house 
there which cost $1,500, in which two men 
belonging to the station reside. The water 
pressure being 65 pounds, it is not necessary 
under ordinary circumstances to use the 
steamer, which is kept in reserve. 

The last hose-wagon purchased was re- 
modelled into a combination hose and chemi- 
cal, and a new combination hose and chemical 
was purchased for Station No. 1 at a cost of 
$1,650. The department now has six head of 
horses and 4.500 feet of hose. There are six 
permanent men in the department and ten 
minute men. C. \Y. Keiser has been chief 
since October 15. 1906, succeeding C. O. 
Jones, who had been chief for two or three 
years previously. Chief Jones' predecessor 
was Mont Battenfield, who succeeded E. M. 
Heller, whose predecessor was W. E. Moore. 

CEMETERIES. 

It will be remembered that in laying oui 
the town of Delaware, the square bounded by 
North (now Central Avenue), Sandusky, 
Winter and Franklin Streets was set apart for 
church purposes, including the cemetery. 
After a short time a change was made in this 
plan, and lots in different parts of the town 
were given to the churches, and the square 
originally set off was utilized for building pur- 
poses. A few burials were made in the lot 
now occupied by the Court House and Library, 
then known as Briar Hill, but on April 4, 181 1, 
a part of lot No. 5, situated on the southeast 
corner of North and Sandusky Streets, was 
sold to the trustees as a burying ground, for 
which they paid $50. This property was not 
used as a cemetery, however, the trustees de- 
ciding that an acre of ground situated east 
of Henry Street, where the railroad now 
passes, and owned by Dr. Reuben Lamb was 
better suited to their purpose. This was pur- 
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following winter and spring a number of sol- 
diers were buried tbere. Many of the old 
settlers were buried there without anything to 
mark their graves, and the place of their 
burial was long ago obliterated. In excavat- 
ing for the railroad, all vestiges of remains 
were taken up and reburied in the later ceme- 
tery just north of the old one. 

About 1820 an association was formed 
which purchased about two acres of ground 
adjoining the old cemetery on the north, and 
this was added to from time to time until it 
extended to Delaware Run. By 1850, it be- 
came necessary to have more ground for burial 
purposes. Accordingly, on the 13th of July 
in that year, the citizens of Delaware held a 
meeting at the Court House for the purpose 
of forming a cemetery association. Emery 
Moore acted as chairman and C. C. Chamber- 
lain as secretary. A committee composed of 
Dr. R. Hills, C. C. Chamberlain. D. F. Mc- 
Cullough,, James Eaton and B. Powers, was 
appointed to inquire into the wisdom of en- 
larging the cemetery in Henry Street or se- 
lecting a new location. After giving the mat- 
ter most careful consideration they reported in 
favor of purchasing the Kilbourn farm, which 
was located about a mile south of the central 
part of the cillage, on the west side of the 
river road. This property extended about 
eighty rods on the road, and was about one 
hundred rods from east to west. The surface 
is undulating, abounding in situations which 
make it admirably adapted to the purpose. 
A little rivulet runs through the northern part 
of the grounds from east to west, reaching out 
its branches into all parts of the tract. 

After the committee hail made its report, 
T. W. Powell presented articles of association, 
the name of the association to be "The Oak 
Grove Cemetery Association." C. Piatt was 
appointed clerk of the association. The articles 
of association were signed by the following 
gentlemen : C. Hills, R. A. Jones, Judge T. 
W. Powell, George F. Stayman. C. Piatt, E. 
Moore, S. Rheems, A. A. Welch, H. Williams. 
<i. W. Campbell. ( i. W. Little, W. S. Little, 
M. L. Griffin, G. W. Stark. H. Wan Horn. A. 
Welch, Judge S. Finch. The constitution and 



by-laws were drafted by Dr. Hills. B. Powers, 
and James Eaton. The following gentlemen 
were appointed trustees: Messrs. Dr. Hills, 
Eaton, McCullough, Chamberlain and C. Hills. 
Of these. Dr. Hills was the first president; C. 
Piatt, clerk; B. Powers, treasurer; James 
Eafc m, surveyor ; D. F. McCullough, agent, 
and Samuel Parks, superintendent. 

The impressive ceremony of dedication was 
held in the grove, in the northwestern portion 
of the grounds, Thursday morning, July 20, 
1851. The day was beautiful, and the con- 
course of citizens large and attentive. The 
first burial in the cemetery was on the day of 
dedication, immediately after the ceremonies 
of the occasion. An amiable old lady, Mrs. 
McCracken, who had lived just her allotted 
time of three score years and ten. was thus 
fitly appointed by Providence to lead in "the 
way of all flesh." The cemetery failed to be 
self-supporting, and after a conference be- 
tween the trustees and the City Council, it 
was unanimously decided to deed the cemetery 
to the city. This was done on May 25, 1863. 

The management and supervision of the 
cemetery was placed in the hands of the follow- 
ing named gentlemen from 1863 to 1887: 
Benjamin Powers, 1863 to 1864; James 
Eaton, 1864 to 1868; Benjamin Powers. 
1868 to 1870; T- A. Clippinger, 1870 to 1872; 
W. T. Watson. B. T. Bell, J. S. Cox. 1872; 

Jas. L. Slough, Albright, J. S. Cox, 

1873; J as - L. Slough, j. D. Van Deman. F. 
Kurrley, 1874; W. T. Watson, J. R. Lytic B. 
Loofbourrow, 1875; George Clarke, M. C. 
Broderick, F. Kurrley, 1876; Silas Peirson, 
Geo. Clarke. R. N. Jones, 1877; W. T. Wat- 
son, J. H. Pumphfey, R. W. Reynolds. 1878; 
W. T. Watson, T. M. Bvers, S. B. Weiser. 
1 879 ; S. B. Weiser, R. ' W. Reynolds, S. 
Hutchinson, 1880; X. Wagner, R. W. Rey- 
nolds, T. M. Byers, 1881 ; N. Wagner, T. M. 
livers, E. Highwarden. 1882; N. Wagner, T. 
M. Byers, John Firtch, 1883; N. Wagner. T. 
M. Byers, Jacob Klee, 1884; N. Wagner, M. 
P. Hunt, John Firtch, 1885; N. Wagner. M. 
P. Hunt, Philip Lacher, 1886. 

In 1878 the handsome front gate was 
erected at a cost of $500 by private subscrip- 



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tion. through the instrumentality of B. W. 
Brown and J. H. Pumphrey. 

In April, 1887, Mayor Henri E. Buck or- 
dered an election of cemetery trustees in ac- 
cordance with the revised statutes. Section 
2518. The election took place April 4, 1887. 
The following gentlemen were elected : V. 
T. Hills, for three years; John W. Watkins, 
for two years; H. J. McCullough, for one 
year. 

The board organized at the office of the 
city clerk on April 8th, when the following 
officers were elected: President, H. J. Mc- 
Cullough; treasurer, V. T. Hills; secretary, 
Matt. H. Wagner. 

The superintendent, J. J. Reeder, who had 
charge of the grounds for twenty-four years, 
resigned, and the trustees appointed superin- 
tendent. David Grinton. 

The following trustees have held office 
since— 1888, V. T. Hills, I. \Y. Watkins, 
Isaac Wachter; 1889, V. T. Hills, Frank 
Burns, Isaac Wachter; 1890, Frank Burns, 
Isaac Wachter, R. J. Cox; 1891, James R. 
Lytle, F. Bums, R. J. Cox; 1892, Geo. Clarke, 
James R. Lytle, R. J. Cox; 1893, Geo. Clarke, 
James R. Lvtle. R. J. Cox; 1894, R. T- Cox, 
Dr. E. M. Hall, Geo. Clarke; 1895, Dr. E. M. 
Hall. Geo. Clarke, R. J. Cox; 1896. Dr. E. 
M. Hall. Geo. Clarke, R. T- Cox; 1897, Dr. E. 
M. Hall, Geo. Clarke, R. J. Cox; 1898, Dr. E. 
M. Hall, Geo. Clarke. R. J. Cox; 1899, Dr. E. 
M. Hall, R. T. Cox, D. D". Beck; 1900. Dr. E. 



M. Hall. R. I. Cox, D. D. Beck; 1901, Dr. E. 
M. Hall, R. J. Cox. D. D. Beck; 1902. Dr. E. 
M. Hall, R. 'I- Cox, Dr. C. G. Lewis; 1903, 
Dr. E. M. Hall, R. J. Cox, Dr. C. G. Lewi's. 

In 1 89 1 the trustees started condemnation 
proceedings on a tract of land comprising about 
fifty acres adjoining the cemetery on the west, 
and extending through to Liberty Road. Title 
to this property was acquired in 1893. The 
following year a stone chapel and vault was 
erected and dedicated. In 1901 the bodies 
that had been buried in the old cemetery on 
Henry Street were removed to Oak Grove 
Cemetery. 

On May 4, 1903, the trustees were legis- 
lated out of office and the cemetery was turned 
over to the Board of Publrc Service. On Au- 
gust 31, 1905, the lot owners held a meeting 
at the First National Bank, at which were 
present : R. W. Reynolds, J. D. VanDeman, 
R. J. Cox. George H. Waldo. J. J. Shur and 

D. H. Battenfield. Mr. Reynolds was chosen 
chairman and Mr. Battenfield secretary. As a 
result of this meeting a corporation under the 
name of The Oak Grove Cemetery Company 
was formed. On February J3, 1906, the fol- 
lowing gentlemen were elected trustees : Dr. 

E. M. Hall, president; Dr. C. G. Lewis, vice- 
president; George W. Powers, treasurer; D. 
Grinton, secretary and business manager. On 
February 19th of the same year, the cemetery 
was turned over by the Board of Public Ser- 
vice to these trustees. 



CHAPTER VI. 



TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. 

Early Roads and Stage Coaches — Turnpikes — Proposed Canal — The Railroad Era — First 
Successful Railroad — Other Railroad Enterprises — Railroad Shops Located in Dela- 
ware — Electric Railways. 



For the first few years after the pioneers 
from New England landed in what is now the 
State of Ohio, they were so fully occupied in 
providing for their immediate needs that the 
question of roads could receive no attention. 
In 1795 Governor St. Clair wrote to the offi- 
cials at Washington. "There is not a road in 
the country." Broad tracks must have been 
made, however, by the various military expe- 
ditions passing between Cincinnati and Mad 
River on one route and out to the Maumee on 
others. One of the earliest internal improve- 
ments by the United States Government was 
the road for the mail route between Wheeling 
and Limestone. This was built by Ebenezer 
Zane, of Wheeling, and was known as "Zane's 
Trace." He received three sections of land 
along the route as pay. Isaac Shaffer, the 
grandfather of our esteemed citizen, Rev. J. 
F. Shaffer, assisted Zane in surveying this 
road, and it was he who suggested to Zane 
that the little settlement of a half dozen fami- 
lies from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, be 
called New Lancaster. Zane adopted the sug- 
gestion, and the town was called New Lan- 
caster until 1845, when the Legislature passed 
an act dropping "New." So far as we know, 
this is the first time this fact has been re- 
corded in history, and Dr. Shaffer, who was 
told the facts by his grandfather, is our au- 
thority. 

This and the other roads built in these 
earlv days were not much like the crushed- 



stone pikes of the present day. Mud was then 
the only top dressing of the roads — often of 
unknown depth, though of well known ad- 
hesive qualities. Goods were very high, and 
none but the most common and necessary mer- 
chandise was brought here. This had to be 
packed on mules from Detroit or wagoned 
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, thence down 
the Ohio River in fiat boats to the mouth of 
the Scioto, and then packed or hauled to its 
destination in the interior. The freight was 
enormous, often costing $4.00 a hundred 
pounds. 

EARLY STAGE COACHES. 

It was a great event when, on May 8, 18 17, 
a stage coach began to run between Columbus 
and Chillicothe. The fare to Circleville was 
$1.25, and to Chillicothe, $2.00. Way pas- 
sengers paid six cents a mile. As early as 
1820, a line of four-horse stage coaches ran 
between Columbus and Mt. Vernon, passing 
through Galena and Sunbury, making the.half- 
way stop at the latter point. The coaches met 
daily at Galena, and for that point this was the 
great event of the day. This was the main 
artery that connected the Berkshire settlement 
with the outside world, and the appearance of 
the passengers, the change of mails, and the 
marvelous stories of the drivers, afforded 
abundant material for gossip. The coaches 
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in old prints. They were painted a fawn color, 
ornamented with red. The body was swung 
high above the wheels on heavy leather springs, 
so that every lurch of the coach seemed to 
threaten sure destruction to the passengers. 
Azel and David Ingham were the noted Jehus 
of that line, and their exploits were the theme 
of many a thrilling story told about the roar- 
ing fireplace of the settler's cabin. At times, 
the road was cut up so as to be almost impas- 
sible, and the theory of the drivers seemed to 
be to gain sufficient momentum in rushing into 
these ruts to carry the coach out of them at the 
other end. The result of this theory to the 
passenger can better be imagined than de- 
scribed, and was endured with a patience not 
handed down to the modern traveler. A tale 
is told of a driver who was given to drinking, 
and when "under the influence" was inclined 
to give an exhibition of his skill by some fool- 
hardy driving. One moonlight night, having 
someone on the box with him whom he wished 
to frighten, he whipped his team into a full 
gallop, and, taking to the woods beside the 
road, wound in and out among the trees and 
then to the roadway again without a mishap, 
enjoying as only such a character can the ter- 
rified expression of his companion. In 1830, 
fare by the coach on the old mud pike was 
seven cents a mile from Columbus through 
Delaware to Portland — now the city of San- 
dusky. A journey to Cincinnati or an eastern 
city was talked of, planned and dreaded for 
weeks ahead. Friends came to bid the traveler 
a tearful good-bye and wish him God speed. 
As late as 1845, the coach was sixteen hours on 
the way from Columbus to Delaware. The 
poor male passenger was happy if he could re- 
tain his seat the whole way; often he would 
have to walk and carry a rail to pry the coach 
out of the mud. Once, a traveler appeared in 
town, several hours in advance of the coach, 
carrying his trunk on his back. When asked 
why he did not come by the coach, he replied 
that he was "willing to pay his passage and 
walk, but I'll be hanged if I will pay my fare, 
walk, carry a rail all the way, and help to pry 
the coach out of the mud." It took Delaware 
citizens three or four days to reach Cleveland 



or Cincinnati or Pittsburg, while Toledo was 
blockaded by the mud for months of the year. 
Lots of money was lost or won in betting on 
the speed of the horses and the time that would 
be made between different villages. 

TURNPIKES. 

The first charter issued by the Legislature 
to a turnpike company to build a macadamized 
road, running through the central part of Ohio 
from north to south, was dated February 8, 
1832. Nearly one-half of this turnpike from 
Columbus to the Lake was over the route now 
traversed by the interurban electric line. The 
Radnor plank road, twelve miles long, was 
built in 1855; the Delaware and Worthington 
pike in 1868; the Delaware and Sunbury pike 
in 1870, and the Delaware and Marysville pike 
in 1 87 1. These four roads were toll roads, a 
total of thirty-three miles in length. The 
Delaware and Troy pike was built in 1869, 
and the Ashley and Delhi in 1870, and were 
free. 

1 

PROPOSED CANAL. 

The subject of canals early agitated the 
people of the State. In this movement, how- 
ever, the people of Delaware took but little 
part. On February 5, 1840, at "early candle 
lighting," a meeting was held at the Court 
House to talk canal news — to talk about build- 
ing a canal from this town to Lake Erie. 
Speeches were made and considerable enthu- 
siasm on the subject was evinced, but nothing 
practical ever came of it. 

j 

THE RAILROAD ERA. 

1 

Ohio was not far behind the older eastern 
states in inaugurating its railroad era. The 
first steam railroad in the world was that built 
by George Stephenson in England about 1825. 
The first railroad in the United States was built 
the following year in Quincy, Massachusetts. 
This was merely a horse-car line, and was usel 
only to haul granite from the nearby quarries. 
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menced a line extending westward from Bal- 
timore. Somewhere between 1830 and 1835, 
the old Sandusky & Mansfield road was com- 
menced in this State; Sandusky and Cincinnati 
being the terminal point as originally planned. 
The Little Miami was the next road. About 
this time we find the citizens of Delaware tak- 
ing considerable interest in several railroad 
enterprises, some of which were never car- 
ried out. We quote the following from the 
Ohio State Gazette under date of July 5. 1832 : 
"At a meeting of Railroad Commissioners, 
held at Springfield, of the Mad River & Lake 
Erie R. R. Co., books were ordered to be 
opened at Delaware by Ezra Griswold and 
Solomon Smith, and at Marion by Geo. H. 
Busby and Hezekiah Gordon, in addition to 
places mentioned in last meeting." A resolu- 
tion was passed, asking Messrs. Vance, Finlay, 
Crain, Cook and Corwin, who were then mem- 
bers of Congress from the sections of the State 
through which the road was to pass, to "re- 
quest of the President of the United States an 
engineer' to make a survey, etc." In the same 
paper of November 14, 1833, is the following 
statement: "It appears from statements in 
New York papers that the stock-books were 
closed without the requisite amount of stock 
being taken in eastern cities, and the New 
York Advertiser expresses a doubt as to 
"whether the great work will be accom- 
plished." 

At a much later date other railroad enter- 
prises were promoted but never completed. 
One of these was called the Newark, Delaware 
& Northwestern. At one time the prospects of 
completing the road seemed quite promising. 
Counties and people along the proposed route 
subscribed liberally to the stock. Delaware 
Township subscribed for $100,000 worth of 
stock by a vote of j$j to fifty-six. On Sep- 
tember 5, 1872, a meeting of this Company 
was held at Ottawa, Putnam County, at which 
4. 1 50 shares of stock of $50 each was repre- 
sented. The meeting therefore proceeded to 
the election of directors, among whom was J. 
C. Evans, of Delaware, who was also elected 
president of the Board. Measures were taken 
to secure a favorable vote in each township 



through which the proposed road was to pass. 
All interest in the venture suddenly died out, 
just why, no one seemed to know. 

The Lebanon & Nenia Railroad was an- 
other of the "paper railroads" that never got 
beyond the promotion stage. Starting at Nenia. 
it was proposed to run the road through Dela- 
wre, Mount Gilead and Mansfield to some 
point at or near the mouth of the Cuyahoga 
River. 

FIRST SUCCESSFUL RAILROAD. 

The first railroad venture that proved a 
success in this part of the State, and one which 
especially interested the citizens of Delaware 
County was that running between Cleveland 
and Columbus, later known as the "Cleveland, 
Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Rail- 
way ;" popularly called the "Bee Line," or the 
"Three C's and I." This became a part of 
the "Big Four" system, January 1, 1890. The 
question of building this road was discussed as 
early as 1835, anc ' on March 14th of the fol- 
lowing year, a charter was granted "for the 
purpose of constructing a railroad from the 
city of Cleveland through the city of Colum- 
bus and the town of Wilmington to Cincinnati. 
Before the work was begun, a number of 
amendments were made to the charter, among 
them one that relieved the company of any ob- 
ligation to "construct its road through or to 
any particular place." Engineers and survey- 
ors ran several lines between Cleveland and 
Columbus, and for some time it was undecided 
whether to run the road through Delaware 
or Mt. Vernon. Work on the road was com- 
menced in 1848, and it was finally decided to 
run the road through this county, provided the 
county would subscribe $100,000, in addition 
to the amount that would be subscribed for in- 
dividually. This proposition did not, at first, 
meet with popular approval ; many of the citi- 
zens who resided at considerable distance from 
the proposed line of the road reasoned that 
they could receive little, if any, benefit from it. 
and therefore they should not be taxed to help 
build a railroad which would be almost beyond 
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the Delaware Court House to consider the 
matter, Judge T. W. Powell made a proposi- 
tion that the commissioners on the part of the 
county, subscribe the required amount, and 
that the people who felt interested in the suc- 
cess of the enterprise should give mortgages 
on their individual property to indemnify the 
county for any loss that might occur. This 
proposition was agreed to, and the commission- 
ers subscribed $100,000 on behalf of the 
county, and at the some time, individuals sub- 
scribed for about the same, amount. While 
this brought the road through Delaware 
G lunty, it did not pass through the city of 
Delaware, as it now does. The original route 
lay on a straight line through Oxford, Brown, 
Berlin and Orange Townships, but passing to 
the east of Delaware Township. In 1851, they 
began to run trains over the line. In order to 
secure the subscription from the people of 
Delaware, they had been promised that a con- 
nection would be made with the city by a curve 
or arm. At that time the citizens of Colum- 
bus, who were watching Delaware with a jeal- 
ous eye, did everything in their power to pre- 
vent the road coming to this city. President 
Kelly was finally prevailed upon to fulfill this 
part of the contract and came to Delaware to 
learn whether the people preferred that the 
connection be made by means of an arm or a 
curve. The curve was chosen and built, and 
then — only one train a clay, an "accommoda- 
tion," passed through Delaware, all "through" 
trains continuing to run on the direct route, 
three miles out of the city, as before. Finally 
the officials of the road woke up to the fact that 
the four or five hundred students attending 
Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware made 
several trips over the road each year, and con- 
cluded that it might be worth while to cater 
for their patronage and that of the other resi- 
dents of that city. Then a regular passenger 
train was sent over the curve daily, and this 
was soon followed by all passenger trains, 
leaving the direct track for "through" freights. 
Finally, the track between the extreme ends 
of the curve, a distance of about three miles, 
was taken up. and all the traffic passed through 
Delaware. It is interesting to note that the 
first passenger train that came info 1 the city 



of Delaware brought Louis Kossuth, the dis- 
tinguished Hungarian exile, who accepted the 
invitation of the city of Delaware to make a 
short stop here on his way from Cleveland to 
Columbus. It was not until some time after 
the completion of this road that it became a 
part of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & 
Indianapolis Railway. 

OTHER RAILROAD ENTERPRISES. 

In 1850. a movement was started to build 
a railroad from Springfield to Mt. Vernon via 
Delaware. The following quotation from the 
Olentangy Gazette of April 25, 185 1, gives an 
excellent account of the early work in connec- 
tion with this venture: "The directors of the 
Springfield & Mansfield Railroad Company, 
accompanied by a corps of engineers, have 
been in this place and neighborhood for several 
days past, exploring the country and making 
the preliminary surveys, preparatory to locat- 
ing the road through the county. The sur- 
veys show the county to be admirably adapted 
to the construction of a road, and that it will 
be speedily built may be regarded as a fixed 
fact. A single glance at the map will show the 
vast importance of the work. At Springfield, 
it will connect with two roads to Cincinnati 
and one to the lake, and by reducing the dis- 
tance from the river to the lake so as to make 
the route over this road considerably shorter 
than any other route can be, it will defy all 
competition for through travel. At this place, 
it will unite with the Cleveland and Colum- 
bus road, and on the east, at Alt. Vernon, with 
the Pennsylvania & Ohio road, now being con- 
structed west through Pennsylvania and this 
State to Indianapolis. It must necessarily be a 
very important road, and the stock cannot but 
pay well." The Gazette in its June 13th issue, 
printed the following under the head of 
"Springfield & Delaware Railroad :" "On Sat- 
urday last, a vote of Delaware Township to 
take $25,000 stock in the above road, was de- 
cided in the affirmative by 303 votes for and 
thirteen against it. A meeting was held at the 
Court House on Wednesday night, for the pur- 
pose of discussing the proposed subscription on 
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& Delaware Railroad. After remarks by Pow- 
ell and Little of Delaware, and Whitley of 
Springfield, in favor of subscription, the fol- 
lowing resolution was offered by Powell, and 
passed with but three dissenting votes : 
'Resolved, That, in the opinion of this meet- 
ing, it is expedient to vote a county subscrip- 
tion of $50,000.' ' A few days later, the of- 
ficers and directors of the Springfield & Mans- 
field Railroad and the promoters of a proposed 
road between Mt. Vernon and Loudonville. 
and Mr. Roberts, the chief engineer of the 
Ohio & Pennsylvania road, representing the 
directors of that Company, held a meeting in 
Delaware, and consolidated the Springfield & 
Mansfield and Mt. Vernon & Loudonville Com- 
panies into one company for the construction 
of a railroad through Marysville, Delaware, 
Mt. Vernon and Loudonville, where it would 
intersect the Ohio & Pennsylvania road. On 
May 11, 1869, this consolidation was incor- 
porated as "The Pittsburg, Mt. Vernon, Co- 
lumbus & Louden Railroad Company." A large 
and enthusiastic meeting was held on the 
evening of this day at the Court House in 
Delaware, where speeches were made by Judge 
Powell, General Anthony, and Mr. Roberts, 
the engineer. As a result, Delaware County 
voted a subscription of $50,000. and Delaware 
Township subscribed $25,000 to the venture. 
The paper on October 17th, stated that the en- 
gineers had permanently located the route be- 
tween Marysville and Delaware. The bridge 
over the Olentangy at Delaware was built in 

1853, and the road was completed early in 

1854. For a number of years after its com- 
pletion, this road was called the Springfield, 
Delaware & Mt. Vernon Railroad. That part 
of the old grade from the city of Delaware to 
Centerburg has never been completed. The 
grade between Centerburg and Mt. Vernon 
was sold to the Cleveland, Alt. Vernon & Co- 
lumbus Railroad, and is now part of the Cleve- 
land, Akron & Columbus road. The unfinished 
portion above referred to was graded and 
ready for laying down the ties, when the com- 
pany became involved in financial reverses, 
which made it necessary to sell the road. The 
Cleveland & Columbus Railroad purchased it 
in January, 1862, for $134,000. A number of 



years after this, it was consolidated with the 
Cincinnati & Dayton road, thus giving a more 
direct route to Cincinnati than by way of Co- 
lumbus. This change in route made it possi- 
ble to connect directly with the road running 
to Indianapolis via Galion and Bellefontaine. 
It was in this way that the road came to be 
called the "Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & 
Indianapolis Railway." 

Its report to the railroad commission in 
1868 shows that the road had twenty-five sta- 
tions, nine engine-houses and shops, forty-five 
engines, about 800 cars of all kinds and 1,315 
employes. The main line had 138 miles of 
track, and the Springfield branch fifty miles. 
Average cost of the road. $34,000 per mile. 

RAILROAD SHOPS LOCATED IN DELAWARE. 

A movement was started in the early 50's 
by the people of Delaware to have the shops 
and offices of the Springfield, Delaware & Mt. 
Vernon Railroad located here. The company 
sent a representative here to solicit subscrip- 
tions to enable the company to erect shops and 
build cars here. The county subscribed $50,- 
000 to this enterprise, and a similar amount 
was raised in three of the townships, besides a 
liberal subscription by individuals. Nothing 
was done, however, until after the consolida- 
tion of the Springfield, Delaware & Mt. Vernon 
and Cleveland & Columbus roads. The new 
company agreed to locate the shops, offices and 
depot buildings of the road at Delaware if the 
city would pay $35,000 towards the expense 
of erecting the buildings. This was agreed to ; 
the money was paid and the railroad company 
erected large brick buildings, in which they 
established fully equipped shops. In 1901. a 
new and larger roundhouse was built on the 
site of the former roundhouse, and in 1904, a 
brick boilershop was erected, 55 by 70 feet in 
dimensions, part of which is two stories high. 
Including all departments, there are now about 
^2^ men employed in the shops, and this does 
not take into account the large number of train- 
men and other employes who make their home 
in Delaware. The company was not so prompt 
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agreed upon, and it was not until 1865 or '66 
that they were put up. 

The Cleveland, Akron & Columbus Rail- 
road enters Delaware County at the north- 
eastern corner of Trenton Township, where it 
has two stations, Condit and Big- Walnut, and 
runs in a southwesterly direction through Sun- 
bury and Galena, passing into Genoa Town- 
ship about midway of its northern boundary, 
and thence in a direction a little west or south 
to Franklin County. This road was incorpor- 
ated March 17. 185 1, as the Akron branch of 
the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad. This was 
a separate and distinct company, organized to 
build a railroad from Hudson, Ohio, to con- 
nect with the present Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & 
Chicago Railroad. On November 1, 1869, it 
received by assignment from the Pittsburg, 
Mount Vernon, Columbus & Loudon Railroad 
Company, all that portion of the Springfield, 
Mount Vernon & Pittsburg Railroad extend- 
ing east from Delaware through Mount Ver- 
non in the direction of Millersburg. As al- 
ready stated in this chapter, the part of this 
roadbed which lies between Delaware and Cen- 
terburg was never made use of. The present 
line of road was completed and trains began 
running over it in the early winter of 1872. 

The railroad which is now commonly 
called the "Hocking Valley"' was originally in- 
corporated on May 28, 1872, by a number of 
Columbus men, under the name of "The Co- 
lumbus & Toledo Railroad." The line of the 
road was permanently located in the fall of 
1873. I n Liberty Township, which the road 
enters on the south, it has two stations, Powell 
and Hyatts. It passes through the western 
part of the city of Delaware, and runs in a 
northwesterly direction across the southwest 
Corner of Troy Township, where it has a sta- 
tion, and on through Radnor Township to 
Marion County. The station in Radnor Town- 
ship is about a mile east of the village, and is 
known as Meredith. It was intended, origi- 
nally, to run the road due north from Dela- 
ware, but the purchase pf $10,000 worth of 
stock by Radnor citizens influenced the com- 
pany to run the road through their township. 

The road was begun November 17, [876, 
and was fully completed in July, 1877. The 



work of construction had progressed so well, 
that the company, in response to urgent re- 
quests of stockholders and business men, be- 
gan, on January 10, 1877, to run trains over 
the road between Columbus and Marion. 

On August 20, 1 88 1, this company and the 
Ohio & West Virginia Railway Company were 
consolidated with the Hocking Valley Railroad 
Comany, under the name, of the Columbus 
Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway Company. 
Ever since the consolidation, the company has 
struggled against heavy indebtedness and 
much litigation, with great reduction in the 
value of its stock, and difficulty in meeting: the 
interest on its bonded debt. The result was 
the appointment of a receiver of the company 
on February 28. 1897, by order of the United 
States Circuit Court for the Southern District 
of Ohio. 

In the late 70's, a road, known as the At- 
lantic & Lake Erie Railroad, was surveyed be- 
tween Pomeroy on the Ohio River and Toledo. 
As originally planned, the road was to pass 
through Newark, Alt. Gilead and Bucyrus. the 
object being to develop the coal fields through 
which it passes in the counties south of New- 
ark. It was completed south of that point and 
equipped with rolling stock, but for a long time 
it looked as if that portion of the road which 
runs through Delaware County on north 
would never be built. It was completed, how- 
ever, in the early 8o's. It crosses the north- 
east corner of Porter Township, where it has 
one station. Peerless. The Toledo & Ohio 
Central, as the road is now called, does not 
run through Newark, but passes a few miles to 
the west, through Central City. 

The present line of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road running through Delaware County was 
originally known as the Columbus & Sandusky 
Short Line Railroad. It enters the county on 
the north a little west of Norton, in Marlbor- 
ough Township, and runs southeast through 
Troy Township, where it has a flag station, 
Troyton, and on to Delaware. From this city 
the mad runs southeast through Berlin and 
Orange Townships to Franklin County. There 
is one station, Gregory, in Berlin Township, 
and two stations, Lewis Center and Orange, in 
Orange Township. The original promoter of 



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this road was W. E. Guerin, a citizen of Co- 
lumbus, who married a Delaware lady, a 
daughter of R. W. Reynolds. The present 
station in Delaware was built in the winter of 
i892- - 93, and the first through train passed 
tin. nigh the city on April 15, 1893, although 
during the first part of that month locals be- 
tween Delaware and Marion had been run, but 
not on schedule. 

Later this road was re-organized, and took 
in a line running into Zanesville, known as The 
Columbus, Sandusky & Hocking Railroad, 
which name the new organization adopted. 

Almost from the beginning this railroad 
venture was beset with financial difficulties, 
and before the Pennsylvania Company took 
over the road, it had been in the hands of re- 
ceivers four times. In 1893, the year of the 
panic, business was very light. After the con- 
solidation with The Columbus, Sandusky & 
Hocking Railroad, a heavy expense for re- 
pairs was incurred, and the road became so em- 
barrassed, financially, that it went into the 
hands of a receiver. This was four years after 
the consolidation. The receivership lasted nine 
months, and Mr. Guerin was again appointed 
president. The road struggled along for an- 
other eighteen months, and then went into the 
hands of another receiver, and so things con- 
tinued getting into the hands of a receiver and 
getting out, like the freedom, debt and jail ex- 
perience of Micawber, until the Pennsylvania 
System purchased the road in November, 
1902. 

ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. 

Early in 1903, the Delaware & Magnetic 
Springs Railway Company was incorporated to 
build an electric railway from the intersection 
of the west line of the city of Delaware with a 
public highway known as the Radnor Pike, 
through Delaware and Union Counties to 
Magnetic Springs. March 31, 1903, the fran- 
chise of the Union Electric Railway Company 
to build such a road was transferred to this 
corporation, and soon afterward the work of 
-building the road was begun. It runs west 
from Delaware, through the southern part of 
Radnor Township, crossing the Scioto River 



at the famous old Broad ford, and thence 
across the southern end of Thompson Town- 
ship to Magnetic Springs in Union County. 
The power-house in Thompson Township was 
built at this time. On June 2^, 1904, the first 
car was run over the road from Magnetic 
Springs to the intersection of the Radnor and 
Troy pikes just outside Delaware city limits. 
It seems that the Railway Company and the 
city of Delaware have never been able to 
agree on the terms of a franchise which would 
allow the road to enter the city over its own 
tracks; however, since September, 1905, the 
company has had an arrangement with the Co- 
lumbus, Delaware & Marion Railway Company, 
by which their cars enter the city over the 
tracks of the latter company. 

On October 15, 1906, the Delaware & Mag- 
netic Springs Railway Company and the Rich- 
wood & Magnetic Springs Railway Company 
were consolidated under the name of The Co- 
lumbus, Magnetic Springs and Northern Rail- 
way. This company now owns about eighteen 
and one-half miles of track, which, with power- 
house and rolling stock, represents an invest- 
ment of about $250,000. While it has not 
been successful as a financial venture, the road 
is destined to fill an important place in the net- 
work of electric lines which is rapidly over- 
spreading this section of the State. 

Delaware Electric Street Railway Com- 
pany. — On November 16, 1891. the City Coun- 
cil passed an ordinance granting a franchise 
for a street railway in Delaware to James K. 
Newcomer. The Delaware Electric Street 
Railway Company was incorporated May 31. 
1892, with a capital stock of $60,000, the par 
value of the shares being $100 each. The 
names of the following gentlemen appear as 
incorporators: James K. Newcomer, Captain 
Velores T. Hills. Hon. John L. VanDeman. 
Beverly W. Brown. William A. Hall. C. Rid- 
dle, Hon. Frank M. Marriott, Robert G. Ly- 
brand, Harvey J. McCullough, Henry A. 
Welch and Colonel James M. Crawford. The 
company was organized on June 6, 1892, at 
which time the following Board of Directors 
was elected : V. T. Hills, J. D. VanDeman, 
James K. Newcomer. C. Riddle, W. A. Hall, 
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lough and R. G. Lybrand. The following of- 
ficers were then elected: President, J. K. 
Newcomer; vice-president, J. D. VanDeman; 
treasurer, V. T. Hills; secretary, W. A. Hall; 
manager, J. M. Crawford. 

Bids to build the road were called for, and 
in order to keep the money in Delaware, Colonel 
Crawford put in a bid, which was twenty per 
cent lower than any other. Work upon the 
road was started the same month, and by the 
following December, the North Belt line was 
completed, also the line from the Hocking Val- 
ley station to the Big Four station, and the 
line to Greenwood Lake. The South Belt line 
was not completed until 1894. The road, in- 
cluding rolling stock and power plant equip- 
ment, cost about $80,000. The money for this 
enterprise was all furnished by Delaware citi- 
zens, and the labor of building the road was all 
performed by home people. The venture has 
never been a success from a financial stand- 
point. After a time it went into the hands of 
a receiver, John A. Cone being appointed to 
that position. On July 30, 1898, the road was 
sold bv order of the court, the purchasers be- 
ing B.'W. Brown, F. M. Marriott. F. P. Hills 
and John A. Shoemaker. The purchase price 
was $13,525. These gentlemen continued to 
operate the road until March 20, 1902, when it 
was sold to John G. Webb, who purchased it 
for the C, D. & M. Railway, of which he was 
president. The consideration was $50,000. 
The first cars were run over the tracks of the 
Delaware Electric Street Railway in Novem- 
ber, 1892. Mr. Newcomer had charge of the 
road for the first month, after which Colonel 
Crawford managed the road for a short period. 

The Columbus. Delaware & Marion Rail- 
way Company. There were exciting times 
when the Columbus. Delaware & Marion Elec- 
tric Railway Company and the Columbus, 
Delaware & Northern Railway Company be- 
gan to secure consents for an interurban line be- 
tween Columbus and Marion. Their rights of 
way for considerable distances, where secured, 
were parallel, and it was at a most opportune 
moment that the "C, D. & M.." as the com- 
pany is now popularly called, appeared on the 
scene and purchased the rights and franchises 
of the two competing companies, and began to 



build the road. In entering the county, the 
road crosses the southwestern corner of Or- 
ange Township, and runs a little west of north 
in almost a straight line, about midway be- 
tween the Hocking Valley and Pennsylvania 
Railroads, through Liberty and Delaware 
Townships to the city of Delaware ; thence it 
runs in a northwesterly direction, paralleling 
the tracks of the Hocking Valley Railroad, 
through Delaware, Troy and Radnor Town- 
ships to Marion Copnty. The first car began 
running between Columbus and Delaware in 
September, 1902, and about a year later the 
line was completed to Marion. The old paper 
mill at Stratford was purchased and rebuilt for 
a power-house. In 1903 a spacious building 
was erected adjoining the power house. 
In addition to car-barn facilities, this 
building contains a fully equipped ma- 
chine-shop, blacksmith-shop, carpenter-shop 
and paint-shop, where all the repair work of the 
company is done. This Stratford property of 
the company represents an investment of prob- 
ably $200,000. When the power-plant was es- 
tablished, it was equipped with Mcintosh & 
Seymour horizontal engines, but in 1905, a 
large steam turbine of 2,000 kilowatt capacity 
was installed, and in 1906. an auxiliary turbine 
of 800 kilowatt capacity was put in. These are 
direct-connected to the generators and are the 
latest type of three-phase generators manufac- 
tured by the General Electric Company. The 
smaller turbine furnishes power at night. The 
plant runs twenty-four hours a day. There is 
a steam-driven exciter of 25 K. W. and a mo- 
tor-driven exciter of 75 K. W. There are four- 
teen pumps for various purposes. Steam is 
furnished by a battery of seven boilers having 
a total of 2,000 horse-power. Forty-eight tons 
of coal are consumed every day. An alternat- 
ing current of 2,300 volts is generated ; that 
is stepped up to 19,050 volts and sent to the 
sub-stations at Chaseland, Prospect and Mar- 
ion, where it is stepped down to 370 volts and 
enters rotary converters where the current is 
changed from alternating to direct and raised 
from 370 to 600 volts, which is the current 
carried by the trolley wire. An average of 
about fifty men find employment in the various 
departments of the Stratford plant. 



CHAPTER. VII. 



MANUFACTURES. 

Manufacturing Possibilities of Delaware County — Early Mills and Mill Machinery — A 
Tragic Occurrence — Chair Manufacture — Lumber, Furniture, etc. — Flour Mills — Dis- 
tilleries — Leather — Textile Products — Paper Mills — Oil Enterprises — Foundries, etc. 
— Artificial Ice — Light, Heat and Pence r — Brooms — Evaporated Goods — Clay Pro- 
ducts — Cigars — Creameries — Lime and Stone — Gas Manufacture. 



This has always been an agricultural coun- 
ty, and most of the manufacturing enter- 
prises that have found firm footing here have 
been those whose products consumed the raw 
materials that were available, or contributed to 
the needs of an agricultural people. But there 
seems to be no reason why manufacturing in- 
dustries should not be developed here with 
great profit to the county. Located in the geo- 
graphical center of Ohio, it has excellent rail- 
road facilities, and is within easy reach of all 
kinds of raw materials and fuel. Thus far. the 
community has been practically free from such 
disturbances as originate with the labor agita- 
tor. One has only to look at some of our 
neighboring counties to see and appreciate the 
advantages of inviting and fostering manufac- 
turing enterprises ; and it would seem un- 
necessary to enumerate the benefits, such as 
enlarged markets for farm produce, increased 
value of real estate, more business f< ir the mer- 
chants, etc., that would accrue to the commun- 
ity through a policy of helpful friendliness to- 
ward the establishment here of manufacturing 
industries. The last few years have witnessed 
an awakening in Delaware. The present Com- 
mercial Club of Delaware, which numbers 
among its members nearly every important 
business man of the city, is doing all in its 
power to develop Delaware as an industrial 
center. 



EARLY MILLS AND MILL MACHINERY. 

Such has been the improvement during the 
last half century in machinery and methods of 
manufacture, that the present and coming 
generations must gain their conception of the 
primitive mills and methods of pioneer days 
from the printed page ; and in tracing the de- 
velopment of manufacturing in Delaware 
County, we believe it will prove interesting, at 
the outset, to glance briefly at the conditions 
and problems that confronted the early set- 
tlers in providing themselves with such neces- 
sities as meal, flour, lumber, leather, cloth, etc. 
At first, mills were fifty to seventy-five miles 
away, and "going to mill" involved a long 
and arduous horse-back ride through trackless 
forests and unbridged streams. Usually, it 
took about a week to make such a journey, and 
as only a small quantity of corn or wheat could 
be carried, the busy frontier farmer could not 
well afford to sacrifice so much valuable time. 
Many, therefore, contented themselves with 
"corn-crackers." such as were used by the In- 
dians. To make a "corn-cracker" a stump 
was cut off level on the top and a large basin 
was burned out of it. A nearby sapling was 
bent over to serve as a spring- pole, and to the 
end of this was attached by a piece of grape- 
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As the frontier settlement grew in size, 
mills were built at sites offering the best prom- 
ise of power, and where dams could be con- 
structed with least difficulty. In those days, 
people had little knowledge of the science of 
civil engineering, and the dams constructed 
were crude affairs, the like of which the people 
would not now waste their time in building. 
Log pens were constructed about six feet 
square, roughly locked and pinned together at 
the corners. A number of these would be built 
across a stream, with short spaces between 
them. The pens which were filled with stone, 
and thus served as anchors for the dam, were 
further strengthened by placing masses of 
stone in front of them. Behind the pens, brush 
was piled to serve as a support for the earth 
which was placed upon it. These structures 
offered but little resistance to the dislodging 
] inwer of a freshet; they had to be repaired so 
often that milling under such conditions was 
truly a discouraging business. Before the land 
was denuded of its virgin forest, the streams 
of the county furnished greater and more con- 
stant power than they do now. The power on 
the Olentangy, or Whetstone, as it was then 
called, at Delaware and at the "Old Stone 
Mill" about a mile north of town, was good 
nearly all the year, and Cone's mill on the 
Scioto River in Thompson Township and the 
other mills on the river south of there, had 
power sometimes for ten or eleven months in 
the year ; but with these exceptions, it is doubt- 
ful if there was a location in the county whose 
power was available for more than six to eight 
months out of twelve. 

The machinery in these early mills was as 
crude as all else. The mill-stones were made 
from large round stones called "nigger-heads." 
such as still abound in the county. A section 
was cut from the middle of one of these "nig- 
ger-heads" and split. Furrows were cut in 
the^e stones, radiating from the center. At 
the circumference, these furrows were about 
three and one-half inches wide and one-half 
an inch deep, while at the center of the stone 
they were much narrower and of little, if any, 
depth. When the stones were in position, one 
was revolved to the right and the other to the 



left, thus crushing the corn or other grain led 
between them. The ignorance of the people 
in those times regarding the most elementary 
laws of physics is indicated by the fact that 
their object in cutting these furrows was to 
provide a way of escape for the corn or meal. 
In actual practice, however, the furrows be- 
came solidly packed with the grist, and the 
miller was robbed of a very large portion of 
what would have been the grinding surface 
of his buhrs. Some of the "old-timers" are to 
be found who still contend that the theory was 
right, though no furrows are to be found on 
modern mill-stones. Such mills as these were 
also used at a later time for grinding flaxseed 
in the manufacture of oil. 

The sawmills bore no resemblance to those 
of the present time. They were known as "up- 
and-down" mills. A long saw-blade, looking 
something like the large cross-cut saws now 
used for cutting logs and heavy timber by 
hand, was fastened in an upright position, the 
lower end of the saw being attached to the 
side of a wheel, which when it revolved, gaTe 
the saw an up-and-down motion. On each side 
of the saw were placed upright stanchions, 
made of flat boards, perhaps six inches in 
width. These were pushed against the sides of 
the log and held in place by wedges, the ob- 
ject being to steady the log in its position on 
the carriage. The log-carriage was propelled 
toward the saw by power, but it had to be re- 
turned to the starting point by hand. The 
boards were sawed only to within a few inches 
of the end of the log, and after all the cuts had 
been made, wedges were inserted between the 
boards, at the end of the cuts, and these wedges 
were driven down, thus splitting that part of 
the log remaining uncut. When the circular 
saw was introduced, it inspired many dark 
forebodings of the disasters which were sure to 
follow the starting of its rip-roaring racket, 
and that the mills were not torn to pieces and 
everyone connected with them killed was in- 
deed a miracle. 

While mills were started at a number of 
different places in the county at about the same 
time, there seems to be little question that the 
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1804. This was on the Olentangy in Liberty 
Township. It was used at first for a sawmill, 
but a pair of "nigger-heads" were soon in- 
stalled. We do not know just how long this 
mill was in commission, but we know that for 
several years it was the only mill in the county, 
and was a boon to the pioneers in furnishing 
them with meal and lumber. 

In 1807, Richard Hoskins built the first 
saw mill in Scioto Township, at the mouth of 
Boke's Creek. He ran it for some years, but 
for how long is not known. 

The first mill in Berlin Township was built 
by Nathaniel Hall in 1808. It was located on 
Alum Creek, near the present Delaware and 
Sunbury pike. Probably it was used for saw- 
ing lumber as well as for grinding grist. In 
1814, Joseph Lewis built a grist-mill and saw- 
mill near Cheshire. Philip Horshaw settled in 
Scioto Township in 1809 and immediately 
built the first grist-mill. It was located on the 
site of the present mill at Warrensburg. This 
site has, undoubtedly, the best water-power in 
the county, enough to develop 300 horse-power. 
At present, only one hundred horse power is 
used. The power is constant throughout the 
year. The mill has a capacity of fifty barrels 
of flour per day. and for the past five years has 
been operated by C. K. Cunningham, whose 
flour brand is "Triple Star." The mill, which 
is owned by Frank Van Brimmer, was remod- 
eled and enlarged to its present size of three 
stories, many years ago by Fred Decker. The 
machinery, however, was installed at a more 
recent date. 

Colonel Byxbe was alive to the needs of 
his new settlement in Delaware, and soon after 
coming here, he set about erecting a sawmill 
and a grist-mill. A wooden dam was built 
across the river at the site of the present dam. 
and Erastus Bowe constructed a race from that 
point parallel with the river to what is now 
East Central Avenue, where it emptied into the 
river. This race still remains, a monument 
to its faithful and skilful builder. The saw- 
mill was like others of its time, and likewise 
the grist mill, which was located on the race, 
smith of the sawmill, quite near to the present 
fr< mt of the lot on East Central Avenue. In 



1809. Gilbert Carpenter. Sr.. built a race be- 
tween Big and Little Walnut Creeks, near the 
present village of Galena, and erected a saw- 
mill. About 1810, Nicholas Manville built a 
grist-mill about half a mile southeast of the 
present village of Sunbury, and in 1815 he 
built a sawmill in connection with it. In 1818, 
Benjamin Carpenter, Jr., built a race between 
the two Walnut Creeks a little south of Gilbert 
Carpenter, Sr.'s race, and erected a grist-mill. 
This mill was in operation for many years, 
and was doing good service in the early 8o's. 

For some years, the early settlers of Har- 
lem Township had to go to Chillicothe for their 
milling. The first mill in Harlem was operated 
by hand, but it is not known when it was built. 
In 1 81 5 or 1816, a horse-power mill was 
started, and not long afterwards, John Budd, 
Sr., built the first water-power grist-mill and 
sawmill. It was located on Duncan Run. Ben- 
jamin M. Fairchild also built a saw mill and 
grist-mill on this Run, and at an early day 
Benajah Cook built a sawmill on the same 
stream. A saw mill was erected on Spencer 
Run at an early day by Colonel D. Keeler. 

The first mills in Genoa Township were 
built by Jeremiah Curtis, on the Big Walnut 
in the northern part of the township. After 
running the mills a year or two, Curtis sold 
out to Elisha Newell. He ran the mill only 
a year, and in 181 6, he sold it to Hezekiah 
Roberts. The dam and the buildings had be- 
come undermined and unsafe, so Roberts built 
a race across his farm, and erected a three- 
story, hewn-log grist-mill, to which he trans- 
ferred the running sear and "nigger-heads" 
of the old mill. This mill was operated until 
1839, when it was destroyed by fire. The 
owner at that time was a man named Duncan. 
The mill was rebuilt, and soon after was sold 
to R. C. Barnum. who was succeeded in own- 
ership by Lewis Mahany, who installed a steam 
power-plant. After a number of years, busi- 
ness began to decline and Mahany sold out to 
Mathias Roberts. He shipped the engine and 
gearing to Illinois, where he started a new 
mill. About 1826 or '27. Squire Sylvester 
Hough and Dr. Eleazar Copeland erected a 
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Street crosses the Big Walnut. It was not 
I( mg before they were joined by I. S. Carpen- 
ter. He induced them to build a brick dry- 
house, and installed machinery in the mill for 
breaking flax, which at that time was the prin- 
cipal farm product. 

A TRAGIC OCCURRENCE. 

Dr. Copeland met his death in a 
tragic manner through his connection with 
this mill. We quote the following ac- 
count of the sad affair : "During a continuance 
of low water, there had accumulated a 'great 
many logs about the mill. A sudden and heavy 
rain having raised the water in the creek, the 
logs were floated off, and began gbing down 
stream in the current. Mrs. Copeland, notic- 
ing this fact, suggested that her husband, who 
was an excellent swimmer, should enter the 
water and try to save them. The doctor leaped 
in, for the purpose of gaining the other side, 
but when in about the middle, he was seized 
with cramps, and after a vain effort to reach 
the bank, sank under the turbulent waters and 
was drowned. This occurred on Wednesday, 
and although people gathered from every di- 
rection to search for his body, it was not found 
until the following Sunday, and then under 
circumstances that were very peculiar. It was 
understood throughout the section that a thor- 
ough search was to be made on that day, and 
a great crowd had gathered for that purpose. 
John Roberts and his brother-in-law, Mr. 
Smith, had left the main party, who were ex- 
ploring near where he went under, and be- 
gan to search farther down stream, on the west 
bank. Having sat down nearly opposite the 
mouth of Spruce Run to take a rest, John Rob- 
erts' attention was attracted by the hum of 
flies, and watching them closely, he saw them 
go in and out of a small hole which had been 
made by one of the searching party in a small 
sand-bar. He went clown to the spot, and. 
after scraping away the sand, he discovered 
the body, face downward, completely covered 

with sand and driftw 1." About 1838. a 

man named McLeod. who came from Pennsyl- 
vania, put up a saw mill on the Big Walnut. 



just a little south of the middle line of the 
township. 

The first sawmill in Kingston Township 
was built in 1819 by Leonard Lott on the Lit- 
tle Walnut. Peter Van Sickle built a saw- 
mill on the same stream somewhere about the 
year 1830. The exact date of the establishment 
of the first sawmill in Marlborough Township 
is not known, but as early as 1820, Robert 
Campbell, who came from Philadelphia, had 
one in operation. It was located on the Whet- 
stone River, in the southeastern part of the 
township, and as late as 1880, was said to be the 
best water-power saw mill on the river. About 
1820, John Xettleton set up the first sawmill 
in Orange Township. It was located in the 
southeastern part of the township. It was 
changed to a grist-mill about 1835. and at once 
achieved a reputation for the fine quality of its 
flour. This mill was operated for many years, 
during which time it passed through the hands 
of a number of different owners. 

Joseph Cole, who settled in what is now 
Troy Township, built the first sawmill here in 
1820. About 1823, he erected a gristmill. The 
first meal that was ground was used in powder- 
ing the hair of Newman Haven, the mill- 
wright. The first dam that was built was a 
crude affair of the type we have already de- 
schibed. It was carried away by a freshet, and 
was replaced by a more substantial one. The 
owner of this dam had a narrow escape on one 
occasion, that illustrates the hazards taken by 
the early pioneers, while the rescue by his son 
shows their ability to quickly grasp a situation 
and to do the right thing at the right time on 
the spur of the moment. We quote the fol- 
lowing narrative of the event: "It seems that 
the water had forced its way through a weak 
place in the dam. gradually increasing the 
crevice until it had washed out a large hole in 
the bottom, through which the water was 
pouring with great velocity. Mr. Cole, seeing 
the danger that threatened the rest of the dam. 
immediately got a corps of workmen and be- 
gan repairing the break. While standing, 
looking down into the hole, superintending the 
filling, he lost his balance and fell into the boil- 
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swept through the dam into the deep water be- 
yond. Hugh Cole was engaged in hauling 
logs to help repair the dam, and was just re- 
turning with one when he saw his father fall 
into the hole. The next moment he saw him 
struggling in the branches of a submerged 
sycamore tree, which had floated over the dam 
a few days previous, and into which the cur- 
rent had carried him. He sprang to the 
ground, and, cutting the hame string, took 
one of the horses out, jumped upon his back, 
swam him across the river to where a "dug- 
out" was tied, and, pushing that into the 
streams, paddled to where his father was, and 
brought him to shore. It was found upon ex- 
amination that Mr. Cole's right arm was dis- 
located and that he was otherwise badly 
bruised. He told his son that in three minutes 
more he would have been compelled to release 
his hold, and in all probability, he would have 
been drowned. It may not be out of place to 
give another instance connected with this dam, 
that resulted more fatally to one party, at least. 
In 1832, Thomas Willey and Nathaniel Cozard 
attempted to cross the river just above the 
dam, in an old "dug-out." It seems that neither 
of the men had had much experience with that 
kind of a craft, and, as the river was high and 
the current swift, they were carried over the 
dam. By a strange coincidence, Hugh Cole 
was riding along the bank and saw the men 
pass over. Dashing his horse into the angry 
waters just below the dam, he seized Willey by 
the hair as he was going down the last time, 
and brought him safely to shore. Cozard was 
carried down the stream and drowned. His 
body was found soon after about a mile below 
the dam." Lyman Main built a dam and saw 
mill on "Horseshoe Creek," in 1832, and ran 
the mill for a number of years. Two years 
later, Timothy Main erected a saw mill on the 
same stream, near the line between Oxford 
and Troy Township. It did service for a 
number of years, but disappeared like the other 
mills of those days. 

The first mill in Thompson Township was 
one for grinding grist, erected near the mouth 
of Fulton's Creek by James Cochran, about 
1827. Previous to this time, milling for the 



settlers in this township was done at Millville, 
which, as distances were counted in those 
days, was "handy." A few years later, Ros- 
well Field, who came into the settlement from 
Canada, about the same time as Cochran, built 
a saw mill on the same site, and rebuilt the 
grist mill, which by that time was showing the 
ravages of time. The mill now owned and 
operated by Bruce Charles on Fulton Creek, 
in Thompson township, was built in 1834 by 
Roswell Fields on the site where James Coch- 
ran had built a grist mill in 1827. At his death, 
the mill passed to Roswell Fields' son, Sam- 
uel, who sold it to Simon Charles, the father 
of the present owner, in 1859. The original 
up-and-down saw and gearing are still pre- 
served at the mill. The sills, braces and all 
of the siding used in the construction of the 
building are of black walnut. Power is now 
furnished by a 25-horse-power steam engine 
and a 14-horse-power gasoline engine. The 
oldest mill building now standing is that owned 
by George Mulzer of Liberty Township. Mr. 
Mulzer says that he has records that show that 
this building was originally erected during the 
first few years of the nineteenth century by a 
man named Hinder. D. W. C. Lugenbeel 
states that one of his classmates at the Ohio 
Wesleyan University was Harry Lathrop, 
whose father began operating this mill about 
the time of the second war with England, and 
continued to do so until late in the 40's. At 
that time a grist mill and an up-and-down saw 
mill were located here. The next owner of 
whom we have knowledge was James Walcott, 
who had the property for ten years, and sold it 
to Murray Case, who, a few months later, 
transferred the mill to Herman Mulzer, the 
father of George Mulzer, who for many years 
was a partner in the business and now retains 
an equal interest in the property with his fa- 
ther's estate. The hewn timbers of the original 
building are still in a perfect state of preserva- 
tion. Nineteen years ago a new saw mill was 
installed, and in 1897. a 50-horse-power en- 
gine was purchased. This power is supple- 
mented by the natural water-powei. Flour, 
buckwheat flour and chop feed are still manu- 
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The first saw mill in Thompson Township 
was built in 1830, by Jacob Swartz. About 
1S63, Clark Decker built a saw mill in the ex- 
treme northeastern portion of the township on 
the Scioto River, and in 1887, H. P. Pickrell, 
who had run a mill at Ostrander, built a large 
grist mill on the site which had been occupied 
by Cone's woolen mill. 

The first saw mill in Concord Township 
was built on Mill Creek by Col. Sebum Hinton, 
one of the first settlers. He did a large lumber 
business, and also rafted logs and lumber down 
the Scioto to Columbus, and even down to the 
Ohio River. He also built a grist mill. The 
date when this mill was erected has long been 
forgotten, but we know that it was enlarged 
in 1838, and that on account of the growth of 
the business, new machinery was placed in it 
a few years after that. He sold the mill to 
Jabez Cole, who sold the property a few years 
later to Fred Decker, who finally sold it to a 
man named Cruikshank and bought the mill at 
Millville, or Warrensburg, as the village is 
now called. After that it passed through the 
hands of several owners, one of whom, Dr. 
Blymer, made extensive improvements in it. At 
a later date it was owned by Dr. Morrison, at 
one time a practicing physician of Delaware. 
It is not known when or by whom the first saw 
mill was erected in Brown Township, but it 
was several years prior to 1830. The mill was 
located on Alum Creek, about three miles north 
of Eden, and never attained any importance. 
In 1830, Ezekiel Longwell built a saw mill on 
that stream, within the limits of the village of 
Eden. Later, when it was becoming some- 
what dilapidated, it came into the possession of 
'William K. Thrall, who repaired it and also 
built a grist mill to run in connection with it. 
The mill was operated by different owners un- 
til about twenty or twenty-five years ago, 
when it was destroyed by fire. 

The first saw mill in Porter Township was 
built by Samuel Dowell, a native of Alary- 
land, who settled in this locality about 1830. 
The "County History," published in 1880, 
says that the mill was built on the head-wa- 
ters of Sugar Creek, and passed from Dowell 
to his adopted son. George Deets. who ran it 



for many years. About 1832, Rev. Henry 
Davey. a "Dunkard" preacher, built a saw 
mill about half a mile down the stream from 
the Dowell mill. Another early mill was 
owned by George Synder and was also located 
on Sugar Creek. About the same time. Cham- 
ber's mills were built on the Big Walnut, about 
a mile and a half north of East Liberty. A mill 
of much more recent origin was operated by 
Emmett Carnes for sawing lumber and grind- 
ing feed. It is probably twenty years since 
this mill was abandoned. Because of the mill- 
ing facilities established in the older nearby 
settlements, no mills were built in Oxford 
Township until 1832. In that year Milton 
Pierce and Henry Riley erected a mill where 
Basin Branch empties into Alum Creek. It 
was operated many years until it became 
decrepit from old age and hard usage. In 
1846. Lewis Powers bought the mill from Joel 
Coles and rebuilt it. He ran it until about 
1849, when he sold it to Rev. Benjamin Mar- 
ton, a Baptist minister. He raised a good deal 
of flax, and so changed the mill into a flax 
mill. The property still remains in the Martin 
family, but the mill is no more, having been 
abandoned about twenty years ago. About the 
same time that Pierce and Riley built their 
mill, Hosea Waters started a grist mill a lit- 
tle farther up the stream. The "nigger-head" 
buhr-stones were run by horse-power. Slow 
as was this method of making flour, it was a 
great improvement over the old custom, born 
of necessity, of going from ten to twenty miles 
to mill. 

The first saw- mill in Trenton Township was 
built in 1835, by Middleton Perfect and Haz- 
ard Adams. The same year, John Van Sickle 
built the first grist mill in the township. It 
was located on the Big Walnut, about half a 
mile northeast of Sanburv. E. M. Condit 
bought this mill from Van Sickle in 1855 and 
operated it until 1862, when he sold it to 
Jacob Boyd. What was known as the old 
Brailey mill was built on the creek, about half 
a mile below the Van Sickle mill, in 1845. 
This mill came into the possession of Henry 
Boyd, and at a later date he purchased the 
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and transferred most of the machinery from it 
to the Brailey mill. Other early saw-mills 
there were, of which little is known. One of 
these was owned by a man named Stockwell ; 
another was located on Perfect's Creek and 
was run for a number of years by J. Condit. 
Alvin P. Condit had a mill on the north branch 
of Rattlesnake Run. At an early date a man 
named Crane built a saw mill on Big- Walnut 
at the mouth of Rattlesnake Run, just on the 
township line. This was operated by one, 
Williams for some years. The "Old Stone 
Mill," as it has long been known, located on 
the west side of the Olentangy, about a mile 
north of Delaware, was built by Fred Decker 
and H. J. L. Brown, at an early day, probably 
during the '30's. Many men identified with 
the early milling interests of the county were 
at one time or another owners or part owners 
in this mill. Among them we may name Reu- 
ben Zeigler, James Slough, Charles Wottring 
and Anthony Smith. The latter was the last 
one who operated the mill, which was aban- 
doned perhaps thirty years ago. 

About thirty-five years ago, G. W. Brown 
and G. W. Hughes bought what had been a 
carding-mill in Galena, and began the manu- 
facture of corn-planters and hay-rakes in a 
small way. A few years later, James R. 
Smvthe bought Brown's interest, and the firm 
name of Hughes & Smythe was adopted, and 
has been retained to the present time. The 
factory was destroyed by fire in 1896, and was 
at mice replaced by a two-story frame building. 
The business employs about fourteen people, 
who annually turn out about 1,200 hay-rakes, 
8.000 to 10.000 corn-planters, ami 15,000 to 
20,000 animal-pokes. The firm of Wheaton 
X' ( 'ummings of Sunbury also manufacture 
from 8,000 to 10,000 pokes annually. A rake 
factory was started in 1853 in what is now 
the village of Ashley, but was operated only 
about a year when the property was sold to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. 

CHAIR MANUFACTURE. 

In 1870, Messrs. R. G. Lybrand, T. F. 
Powell and Charles W. Clippinger formed a 



co-partnership under the name of The Dela- 
ware Chair Company, for the manufacture of 
chairs. John G. Strain, an old chair-maker, 
win > had been making splint chairs and selling 
them from a wagon in a small way, induced 
these gentlemen to take up the manufacture 
of these chairs on a larger scale. A frame 
building, 28 x 60 feet, two stories high, was 
erected on East Winter Street. Power was 
taken by a wire cable from the planing-mill 
of Clippinger & Company, to the south, now 
a part of the McKenzie mill. Mr. Strain was 
placed in charge of the factory, and while he 
was not so successful as had been anticipated, 
he demonstrated that there was a demand for 
the product. Mr. R. G. Lybrand, who was 
engaged in the stove business at that time, 
gave it up in order to devote his entire time 
to the chair factory. The first year's business 
was small, but the Chicago fire, which occurred 
in 1 87 1, created a demand for all kinds of 
furniture, and these chairs rose rapidly in 
popular favor. The business increased so 
rapidly that additions to the factory were built 
in 1872. '?$ and '74, giving the Company 
a building finally that was 74 x 100 feet and 
three stories high. In 1871 Mr. Clippinger 
sold his interest to Samuel Lybrand, and the 
business was continued as a co-partnership un- 
til 1885, when it was incorporated by R. G. 
Lybrand. T. E. Powell, A. Lybrand, Jr.. and 
Samuel Lybrand. The capital stock is $150,- 
000. The present officers of the company are: 
R. G. Lybrand president and treasurer; A. 
Lybrand, vice-president and secretary. In 
1880, they moved the business to the buildings 
that had been erected and used by the Dela- 
ware Manufacturing Company on Flax Street. 
The property now comprises eight acres of 
land and six or seven substantial stone and 
brick buildings. The company manufactures 
all kinds of chairs. They were pioneers in 
the manufacture of the double-cane seat, and 
all this class of work has come to be known 
in the trade as the "Delaware chair." The 
product of this factory is shipped all over the 
country. About 125 people are employed in 
this factory, to say nothing of the large num- 
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LUMBER AXD FURNITURE. 

The McKenzie Lumber Company. This 
company's plant is located on the site of an 
old ashery. Here John A. Clippinger and 
George \Y. Perry built a three-story brick 
mill in [866, the first two stories of which 
were used for a planing-mill. They manu- 
factured all kinds of interior finish, including 
doors, sash and blinds. Later Mr. Clippinger 
became sole proprietor, and after a time failed 
in business. The mill then remained idle for 
some time. In the spring of 1896 McKenzie 
& Thompson came to Delaware and bought the 
old Clippinger mill. At first they employed 
about thirty people. In 1902 Mr. Thompson 
retired, and F. E. McKenzie and P. H. Said 
became members of the firm, the name of 
which became The McKenzie Lumber Com- 
pany. They have five mills : One at Delaware, 
where they employ about forty-five people; 
one at Norton, where they employ about twenty 
people. This was established in 1899. The 
company also has a portable mill at Sunbury. 
The other mills are outside of Delaware 
County. Altogether, about one hundred peo- 
ple are employed by this company. Their 
plant in Delaware is on a lot including about 
five acres. The teaming and logging work- 
requires sixty head of horses. About thirty- 
six carloads of sucker-rods are manufactured 
each year. A large business is also done in 
buggy and wagon stock. From 4,000.000 to 
5,000.000 feet of lumber is manufactured an- 
nually, and this is shipped all oves the United 
States and to foreign countries. 

In 1900 C. C. Dunlap started a steam saw- 
mill on land leased from the Hocking Valley 
Railroad. A building 75 x 125 feet was 
erected. In 1903, a planing-mill was also es- 
tablished. About 300,000 feet of hardwood 
lumber are sawed and manufactured annually, 
including a large quantity of wagon stock, 
which is marketed principally in South Bend, 
Indiana. About 300 carloads of softwood lum- 
ber is handled annually, the business being 
conducted on both a wholesale and retail 
basis. 



The firm of Clark & Battenfield was estab- 
lished January 1. 1904. Their business, h 
ever, is one that dates its beginning back at 
least thirty-five years, when Frank C. Ger- 
hart started in the lumber business at the rail- 
road crossing on South Sandusky Street. Dur- 
ing all these years a planing-mill has been run 
as a part of the business. The manufacture of 
cement building blocks was begun here in the 
spring of 1903. All kinds of building ma- 
terial and supplies and coal are handled by this 
firm. 

Jeffrey Brothers saw- and planing-mill at 
Ashley. This mill was established about i860 
by Lewis Powers. Sometime in the early 
'80's Mr. Powers took his son into partnership. 
Evidently the business was not successful, be- 
cause in August, 1906, it was sold at sheriff's 
sale to A. L., O. S., M.. and I. B. Jeffrey, who 
with their father, composed the firm of F. 
M. Jeffrey & Sons. The saw-mill building is 
22 x 86 feet and the planing-mill is 40 x 50 
feet. Each mill has its own engine and boiler. 
They manufacture about 500,000 feet of hard- 
wood lumber annually, and they also do a 
retail business in softwood lumber and interii >r 
finish amounting to $10,000 to $15,000 an- 
nually. They also have a well-equipped ma- 
chine-shop, in which they do all kinds of ma- 
chine repairing. 

J. T. Erwin established a saw-mill at Sun- 
bury in 1898. He handles about a hundred 
carload of hardwood lumber each year. He 
manufactures hardwood frames for buildings 
and wagon stock, and also exports a large 
amount of white oak in large dimensions. At 
times as many as twelve men are employed 
here. 

The Ashley Lodge and Church Furniture 
Company. This business was established by 
W. W. Stratton, in 1869, to manufacture a 
line of furniture such as the name of the com- 
pany implies. Until 1900, he sold direct to 
lodges and other organizations. In 1900 the 
policy of selling only at wholesale was adopted. 
In 1905 the business was incorporated under 
its present title. C. S. Aldrich is president, 
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Stratton is secretary and manager. The pres- 
ent building', which was originally an opera 
house, has been occupied for nearly thirty 
years. The company numbers among its cus- 
tomers every regalia house in the United 
States. Some of the outfits which it manu- 
factures for lodges sell for as much as $1,500. 
The business totals from $15,000 to $20,000 
a year and furnishes employment to about 
twenty men. 

About 1903 Messrs. Keys & Worboys of 
New York City established a plant in Dela- 
ware for the manufacture of barrel hoops and 
staves. This business was purchased on De- 
cember 1, 1906, by J. K. Wylie, who has 
doubled the capacity of the plant. About 
thirty men are employed, and about 30.000 
hoops and 36,000 staves are turned out daily, 
the product being shipped to cooperages all 
over the country. 

The Union Handle Manufactory, at Ash- 
ley, was established in the spring of 1905, by 
Harry D. Hale. He makes all kinds of fork, 
hoe. rake, shovel and "D" handles ; also runs 
a saw-mill, and ships about a hundred car- 
loads of lumber a year. He ships about a 
carload of wagon stock each week. The main 
building is 200x46 feet, and in the spring of 
1908, an addition 36x50 feet in dimensions 
was erected and equipped with special machin- 
ery for the manufacture of "D" handles. The 
power is furnished by one 60 H. P. and one 
50 H. P. engine and one 70 H. P. and one 
80 H. P. boiler. About thirty-five men are 
employed in the mill and a like number in 
logging. 

FLOUR MILLS. 

Flour-mill at Sunbury. The history of 
this mill dates back to about 1842, when 
Samuel Peck and T. P. Meyers built a saw- 
mill half a mile due east from Sunbury. This 
was sold to James Bailey in 1848. He added 
a grist-mill, and in course of time sold the 
property to John and Henry Boyd. In 1872 
they sold the mill to G. J. Burrer, one of the 
present owners. Three years later Mr. Burrer 
moved the mill to his present location in Sun- 



bury. The mill was remodelled in 1882 and 
new machinery was installed. About that 
time improvements in milling machinery were 
being invented at a rapid rate, and so in 1887, 
the mill was again remodelled. Six years 
later, his present elevator, having a capacity 
of 16,000 bushels, was erected. In 1907 Mr. 
Burrer's son, Parker, was admitted to part- 
nedship, the firm name of G. J. Burrer & Son 
being adopted. Their brand of flour is "White 
Loaf," and the present capacity of the mill 
is eighty barrels per day, in addition to the 
meal and other feed which they grind. Power 
is furnished by an 80 H. P. Cooper engine. 

The flour-mill at Ashley was established 
in 1875. when the Ashley Milling Company 
was formed by M. B. Shoemaker, Dell Coomer 
and Joseph Cole, whose firm name was Shoe- 
maker, Cole & Company. They erected the 
present mill building, in which they installed 
old-fashioned buhrs. It had a capacity of 
fifty barrels a day, and their brand of Hour, 
"Diamond Wedding," was widely known and 
used for many years. It has always been a 
steam mill, the power being supplied by a 
65 H. P. slide-valve engine. The mill was 
purchased by J. B. Miller & Company in the 
late '70*s, and in 1882, they remodelled it, 
installing modern flour-making machinery and 
increasing the capacity of the mill to 100 bar- 
rels. They sold out to O. Jones, John Doty 
and Frank Miller about 1886 or '87. After 
being owned by several other parties, the mill 
came into the possession of the present own- 
ers, L. E. Shoemaker and W. M. Shoemaker, 
who have adopted the firm name of the Shoe- 
maker Milling Company. "Mother's Choice" 
is the brand of flour now made, and besides 
having a large sale in all the surrounding 
towns, an average of 650 barrels a month is 
shipped to Columbus. 

The Powell Milling Company was organ- 
ized in August, 1907, by Frederick H. Jaycox, 
H. E. Sharp and Dr. Charles F. Talley. They 
installed a Miller 40 H. P. gasoline engine, 
which consumes only three gallons of gasoline 
per day. "Straight Grade" is the brand manu- 
factured, the capacity of the mill being forty 
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feed is also ground. As the machinery which 
was installed in this mill was brought from 
an old mill on the Scioto l\i\er. it may be well 
to state here such facts as we have been able 
to obtain concerning that site, which is in 
Concord Township, about two miles below 
Bellepoint and a mile north of the Girls' In- 
dustrial Home. So far as we know, the first 
mill here was built by a man named Fred- 
ericks. It was burned in 1809, and at that 
time was owned by Lee Went. In 1876, David 
W'illey and Thomas Slough built a mill at this 
point. W'illey sold out to his partner after 
two years. After some time, the mill passed 
into the hands of James Slough. About 1880 
his estate sold it to Daniel Stokes. About 
1889 he sold the mill to Erastus Stone, who 
sold it about 1893 to John Jaycox. From him 
the property passed to his son, Frederick H. 
Jaycox. He put in a steam plant, which he 
later replaced with a gasoline engine. As 
above noted, Mr. Jaycox dismantled the mill 
and removed the machinery to Powell, in Oc- 
tober. 1907, so the old Magnolia mill, as it 
was called by W'illey & Slough, has doubtless 
seen its last days of service. 

What is now commonly spoken of as 
Snyder's mill, which is located at 69 East 
Central Avenue. Delaware, will soon be torn 
di wn and even the building will be a thing 
of the past. In 1846 Fred Decker started a 
flour mill here, the building having been pre- 
viously used as a woolen-mill by Col. Benjamin 
F. Allen. Later the mill was purchased by 
Charles W'ottring, Frank Miller and J. H. 
Pumphrey. The mill changed hands fre- 
quently. Charles W'ottring being identified with 
it most of the time until about 1880, when 
E. Snyder purchased W r ottring's interest. Up 
to that time the capacity of the mill had been 
fifty barrels. Snyder remodelled the mill, in- 
creasing its capacity to two hundred barrels 
per clay. Later his sons Edward. Arthur and 
Peter ran the mill under the firm name of Sny- 
der Brothers, Edward Snyder eventually be- 
coming the sole proprietor. In 1880, the ele- 
vator was built and other improvements made 
at an outlay of something like S.10.000. On 
April jo, 1906. the property was sold to the 



Electric Roller Milling Company, and they 
closed the mill. 

The Electric Roller Milling Company of 
Delaware was established in 1904 by Kaiser 
& Gwynn. At that time a 25-barrel mill was 
built, the dimensions of the building: beine 
90 x 40 feet. Mr. Kaiser retired from the 
firm in 1905, and a corporation having the 
present title was formed. The following gen- 
tlemen comprised the Board of Directors and 
held the official positions indicated : E. F. 
Gwynn. president; T. J. Griffin, treasurer; J. 
G. Rosenthal, secretary ; John F. Gaynor. The 
same year the capacity of the mill was in- 
creased to 100 barrels, and the elevator ca- 
pacity was increased to 20,000 bushels. The 
principal brands of flour made are. Pride of 
Delaware, Acme, Electric and Silver Dust. 
This is the only flour-mill now in the city. 
The company also does a large business in 
grain, feed, salt and coal. 

DISTILLERIES. 

There are men yet living who can remem- 
ber when it was thought necessary to serve 
Heritor at a church "raising." and it was the 
usual thing for a man who made whiskey to 
contribute as many gallons as he could afford 
to the salary of the minister. It was also 
customary for merchants to keep whiskey and 
glasses where they were freely accessible to 
their customers, on the theory that a liberal 
use of this lubricant facilitated trade. While 
the early settlers brought their taste for liquor 
with them, it was not so much the demand 
for whiskey as it was the market which its 
manufacture made for corn that led to the es- 
tablishment of numerous stills at such an early 
date. The first still in Berkshire Township 
was operated by Nicholas Manville in con- 
nection with his grist-mill, which was located 
near the present town of Sunbury. This lie- 
came the property of Major Strong about 
[817. He ran it until 1825. when he sold the 
still to Eleazar Gaylord. When the business 
was it its height, it was carried on in a two- 
story stone building. Here a large part of 
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converted into whiskey. In those days there 
were no revenue officials to bother distillers, 
who had a home market for their product, 
thus eliminating the expense of transportation 
and a selling force. The result was that pure 
whiskey was sold for twenty cents a gallon. 
While the whiskey of those days was the 
"straight goods," and the use of prune juice, 
etc.. in connection therewith had not been dis 
covered, its intoxicating qualities were not in 
any way diminished, and there were those who 
made intemperate use of the beverage, to their 
own shame and the disgust of the community. 
The hoys had a method of punishment which, 
while it afforded them amusement, gave some 
expression to the sentiment of orderly citizens 
and at the same time taught the offender to in- 
dulge his tastes in the seclusion of some private 
retreat. When a man was discovered in a 
state of helpless inebriation, each arm and leg 
would be seized by a boy, and laying their 
victim face downward on a barrel, the boys 
would roll him until his disordered stomach 
was relieved of its contents and the man was 
in some measure sobered up. It was seldom 
that more than one or two applications of this 
remedy were necessary to accomplish the de- 
sired result. A story is told of one inveterate 
individual in Sunbury, who was familiarly 
known as "Uncle Tommy," which we will 
quote. He "seemed to defy the correctional 
force of the old method, and a more stringent 
method had to he adopted. He was seized one 
time, thrust into hogshead, and rolled some 
fifty yards into the creek. The treatment was 
severe, but the cure was radical for the time." 
Colonel Byxbe had a still in the cellar of 
his grist-mill on what is now East Central 
Avenue. Here his customers were wont to 
regale themselves with sundry strong potations 
while waiting to be seiwed by the other de- 
partment of the establishment. Another still 
which is often referred to in the records of 
those early days was built by Dr. Reuben 
Lamb on Delaware Run, nearly opposite the 
spot where the Edwards gymnasium now 
stands. For several years Rutherford Hayes 
(the father of President Hayes) who came 
to Delaware in 1817, was a partner with the 



doctor, but he was noted for his temperate 
u>e of the whiskey he made. 

His grist-mill at what is now Warrensburg 
proving unprofitable, Philip Horshaw. in 1815, 
began the manufacture of liquor in a small 
still-house near his mill. He continued in 
this business until 1822, when he sold out to 
Thomas Jones. He remained in the business 
a number of years and then sold out to Jo- 
seph Dunlap, who operated the still until 1S36, 
when the entire business died out. David Bush 
built a small distiller}' in Troy Township at 
an early day, but it never amounted to much. 

Two distilleries were set no in Berlin 
Ti iwnship at an early date by Nathaniel Hall. 
In 1816 Isaac and Chester Lewis built a still 
near Cheshire. Armstrong & Frost carried 
on the business. These resorts did not last 
long, for it seems, the drinking habit was not 
so general here as elsewhere. Jeremiah Curtis, 
who was the first settler in what is now Genoa 
Township, had a still in connection with his 
saw and grist mills. 

In 1826 C. P. Elsbre and a man named 
Trip formed a partnership and began the 
manufacture of liquor in the southwestern part 
of Orange Township. They located their still 
near a spring in the woods, but the water be- 
ing so strongly impregnated with iron as to 
lie unsuited to their purpose, they changed their 
location to ,t point on the Whetstone. Here 
they manufactured about two barrels of whis- 
key a day for over a year. Air. Elsbre then 
sold his interest to a man named Thomas, and 
about six months later the business was dis- 
continued. 

It is said that near the close of the war 
Walter Bump ran a "moonshine" distillery in 
a quiet way in Kingston Township, hut the 
Government officials soon put an end to his 
operations. 

LEATHER. 

The early pioneers had not been here long 
before there was a strong demand for leather, 
hut those who established tan-yards found it 
difficult to supply this material because of the 
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wqodchuck skins and an occasional deerskin 
could be had. There was no market for cattle, 
and the settlers, therefore, had only as many 
as were needed for the working of their farms 
Later the hogs which had been turned loose 
in the woods and had bred prolifically were 
a source of supply. After running wild for 
six or seven years they had hides of remarkable 
thickness, and these, when tanned, supplied a 
coarse tough leather which was used in mak- 
ing harness and horse-collars. Later a mur- 
raine got among the cattle, large numbers of 
which died, thus furnishing for a time a good 
supply of leather, but at a serious loss. 

The first tannery in the town of Delaware 
was started by Capt. Joab Norton in 1809, in 
a two-story building which he had purchased 
or erected in the fall of the previous year. It 
was built into the side of the hill just north 
of where the Edwards gymnasium stands. 
The ravine south of this hill has been filled up, 
but at that time, only the top story of the 
building showed above the hill on its southern 
face. The lower story of the house was used 
for the works, the vats being located just north 
of the building. A free-flowing spring a little 
east of the building and well up on the hill- 
side supplied the family and the tannery with 
water. Here he also made boots. Norton be- 
came afflicted with the ague, and in 1S10. he 
sold the property to a man named Koester. 
The latter was a carpenter, and purchased the 
tannery as a speculation. In 1813 he per- 
suaded Norton to return and work it for him, 
but the Captain was here only a few months 
when he died. The old building soon fell 
into disuse, and for years stood in a rickety, 
tumble-down condition, with its leaky roof of 
1' ose warped-up shingles, its windows stuffed 
with old hats and rags, the doors with broken 
hinges and latches, slamming with every gust 
of wind, and bearing all the other marks of 
an abandoned, tottering old tenement. This 
old building stood for thirty or forty years 
unused, and needed but little more than these 
signs of decay to get it a reputation of being 
haunted. Later a man named Hull had a tan- 
yard at this location, which he operated until 
sometime in the '60's. when he sold the prop- 



erty to Ohio Wesleyan University. George 
Storm, who came to Delaware in 1809. worked 
in the old Norton tannery for a while, and 
then started in business for himself on the easl 
side of Sandusky Street, about a square north 
of the present Court House. He continued in 
business here for many years, supplying the 
country for miles around with leather. At an 
early day Tom Wasson established a tannery 
on Washington Street, just north of Delaware 
Run. Robert O. Brown bought him nut and 
ran the business until 1855, when he aban- 
doned it and divided the property into town 
lots. John Lee had a tan-yard on the north 
side of Central Avenue, just west of Franklin 
Street. This property passed into Robert O. 
Brown's hands about 1852, and he closed 
it up. 

The first tannery in Berlin Township was 
built by Wilbur Caswell in 1817. It was lo- 
cated on Alum Creek flats in Cheshire for a 
number of years, and was then moved on the 
hill, where the business was continued until 
[858. As early as 1816, William Myers sank 
vats and began the manufacture of leather a 
half a mile southeast of Sunbury, across the 
creek from the saw and grist mill. Three 
years later, a man named Whitehead started 
a tannery at Galena, and did 2 thriving busi- 
ness. The enterprise was carried on by dif- 
ferent owners until 1873, when the business 
was discontinued. 

The Dunhams had a tannery on the Berk- 
shire Road at an early date. A tannery was 
started in Oxford Township in 1824 by 
George Claypool, just south of Windsor Cor- 
ners. It was owned at a later date by Jonas 
Foust. and still later by James J. Sherwood. 
In 1845. Israel Waters started the first tannery 
in Thompson Township. It was located near the 
site later occupied by Pickering's mills. The 
first tan-yard in Trenton Township was oper- 
ated at an early date by Silas Ogden. but 
no definite knowledge of it has been pre- 
served. 

TEXTILE PRODUCTS. 

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industries was not even dreamed of, and even 
if factories had been established, wherein were 
made all the articles of apparel that constitute 
the clothing of a family, the expense of getting 
the goods to the consumer would have placed 
them beyond his reach. The same conditions 
placed the markets for his products beyond 
the reach of the farmer, and so it was that 
each pioneer family was reduced to the ele- 
mental state of providing for its own necessi- 
ties with its own labor and materials produced 
at home. Every farmer raised flax, and this 
with wool from his sheep constituted the sup- 
ply of raw materials. The operations of card- 
ing, spinning, weaving, fulling, etc., were all 
performed at home, and as with quilting, and 
corn-husking, wherever possible, "bees" were 
held in order to combine pleasure with the 
work, the opportunities for social intercourse 
in those days being few indeed. And so it 
was that when a family had twenty-five or 
thirty yards of cloth, to full, a company of a 
dozen or fifteen of the young men of the neigh- 
borhood would gather. Taking off boots and 
st> ickings, they would seat themselves in a 
circle, just far enough apart that their feet 
would meet near the center. The goods to be 
fulled were piled into this ring, hot water and 
soft soap were poured on, and the goods were 
fulled by the men kicking the pile towards the 
opposite side of the circle, all hands kicking 
in unison, is it were. An endless rope, held 
tightly by all, kept them from falling off their 
seats. Of course, it would not be long before 
the suds upon the floor would be knee deep, 
and then some mischievous chap would ac- 
cidentally kick his neighbor's seat from under 
him, sending the, unfortunate victim into the 
suds which were splashed to the ceiling. On 
these occasions pumpkin pie and cider were 
served as refreshments. Later, it was dis- 
covered that goods could be fulled equally well 
by placing them in a tub or barrel with soap 
and warm writer and pounding the mass with 
a heavy wooden pestle attached to the end of 
a stick, a method which was also used in wash- 
ing clothes before the days of washboards. 
After a time fulling-mills were built, provided 
with apparatus for carding and spinning. The 



motive power was a tread-wheel worked by 
oxen, and is described as follows : "The wheel 
was laid flat upon its hub, the axle being in- 
clined a little from perpendicular so as to af- 
ford an inclined surface on the wheel. In place 
of spokes, the upper surface of the wheel 
formed an inclined platform provided with 
cleats, upon which the oxen traveled. The up- 
per end of the axle was provided with a spur- 
wheel, which, acting upon gearing on a hori- 
zontal shafting, communicated the motion to 
the machinery of the mill." One such old mill 
is now used by Charles Wheaton of Sunbury 
as a stable. It was built early in the last cen- 
tury by B. H. Taylor and B. Chase and did 
service for many years. 

In 1818, E. Barrett & Company started a 
woolen-mill, just north of where Colonel 
Byxbe had his saw and grist mills. This old 
woolen-mill is known to the present genera- 
tion as the Snyder & Star flour-mill. A large 
two-story brick building was erected near the 
mill, in which to board the hands. This build- 
ing, the roof of which has been lowered thir- 
teen feet, is now owned and occupied by the 
Delaware Ice and Coal Company. It was 
generally understood that L. H. Cowles was 
Barrett's partner, and the prime mover in the 
enterprise. Titus King afterward took 
Cowles's place in the firm, the name of which 
became Barrett & King. In 1827 the prop- 
erty and business were sold to Colonel Ben- 
jamin F. Allen, who. two years later, intro- 
duced a carpet-loom. He wove one piece of 
carpet that attracted considerable attention. 
During this time, his mill was rented for a 
period by J. W. Cone, who had learned the 
trade there. In the latter part of 1829, John 
Moses and Seth H. Allen purchased the mill. 
These men were not more successful in the 
business than the others, and the mill finally 
lay idle for a long time until it was turned into 
a grist-mill. In 1829 Colonel Meeker added 
machinery for carding and fulling to the equip- 
ment of his flour-mill at Stratford. Gunn & 
Pickett operated a woolen-mill for some years 
in Liberty Township, about two miles below 
Stratford. The property was bought by James 
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went down. In 1844 J- W. Cone established 
a woolen-mill in Thompson Township, which 
for thirty years was the pride of this section. 
The mill was run by water-power until [868, 
when steam-power was introduced. In 1874 
sparks from the chimney set fire to the mill, 
and it was destroyed. Luther Cone, a brother 
of J. W. Cue, built a woolen-mill in Marl- 
borough Township about 1846. This mill 
was operated successfully for a number of 
years, and was then purchased and remodelled 
into a grist-mill by a man named Kline. In 
1869 the firm of Page & Stevenson started a 
woolen-mill in the third story of the Clippinger 
planing-mill. A little later, W. K. Algire pur- 
chased Page's interest, and the firm name be- 
came Algire & Stevenson. In August, 1873, 
a stock company with a capital of $30,000 
was incorporated under the name of The Dela- 
ware Woolen Company. The following men 
were directors and officers: Chauncy Bradley, 
president; Charles Arthur, Dr. J. H. White, J. 
G. Grove. H. F. Brown and John Wolfley. A. 
B. Stevenson was superintendent. They built 
a brick building 40 x 90 feet, on Union Street, 
besides a boiler and engine-room and a dye- 
n k >in. It was well equipped with textile ma- 
chinery, and the company started in the manu- 
facture of flannels and blankets. Later a line 
of cashmeres was added. The industry fur- 
nished employment to about twenty-five peo- 
ple, but was never much of a success from a 
financial standpoint. About 1877 or 'j8, the 
company failed, and was sold at auction by the 
sheriff for $13,840. The following gentlemen, 
all of whom had been connected with the com- 
pany, were the purchasers: Charles Arthur, 
who became president of the company ; ]< ihn 
Wolfley, Charles Steinbeck. ]. Hyatt, J. G. 
Gn.ve.' Dr. J. H. White, H. F. Brown. They 
ran the mill until some time late in the "8o's. 
when, the business proving unprofitable, it was 
closed up. • After that several different manu- 
facturing enterprises were carried on in the 
building for short periods of time, and it was 
also used for a skating rink. Finally, in 1893. 
the building and lot were sold to Delaware 
County for use as an armory. 



In [855 James M. Hawes and D. S. Brig- 
ham, who came from the East, saw an oppor 
tunity to make profitable use of the large 
quantities of flax straw produced here, bin 
which there was no market. They interested 
Judge T. W. Powell in the venture, and a 
two-story factory, 40x50 feet was built and 
equipped with machinery for preparing the 
straw for market. It was found that the heavy 
freight expense absorbed all the profit, so in 
1857, the firm installed machinery for the 
manufacture of cotton baling. At the end of 
the first year, Mr. Hawes became the sole pro- 
prietor of the business, and at a -great expense 
re-equipped the factory for the manufacture 
of twines, burlaps, woolsacks and seamless 
grain-bags. In the meanwhile a company with 
a capital stock of $150,000 was incorporated 
under the name of the Delaware Manufactur- 
ing Company, of which W. W. Scarborough 
was president, Geoge F. Pierce, secretary, and 
James M. Hawes, agent. A large mill, two 
stories high, with an attic. 50 x 100 feet in di- 
mensions, was erected, and a 125-horsepower 
engine installed. At the close of the Civil 
War. the machinery was changed for the 
manufacture of bagging and cotton baling, and 
a warehouse 40 x 100 feet was added. The 
volume of business which was developed may 
be imagined from the fact that in 1870, 182 
persons were employed, the pay-roll amounting 
to $4,000 a month. The company went under 
in the panic of 1873, and the property is now- 
used by The Delaware Chair Company. 

The Delaware Underwear Company was 
established in the fall of 1902 by Messrs. E. 
D. Egerton and W. A. Morrison, and is the 
only enterprise of the kind in the county. In 
July, 1903. the business was incorporated with 
a capital stock of $50,000. The present offi- 
cers and directors of the company are : W. 
A. Morrison, president: F. M. Bauereis. vice- 
president: J. L. Anderson, secretary and treas- 
urer: John A. Shoemaker and Robert Sellers. 
The latter gentleman manages the factory at 
Galion. Muslin underwear was at first the 
product, but during the last three years, the 
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flannelette underwear, the latter at a branch 
establishment at Galion. Ohio, in the summer 
of 1907. During the busy season about one 
hundred hands are employed in the Delaware 
fact' ry, and five traveling men are kept busy 
disposing of the product, which goes all 1 iver 
the country. 

PAPER MILLS. 

Some time in the earlv '30's, Caleb How- 
ard, an enterprising, speculative sort of man, 
conceived the idea of establishing a paper-mill 
at what is now Stratford, and succeeded in 
interesting Judge Hosea Williams, a safe, 
cautious business man. in the project. In the 
spring of 1838, the old flouring-mill with the 
mill privileges and property were bought, the 
old dam replaced by a fine stone structure, and 
a paper-mill put in operation October 1, 1839. 
John Hoyt was the first superintendent, and 
gave the classic name of Stratford to the place. 
On October 30. 1840, a fire originating among 
the old rags by spontaneous combustion, did 
considerable damage to the interior of the 
building. In three months it was repaired and 
improved, and in the fall of 1844 Howard sold 
his interest to Hiram G. Andrews. In 1849 
the old flouring-mill was fitted up for the 
manufacture of wrapping paper, and turned out 
about half a ton a day, employing some ten 
hands. On February 2~. 1X57. the entire mills 
were burned, entailing a loss of $25,000. with 
an insurance of not over $10,000. In No- 
vember of [857, a stone building, two stories 
high, about 50 x 80 feet, with several additions, 
was built at a cost of some 830,000. By tin's 
time the mill was recognized a-- the must im- 
portant paper-mill west of the Alleghany 
Mountains. At the time of the lire in 1840. 
the firm had accounts to the amount of $10,- 

000 due it from the State, and in [861, they 
had a large contract with the State, which, 
owing to the unforseen and extraordinary rise 

1 if the paper market, they were compelled to 
ask to have rescinded. In 1871 J. H. Menden- 
hall became a partner: later Mr. Andrews re- 
tired. In 1K77. C. Hills, V. T. Hills, F. A. 
Hills and F. P. Hills, organized the Hills Pa- 



per Company and operated the mill for five 
years. F. P. Hills had charge of the business ; 
Frank Hills had charge of the manufacturing 
department. In 1872 they sold the business 
and property to Edsall & Mills, who operated 
it for a number of years. The property was 
finally sold to the C. D. & M. Railway, who 
converted the building into a power-house. 

OIL ENTERPRISES. 

In former times, when tlax was an im- 
portant crop, a valuable part of it was lost 
because the farmer had no facilities for ex- 
tracting the oil from the seeds which this plant 
produces in abundance. In 1835 Abel Moore 
began the manufacture of oil. At first the pro- 
cess was crude indeed. A large log with a 
hole mortised in it was set upright, and in 
this, bags containing the ground seed were 
placed. Wedges were driven in at the sides 
of the sacks, and in this way a pressure was 
maintained until a large part of the oil was 
extracted. A few years later, Robert Cun- 
ningham purchased the business and introduced 
a compound-lever press. Soon after that, in 
order to increase his capital, he gave C. F. 
Bradley an interest in the business in return 
for the use of certain sums of money. In a 
short time Mr. Bradley purchased his part- 
ner's interest, associating Edward Pratt with 
himself in the business. About a year later. 
Alexander Kilbourn bought Pratt's interest, 
and the business was removed from Franklin 
Street to Central Avenue, east of the river, 
where a hydraulic press and other water- 
power machinery were used in equipping the 
mill. In tlie winter of 1846. the dam washed 
out. and because of the uncertain power which 
the river afforded, they changed their location 
and steam-power was introduced. The busi- 
ness was enlarged and William Davis, Alex- 
ander Kilbourn and |. A. Burnham became 
members of the firm, which was known as Kil- 
bourn, Davis & Company. A foundry was 
added to the business in 1847. Several changes 
were made in the firm within a few years, re- 
sulting finally in simply replacing Mr. Davis 
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burned in 1850, but was immediately replaced. 
In 1855 Mr. Kilbourn died and .Messrs. Finch 
and Lamb were taken into the firm. In this 
year the business was divided, the oil enterprise 
being sold to Manley D. Covell and Edward 
Pratt, who removed the business to where the 
present stone structure stands. It changed 
hands several times until [862, when it was 
purchased by J. A. Barnes. He built a sti >ne 
mill, three stories high. The first-story walls 
are three feet thick, the second two and one- 
half feet and the third two feet. This is now 
' ccupied as a creamery by \Y. Z. Evans, at 
the northwest corner of Lake and Winter 
Streets. Barnes continued in business until 
the growing of flax in this part of the a >un- 
try was abandoned. 

FOUNDRIES, ETC. 

When Kilbourn, Davis &- Company started 
a foundry as above mentioned, they fitted up 
the building at the corner of Spring and San- 
dusky Streets. For the first year or two stoves 
were the only product: but Mr. J. A. Burnham 
being a practical machinist, the firm decided, 
in 1850, to engage in the manufacture of. 
steam-engines. The first of these was made 
fur Elijah Main's saw-mill. They also made 
the engine used by J. A. Barnes in his stone 
oil-mill. The business increased so rapidly 
that by 1854 they erected the large stone build- 
ing east of the river and beyond the railroad 
tin William Street. In i860 the property was 
purchased by J. C. Evans and Eugene Powell, 
but the following year Powell sold out to his 
partner and entered the army. For ten years 
a large business was carried on. As many as 
thirteen hundred plows were turned out here 
in a single year, besides engines and other ma- 
chinery. A revolving scraper, the invention 
of die proprietor of the machine shops, was 
manufactured quite extensively, as many as a 
hundred a week being made. In 1873 ule 
pn pert)' was sold to Smith. Wason & Car- 
penter, car-builders of Cleveland and Chatta- 
11 ■ " ga, lint on account of the panic, the plant 
was closed up a year later, there being in- 
sufficient business to keep it running. 



Numerous other manufacturing enter- 
prises have come upon the scene and passed 
eft", either because of mismanagement or for 
other reasons. Among these we may mention 
a company that was formed to manufacture 
wagons. For many years John McElroy had 
been manufacturing wagons in a small way, 
which, because of first-class materials and su- 
perior workmanship, gained a big reputation. 
Seeking to capitalize this reputation, a com- 
pany was formed, but in their eagerness for 
large and quick profits, lumber of inferior 
quality and not properly seasoned and cheap 
labor were employed, with the result that some- 
time early in the '8o's. the enterprise failed, 
after having sunk, it is said. $60,000. Halleck's 
Glove Factory was another venture that was 
started with great prospects about 1901, but 
went under after sinking thousands of dollars. 

The Delaware Fence Company was or- 
ganized in 1868 by A. J. Richards, the in- 
ventor of a fence, who secured for his partner 
in the enterprise, Eugene Powell. In 1879 
Cyrus Falconer succeeded to Richard's inter- 
est in the business, and in the winter of that 
year, the company secured control of Fritchy's 
patent shifting-rail for buggies, J. F. Munz's 
patent wrought-iron sulky for plowing, culti- 
vating and harrowing, and an improved patent 
harrow designed by the same inventor. These 
articles were all Delaware inventions, and the 
future looked bright to those who had em- 
barked in the venture, but by 1883 the com- 
pany had gotten into debt to the extent of 
$8,000. and for want of proper management, 
it was decided, in 1884, to wind up its affairs. 

The Cook Motor Company is the out- 
growth of a repair shop which was started in 
1895 by Messrs. C. E. and F. E. Cook, and 
located on the east side of Union Street, be- 
tween William and Winter Streets. They 
soon began experimenting on motors, and in 
1 901. the present company was incorporated 
under the laws of Ohio. The capital stock is 
$50,000. and the following gentlemen were 
the incorporators: W. C. Denison, J. F. Deni- 
son, L. L. Denison. C. E. Cook and F. E. Cook. 
When the present company was organized it 
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but the increasing demand for stationary en- 
gines led to a change in their plans. In 1903 
they abandoned the idea of building auto- 
mobiles, after having manufactured a sample 
machine for the Columbus Buggy Company. 
In the meantime, however, the company had 
been experimenting with the stationary engine 
designed by the Cooks. Up to that time, nn 
data was available that showed the proper 
principles on which to base the construction of 
gasoline engines. Some of the more im- 
portant features which were developed were 
the connecting-rod. cushion-valve, enclosed 
case and jump spark. In 1905, their engine 
having reached such a degree of pertection 
as to be considered thoroughly reliable and 
practical, an additional $20,000 of treasury 
stock was sold. At that time C. C. Stedman 
became secretary and general manager. The 
business has grown from an output of from 
three to five horse-power per month to an aver- 
age of 225 horse-power per month. The plant 
is now located in a new brick building, 80 x 200 
feet in dimensions, which stands on a six-acre 
tract of land a short distance southwest of the 
Hocking Valley Station. The plant is equip- 
ped with the most modern machinery, and 
employment is given to a force of about 
twenty-eight men. The engines manufactured 
here go to all parts of the world, and are sold 
for every purpose where power is required. 
The present officers and directors of the com- 
pany are: W. C. Denison, president; H. \V. 
Jewell, vice-president ; L. L. Denison, treas- 
urere; C. C. Stedman, secretary and general 
manager. 

HAY-BAILERS. 

The Square Deal Manufacturing Company 
was incorporated in February, 1908. for the 
manufacture of power hay-presses. The style 
of press to be manufactured was designed and 
invented by Luther Trebue. and embodies de- 
sirable features not to be found in any other 
hay-press. They are now erecting a fact' iry 
on North Union Street, 52 x 90 feet in di- 
mensions. This will lie equipped with modern 
machinery. The Company has a paid-in capi- 



tal of $25,000, all of which was furnished by 
Delaware citizens. The officers of the com- 
pany are: H. F. Owen, president: Joseph J. 
Neville, vice-president; Ashton Conklin, secre- 
tary and treasurer ; Luther Trebue, general 
manager and superintendent. 

STOVES. 

The Sunray Stove Company was incor- 
porated January 1. 1908, by the following gen- 
tlemen, who now hold the office indicated after 
their names: S. S. Blair, president; B. W. 
Hough, vice-president; M. C. Russell, secre- 
tary and treasurer; O. D. Hunt, manager; O. 
G. Knoske. The capital stock of the com- 
pany is $15,000. The company manufactures 
gas ranges, heaters and furnaces. At present 
fifteen people are employed, but the success 
of the enterprise during the few months since 
it was started, indicates that in the near future 
it will require thirty people to make and handle 
a large enough product to meet the demand. 
The territory in Ohio is covered by two travel- 
ling salesmen, and outside of the State the 
product is handled by jobbers. 

ARTIFICIAL ICE. 

The Delaware Ice and Coal Company was 
incorporated in 1898. It handled natural ice 
until the summer of 1907. In April of that 
year, a brick dwelling, formerly the old woolen 
mill boarding-house, near the Armory on North 
Union Street, was purchased and remodelled. 
An ice plant with a capacity of eighteen tons 
daily was installed. Twelve men find empli iy- 
ment in the manufacture and delivery of ice. 
The following gentlemen were the incorpora- 
tors, and now hold the offices indicated : Wil- 
lard Galleher, president; L. K. Galleber, vice- 
president and secretary; F. P. Hills, treasurer; 
B. F. Freshwater and R. E. Hills. 

LIGHT, HEAT AXD POWER. 

The Delaware Electric Light, Heat and 
Power Company was incorporated March 4, 
1890, by William S. Parks, Leopold H. Holz- 



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miller. Carey B. Paul, Jacob G. Rosenthal, 

.Martin Miller. The first officers elected were: 
C. B. Paul, president; J. ( i. Rosenthal, secre- 
tary: M. Miller, treasurer. That same year a 
brick power-plant was erected just east of 
where the Big Four railroad crosses Smith 
Sandusky Street. Since then an addition has 
been built, making the present dimensions of 
the plant about 140 by 80 feet. The present 
equipment comprises horizontal reciprocating 
engines of a total horse-power of 800, and a 
battery of seven boilers with a total of 1,100 
horse-power, and eight dynamos. In 1900 a 
heating plant was installed to serve the citizens 
of Delaware with hot-water heat. The same 
j ear a franchise for the use of the streets was 
secured. The company now has about two 
miles of underground mains, and supplies heat 
to about 185 customers, some of whom are 
located a mile from the plant. The present 
officers and directors of the company are: Dr. 
A. J. Lyon, president; Adolph Frank, vice- 
president; Martin Miller, treasurer; E. F. 
Gwynn, manager; J. G. Rosenthal. 

BROOMS. 

Brooms have been manufactured in this 
county for many years, mostly by blind men, 
as at present. S. J. Wottring of Delaware, 
who has been blind for about twenty years, 
started to make brooms in 1898, and worked 
along for about a year and a half. Since then 
he has had help, some of the time two men be- 
sides himself finding employment in his fac- 
tory. At present he is making, with the aid 
of W. Harris Siegfried, another blind man. 
fifteen dozen brooms a week. The product is 
marketed in Delaware and surrounding towns. 
Other makers of brooms in the county at the 
present time are James Kline, a blind man. 
residing west of Ashley, near Water Hill, and 
R. M. Perfect, a blind man, who lives a mile 
and a half east of Sunbury. I. M. Freese of 
Concord Township is also engaged in this 
industry. 

EVAPORATED GOODS. 

The Benedict Evaporating Company, Dela- 
ware Township, is the only industry of its kind 



in the county. It was established by the pres- 
ent owner, Griffith G. Benedict, in [876. 
ginning in a small way with a home-made 
dryer, by 1888 his business had increased to 
such an extent as to warrant the erection oi 1 
special building, which he equipped with the 
mi 1st modern machinery. He now evaporates 
from 25,000 to 50,000 pounds of sweet coin, 
and as high as 2,000 bushels of apples during 
the short season when the work can be carried 
on, which is seldom more than two months. 

CLAY PRODUCTS. 

The Delaware Clay Manufacturing Com- 
pany. In 1878 Wesley Denison and his son, 
L. L. Denison, formed a partnership under the 
firm name of Denison & Son, and erected what 
is known as a summer factory, i. e., a factor} 
where tile is dried in the air. This was located 
in the northwestern part of the city of Dela- 
ware, on the line of the Hocking Valley rail- 
road. Here they made small drain tile up t' > 
and including six inches in diameter, which 
was sold to the farmers throughout the county. 
At the end of three years they increased their 
capacity so as to make tile up to and includ- 
ing eight-inch. In 1884 W. C. Denison and 
his brother L. L. Denison formed a partner- 
ship and started a new factory at Mt. Gilead, 
Ohio, under the firm name of Denison Broth- 
ers, leaving their father to run the Delaware 
plant. The Mt. Gilead plant was equipped so 
as to use artificial means of drying the tile. 
thus making it possible to operate all the year 
round. Here they made tile up to and in- 
cluding the 12-inch size, and gradually in- 
creased the capacity until they were making 
the 18-inch size. In 1890 all of the Denison 
interests were consolidated, another brother. 
J. F. Denison, entering into the business, and 
a new plant was built in Delaware. The old 
plant at Delaware was abandoned, and the 
Mt. Gilead plant was sold. The new plant was 
built at the old wagon-works on East William 
Street, which were purchased by the new com- 
pany. The first year the business was carried 
on under the name of Denison Brothers, hut 
in 1892 a corporation was formed under the 



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name of The Delaware Clay Manufacturing 
Company. They began with twelve kilns, and 
made drain tile up to and including the 24-mcn 
size. At the time of incorporating, the com- 
pany branched into a line of the business known 
as fire-proofing, and made about fifty tons of 
that per day for the next ten years, all the 
time carrying on the manufacture of drain tile. 
During the time thev were making the fire- 
proofing, the company kept in close touch with 
architects, and by them were asked to make 
a standard-size brick weighing only three 
pounds, the loss in weight being accomplished 
by having two holes running through the brick. 
These were known as hollow brick. At first 
only a few were made to accommodate certain 
architects, but their utility was quickly ap- 
preciated, and gained in popularity so rapidly 
that thev were soon in use in over a dozen 
states. By 1901 the business had outgrown 
the capacity of the plant, and the compam 
purchased more clay land and built a new 
plant about one-half a mile farther southeast 
in Delaware township. This plant was es- 
pecially adapted to the manufacture of these 
hollow brick, it being their expectation to con- 
tinue the manufacture of drain tile and fire- 
proofing at the old plant on East William 
Street. Just about the time the new plant was 
read)' for operation, a trust was formed for the 
manufacture of fire-proofing material, known 
as The National Fire-Proofing Company. The 
East William Street plant, including the fire- 
proofing interests, were sold to this new com- 
pam-. and in order to take care of their drain 
tile business, the Denisons erected an addi- 
tional plant in connection with their new brick 
plant. Since that time they have run con- 
tinuously, making an average of 1,500 car- 
loads of hollow brick and dram tile per year. 
They have a tract of eighty acres and furnish 
employment to about seventy-five men. At the 
time of the incorporation, L. L. Denison was 
elected president of the company, Wesley Deni- 
son became vice-president and W. C. Deni- 
son and J. F. Denison were directors. About 
three years later another brother, L. B. Deni- 
son. became interested in the business in a 
financial way. but has never given it his per- 



sonal attention. He made the fifth director, 
and no change was made in the organization 
until the father, Wesley Denison, died, when 
his place was taken cm the board by Mrs. L. 
L. Denison. Mrs. Denison was succeeded by 
her son, Charles W... when he became of 
age. 

By 1904 the business had grown to such 
an extent that it became necessary to increase 
the capacity of the plant. The Denisons in- 
corporated another company under the title of 
The Ohio Clay Company, having the same 
directors and officials as the Delaware Com- 
pany, and purchased a plant in Cleveland which 
was in process of construction. After com- 
pleting the plant, they operated it in the manu- 
facture of hollow brick exclusively. Mr. W. 
C. Denison moved to Cleveland when that plant 
was opened, and has had charge of the plant 
there ever since. 

W. A. Fleming & Son operate a tile mill 
in Oxford Township. We have been unable 
to learn who established this mill. It was 
owned at one time by John Hunt, who sold it 
to Samuel Prince. He was here about seven 
years when he sold the property to G. J. Hull. 
Potter Brothers & Fleming purchased the mill 
from him in September. 1904. Up to this 
time the mill was operated by horse-power, but 
the new firm installed a steam-engine and 
presses and a new kiln, which has a capacity 
of about $125 worth of tile at a burning. 
About twenty kilns are burned annually. 

George Standforth started a tile factory in 
Berlin Township over a quarter of a century 
ago. [t passed through the hands of different 
owners until October 25, 1899. when W. Z. 
Evans purchased the property from O. E. 
Foster. Mr. Evans has not operated the mill 
since 1906, but up to and including that year 
he kept about half a dozen men at work there. 
The Delaware Department of the National 
Fircproofing Company occupies the old Deni- 
son plant mi East William Street, which they 
purchased in the spring of 1902. They keep 
about fifty men employed there, and manu- 
facture about 1,500 tons of terra cotta fire- 
proofing a month, besides a large amount of 
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In 1888 George T. Wolfley and his son 
H. W. Wolfley formed a partnership under die 
firm name of Wolfley & Sun, and erected a 
tile factory in Radnor, a short distance east of 
the railroad. Thomas W. Disbennett pur- 
chased the Wolfley Tile Mill in 1904, and has 
developed a large business. His plant is 
equipped for the manufacture of all kinds of 
drain tile from three tu eighteen inches in 
diameter. 

Benton Brothers Tile Factor}', Scioto 
Township, near Ostrander, was established 
here in 1895, in which year Mr. Benton also 
established a saw-mill. The business was 
started on the home farm in the fall of [884 
by 1. R. Benton, but it was moved to its 
persent location in the year above named. 
Here he not only has excellent shipping fa- 
cilities over the Big Four Railroad, but he 
has a very superior grade of clay, which en- 
ables him to make a drain-tile especially 
adapted to the requirements of the railroads, 
which consume all he can produce. At present 
about 25,000 rods of tile are made annually. 

The Galena Clay Products Company was 
incorporated in the spring of 1907. by the 
following gentlemen, who hold the offices 
indicated: W. C. Roberts, president; J. J. 
Adams, vice-president ; James Rose, secretary ; 
E. B. Cole, manager ; E. C. Bennett. They 
manufacture tile, having one kiln with a ca- 
pacity of about $200 worth of tile at a burn- 
ing. They have about four acres of clay 
land and employ from six to eight people. 

CIGARS. 

The manufacture of cigars in Delaware is 
an industry that has developed to some im- 
portance. In the early '50's. Charles Wottring 
began the manufacture of cigars in a small 
way, and continued until just after the Civil 
War. So far as we have been able to learn. 
he was the pioneer cigar-make-- in this county. 

Riddle. Graff & Company. This is the 
oldest firm of cigar manufacturers in the 
count v. Mr. Christian Riddle learned his trade 
with Charles Wottring, and in [866, he formed 
a partnership with John Liebienderfer and 



Jacob Bolinger, under the firm name of 
Liebienderfer, Bolinger & Company. This 
firm purchased Charles Wottring's business. 
The following year Mr. Riddle withdrew from 
the firm. The business was continued with 
various changes in the personnel of the firm 
until sometime in the early '8o's, when it was 
assigned to Charles Wottring, who closed it 
out. In 1867. when Christian Riddle with- 
drew from the firm just mentioned, he started 
in the manufacture of cigars, doing a small 
wholesale and retail business. The first thou- 
sand cigars he shipped out of the city went to 
a man in Galion, Ohio, who never paid for 
them. In the early '70's George L. Graff be- 
came a partner, and the firm name of Riddle 
& Graff was adopted. LeRoy W. Battenfield 
became a partner in 1K74. and the firm name 
was changed to Riddle, Graff & Company. 
Mr. Graff retired from the firm in the early 
'90's. Their present three-story factory at 
No. 10 North Sandusky Street was erected in 
1878. From 120 to 150 cigar-makers are em- 
ployed in this business, to whom are paid be- 
tween $35,000 and $40,000 annually in wages. 
From six to eight millions of cigars are made 
annually. This means the consumption of 
about $75,000 worth of tobacco leaf, and the 
payment of from $17,000 to $18,000 in reve- 
nue tax. Five travelling salesmen are em- 
ployed in marketing this product, which is sold 
principally in Ohio, Indiana, part of Michi- * 
gan, Illinois and western New York, as well 
as in a few towns in Pennsylvania. The ex- 
pense for outgoing prepaid express charges 
is about $2,500 annually. 

J. Hessnauer & Company. In 1880 Fred- 
erick Pfiffner and Jacob Hessnauer established 
a cigar factory under the name of Pfiffner & 
Hessnauer. The}" employed five or six people. 
At the end of five years. Mr. Hessnauer be- 
came sole proprietor of the business, which he 
carried on in his own name until 1902. when 
his son, Frank M. Hessnauer. became a part- 
ner, and the firm name of J. Hessnauer & 
Company was adopted. Their principal brand 
is a five-cent cigar called the "Commercial;" 
they also make a high-grade ten-cent cigar 
called "Lynette." About twenty-five people 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



find employment in the manufacture of these 
cigars, which are sold principally in Ohio. 

The Delaware Co-Operative Cigar Com- 
pany, which is no longer in existence, did quite 
an extensive business in its palmy days. The 
company was incorporated in July, 1884, and 
the following gentlemen were its first officers : 
Charles Smith, president; Henry Bayerlein, 
vice-president ; Charles Pfister, secretary and 
nanager ; P. Pfister. treasurer. At one time 
the business gave employment to about a dozen 
cigarmakers. 

Grasser & Haas. In 1886 John P. Grasser 
became a stockholder in the Delaware Co- 
Operative Cigar Company, and continued in 
its employ until 1893, when he formed a part- 
nership with A. Dauernheim, under the firm 
name of Dauernheim & Grasser which pur- 
chased the business. This partnership con- 
tinued until 1896, when Mr. Grasser purchased 
his partner's interest, and ran the business 
alone until a year later. Then W. E. Haas, 
who is now Mayor of Delaware, became a 
partner, and the firm name was changed to 
Grasser & Haas. About 400.000 cigars are 
manufactured annually, giving employment 
to eight or nine people including the mem- 
bers of the firm. Their leading brands of five- 
cent cigars are "Henry Gray" and "The Rip- 
per;" "Tom Watts" is the name of their ten- 
cent cigar. These cigars are sold principally 
in Ohio. 

William Hanitsch started in 1895 to make 
cigars on his own account. He keeps two or 
three hands busy, and makes about 200,000 
cigars yearly. His brands are "The Best 
Handmade" and "Anchor." 

Wells Brothers started in the business of 
making cigars in July. 1904. Three people, 
including one member of the firm, are em- 
ployed in this factory, which turns out about 
100,000 cigars a year. These are sold prin- 
cipally in Delaware. "Standard" is their 
leading brand. 

Charles M. Ulrey is the only cigar-box 
manufacturer in the county. This business 
was established in the early '80' s by John 
Bradbeer, who carried it on until 180=;, when 
Mr. Ulrev purchased it. About five hundred 



cigar boxes are made daily, giving employ- 
ment to six or seven men. These boxes are 
marketed largely in Delaware County, al- 
though Mr. Ulrey has customers all over the 
State. 



CREAMERIES. 

The Sunbury Co-Operative Creamery 
Company was organized during the winter of 
1892, and was chartered on January 28th of 
that year, with a capital stock of $6,000 paid 
in. There were originally forty-three stock- 
holders. The first Board of Directors was as 
follows : L. James Wilson, president ; Milton 
Utley, vice-president; John Landon, William 
D. Miller, James Cockrell, Roswel Edwards 
and E. D. Palmer. J. H. Kimball, secretary 
and general manager; O. H. Kimball, treas- 
urer. In addition to those who served as of- 
ficers, the following appear on the charter as 
incorporators: Jasper Boyd, Thomas Andrews, 
W. P. Roberts and Kimball Sedgwick. After 
sixteen years' continuous service on the part 
of Messrs. Wilson, Landon. Miller, Boyd and 
Cockrell without compensation as officers, the 
Board of Directors for 1908 is as follows: L. 
James Wilson, president: William D. Miller, 
vice president: John Landon, Sam L. Rose- 
crans. Jasper Boyd, Edwin Phillips. James 
Cockrell. Kimball Sedgwick, secretary and 
general manager; Charles O. Armstrong, 
treasurer. This company is one of the most 
successful in the State of Ohio. It was estab- 
lished by farmers for farmers. The company 
acts merely as agent. The farmer delivers the 
milk to the creamery, and receives the net 
pn iceeds of the business after deducting the 
actual running expenses, including a "royalty 
or rental" (which goes to the shareholders) of 
five cents per hundred pounds on all milk re- 
ceived. The creamery began receiving milk 
May 2. 1892, taking in on that day 2.298 
pounds. Milk, cream and all the products of 
the same, or of which these are an ingredient, 
and their by-products are handled and manu- 
factured. The reputation of the creamery, 
however, has been established on the merit of 
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tory from which the company draws its raw 
material lias spread over the entire eastern half 
of Delaware County and into Morrow. Lick- 
ing and Franklin Counties. From a total of 
$8,965.3) in 1892, the business has grown to 
$223,549.01 in 1907. and there is every 
prospect that it will reach the quarter million 
mark in 1908. The company has continually 
expended its surplus capital in extension and 
improvements, and today possesses one of the 
finest brick buildings in Delaware County. 
equipped with the most modern machinery and 
every facility for handling its materials and 
pn ducts in the most sanitary manner. 

The Delaware Creamery Company at the 
northwest corner of Lake and Winter Streets. 
\\ is established in 1901 by W. Z. Evans. But- 
ter and condensed milk are the products manu- 
factured, this being the only condensing plant 
in the county. A business amounting to $75,- 
coo was done in 1907. giving employment to 
from twelve to fifteen people. 

The Ashley Co-Operative Creamery Com- 
pany was incorporated in May, 1892. Benja- 
min Stitler was president and Chesley Worn- 
staff was treasurer of the company. The farm- 
ers could not be interested sufficiently to fur- 
nish milk enough to carry on the business 
profitably, so in October. 1895, the enterprise 
was abandoned. 

LIME AND STONE. 

The Scioto Lime and Stone Company is 
one of the flourishing and growing industries 
of Delaware County. The plant is located in 
Scioto Township on the east side of the river 
near the northern boundary of Concord Town- 
ship. A spur runs from the plant to the Big 
Four Railroad. The company has the only 
hydrating lime machine in this part of the 
State. It has a capacity of 1.000 barrels of 
lime per day. and employs forty to fifty men 
in the busy season. Besides doing a large 
local business, the company ships extensively 
to eastern and southern states. H. E. Kendrick 
is the manager of the plant, having his office 
on North Sanduskv Street. Delaware. 



The White Sulphur Stone Company of 
Scioto Township was established m [904 by 
Oliver Perry Bird and James Richey, under 
the firm name of Bird & Richey. At first they 
operated two stone quarries in Concord Town- 
ship, but in 1906, Mr. Christian was admitted 
to the firm, and at that time they acquired 
eight acres of quarry land where they are now- 
located a little west of White Sulphur station 
on the Big Four Railroad. They employ abou 
twenty-five men, and do a large business in 
crushed stone, and also have contracts for till- 
ing about twenty miles of count}- turnpikes. 

In Berkshire, Trenton, Harlem and Genoa 
Townships are to be found quarries of fine 
building stone, those of Berkshire and Tren- 
ton being of superior quality. On account of 
the poor facilities for shipping, these quarries 
have never been worked extensively. The first 
quarry in Trenton Township was opened at an 
early day by a Mr. Allison. Upwards oi thirty 
years ago a large quarry was opened on the 
Landon farm on Big Walnut Creek. Williams 
& Knox opened another large quarry years 
ago. Many others were opened in different 
parts of the township, but largely for the per- 
sonal use of the proprietors. The Sunbury 
Stone Company was incorporated in n>oj by 
Columbus capitalists, although some citizens 
of Sunbury have stock in the enterprise. They 
are working what is known as the Bunyan 
quarry, adjoining the Landon quarries. 

Frank L. Campbell has a 12-acre blue lime- 
stone quarry on West William Street. This 
was opened originally by William Little, whose 
name figures prominently in the early history 
of Delaware. From him the quarry passed to 
George W. Campbell. After running the 
quarry for a long time, he sold to George Lit- 
tle, a son of William Little, and from him it 
passed to Frank Little Campbell, who is a 
grandson of the original proprietor, in 18c A 
Mi - . Campbell employs about thirty-five men, 
and gets out about a thousand carloads of 
building stone annually, and as a by-product, 
between 600 and 700 carloads of crushed st"iu* 
per year. The fine quality of this stone is in- 
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into blocks. It is marketed mostly in Colum- 
bus, although it is shipped all over the State. 

Wain Hazeltnn has about two and one- 
half acres of land situated in Delaware north- 
west of the Hocking Valley station. Here he 
has operated a stone quarry for about thirteen 
years. During the busy season he employs 
from forty to ioo men in his business. He 
contracts for turnpikes and city streets, and 
so far as is known, the first complaint has yet 
to be made regarding the quality of his work. 

GAS MANUFACTURE. 

Before success was finally achieved, sev- 
eral attempts were made by different parties 
to establish a plant for the manufacture of gas 
in Delaware. As early as 1856, Harvey P. 
Piatt made a proposal to the Council and they 
granted him the use of the city streets, re- 
stricting the price of gas to the Corporation to 
$3 per thousand cubic feet, and the price to 
citizens to $4. In the latter part of the suc- 
ceeding year. Piatt having failed to fulfill his 
part of the contract, Israel I. Richardson and 
J. C. Evans were granted like privileges for 
the same purpose, the price of gas being made 
to city and citizens alike at $4. These gentle- 
men were given until i860 in which to com- 
plete their project, but they, too, failed, and 
the rights granted were revoked. During [859, 
however, The Delaware Gas Light and Coal 
Oil Company was organized by William Stev- 
enson, Joseph Atkinson. Jacob Riblet and oth- 
ers. These gentlemen were from Mansfield, 
Galion and elsewhere, and were granted the 
usual privileges on April 21, [860, the price of 
gas being fixed at $2 per thousand feet to the 
city, and $3 to private consumers. The fol- 
lowing men were the first officers of the com- 
pany: Jacob Rihlet. president; A. S. Caton, 
secretary; J. Atkinson, superintendent, and 
Charles Wottring, treasurer. They at once 
^ct about erecting their works on Estella 
Street. The first pipes put down were of wo. id. 
but in 1870, these were replaced by iron pipes, 
and the whole establishment enlarged. A new 
purifying house was built, a gasometer with a 



capacity of 18,000 feet replaced the old one. 
and a new bench of five retorts added, making 
an effective force of eleven retorts. The com- 
pany continued to extend its distributing sys- 
tem, and in 1888. built a gas-holder with a ca- 
pacity of 36,000 feet. The following year a 
new office building was erected on Estella 
Street at a cost of about $2,000. As the de- 
mand increased, the capacity of the plant was 
enlarged until it was 100,000 feet per day. On 
January 15, 1894, the name was changed to 
the Delaware Gas Company by an amendment 
to the charter, and in July, 1902. the charter 
was again amended so as to permit the com- 
pany to distribute natural gas. This was the 
seci md gas company in the United States to 
make a change from the manufacture of arti- 
ficial gas to distributing natural gas. The 
change involved great expense, but was made 
without inconveniencing the consumers in any 
way. The company owns one of the finest dis- 
tributing plants in the State of Ohio. It com- 
prises nine regulators and twenty-four miles 
of mains. It has 1.500 meters in use. and 
sells gas to the city and citizens at a net price 
of 2j cents per thousand cubic feet. The capi- 
tal stock of the company is now $120,000. 
Judge T. C. Jones was elected president of the 
company in 1877. and served until August, 
1892, when he was succeeded by Chauncy 
Hills. Mr. Hills held the office at the time of 
his death, February 8, 1901. and was suc- 
ceeded by Captain V. T. Hills, who served un- 
til January, 1904. Captain Archibald Lybrand 
was then elected to the position and served a 
year. Air. T. C. Jones, who is now president 
and manager, was elected to the office in 
January, 1905. Mr. C. M. Converse became 
secretary and manager of the company in 1877. 
and was followed in 1888 by J. M. Armstrong. 
In December. 1891, he was succeeded by T. C. 
Jones, who held the office until be became presi- 
dent, and was succeeded by John L. Shaub, 
who is now secretary of the company. In 
1902, the office building above referred to was 
converted into a workshop, and the offices of 
the company were removed to their present lo- 
cation on West Winter Street. 



CHAPTER. VIII. 



BANKS AND BANKING. 



A History of the Bunks of Delaware County — Past and Present. 



The citizens of Delaware County have been 
mi >st fortunate in having the banking business 
of the community in the hands of men who 
have proven themselves not only honorable, 
but capable and conservative financiers. They 
have safely piloted the banks of this county 
through all the panics and financial storms 
which have periodically swept over the coun- 
try, so that the history of banking in Delaware 
G unty has yet to record its first failure. In 
making this statement, we except, of course, 
the first attempt at banking which from the 
following account of its brief career, seem-, at 
this late date like a joke, while it illustrates the 
loose business methods of those early times. 
X' ' nne but the founders of this bank suffered 
by its untimely collapse, and their anguish. 
probably was largely mental. 

The first bank in Delaware was organized 
about 1S1 7, and was called the Bank of Dela- 
ware. It was a bank of issue. William Lit- 
tle was the principal stockholder; Moses Bvxhe. 
Sr., was president, and Leonard H. Cowles 
was cashier. Mr. Cowles, who was a son-in- 
law of Moses Byxbe. Sr., was one of the earli- 
est resident lawyers of Delaware, a graduate of 
Yale and a classmate of John C. Calhoun. The 
bank was opened in a building which stood on 
the northeast corner of Sandusky and William 
Streets, where the transfer station of the Co- 
lumbus. Delaware & Marion Railway now is. 

After the bank had been in business a few- 
days. Mr. Little concluded to examine its con- 
dition and assets. He went to the bank and 
asked the cashier what his success was, and re- 
ceiving a favorable answer, asked the cashier 
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if he was loaning any money. "Oh, ves !" said 
the cashier, "Lots of it." Mr. LJttle then re- 
quested to see the notes. "Oh!" replied the 
cashier, "I didn't take any notes; I just charged 
the loans up on the books." Mr. Little, be- 
coming suspicious that the institution was be- 
ing run rather loosely, stepped into the back 
room, where he found the bills of the bank 
piled up on a table. He gathered them all up, 
wrapped them in a paper, put the bundle under 
his arm, and going into the front room, said 
to the cashier. "You may lock the door; this 
bank is broke." We commend that method of 
winding up the affairs of a bank without the 
vexatious delays of a resort to receivers and 
courts. 

One of the bills iff the bank, in some 
miraculous way, weathered the storms of pio- 
neer days, and was found under the floor of 
the old Court House when it was torn down. 
It is now in the possession of Hon. John D. 
Van Deman, and through his courtesy we are 
able to show the accompanying photographic 
reproduction of this most interesting relic. 

The Delaware National Bank. The 
following history of this bank, including the 
banks that preceded it. is given substantially 
as it was written by Mr. Sidney Moore, shortly 
before his death. The necessarv data has been 
added to make the chronicle complete to the 
present time. On February 14, 1845. tne Gen- 
eral Assembly passed an Act entitled, "An Act 
to Incorporate the State Bank of Ohio and 
other Banking Companies." Under the pro- 
visions of this Act, a Board of Bank Commis- 
sioners, consisting of Hon. Gustavus Swan 



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and others, met on March 18th, and organized 
a Board of Control, electing Mr. Swan as presi- 
dent, and Joseph Olds as secretary. On June 
14. 1845. thirty-three persons organized the 
Delaware County branch of the State Bank oi 
Ohio, with a capital stock of $100,000. At 
subsequent meetings of the Board of Control, 
to and including June 19, 1845. applications 
to establish branch banks at seven cities and 
t> wns were bled. Among those making ap- 
plication, the one from Delaware was accepted 
by the Board of Control, and the Delaware 
County Branch of the State Bank of Ohio 
commenced business on October 12, 1845. At 
a meeting of the stockholders, Hon. Hosea 
Williams, William Little, B. Powers. W. D. 
Heim and C. Howard were elected directors 
Judge Williams was elected president, and B. 
Powers, cashier. Sidney Mm ire. Jr., was ap- 
pointed teller and bookkeeper. Judge Wil- 
liams was president of the bank until the ex- 
piration of its charter in 1865. Mr. Powers 
served as director and cashier until 1855, when 
he resigned as cashier, and was succeeded by 
Sidney Moore, who filled the position until 
the expiration of the charter. 

The Delaware County National Bank 
was organized under the Act of Congress, en- 
titled, "An Act to Provide a National Cur- 
rency," etc.. which was approved June 3. 1864. 
Articles of association for organizing this bank 
were signed January <>, 18(15, and an election 
of directors was held on the 10th of the same 
month. Hon. Hosea Williams, B. Powers. W. 
1). Heim, 11. G. Andrews and Sidney Moore 
were elected. Judge Williams became presi- 
dent, and Sidney Moore was appointed cash- 
ier. March 1, [865, Hon. Hugh McCullough, 
comptroller of the currency, issued his Certifi- 
cate of Authority to commence the business of 
banding, and on March 8th; the business of 
the old bank was transferred and assigned to 
the new organization. The charter -ranted at 
this time expired January 7, 1885, and was 
then renewed or extended for twenty years. 
The original Board of Directors served until 
18(17. when Mr. Andrew^ resigned, and John 
R. Milliard was appointed in his place. The 
board as thus (.instituted continued until Jan- 



uary 9, 1872, when John Wolfley succeeded 
Mr. Hilliard. No further change occurred in 
the personnel of the board until February 18, 
1876, when Chauncy Hills was appointed to 
the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Wil- 
liams on February 12th. On July 28, 1876, 
Hon. T. C. Jones became a director in place 
of B. Powers, resigned. On June 13, 1880, 
the same board was elected, except that V. T. 
Hills succeeded John Wolfley as a director. 
This board served until 1883. From that time 
until 1885, Messrs. C. Hills, T. C. Jones, V. 
T. Hills, Sidney Moore and Rev. John W. 
White composed the Board of Directors. Mr. 
White resigned in 1886, and W. Little took 
his place. No further change was made in the 
membership until the death of Hon. T. C. 
Jones, August 13, 1892. A. H. Jones was 
elected to the vacancy August 22, 1892, and 
no other change occurred in the board until 
September. 1900. when W. Little resigned. 
At this time E. I. Pollock was appointed cash- 
ier of the bank. In 1901, Messrs. C. Hills, 
V. T. Hills, A. H. Tones, Sidney Moore and 
H. J. McCullough were elected as directors. 
Mr. C. Hills died February 8, 1901, and on 
the nth of March following, L. L. Denison 
was appointed in his stead. The death of Mr. 
McCullough. June 2j, 1903, made the next 
change in the board, and E. I. Pollock was ap- 
pointed as his successor, on August 17th. The 
Board of Directors as thus constituted was re- 
elected January 12, 1904. The charter of this 
bank expired on January 6, 1905. and at that 
time it went into liquidation. 

The Delaware National Bank began 
business on January 7, 1905. The application 
for a charter for this bank was made Novem- 
ber 7, 1904, and was signed by Sidney Moore, 
V. T. Hills, L. L. Denison, A. H. Jones and 
E. I. Pollock. The charter was dated Decem- 
ber 7. 1904. and an election was held on the 
10th of the following month, at which time 
the number of directors was increased from 
five to seven, and the following board was 
elected: Sidney Moore. V. T. Hills, L. L. 
Denison, E. I. Pollock, Lewis Slack. T. J. 
Griffin and J. L. Anderson. The board con- 
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Moore on May 27, 1907. the vacancy thus 
created being filled by T. M. Thompson, who 
was elected on June 10. 1907. The present of- 
ficers of the bank are: V. T. Hills, president; 
L. L. Denison, vice-president, and E. I. Pol- 
It ick, cashier. 

The bank occupies a fine two-story build- 
ing at 34 North Sandusky Street. This lot 
was deeded to the bank on February 13, 1868, 
by John R. Milliard, the consideration being 
$3,250. On the 17th of the following May. 
the president and cashier were appointed a 
ci immittee to make all arrangements for the 
erection of a building suitable for the busi- 
ness. In 1886, the building was remodeled, in- 
cluding the erection of a new front, and at that 
time was entirely refurnished. In 1905. the 
building was again remodeled, a new addition 
built to the rear of the building, and the old 
vault replaced with one thoroughly up-to-date 
in every respect. When this bank opened in 
1905. it made a new departure, in starting a 
savings department. The following statement 
of the affairs of this institution dated February 
29, 1908, may be of interest: 

RESOURCES. 

Loans and Discounts $440,256.16 

United States and other Bonds 227.700.31 

Real Estate, Furniture and Fixtures 22,500.00 

Due from Banks and U. S. Treasurer 72,003.30 

Cash 43.879.99 

Total $806,33976 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital Stock $150,000.00 

Surplus and Profits 36,955.87 

Circulation 98,700.00 

Due to Banks 948.25 

Deposits 472,735.64 

Bond Account 47,000.00 

Total $8o6,339v6 

The following is the list of officers and 
their terms of service: Presidents, Hon. 
Hosea Williams, January 13, 1865, until his 
death, February 12, 1876: William D. Heim. 
February 14. 1876, until his death. January 8 
[883; Sidney Moore, January 8. 1883. until 



his death. May 27. 1907. He was succeeded 
by V. T. Hills, who is now president. Vice- 
presidents, Chauncy Hills, January 9, 1877, to 
February 8, 1901 ; V. T. Hills, January 13, 
1892, until his election as president on June 
10, 1907: L. L. Denison, who now holds the 
office, became vice-president on last named 
date. Cashiers, Sidney Moore. January 13, 
1865. to January 9, 1883; William Little, 
January 8, 1883. to September 1, 1900, when 
he was succeeded by the present cashier, E. I. 
Pollock. 

The First National Bank. While this 
is not the oldest bank in Delaware, it was the 
first national bank established in this city un- 
der the "Act of Congress to Provide a Na- 
tional Currency, etc." The present institution 
is built, as it were, upon the foundation of The 
Bank of Delaware, which was organized Au- 
gust 3, 1857. under the provisions of the law 
fi ir incorporating State banks. The original 
stockholders were: Hon. H. Williams, B. 
Powers, P. D. Hillyer, Sidney Moore, Jr., C. 

A. Powers and W. E. Moore. These men. 
with the exception of W. E. Moore, constituted 
the Board of Directors. On August 10, 1857, 
Mr. Hillyer was elected president and C. A. 
Powers, cashier. The bank opened for business 
in what is now the Hotel Donavin block on 
North Sandusky Street. At that time the first 
floor was reached by a short flight of steps 
from the sidewalk. The application for the 
charter of the First National Bank was signed 
by seventeen persons. The charter was granted 
on February 2T,, 1864. Hon. Hosea Williams, 

B. Powers. H. G. Andrews, Isaac Day and Sid- 
ney Moore, Jr., composed the first Board of 
Directors. On January 16, 1864. the First 
National Bank took over the business of the 
Bank of Delaware, and on January 18th, B. 
Powers was elected president and W. E. 
Moore, cashier. J. E. Gould became cashier 
nil February 15, 1876, and on January 8. 1884, 
he was succeeded by G. W. Powers. B. Pow- 
ers resigned as president on February 16, 1880, 
and C. B. Paul was elected to fill the vacancy. 
Mr. Paul continued to serve as president un- 
til his death. January 11. 1901. and on January 
17th. Hon. J. D. Van Deman. who is now 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



president, was elected to the office. The other 
officers of the bank at the present time are: 
M. Miller, vice-president; G. W. Powers, 
cashier; R. B. Powers, assistant cashier. The 
present -Board of Directors is composed of the 
following gentlemen: Hon. J. D. Van De- 
man, M. Miller, G. W. Powers, H. W. Jewell. 
VV. M. Miller and L. W. Battenfield. Of the 
seventeen men who applied for the original 
charter of this hank, only three are now liv- 
ing— V. T. Hills. M. Miller and W. E. Moore. 

The lot at 26 North Sandusky Street, on 
which the bank is now located, was purchased 
in 1865 for $1,700, and the building was 
erected in that year. The bank began business 
in their new building on January I, 1866. The 
building was remodeled in 1883, and plans 
have been made for the erection of an addi- 
tion to the rear of the building this year, and 
a large vault embodying the latest improve- 
ments will also be built at the same time. 

The following statement shows the assets 
and liabilities of the bank on February 24, 
1908: 

ASSETS. 

Loan? and Bonds $3.35,645.86 

United States Bonds 100,000.00 

Real Estate, etc 12,500.00 

Cash and Exchange 112,856.35 

Due from U. S. Treasurer 3,000.00 

Total $564,002.21 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital Stock $100000.00 

Surplus and Profits 23,494.50 

Circulation 100,000.00 

Deposits 340,50771 

Total $564,002.21 

This bank has been justly distinguished 
for its conservative management. It has never 
parsed its dividend, and in all the financial 
panics which have disturbed the country it has 
never failed to meet, on demand, all claims 
up n it. Depositors have felt that their money 
was as safe in the keeping of this bank a-- it 
would lie in the vaults of the government. 

The Deposit Banking Company. In, 



[867, as a result of the efforts of Henry A. 
Welch, a co-partnership was formed fur con- 
ducting a banking business in Delaware, un- 
der the name of the Deposit Banking Com- 
pany. The following men were members of 
the company : H. W. Pumphrey, William G. 
Williams. H. M. Carper, Hon. John D. Van 
Deman, E. R. Thompson, William Warren, 
Sr., Archibald Lybrand, John Brundige, S. P. 
Shur, J. J. Shur and Henry A. Welch. The 
bank opened for business in December. 1S69. 
The business was continued as a co-partner- 
ship until May 14, 1890. when it was incor- 
porated under the State Banking Law. The 
following are the names of the incorporators: 
S. P. Shur, Prof. W. G. Williams. H. A. 
Welch, R. G. Lybrand and Samuel Lybrand. 
At the first election after the incorporation, the 
following officers were elected: S. P. Shur. 
president; H. A. Welch, vice-president; N. P. 
Ferguson, cashier; R. R. Welch, assistant 
cashier. The following named gentlemen have 
filled the various offices of the bank down to 
the present time: Presidents. H. W. Pum- 
phrey, John Mendenhall. Archibald Lybrand 
and S. P. Shur, who now fills the office. Cash- 
iers, H. A. Welch until 1896; X. P. Ferguson, 
Fred T. Jones, and from 1898 to April 1, 1908, 
R. M. Avery was cashier. The latter was suc- 
ceeded by A. S. Conklin. H. W. Jones is the 
present assistant cashier. The present board 
of Directors comprises the following gentle- 
men : S. P. Shur, president ; Christian Riddle, 
vice-president; R. M. Avery, cashier; R. G. 
Lybrand, E. J. Healy, W. M. Heseltine and A. 
S. Conklin. Since its incorporation, the bank 
has been paying interest on time deposits. The 
bank has a capital, $50,000; surplus and un- 
divided profits, $37,300; deposits, $414.0 o; 
cash and due from banks, $138,700; loans. 
$316,400; Delaware County and City bonds, 
$32,858. 

The Delaware Savings Bank Company 
which is the oldest savings bank in the county. 
is patterned after The Fremont Savings Hank. 
in which President Hayes was largely inter- 
ested. He recommended something of the kind 
for his native city, and with this in view, the 
following gentlemen. Chauncy Hills. H. J. 




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(Issued by the Bank of Delaware in 1818) 





THE OLD BARNES HOMESTEAD 

(Now the Residence of Prof. W. W. Davies. Delaware) 







RESIDENCE OF V. T. HILLS, DELAWARE 




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McCullough, V. D. Stayman and J. L. Wolfley. 
incorporated The Delaware Savings Bank 
Company, on February 19, 1890. 

The bank opened for business on July 27, 
1891. with the following directors and officers: 
C. Hills, H. ]. McCullough, John Powell, B. 
W. Brown, F. P. Hills, H. M. Perkins. J. H, 
Grove, Charles Brundige and R. K. Willis. H. 
M. Perkins, president; B. W. Brown, vice- 
president ; C. O. Little, cashier. A new field 
seemed to have been opened up. and the bank 
immdiately started on a prosperous career. 
The opportunity to make large or small cle- 
posits that could be withdrawn at any time, 
was immediately taken advantage of by a great 
number of Delaware County's thrifty people. 
Many of the thousands of accounts which have 
been opened with the bank are in the names of 
children, some of whom, today, have reached 
the age when they can realize what foresight 
their parents displayed years ago. 

This bank has paid to its depositors over 
$130,000 in interest since its organization, and 
its deposits have steadily grown, until now 
they are larger than the deposits of any bank 
in the county. The present officers and direc- 
tors of the bank are: Dr. A. J. Lyon, presi- 
lent ; Prof. C. B. Austin, vice-president ; F. P. 
Hills, cashier since January 1. 1892; W. H. 
Bodurtha, assistant cashier. Besides the presi- 
dent, vice-president and cashier, the following 
men are members of the Board of Directors: 
Charles Brundige. Hon. B. F. Freshwater, 
Colonel J. Al. Crawford, \Y. Shawaker, T. C. 
Jones and J. E. McCullough. The following 
is the statement of the bank's assets and liabili- 
ties on February 29, 1908: 

RESOURCES. 

Loans and Discounts $44 r .770.l9 

Bonds 98,127.25 

Cash 32,50933 

Due from Banks 75.697-lS 

Furniture. Fixtures anil Real Estate 4.450.00 

Total $652.553-95 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital Stock $50,000.00 

Surplus and Profits 34./OS-l6 

1 >epi isits 567.84879 

Total $652,553-95 



The Farmers Bank. Sunbury, Ohio. This 
bank was organized in October. 1S72, with a 
capital of $50,000. The original stockholders 
were E. Kimball, John Hall, Alanson Knox, 
George Armstrong, George Grist, E. R. 
Thompson, O. D. Hough and B. Moore. The 
first officers were : Elias Kimball, president : 
W. A. Thompson, cashier. The directors were 
Elias Kimball, E. R. Thompson. Alanson 
Knox, O. D. Hough and B. Moore. Mr. 
Kimball died soon after the organization of 
the bank, and was succeeded in the presidency 
by Mr. Moore. In 1875, Mr. O. H. Kimball 
became cashier. We have been unable to se- 
cure a connected history of the bank since the 
last named date, or a statement of its financial 
condition for publication. The following gen- 
tlemen are the present officers : John Landon, 
president ; J. J. Stark, vice-president. These 
gentlemen, with C. W. Parton and G. J. Burr, 
are the directors. Owen A. Kimball is cashier. 

The Bank of Ashley was established in 
1884, and is owned by the private banking firm 
of Sperry & Wornstaff. It has resources of 
$150,000. Both members of the firm are men 
of wealth. Mr. Sperry devotes his entire time 
to the banking business, while Mr. Worn- 
staff's time is occupied in looking after his 
large farming interests. 

The Farmers Savings Bank Company, 
of Ashley, is a State bank, incorporated Au- 
gust 26, 1904. It was opened for business on 
February 9, 1905. It has a capital stock of 
$25,000, and on August 7. 1907, its deposit- 
were $128,943.56. The following gentlemen 
are the officers of the bank : President. W. 
Slack; vice-president, T. J. Cole: cashier. F. E. 
Whipple; assistant cashier. F. ]. Rilev. Direc- 
tors: W. Slack, I. F. Wilt. II. I',. Blair, T. 1. 
Cole. B. F. McMaster, Isaac Clark. R. D. Mc- 
Gonigle. 

The Bank of Galena Company, of 
Galena, was incorporated in January, 1902. Its 
capital stock is $50,000, and its cash capital 
paid in is $25,000. The following are the di- 
rectors and officers of the hank: William D. 
Miller, president; John II. Dustin, vice-presi- 
dent; J. J. Adams, cashier; George W. Bright, 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Charles Horton, Edward Hall and W. F. Ben- 
nett. 

The Ostrander Banking Company, of 
Ostrander, Ohio, was organized in March, 
1903, under the hanking laws of Ohio. W. H. 
Carr is president, and William Harris is cash- 
ier. The directors are W. H. Carr, J. C. 
Maugans, Marion Kirkland, H. W. Ritten- 
house and J. I. Adamson. The resources of 
the bank amount to $141,000. Since its or- 
ganization, the bank has had a healthy growth 
and gives substantial promise for the future. 

Building and Loan Association. As far 
as the records show, the first association incor- 
porated in Ohio was "The Delaware Building 
Association" of Delaware. The articles of in- 
corporation were filed with the secretary of the 
State on February 20, 1867. There were few 
such institutions in the State at that time, and 
these were modeled on the German plan. Build- 
ing and Loan Associations soon became very 
popular in the cities of Ohio. The original 
idea was to furnish cheap money, on long 
time, to poor people, thus enabling them to 
purchase or to build homes, or to pay off in- 
debtedness on homes already acquired. Hun- 
dreds of people in Delaware have reason to 
bless these beneficent institutions. Nothing 
ever gave a greater stimulus to the building 
of homes in our city than the old Delaware 
Building Association. 

The plan on which the association was 
based has been brought to the attention of 
Hon. J. D. Van Deman by a citizen of Day- 
ton. He studied the plan, and with the aid 
of Mr. C. E. Hills, who was always a leader in 
all public enterprises, a Building Association 
in Delaware was started. A charter was ob- 
tained, as already started, and Messrs. Van 
Deman and Hills canvassed the city fur stock 
subscriptions. It is said that during this time. 
there was more figuring in interest and weekly 
payments, and calculating when the association 
would probably pay out than was ever seen 
before; the fences about town were covered 
with figures. The full amount of stock was 
soon subscribed, ami the association opened its 
doors with Hon. John D. Van Deman as 
president, and John J. Glover, now in the De- 



partment nf Justice, at Washington, as secre- 
tary. 

The money was put up at auction, and 
loaned to the bidder offering to pay the highest 
premium above the rate of interest. The as- 
sociation was successful from the beginning, 
and being on the terminal plan, it paid out 
in a little over seven years. Many a family 
had a home through this institution who would 
always have been homeless were it not for its 
methods. 

When the association expired by limitation. 
all the stockholders met in Templer Hall; the 
president cancelled all the mortgages and de- 
livered them to the stockholders, who thus 
had their homes free from incumbrance. Other 
associations followed, but the first was the 
most successful of them all. 

There are now two building and loan as- 
sociations in Delaware, but their plan of or- 
ganization and operation are quite different 
from the one we have just noted. Money is 
no longer put up at auction, nor are shares sold 
on the terminal plan. Money is loaned on 
mortgages in the regular way, at a stated rate 
of interest, the mortgagor having the privi- 
lege of paying any part or all of the principal 
at any time. 

The People's Building and Loan Com- 
pany was incorporated in October. 1885. by 
J. Hippie, James M. Jones. John Donahue. 
Hon. F. M. Marriott 'and H. L. Baker. At 
first its capital stock was $800,000; this was 
later increased to $1,000,000, and when this 
was all subscribed, the "stock in 1905, was in- 
creased to $2,000,000. When the company 
started, it did business like any other building 
and loan association of those days, charging a 
legal rate of interest, and in- addition, by put- 
ting the money up at auction, it secured a 
premium, which amounted to extra interest. 
A good many years ago this plan was aban- 
doned, and a fixed rate of interest (seven per 
cent.) was charged. In November, 1899. the 
rate of interest was fixed at six per cent., and 
this rate has remained unchanged to the pres- 
ent time. 

The Board of Directors consists of nine 
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year by the stockholders for a term of three 
years. This board manages the affairs of the 
company. In October, [907, there were 1,644 
members, and their depi sits amounted to 
$345,000. The value of loans outstanding 
was $354,971.09. The reserve fund for con- 
tingent losses was $12,179.85. 

The present officers of the company are: 
C. Riddle, president; R. G. Lybrand, vice- 
president; H. C. Clippinger, secretary; E. F. 
Young, assistant secretary, and R. M. Avery, 
treasurer. The following gentlemen consti- 
tute the present Board of Directors : C. Rid- 
dle. R. G. Lybrand. W. Kurrley, R. J. Pum- 
phrey, J. G. Hoffman, James Ousey, J. H. 
Cunningham, I. E. Campbell and T. J. Grif- 
fin. 

The company loans only on first mortgages 
on city and farm lands in Delaware County. 
Settlements are made semi-annually, and all 
sums paid in excess of the interest due are 
applied on the principal. The careful manage- 
ment of this company is indicated by the fact 
that it owns no real estate. 

The Fidelity Building Association 
and Loan Company was incorporated Jan- 
uary iy. 18S7, by H. J. McCullough, H. A. 
Welch. J. D. Van Deman and William T. 



Gessner. At that time the capital stock was 
$400,000, and "it June 9, [890, this was in- 
creased to $1,000,000. The present Board of 
Directors is composed of the following gentle- 
men: D. H. Battenfield, D*r. W. P. Caldwell, 
Harry L. Clark. Robert J. Cox, M. Miller, 
Eugene P. Nash, F. J. R. Pfiffner, V. D. Stay- 
man and John D. Van Deman. The officers 
are: D. H. Battenfield, president: V. D. 
Stayman, vice-president; Frank S. Watkins, 
secretary; R. B. Powers, treasurer. So care- 
ful has the management of this company been 
in making loans that at the present time it 
holds no real estate. This company is the 
only one in Delaware that loans money to 
build. The purposes of the company are well 
stated in the following paragraph, which we 
quote from its prospectus : 

"It is the purpose of the company to place 
the resources of the investors at the disposal 
of the borrowing classes upon a safe, sound 
and equitable basis, affording the investor ab- 
solute security and a reasonable rate of inter- 
est, and the borrower convenient facilities for 
paying both interest and principal, with every 
safeguard that human ingenuity can suggest 
thrown around both." 



CHAPTER IX. 



PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. 

The Ladies' Christian Union — Delazvare County Infirmary — Children's Home of Delaware- 
Home for the Aged — Jane M. Case Mem aria! Hospital — Girls' Industrial Home. 



THE LADIES CHRISTIAN UNION. 

The Ladies' Christian Union, the oldest 
charitable organization in Delaware, had its 
beginning in response to the cry of a babe born 
in February, 1869, to a mother so poor that she 
could provide no clothing for its coming. This 
sad case came to the attention of James Jami- 
son and Judge M. L. Griffin, who were then 
trustees of Delaware Township. They con- 
sulted with Airs. T. B. Williams, whose ready 
sympathy aroused her to immediate action. 
She set out to call upon Mrs. C. C. Chamber- 
lain and Mrs. W. P. Reid, two ladies whose 
names, during their lives, were identified with 
every charitable and public-spirited movement 
in this city. Mrs. Williams met these ladies 
on the sidewalk in front of Mrs. Chamber- 
lain's residence and made known her errand. 
Airs. Chamberlain at mice said, "We ought to 
call the ladies together and organize a so- 
ciety." So, on the following Sunday, the 
clergymen of the city, at the request of the 
ladies, announced from their pulpits that all 
ladies who would be interested in organizing 
a society for charitable work were invited to 
be present at a meeting called for that purpose 
at the residence of Mrs. C. C. Chamberlain on 
1 certain day of the following week. Mrs. 
Chamberlain's home was located on Sandusky 
Street where the Delaware Hardware Com- 
pany now docs business. Her parlors had al- 
ready become historic, not only socially, but as 
the place where many a religious and benevo 



lent enterprise- had had its birth — becoming, 
finally, a very "storm center" of woman's 
patriotic word and work, as she kept brightly 
burning the home fires 'mid the stormy days 
of '6 1 -'65. The meeting was largely at- 
tended, and an organization effected, of which 
Mrs. Joanna Murray was elected president, 
Mrs. Abram Thomson, first vice-president ; 
Mrs. Hosea Williams, second vice-president ; 
.Mrs. Charles McElroy. secretary; Mrs. W. F. 
Whitlock, treasurer. At the following meet- 
ing, the name of the organization was sug- 
gested, by Mrs. Abram Thomson, and was 
adopted. The make-up and work of the Union 
is reflected in its name — "Ladies" denoting its 
womanly character — "Christian" the spiritual 
as well as temporal work contemplated — 
"Union" its cosmopolitan or undenominational 
character. Soon after, a constitution and by- 
laws were adopted, and these have undergone 
but little change during the nearly forty years 
of good work accomplished by this society. 
The object of the Union is to help, mainly, 
sick women and children, or families where 
the husband and father is sick or disabled for 
work. Clothing, food and such other helps 
as the circumstances may recpiire are provided. 
but money is never given, the Ward Workers 
making such purchases as may be necessary. 
An important feature of the work is keeping 
children warmly and decently clad, so they can 
attend the public schools. Some years the 
mi ney expended has amounted to $400, but 
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sides clothing, food, etc., which lias been do- 
nated to the Union. 

For seven years the treasury was re- 
plenished by membership due--, public and pri- 
vate donations, and an annual dinner that 
usually netted from $300 to, at one time, $600. 
The most largely attended dinner was that at 
which Rutherford B. Hayes, who was then 
governor of Ohio, and Mrs. Hayes, were the 
guests of honor. Later the payment of mem- 
bership fees was discontinued, and while the 
Union has never been without money, and its 
wardrobe has never been empty, there came at 
one time a falling off in its financial resources 
that caused some anxiety on the part of its of- 
ficers. The day is well remembered by some 
of the older workers, when General J. S. Jones 
stopped one of their number between the Court 
House and Jones' Block, and said : "Did you 
know that there was a law authorizing the 
levying of a special tax for the poor of a city 
the size of this? The machinery of your 
'Christian Union' is in good working order — 
only money lacking; why not avail yourself 
of this help that the law provides?" The law- 
referred to provided for a tax to be voted 
by the people, not to exceed three-fourths of a 
mill, the fund so raised to remain under the 
control of the City Council, and to be dis- 
tributed by a committee appointed by the 
Council, and making to it monthly reports. In 
1876. a vote having been carried at the spring- 
election to levy this tax, the Council so or- 
dered, appointing as its committee three ladies 
from the Christian Union; and from that time 
funds flowed into its treasury. About this 
time it was deemed advisable to incorporate the 
Union under the laws of Ohio. Later this 
support from the city was withdrawn, and 
since that time, the Union has depended for the 
means to carry on its work upon donation- of 
money, clothing, food, etc. For many years 
before her death, one of the benevolent ladies 
of Delaware sent the Union $50 every Christ- 
mas, and many times provided a Christmas 
dinner for every family which it was helping. 

The Union has always had tin- o 1 iperation 
of the city officials, the township trustees, and 
the truant officer, by whom cases arc often re- 
ferred to the workers. 



.Meetings are held once a month, excepl in 
times of especial need, when they are held 
twice a month. At first, the meetings were held 
in Mrs. Chamberlain's parlors, and afterwards 
at the homes of the different officers; later the 
Union was given the use of a room in tne 
Court House, and when the needs of the county 
made it necessary to withdraw this privilege, 
a room was provided in the City Hall, where 
the members met until the Masonic Temple 
was completed. The Union then moved int< > a 
room in the Temple which had been especially 
adapted to its need, and which had been con- 
veyed to the organization by a perpetual lease 
given by Mr. Sidney Moore, and Mrs. Moure. 
by whom the building was erected and pre- 
sented to the Masonic order. 

The following are the names of the ladies 
who have filled the different offices since the 
organization of the Union, though at this 
time we are not able to give them in chron- 
ological order. Presidents. Mrs. Joanna Mur- 
ray. Mrs. Abram Thomson, Mrs. T. B. Wil- 
liams, Mrs. F. Merrick, Mrs. J. C. Evans. Mrs. 
James Barnes. Mrs. W. P. Reid, Mrs. W. O. 
Semans. Secretaries. Mrs. Charles McElroy, 
Mrs. William Little. Miss F. Perkins. Mrs. T. 
C. O'Kane. Treasurers. Mrs. W. F. Whit- 
lock. Mrs. I. W. Lindsey, Mrs. Tohn A. Little. 
Mrs. W. W. Davies. 

From the beginning, there have been two 
visitors appointed for each ward of the city. 
It is the work of these ladies to discover the 
needy cases, visit them and report the result 
of their investigations and efforts to the or- 
ganization. It should he stated here that no 
one connected with the Ladies' Christian L T nion 
receives any remuneration, except that blessed 
ness which comes from giving both time and 
substance to those in need. We are unable to 
give a complete list of the ward visitors from 
the beginning, but among them are the follow- 
ing: Mrs. T. B. Williams, who is the oldesl 
ward visitor; she has worked continuously in 
the Ea<t Ward from the beginning. Mrs. W. 
O. Semans was a ward visitor continuously 
from 1872 until within a short time, when the 
condition of her health made it necessary for 
her to give up a little of the more arduous 
work: Mrs. I. J. Shur. Mrs. Loofbourrow, 



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Mrs. Charles Crawford, Mrs. Shattuck, Mrs. 
Thomas Evans, Mrs. Ceorge Eaton, Mrs. H. 
M. Carper, Miss Matilda Dickinson. Mrs. T. 
F. Joy. Mrs. E. Butler, Mrs. Dr. Goldrick, and 
many others. 

The present officers of the organization 
are: Mrs. W. O. Semans, president; Mrs. N. 
Wagner, vice-president; Mrs. W. M. Semans, 
secretary; Mrs. W. B. Patton, treasurer; Mrs. 
W. W. Davies., assistant treasurer. Ward 
Visitors: Mrs." C. B. Austin, Mrs. T. D. 
lharp, Mrs. W. B. Patton, Mrs. J. Markle, 
Mrs. X. Wagner, Mrs. T. B. Williams, Mrs. 
A W. Wiles. 

While the work of the Ladies' Christian 
Union has heen unostentatious, the amount of 
good it has accomplished will never Lie known 
this side of eternity. It has the approval and 
support of every public-spirited and generously 
disposed person. Wherever there is need, 
there these unselfish women are found minis- 
tering to it with words of cheer and solace for 
the mind, and physical necessities and comforts 
for the body, given with an intelligent sym- 
pathy, and regardless of the personal sacrifices 
that may be involved. They cannot fail to 
hear the words: "Come, ye blessed of my Fa- 
ther, inherit the kingdom prepared for you, 
* * * for 1 was an hungered, and ye gave me 
meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I 
was a stranger and ye took me in : naked, and 
ye clothed me: 1 was sick, and yet \isited me." 

DELAWARE COUNTY INFIRMARY. 

The early pioneers of Delaware County 
were, as a class, energetic and industrious, 
thrifty, self-reliant and provident: among them 
pauperism was practically unknown. As time 
went on. however, and the population in- 
creased, families were found who became ob- 
jects of charitable consideration. Some of 
these were adventurers who had been attracted 
hither by the apparent prospects of wealth 
without work: others were thriftless or im- 
prudent; then there were those who were men- 
tally or physically incapacitated for the battle of 
life, and some who were victims of misfor- 
tunes. Kind-hearted neighbors and friends 



cared for cases of this kind until the burden 
became too great to be borne by private indi- 
viduals, and so, in 1852, we find the county 
commissioners, Ezra Olds, O. D. Hough and 
Joseph Cellars, appointing three directors to 
see what provision could be made for the care 
of these unfortunates. The directors. Hora- 
tio P. Havens. Amos Utley and William M. 
Warren, interviewed many of the leading citi- 
zens, and it was finally decided to purchase 
a farm and erect suitable buildings for the 
care of the destitute. 

In 1S54, the Joseph Blair farm, consisting 
of 113^2 acres of land in Brown Township, 
and located about half a mile west of the vil- 
lage of Eden, and five and one-half miles 
m irtheast of Delaware, was purchased. A 
substantial brick building was erected, forty by 



140 feet in dimensions. The wings 



the 



east and west sides of the main building are 
each forty feet long and two stories high. 
These wings, and the rear of the main build- 
ing, are uesd by the inmates, while the front 
of the house is used by the superintendent and 
his family. There is a large basement under 
the entire building. On the first floor is the 
store room, wash room, kitchen, dining rooms, 
pantries, and a few bed rooms. The second 
story is divided into sleeping apartments. 

When this farm was first purchased, the 
wisdom of the commissioners in selecting this 
location was called in question. For the 
larger part of the year the place was almost 
inaccessible, owing to the condition of the 
mud roads leading to it. Part of the farm was 
covered by water, and much of the rest of it 
was swamp and forest. The buildings on the 
farm were not worth considering for the pur- 
pose for which the farm was purchased. But 
this description does not apply to the farm as 
we find it todoy. Much of the land has been 
cleared and tilled, giving the county a farm of 
great fertility, adapted to raising fruits and 
vegetables as well as general farm crops. An 
excellent orchard was planted, and this pro- 
vides a large part of the fruit consumed. 
Everything is done to make comfortable the 
unfortunates who are dependent upon the char- 
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Up to [856, no special provision had been 
made for the care of the insane, and as these 
wards of the county increased in number, ii 
became necessary to provide suitable quarters 
for them. Accordingly, a stone and brick 
building was erected in the rear of the infirm- 
ary. Heavy iron bars guarded the windows. 
which were set high up in the walls, and the 
cell doors, which opened into small hallways, 
were protected with iron gratings, firmly se- 
cured by a wooden door on the .mt>ide. This 
pen-like affair was far from comfortable, and 
as it was unsatisfactory in other ways, it soon 
was deemed necessary to replace this with a 
larger building, better adapted to the care of 
the insane. 

The Legislature, during the session of 
iS74-'75, passed an act which authorized the 
commissioners to levy a tax, ami the directors 
to build "a prison for the insane." A large 
and commodious brick building, 50 by 30 feet 
in dimensions and two stones high, was 
erected at a cost of $10,000. Under the build- 
ing is a good basement, which is used as a 
furnace room. The building is fire-proof, and 
is provided with every necessary comfort and 
convenience. Large hallways run through the 
center of each of the floors from one end of the 
building to the other. The cells, built of stone 
and brick, are eight feet by ten, and open off 
these hallways on either side. The doors are 
of iron, and the windows are heavily barred. 
In 1903, a law was passed requiring all insane 
persons to be sent to the State Asylum. Since 
then, the building has been used only as a 
place of detention for insane persons, until 
such time as they could be taken to the State 
Asylum. Because of its superior conveniences, 
a number of the older inmates of the Infirmary 
are now housed in this building. 

There are two capacious barns on the farm, 
The new barn, built in 1S95, is forty by sev- 
enty feet in dimensions. About forty-five 
head of cattle are kept; sixty lings are fed. of 
which about forty-five are butchered annually. 
In 1907, the crops were short, excepting hay. 
The following were the quantities raised: 
Wheat, 500 bushels; oats, 700 bushels; corn, 
2,000 bushels. About 150 tons of hay are 



raised each year, of which about five carloads 
are sold each spring. In 1870, it became evi- 
dent that the farm was ton small, and 105 
acres of laud were purchased from John L. 
Thurston. In 1905, fifty acres of land were 
added to the farm on the east, making a total 
of 268^ acres now in the place. Only a ver. 
small number of the inmates of the Infirmray 
are able to lend any assistance in the farm 
work. 

The Infirmary is in charge of a Board of 
Directors, who are elected by the people. They 
employ a superintendent to manage the farm, 
the buildings and the inmates. 

The following gentlemen have served as 
superintendent: Eli Jackson, 1852-55; Mr. 
Meeker, 1855-58; George Hall, 1858-60; John 
L. Thurston, 1860-66; John Heverlo, 1866-67; 
James Green, 1867-68; John A. Caruthers, 
1868-74; John Heverlo. 1874-76; N. Glass, 
1876-80; John Longwell, 18S0-85 ; X. A. Cole- 
man, 1885-89; George Coyner. 1889-92; A. 
Linn, 1892-1901 ; April 1, 1901, the present 
superintendent, Mr. C. O. Domigan, took 
charge of the Infirmary. 

The following items from the last annual 
report will be of interest. At that time there 
were sixty-eight inmates in the institution. 
The largest number ever cared for at one time 
was ninety-seven, while the average runs be- 
tween sixty and eighty. The proportion of 
men to women is usually two to one. 

FROM REPORT FOR YEAR ENDING 
AUGUST .m. 1907. 

Salary of superintendent $ 860.00 

Wages of other employes 1429.60 

Medical attendance at Infirmary 62.50 

Minister 10.00 

Stock 92500 

Groceries and provisions 2039.27 

Fuel and lights 99 T -47 

Clothing and shoes 39890 

Coffins and funeral expenses 76-75 

Furniture 35-55 

Feed fcr horses, cattle and hogs 4'5-44 

Ordinary repairs [872.38 

Drugs 254.00 

All other ordinary expenses z 



Total current expenses of Infirmary $9874.20 



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Received from Dow law tax and 

cigarette tax $3828.88 

Received from levy for poor fund... 6045.32 9874.20 

OUTDOOR RELIEF. 

Physicians' fees $ 25S.20 

Food, fuel, clothing 3443-32 

14 parents and 45 children helped. 

Total $3/01.5-2 

Received from sale of farm products and stock $2951.76 

Received from sale of other articles 2.97 

Received from expenses of inmates paid by 

themselves or their friends 534-00 

Received from all other sources 5-°° 



Total amount paid into County Treasury $349373 

Net Expense, exclusive of permanent improvement'; 
during year ending August 31, 1907. $8001.82. Number 
of inmates: Male, 44: Female, 24. Total 68. 

( AUSES OF PAUPERISM. 

Number of insane 17 

Number of idiotic inmates ' 

Number disabled by old age 38 

Number disabled by disease 2 

Number disabled by loss of member or members.... 2 

Number disabled by deformities 2 

Number disabled by blindness 4 

NATIVITY. 

Number of inmates born in Ohio 50 

other states 3 

foreign countries 15 

INVENTORY. 

Estimated value of land $12,250.00 

buildings 36000.00 

furniture 1,300.00 

" machinery 2,200.00 

" live stock 2.800.00 

agricultural implements, 

tools, etc 550.00 



Total $55,100.00 

THE CHILDREN^ HOME OF DELAWARE. 

The Children's Home of Delaware is really 
the child of the "Ladies' Christian Union," a 
benevolent society representing all churches, 
which has for its object the care of the po r 
of this city. The constant experience of the 
workers of the "Union" during it- early years 
deeply impressed upon their minds the need oi 



some wav to rescue innocent children from 
homes of sin and ignorance — children, help- 
less, and with almost hopeless futures. Out 
of the needs of these innocent children came, 
finally, the thought of a Children's Home. At 
this time, more than a quarter of a century ago, 
there were but few children's homes, and these, 
with kindergarten work, were little under- 
sti "id ; so we can look back with most charitable 
thought to the really conscientious question- 
ings that met this work the first year or so, re- 
garding not only its practicability, but also the 
moral feasibility of establishing this Children's 
Home in Delaware. 

Some of the chief arguments raised against 
this enterprise were: "Institutionizing chil- 
dren" — taking children from parents and thus 
"rending the most sacred of relationships" — 
the prophecy most often repeated in discour- 
agement being, that parents would not give 
up their children — that only unlawfully born 
children would ever come to fill this Home, 
thus making of it simply a "Foundling Hos- 
pital." to relieve unworthy mothers of bur- 
dens, and thus, instead of benefitting the pub- 
lic, encourage the "Social Evil." After much 
earnest thought and discussion had been 
hronght to hear on the momentous question, 
the final crucial hour came. It was a band of 
noble women who gathered in an "upper room" 
of the Court House at Delaware in the early 
months of 1881 . and with faith alone in God 
as its christening, launched on such an un- 
certain sea, this life-boat of rescue. Soon 
after, on April 19. 1881. a preliminary meet- 
ing of women and pastors of the various 
churches was held to consider the question of 
formally organizing this Children's Home, as 
decided upon by the ladies of the "Christian 
Union," and Mrs. Abram Thomson was asked 
to present to the meeting the 1 bject to be con- 
sidered. This was done, and then the first 
question before the meeting seemed to lie. 
What shall be the plan of organization? Two 
plans were presented: First, a city or county 
home, to be supported by private contributions 
and to lie under private management; second, 
a county hi me to be organized under the sta 
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After a general discussion of these plans, a 
committee was appointed to consider the entire 
question. This committee was composed of 
Airs. John Little, Mrs. Abram Thomson, .Mrs. 
William P. Reid. Mrs. Eugene Powell and 
Mrs. J. VV. Icenberger. At a meeting held 
on April 27, 1SS1. the report of the committee 
\\a> presented and accepted, being in substance 
as follows: First. The. name of this corpora-, 
tion shall be "The Children's Home of Dela- 
ware." Second. That it shall be maintained 
by private and public subscriptions and do- 
nations. Third. That it be organized at pres- 
ent as a City Home, with the hope expressed 
that abundant support will soon widen it out 
into a Canity Home. Fourth. It shall he 
located within the city limits, at such place as 
its trustees may arrange, and near enough for 
its children to attend public schools and 
churches. 

A constitution had also been prepared, and 
with slight changes was adopted. The officers 
were to be a Board of Trustees, consisting of 
three gentlemen and ten ladies, and a Board 
of Managers numbering twenty-four. Mrs. 
Abram Thomson was elected President, and 
to a history written by her we are indebted for 
a large part of this sketch. Mrs. Thompson 
passed to her reward April 23. 1903, and at 
this point we will digress to quote from a trib- 
ute written by the present president of the 
Home, Mrs. K. B. Shaffer, which appeared in 
the Delaware Gazette, April 27, 1903: 

"In the coronation of Mrs. A. Thomson. 
Delaware loses one of its most queenly women. 
the Children's Home its mother, and a multi- 
tude of people a friend and companion. The 
life of this noble woman has stamped itself 
upon the well-being of the community, and 
her deeds of love and kindness live in the 
hearts and lives of those who knew her and 
loved her. * * * Mrs. Thomson was 
ever ready to lend a helping hand to any cause 
that was for the uplifting of humanity. Twen- 
ty-two years ago today, Mrs. Thomson was 
elected president of the Children's Home As- 
sociation of Delaware. She was the leading 
spirit that lead to the organization of the As- 
sociation, and through all the years that fol- 



lowed, she gave the best of her life's service to 
the building up of this institution for help- 
less children. X,. sacrifices were too greal 
her to make, and nothing was to,, good for 
her to lay at the feet of the little ones she had 
under her fostering care. The Home was the 
pride of her heart, her •well-beloved.' and the 
one thousand or more little ones who have 
been nurtured and cared for, rise up to call 
her 'blessed.' " 

Vice-presidents were elected — one from 
each of the churches, and the following are 
the names of the other officials elected at that 
time: Mrs. C. H. McElroy, secretary; Mrs. 
W. G. Williams, treasurer. The trustees were : 
Mrs. J. W. Icenberger, Mrs. Thomas F. Joy, 
Mrs. W. O. Semans, Mrs. Wm. P. Reid. Mrs: 
V. T. Hills, Mrs. J. D. VanDeman. Mrs. Ra- 
chel Carter, Dr. F. Merrick, Judge T. C. 
Jones. Sidney Moore. The Board of Man- 
agers was elected as follows: Mrs. John Lit- 
tle. Mrs. C. C. Chamberlain, Mrs. E. T. But- 
ler, Mrs. M. D. Covell, Mrs. J. J. Glover. Mrs. 
Eugene Powell, Mrs. John Armstrong, Mrs. J. 
F. Curren, Mrs. T. C. O'Kane, Mrs. Z. Ham- 
mond, Mrs. James Slough, Miss Lvdia 
Mitchell. Mrs, William Bowyer, Mrs. E. E. 
XefT. Mrs. A. D. Hawn, Mrs.' Thomas Evans. 
Mrs. Shattuck, Mrs. A. S. Clason. Mrs. H. 
M. Carper, Mrs. R. B. Cowan, Mrs. P. Heibv, 
Mrs. J. Markle. 

An investigation as to the number of chil- 
dren needing the help of the home was made, 
and it was discovered that twenty-six children 
had been in the infirmary during the previous 
two years, and thirty-two children had been 
found in homes that were worse than no home-, 
with no hope for their future, if left amid such 
environments. 

From the trend of the meetings of the 
trustees held up to this time, it was plain 
that the gentlemen of the Board, wdtile most 
respectful and deferential, were, and consci- 
entiously so, not in sympathy with the work. 
They doubted if money could be raised to 
support a Home — advised delay in incorpora- 
te n, or any attempt to organize a Children's 
Home — thought the whole thing impracticable, 
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and retiring from the work. How true it 
is, that woman's faith and woman's enthusiasm 
so often outstrip man's more slow conclusions 
— reaching, intuitively, results finally approved 
equally by both. At the next meeting of the 
Board, the resignations of the gentlemen were 
accepted, and the resignation of the ladies re- 
maining on the Board were presented, but 
acceptance of the same was positively refused. 
This meeting was soon followed by another 
at which the ladies voted unanimously against 
incorporating the enterprise. The outlook was 
truly discouraging — a treasury without one 
dollar in it, and with nowhere to look for 
needed supplies — without the prestige of suc- 
cess, and public confidence yet to be won — 
so many faint hearts among their own num- 
ber growing discouraged and walking no more 
with them — the air all around full of doubts and 
questionings as to the actual need of under- 
taking so great a work. 

In May a dying mother in North Delaware 
left her two little children to this prospective 
"Children's Home." Again, in June, a little 
girl, ragged and neglected, but with a sweet 
face, came to the home of the president, hold- 
ing in her hand a note, writttn on the yellow 
fly-leaf of some old book, which read thus: 

"Mrs. . I am going to die, and I hear 

there is going to be a Children's Home — 
when it is built will you take my little chil- 
dren?" There were four of these, one a little 
babe. The hand that wrote this badly spelled 
and written note, it was learned soon after, 
was even then growing cold in death. Was 
not God thus speaking through the lips of these 
dying mothers to discouraged hearts bidding 
them go forward and establish a Home? 

The six children were cared for by the 
"Christian Union" during the summer months, 
temporary accommodation being provided for 
them in the homes of some of the big-hearted 
women whose sympathies were with this work. 
The youngest of the children, a baby boy. died 
in July. 

As the winter of 1881-82 approached, in- 
terest seemed once more to revive in this Chil- 
dren's Home. Meetings of the Board of 
Trustees, which had never been formally dis- 



banded, were again held, and "incorporation" 
was .nice more pressed as a necessary measure, 
anil seemed to be more favorably regarded. 
The Boards of Commissioners and Infirmary 
Directors were interviewed and found to be 
in fullest sympathy, giving their endorsement 
and promise of assistance. The county so- 
licitor gave his opinion that a portion of the 
"special tax fund," provided for the "Ladies' 
Christian Union" could be used for the sup- 
port of these children, but not to rent or to 
purchase property. Only a small amount of 
this fund, however, was ever used in the sup- 
port of this Home. A law prohibiting chil- 
dren being kept in infirmaries made help from 
Infirmary directors now possible, they promis- 
ing to board all such children at this Home, 
paying per week as much as it would cost at 
the infirmary to keep them. $1.70 per week. 
The commissioners promised to pay the rent 
of such a home and coal bills, allowing for this 
purpose $33.00 a month. The city was 
thoroughly canvassed, and some $600.00 was 
raised, which, with membership dues and this 
help promised, made it seem practical in De- 
cember, [88i, to open a temporary Home on 
Union Street. Two sisters, Mrs. Slough and 
Mrs. Wise, took charge, the Home opening 
with ten children, six of whom were from the 
Infirmary. Of these Infirmary children, two 
beautiful sisters, twins, some months old, were 
early adopted into loving homes, in the pure 
atmosphere of which they have grown up into 
equally beautiful girlhood and womanhood, 
making glad today the hearts of proud foster- 
parents. 

On January 2, 1882, the following ladies 
appeared before Owen L. Davis, notary pub- 
lic, and signed papers of incorporation : Delia 
L. Williams, Sarah W. Thomson, Elizabeth 
Butler, Abigail M. Semans. E. J. Richardson, 
Caroline McElroy, Lettie S. Joy, H. A. Rey- 
nolds. Louise F. Powell. E. I. Icen'oerger. 
Two days later these papers were filed with 
the Secretary of State at Columbus. This 
act of incorporation seemed to give new life 
and dignity, and to win a public confidence 
hitherto lacking. 



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\nil now, having been successfully started 
once more in its work of child-saving, it will 
be wise to compress into a briei space the his- 
tory of the succeeding nine years of "The 
Children's Home of Delaware." until March, 
[890, when it was permanently located in its 
own beautiful home. Soon after the incorpor- 
ation, a lew changes were made in its consti- 
tution : The number constituting its Board of 
Trustees was changed from thirteen to ten, 
thus eliminating what had certainly, in this 
case, proved to lie the unlucky number; its 
name, too, was changed to that of "The Dela- 
ware Dome for Children and Aged People" 
so as to widen the scope of its work. But 
this was early felt to have been a mistake, 
although seven worthy old ladies, who were 
not properly subject-- for the Infirmary, were 
tenderly cared for the first few years, until 
from want of room the work- had to he aban- 
doned in •the year 1885, and the original name, 
"Children's Home of Delaware." was re- 
st ired. 

It may be well to preserve as pari of tins 
history, and as having been vital, perhaps, in 
the successful founding and subsequent career 
of this Home, three planks in the principles 
governing it that newer appeared in consti- 
tution or by-laws, hut which were generally 
understood ami religiously observed. Failing 
in the start to gain the support and influence of 
the men. the management realized that if it 
developed at all, women alone must lay both 
corner-stone and cap-stone — be their own 
builders and assume all control. Realizing 
that in the make-up of this society all religions 
and church creeds would he represented, it 
was early seen that any conflict of these creeds 
or discords of religion must he carefully 
avoided. So Plank No. 1 was unconsciously 
recognized, wrote itself on hearts alone, and 
read thus — "We will take our religion with 
us to this work, but we will carefully leave our 
'creeds' at home." Plank No. _' was adopted 
by a rising vote: "Whereas, we believe it to 
be the curse of rum more than any other cause 
that has made homeless these children of our 
Home; with many of them, perhaps, inherit- 
ing 'these appetites, thus requiring mure than 



usual care and protection — and that as a Chris- 
tian association we are responsible lor their 
moral as well as physical welfare, therefore 
Resolved: That the use of no form of intoxi- 
cants he ewer permitted in our Home, either 
as a beverage or in the preparation of food; 
and that we also assume the responsibility of 
excluding" it as a medicine, believing that He 
who remembers the "Little sparrow as it falls.' 
will not forget these. His little ones, but will 
bless the use of other means when sickness re- 
quires. Resolved, That these resolutions be 
placed on our minutes as a living protest 
against this greatest of all evils." 

"Plank No. 3. It was always underst 1 

that the doors of our Home were always open 
with warm welcome to the public at large; 
the line was drawn alone on one individual — 
a maiden lady ot uncertain age. that fortun- 
ately or unfortunately, had drawn upon herself 
this prejudice of the managers of the Home. 
This may have seemed a strange prejudice, 
as this person was ever an unusually welcome 
litest at all other penal, reformatory and bene- 
volent institutions of the State, and where, too, 
she has often banqueted "ii state occasions, 
and really seemed to hold unlimited and domi- 
nating power. But nevertheless, .Miss 'Ticks' 
— Miss 'Polly Ticks' — so well known and 
popular elsewhere, has never been invited, re- 
ceived or allowed admittance in this Home, 
managed by women. And thus have ever been 
excluded 'Church Creeds.' 'Intoxicants.' and 
•Politics.' " 

In establishing the governing principles of 
ihi-- Home, and knowing- how often abuses had 
crept into institutions of this kind, with chil- 
dren as the sufferers, it was early decided that 
"Love, instead of the Lash." must he the cor- 
rective force employed. And in the first 
"Rules and Regulations of the Household." 
this rule was placed: "Corporal punishment 
can only be indicted in extreme cases, and 
alone by the Matron when lighter punishment 
has failed." This principle of the fullest pro- 
tection to these helpless children has always 
keen acted upon. 

On the first of April. iNS_>, the Hume was 
removed from its temporary quarters on Union 



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Street to the Bixby home on East William 
Street. The rent, $25.00 a month, was paid 
by the commissioners, with additional money 
for coal. The different rooms were com- 
fortably furnished by individuals and churches. 
Miss Lucinda Joy became the first regular 
matron. April 1, [882. During the months 
preceding the first annual meeting in April, 
i88_\ .\h^. Thomson, on account of domestic 
duties, finding it necessary to resign her office 
as president, Mrs. W. ( .. Williams was elected 
to fill the vacancy, and Mrs. Thomson was pre- 
vailed upon to accept the treasiirership, which 
office had been filled by Mrs. Williams, and 
which involved le>s time and responsibility. 
Mrs. McElroy had also resigned as secretary 
and Mrs. Eugene Powell had taken her place. 
These changes were ratified at the annual elec- 
tion. April 25, [882, with the exception that 
Mrs. A. M. Semans became secretary. With 
a lew changes in each, the old boards oi trus- 
tees and Managers were also re-elected. 

At the annual meeting held in [883, the 
treasurer's report showed as receipts lor the 
preceding year, $3,001.63; expenses. $_>.- 
427.19: balance in treasury, S574.44. 'I he 
president, secretary and treasurer were re- 
elected. Increasing respons<ibilties in con- 
nection with other lines of work made it neces- 
s.irv for Mrs. Williams to tender her resigna- 
tion, which was with great reluctance ac- 
cepted. Her loss to the association was re- 
garded as serious. Mrs. Williams having been 
a power during its formative period in bring- 
ing into shape and success full)' s'tarting this 
child-saving enterprise. Mrs. Semans posi- 
tively refused to accept the office of president 
to which she was elected, so Mrs. Thomson 
was again pressed into service as president for 
the remainder of the year, and Mrs. J. W. 
Lindsey was elected treasurer. Mrs. Lindsey 
continued to perform the duties <>f this im- 
portant office with efficiency and faithfulness 
for eighteen years, until ill health compelled 
her to resign in September, 1901. 

In [884 the same officers were re-elected, 
wuh the exception that Mrs. Eugene Powell 
became secretary. In November Mrs. Thom- 
son was again compelled to resign, and Mrs. 



John A. Little was elected to fill out the un- 
expired term. 

The same officers, with boards of Trustees 
and Managers were re-elected in 1885. and the 
incidents of removing the Home to the Cum- 
mins house on North Liberty Street, where 
it remained until firmly anchored in its present 
location, and the necessary abandonment of the 
work for aged people, were all that marked 
especially the history of the Home that year. 
In April, 1886, another change was made 
necessary owing to the failing health of the 
beloved Airs. Little, under whose firm but 
efficient and gentle leadership the Home bad 
more and more won public confidence and fa- 
vor. During these years the number of chil- 
dren had increased to an average of about 
forty, and the hearts and hands of the com- 
mittee on "Placing Children" were kept busy 
in finding homes for so large a number. This 
finding right homes was ewer regarded as the 
most important part of the work — the placing 
these children where each character, so care- 
fully studied while under the care of the Home, 
would find as far as possible its fittest environ- 
ment — the Home being regarded only as the 
place to do the necessar) preparatory work oi 
fitting these little ones, both to merit and to 
hold the mi. re permanent homes found for 
them. I 'suall_\ these children are placed in 
homes in the count), where the Society can. 
through committees visiting them, keep in 
touch with their treatment and surroundings. 
Notwithstanding the favorable public .senti- 
ment won during these years, tip to this time 
a constant battle was being waged from time 
to time to keep the wolf from the door, and 
make ends meet in financial support of the 
I lome. 

In the resignation of Mrs. Little and the 
discouragemenl that followed. Mrs. Thomson 
was again persuaded to come back to her old 
place as president, and Mrs. Powell and Mrs. 
Lindsey, as secretary and treasurer, respec- 
tively, were elected in [886, and these again 
in 1887. In April, [888, Mrs. Powell took 
the office of president, once more vacated, and 
Mrs. Henry A. Welch took Mrs. Powell's 
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So poorly adapted to the wants 1 if tins large 
family were the rented houses that had been 
occupied up to this time, and so circum- 
scribed was the room, that it seemed impossible 
tn establish the order and discipline so neces- 
sary in the development of young lives whose 
chief need is this sort of training-. And so, 
during all these years, the need of a permanent 
home so adapted to its wants that all of the 
great possibilities of this enterprise might be 
realized, pressed more and more upon the 
hearts of the management. Years had passed 
without seeming to come any nearer the reali- 
zation of this wish, until in the summer of 
[889, discouragement seemed to resolve itself 
into despair through the resignation and re- 
moval from the city of the president. Mrs. 
Eugene Powell, who from the inception of the 
work had been an inspiration to it. After once 
more recalling Mrs. Thomson to the presi- 
dency, a committee was appointed on June 5, 
1889, to see what steps could be taken toward 
securing a permanent home. Mrs. Henry A. 
Welch. Mrs. Rachel Carter, Mrs. J. W. Lind- 
sey and Mrs. Thomson composed this commit- 
tee. They found in the Board of County Com- 
missioners most stanch and sympathizing 
friends, ready to help to the fullest extent the 
law allowed. In their law-abiding devotion to 
the county's interests, no less than in their 
brave stepping out into this new field of rescue 
to the perishing. J. L. Thurston, S. J. Mann, 
and M. Field wrote each his name with most 
honorable mention on the county's history. 

A law, seemingly lost under the legislative 
debris of twenty years, was resurrected by this 
committee of women. Under its provisions 
the commissioners of a county were permitted 
to insist a charity of this kind to the extent 
of $6,000 in buildings. The Potter property, 
just north of the city, beautifully located for 
this purpose, and with seven acres of ground, 
improved at an expense of $20,000, was of- 
fered to the committee for less than halt of 
its real value, $8,500.00. So lost and seem- 
ingly forgotten had this law become that much 
and quite distinguished legal talent was exer- 
cised in trying to influence the commissioners 
against acting under it. So persistent were 
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been for the courageous and gallant I 
made by Gen. j. S. Jones and don Geo 
W. Carpenter, prosecuting attorney, in 1 
fense of the law, and the perfect legality of the 
commissioners' acting under it, the case would 
have been lost. As soon as the commissioners 
were assured that they could safely act, they 
encouraged the trustees of the Home to se- 
cure the property, the commissioners assummg 
$6,000.00 of the purchase money, the trustees 
expecting to mortgage the property for the 
remaining $2,500.00. In March, 1890. this 
valuable property was transferred by the 
owner, Mr. Robert Xeal, of Columbus, to the 
trustees of "The Children's Home of Dela- 
ware" — Mr. Xeal making to the ladies a do- 
nation of $200.00. Kind friends now came 
to the relief of the women in the large debt 
they had assumed. The wdiole-souled Judge 
Jones (one of the doubting Thomases on the 
original Board of Trustees, but nevertheless. 
a stanch friend of the Home for twenty years) 
was the first of them. A petition gotten up 
by him. with the assistance of Mr. E. E. Xeff 
and Mr. J. P. Thompson, was circulated, and 
a bill lor S2. 500.00. with $500.00 added for 
repairs was gotten through the Legislature by 
another stanch friend, R. K. Willis, then mem- 
ber from this district. The "Committee on 
Permanent Home" having done its work, was 
discharged, and in March, 1890. the large and 
now happy family was moved into its truly 
beautiful home, which was formally dedicated 
the following September. At this time, the 
following boards of Trustees and Managers 
were in charge of the Home : 

TRUSTEES. 



Mrs. A. Thomson. 
Mrs. R. Carter, 
Mrs. H. A. Welch. 
.Mrs. 1. W. Lindsev, 
Mrs. E. E. Xeff. 
Mrs. J. D. Van Deman, 



Mrs. R. Reynolds, 
Mrs. J. M. Crawford 
Mrs. J. F. Shaffer, 
Mrs. H. L. Baker. 
Miss McCullough. 



MANAGERS. 



Mrs. R. Lvbrand, 
Mrs. J. J. Shur, 



Mrs. H. G. Sheldon. 
Mrs. P. Heibv, 



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Mrs. I. Markle, Mrs 

Mrs. j. L. Thurston, Mrs. 
Mrs. T. M. Byers, Mrs. 

Mrs. V. T. Kingman, Mrs. 
Mrs. V. D. Stayman, Mrs. 
Mrs. Jno. P. Thompson Mrs. 
Mrs. Dr. Constant, Mrs. 
Mrs. Bachelder, Mrs, 

Mrs. D. Plotner, Mrs. 

Mrs. Seymour Harrold.Mrs. 



L. A. Luttgen, 
]. Snodgrass, 
Elmer Hills, 
Geo. Powers, 
Duvall, 

J. P. Wintermute 
Wm. Cutler, 
1 luff, 

J. R. Brown, 
L. W'olfley. 



The total number of children cared for 
in these nine years was 168; returned to par- 
ents, thirty-seven: placed in homes, seventy- 
one ; returned to other counties and placed in 
asylums and hospitals, sixteen. The expense 
of keeping up the Home averaged each year 
$2,000.00, or a total expenditure of $17,171.74. 
This property now purchased by consent of 
Board of Commissioners, was deeded direct 
to Trustees of the Children's Home, to be 
held by them so long as it was used for the 
purpose of a Children's Home. When not so 
used, the property to revert hack to the county. 
On the removal of the Home to its new quar- 
ters, Gen. J. S. Jones made arrangements to 
board at this Home, and thus assist in its 
support, children from the overcrowded quar- 
ters of the "Soldiers' and Sailors' Home" at 
Xenia. The management deciding at the same 
time to board children from other counties 
where there were no Children's Homes. The 
Association, thus newly equipped, seemed en- 
dowed with a new life, as it started out on a 
future so full of possibilties. 

The chief incidents of note during the fol- 
lowing years, '91, '92, '93, were: In Septem- 
ber a lot was kindly donated by the cemetery 
trustees, with the understanding that as soon 
as the Association was able, a suitable monu- 
ment would be erected. Such a monument was 
placed in February, 1895, at a cost of $135.00. 
In September, 1891, an Advisory Board of 
three gentlemen was decided on, with by-laws 
to that effect. Gen. J. S. Jones. Rev. J. F. 
Shaffer, D. D., and Mr. E. E. Neff comprised 
this Board. In May. [892, the need of re- 
modelling and adding more room to the, build- 
ing so as to accommodate the largely increased 



family, now numbering from fifty to sixty, re- 
sulted in the appointment of a committee — 
Mesdames Baker, Welch, Lindsey and Thom- 
son — to secure means somehow for this pur- 
pose. A few months later, by compromising 
a law-suit with the Short Line Railroad, a 
right-of-way, taking 168 feet from the north- 
east corner of the yard, was conveyed to the 
railroad for $3,000.00. and this sum was ap- 
plied to the new building, the county commis- 
sioners promising to supply the balance of the 
necessary money. In December, a kindergar- 
ten was started. This was suspended while 
the Home was being remodelled, and since that 
time it bas seemed impractical to renew it. 
In January, 1893. a handsome donation of 
books from Mrs. W. C. Ginn became the 
nucleus of a library, christened the "Ginn 
Library." Mrs. Ginn was an active member 
of the Board of Managers, who for two or 
three years gave an hour each week to the 
children of this Home in interesting talks or 
lectures on familiar subjects. 

The work of remodelling the Home was 
completed in the fall of 1893 at an expense of 
$7,369.13. and dedication exercises were held 
November 1, 1893. 

Two delegates have been sent each year 
to represent the Home at the Annual Meetings 
of the "Associated Charities." so that the 
broadest and most intelligent thought might 
be given to the management of this child-sav- 
ing work. 

By August, 1895, the work of placing the' 
large number of children that were coming 
into the Home became so great that it was 
decided to appoint an agent, not only to find 
such homes and adjust the children to them, 
but to visit the children and keep the Associa- 
tion in touch with them. Mrs. J. W. Lindsey 
was appointed to this work which she has 
performed ever since in a most efficient 
manner. 

On the night of February 19, 1896, an 
intensely cold night, the thermometer register- 
ing twelve degrees below zero, this beautiful 
Home was entirely destroyed by fire. The 
family of fifty children, some of whom were 
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out of the burning building in their night 
clothes, and with only such wraps as could be 
hastily caught up, to shelter elswhere. Heroic 
actii m by matron, employes and citizens that 
hastily gathered from near and far saved with- 
out hurt the lives of these helpless little chil- 
dren. The Opera House was thrown open, 
and here the children were soon gathered and 
made comfortable for the time. The Wilson 
home in South Delaware was finally secured, 
and here the children were comfortably quar- 
tered until the Home was rebuilt, ample in- 
surance having been carried to do this. So 
fully has this once-questioned charity estab- 
lished itself in the confidence of the citizens that 
about $500.00 was received from different so- 
cieties and individuals, besides groceries, pro- 
visions of all kinds, clothing and bedding in 
abundance. 

The following ladies composed the boards 
of Trustees and Managers who bravely at this 
time met the disastrous work of the fire fiend, 
and with the help of almost the entire citizen- 
ship of Delaware, warmed, fed, clothed and 
housed the fifty little children turned out of 
home in the cold of that night. 

TRUSTEES. 

Mrs. A. Thomson, President; 

Mrs. J. F. Shaffer. Vice-President; 

Mrs. H. A. Welch, Recording Secretary; 

Mrs. J. D. VanDeman, Cor. Secretary; 

Mrs. I. W. Lindsev, Treasurer ; 

Mrs. E. E. Neff, Historian ; 

Mrs. H. L. Baker, 

Mrs. Wm. Cutler, 

Mrs. D. Plotner, 

Miss Mary McCullough. 

MANAGERS. 

Mrs. Ed. Semans, Mrs. J. Markle. 

Mrs. Robert Lvbrand, Mrs. W. C. Ginn. 

Mrs. T. M. P-yers, Mrs. Dr. E. M. Hall, 

Mrs. Prof. Hormell, Mrs. L. A. Luttgen, 

Mrs. N. F. Overturf, Mrs. J. P. Wintermute, 

Mrs. J. M. Crawford. Mrs. P. Phillips, 

Mrs. J. Snodgrass, Mrs. W. H. Hague, 



Mrs. L. B. C. Lahr, Mrs. Dr. McDowell, 
.Mrs. V. T. Kingman, Mrs. J. J. Shur, 
Mrs. Prof. Stevenson. Mrs. S. A. Moore, 
Mrs. Geo. W. Powers, Miss Cummins. 
Mrs. H. M. Loofborrough, 

In December, 1896, the commissioners ap- 
propriated $660.00 for a new barn, and in 
May, 1897, $150.00 was allowed for sewerage 
by the same Board. In September, 1897, the 
1 ild boards of Trustees and Managers, with 
a few changes were re-elected. Mrs. H. A. 
Welch, after long and faithful service gave 
up the secretaryship, and Mrs. Anna Joy Halli- 
day was elected in her stead. Mrs. Welch, 
however, remained on the Board of Trustees 
as chairman of the "Building and Grounds 
Committee." 

The year 1898 was marked by no special 
incidents other than some changes in the 
boards of Trustees and Managers. In April, 
1899, eighteen acres of pasture land were pur- 
chased, it being necessary to keep quite a num- 
ber of cows to supply milk for so many chil- 
dren. $1,100.00 was the price paid; $700.00 
of this coming from the treasury, the balance 
being borrowed from the bank for a short 
time. 

At the annual meeting, in September, 
1899. the constitution was changed reducing 
the number of managers from twenty-four to 
eighteen, and restricting the voting power to 
the members of boards of Trustees. Managers 
and Advisory Board of Women from Town- 
ships. At this election the old officers were 
continued, except that Mrs. H. A. Welch be- 
came historian and corresponding secretary in 
place of Mrs. Van Deman, resigned. 

In August, 1900, a cold storage and ice- 
house was built at a cost of $549.29. 

At the time of writing this brief sketch of 
the Home, it has accommodations for about 
sixty children, though the average number of 
inmates is about forty-five. The Association 
owns thirty-six acres of land in Delaware, 
keeps five cows and a horse, raises garden 
truck and poultry and a large part of the meat 
consumed in the Home. The present officials 
of the Home are as follows: President, Mrs. 



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J. F. Shaffer; vice-president, Mrs. E. M. Hall; 
recording secretary, Airs. J. W. Nelson; cor- 
responding secretary, Airs. H. A. Welch; 
treasurer, Mrs. Fred Bauereis. Trustees : 
Mrs. C. A. Walker, Mrs. J. Markle. Mrs. V. 
T. Kingman, Mrs. N. F. Overturf. Managers: 
Airs. T. W. Lindsey, Mrs. J. P. Wintermute, 
Airs. E. I. Pollock, Mrs. P. Heiby, Mrs. L. 
Lewis, Airs. L. B. C. Lahr, Airs. G. G. Gallo- 
way, Airs. Wm. Cutler, Mrs. H. C. Clippinger, 
Mrs. C. W. Wiles, Airs. Paul R. Hickok. Airs. 
X. Wagner, Airs. S. B. Brown. Airs. F. Al- 
bright, Airs. L. L. Denison. Airs. Al. J. Ross, 
Mr.. T. AI. Byers, Airs. F. A. Owens, Airs. 
C. C. Steadman. 

Delaware County may well be proud of 
its "Children's Home!" And what shall we 
say of the noble Christian women to whom the 
community is so deeply indebted for this 
beneficent institution? Some have already 
been called to hear the words: "Well done, 
good and faithful servant;" cithers remain, still 
identified with the work which has claimed 
their heart and hand these many years. In- 
difference, opposition, obstacles apparently in- 
surmountable, they have overcome. Inspired 
by the crying needs of the little ones, with 
faith in the children's God, and working with 
the energy of conviction, they have built a 
lasting monument to woman's higher intelli- 
gence, sympathy, love and devotion. 

HOME FOR THE AGED. 

The need for a home for worthy old ladies, 
wdio are not properly subjects for the County 
Infirmary, was recognized many years ago by 
the Delaware women who were foremost in 
philanthropic work. The first step in making 
a provision of this kind was taken in the early 
'8o's, when the name of "The Children's Home 
of Delaware" was changed to that of "The 
Delaware Home for Children and Aged Peo- 
ple." and a number of worthy old ladies were 
admitted. It was soon felt, however, that a 
separate home should be provided for the 
aged, and in 1885, the growing work among 
the children made it necessary, for the time 
being, to abandon the work of caring for the 



aged at the Children's Home. This was a 
keen disappointment to Airs. Abram Thomson, 
the founder of the Home, and to the other 
benevolent women who were interested in the 
w 1 nk". They were not disheartened by this 
setback, but were strengthened in their desire 
and determination to establish an instituton de- 
voted exclusively to the care of the aged. 

Airs. Elmer Hills was the leading spirit in 
the movement which resulted in establishing 
the present Home ; closely associated with her 
in the early work of arousing interest in the 
enterprise were Airs. Alartha Lybrand and 
Airs. Ella Battenfield. Aleetings were held 
from time to time in the homes of different 
ladies, and beginning Alarch 10. 1892. interest 
had reached a point where meetings began to 
be held at frequent intervals. The clergy- 
men and leading business men of the city were 
invited to confer with the ladies regarding the 
project. A meeting was held in a vacant store- 
room ; besides the ladies and the ministers only 
two or three business men were present. It 
can hardly be said that the enthusiasm of the 
men ran high. The ministers plied the women 
with such questions as these: "AYhere are 
the old ladies to come from?" How many 
have you in view ?" "How much money have 
you to start with?" "How much would be 
required to start such a home?" The effect 
of their wise counsel was so disheartening that, 
for the moment, many of the ladies felt like 
abandoning the enterprise; but courage re- 
vived, for those engaged in this work were 
inspired by their noble cause with a zeal that 
could nut be quenched. A committee was sent 
to the Home at Columbus. There they were 
given much good advice, and learned that the 
Ci lumbus institution was started without a 
dollar, and in spite of the apathy of those 
from whom the organizers naturally exoected 
moral and financial support. Upon hearing 
the report of this committee, the Delaware 
ladies voted unanimously to push ahead. An 
organization was formed, and a committee ap- 
pointed to look for a suitable house. After 
searching for a week without finding a place 
such as was desired. Air. Elmer Hills offered 
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Franklin Street for three months, as it was 

thought that in that time results would show 
whether the experiment would prove a success 
or a failure. If. at the end of the trial period, 
it was decided to go on with the work, the 
Association was to lease the property for five 
years. The Home was established here on 
July 4. 1892. with three old ladies from the 
Infirmary, the directors of which promised to 
pay one dollar a week for the board of each. 

The first regular meeting of the Associa- 
te m at the Home was held on July 12th. and 
at that time, Mrs. J. L. Wolfley, who has held 
the office continuously ever since that time, 
was elected treasurer. 

The Home was furnished by the different 
churches — one furnishing the parlor, another 
the dining room, others the chambers, etc. 
Many liberal-hearted citizens also contributed 
to the good work. 

The wisdom of incorporating the Associa- 
tion soon became apparent, and March 1, 
1893. papers of incorporation of "The Home 
for the Aged" of Delaware were issued at 
Columbus, in which the names of the following 
ladies appear as incorporators : Mrs. Susan 
Hills. Mrs. Martha C. Lybrand, Mrs. J. L. 
Wolflev. Mrs. Frances I. Gill. Mrs. Isabella 
Riddle! Mrs. Elizabeth Ufford and Mrs. Abi- 
gail M. Semans. 

The following ladies comprised the charter 
members and the original officials of the As- 
sociation : President, Mrs. Elmer Hills ; First 
vice-president, Mrs. A. R. Carter; second 
vice-president. Mrs. J. S. Gill ; third vice-presi- 
dent. Mrs. R. Parsons; secretary. Mrs. A. Ly- 
brand; treasurer, Mrs. J. L. Wolfley. These 
officers and the following ladies constitute the 
Board of Trustees: Mrs. Abigail Semans. 
Mrs. Eliza Perkins. Mrs. Chauncy Hills, Mrs. 
Christian Riddle. Board of Managers: Mrs. 
Eva Thompson, Mrs. Will Smith. Mrs. W 
W. Davies. Mrs. W. R. Carpenter. Mrs. James 
Smith. Mrs. B. W. Brown.' Mrs. Edward 
Welch. Mrs. F. A. Hyatt, Miss M. Dickinson, 
Mrs. Sidney Moore. Mrs. John Hills. Mrs. E. 
Ufford. Mrs. Frank Marriott. Mrs. G. Ma- 
theas, Mrs. F. Rutter. Mrs. Woodlawn. Mrs. 
F. Chamberlain. Mrs. Tucv Patton. Mrs. L. 



Battenfield, Mrs. Helen Jaynes, Mr-. John 
Anderson, Mrs. J. H. Dunlap. Mrs. W. S. 
Little, Miss Fidelia Perkins. Mrs. John Arm- 
strong. 

In 1897 the Infirmary directors were pre- 
vailed upon to furnish coal to the Home, and 
since that time have continued to pay the fuel 
bills. Natural gas has been used for the last 
couple of years for heating purposes. 

In 1901, and indeed before that, it began 
to be felt that the Home was too small for 
the ever increasing demands made upon it, 
and the question of erecting a building received 
earnest consideration. A number of building 
lots were kindly offered by public spirited citi- 
zens and .by the People's Building Association. 
Before an}- definite action had been taken in 
regard to building, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney 
Moore offered the Board of Managers a ninety- 
nine-years' lease of the property the Home 
now occupies, with the privilege of the lessee 
to purchase the property at any time for a cer- 
tain price. The conditions attached to this 
generous offer were that the Association put 
the building in perfect repair, pay the taxes 
and that it shall never be put to any other 
use than as a home for aged people. This offer 
was eagerly accepted. There are twenty 
rooms in the house, giving accommodations 
for fourteen or fifteen inmates, besides the ma- 
tron and help. As far as they are aide, the 
inmates are required to help in the necessary 
household work. Including boarders, there 
have been admitted up to this time thirty- 
eight aged ladies, and there have been twenty 
deaths. At present there are twelve inmates 
of the Home, and there is usually a number on 
the waiting-list to gain admission. Ladies 
fifty years of age or older, who have resided 
one year in Delaware County, are eligible, the 
fee being $300.00 f< >r w< 'men between the ages 
of titty and seventy, and $200.00 for those 
over seventy years of age. Aside from these 
fees, the Home depends for its maintenance 
upon the generosity of the public, its principal 
source of income being a large dinner given 
annually to the alumnae of Ohio Wesleyan 
University ; more or less money is also received 
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book collections, etc. The Home has received 
financial assistance beyond what its founders 
dared hope for; yet there is still much work 
to be done, in which every dollar given by a 
generous public will find a worthy and chari- 
table use. 

The present officers of the Home are : 
Mrs. Christian Riddle, president; Mrs. John 
Cowgill, first vice-president ; Mrs. Martin Mil- 
ler, second vice-president; Mrs. J. H. Gardner, 
third vice-president; Mrs. Lewis Slack, secre- 
tary; Mrs. J. L. Wolrley. treasurer. The 
1!< iard of Trustees includes the foregoing offi- 
cers and the following ladies: Mrs. Abigail 
Semans. Mrs. Sidney Moore, Mrs. H. C. 
Thompson, Mrs. F. A. Hyatt.' The Board of 
Managers is composed of thirty-four ladies 
chosen from the different churches of the city. 

THE JANE M. CASE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. 

The Jane M. Case Memorial Hospital, so 
named in honor of the donor, is an institution 
such as few cities of the size of Delaware can 
boast. It has been said by visiting physicians 
to be the most successful institution of its size 
and kind in the country. 

Mrs. Case was a widow, whose husband 
had been a practicing physician of Columbus, 
and who, for a time, was associated with Dr. 
John A. Little of Delaware. After her hus- 
band's death, Mrs. Case made her home with 
her son, who was a practicing physician in 
Cleveland. The climate of that city did not 
agree with Mrs. Case, so in 1N88 she came to 
Delaware, where she resided until her death 
in 1904. In her will, after making certain be- 
quests to friends and relatives, she provided 
that part of her estate be devoted to benevolent 
or charitable purposes, and appointed trustees 
to carry out her intentions. Dr. A. J. Willey, 
her attending physician, having been a witness 
to Mrs. Case's will, and conversant with its 
provisions, went, soon after her death, to the 
trustees of her estate and presented the claims 
of Delaware for a hospital. His suggestions 
received favorable consideration. At this 
point, it ought to be said that Delaware is 
deeply indebted to Dr. Willey for his prompt 



action in this matter, and for the time and 
effort he devoted so unselfishly to this cause. 
The first time Dr. Willey saw the trustees, he 
proposed the purchase of the present property. 
Dr. W. H. Hague and Hon. F. M. Marriott 
were called upon for assistance and counsel, 
and it was decided to purchase the Edwin G. 
Lybrand homestead on the southwest corner 
of Franklin and Winter Streets. Dr. Willey 
was asked to secure an option on the property, 
which authority he delegated to F. M. Mar- 
riott, by whom the option was secured. The 
property was purchased August 1, 1904. by 
Guy H. Buttolph and Ellen G. Whiting, 
trustees of Mrs. Case's estate at a cost of SN.- 
500, and by them was transferred to the 
trustees of the Jane M. Case Hospital Associa- 
tion on December 23rd of the same year. 

On August 10, 1904, the Jane M. Case 
Hospital Association was incorporated by V. 
D. Stayman, Frank M. Marriott, Arthur H. 
Jones, Christian Riddle and W. H. Hague. 
The objects of the Association are: ( 1) To 
provide medical and surgical aid and nursing 
for sick and disabled persons, free of expense 
to those unable to pay. and at a cost to tin >se 
who are able to pay the amount to be de- 
termined by the trustees. (2) To instruct and 
train suitable persons in .the duties of nursing 
and attending upon the sick. The first meeting 
of the Association was held August 15, 1904, 
and the following trustees were elected for 
life: V. D. Stayman, president; Dr. W. H. 
Hague, vice-president ; Frank M. Marriott, 
secretary; Christian Riddle, treasurer; Arthur 
H. Jones, C. C. Stedman and Stephen Potter. 
Besides the Board of Trustees, there is an 
Auxiliary Board of not less than thirty ladies, 
residents of Delaware, to assist the Trustees 
in raising funds for the maintenance of the 
institution. Knowing that failure had marked 
the history of so many other small hospitals, 
great care was exercised to secure an organ- 
ization that would prove permanent and in- 
sure the success of the Hospital after it was 
started. The institution has been kept out of 
politics and free from the turmoils of religious 
Strife, nor is it under the domination of any 
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physicians in Delaware County. Dr. W. B. 
Hedges has been chief of stall' since the or- 
ganization of the 1 [ospital. In the summer and 
fall of 1905, the old building was entirely re- 
modelled and a new addition was built at an 
expense of $9,000.00. While ways and means 
of furnishing the Hospital were being dis- 
cussed. Air. S. S. Blair kindly came forward 
with an offer to do this for an advance of 
ten per cent, on the cost of the furnishings, 
and to carry the account until such time as 
the trustees were in a position to pay it. Alto- 
gether there are twenty-two rooms, including 
a fully equipped operating-room, nine rooms 
for private patients and three wards, one each 
for men, women and children, having a total 
of fourteen beds. Each of the following 
churches and individuals furnished a room: 
William Street M. E. Church, St. Paul's M. 
E. Church. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, of 
which Mrs. Case was a member, furnished the 
n om which Mrs. Case had occupied for about 
turee years while she boarded at that house; 
St. Mary's R. C. Church, First Presbyterian 
Church, Asbury M. E. Church. Epworth 
League of Lewis Center, M. L. Wolff; the 
women's ward was furnished by Zion's Re- 
formed Church in memory of their late pastor, 
Rev. L. B. Lahr. D. D. ; J. F. Dodd furnished 
the ward known as the "Ruth Children's 
Ward." Dr. J. K. James presented the Hos- 
pital with a United States Observatory clock. 
which he maintains at his own expense. 

The trustees recently purchased the most 
modern high pressure sterilizer that money 
can buy. On July 21, 1906, the Hospital, 
fullv furnished and equipped for the reception 
of patients was opened with an efficient chief 
nurse and a competent corps of assistant 
nurses, eight in number. The training school 
for nurses gives the standard three-year course. 
An electric elevator and a dumb-waiter were 
installed in the fall of 1907 by the Ladies' 
Auxiliary Board. They provide and make all 
the linen used in the Hospital. They have also 
assumed and paid a note for $1,500.00 which 
the Association owed. One of the unique 
ways by which they secure funds is known as 
"tag day." On this day. which comes once 



a year, the ladies sally forth into the street 
and tag every pedestrian they meet, allowing 
none to escape until he has paid for his tag 
by contributing to their Hospital funds. 
$2,000.00 a year is paid by the county toward 
the maintenance of the Hospital, there being 
a legislative enactment making it possible to 
raise this sum by taxation. The annual meet- 
ing of the Association is held the last Monday 
in January of each year. 

A number of changes in the personnel of 
the Board of Trustees have occurred; Arthur 
H. Jones removed from the city, and Dr. A. 
J. Willey was elected in his place; V. D. Stay- 
man resigned, and S. S. Blair was elected to 
fill the vacancy ; upon the death of Dr. Hague, 
R. K. Willis was elected a trustee, and is now 
president of the Board. 

From the report issued in January. 1908, 
we learn that during the seventeen months 
since the opening of the Hospital, 216 patients 
have been admitted. The average cost of car- 
ing for each patient, not including wear and 
tear on fixtures and furnishings, was $11.05 
per week. Of these cases, no were medical 
and 106 were surgical. There were sixty-three 
charity cases, whose treatment covered a period 
equal to 191 weeks for one person. 

THE GIRLS' INDUSTRIAL HOME. 

The Girls' Industrial Home, one of the 
benevolent and reformatory institutions of 
Ohio, is situated upon the west bank of the 
Scioto River, in Concord Township, about ten 
miles southwest of Delaware. The nearest 
railroad station is Hyatts, on the Columbus. 
Hocking Valley & Toledo road, three and one- 
half miles distant. There is an excellent pike 
between the home and the city of Delaware. 
The telephone between the Home and Dela- 
ware was the first long-distance 'phone in- 
stalled in Ohio. 

A location more beautiful or better suited 
to an institution of this kind would be difficult 
to find. There are 189 acres of land in the 
property. The campus surrounding the build- 
ings is covered with beautiful shade tree-, 
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white sulphur spring is practically inexhausti- 
ble, and is used constantly and almost ex- 
clusively for drinking. It is unsurpassed by 
any of the most healthful waters at the most 
popular public resorts of the country. The 
property itself has an interesting history, dat- 
ing from 1820, when Davis & Richards bored 
a well here, about two and one-half inches in 
diameter, in the hope of finding salt. The 
well was sunk 460 feet, the last ninety feet 
being through solid rock, when the augur 
suddenly dropped about two feet, and up 
gushed with great force a stream of strong 
white sulphur water. The water is pure, and 
is supposed to be driven by its own gas ; it 
has a temperature of fifty degrees. Davis 
& Richards considered they had made a failure, 
and left the well unfinished. Nothing fur- 
ther was done in the way of development un- 
til about 1842, when a man named Nathaniel 
Hart, bought the land of the owner, Christo- 
pher Freshwater, erected a large building and 
several cottages, and from that time on it 
became widely known as a watering place and 
exceedingly popular. A 1 1*. Hart sold the prop- 
erty to Andrew Wilson, Jr.. who conducted 
the enterprise until 1865. As the patrons of 
the place were largely southerners, the war 
badly crippled the enterprise, and the hard 
times at the close of the war. as well as the 
feeling then existing between the North and 
the South, made it impossible for Mr. Wilson 
to continue the business on the large and 
profitable scale to which he had been accus- 
tomed, .so in 1865 he sold out to Col. John 
Ferrv. The new owner, at considerable ex- 
pense, enlarged, remodelled and refurnished 
the hou--e, besides building an addition to it; 
but it seemed as if the place were doomed as a 
resort, and after a year or two the venture was 
pbandi med. 

Seeing this tine property going to rum and 
decay, a number of public-spirited and bene- 
volently disposed citizens of Delaware County 
petitioned the Legislature to establish here a 
home for unprotected girls. May 5, 1869, the 
General Assembly passed an act creating the 
institution and a Hoard of Trustees was ap- 
pointed, consisting of Prof. F. Merrick'. Abram 



Thomson, M. D. Leggett, Clark Waggener 
and Stanley Matthews. The Board met and 
organized at Columbus on the 29th of May. 
The property was purchased for $55,000.00 
on the 2 1 st of July following, and the Home 
was formally opened on the 15th of October 
of that year. The institution was then called 
"Reform School for Girls;" but in 1872, by a 
special Act of the Legislature, the present 
name was adopted. 

The buildings consisted of a three-story 
frame hotel, with a stone basement, situated on 
the ground now partially occupied by Cottage 
No. 6, and facing the east (as does the present 
alignment of brick cottages) ; south of the 
hotel, and ninety-five feet distant therefrom, 
stood a two-story frame building known as 
the Mansion House. A short distance south 
from this house was the beginning of a row 
of cottages, which extended south to the pres- 
ent site of Cottage No. 2. This line of smaller 
buildings, known as "Cottage Row," was com- 
posed of eight frame structures ; four twi >- 
story, and four one-story buildings ; all of 
these, from the hotel to the last cottage on 
this alignment, were connected by a covered 
wooden promenade. South of this row of 
cottages stood a two-story frame chapel. 
Southeast of this building, and about seventy- 
five feet distant therefrom, stood another row 
of frame cottages known as "Southern Row," 
running east and west and facing the north, 
consisting of two double frame buildings, lo- 
cated on the ground which was later occupied 
by Cottage No. 7. These, together with the 
bath-house, bowling alley, and the "Burnett 
House," constituted the tenements that passed 
to the State. 

These buildings were all dressed in white 
paint, with green blinds, which lent a peculiar 
charm to the beautiful grounds that had been 
tastefully laid out and set with groves of 
young indigenous and exotic trees. 

On the 19th of November, the superin- 
tendent. Dr. John Nichols, made his first re- 
port, which shows that six girls were enrolled 
as pupils in the new school. We also glean 
from that report that the buildings, though 
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requirement necessary for comfortable winter 
quarters. This was evidently understood at 
the time of the purchase, as the whole 
premises had been designed and the buildings 
constructed for summer use only ; but with 
hasty repairs on some of the more substantial 
houses, they were made tenable against the 
approaching storms of winter. However, just 
as those connected with the work began to feel 
secure in the permanency of their plans, the 
Legislature passed an Act, April 14, 1870, 
which seemed to transfer to the Board of Man- 
agers of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Or- 
phan's Home, all of the premises so recently 
purchased by the State for the establishment 
of the State Reform and Industrial School for 
Girls, save and except the "Burnett House," 
and five acres of land adjacent thereto. After 
some correspondence between the officials of 
the two institutions, the matter was finally 
submitted to the attorney-general for his 
opinion, the result of which left the trustees 
of the Reform and Industrial School in pos- 
session of their purchase. 

On February 24, 1873, while a deputation 
from the Legislative Committee was making 
its annual visit to the Home, and while in the 
very act of commenting favorably concerning 
the satisfactory workings and prosperity of the 
institution, fire suddenly broke out in the old 
Mansion House, which was soon destroyed, 
together with the chapel and superintendent's 
home. The larger buildings were attacked, 
but enough were saved of "Cottage Row" and 
"Southern Row" to furnish crowded accom- 
modations for the officers and pupils of the 
Home. 

During the session of 1872-73. the Legis- 
lature appropriated $24,000.00 for the erection 
of two new brick buildings, which are now 
known as Cottages Nos. 1 and 3. They were 
the first brick structures erected on the farm. 
The "Administration." or "Central Building," 
as it is sometimes called, from its location, was 
built at a cost of $25,000.00, and was com- 
pleted, ready for occupancy in May. 1874. 
Here the business of the institution is trans- 
acted and the superintendent and his family 
reside. In 1875. "Cottage No. 2." sometimes 



known as the "Fire-proof" Cottage, was built 
on the site formerly occupied by the old frame 
chapel. This was the fourth brick building, 
including the "Central," in the order of con- 
struction by the State. It is now being en- 
larged and remodelled. "Cottage No. 6," al- 
though the fifth in order of construction, was 
completed and ready for occupancy in January, 
1878. It cost, including gas fittings and water 
pipe, $12,500.00, and was built on the ground 
occupied by the old frame hotel which was 
destroyed by fire in 1873. It is the northerly 
terminus of the row of brick buildings that 
face the east. 

The buildings now known as Cottages 
Nos. 4 and 5 were completed and ready for 
use in the month of June, 1880. They were 
paid for out of an appropriation of $25,000.00 
made by the Legislature. In order to secure 
a proper location for them, the three old frame 
cottages standing between the Administration 
Building and Cottage No. 2, were removed to 
the east line of the road running north and 
south through the farm, where they now 
stand, the only relics (except the "Burnett 
House") of the "beauty and glory" that 
adorned the grounds of this once famous wa- 
tering place. 

Work on the erection of "Cottage No. 7" 
was begun early in 1881. hut the structure was 
not completed until the spring of '82. It cost, 
including pipes for steam heat, $15,500.00. It 
was located on ground formerly occupied by 
what was known as "Southern Row," and 
faced north. This building was destroyed by 
fire on July 21, 1904. In 1907 it was replaced 
by an attractive building, known as "Honor 
Cottage," located just in the rear of the site 
where No. 7 stood. The building cost about 
832,000.00. and the furnishings about $6.- 
000.00 more. It was opened on November 
15th and occupied by the sixty-six girls hav- 
ing the highest rank in the institution. 

"Cottage No. 8," which faces south, is lo- 
cated on an elevated piece of ground about 
200 feet northeast of "Cottage No. 6." It 
was completed in the fall of [888, at a cost of 
$13,954.14, and was at that time used as the 
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All the buildings described above are two 
stories in height above the foundations, except 
one wing on "Cottage No. 8," and the Admin- 
istration Building, which has a tall mansard 
roof on the main part of the structure. 

A visit to the institution is necessary in 
order to gain even a fair conception of its 
magnitude and importance. At present there 
are 507 girls here, and these together with the 
officials and employes make a total population 
of about 550. The pupils of the institution 
are housed in the eight "Cottages," just 
described. It should be understood that these 
"Cottages," so called, are very large and 
spacious buildings. Those living in each cot- 
tage are under the direct care of the matron, 
house-keeper and cottage school teacher. 

In the rear of the Administration Building 
is the chapel, where religious exercises are con- 
ducted. The Sunday services consist of Sab- 
bath school at 10 A. M., which is followed by 
public worship and preaching by Rev. \V. F. 
Whitlock. D. D., who has been chaplain of the 
institution for many years. 

Instruction is given at the "Central School 
Building." which was erected in 1897, at a 
cost, including furnishings, of about $25,- 
000.00. It contains eleven rooms. Besides 
the eight grammar grades, there is a two-ye ir 
high school course, in which such branches, 
including bookkeeping, shorthand and type- 
writing are taught, as will be most useful to 
the pupils when the have left the home. In- 
struction in vocal and instrumental music is 
also given under the direction of a competent 
teacher. 

A "Technical and Industrial Building" is 
being constructed, which will cost, including 
furnishings and fixtures, ahout $15,000.00. 
1 )( unestic science, dress cutting and sewing, 
Eancy needle-work, basketry — in fact, all 
cla>se^ of industrial work, many of which are 
already taught at the institution, will be taught 
in this building. The instruction will be under 
the direction of a graduate of Pratt Institute 
or some similar school of equal standing. The 
Home has a library which now amounts to 
about 2,000 volumes. The ladies' clubs 
throughout the State have sin >wn much inter- 



est in this department of the Home by giving 

1 k showers and supplying other valuable 

literature. 

Assembly Hall was built in 1904. for the 
accommodation of the population of the in- 
stitution, at a cost of $25,000.00. Besides the 
spacious auditorium, the building contains a 
bathing pool, hot and cold shower baths, dress- 
ing rooms and toilet rooms. It is the intention 
to equip a gymnasium in the building in the 
near future. 

There are a number of other buildings that 
should be considered in this connection. In 
1 878 a brick pump and boiler house was 
erected for the purpose of supplying the build- 
ings comprising the institution with water. 
For this purpose the Legislature had appro- 
priated $25,000.00. The same year a gas 
plant was established from an appropriation 
of $3,000.00. In the winter of 1883, the 
building and gasometer, with its attachments 
were destroyed by fire, but were immediately 
rebuilt from an appropriation of $1,050.00 
for this purpose made by the Legislature. This 
was replaced in 1898 by the present splendid 
acetylene gas plant. 

The next building erected was a boiler 
house, in which was placed a battery of boil- 
ers for the purpose of heating the buildings 
from one central point. This building was 
completed in 1882, but did not seem to answer 
all the requirements of the Home. The Board 
of Trustees, being impressed with the impor- 
tance of a system of water-works, both for 
protection from fire and to supply water for 
domestic purposes, requested in their annual 
report of 1882 an appropriation of $20,- 
000.00 for this purpose, and on April 17, 1883, 
secured the following: "For change of steam- 
beating and water-works, $24,000.00." The 
power or engine and boiler-house was located 
1 m the river bank. The boiler and other ma- 
chinery were transferred to the new location, 
and the present system of steam-heating and 
water-works was completed early in [884. 
With little expense, the old boiler-house was 
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laundry machinery for the convenience of the 
pupils, by whom all laundry work is done. 
The building erected in 1888 as a Hospital, 

at an expense of $3,000.00, .is now used as a 
Detention House. It is a two-story frame 
building, located on a delightful elevation in 
the southeast part of the Home lot. A new 
hospital is to be erected under the provisions 
of a special act passed by the Legislature on 
January 16, 1908, authorizing the Board of 
Trustees to employ an architect and proceed 
to construct and equip a suitable and adequate 
hospital, to cost not to exceed $30,000.00. 

In 1891, the Grocery and Cold Storage 
Plant was built at an expense of $1,200. This 
will soon be equipped with refrigerating ma- 
chinery to provide cold storage and to manu- 
facture the ice used at the instituton, thus ren- 
dering it independent of the uncertain natural 
ice supply. There is also a central bake-oven, 
where all the bread, to the amount of 600 to 
1,000 loaves per day, is baked by the pupils at 
the Home. 

There is a spacious barn and other farm 
buildings. Part of the milk consumed at the 
institution is produced by a small dairy of 
about sixteen cows, and most of the vegetables 
consumed by the present population are pro- 
duced on the farm. 

The following men have served as super- 
intendent of the institution: Dr. John Nichols 
of Geauga County was the first to hold the of- 
fice; in 1S77. he retired and Dr. Ralph Hills of 
Delaware was appointed to the position, which 
he fdled until his death in October, 1879. He 
was succeeded by Rev. Nathan Smith, D. D., 
who served until 1881, when Dr. D. R. Miller 
was appointed to the office. Colonel James M. 
Crawford was the next suoerintenclent. taking 
charge December 15, 1884. We are indebted 
to this highly esteemed citizen of Delaware 
for the data regarding the early history of 
the institution as given in these columns. In 
March. 1889, Colonel Crawford resigned. His 
successor was Captain Albert W. Stiles, who 
helil the position for fourteen mouths, when 
Colonel Crawford was reinstated in the posi- 
tion, which he held for two years, until 1902. 
He then resigned, and Captain Stiles was 



again appointed superintendent, remaining in 
office until April 1, 1904, when the present 
efficient superintendent, Thomas F. Dye, was 
appointed. 

Few people have any idea of the great 
good accomplished by this institution. Hun- 
dreds of the girls who have been trained here 
are now the wives of prosperous men in nearly 
every walk in life. Many are married to suc- 
cessful farmers in this and neighboring coun- 
ties. One is the wife of a prosperous business 
man in Cleveland, and a very active worker in 
the Methodist Episcopal Church; another went 
to New Mexico, where she married an import- 
ant railroad official. A young woman who 
has made for herself a reputation as a writer 
of poetry and prose, was developed from the 
ranks of these girls; another married a million- 
aire and shines in society; still another has 
been a successful school teacher for the past 
nine years in Marion County, having earned 
for herself the means to pay for her advanced 
instruction. A superintendent of a large de- 
partment in an extensive business came from 
the home, and the number of such young la- 
dies who hold positions of responsibility and 
trust in the business world is almost legion. 

From the time he was superintendent of 
the Home, Col. J. M. Crawford and his good 
wife until her death, has kept in touch with a 
large number of the girls who came under 
their care. We wish we could reproduce even 
a few of the hundreds of letters, many of them 
of recent date, which he has received from 
them, but we forbear doing so, as we have re- 
frained from relating the intensely interesting 
and romantic experiences of some of the young 
ladies to whom we have alluded, rather than 
take any chance of embarrassing them in the 
present high positions which they hold in the 
social and business world. 

Many of the girls wdio are brought to the 
Home, are not. according to the provisions of 
the Act creating the institution, proper sub- 
jects for commitment here. In many cases, 
step-fathers or step-mothers, wishing to shirk 
the expense or responsibility of caring for 
their step-children, trump up charges on which 
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case received considerable publicity during 
Colonel Crawford's term. 

A man brought a bright, honest-appearing 
little girl to the Home, who had been commit- 
ted on a charge of stealing. While the man 
was being shown about the institution, the 
Colonel learned the girl's side of the story, and 
had his suspicions confirmed. The offences of 
which she was guilty were of the sugar and 
pie-stealing class, such as most of us have 
committed during a certain period in our lives. 
Colonel Crawford confronted the man with 
the facts, saying: "You are simply this girl's 
step-father, and you are trying to get rid of 
her." The Colonel also told him a few things 
that every such person ought to hear. It de- 
veloped that the man and the girl's mother 
were going to Europe, and the man said that 
when they came back, he would come and claim 
the child. He was informed that he was un- 
worthy of the child, and that if he left her at 
the Home, its authority to keep her until she 
was of age would be enforced. The man left 
in high dudgeon, and Colonel Crawford im- 
mediately commenced an investigation. He 
found that two brothers of the girl had been 
disposed nf in a similar manner, and also found 
that there was some property in the family. 
The Colonel had a friend who was a reporter 
mi uiie nf the Cleveland papers, to whom he 
told the story, requesting the reporter to try 
to discover who owned the property. Nothing 
nmre was heard of the matter, until, one day, 
the paper came out with flaring headlines — 
"An Heiress in the Girls' Industrial Home." 
The article, which occupied considerable space, 
told the story and explained that the girl's 
mother was a property owner. Someone sent 
copies of the paper to the girl's grandmother 
in Ballybeen Park, in the north of Ireland, who 
at once began a correspondence with the super- 
intendent of the Home. She was entertaining 
the child's mother and step-father, and had 
been given the impression that the children 
were being cared for at boarding-school. I pon 
learning the facts, the old lady offered to pro- 
vide a home for her granddaughter, and was 
told that the institution would be glad to re- 
linquish the child to her, if she would furnish 



satisfactory evidence of her ability to care 
properly for her. The evidence, together with 
her formal application, came in the shape ol 
a letter of highest recommendation from a 
member of Parliament, and another letter from 
the American consul at Belfast, speaking in 
highest terms of the grandmother, and offer- 
ing the services of his son, who was about to 
return to America, in seeing the girl properly 
searted on her ocean voyage. Uppn his ar- 
rival in this country, the young man came to 
the Home after the girl. In the meantime, the 
developments in the case had made it seem de- 
sirable for her mother and step-father to cut 
short their visit in Ireland and return home; 
but the girl had no irresistible impulse to call 
upon them as she passed through Cleveland on 
her way to New York. There she was placed 
aboard a steamship by her escort and placed 
in charge of a chaperone, and safely started for 
Ballybeen Park, the home of her well-to-do 
and generous-hearted ancestor. The last that 
was heard from the young lady, she was at- 
tending a college, where it would have been 
embarrassing for her to continue to receive 
correspondence on the stationery of the "Girls' 
Industrial Home." 

The institution was established as a "school 
for the instruction, employment and reforma- 
tion of exposed, helpless, evil-disposed and 
vicious girls." Girls between the ages of nine 
and seventeen years may be committed to the 
Home for ( i ) committing any offense known 
to the laws of Ohio, punishable by fine or im- 
prisonment, other than imprisonment for life: 
(2) any girl leading an idle, vagrant or vicious 
life: ( 3 ) or if found in any street, highway or 
public place in circumstances of want and suf- 
fering, or neglect, exposure or abandonment, 
or of beggary, or truancy. Every girl so com- 
mitted shall be kept, disciplined; instructed, 
employed and governed until she be either re- 
formed and discharged, or shall be bound out 
as an apprentice or servant, or shall have at- 
tained the age of twenty-one years. All com- 
mitments to be made by the probate judge of 
the county having jurisdiction. The object 
of the institution is to instruct the ignorant, to 
aid the unfortunate, to reform the erring, to 



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lift up the fallen, and to furnish a home for 
the exposed and friendless of tender age, where 
the_\ may be kindly cared for, trained to habits 
of industry and receive such intellectual and 
mural culture as to fit them for respectable po- 
sitions in society. 

In seeking to attain these aims, the pres- 
ent management has reorganized the institu- 
tion in many particulars. All uniformity in 
matters of dress, etc., such as will be found in 
many similar institutions, is carefully avoided. 
So far as is practicable, an effort is made to 
develop the individual taste of each girl. The 
pupils have been classified and graded accord- 
ing to their age ami merits, both from the 
standpoint of conduct and mental ability. It 
is felt that the skirls are at the Home, not for 



punishment, but to receive training and coi 
tion. Each is therefore placed upon her honor, 
and made to feel that some responsibility rests 
upon her. Under this system of classification, 
the most worthy girls to the number of sixty- 
six live in the "Honor Cottage." Thus tin- 
pupils admitted to the Home have an oppor- 
tunity to rise to a point of proficiency, where 
they are recommended by the superintendent 
to the Board of Trustees for positions, and 
under his recommendation, some of the pupils 
are now holding salaried positions in the in- 
stitution. It is predicted that the time is not 
far distant when the institution will be entirely 
self-sustaining, so far as expense for labor is 
concerned, through the work done by pupils. 



CHAPTER X. 



THE PR.ESS. 



Newspapers and Editors of the Past and of the Present. 



The Delaware Gazette is one of the oldest 
newspapers in Ohio and probably the only one, 
that has been controlled by one family for 
nearly three quarters of a century. In the 
year 1818 the Delaware Gazette first made its 
appearance, published by Drake, Hughes and 
Olmsted. Judge Ezra Griswold purchased the 
paper in 182 1 and it was published by him 
until 1834, when he sold it to Mr. George W. 
Sharpe, who had just come to Ohio, from 
Frederick, Maryland, where he had owned a 
printing office. At the solicitation of Mr. 
Sharpe, Abraham Thomson, a relative, emi- 
grated from Maryland to Delaware and in 
September, 1834, became a partner in this 
journalistic enterprise. Soon afterwards Mr. 
Sharpe sold his interest in the business io 
Judge David T. Fuller. Two years later Mr. 
Thomson purchased Judge Fuller's interests 
and became sole proprietor, which he remained 
from that time until January 1, 1897. when on 
account of ill health, consequent upon the in- 
firmity of age, he sold the Gazette establish- 
ment to his two sons, Henry C. and Robert C, 
and reluctantly retired from the labors that 
had been so congenial to him for over a half 
century. 

From 1865 to 1871 a half interest in the 
Gazette was held by Captain Alfred E. Lee. 
who had served his country as a soldier with 
distinction and bravery during the War of the 
Rebellion, having been severely wounded at 
the battle of Gettysburg. Captain Lee during 
this time was elected a member of the Ohio 
House of Representatives and afterwards was 



appointed by President Hayes to be consul- 
general at Frankfort-on-the-Main. In both 
positions he rendered capable and creditable 
service. After retiring from Frankfort he was 
editorial writer on the Ohio State Journal and 
other prominent newspapers. Captain Lee 
died in 1905. 

From 1871 until he retired Mr. Thomson 
was assisted in the management of the paper 
by his son, Robert Carter, and also a portion of 
the time by his son, Frank G. In 1897 his 
oldest son, Henry C, returned to Delaware 
from Dayton, where he had lived for twenty- 
six years, and with R. C. Thomson as part- 
ner, purchased the Gazette establishment from 
their father and continued its publication un- 
der the firm name of Abram Thomson's Sons. 
In October, 1898, Henry C. Thomson pur- 
chased his brother's interest and since that time 
has been sole owner and publisher. 

Abram Thomson, who for sixty-two years 
was owner and most of that time editor of the 
Delaware Gazette, was a remarkable man. it 
is doubtful whether there is in the history of 
the State another case where one man has con- 
tinuously held a like position for such a length 
of time. As a man he was of a charming per- 
sonality and noted for uprightness and integ- 
rity of character ; as an editor he was able and 
fearless ; as a citizen he was public spirited and 
useful. 

Born at Taneytown. Md., in 1814, and hav- 
ing acquired his knowledge of printing in si une 
of the chief newspaper offices of New York 
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of twenty and grew up with the town. Abrani 
Thomson and his newspaper were prominent 
factors in its growth and prosperity and he 
was universally honored and respected by its 
inhabitants. In addition to his long life in the 
editorial harness, he held many public posi- 
tions. In 1848-49, without any solicitation on 
his part, he was nominated and elected Repre- 
sentative of Delaware County in the Ohio 
Legislature. For personal reasons he declined 
a nomination unanimously tendered him for 
re-election. In 1850-i he was chosen to suc- 
ceed William Dennison as senator from the 
district composed of the counties of Dela- 
ware and Franklin. In the year 1854 Mr. 
Thomson was a member of the Whig State 
Central Committee when it assembled, and de- 
clared the Whig organization disbanded and 
merged its party into the Republican. 

in i860 he was a member of the Board of 
Presidential Electors of Ohio which cast the 
vote of the State for Abraham Lincoln. By 
President Lincoln he was appointed postmas- 
ter of Delaware and re-appointed in 1865. 
When the State Industrial Home for Chris was 
established in 1869 Mr. Thomson became, by 
appointment of Governor Hayes, a member of 
it> first Board of Trustees, and he served as a 
member and secretary of the board for nine 
years. 

Henry C. Thomson, the present owner of 
the Gazette, was born in Delaware in 1842, 
and was practically brought up in the Gazette 
office, having in his youthful days delivered 
the paper to its town subscribers for about five 
years. In the year 1865 he was taken into 
partnership in the printing business by his fa- 
ther, and continued a partner until 1871, when 
he moved to the city of Dayton, where he re- 
mained for twenty-six years, being engaged in 
the grocery business. January 1, 1897, he re- 
turned to his first love, the Gazette, and still 
directs its destinies. He has been assisted in its 
publication for about eight years by his son. 
Walter D. Thomson, to whose efficient man- 
agement and industry its success and prosper- 
ity is largely due. 

In the year 1888 the size and business im- 
portance of Delaware seeming to warrant the 



venture, a daily edition of the Gazette was 
launched and the favor with which it was re- 
ceived by the citizens, insured its immediate 
success. In 1897 a Mergenthaler linotype type- 
setting machine was added to its equipment, 
enabling the publisher to give its patrons much 
more reading matter than had before been pos- 
sible. In 1905 a second linotype machine was 
installed, making the Gazette's type-setting fa- 
cilities unexcelled by any office in a city 01 the 
same size in the State. For a number of years 
the Gazette has received the Scripps-McRae 
telegraph and cable service, by which it has 
been able to furnish its readers with the latest 
news on an equality with any of the afternoon 
papers of Columbus or Cleveland. This serv- 
ice has recently been merged with the United 
Press Association with improved facilities. 

In the spring of the present year (1907) 
the circulation of the Daily Gazette, having 
outgrown the capacity of the press in use, a 
Campbell multipress was purchased and in- 
stalled in a new pressroom provided for its oc- 
cupancy in the basement of the Gazette build- 
ing. This press prints at one operation all 
eight pages of the Gazette which has been en- 
larged from six to seven o ilumns to the page, 
and is capable of a speed of six thousand copies 
per hour. 

The semi-weekly edition of the Gazette, 
which has a large circulation in the county out- 
side of Delaware City, was also enlarged to 
the same size. There are few cities the size 
of Delaware that can boast of as up-to-date and 
attractively printed daily paper as the Gazette. 
A well equipped job printing department is an 
important, adjunct of the Gazette establishment 
and a large quantity of catalogue work and 
commercial printing is turned out annually. 

THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. 

For some time prior to 1841, the need of a 
Democratic organ in the county of Delaware 
began to be felt. Colonel B. F. Allen, Andrew 
H. Patterson, Andrew Stephen, James W. 
Crawford. John Lugenbeel, Albert Pickett, Jr.. 
Ahab Jinks. Thomas Reynolds, Moses Byxby, 
Jr., W. B. Heim. George W. Sharp and others. 



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had, at different times, been in correspondence 
with printers at numerous places about estab- 
lishing a Democratic paper in Delaware 
County, but, as the saying goes today, no "oil" 
was struck until early in the year of 1841. 
Among the legislative reporters on the Ohio 
Statesman during the session of 1840-1. was 
a practical printer named Forest Knapp. It re- 
quired a practical printer at that date to suc- 
cessfully manipulate all of the departments of 
a printing office. On the advice and recom- 
mendation of Colonel Samuel Medary, a 
proposition was made to Mr. Knapp which he 
accepted, resulting in the establishment of a 
Democratic paper in Delaware called The 
Democratic Eagle. The paper was small, 
worked off on a small hand-press, the circula- 
tion very limited, the job department consist- 
ing of a couple of fonts of wood type made of 
apple or beech tree. The composition was done 
by three apprentices, Thomas J. Crawford, 
Andrew J. Crawford and Samuel J. Albright, 
all natives of Delaware. The first edition was 
bright, showing ability in its editorials, corres- 
pondence and scissorings. taking at once with 
its friends. Mr. Knapp conducted the paper 
for several years, it growing in every depart- 
ment and with his party and the people. Then 
he left for other fields of labor, placing the 
paper in the hands of Mr. John Converse. The 
latter not being a practical printer, soon tired 
of the business and retired. For some time 
no paper was published. In the meantime. 
Hon. George W. Sharp, a practical printer. 
who had had much newspaper experience in 
Maryland and some years prior in Delaware, 
secured the ownership of the plant and sent 
back to Frederick City, Md., for one of bis 
former proteges, named George F. Stayman. 
to come to Delaware to take charge of the pa- 
per and the plant, and he would give him his 
own time to pay for it. Mr. Stayman ar- 
rived with his family early in the fall of [845, 
took charge of the plant, secured some new 
newspaper and job type and started a little 
paper under the title of Loco Foco. This con- 
tinued a year, when there was an enlargement 
of the paper, press and all departments, the 
name of the paper also being changed to The 



Delazvare Standard. In a few years by work- 
ing hard, day and night, himself, and making- 
practical printers out of about all of his chil- 
dren, although the portion of the county print- 
ing was not large, he built up a very satisfac- 
tory and readable paper, generally appreciated 
by old and young. Under the title of Stand- 
ard or Democratic Standard, for nineteen 
years, under the management of Mr. Stayman. 
this paper was continued. It was Democratic 
after the Jeffersonian and Jackson stamp. For 
a short time in the early fifties, D. W. C. 
Lugenbeel had a half interest in the paper, at- 
tending to the local department. It must be 
said that The Standard established the first 
local department of any paper ever published 
in Delaware. Under the administration of 
President Pierce and part of that of President 
Buchanan, Air. Stayman was postmaster, but 
lost out a year under the latter owing to his 
support given to Stephen A. Douglas and. 
"Squatter Sovereignty." The Standard was 
the first paper in Delaware to run up "Old 
Glory" when the Civil War began. In 1864, 
The' Standard was sold to W. P. Reid. his 
brother, Theodore P. Reid took charge of it 
and started a neutral paper under the title of 
The Delaware Comity News. In 1866. Sam- 
uel J. Albright established a Democratic paper 
under the title of The Herald. It was bright 
and newsy from the start. 

After it was firmly established, he retired, 
when the paper under the management of 
Hosea W. Chamberlain had a number of edi- 
tors including Dr. E. H. Hyatt. Hon. E. F. 
Poppleton and John A. Cone. The next pro- 
prietor and publisher was Robert G. Hurlburt. 
He continued to publish the Herald down to 
the latter part of the seventies, when he died 
of cancer of the tongue. The next was Daniel 
Flannagan. He secured the plant and oper- 
ated it but a short time when he was followed 
by James K. Newcomer, then Newcomer & 
Fisher (D. S.) George Padgett was the next 
owner, until the plant was purchased by The 
Journal Company, which started an independ- 
ent newspaper in Delaware in iqoo. under the 
editorial administration of Dr. F. M. Murray, 
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The latter became manager and 1 iperated the 
paper until 1903. At this time. J. D. Knowles 
became editor of the Journal-Herald, the pur- 
chase of the Herald having been made by Mur- 
ray & Knowles. The Journal-Herald is op- 
erated in an up-to-date manner and is equipped 
as a modern newspaper sin mid be. It has a 
Mergenthaler type-setting machine, receives 
the only telegraph service by wire every after- 
noon and makes its own illustrations. 

After the purchase of the Herald by the 
Journal Company. J. D. Knowles became the 
editor and for six years has conducted that 
department in an able manner. Through the 
increasing influence of the paper, several Dm- 
ocrats have been elected to important county 
positions and at this time, the Democrats have 
the mayor and the City Council. In 1908 Mr. 
John H. Byrne was admitted into the firm of 
The Journal-Herald and holds the position as 
city editor. An eight-page daily is published, 
with sixteen pages on Saturdays. The Weekly 
Journal-Herald is printed on Thursdays and 
contains sixteen and sometimes twenty-eight 
pages. It is considered one of the best publi- 
cations in Ohio from a county of its size, sin iw- 
ing its able management and the confidence of 
its readers and patrons. 

ASHLEY NEWSPAPERS. 

In 1875, a paper called the Ashley Star was 
started by Washington Granger. It was short- 
lived, and there was then a period of several 
years when no paper was published here. The 
Argus was the next local purveyor of news. 
After a time it came into the possession of the 
firm of Shoemaker & Coomer, who changed 
the name of the publication to the Enterprise. 
After running the paper about a year, they 
sold it to C. B. Benedict, who sold it after a 
short time to A. D. Rowe. He adopted the 
name of the Ashley Times, and published it 
until his death. Harry Wood then purchased 
the journal and remained its proprietor and 
editor until 1904. when it was sold to C. Shoe- 
maker. 

In 1900. Wilson C. Shoemaker, a native 
of Ashley, started a paper called the Ashley 
12 



Star, which name he changed. 111 May, [905, 
to Tri-County Star. This journal has a ci 
lation of about one thousand and is independ- 
ent in politics, its policy being to use all the in- 
fluence it exerts in the direction of enhancing 
the growth and betterment of Ashley. It is a 
four-page, seven-column paper, printed en- 
tirely in Ashley. 



StNBURY NEWSPAPERS. 

The Sunhury Enterprise was the first paper 
published in that town, it was started in 1873. 
and was owned by a stock company composed 
of local citizens. The paper was issued 1 nice a 
week, and was managed by D. M. I 'vie. He- 
was to have purchased the paper and paid for 
it out of the earnings of the office, but not- 
withstanding that the people gave the new ven- 
ture their support, it was plain at the end of 
the first nine months that the manager was 
not adapted to journalism, and the paper was 
sold to Wayman Perfect, who changed the 
name to the Spectator. The publication im- 
mediately took on new life; it seemed to please 
the people, and it was not long before there was 
a list of 600 paid subscribers. The advertising 
columns were also well patronized, and the pa- 
per was a success from a financial point of 
view. J. S. Watson purchased the paper in 
1876, and it was successfully conducted by him 
until the spring of 1871;, when he suspended 
the publication in order to take advantage of 
a better opening elsewhere. About 1880 a pa- 
per called the Monitor was established by J. < i. 
Sharpe, but we have been unable to learn any- 
thing of its career or of its demise. In Max. 
1889. A. R. Letts began the publication of a 
Democratic paper called the Sunhury Nezvs. 
It ran until the summer of 1894, when it was 
suspended, and the people in that part of the 
county were without a home paper until the 
fall of 1894. when the Delazvare County 
Nezi's-Item, a weeklv, independent paper, was 
started by A. R. Letts and William F. Whit- 
tier, under the firm name of Letts & Whittier. 
In 1900. Mr. Whittier purchased his partner's 
interest and has since conducted the paper 
alone. The issues of the paper contain from 



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four to eight pages, and it now has a circula- 
tion of 1,720. 

The Delaware Signal, which was the first 
organ of the Prohibition party in Ohio, was 
started by a joint-stock company on Septem- 
ber 23, 1873. T ne principal promoters of the 
enterprise were Thomas Evans, Jr., Colonel 
Lindsay, Dr. L. Barnes and J. W. Sharpe. 
Their organization adopted the title of the 
Delaware Printing and Publishing Associa- 
tion. In 1872, a small paper called the Dela- 
ware Prohibitionist had been started by Milton 
R. Scott, and the association published this pa- 
per for a short period, not more than a month 
or two, until they could get in a position to 
publish a paper better suited to their purpose. 
The Signal was then started as a large-sized 
nine-column folio, with Messrs. Sharpe, Barnes 
and Lindsay as editors, and Mr. Evans as 



treasurer and manager. The paper was pub- 
lished at a loss until 1876, when Mr. Evans 
took it off the hands of the association to pay 
the debts of the concern. He abandoned his 
other business interests and devoted his entire 
time and energy to building up the paper, which 
he continued to publish until some time in the 
early 90's, as nearly as we are able to ascer- 
tain. Mr. Evans reduced the size of the paper 
to eight columns, and, by rigid economy, suc- 
ceeded in making it pay the full expenses of 
the office. Although the publication paid its 
proprietor nothing for the time and labor he 
bestowed upon it, it was a labor of love on his 
part. The circulation of the paper grew to 
large proportions for those days and for a 
paper of that kind, and was accepted as the 
State organ of the Prohibition party. 



CHAPTER. XI. 



EDUCATION (1). 

Introductory — Public Schools of the City of Delaware — District Schools and Early Teachers 
— St. Mary's Parochial School — Statistics — Delaware City Library — Delaware County 
Historical and Archaeological Society. 



The sturdy pioneers who sought religious 
freedom on New England's barren shores be- 
lieved education to be the handmaid of relig- 
ion, and so they reared the schoolhouse along 
side the village church. Only twenty-seven 
years after the arrival of the Pilgrims, a law 
was passed compelling every town or district 
of fifty householders to maintain a common 
school, and every town or district having a 
population of a hundred families to have a 
grammar school, presided over by teachers 
capable of preparing the pupils for college. 
This is the first instance recorded in history 
where a civil government undertook to provide 
for the education of its youth ; and the wonder- 
ful progress of our nation is a continual attes- 
tation to the wisdom of those who embarked 
upon this experiment of a government of, by, 
and for the people. 

The history of education in Ohio is unique 
in this respect: That in 1785, before there was 
a settlement in the territory now comprised 
within the State, it was provided by Congress, 
in an ordinance for the survey and sale of the 
western lands, that section sixteen, or one- 
thirty-sixth of every township included under 
the ordinance, should be reserved from sale for 
the maintenance of public schools within the 
township. The "Compact of 1787" declared 
that "schools and the means of education shall 
forever be encouraged." As a rule, the ques- 
tion of providing educational facilities is an 



undeveloped region are not considered until 
the need actually arises and presses home 
upon an established community; but here we 
have the federal and future state govern- 
ments both pledged in advance to provide in 
some way for the support of public schools. 

As these lands were at first only reserved 
from sale and settlement, no steps were taken 
by the territorial legislature to apply them to 
the purpose for which they were set aside. 
When Ohio was admitted as a State, these re- 
served school lands (of which there were 740,- 
000 acres) were granted to the State and 
placed at the disposal of the Legislature. 

The Constitution of 1802, repeating the 
famous educational clause of the Ordinance of 
1787, made it the duty of the Legislature to 
carry out its intent. It also provided that all 
schools, academies and colleges founded upon 
or supported by revenues from the land grants 
should be open "for the reception of scholars, 
students and teachers of every grade without 
any distinction or preference whatever." The 
Constitution of 185 1 goes still farther, and de- 
clares in plain terms that the General Assem- 
bly shall provide by taxation or otherwise, "a 
thorough and efficient system of common 
schools throughout the State." What has the 
State done in fulfillment of these constitutional 
obligations which it assumed? Nearly all the 
school lands were sold long ago, and those 
that have not been sold are held under per- 



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petual lease at an extremely low rental. The 
money received from the sale of these lands 
was paid into the State treasury, the Stale 
pledging itself to pay six per cent, interest 
thereon forever, the interest to be distributed 
annually among the various townships and 
districts for school purposes. As a matter of 
fact, the fund itself has been borrowed and 
spent by the State, and the annual interest the 
State is obligated to pay is raised by taxation. 
The fund is now, therefore, merely a fiction of 
bookkeeping, and represents the legal and 
moral obligation on the part of the people to 
tax themselves a certain amount each year for 
school purposes. 

Having thus briefly reviewed the early pro- 
visions made for the support of public schools 
in Ohio, and having seen how the immensely 
valuable reservations of school lands have been 
practically frittered away by politicians, we 
will now consider the conditions that actually 
confronted the courageous pioneers who 
braved the perils of wild beasts, savages and 
disease to bring civilization into this wilder- 
ness. Coming from New England, they 
brought with them the same ideas of the value 
and importance of education that were so 
early formulated into the law we have already 
noticed ; but in this new and unsettled coun- 
try there were many obstacles to be overcome. 
At first, comfortable shelter must be provided 
for the family, and then land must be cleared 
and crops raised to provide sustenance for man 
and beast. Arduous as such work now is, it 
is not to be compared with the toil of these 
brave men and women of a hundred years 
ago. Little time or strength, if any, was left 
for study to anyone of either sex who was able 
to hear any part of this burden of labor; settle- 
ment-- were small and scattered: teachers were 
scarce, money and hooks were scarcer and 
school houses — there were none. All honor is 
therefore due these sturdy and ambitious pio- 
neers for the way they surmounted these dif- 
ficulties, and provided for the education of 
their children just as soon as there were 
enough settlers in a locality to maintain a 
school. 



The old log schoolhouses, with their rude 
furniture, have been replaced by accommoda- 
tions and facilities for securing an education 
that transcend the wildest dreams of the teach- 
ers and pupils of those primitive days. There 
are few people now left in the county who are 
old enough to recall these early "temples of 
learning.*' and a brief description will doubt- 
less. interest the pupils of the present as well as 
those of coming generations. The early schools 
were not public schools in any true sense of the 
word, and not free schools in any sense. Land 
grants were not yet available, and school taxes 
were unknown. The schoolhouses were not 
built by subscription ; the neighbors would 
gather at some point previously agreed upon, 
and, with axe in hand, the work was soon 
done. These early structures all belonged to 
the log-cabin style of architecture. Thev were 
fifteen to eighteen feet in width, and twenty- 
four to twenty-eight feet long, with eaves 
about ten feet from the ground. The chinks 
between the logs were filled with clay mor^ 
tar. The floor was of earth, puncheons, or 
smooth slabs. Puncheons were logs split and 
smoothed a little with an axe or hatchet on 
the flat side. To make a window, a log was 
cut out. usually the entire length of the build- 
ing, and the opening thus made was covered 
with greased paper mounted on sticks. The 
people in Marlboro township were particularly 
proud of their schoolhouse, which had two 
such windows, in one of which greased sheep- 
skins were used instead of paper. The room, 
or at least one end of it. was heated from an 
immense fireplace, and it usually took most of 
the time of three boys to fill its hungry maw 
with logs. The furniture consisted principally 
of rude benches without backs, made by split- 
ting logs into halves, and mounting them, flat 
side up on four stotit wooden pins about fif- 
teen inches long. Just under the window, two 
or three strong pins were driven into a log in 
a slanting direction; on these pins a long 
puncheon was fastened, which served as a 
writing desk for the whole school. There was 
no blackboard, and no apparatus of even the 
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pounding the lesson. Reading, spelling, writ- 
ing and arithmetic constituted the course of 
study. Text-books were few. The favorite 
reader, when it could be procured, was the 
New Testament; Murray's reader was owned 
by a few, and here and there would be found 
a copy of the "Columbian Orator;" Webster's 
Speller was the first used, later, the "Elemen- 
tary Speller" was introduced. They learned 
to "figure" from Pike's and Smiley's Arithme- 
tics. When grammar was taught, which was 
not often. Murray's and Kirkham's grammars 
were the text-books used. These were the 
books comprising the primitive outfit of the 
teacher, while each pupil usually had one or 
more of them. As there was hut little work 
to do on the farm in mid-winter, a three 
months' term was taught at that season, so 
that the boys could attend. The teachers were 
paid by subscription, and "hoarded around," 
the terms being from one to three dollars per 
pupil for a term of three months. In those 
days there was little money with which to 
pay salaries, as nothing was raised to sell, and 
gold and bank notes were unknown before the 
War of 1 81 2. 

Many peculiar characters found their way 
into the teaching profession in those early days 
on the frontiers of civilization. In Berkshire 
T >wnship, one of the early teachers was a 
man named Nathan Dustin. He was possessed 
of a very fine sense of "propriety," and was 
much given to lecturing his pupils on the rules 
of behavior. He wanted his girls and boys to 
grow up to be ladies and gentlemen. Another 
interesting character who taught in Berkshire 
Township was an Irishman named Lexton. He 
was fond of his whiskey, which he often car- 
ried to school. The use of this stimulant did 
not tend to soften his naturally high temper. 
Partially intoxicated, he frequently fell asleep, 
and. on waking, punished at random the first 
one his eyes fell upon. Such were the teach- 
er- of those early days. Some set before their 
pupils the example of an upright and worthy 
life, while they tried to impart their own 
limited store of knowledge : others, indifferent 
to the influence of their example, or to the 
progress of their pupils, were time-servers 



only. However, such instruction as they could 
give, or did give, was better than no instruc- 
tion at all. Probably none of those early 
teachers could measure up to the standards re- 
quired of the teachers now in our schools ; 
but, fortunately, the conditions of life in those 
pioneer days did not call for the educational 
qualifications that the boys and girls of the 
rising generation must have to hold their own 
in the battle of life. 

Institutions which, for many decades, filled 
an important place in the life of the community 
were the spelling-schools, or spelling-matches, 
and singing-schools. Both of these branches 
of study have for many years been incorpor- 
ated in the curriculum of the public schools, 
and so these early institutions have passed 
away; though, if the spelling of the present 
generation be a criterion, it may be doubted 
if the modern method of teaching spelling is 
any improvement on that of a generation ago. 
But these early schools were not only a means 
of education, they filled a place in the social 
life of the people well suited to the times, and 
this combination of pleasure and study doubt- 
less had much to do with the lively interest 
manifested in these functions. A story used 
to be told by one of the old residents of Berlin 
Township, which shows the rough and ready, 
if good-natured manners of those days. As is 
often the case nowadays, two boys had their 
hearts and attentions set upon one girl, and 
both proposed to himself to escort her home. 
While one of the contestants was lighting his 
hickory torch at the old block-house fire-place, 
his rival, who had been quicker than he, just 
placed his torch in close proximity with the 
other's coat-tail. Of course, there was a sudden 
hurrying about to extinguish the blaze, but. 
in the meantime, the shrewd incendiary had 
gone off with the girl, leaving his rival to 
grieve over the lacerated state of his feelings, 
as well as the damaged condition of his o at- 
tail. 

We find that it is impossible to secure a 
connected story of the schools in each township 
from the earliest times down to the present 
day, and we shall have to content ourselves 
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school history as we have been able to obtain 
and a statement of the conditions of the 
schools at the present time. To aid in compar- 
ing these two periods, we have prepared a 
statement (see elsewhere in this chapter) 
showing the tax rate for schools, the total 
expenditure for schools, the number of school- 
houses, total value of school property, num- 
ber of teachers and number of elementary and 
high school pupils in each of the eighteen town- 
ships and thirteen school districts in the county. 
These figures are for 1907, except in a few 
cases, which are indicated, where we were able 
to secure the 1908 figures, or where the 1906 
figures are the latest that can be obtained. 
It is gratifying to note that, throughout the 
county, progress in school matters and im- 
provement in the facility for educating our 
youth have kept pace with the demands of the 
times. 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE CITY OF DELAWARE. 

In 1880 the late Prof. William G. Williams 
prepared an article on the public schools of the 
city of Delaware, which appears in the History 
of Delaware County that was published at that 
time. Prof. Williams was at that time a mem- 
ber of the School Board ; he was a writer of 
recognized ability ; his historical researches 
were thorough, and as he then had sources of 
information upon which we cannot draw at this 
late day, we will quote the article referred to, 
making only such changes as may lie necessary 
to indicate that persons then referred to as 
living are no longer with us, and to avoid con- 
fusing the period in which he wrote with the 
present time. 

"The early settlers in Delaware were 
mostly from the New England States, and were 
generally educated and intelligent. They ap- 
preciated the value of education for their chil- 
dren ; but they were poor, and the school- 
master had not yet followed them to the 
wilderness. Accordingly, what book-learning 
the children of the first generation got, was 
imparted to them by the parents in the long 
winter evenings. Sometimes, when families 
were close neighbors, the children, and even 



the older folks, would unite in these exercises, 
under the instruction of the best scholar of 
the neighborhood. Such for a number of 
years, from 1808, was the educational status of 
the community. 

"After the village became large enough to 
have day schools, and until the school law of 
1825, the schools were subscription schools, 
and were held in private houses. During this 
time there were still but few professional 
teachers. The office was mostly held by some 
middle-aged person who had the physical, as 
well as the intellectual ability thought to be 
necessary for this work. The first teacher 
whose name has been retained, and perhaps 
the first actually employed;, was Pelatiah Mor- 
gan. He is represented as a man of sufficient 
scholarship, but of intemperate habits, and of 
harsh discipline. His school dated from 1815, 
and continued at intervals for several years; 
but, being a private school, 'the record of its 
alumni is lost.' 

"About the year 181 7, Mr. Russell E. Post 
had a private school in a building on Winter 
Street, a short distance west of Sandusky. 
Nothing further is related of this school. 

In 1 82 1 Mr. James B. Weaver was the 
only teacher in Delaware. He was a man 
of middle age and married, and had probably- 
taught before coming to Delaware. His first 
schoolroom was in the upper story of a house 
belonging to the Rev. Jacob Drake, where now 
stands the Reid and Powell Block, but he soon 
removed to the upper story of a building on 
the site of the City Hall. Mr. Weaver was a 
man of violent impulses, and in one of his pas- 
sionate moments he fatally injured a little 
pupil in his school. No prosecution followed, 
but the act broke up the school and drove 
the teacher from his profession and from the 
town. 

"In 1823 he was succeeded at the same 
place by Captain Elias Murray, the son-in-law 
of Colonel Moses Byxbe, original proprietor 
of the town. Captain Murray was also a mid- 
dle-aged man, but of kind feelings, and as in- 
dulgent in his discipline as his predecessor had 
been morose and rigid. 

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stance of private tutorship that deserves men- 
tion. The tutor was John A. Quitman, then 
a y< ung clerk in the United States Land Office 
at Delaware. His pupils were the children of 
Piatt Brush, Esq., an eccentric old gentlemen, 
his superior in office. Mr. Quitman subse- 
quently went South, studied law. and became 
noted as a politician ; and was afterwards a 
distinguished general in the Mexican war, and 
then governor of Mississippi. 

"In 1821 Miss Sophia Moore, sister of the 
late General Sidney Moore and of Emery 
Moore, built the house occupied in 1880 by the 
Misses Welch, on Franklin, near William 
Street, for an orphans' home and school. This 
was not a charity school, though undertaken 
with charitable intent. Miss Moore taught this 
school, including day scholars, very accept- 
ably for some years, until her marriage to Mr: 
Gorton. 

"In 1825 Richard Murray. Esq., nephew 
of Captain Murray, became associated with 
Miss Moore in the conduct of her school. After 
her marriage he carried it on alone for two 
or three years, and then with his wife, formerly 
Miss Joan Hills. Mrs. Murray was a born 
teacher. When quite a young girl, in 1824-25, 
she taught in Berkshire, and after her mar- 
riage, in 1826-27, in Delaware, with her hus- 
band. In 1833, after the death of her husband, 
she resumed teaching, and taught continuously, 
with short respites only, until 1868, a period of 
forty-four years. A few years of this was 
in the public schools of the town, but most of 
the time was in her own private house on 
Franklin Street. In this unpretending, but ad- 
mirable school, were educated many of the 
most cultivated ladies of the city. 

"A little later, somewhere from 1827 to 
1830. Mr. Asa Messenger, another relative of 
Colonel Byxbe, taught, for two or three vears, 
in the house built by Miss Moore on Franklin 
Street. Mr. Messenger subsequently went 
South, and afterward became an editor, in 
Tuscumbia. Alabama. Nearly at the same 
time, his sister. Miss Messenger, attempted to 
establish a girls' seminary, and taught a few 
terms, but the effort eventually failed. 



"Up to this time, in the history of the 
State, there had been no organic legislation on 
the subject of schools. Special charters were 
granted to the cities, but no adequate provision 
had been made for the non-corporate parts of 
the State. All the schools in Delaware, thus 
far, as in the rural districts and smaller towns 
elsewhere, were private and independent. The 
population of the town was small, not yet 
reaching 500. and most of the time, a single 
school met all the educational wants of the 
place. The tuition fees were very small : at 
first scarcely reaching $1.50 per quarter of 
thirteen weeks, and, at the last, in the case of 
the best teachers, not exceeding $3.00 per quar- 
ter. Nor was the pay always certain, or gener- 
ally made in money. "Store pay," or "trade," 
was a very common method of balancing ac- 
counts, and largely prevailed to a much later 
date than this. 

"Yet, even after the enactment of school 
laws providing for a public system of educa- 
tion, the private schools were long continued, 
until the new system was in complete working 
order. Of these later teachers of private 
schools, the following may be mentioned as 
most successful : Albert Pickett, Jr.. had a 
reputable school from 1834 to 1836. He was 
a son of Albert Pickett, a famous teacher in 
Cincinnati, and inherited much of his father's 
genius for literary work. He afterward held 
office in the county, and died about 1850. 

"Horatio Sherman was a professional 
teacher, from the State of New York. He was 
in the prime of life when he brought his family 
to Delaware. Here he taught many vears. at 
first in the public schools, but, in 1S40 and 
afterward, a private school in his own house, 
on William Street. His advertisement says: 
'Young gentlemen preparing to teach, will 
be particularly attended to; tuition. $2.50 or 
$3.00 per quarter.' At last he was laid aside 
by a failing of sight, and died, in Upper San- 
dusky, about 1879. 

"About 1832 two highly accomplished 
ladies from Ireland. Mrs. Howison and her 
sister. Miss Johnson, opened a girls' seminary 
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course of study was marked out. Miss Meeker, 
afterwards Mrs. Sprague, whose son was pro- 
bate judge in 1880, assisted them in the lower 
classes. But the school was not successful, 
and, in a few years, was discontinued. After 
the close of this school, Miss Meeker had. for 
two years. 1834-36, a very popular infant 
school in the town. 

"The school law of 1825 established a gen- 
eral system of public schools of low grade, 
which were destined largely to supersede the 
private schools of the same grade. But this 
result could not be effected at once. The tax 
which the Legislature of 1825 ventured to au- 
thorize was but one-half a mill on the dollar, 
one-fourteenth as much as school boards were 
empowered to levy in 1880. For many years 
this tax was insufficient to maintain the district 
schools for the requisite time — rarely for more 
than two quarters of the year. 

"The schools had an average enrollment of 
about sixty pupils, of both sexes, and were un- 
graded as to age or attainments. The teacher's 
work was hard, and his pay light, being about 
$20 per month. This was drawn from the 
public funds as long as the money held out. 
When this was exhausted, voluntary subscrip- 
tions enabled the directors to continue the pub- 
lic school another term; or the building was 
granted, free of rent, to the teacher for a pri- 
vate school, for the remainder of the school 
year. 

"Under this law, the first public school 
buildings in Delaware were erected. One was 
a stone building at the corner of Franklin and 
\\ inter Streets, on the lot occupied in 1908 
by the Jane M. Case Memorial Hospital. An- 
other was a small frame house, also on Frank- 
lin Street, at the northwest corner of the Court- 
house lot. 

"Miss Eliza T. Thompson, afterward Mrs. 
William Carson, was the first lady that taught 
a district school in Delaware. The school was 
in the stone school house for the winter. The 
next summer she had a select school in the 
same house. Among her pupils were Ruther- 
ford B. Hayes and his sister Fannie. 

"Some of the teachers ahead) mentioned 
taught in the newly organized district schools; 



but it is impossible to name all who from this 
time forward helped to train the youth of Dela- 
ware in the paths of learning and of virtue. 

"As only primary or ungraded schools 
could be organized under the law, the wants 
of the community were not yet all met. Indi- 
vidual attempts to establish a seminary of a 
higher grade having failed, a number of pub- 
lic-spirited citizens, among whom were M. D. 
Pettibone, Sherman Finch and others, at length 
combined in 1834, to build up such a school 
for the beter education of their children. The 
attempt resulted in the erection of the Dele- 
ware Academy. It was a large frame build- 
ing two stories high, beautifully located on 
Hill Street, in South Delaware, at that time 
"out of town.' In this building there was a 
succession of teachers, among whom were Giles 
M. Porter ( 1838-40). Rev. James McElroy, 
George S. Lee, Miss L. A. Emerson, after- 
ward Mrs. Porter (1840), R. E. Rice, B. A. 
(1840), and Flavel A. Dickinson, a recent 
graduate of Yale College (1841). The tuition 
fee was $5 per term for languages; $4.50 for 
higher English, and $4 for elementary studies. 
But, laudable as was the attempt, excellent and 
expensive as was the instruction, the time fi >r 
these things was not yet, and the Academy 
was a failure. It not only paid no interest ti < 
the stockholders; it could not support the teach- 
ers. The building long stood empty, then 
passed into other hands for a ladies' school. 
and finally was sold to the City School Board, 
and was occupied for some years as one of the 
ward schools. It was torn down in 1879. 

"In the year 1847. the Legislature felt 
strong enough to take an advanced step in 
school matters; and the law was so improved 
as to permit the establishment of Union school, 
with graded classes. This is what is popularly 
known as the "Akron Law." The town of 
Delaware was for this purpose made into one 
district, and the old Methodist Church at the 
corner of William and Franklin Streets, was 
bought by the School Hoard, and reconstructed 
into suitable schoolrooms; those below for the 
boys, and those above for the girls. Whether 
this separation of the sexes was an advanced 
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soon abandoned, and both sexes again nni'ted 
in the same rooms and recitations. 

"The first members of the Board of Di- 
rectors under the new law were Sherman 
Finch, Israel Breyfogle and Stephen W. Little, 
and the first superintendent was Lucius P. 
Marsh, a young man from the State of New 
York> then twenty-four years of age. His 
salary was fixed at $40 per month. The girls 
were placed under the special care of Mrs. 
Murray at $25 per month. Their assistants 
were Mr. A. R. Gould, Mrs. Dr. Rowland 
anil Misses Renette Brown, Charlotte Wash- 
burn and Jennette Sherman. The salaries of 
the young ladies were $13 per month. After 
two years of service, Mr. Marsh, upon being 
refused an increase of salary, resigned his 
place and began the practice of law. * * * 
In like manner, Mrs. Murray was retired from 
service in these schools, after a tenure of five 
years. Her salary was reduced to $20 per 
month, whereupon she immediately opened a 
private school, from which she realized over 
$50 per month for many years. These meager 
salaries were adjusted by the amount at the 
command of the Board. The funds were suffi- 
cient to sustain the schools for only seven 
months; and a private subscription was raised 
to continue the schools for the normal period 
of nine months. When the income of the 
Board had grown larger, the usage of having 
a long vacation in the summer had become 
fixed, and the schools are held even yet ( 1880) 
for but about thirty-six weeks. 

"Before the adoption of the school law. 
any person, however incompetent, might take 
up the office and the ferule of teacher ; and 
often, no doubt, the office was thus filled by 
persons wholly unworthy. Such persons 
might, indeed, even now, intrude themselves 
into the calling of teacher, if they could find 
private patronage. But the State common 
schools are so excellent, so satisfactory to the 
people at large, that private tuition has almost 
ceased, except in denominational or expensive 
select schools. This is owing to the legal 
exclusion of unfit teachers. No one is permitted 
to teach in the public schools, or draw pa} 
therefor, who has not been examined both for 
schi ilarship and moral character. The first 



Board of Examiners in Delaware County, 
under the State law. was composed oi Solo- 
mon Smith, Esq., Dr. Eleazar Copeland and 
Dr. Silas C. McClary. These were appointed 
by the Court of Common Pleas. The county 
owes much to these worthy gentlemen and 
their successors for their faithfulness in keep- 
ing out of the schools the dissipated and the 
ignorant. Among those subsequently appointed 
were Drs. N. Spalding and Ralph Hills ; Rich- 
ard Murray, Sherman Finch, David T. Fuller. 
Cooper K. Watson and Homer M. Carper. 
Esqs: Revs. William L. Harris. James 
McEIroy. Prof. William G. Williams," Rev. 
James S. Campbell and John Ufford. * * * 
All the teachers in the city of Delaware as 
well as in the county at large, passed this 
Board; but in 1878, a City Board of Examin- 
ers was appointed, before whom the city teach- 
ers are examined with more care and on more 
subjects than are required on the County 
Board. 

"In the Central Building, though ill suited 
to academic uses, the schools of the town were 
held for a period of about ten years from 
[847. The records of the Board during the 
first part of this time have been lost, and the 
names and dates of service of the teachers can- 
not all now be recalled. Of those who taugfht 
during the later years, we give the names of 
Mr. John W. Hyatt, who was appointed prin- 
cipal, in 1856, at a salary of $60 per month. 
He served one year, and then went into busi- 
ness in Toledo. * * * After him. Wil- 
liam F. Whitlock served one year, while car- 
rying on his studies at the University. He is 
now Latin professor in the University. 

* *' As the town grew, and the enroll- 
ment of pupils gradually increased, one or two 
1 ither houses were occupied as schools. At 
length, the limited accommodations at the Cen- 
tral Building compelled the Board to seek new 
quarters. In 1859 they bought a large lol 1 E 
the Little estate, at the west end of William 
Street, on which they erected a building; of 
six rooms, larger and better adapted to school 
uses. 

"A better organization, and a uniform 
course of study, was now deemed desirable. 
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seemed essential; and William Carter, in 1862, 
was appointed superintendent, at a salary of 
$700, which was soon raised to $1,000. He 
brought the schools into a very good degree 
of efficiency. To provide for the increased at- 
tendance, the Board bought for $2,000, the 
old academy building in South Delaware, and 
opened there two new rooms, which soon grew 
into four. After three years' service, Air. Car- 
ter resigned for a more lucrative calling. His 
successor was Rev. James S. Campl>ell, who 
entered upon the duty in 1865 [and held the 
position until his death. February 28, 1891]. 
His salary was fixed at $1,000 per annum. 
but the next year it was raised to $1,200." 
Later it was raised to $1,600. "Ten other 
teachers were appointed at the same time, all 
ladies, with pay from $35 to $45 per month. 
The assessment for the support of the schools 
was four mills on the dollar. 

"The growth of the town during the pros- 
perous years after the war. was such that the 
Board of Education was compelled, in rapid 
succession, to double the accommodations of 
the schools. In i86g, a new school house of 
four rooms was built in North Delaware; in 
1870, a house with the same number of rooms, 
but larger, was built in East Delaware : in 
1875, a yet larger building of six rooms was 
erected in South Delaware, and a year or two 
later, two rooms were added to the Central 
school house, and two more to the school in 
East Delaware. By a judicious economy, these 
improvements were all effected without the 
creation of a debt, and with hut small increase 
in the rate of taxation. In the last ten years 
( 1870-80) the annual levy has but once reached 
the limit of seven mills on the dollar, author- 
ized by law; two years it was six mills, four 
years it was five mills, and, for the last three 
years (to 1880) it has ranged from three to 
four mills. The enumeration of youth of a 
legal school age is now (1880) 2.300; the 
number of teachers appointed in 1879-80 was 
twenty-five; and the aggregate salaries paid to 
them are $10,500; and the incidental expenses 
of the schools are about $3,000 more. 

"The course of study is so arranged that 
pupils leaving the school at the age of twelve. 



are able to read and write well, have an under- 
standing of the fundamental principles of arith- 
metic, and a general knowledge of geography, 
esentially that of their own country. Those 
who stay to complete the entire course, ex- 
tending through eight years, get a very good 
general preparation for business, or for en- 
trance upon college studies. Graduates of the 
High School are prepared for the freshman 
class in colleges, with the exception of Greek. 
"Among a free people, the thirst for knowl- 
edge and culture is unquenchable; if not satis- 
fied in one direction, it will seek to be slaked 
in another. In the earlier years of this town 
the educational and literary cravings of the 
community were just as marked as they have 
shown themselves since, but the opportunities 
for indulging them were not the same as now. 
In the absence of public reading-rooms, schools, 
libraries, and newspapers, a tribune for public 
discussion was a pleasant and profitable form 
of entertainment and means of cultivation. 
Such was found in the 'Delaware Lyceum." 
an organization formed by the young men. but 
largely attended by all classes of citizens. Of 
the date of its organization, and the length 
of its career, the writer has no information, 
but, as showing the character of its meetings, 
the grave and practical matters discussed, the 
fallowing illustrations may be given. The 
notices are from the Olentangy Gazette; and 
the meetings were held in the Thespian Hall, 
an upper chamber in the range of public build- 
ings on the Court-house plaza. This name 
indicates that the hall was originally designed 
for entertainments of a musical and dramatic 
character. 

"'Monday evening, February 1, 1841. 
a public discussion is appointed on the 
following resolution: 'Resolved, That 
the right of suffrage should be extended 
to females.' Advocates, S. Dunham, P. 
Bunker. T. A. Barnes; Respondents. R. 
Hills, T. C, Tones. R. E. Rice. 

" T. Ranney. Secretary.' " 

"From the names here and following, it 
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profession was most largely represented. All 
these gentlemen were lawyers or law-students, 
except Bunker, Sheriff; Hills, physician; and 
Rice, teacher. 

"Feh. 15. — 'Resolved, That the youth 
of the country should be educated at pub- 
lic expense.' Advocates, T. W. Powell, 
F. Horr, R. Hills; Respondents, D. T. 
Fuller, I. Ranney, P. Bunker." 

"Feb. 22. — 'Resolved, That capital 
punishment ought to be abolished." Ad- 
vocates, T. C. Jones, J. A. Barnes; Re- 
spondents, R. E. Rice, P. Bunker." 

".March 25. — 'Resolved, That the 
right of suffrage ought to be extended to 
females.' Advocates, P. Bunker, T. C. 
lones; Respondents, I. Ranney, R. 

Hills." 

"Evidently this was a question of unusual 
interest. The discussion six weeks before had 
aparently not settled the matter in debate; but 
it had at least wrought conviction and con- 
version in the mind of one of the champions ; 
and he now appears in arms in the opposite 
camp. How the great debate at last termi- 
nated, the muse of history has not recorded, 
but the renewed struggle on this question in 
the Ohio Legislature, in this year of grace, 
1880, too plainly declares that the vote upon 
the occasion should have been put on record 
for the information and guidance of succeed- 
ing generations. 

"July 12. — 'Resolved, That the legal 
rights of women should not be impaired 
by marriage.' Advocates, T. C. Jones. I. 
Ranney. Respondents, P. Bunker, G. T. 
Solace." 

"With this notice our extracts must close, 
but we need not doubt that the discussion of 
such questions by thoughtful and earnest men. 
and that listening to such discussions by the 
reflecting part of the community, must have 
done as much in directing and molding the 



thought as the more recent lecture system. 

"In regard to popular lectures, this com- 
munity has been specially favored. For 
eral years, a citizens' lecture association ex- 
isted, and was the means of introducing many 
distinguished men and women to Delaware 
audiences. These lectures have generally paid 
well, but the large number of excellent ad- 
dresses and lectures delivered annually at the 
University, and free to all listeners, has had a 
tendency, in recent years, to make a Delaware 
audience content to pay for nothing inferior to 
the best. So what has been made matter of 
complaint against Delaware, is, in reality, when 
rightly understood, complimentary to the in- 
telligence and taste of her people. This is a 
lecture-going community, but it goes to hear 
only first-class lectures." 

The following notes regarding several of 
the early schools is quoted from an article 
entitled, "Pioneer Institutions of Learning." 
which was contributed to the Western Col- 
legian by Dr. Ralph Hills. 

"The Morgan Academy or High School, 
was number one of the pioneer institutions. 
Its first name was derived from the name of 
its principal preceptor, and the second from 
its location in the upper story of the house it 
was in. This was our old acquaintance, the 
Pioneer Tavern, near the Medicine Water. 
Soon after the War of 181 2, this tavern gave 
up the ghost — as a tavern — and its spacious 
ballroom was used for a high school. It had 
in part, also, the character of a boarding- 
school, for it is remembered that a family lived 
in the other part of the old tavern, who kept 
boarders, etc. * * * The Morgan High 
School was only of a few years' duration. It 
was conducted on the Solomonian principles. 
now so thoroughly obsolete that few under- 
stand them. The record of its alumni is 

lost. 

"The Female Seminary, the next institu- 
tion, was a pioneer of the "O. W. F. C." — 
but was located on our campus, in the old 
Haunted House — the old brick tannery. This 
was in charge of a lady principal for some 
two or three vears. and we are inclined to the 
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it was termed the ladies' seminary, for, accord- 
ing to most reliable traditions, it had about the 
usual admixture of the sexes. 

'"Quitman's Academic Grove was an insti- 
tution that received its name from the proprie- 
tor, president, preceptor, etc.. all in the person 
of John A. Quitman, afterward governor of 
Mississippi, major-general in the Mexican 
War, and also from its being in the actual 
grove, with its fallen log seats, its tree columns, 
festooned with their wild-grape hangings, and 
having the clear canopy of heaven above 

* * The exact location of Quitman's 
Academic Grove was on the promontory of high 
ground running off south of the present library 
building. Here was a cosy little opening in 
the dense woods around, with a little of sun 
and plenty of shade, as season required. It was 
here that young Quitman took his pupils, the 
sons of a queer, eccentric old gentleman, when- 
ever they could stealthily get there, for they 
were closely housed in town by the old gentle- 
man, and only got out for exercise, and when 
the old man went along, he and the tutor 
headed the column, marched off a mile or so 
'l wti the dusty road, and then returned to their 
prison-like house." 

The city of Delaware now has five fine 
public school buildings. The west building, 
which was completed in 1904. is notable is be- 
ing one of four such bulidings that have thus 
far been erected in this country, ail t he class- 
ic oms being lighted exclusively from the left. 
This idea originated in Germany. The theory 
is, that if rays of light enter a room from 
two or more directions, they collide, and the 
interruption thus caused in the waves produces 
vibrations injurious to the nerves of the eye. 
The building contains twelve rooms and a base- 
ment which is a full story in height. This 
building cost, including furnishings. K42.800. 
A new addition to the High School building 
is nearly completed, the dimensions of which 
are ninety-two feet from east to vvesl l>v sixty- 
twi 1 feet fn >m n< irth 1. 1 si uttli ; it is twi 1 and one- 
half stories high, and when completed will cost 
over $20,000. Besides gymnasium and two 
locker-rooms in the basement, it will have four 



classrooms on the first floor and superintend- 
ent's offices; on the second floor it will have 
one classroom, and a combined study-room and 
auditorium. As an auditorium, this room will 
have a seating capacity of 700. On this floor 
there will also be a teachers' rest-room. With 
the rooms in this new building, there will be a 
total of fifteen classrooms in the High School. 
The last census, in April, 1907, showed 2,626 
children of school age in Delaware. There 
are now (March, 1908) a total of forty-eight 
teachers on the pay-roll of Delaware, which 
amounts to $2,691.74 per month. 

DISTRICT SCHOOLS AND EARLY TEACHERS. 

No authentic record can be found of who 
taught the first school in the county or where 
it was located. The fact is. that schools were 
started in several of the early settlements about 
the same time, and within a very few years 
after the first settlers came to the county. 

There were settlements at three different 
points in Berkshire Townshit; a school was 
started as soon as practicable in. each one, but 
it is impossible to say which was the oldest. 
The first school house at Berkshire Corners 
was built on the east side of the street, about 
thirty yards south of the Granville Road. The 
first two teachers. Miss Clara Thompson and 
.Miss Cynthia Sloper, came from Worthington. 
Four local teachers came next, the first of 
whom was Solomon Smith. He was followed 
by Adonijah Rice, who also kept the first tav- 
ern at the Corners and was the first postmaster. 
A man named Jones and Sophronia Brown 
were the next teacher c . Tb^ first definite date 
we are able to find is 18 10. in which veai" Maria 
Denton taught a school of ten pupils in a log 
cabin near the farm at one time owned by lion. 
Ezekiel Brown. The history of the first school 
house and teacher at Sunburv is shrouded in 
the mists of years. A hewed-log school house 
stood for many years on the southwest corner 
of the square as one of the oldest landmarks 
of that section. Among the names of the early 
tochers we find Julia Strong and Nathan 
Dustin, to the latter of whom we have already 
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The establishment of Berkshire Academy 
at the Corners during the winter of 1840-41, 
was the first attempt to provide more advanced 
instruction. The institution was chartered, 
and the shares sold at ten dollars each. The 
money secured in this way was expended in the 
erection of a small frame building, which cost 
$300.00 or 84110.00. The first term was held the 
following winter, with an attendance of about 
thirty students under the instruction of G. S. 
Bailey, a teacher from Oberlin. The Academy 
was maintained for about fifteen years, but was 
finally closed for lack of support. Later the 
building was used for a dwelling. The good 
influence of the Academy upon its patrons and 
the township at large cannot be estimated. A 
large number of the young men and women 
trained within its walls achieved more than or- 
dinary distinction : One became a governor, an- 
other a congressman, and another gained for 
herself an enviable position as a lecturer in 
the temperance and anti-slavery movements. 
Until this school year ( 1907-08) there 
were seven district schools in the township : 
one of these is now suspended. In 1871 the 
first brick school house was built at a cost of 
$1,000. This was in District Xo. 1. Two 
years later another school house somewhat like 
it was erected in District Xo. 2, at a cost of 
$900. Similar schools have been built in the 
other districts. 

Sunbury and Galena are special school 
districts which were organized in 1868. The 
school building at Sunbury was built in 1878 
at a cost of $5,000. and at that time was the 
finest school building in the county outside of 
Delaware. Sunbury has one of the three first- 
grade high schools in Delaware Count}'. 
Galena has one of the four second-grade high 
schools in the county. This was established in 
1903. The graduating class of 1908 numbers 
fifteen, the largest in the history of the school. 
The statistics of these schools will be found 
in the table accompanying this chapter. 

Berlix Township. The first school in this 
township was taught by Joseph Eaton. The 
cabin in which be gathered the youthful as- 
pirants for knowledge, stood on the west side 
of Alum Creek, a little less than a mile north 



of the old Baptist Church. In 1810 Lucy 
Caulkins. who later became .Mrs. Ripley, and 
often is referred to by the name of Jul: 
gan to teach the second school. A cabin stand- 
ing near the old block-house served as her 
school room. The first structure erected es- 
pecially for school purposes stood on a ridge 
of land just south of the block-house. This 
was one of the rudest of that type which we 
have described in this chapter, and was used 
but little. Another school was taught in a 
cabin near where the bridge on the Delaware 
and Sunbury pike crosses Alum Creek. Later, 
the block-house., which is referred to in the 
chapter devoted to the military history of the 
county, when it was no longer needed for de- 
fence, was used both as a school and church, 
and was far more comfortable than most of the 
structures used in that day for such purposes. 
As early as 181 1 Prof. Burr held sway in that 
"temple of learning." 

In 1818 there were about 100 pupils in 
the township, and four school houses: One 
opposite the Presbyterian Church, south of 
Cheshire; one in what is known as the Dun- 
ham settlement and one in the Eaton neigh- 
borhood, both of these being in the northeast 
part of the township, and the fourth school 
house was located in the northwest quarter. 
One of the early teachers in Berlin Township 
was an old Revolutionary soldier by the name 
of Pelatiah Morgan. He taught in the school 
house south of Cheshire, and had for his in- 
separable companion a wooden bottle of whis- 
key, which, tradition says, received fully as 
much attention as did his pupils. In 1826 this 
structure was replaced by a brick school house. 
in which Joseph P. Smith was the first teacher. 
In 1S37 the enumeration showed 340 pupils; 
in 1858, 530. Our table shows that there are 
now j 12 pupils in the schools. There were 
seven school houses in 1837; thirteen in 1853, 
and ten at the present time. 

Brown Township's first school house was 
built north of the cemetery at Eden, or Alum 
Creek settlement, as it was called at that time. 
David Eaton was the first teacher, and he was 
succeeded by Anthony Griffith. It was not un- 
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Eden. Brown Township now has seven school 
houses and 114 pupils, and Eden School Dis- 
trict has one school house and thirty-three 
pupils. 

Concord Township. The first school in 
this township was taught in the home of James 
Kooken, the founder of Bellepoint. The name 
of the pioneer teacher long ago passed from 
memory. Later Mr. Kooken donated an old 
granary, which was made to serve the double 
purpose of school house and church. Some 
time after this, one of the early citizens, Henry 
Cryder, built himself a new house, and gave 
his old home for school purposes. It was here 
that John Wilson, who was the first teacher 
of whom we have knowledge, held forth. 
Money to pay him was raised by subscription 
at the rate of $2.50 per pupil. He was not 
much of a teacher, but doubtless was better 
than none. His habits were not such as would 
have recommended him at a later time for 
membership in the Sons of Temperance. He 
often fell into a drunken sleep in the school 
room, on which occasions the irreverent boys 
would shoot their pop-guns at him. John C. 
Cannon, who taught a school at Bellepoint in 
1835, was a similar character. He died in an 
unused cabin in the neighborhood, of exposure, 
resulting from protracted dissipation. That 
the youth of those days learned anything at all 
is a wonder, and that they were not corrupted 
by such evil examples shows the fine moral 
fiber of which that generation was made. To- 
day, this township is not one whit behind the 
foremost communities in educational matters. 
It maintains a high school of the third grade 
at Bellepoint, and is one of the two townships 
in Delaware County that has a township super- 
intendent of schools. 

Genoa Township. The first school house 
in this township was built in 1841 on the farm 
of Ralph Smith. Lawson Gooding was the 
first teacher here. The first school house on 
"Yankee Street" occupied a site on land owned 
by Marcus Curtiss, and here Sanford Bennett 
was the first to wield the rod and teach the 
three R's. The time and opportunity for the 
pursuit of even these elementary studies were 
so limited in those days that going to school 



was treated as serious business, and the young 
men and young women applied themselves 
with diligence to their mental tasks. It may 
be interesting to some to compare these sta- 
tistics for the school year 1878-79 with those 
shown on our table. Tax Rate, .0039 ; total 
expenditures. $1,803; number of schoolhouses, 
9; total value of school property, $4,500; 
number of teachers, 9; number of pupils. 

3°5- 

Harlem Township. David Gregory, a 
brainy man from Berkshire, was the first 
teacher here of whom we have any record. 
He became a prominent citizen of this county, 
serving as justice of the peace, county commis- 
sioner, member of the Legislature in 1848, di- 
rector of the State Prison at Columbus. He 
was a man of much more than ordinary ability. 
The first school house was erected on the site 
of Harlem chapel. The statistics for 1907 
show that Harlem Township is holding its 
own in the educational advancement of the 
present day. It has, at Centerville, a third- 
grade high school, and is one of the two town- 
ships in this county that provides township 
supervision of schools. 

Kingston Township. There is no rec- 
ord to show just when the first school house 
was built in this township, but it was probably 
about the year 1820. This was known as the 
Curtis school house, from the owner of the 
farm on which it was built, on Little Walnut 
Creek, about a mile from the southern bound- 
ary of the township. School House No. 4 
now occupies the same site. Miss Eliza String 
was the first teacher here. The next school 
house was built on the cross road, about a mile 
west of Olive Green. Those who attended this 
school were especially favored in having for 
their teacher, James Wheeler, a young man of 
about twenty-one .years of age, who was well 
educated for those days, and whose mental 
ability and high moral principles won the 
esteem of everybody. He afterwards became 
a Methodist clergyman. The third school 
house was built in what became known as the 
Virginia School District. These schools, like 
all others of that day, were maintained by pri- 
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ton Township kept in step with the march of 
progress, and in due time inaugurated a pub- 
lic school system suited to the demands of 
the times. 

Liberty Township. It was not long after 
the first settlement was made in this township 
that the first school was started. It was taught 
by Mis- Lucy Carpenter (who afterwards mar- 
ried James Swiniton), a daughter of the ori- 
ginal settler, Capt. Nathan Carpenter. She 
used for her school-room the log cabin her 
father had erected to provide shelter during 
their first summer. Among the early teachers 
in this township was a native of the Emerald 
Isle, named Haligan. Besides elementary 
schools that are second to none. Liberty Town- 
ship now has a high school of the third grade 
at Powell, and outside the city of Delaware, 
Ashley is the only place in the county, the value 
of whose school property exceeds that of 
Liberty Township. 

Marlborough Towxship. Robert Lou- 
ther was the pioneer teacher in this township, 
and the scene of his labors was a small log 
school house east of the Olentangy River from 
Norton. John Milliken, from South Carolina, 
taught in a log school house a quarter of a 
mile north of Norton. This is the school house 
referred to on a preceding" page as having a 
greased sheepskin window. Beyond the most 
elementary rudiments of learning, it was not 
thought necessary to go in those early days, 
and the acquirement of knowledge was neces- 
sarily subordinated to the acquirement of the 
means of subsistence. The value of a record 
of educational matters to coming generations 
probably never entered the minds of these 
frontiersmen, and this accounts for the meager- 
ness of our information regarding these pio- 
neer days. The present status of the schools 
in Marlborough Township is indicated in our 
table. 

Orange Township. In 181 5. eight years 
after the first settler took up his abode in this 
township, Jane Mather, the daughter of an 
early settler and the widow of a soldier of the 
War of 1812, opened the first school. This 
was the beginning of District No. 1. The 
cabin of one of the pioneers, John YVimsett. 



served as a school house. Later, as the set- 
tlement grew, a log school house was built on 
the east side of the State Road, not far from 
Wimsett's cabin. Most of the school-books 
used at this time were brought from the East 
by the mothers who foresaw the need they 
would supply in the wilderness, and as may be 
imagined, they constituted a motley collection. 
In 1827 this old school house was destroyed 
by fire, and was replaced by a hewed-log struc- 
ture fitted with windows, and with such other 
improvements in its furnishing as were pos- 
sible to provide. In 1822 Chester Campbell 
taught a school in the northeastern part of the 
township, and in 1825, a Mr. Curtis taught a 
singing-school here. Somewhere about 1850. 
a frame school house was erected in this neigh- 
borhood. The first brick school house in the 
township was built in 1868 in District No. 4. 
at a cost of about $1,000. For many years 
Lewis Center has been a special school district. 
The 1907 statistics for both township and Lewis 
Center will be found in the table accompany- 
ing this chapter. 

Oxford Township and Ashley Special 
School District. It was not until 1826 that 
the first school house was built in this town- 
ship. Its location has long been a matter of 
dispute, and at this late date we do not feel 
like passing a judgment on the insufficient 
and conflicting evidence at our command. Rev. 
Levi Phelps, a Baptist preacher, was the first 
teacher. The structure was of the log-cabin 
type, common to those days, 18 x 22 feet in di- 
mensions. About that time, another school 
house of the same kind was erected a short 
distance south of Windsor Corners. After a 
few years a hewed-log cabin replaced the first 
structure, and later, when the times required 
and facilities permitted, it was replaced by a 
frame building, which was used until the 
Methodist Church purchased the property. As 
is shown by our table, there are five district 
schools in the township. Ashley was incor- 
porated as a village in 1855, and seven years 
later, a special school district was formed of 
the village and a number of adjoining farms. 
A new school house containing two rooms was 
built. This met the requirements until 1877. 



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when it became necessary to provide increased 
accommodations, and a fine two-story school 
house, with four commodious rooms was 
erected, in 1901 it again became necessary 
to have more room, and two rooms were added, 
at a cost of $3,000. The valuation of school 
property in this district is the largest in the 
county, outside of the city of Delaware. It 
has a well selected school library of 500 
vi ilumes, and laboratory apparatus worth about 
$150. 

Porter Township. The "Block School- 
house," as the first "temple of learning" in this 
township was called, was built in 1825 where 
Sugar Creek empties into Big Walnut Creek. 
William Wolfe, who took his pay. or part 
of it. in dried apples, was the first teacher. 
A pretty little romance in connection with him 
has floated, on the wings of tradition down to 
the present time, and we give it as illustrating 
the directness of the people of those days in 
their personal relations. Delaware, fifteen 
miles away, was the nearest point at which 
Mr. Wolfe could dispose of his apples, and 
as he had no horse, he was compelled to carry 
the fruit to market on his back. On the first 
dav out, about noon, having reached a little 
settlement, he stopped at a small cabin and 
asked for dinner and the privilege of resting. 
His hostess, a stranger to him. proved to be a 
charming widow, who refused to accept any 
remuneration for her hospitality. On his 
homeward journey, on the following dav. Mr. 
Wolf stopped again at the little cabin, and as 
he was leaving the place, informed the kind 
lady that it would lie necessary for him to 
make another trip to Delaware to sell the bal- 
ance of his apples. He said he would call 
again, and that unless on that occasion she 
o msented to become his wife, he would con- 
sider himself of all men most miserable, and 
that she must have a positive answer for him 
upon his return. The next time she saw him 
she told him she couldn't say 110. It is slid 
they were soon married and lived happy ever 
after. There are now nine excellent school 
houses in this township, and in the matter of 
providing for the education of their youth, the 



citizens of Porter Township are fully abreast if 
the times. 

Radnor Township and School Dis- 
trict. The following record of the early his- 
tory of the schools in Radnor was con- 
tributed by Rev. B. W. Chidlaw to 
the old County History, and we quote 
it because we believe he was the best 
authority of his time and had access to 
information that is not now available. "The 
pioneers of Radnor were the friends of edu- 
cation, and when their children became of 
suitable age, they united together, built a log- 
cabin school house, and employed a teacher. 
No record or tradition points out the spot on 
which the cabin school house was built, nor 
by whom the first school was taught. Before 
the day of the school laws in Ohio, the people 
of Radnor were a law until themselves, and 
educational interests were cherished accord- 
ingly. In 1821 there were three log school 
houses in the township — one on the farm of 
John Phillips in the southern part, another on 
the farm of Ralph Dildine, in the center, and 
another, in the northern part, near where the 
old block-house stood on the farm of Benja- 
min Kepler. The school term embraced three 
or four months during the inclement season. 
The teachers received from $9 to $12 a month, 
and boarded around. Their pay was largely 
in trade, produce, and goods manufactured 
with the help of the spinning-wheel and the do- 
mestic loom in the skillful hands of the nv others 
and daughters that honored and blessed the 
early homes of Radnor. 

One of the early teachers who taught about 
[818 was Roger Penry, a native of South 
Wales. He was a fair scholar, especially in 
arithmetic and grammar, and in general knowl- 
edge. He was in advance of the age, therefore 
his services among the youth of Radnor were 
not fully appreciated. Small scholars, both as 
it regards age and proficiency in letters, were 
not his delight. But his disciples in Pike's 
Arithmetic and Murray's Grammar were 
greatly benefited by his instruction. Another 
contemporary was Christopher Moore, whose 
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chirography, and in these branches of learn- 
ing he was a genuine enthusiast. In Webster's 
spelling-book he was at home, and in writing 
copies he was unexcelled. His spelling-schools 
and matches were always great occasions, and 
attracted crowded houses. Gathered on a win- 
ter evening on the puncheon floor of the log 
school house. Master Moore with a radiant 
face, comfortably seated on his three-legged 
stool, and his scholars on split-log benches; 
with the blazing light of a capacious and well- 
filled fire-place, the work of the evening would 
commence. The master knew the text-book 
by heart : with closed eyes, smiling face, and 
quick ear he gave out the words. It required 
about four hours to spell from "ba-ker" through 
the hard words in the pictures and the solid 
columns of proper names at the end of the 
book. In a word, the earnest, interested 
teacher had scholars like-minded ; spelling was 
a great business, and enchained the attention 
of all concerned." 

Since the foregoing was originally written, 
a room has been added to the school house in 
Radnor Village, at a cost of $1,260. In 1907 
a second-grade high school was established at 
the village. The southwestern part of the 
township is now in the Eagleville Special 
School District. 

Scioto Township. Besides the township's 
distict schools, there are in Scioto the special 
school districts of Ostrander and Warrens- 
burg. The northeastern corner of the town- 
ship is included within the Eagleville Special 
School District, and the southwestern corner 
of the township is included in the Jerome 
Special School District, most of which is in 
Union County. But little is known of the his- 
h tv of the schools of this township from the 
time of its settlement until a comparatively 
recent date. A Mrs. Xidy taught the first 
school in the Scioto settlement, a rude hut, 
once owned and used by James McCune as a 
cattle-shed, serving for her school-room. For 
many years Ostrander has had a commodious 
brick school house, which provides accommoda- 
tions for the elementary and high schools. 
The high school, which is of the second grade, 
is one of the oldest in the county. Warrens- 

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burg also has a second-grade high schi i< >]. which 
was established in 1894. 

Thompson Township. James Crawford 
was the first school teacher here, and the scene 
of his labors, a small and uncomfortable 
hewed-log cabin on Fulton's Creek. At that 
time, this was the only school house in the 
township. As the township became more 
thickly settled, the educational facilities were 
improved. As some may be interested in mak- 
ing a comparison with present conditions, as 
shown in our table, we give the figures for 
1879. Total expenditures for schools, $1,- 
858.02 ; number of school houses, 8 ; total value 
of school property, $2,200: number of teachers, 
8; number of pupils, 180. At present the 
southeastern corner of the township is included 
in the Eagleville Special School District : 
Special District No. 1, also known as the 
"Thompson Chapel School," is at the south- 
west corner of the river road and "Smoky 
Row." These new districts, which have their 
own statistics, should be taken into considera- 
tion in making a comparison with former 
days. 

Trenton Township. The first school 
house in this township was located near the 
Big Walnut, about eighteen rods north of the 
bridge on the Mount Vernon Road. A man 
named Good taught the first winter school, 
and the first summer term was taught by 
Clarissa Sturdevant. Like others of their 
day, these were subscription schools. For the 
purpose of comparison, the following statis- 
tics for the school year 187K-7C) may be of in- 
terest. These are for the entire township, the 
special school district of Trenton not having 
been set off at that time. Expenditures. $1,- 
429.05: number of school houses. 7: value of 
school property, $3,200: average daily attend- 
ance. 195. 

Troy Township. The year 1814 marks 
the beginning of the history of education in 
this township. The first pedagogue was Miss 
Electa Wilcox, who taught for several winters 
in a cabin that stood in a sugar-maple grove, 
and had been used as a sugar camp by Joseph 
Cole, one of the earliest settlers in the town- 
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subscribed for and built a log school house of 
the type common in those days. The progress 
in educational matters since that time is shown 
by the following statistics for the school year 
1878-79 and the table of figures which we have 
prepared from present figures: Total ex- 
penditures, $1,624.39; number of school 
houses, 8; value of school property, $3,200; 
average daily attendance, 152. Of the eight 
school houses now in the township, seven are 
brick, and one is a frame structure; four were 
built in 1883, at a cost of $1,400 each. Troy 
Township has the honor of being the first town- 
ship in the county to have its funds on de- 
posit drawing interest for the benefit of the 
township. 

There has been a steady growth in the way 
of more thorough preparation of the teacher 
for his work. A fair idea of the development 
of the public sentiment of Ohio in regard tc 
the professional preparation of the teacher for 
his work can be gained by a glance at the in- 
crease in the requirements for teachers' certifi- 
cates since 1852. Prior to that time, teachers 
were examined in reading, writing, arithmetic 
and spelling. In 1852 the Legislature passed 
an act requiring teachers to be examined in 
grammar and geography in addition to the 
branches just mentioned. In 1882 history was 
made a required branch of common school 
study, and in 1888 physiology and hygiene 
were required on teachers' certificates. In 
1897 civics was required in connection with 
the study of United States history, and teach- 
ers were required to pass an examination in 
both these subjects. In 1904 a law was passed 
requiring teachers to be examined in English 
and American literature, so that of the ten 
branches of study in which teachers must now 
pass an examination in order to secure an ele- 
mentary certificate, six have been added since 
1852. Teachers are also required to pass a 
rigid examination in theory and practice in 
order to obtain a certificate of any grade. Dur- 
ing these years there has also been an increase 
in the severity of the tests, so that an examina- 
tion in a given branch of study today is far 
more searching than it was even a few years 
ago. 



Formerly each separate board of examin- 
ers prepared its own list of questions, and the 
scope of the questions depended largely upon 
the point of view of the examiners; today, all 
the questions used in the eighty-eight counties 
of Ohio are prepared by the State school com- 
missioner, and are uniform throughout the 
State. The scope of the questions is broader; 
technical and catch questions have been largely 
eliminated. 

In general, the teachers of Delaware County 
are up to the spiric of the times in point of 
scholarship and other attainments, and com- 
pare favorably with the teachers of any other 
county in the State. 

In 1904, a minimum salary law was passed, 
providing that no teacher should be employed 
for less than $40 per month, and fixing the 
school year at not less than thirty-two weeks 
nor more than forty weeks. This law effected 
an increase in the wages of the rural teachers 
of from five to ten dollars per month, though a 
few of the townships were already paying the 
minimum of $40 a month. One or two town- 
ships have, since the passage of the law in 
question, paid salaries exceeding the required 
amount. While the requirements of teachers 
have been more than doubled during the last 
few years, the increase in their remunerate m 
has not been more than twenty per cent. Prior 
to the passage of the minimum salary law, 
many of the brightest young male teachers in 
the county were compelled to seek more re- 
munerative work in other lines; but within the 
last year or two, the tide has turned, and the 
number of young men who are fitting them- 
selves for the work of the schoolroom is in- 
creasing. 

In 1890 what has since been called the 
"Boxwell" law was passed by the General As- 
sembly. This law y gave township boards of edu- 
cation in townships where there was no high 
school, authority to pay the tuition of pupils 
who could successfully pass an examination 
for admission to a high school that they could 
reach. In the session of 1901-02 this law was 
amended, and since that time has been known 
as the "Boxwell-Patterson" law. This amend- 
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of education to pay the tuition of pupils passing 
the examination for the high school. This law- 
has been a great boon to the youth living in the 
rural districts, and has had the effect of reduc- 
ing the number of older pupils attending the 
district schools, many of whom formerly went 
term after term and reviewed studies with 
which they were already familiar. A large 
proportion of such pupils now take the exam- 
ination and enter some of the high schools in 
the county. 



year 1885. It is built on the property of St. 
Mary's Church, and is, therefore, under the 
exclusive control of said church, which 
it serves as a parochial school. It has 
always been held by the Catholic Church 
that no education can be considered 
complete and adequate from a moral and social 
point of view, unless religious and precise 
moral instruction forms a part of a school cur- 
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ST. MARYS PAROCHIAL SCHOOL. 

We are indebted to Rev. Philip Steyle, rec- 
tor of St. Mary's Church, who kindly wrote 
the following article for this history : 

This is a plain but substantial school build- 
ing on South Henry Street, consisting of five 
commodious rooms and a large and well ap- 
pointed hall on the second floor. The building, 
although unpretentious, answers the purpose 
for which it was erected by private subscrip- 
tion among the Catholics of Delaware in the 



such a course cannot be had in the public 
schools under our present school laws, and as 
this matter is considered by the higher church 
authorities of vital importance, parochial 
schools, supported by the private funds of the 
parish have been established everywhere : and 
these schools are attended almost without ex- 
ception by the children of Catholic parent-. 
Such a segregation of the Catholic children, 
means, of course, first : A double tax for all 
Catholic freeholders, who have to be taxed f' ir 
the support of the public schools, although they 



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do not make use of them. Second : It means, 
in many places, where prejudice and narrow- 
ideas seem to prevail a little more than in oth- 
ers, a complete ostracism of teachers who ma) 
be Catholics in religion by the official school 
hoards, though the public schools are built and 
kept up by taxation upon all, without distinc- 
tion. This, of course, is the grossest injustice; 
but the majority ruling in that direction, there 
seems to be no remedy for it. It is the more re- 
markable, in that so far from hampering or in- 
terfering with the public schools, the parochial 
schools are every year an immense saving to 
the taxpayer and to the school boards, since 
without them, many more teachers would have 
to be employed and more school houses would 
have to be built. Here in Delaware, St. Mary's 
Parochial School, attended on an average by 
250 pupils, saves the school board and the tax- 
payer the hiring of at least six more teachers, 
and the erecting of a large new school build- 
ing, and yet, in the last fifteen years, not a 
teacher belonging to St. Mary's Church has 
been hired by the Delaware Public School 
Board. Five Sisters of Charity, whose convent 
adjoins St. Mary's School, have had charge of 
said parochial school from the beginning. For 
all secular branches, the course of studies is 
precisely the same as in the public schools. The 
difference is this, that the sessions begin and 
end with prayers recited in unison, and the first 
half hour is devoted to catechetical and relig- 
ious instruction. In late years, a higher de- 
partment has been added to the course, which, 
before that, was considered sufficiently complete 
with the eighth grade. 

DELAWARE CITY LIBRARY. 

The early settlers who purchased land of 
the Ohio Company brought with them the New 
England traditions of religion and education. 
We find them early planning to secure for 
themselves and their children the best educa- 
tional facilities that their circumstances would 
permit, and it is not strange, therefore, that 
among people whose appreciation of knowledge 
was so keen, the public library began its work, 
even before the first log schoolhouse had been 
built. When General Israel Putnam died in 



1790, his fine library, rich in history, travel 
and belles-lettres, was divided among his 
heirs. His son. Colonel Israel Putnam, brought 
a large part of this library to Belpre, Ohio, 
where we rind it established under the title of 
the "Putnam Family Library" as early as 1795. 
Soon after, a stock company was formed, and 
the library was put into circulation for the 
benefit of those settlers who were willing to 
share in the expense of its maintenance. The 
second library was established at Cincinnati in 
1802, and in 1804. the celebrated "Coonskin 
Library" was organized in Ames Township, 
Athens County. The limits of our space will 
not permit us to follow the extension of li- 
braries through the territory. The history of 
some of these early libraries reads like ro- 
mance, and it is gratifying to know that at an 
early day. Ohio held high rank in this import- 
ant field. 

Naturally, the first steps toward establish- 
ing a library in Delaware were taken by repre- 
sentatives of Ohio Wesleyan University in lay- 
ing the foundation of the present Slocum Li- 
brary ; but as this library is a department of the 
university, though many courtesies in the use 
of its books are extended to the citizens of Dela- 
ware, the history of the Slocum Library will 
be found in connection with that of the Uni- 
versity. 

Fi ir the following sketch of the historv of 
the free public library in Delaware, we are in- 
debted to the very courteous and efficient li- 
brarian, Mrs. Nellie Pratt Stayman. 

The question of establishing a free public 
library in Delaware had been agitated from 
time to time tor many years. A corporation 
for this purpose was organized as long ago as 
1855, but it was then found impracticable and 
the project was abandoned. The subject was 
agitated frequently at different periods, but all 
efforts were spasmodic and without results. 
Some years ago, however, twenty-six enter- 
prising ladies organized themselves into a read- 
ing circle, called the "Book Club," and main- 
tained a small circulating: library, consistine of 
about thirty volumes, that were passed around 
and read by the members of the club. These 
ladies subsequently formed themselves into a 



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213 



library association. This association was unin- 
corporated. They asked for donations of books 
and secured additional members. The mem- 
bership fee was fixed at fifty cents a year. It 
opened its library November 12, 1897, in the 
private office of Dr. \Y. H. Hague, who loaned 
the association the use of his bookcase, and 
tendered to the ladies the use of his office as a 
place of meeting. The extent of the library, at 
this time, was ninety-seven volumes, and the 
association consisted of thirty-five members. 
Strenuous efforts were made to increase the 
membership, and to add to the number of 
books, but it was found difficult to enlist atten- 
tion and secure support. The ladies met with 
great discouragement on every hand. With the 
small means at their command, their progress 
was very slow, and the opening of a reading- 
room, which they regarded as very desirable, 
was simply out of the question. They made a 
canvass of the city, which resulted in increas- 
ing the membership to one hundred and ten, 
and in April, 1898, the library, by the courtesy 
of Mr. C. D. Young, was placed hvhis jewelry 
store. It was subsequently transferred to a 
small room, rented for the purpose, and the as- 
sociation continued to operate a circulating li- 
brary among its members, until it was moved 
into what were thought at the time would be 
its permanent quarters in Masonic Hall. 

Some idea of thte difficulties and dis- 
couragement under which the ladies labored 
can be formed from the fact that the total re- 
ceipts for the entire year preceding the incor- 
poration of the present library association, from 
all sources, was less than two hundred dol- 
lars. It was perfectly apparent that if the li- 
brary was to be made generally useful, some- 
thing must be done to interest the public in it. 
and to establish it on a more permanent basis. 

Under the auspices of the Ladies' Library 
Association, a meeting of the citizens of Dela- 
ware was held July 21. 1898, at St. Peter's 
Church, with the view of enlisting public in- 
terest and attention to the importance of the 
enterprise. At this meeting the matter was 
generally discussed, and a committee appointed 
to consult with the City Council to ascertain 
whether the organization of a free public library 



and reading-room could be secured through 
the action of the city authorities, under the act 
providing for the creation of public libraries, 
and also to fully investigate the whole subject, 
and report at a future meeting the best method 
to be pursued. 

The next public meeting was held at the 
William Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 
September 13, 1898. and the committee for- 
merly appointed, among other things, reported 
that after a consultation with a committee from 
the City Council, it was found impracticable 
to induce that body to establish and maintain 
a free public library and reading-room, and 
recommended that the most feasible method to 
be adopted would be the incorporation of an as- 
sociation to be known as "The Delaware City 
Library Association," for the purpose of "es- 
tablishing and maintaining, in a public place in 
the city of Delaware, a public library ami read- 
ing-room, free to all the inhabitants ihereof, 
and to all persons residing within the territory 
known as the Delaware City School District ;" 
the necessary funds to be secured in such man- 
ner as might be authorized by law. and by such 
other means as such association might deem 
advisable, and recommended that immediate 
steps be taken to secure the incorporation of 
such an association. The report of the commit- 
tee was adopted. The ladies were requested to 
consider the propriety of incorporating their as- 
sociation for the purpose, and a committee was 
appointed to look up a site for such library. 

Subsequently, a public meeting called by 
the president, was held at St. John's Lutheran 
Church. October 20, 1898. At this meeting 
the Ladies' Library Association reported that 
they would incorporate as requested, when the 
time would justify such action. It was made 
known, quietly, to the officers of the Ladies' Li- 
brary Association, and to the committee to 
look up a location for the library, that Mr. 
Sidney Moore, one of Delaware's leading citi- 
zens, had decided to erect a building, and pre- 
sent the same to Hiram Lodge. No. 18, F. and 
A. M.. and that he intended in behalf of him- 
self and wife to reserve therein a room for the 
use of the Delaware City Library Association; 
the association to be at the expense only of 



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finishing, fitting up and furnishing the same. 
Thereupon the ladies of the Library Associa- 
tion immediately procured articles of incor- 
poration, dated February 23, 1899, which were 
presented at the next public meeting of the citi- 
zens, held at the Presbyterian Church, March 
16, 1899. The articles of incorporation were 
approved at this meeting, and the proposition 
of Mr. and Mrs. Moore gratefully accepted. Mr. 
Sidney Moore, and Mrs. Sarah A. Moore, his 
wife, by perpetual lease, conveyed the library 
room to the association, conditioned "to con- 
tinue as long as the association shall keep up 
and maintain therein a public library and read- 
ing-room, and pay such part of the insurance 
on the Masonic Temple as the value of the 
part so used and occupied by the Library Asso- 
ciation bears to the whole building." 

Sufficient funds were secured by member- 
ship fees, subscriptions and donations to finish 
the room, to provide for heating and also 
lighting the same with both gas and electricity, 
and to furnish it with the most approved and 
modern style of library furniture. The ladies 
turned over to the new association the books 
they had accumulated, numbering 535 volumes. 

The Board of Education of the Delaware 
City School District have loaned the use and 
control of such portion of the Public School 
Library as is not needed fur daily use and 
reference, upon the condition that the books 
be receipted for by the association and la- 
beled "From High School Library," subject 
to return, however, at any time the Board of 
Education may so direct, and upon condition 
that all books purchased by the funds re- 
ceived under the tax levied by the School 
Board shall be marked and labeled "From 
Board of Education Tax Levy," and upon 
the further condition that in case the Associa- 
tion shall cease to maintain a public library, 
said books shall be returned to the Hoard of 
Education to become a part of the High 
School Library. The books so turned over 
consisted of 375 volumes, making a total of 
910 volumes on the shelves of the new library 
when it was opened to the public on the even- 
ing of April 5, 1900. 



The Dewey system of classification and 
cataloging the books is used in the adminis- 
tration of the library. It will be seen from 
the report of the committee on the best 
method to be pursued in the organization of 
the library and reading-room, that it was in- 
tended to bring the organization within the 
provisions of the act of the General Assem- 
bly, entitled, "An act to authorize cities of the 
fourth grade of the second class to levy a tax 
for the maintenance of a free public and 
school library," passed February 15. 1898, 
which requires school boards to levy a tax of 
not less than three-tenths nor more than five 
tenths of one mill on the dollar, to be used 
by the library association in the purchase of 
books and periodicals, and for running ex- 
penses. 

Under this act, the Board of Education 
levies three-tenths of one mill on the dollar, 
and through this source, the library receives, 
and will receive annually, between eleven and 
twelve hundred dollars. The association is 
thus enabled to add to its number of books, 
and to fully supply the library with papers, 
periodicals, and to meet running expenses. 
The library at that time consisted of 1.359 
volumes, thirty-one periodicals, and received 
eight daily papers. Through the persever- 
ance of the ladies, the generous gift of Mr. 
Sidney Moore, and Mrs. Sarah A. Moore, his 
wife, the hearty co-operation of the School 
Hoard, the active assistance of a large num- 
ber of her public spirited citizens, and the 
beneficence of the General Assembly, herein- 
before referred to, Delaware City now had a 
public library and reading-room established 
on a permanent basis. 

In the early spring of 1902, it occurred to 
Mr. T. C. Jones, that if other cities of the size 
of Delaware were helped by Mr. Andrew 
Carnegie to build libraries, would he not do as 
much for Delaware. Mr. Jones brought the 
matter to the attention of the Board of Trade, 
and a committee was appointed, of which .Mr. 
Jones, V. T. Hills. Dr. W. M. Semans and 
Dr. J. W. Bashfonl were members, to try to 
enlist Mr. Carnegie's aid in erecting a public 



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215 



library building in Delaware. Mr. Jones, ac- 
cordingly, began a correspondence with Mr. 
Carnegie, through his private secretary, 
which extended over many months, until De- 
cember 22, 1902, when Mr. Carnegie ad- 
dressed a letter to Air. Jones, as chairman of 
the Library Committee of the Delaware 
Board of Trade, making a proposition to 
erect a library building. The City Council 
referred the offer of Mr. Carnegie to a spe- 
cial committee on January 5, 1903. This com- 
mittee reported favorably on the plan. Janu- 
ary 12th, and on its recommendation a com- 
mittee of three was appointed to select a site 
for the proposed library building. Such a 
committee was appointed, and on April 9th 
reported in favor of the Lybrand property, 
now known as the Jane M. Case Hospital. A 
motion was made and passed, recommending 
that the incoming Council (May 1st) accept 
the Lybrand property. Nothing further was 
done until after the new Council was installed, 
when its library committee reported a resolu- 
tion favoring the Williams-Little site, lying 
between the property of Mrs. Beverly Brown 
and the private alley south. This report was 
signed by Parsons, McGough and Alden, and 
was laid upon the table until the next meet- 
ing. On October 5th, the motion to purchase 
the Williams property was lost. The same 
evening the motion to purchase the Sampsell 
or Georgia Brown Allen property was lost, 
and a third resolution was offered to purchase 
the Hayes and LeCrone property which carried, 
and the city solicitor was directed to purchase 
the property. On December 7th, a petition 
was received from the library trustees appoint- 
ed under the new code in favor of the Samp- 
sell site, and on motion of Parsons an ordi- 
nance was passed authorizing its purchase. 
The first levy for a site had been reported by 
the Finance Committee during the preceding- 
summer, through Prof. Parsons making a 
levy of one mill for this purpose. 

No action had been taken to purchase the 
sites previously recommended, and the pre- 
ceding resolution was repealed by the new 
ordinance. Finally, on January 4th, a resolu- 
tion was passed to issue bonds to the extent 



of $5,000 for the purchase of the Sampsell 
site from Mrs. Georgia Brown Allen ; the 
remaining $1,000 (the site costing $6,000) 
was to be paid out of the levy already made 
for a site. Thus the matter was finally settled 
after a great deal of annoyance caused by the 
opposition of some members of the Council to 
a site in the northern part of the city. 

This site has an interesting history: to- 
gether with the ground now occupied by the 
Court House and jail, it was originally plat- 
ted for a cemetery — the first in Delaware 
Township — by Byxbe and Baldwin. At that 
time, this w-as located outside the limits of the 
village, which extended only as far as the 
south side of North Street — now Central 
Avenue. The first persons who died in the 
village of Delaware, as well as some who died 
north and east of here, were buried in this 
ground. 

Mayor Clippinger appointed a committee 
to take charge of the erection of a library 
building. Before much, if any, definite work 
was accomplished by this committee, several 
changes occurred in its personnel, which fi- 
nally included the following gentlemen : V. 
D. Stayman, D. H. Battenfield, T. J. Griffin, 
Henry E. Main, Judge B. F. Freshwater and 
Capt. C. W. Wiles. Architects E. W. Hart 
and John M. Marriott were associated in the 
preparation of plans, the latter gentleman la- 
ter becoming architect and superintendent in 
charge of construction. The building was 
begun in the fall of 1904, and was opened to 
the public on September 1, 1906. The cost of 
the building, $21,500, was paid by Mr. Car- 
negie; $1,500 was spent in furnishing it. The 
present Board of Trustees is as follows : V. 

D. Stayman, president ; D. H. Battenfield, 
vice president; Captain C. W. Wiles; Henry 

E. Main; T. J. Griffin; Judge B. F. Fresh- 
water. 

The number of books in the library is 4.- 
666, and thirty-two magazines and five daily 
papers are received. The last annual report 
shows 12,850 readers and a circulation of 
22,067 books. 

The Delaware County Historical 
and Archaeological Society was incor- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



porated February 8, 1906. The following 
gentlemen were charter members: J. L. 
Smith, president ; D. L. Ziegler. vice-presi- 
dent; Frank L. Grove, secretary: H. E. Buck, 
soliciting agent ; John B. Taggart. curator. In 
addition to the foregoing, the following indi- 
viduals are now members : Howard O. Core, 
who is the present curator; Dr. William E. 
Knight, Arthur Sheradin and Hon. E. M. 
Wickham. D. W. C. Lugenbeel, the veteran 
journalist, whose historical sketches over the 
signature "Looking Backwards" have inter- 
ested so many readers of the Delaware papers, 
was recently elected to honorary membership. 
At present the society is without a place in 



which to make a public display of the collec- 
tions owned by its members, but it is hoped 
to secure suitable accommodations in the near 
future. The limits of our space will not per- 
mit of a list of the thousands of relics of a by- 
gone age which have been collected. There 
are upwards of ten thousand Indian relics, 
hundreds of pieces of old china, many spin- 
ning wheels, reels, swifts, old blue coverlets, 
school books. American cut glass, fireplace 
cooking utensils, reflectors for baking in the 
fireplace, old wooden cradles, hand-spun 
woolen carpets, wooden-wheel clocks and other 
furniture. 



CHAPTER XII. 



EDUCATION (II). 



OHIO WESLEVAN UNIVERSITY. 

[This chapter is based largely on a history of the Uni- 
versity prepared by Prof. Wm. G. Williams for the vol- 
ume entitled "Fifty Years of History of the Ohio Wesleyan 
University," permission for the use of which was kindly 
granted by the University.] 

The city of Delaware is largely indebted 
for its present size and importance to the lo- 
cation here of an educational institution of 
highest standing, of which it may well be 
proud. It was largely because of Ohio Wes- 
leyan- University that the first railroad was 
brought into the city of Delaware, and today 
the university brings a volume of business 
amounting to at least $400,000 per annum 
into the city. It can be truthfully said, there- 
fore, that the education of young men and 
young women at Ohio Wesleyan University 
is the leading industry of Delaware. The 
University was founded in 1844 and owes its 
location, if not its establishment at that par- 
ticular date, to the famous White Sulphur 
Spring in Delaware. This spring had early 
attracted the attention of tourists and seekers 
after health. In order to accommodate these, 
and to encourage further patronage, two en- 
terprising citizens, Thomas W. Powell, Esq., 
and Columbus W. Kent, erected, in the year 
1833, on a spacious lot, embracing the spring, 
a fine hotel, which soon became known to the 
citizens as the Mansion House. The waters 
were salubrious and the locality healthful; 
and for some years the Mansion House was 
kept in successful operation. But the town 
of Delaware was not very widely known, and 
was not easily accessible, and it was perhaps, 
too early in the history of the State to hope 
for large returns from a business enterprise of 



Judge Powell, who had become the sole pro- 
prietor, concluded to abandon the attempt to 
establish a Western watering place. 

About this time the Methodist College 
at Augusta, in Kentucky, to which the Ohio 
Conference was contributory, had been sus- 
pended. Augusta was on the wrong side of 
the river to suit the growing anti-slavery sen- 
timent of the Methodists in Ohio ; and it was 
already manifest that the school could never 
secure their patronage or contributions. Prac- 
tically this largest Protestant denomination in 
the State was without a home institution for 
the education of her sons. The thoughtful 
men of the church were naturally solicitous 
in regard to the educational future of Ohio 
Methodism, but as yet no forward steps had 
been taken toward providing for these wants. 

At this juncture it was suggested by the 
Rev. Adam Poe. the Methodist pastor in 
Delaware, that the citizens of the place should 
purchase the Spring property, and offer it to 
the Ohio and North Ohio Conferences of the 
Methodist Church, jointly, as a site for a col- 
lege. This suggestion met with cordial ap- 
proval. 

The property thus proposed for a college 
site comprised about ten acres of ground, ly- 
ing in the suburbs of Delaware, towards the 
southeast quarter of the town, and separated 
from the rest of the town by the insignificant 
"Delaware Run." Of this ground a part, on 
which the Mansion House stood, was held in 
fee simple; and the remainder, including the 
spring, by a perpetual lease without rent, 
from the corporation of Delaware. The in- 
vestment in the grounds and buildings was 
about $25,000; but the owner offered to con- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



vey his interests in the entire property for 
$10,000. This sum, it was thought, could he 
raised by a subscription among the citizens of 
the town and county, and, accordingly, a 
delegation was appointed to wait on the con- 
ferences, and ascertain whether they would 
accept the property if conveyed to them as 
proposed. 

The North Ohio Conference met August 
11, 1841, at Wooster. To this body the dele- 
gation first applied. The conference consid- 
ered the matter favorably and appointed a 
committee of five to confer with a like com- 
mitee to be appointed by the Ohio Conference. 
August 25th the delegation appeared before 
the Ohio Conference, at Urbana-. On the 
following day Dr. Charles Elliott and Wil- 
liam P. Strickland were deputed by the con- 
ference to visit Delaware and examine the 
premises. They carried back a favorable re- 
port and many long remembered the Irish en- 
thusiasm With which Dr. Elliott advocated 
the establishment of a Methodist college and 
the acceptance of this property. The confer- 
ence was ready for the measure, and voted 
that it was expedient to establish a Methodist 
college in Ohio ; that the two conferences 
(embracing about two-thirds of the State) 
should unite in the enterprise, and that, if 
the Sulphur Spring property was conveyed to 
the church, on the terms proposed, Delaware 
should be selected as the seat of the college. 
A committee of five was appointed to act with 
the committee from the Northern Confer- 
ence. 

The joint committee thus constituted met 
at Delaware, September 1, 1841. The com- 
mittee consisted of Revs. John H. Power, 
Adam Poe, Edward Thompson, James Brew- 
ster and William S. .Morrow, from the North 
Ohio Conference, and Revs. Jacob Young, 
James B. Finley, Charles Elliott, Edmund W. 
Sehon and Joseph M. Trimble, from the Ohio 
Conference. Of these distinguished men, to 
whom was committed this weighty responsi- 
bility, Dr. Joseph M. Trimble was, for many 
years, the last survivor, and died May 6, [891. 
The committee voted to accept the property if 
the citizens should perfect their offer, and if 



the title should be made satisfactory to the 
Conferences. 

The way being thus prepared, a subscrip- 
tion was opened by the citizens and was signed 
by one hundred and seventy-two persons. No 
subscription exceeded $500 and the aggre- 
gate amounted to but $9,000. That the 
movement might no,t Mail, certain parties, 
trusting to future local subscriptions, obli- 
gated themselves for the deficit. But no fur- 
ther subscriptions were obtained, and some 
years afterwards, $500 were raised by volun- 
tary contributions among the ministers in the 
North Ohio Conference, to relieve the Rev. 
Adam Poe from the payment of a note given 
on this account. Such was the difficulty, at 
that time, of raising even this small sum for 
an enterprise which, as the citizens said in 
the preamble to their subscription, "would 
greatly add to the value of property in the 
town and county, and be of great public utility 
and benefit." 

But the town was small; at the United 
States census the year before, 1840, the popu- 
lation was but 893 ; there was not much busi- 
ness and there' was but little accumulated 
wealth in the community. The inducement 
they offered to secure the location of a college, 
destined to be the central institution of a great 
church, was absurdly small. But the amount 
raised in Delaware was the just measure of 
the ability of the place at that time. The 
University was welcomed to the town, and it 
has often since met with a generous response 
from the citizens to its appeals for aid. On 
the other hand, it has brought with it popula- 
tion, and wealth, and prosperity to the town. 

The Conference Committee met Novem- 
ber 17, 1841, and received from Mr. Powell 
a bond for the conveyance of the property do- 
nated by the citizens. The title was finally 
passed in 1850, to the Board of Trustees. In 
addition to the ten acres thus conveyed, the 
committee purchased from Judge Powell an 
adjacent property on the south, of five acres, 
at a cost of $5,500, and the furniture of the 
Mansion House at about $2,000 more. Dr. 
Trimble paid Judge Powell fifty dollars as an 
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purchase, the first money given to the Uni- 
versity, the first money paid on its debt. 

Immediate steps were now taken looking 
to a formal organization. A committee com- 
posed of Jacob Young", Joseph M. Trimble 
and Adam Poe was appointed to apply to the 
Legislature for an act of incorporation. A 
special charter, under the old State Constitu- 
tion, conferring university powers, was grant- 
ed by the Legislature March 7, 1842. The 
corporate powers were vested in a hoard of 
twenty-one persons from different parts of the 
State. These were William Neff, Samuel 
Williams, ex-Governor Allen Trimble, Lem- 
uel Reynolds, Thomas Orr, William Bishop, 
William Armstrong, Rev. James B. Finley, 
Rev. Jacob Young, Rev. Edmund W. Sehon, 
Rev. Leonidas L. Hamline, Judge Patrick G. 
Goode. George B. Arnold, ex-Governor Mor- 
dacai Bartley, Frederick C. Welch. Wilder 
Joy. Henry Ehbert, John H. Harris, Rev. 
Adam Poe, Rev. William Burke. Rev. Leon- 
ard B. Gurley. These men were of promi- 
nence in state or in church. They have long 
since yielded their places to others. Dr. Gur- 
ley, the last survivor, died in 1880, at the ripe 
age of seventy-six years. Of these trustees, 
though the charter did not so prescribe, four- 
teen were laymen and seven were ministers ; 
and this ratio of ministers and laymen has al- 
ways been kept in filling vacancies. By the 
provisions of the charter, the corporators at 
first held their office for life. The right of 
perpetuation of the Board was vested in the 
two patronizing conferences, each appointing 
to all existing vacancies, alternately. These 
conferences were afterwards divided into four, 
each with the same right of appointment. The 
arrangement for alternate appointment con- 
tinued until 1869. when, by a general law of 
the State, under the new Constitution, the 
president of the University was made, ex-of- 
ficio, a member of the Board, and the remain- 
ing twenty members were divided into four 
classes of five each, which were assigned, 
severally, to the four conferences, and the ten- 
ure of office was reduced to five years, so that 
each conference should annually elect one trus- 
tee for the period of five years. In 1S71 the 



charter was further so modified as to give the 
Association of Alumni a representation on the 
Board equal to that of each Annual confer- 
ence; and in 1883 the West Virginia Confer- 
ence was admitted as one of the patronizing 
bodies, with equal right of representation in 
the Board. 

One of the conditions of the donation to 
the church was that the academic work of the 
college should be begun within five years ; but 
the committees from the conferences did not 
wait even until the organization of the Board 
of Trustees. It was thought best to com- 
mence this work immediately, and a sub-com- 
mittee was appointed to secure teachers and 
open a preparatory school. This committee 
at once engaged Captain James D. Cobb, a 
graduate of West Point and an ex-army of- 
ficer, as instructor in the new school for 1841- 
42. Captain Cobb was about fifty years of 
age and was assisted by his son. It was ar- 
ranged that he should have the free use of the 
Mansion -House, but look to tuition for his 
compensation. He had a mixed school of 
boys and girls. At the end of the school year 
Captain Cobb resigned his place and moved 
to the South for his health. 

The Board of Trustees held their first 
meeting at Hamilton, where the Ohio Con- 
ference was in session, October 1, 1842. At 
this meeting the Board elected the Rev. Ed- 
ward Thomson, at that time the principal of 
Norwalk Seminary, to the presidency of the 
LJniversity, with the understanding that the 
appointment was only nominal for the pres- 
ent, but a pledge to the church and the public 
that a college faculty would be appointed and 
the college opened at no distant day. The 
Board, however, determined that a Prepara- 
tory School should meanwhile be maintained, 
and appointed the Rev. Solomon Howard as 
principal, with authority to employ his own 
assistants. He was given the use of the build- 
ings and furniture, and was expected to get 
his support from the tuition fees of the pu- 
pils. Prof. Howard began his school Novem- 
ber 1, 1842, and continued it successfully for 
two years. Both sexes were still admitted, 
and the atendance was largelv local. He had 



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at first but four little boys as his pupils, but 
the number for the year was 130. During the 
second year of his school he was assisted by 
Mr. Flavel A. Dickinson, a recent graduate 
of Yale, who had taught one year as principal 
of the Delaware Academy, and who brought 
his school over "en masse." 

Though no large immediate income was 
to be expected from subscriptions or from tu- 
ition, yet the Board of Trustees felt great con- 
fidence in the final success of a school sup- 
ported by the large numbers and the growing 
wealth of the Methodist Church in Ohio. Re- 
lying upon these the Board, September 25, 
1844, resolved to organize a faculty to open 
the institution with a college curriculum and 
college classes. Dr. Thomson, who had re- 
cently been elected editor of the Ladies' Re- 
pository, was re-appointed president, though 
again with the understanding that he should 
not immediately enter upon duty. As it was 
foreseen that the school would for a while 
be small, and the income limited, the Board 
established but four additional places, and 
made the following appointments : Rev. Her- 
man M. Johnson, professor of Ancient Lan- 
guages; Rev. Solomon Howard, professor of 
Mathematics; William G. Williams, principal 
of the Preparatory Department; Enoch G. 
Dial, assistant in Preparatory Department. 

The salaries paid, or rather promised, to 
these men were gauged by the resources 
which the Board hoped to have at their com- 
mand by the end of the year. The president's 
salary, when he should enter upon duty, was 
fixed at $800; the professors were to be paid 
$600 each, and the teachers in the Prepara- 
tory Department $400 and $350 respectively, 
but it was many years before even these 
meager salaries were paid as they became 
due. 

Wednesday, November 13. 1S44. was the 
day appointed and advertised fen- the opening 
of the school, hut the opening was less en- 
couraging than had been hoped. Dr. Thom- 
son was present but for a day or two, and did 
not enter upon duty tor nearly two years aft- 
erward, and Prof. Johnson was detained for 
many weeks. The other three teachers of the 



five who were appointed to positions in the 
faculty, met in the basement of the Mansion 
House, the former dining room, which had 
been temporarily fitted up as a chapel, and 
proceeded to enroll the students applying for 
admission to the classes. Only twenty-nine 
presented themselves. This was a smaller 
number than had previously attended the pre- 
paratory schools under Captain Cobb and 
Prof. Howard. But the students now were 
all males of a mature age, and more advanced 
standing, and most of them were from other 
parts of the state. From this small number 
the faculty were able to organize all the col- 
lege classes below senior, though the repre- 
sentation in the upper classes was very small. 
By the end of the year there were only two 
juniors, two sophomores, fourteen freshmen, 
and there were ninety-two in the Preparatory 
and other courses. Such was the initial cata- 
1< >gue of a university, which, long before its 
jubilee year, enrolled more than forty times 
the first number of students, annually, and 
graduates more than a hundred at a time. 

ENDOWMENT. 

Education, the world over, is largely a 
gratuity, and especially so in the higher insti- 
tutions of learning. In the older and better 
endowed colleges, no student pays a tenth of 
the actual cost of his education. Grounds, 
buildings, cabinets, libraries, endowments, and 
all the educational appliances of science and 
art, are the gifts of the founders of the school 
to the students who attend it. A college to be 
eminently successful in its work should have 
all these before it opens its doors to the public. 
Fortunately, this is something realized in the 
benefactions of wealthy men. But in former 
times, in the Western country, neither State 
nor denominational schools could afford to 
wait for the accumulation of all these befi ire 
beginning their work, and the result was, that 
most of our schools were started upon very 
meager foundations. Such was the case with 
Ohio Wesleyan University. The Board of 
Trustees started with nothing, and were in 
debt. To secure a present support and a fu- 



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ture growth was, of course, a matter of vital 
concern. 

The only resources of the institution were 
the contributions of its friends, and these, at 
first, came slowly and sparingly; and it was 
not until 1849 that the indebtedness of $7,- 
000 for the purchase money was all paid. We 
have seen that the conferences early devised 
plans for the endowment of the University. 
In 1843 tne Ohio Conference appointed Revs. 
Frederick Merrick and Uriah Heath, agents 
to raise funds from donations to the Uni- 
versity, or by the sale of scholarships entitling 
the hearer to tuition, at the rate of $100 for 
five years. The following year the North 
Ohio Conference appointed similar agents to 
work within its bounds. These agents, in the 
course of two years, obtained subscriptions 
and notes for scholarships to the amount of 
about $30,000, and some donations of land 
worth, perhaps $15,000 more. The interest 
on these notes and some tuition fees, consti- 
tuted the sole revenue of the institution for 
the support of the faculty. Tuition for the 
regular Academic studies was early fixed at 
$30 a year ; and it has never been changed, 
though, since the era of cheap scholarships, 
no student has paid tuition. Art studies 
alone are not covered by the scholarships. As 
the sale of scholarships progressed, the tu- 
ition gradually fell to nothing. Perhaps two 
or three hundred of these higher priced schol- 
arships were sold, mostly "on time," but, un- 
fortunately, many of them were never paid 
for, though the tuition had been promptly 
claimed and enjoyed. The faculty was then 
wholly dependent on the income from the en- 
dowment notes. But though agents were 
continued in the field for the sale of scholar- 
ships, the aggregate did not perceptibly in- 
crease. At the end of six years, the total net 
assets were estimated at only $70,000, and, 
of this, the endowment money and subscrip- 
tions reached only $54,000. The institution 
was still on the borders of inanition. It was 
evident, that, unless a more effective policy 
was adopted, the school was destined to fail- 
ure, dr, at best, to a feeble existence. 

At length, in the summer of 1849. tne 
faculty, upon the suggestion of Prof. John- 



son, devised and proposed to the Board of 
Trustees a system of scholarships at a much 
cheaper rate than those at first sold. It was 
hoped that these would be popular, and be 
sold to an extent sufficient to give the institu- 
tion both money and students for, at least, 
all present necessities. The trustees held a 
special session to consider the subject, Sep- 
tember 24, 1849, at Dayton, where the Ohio 
Conference was in session. The measure was 
felt to be perilous; a failure would jeopardize 
all, and they deliberated a long time before 
they came to> any conclusion. Finally with 
the approval of the Conference, the Board 
adopted the plan, and ordered the sale of 
scholarships, entitling the holder to tuition, 
at the following rates: (1) for three years' 
tuition. $15; (2) for four years' tuition, $29; 
(3) for six years' tuition, $25; (4) for eight 
years' tuition, $30. Unlike the old series of 
scholarships, the new ones were to be paid for 
in full before they were used. 

The system was needlessly complex ; the 
second and fourth rates alone would have been 
better than the four, and the price could have 
been one-half higher without lessening their 
salableness. But the success which crowned 
the effort quieted all criticisms. Three agents 
wer appointed by each Conference to put the 
new scholarships upon the market. In two 
years they had sold nearly three thousand, 
and paid into the treasury of the University, 
besides the expense of the agency and the sup- 
port of the faculty meanwhile, a sum suffi- 
cent to raise the nominal endowment, in 1854, 
to a round $100,000. 

The exact number of scholarships sold 
was 3.740, calling for a little more than 25,- 
000 years of tuition. It was estimated that 
an average annual attendance of 500 students 
would exhaust this large aggregate in fifty 
years. As the attendance has not averaged 
this figure, the period for the final retirement 
of the scholarships may he somewhat pro- 
longed. Subsequently, the agents, under the 
authority of the Board, issued a few hundred 
additional scholarships to the value of money 
or lands ostensibly given to the University, 
but for which the institution paid a full 
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stopped, and the board has ordered that no 
more scholarships be sold. 

Part of this amount was still in unproduc- 
tive land, and is in uncollected scholarship 
notes. But the income for the following year, 
1855, was estimated to be $8,500, which the 
committee of Ways and Means, in their re- 
port to the Board, say "will be amply suffi- 
cient to meet and defray all current ex- 
penses." In view of this hopeful condition 
of the finances, the salaries of the faculty- 
were now increased as follows : The presi- 
dent was paid $1,400; the professors, $1,000 
each ; the tutors, $500 each. The value of 
the real estate and other property of the Uni- 
versity had also largely increased, and 
may be estimated at another $100,000. Thus, 
the end of the first decennium saw the institu- 
tion in a healthful financial condition, and 
with good prospects for the future. 

The conference agencies for the endow- 
ment and building fund were continued for 
some years and the endowment slowly in- 
creased for a number of years. At length, in 
1866, the centennial year of American Meth- 
odism, a general advance was made through- 
out the connection. Educational interests 
were everywhere the foremost, and, in Ohio, 
the result of the effort was a large addition 
t> 1 the funds of the University. A portion 
was devoted to building and general improve- 
ment, and the endowment was increased to 
considerably more than $200,000. Unfor- 
tunately, the resources for building and 
grounds did not prove as ample as was hoped, 
and, after the "hard times" of 1873 set m < '* 
was deemed necessary to draw upon the en- 
dowment fund for these purposes. About 
$40,000 were thus consumed. The growth of 
this fund has, nevertheless, been so constant, 
that the heavy draft upon it was soon more 
than made good. 

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. 

The original college campus included the 
ten acres donated by the citizens, and the 
five acres bought by the conference commit- 
tees. Additional purchases of ground were 



subsequently made at an expense of over .$20,- 
000, until now the campus contains about 
twenty-five acres lying in one continuous tract, 
.besides the ten acres where Monnett Hall 
stands. In addition to these tracts, the Uni- 
versity purchased at a cost of a little more 
than $10,000, what is commonly spoken of as 
"The Barnes Property," where Prof. Davies 
now resides and where the Observatory is lo- 
cated. On the added lot of five acres (al- 
ready referred to), purchased from Judge 
Powell, was a comfortable cottage near the 
street, the home of Mr. Powell. This was 
subsequently occupied by the president of the 
college, or by one of the professors, until 
1856, when it was sold and moved off the 
campus. In the rear of this cottage, and in 
front of the present Sturges Hall, was a row 
of a half-dozen or more summer cottages, 
built for the accommodation of the guests of 
the Mansion House during the watering sea- 
son. In 1855. all these buildings were re- 
moved, leaving the space in front of the Uni- 
versity buildings open for the planting of ad- 
ditional shade trees. 

The College Campus has a diversified 
character, which art has greatly improved. In 
1872, Messrs. Wright and Mast, of the Board 
of Trustees, spent about $5,000 in reconstruct- 
ing the surface, making walks and drives, 
draining and planting. Since that time the 
low ground in the later additions has been 
filled in and regraded. Since i860, more than 
1 ,000 varieties of .domestic or exotic trees and 
shrubs have been planted and properly la- 
beled. 

The college buildings rank among the 
best for architectural beauty and convenience. 
Elliott Hall, formerly "The Old Mansion 
House," was built for visitors seeking the in- 
vigorating climate and the health-giving wa- 
ters of Delaware. It is three stories and a 
half high with a basement. It was of frame, 
lathed and cemented on the outside, but the 
interior was finely finished in walnut and 
tastefully decorated with plaster mouldings. 
The drawing-room and parlors on the first 
floor, and some of the large rooms on the sec- 
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rooms or the professors' studies. The cham- 
bers on the third tioor were let to students, 
until, some years later, they also were needed 
for general purposes. In the basement, the 
old Mansion House dining-room was recon- 
structed into the college chapel, and the large 
kitchen, with its huge fireplace and brick 
oven, became the lecture-room and laboratory 
for the professor of Natural Science. On the 
south side of the main building was a large 
two-story annex, which was let as a boarding 
house to a steward for the accommodation of 
two or three of the faculty and a half-score of 
students who had rooms in the building. In 
the rear of the Mansion House, on the east 
side, were long wide porches, level with the 
first and second floors. 12 and 25 feet from 
the ground. In 1S48, the boarding house 
was discontinued : the cement outside of the 
main building was replaced with a good 
close-jointed covering. The lofty and un- 
safe porches were, torn down, and the annex 
removed to a location near the spring. Here 
it was let to students, and, happily, was soon 
burned down. In 1892, Elliott Hall was re- 
moved to its present location, and placed in 
good repair. It has served educational pur- 
poses well for upward of sixty years, and its 
desirable recitation rooms may be in use for 
at least another half century. The depart- 
ment of physics occupies the first two floors 
of this hall. On the third and fourth floors 
are the rooms of the School of Business. In 
the rear of the building and connecting with 
it is the Engineering Annex, erected during 
the summer of 1905, at a cost of $5,800, 
which was borne by Messrs. David S. Gray 
and William R. Walker, both of Columbus, 
Ohio. It contains the apparatus necessary 
for instruction in the courses in wood and 
metal turning, and in engineering. 

Thompson Chapel. The corner-stone of 
this building was laid on July 26, 185 1. dur- 
ing Commencement Week, and was dedicated 
the following year. Its cost was about $20.- 
000. The structure was in the Doric style 
of architecture, three stories in height, and 
measured 85 by 55 feet. The main audience- 
room, 23 feet high, covered the entire upper 



floor. The capacity of this room was about 
600 sittings, which was then thought the ut- 
most probable need of the institution for 
years to come. The building stood on the 
site of the present library, and was named in 
honor of the first president of the University. 
The Lecture Association of the students in 
1874 contributed $800 toward the furnishing 
■ if the chapel : and by the efforts of the faculty 
and the senior class, a fine organ was installed 
at a cost of $1,600. By this time the audience- 
room had grown too small for ail occasions 
except daily prayers, and as early as 1885, the 
student-body had increased to such proportions 
that it became necessary to excuse a number 
of students from attendance at the daily exer- 
cises for lack of room. From 1889 to 1891. 
the daily chapel services were held in the audi- 
torium of St. Paul's Church. This arrange- 
ment was found inconvenient, and Thomson 
Chapel again came into use. in September, 
1 89 1. but with the prospect of adequate relief 
in the immediate future. 

Sturges Hall. This building is named 
for Mr. William Sturges. of Putnam, Ohio, 
who in 1853. offered the University a liberal 
subscription for a library, on condition that 
within a year a further subscription of $15,- 
000 should be secured for a suitable library 
building. Prof. Merrick undertook the agency 
for this, and raised the amount within a few- 
weeks. The building was finished and dedi- 
cated in 1856. The two lower stories were 
used by the literary societies of the Universitv. 
and the top floor served as library until the 
present Slocum Library was completed. At 
present the Hall contains the Chemical Labora- 
tory, and lecture rooms and private office of 
the Professor of Chemistry. On the second 
floor are located the general collection of speci- 
mens illustrating structural and dynamic geo- 
logy, and the Merrick-Trimble collection of 
minerals. 

Merrick Hall is a substantial edifice, 
three stories high, and built of Delaware blue 
limestone. It contains the lecture-rooms and 
laboratories of the Departments of Geology and 
Zoology, and on the third floor the Museum 
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erection of tin's building" in 1869, but a failure 
of the building fund delayed the completion 
of the building until 1873. Its cost was about 
$40,000, a large portion of which was finally 
taken from the endowment fund. The Hall 
was named for a former president of the insti- 
tution, Dr. Merrick. 

Gray Chapel and University Hall. At 
the session in June. 1890, the Board of 
Trustees ordered the immediate erection of a 
University Hall that should furnish first and 
foremost the much-needed college chapel, and 
also more and better accommodations for the 
academic work of the institution. The corner- 
stone was laid June 18, 1891, and it took two 
years to complete the building. It is a massive 
stone structure, 160 feet long, 150 feet deep, 
and four stories high. The entire pile bears 
the name of University Hall. It includes the 
chapel, now called Gray Chapel, in commemo- 
ration of the noble life of Rev. David Gray, a 
venerable pioneer preacher in Ohio, the father 
of David S. Gray, Esq., of Columbus, Ohio, 
president of the Board of Trustees, who gave 
$27,000 toward the building fund, and through 
whose generosity and leadership the erection 
of the building was so promptly assured. This 
beautiful auditorium seats 2.000 persons, and 
can be enlarged by the opening of the adjacent 
lecture-room for the accommodation of 400 
more. The chapel is octagonal in form, with 
the floor rising from the rostrum with a slight 
incline. The seats are arranged in seven sec- 
tors, with aisles radiating from the pulpit as 
a center. A spacious gallery, with seats placed 
in ascending tiers, extends two-thirds of the 
circumference of the room. The dome in the 
center of the chapel rises to a height of fifty- 
six feet from the floor. It is lit from above by 
clay with beautiful opalescent glass, and by 
night from dome, gallery and walls with hun- 
dreds of incandescent electric lamps. The 
splendid organ was built by the Roosevelts, 
and cost $15,000. 

The University Hall contains, besides the 
chapel, a commodious and well-furnished hall 
for the Young Men's Christian Association, 
capable of seating 500 persons; several lecture- 
rooms, ten recitation-rooms, six society halls, 



the administrative offices, professors' studies, 
ladies' parlors, wide corridors and other needed 
conveniences. The cost of this structure ag- 
gregated $180,000. The building stands on 
the original site of the "Old Mansion House." 

The Slocum Library building bears the 
name of Dr. Charles Elihu Slocum, by whose 
generosity, its erection in 1897 became possible, 
he being the chief contributor to the building- 
fund. The building stands on the site for- 
merly occupied by the Thomson Chapel. It 
is 1 15 by 125 feet in dimensions, built of Bed- 
f< n'd limestone, three stories high. The stack 
room has an estimated capacity for 175,000 
volumes. The reading-room, finely lighted 
from above, is 60 by 100 feet in size. 
In addition to the administrative offices of the 
library, the building contains a series of rooms 
equipped for seminary use, and several class- 
and lecture-rooms. 

The first ten years of the University were 
years of limited outlay. During these years, 
however, the need of a library was not only 
recognized but steps were taken to meet it. 
The agents of the University were authorized 
to solicit books wherever they could and 700 
fairly well chosen volumes were the result of 
their efforts. 

In 1853 Mr. William Sturges of Zanes- 
ville, Ohio, offered to give $10,000 for books 
if the church would build a library building- 
costing $15,000. By this time about 3. OOO 
volumes had been acquired by gift and solicita- 
tion. In a short time after the offer of Mr. 
Sturges. sufficient pledges were secured for 
the erection of a building which was begun in 
1855, and dedicated in 1856. 

Meanwhile, President Thompson visited 
Europe and purchased a valuable library of 
about 3,000 volumes with the money — $6,- 
600 — paid by Mr. Sturges. Contributions 
were also received from Dr. Joseph Trimble 
and William A. Ingham, members of the 
Board of Trustees. After Dr. Ingham's 
death, his widow placed in the library about 
500 of bis private books. The widow of the 
late Dr. Charles Elliott gave the bulk of his 
private library, rich in patriotic and contro- 
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F. Chalfant, of the Cincinnati conference, gave 
his select library, consisting largely of philo- 
sophical books. Benjamin St. James Fry. edi- 
tor of the "Central Christian Advocate," St. 
Louis, Mo., left his library of Methodist 
Church history. Bishop Isaac W. Wiley be- 
queather to the University his library in 
memory of his son. The friends of Rev. John 
X. Irwin. D. D., an alumnus of the class of 
1S70. purchased his library for the University. 
John O. McDowell. M. D., an alumnus and 
trustee of the University, bequeathed his li- 
brary of over 300 volumes as a foundation for 
a medical library. This collection was supple- 
mented by a gift from Mrs. Philip Roettinger, 
of Cincinnati, of about 200 volumes from the 
library of her father. A. C. McChesney. M. D., 
of Cincinnati. John W. King, an alumnus 
and trustee, secured for the library fairly com- 
plete sets of the great English quarterly re- 
views and monthlies. Several of the Univer- 
sity clubs, especially the Delaware Association 
of Alumni, contributed liberally. Numerous 
individuals made special additions of books in 
art, criticism, historical research and English 
literature. Being a depository, the library re- 
ceived copies of all United States Government 
publications as well as Ohio State documents. 
In 1898, the Slocum Library building was 
dedicated, having been completed at a cost of 
about $65,000. 

After the library was removed to this 
building. Dr. M. J. Cramer, ex-consul to 
Germany, bequeathed his library of 5.000 
volumes. John Williams White, Ph. D., pro- 
fessor of Greek in Harvard University, a mem- 
ber of the class of 1868. purchased abroad a 
library of 2,000 volumes, which constituted a 
working library in Greek and Latin. At the 
time of removal into the new building, the 
total number of volumes owned by the library 
was 24.870. The number of accessions by gift. 
exchange, binding and purchase now equals 
55,148. The number of periodicals received 
has been increased three fold now numbering 
about 400. The library is now open seventy- 
three hours per week, an increase of twenty- 
nine hours and the recorded circulation for 
1906-07 was 31.710; which does not take into 

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account the use of 6,500 books and periodicals 
in greatest demand kept on the Open Shelf. 

Of even more importance than this growth 
and increased use of the library, is the steady 
progress made in library administration. The 
introduction of modern library methods has re- 
sulted in a working library well fitted to supply 
the needs of a thousand students. 

Athletics. In 1888 the students took up 
among themselves a subscription of about 
$800 for a gymnasium. The Hon. Charles 
W. Fairbanks, of the class of 1872. added 
$2,000 to this amount. The total cost of the 
building which is located southeast of Elliott 
Hall, was $5,000, the balance being paid from 
the general fund of the University. The gym- 
nasium was equipped with the needful appa- 
ratus, but did not prove as successful or as 
useful as was hoped, for the want of a com- 
petent trainer, who could devote his time to 
this work. The Athletic Association of the 
students was formed in 1890, and has been 
carried on with characteristic interest. The 
University appropriated two acres of ground 
for this purpose, and the Association fenced 
the grounds, graded the surface and erected a 
grandstand for spectators. The cost of these 
improvements borne by the Association was 
about $2,000. 

The John Edwards Gymnasium was named 
for the late Mr. John Edwards, at the time 
of his death a member of the Board of Trustees 
of the University, and whose widow and son 
were the principal contributors to the building 
fund. The Gymnasium cost about $75,000, 
and was opened February 22, 1908. It is a 
rectangular structure 150 by 83 feet, with one 
projecting bay in front and two in the rear, 
to accommodate the stairways — a solid and 
substantial building, the first nine feet of stone, 
the remainder of brick, with stone trimmings, 
and the roof of red tile. In the basement are 
a swimming-pool 50 feet long and 22 feet wide, 
having a water depth of four feet at one end and 
seven feet at the other, the gift of Mr. Z. L. 
White, a trustee of the University, and several 
large courts that can be used for hand-ball, 
bowling alleys and drill rooms for the military 
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. contains the administrative offices of the Di- 
rector of the Gymnasium, a locker room having 
a capacity of 700 lockers, and bath and towel- 
ing rooms. On the third floor is the main 
gymnasium, 150 feet by S3 feet, which is 
equipped with all the necessary apparatus for 
a complete gymnasium. Above it and sus- 
pended from the roof is a running track of 
fifteen laps to the mile. The main floor will 
accommodate banquet tables for 1 ,200 persons, 
and for such occasions there is a fully equipped 
kitchen with 7,000 dishes. 

The athletic field is located east of the 
gymnasium. It is 000 feet long and 400 feet 
wide. There is a quarter-mile oval track and 
a 100-yard straight-away. The field is almost 
level, but is a little higher in the middle. The 
surface water runs to the track and straight- 
away which carry the tile for drainage. The 
grand stand and bleachers are located at the 
west end of the field and have a capacity of 
1. 000. There are also several lawn tennis 
courts. The ticket office and gateway were 
built as a memorial by the class of 1807. The 
grading, fence, grand stand, bleachers and 
gateway cost $11,000. 

Art Hall, formerly the residence of Mr. 
G. W. Campbell, was purchased at a cost of 
$5,000 by Dr. A. J. Lyon and Mrs. Abbie 
Parish, and presented by them to the Univer- 
sitv in 1898. It is devoted to the work of the 
Art Department of the University. 

Hartupee Hall, which was opened in 
1899, was presented to the University by Dr. 
and Mrs. Gaylord H. Hartupee, to be used 
as the home of missionaries' children while 
they are being educated at the University. The 
house and property are maintained by contri- 
butions secured by a Board of Directors, an 
organization in no way connected with the 
University. 

The Perkins Astronomical Observa- 
tory, which occupies an excellent site on the 
old Barnes property, is a handsome building of 
pressed brick, with a frontage of 62 feet. It 
includes a dome for the telescope, a transit 
room, clock room and computing and library 
room. It was built in 1892, and represents 
an investment of over Si 5,000. 



THE CLEVELAND COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND 

SURGEONS MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF 

OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
(Roland E Skeel. M D., Dean.) 

The Cleveland College of Physicians and 
Surgeons was founded in 1863 by Dr. Gustav 
C. E. Weber, who, during the Civil War, was 
surgeon-general of the State of Ohio. It was 
then known as Charity Hospital Medical Col- 
lege, and was the pioneer in providing hos- 
pital and clinical advantages for its'students — 
this feature continues to be one of its chief aims 
for the junior and senior students. 

In 1869 it became the Medical Department 
of the University of Wooster, ami remained 
as such until 1896, when it became affiliated 
with the Ohio Wesleyan University and re- 
ceived its present name. Its graduates hold- 
ing diplomas as Doctors of Medicine from the 
Ohio Wesleyan University, are recognized as 
members of the Ohio Wesleyan Alumni As- 
sociation, with all the rights and privileges 
pertaining to the same. 

More room and better facilities were re- 
quired to properly carry out the teachings 
made necessary in the advancement of labora- 
tory work, and to this end the new building, 
at the corner of Central Avenue and Browned 
Street, in which the College is now established, 
was built, the value being conservatively placed 
at $60,000. It was completed and dedicated 
on November 22, 1900. 

THE OHIO WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE 

MONNETT HALL. 

In the establishment of the University, 
while no provision was made for the education 
of women, there was a felt want that the 
daughters of the church should have the same 
privileges of education as were afforded to the 
sons. The rapid growth and the success of the 
University increased this sense of want, es- 
pecially in the case of families whose sons were 
entered in the University. The first at- 
tempt to supply this demand was made by the 
Rev. William Grissell and wife, who came 
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citizens, Mr. Grissell bought the old Academy 
building in South Delaware and opened a 
ladies' school in September of that year. The 
attendance was encouraging; but, in 1852, Mr. 
Grissell found that he could no longer carry 
on the work with success. At this time the 
idea of a college for ladies was taking hold 
of the public mind, and several meetings of 
citizens who were interested were held in re- 
lation to the matter. Just at this time, in 1852, 
the parish now known as St. Paul's, in South 
Delaware, had been constituted of a small 
colony of about thirty members, mostly from 
William Street Methodist Church, of which 
the late Rev. John Ouiglev was appointed 
pastor. They met for worship in the chapel 
of Mr. Grissell's school: and, in order to re- 
tain their place of worship, and for other local 
reasons, encouraged the movement for a col- 
lege on this site. Accordingly, the property 
was bought from Mr. Grissell. and an or- 
ganization effected under the name of "The 
Delaware Female College." 

But it was felt by many that the location 
for a successful college must be more eligible 
and the accommodations more ample than the 
old Academy and two-fifths of an acre of 
ground could present. To Dr. Ralph Hills is 
due the first suggestion of the homestead of 
the late William Little as the most desirable 
site in Delaware. This suggestion met with 
instant favor, and when it was found that the 
family consented to sell th^ property, an or- 
ganization was at once effected and a subscrip- 
tion was opened to obtain the needed amount. 
The result was that in April. 1853. "The 
Ohio Wesleyan Female College" acquired "a 
local habitation and a nam..." 

Among the incorporators, twenty in num- 
ber, were Dr. Ralph Hills, Prof. William L. 
Harris. James C. Evans, Augustus A. Welch, 
Rev. Joseph Avers, and Prof. William G. 
Williams. 

The property which the incorporators 
bought contained seven acres, to which three 
acres were subsequently added (1867). The 
price paid for the original purchase was $7,- 
000, and for the addition nearlv as much nv >re. 



The property was at once offered to the North 
Ohio Conference, and accepted by that body, 
with the right of perpetuation of the Board 
of Trustees. Subsequently, the Central Ohio 
Conference and the Ohio Conference became 
joint patrons of the school with equal rights. 

In the course of the first year, the necessity 
for more room was felt, and a two-story 
wooden house with chapel and large recita- 
tion rooms was erected as a temporary re- 
lief. This served the purpose for a few years, 
but the continued growth of the school led, 
in 1855, to larger plans. The southern wing 
of a building which was supposed to be large 
enough for the probable wants of the school 
was first erected ; then, after some years, the 
central block and the other wing. 

The means for all this expenditure were 
raised mostly through the labors of agents ap- 
pointed by the patronizing Conferences. Of 
these, the Rev. Joseph Avers, at that time 
presiding elder of the Delaware District, was 
the first ; and a large part of the initial labor 
of founding the school was done by him. By 
indefatigable effort, the means were gradually 
obtained, and the end was at last reached. 
Of the many who contributed to this cause, 
particular mention must be made of Miss 
Mary Monnett. afterwards Mrs. John W. 
Bain, a pupil of the school, who, in 1857, gave 
$10,000 toward the building fund. Her timely 
help made the completion of the building cer- 
tain and immediate ; and in recognition of her 
benefaction, the entire building bears the 
name of "Monnett Hall." 

About 1870 the south wing of this build- 
ing was injured by fire. The roof and the 
upper story were destroyed, and other parts 
deluged with water. But the operations of 
the school were not suspended, and the parts 
burned were immediately replaced, better than 
before. 

The school was always self-supporting, 
and. for most of the time, the tutition and the 
boarding fees not only paid the faculty, but 
yielded some revenue for the general purposes 
of the institution. A scheme for an endow- 
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University, was at one time attempted, but the 
attempt was soon abandoned, and no perma- 
nent fund was ever secured. 

In 1866 certain ladies, mostly alumnae of 
the institution, organized themselves into an 
association to raise a fund for a college library. 
They soon had about $2,000, which sum the 
trustees borrowed for the completion of the 
College buildings, as being just then a more 
pressing want than the acquisition of a library. 
But. in 1869, Mr. William A. Ingham, of 
Cleveland, who had undertaken to fill an al- 
cove in the University library, gave this col- 
lege $1,000 worth of books, in honor of his 
wife, formerly Miss Mary B. Janes, who, 
in 1858-62 had been the teacher of French and 
belles-lettres in the College. In view of this 
donation, the Board ordered the Executive 
Committee to fit up a library and reading-room 
in the central building, and to invest $1,000 
of the ladies' library fund in books. The bal- 
ance of the loan the Board had not repaid 
when the union of the schools took place ; and, 
in view of the large University library, which 
thus became accessible to the ladies, and the 
inability of the Board, the association fore- 
bore the formal collection of the amount. 

The first president of the College was Prof. 
Oran Faville, M. A., of McKendree College, 
Illinois, and Mrs. Maria M. Faville was the 
first preceptress. Their united salary was 
fixed at $1,000. A number of other 
teachers were appointed in the academic and 
musical departments. The first term opened 
August 4, 1853, and the calendar was arranged 
to agree with that of the University. The 
enrollment the first year was 159, and the 
number of pupils attending each year after- 
wards generally largely exceeded 200, and 
sometimes reached 300. In 1 855 President 
Faville's health compelled his resignation and 
he removed to Iowa, of which State he was 
subsequently lieutenant-governor, and com- 
missioner of public instruction. His succes- 
sors were the Rev. James A. Dean, who re- 
mained but a short time, and Rev. Charles D. 
Burritt, who also resigned before the end of 
a year. The Rev. Park S. Donelson, D. D.. 
was elected in 1856, and remained President 



for seventeen years, until 1873, when he re- 
signed to engage in pastoral work. The next 
President, and the last before the union of the 
two institutions, was William Richardson, M. 
A., who had been favorably known in public 
school work, and who, in 1877, resigned to re- 
enter that field. 

The degrees conferred by the institution 
were Mistress of Liberal Arts for those who 
took the classical course, and Mistress of Eng- 
lish Literature for those who took the scien- 
tific course. The classical course embraced 
studies largely the same, at first, as those in 
the University, except Greek. This language, 
too, was finally included as optional, and upon 
the few who took the entire course the degree 
of Eiachelor of Arts was conferred. 

The graduates of the College numbered, 
in 1877, when the union with the University 
took place, over 400. They have long had an 
alumnae organization, and the local graduates 
have, for many years, maintained a literary 
association with monthly re-unions. 

One of the original articles of association, 
adopted in 1853, provided that it at any time 
the union of the two institutions could legally 
be effected, it should be brought alxxit. It 
was not until a quarter of a century had passed 
that the friends of this movement felt strong 
enough to bring to fruition the hope that had 
been entertained by some, at least, of those 
who had participated in the establishment of 
the College. 

In 1877. the Board of the University 
adopted a resolution, that, if the trustees of 
the Female College should discontinue the 
academic work of that school, and transfer the 
property, free from debt, to the trustees of the 
University, they would accept the property, 
and open the University to the ladies, and 
would establish a special course of study of 
high order for ladies, with appropriate degrees 
for the completion of the course. The propo- 
sition was accepted. A debt of about $9,000, 
which had been incurred for additions to the 
campus, was paid by the Ohio Central Con- 
ference from the amount raised for the Uni- 
versity by its agents ; and thus the University 
came into the unincumbered possession of a 





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ART HALL, O. W. U. 





STURGES HALL, 0. \V. U. CHARLES ELIHU SLOCUM LIBRARY, 0. W. U. 

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property worth at least $100,000. had an ad- 
dition of nearly 200 students per annum to its 
enrollment, and ,gained an increase of thirty 
per cent, in its income. There were other 
gains. The union of the schools removed a 
distracting question from the councils of the 
University and the Church, put this large and 
influential school abreast of the sentiment and 
progress of the age, and concentrated upon it- 
self the interest and the benefactions which 
had been diverted to another institution, or 
altogether lost between the conflicting claims 
of the two rival schools. The advantages from 
the union of the schools and from co-education 
of the sexes are so manifest and so great, that, 
in summing up the result, minor inconveniences 
can be patiently adjusted or quietly ignored. 
There has also been a reflex beneficial influ- 
ence on the development of the Ladies' De- 
partment. The expensive tuition fees were at 
once cancelled, as all the ladies were admitted 
to the University on scholarships. The at- 
tendance of ladies rapidly grew to three times 
what it was the year before the union was 
consummated. In 1876 the number of ladies 
was 172; for the five years prior to 1894, it 
ranged from 444 to 537; the enrollment for 
the fall term in 1907 was 502. This number 
is far beyond what the founders of the Female 
College expected in their most sanguine hopes. 
In 1890 the building was enlarged to twice its 
former size, at a cost of over $50,000. The 
old Monnett Hall of the Female College, with 
its two wings and central block, is now, in 
fact, but one of the wings of the new Monnett 
Hall of Ohio Wesleyan University. The 
building as it now stands is 200 feet long, 100 
feet wide, and four stories in height. This 
large building has ample accommodations for 
250 ladies, giving each a separate room or 
suite of rooms. The upper floors are acces- 
sible by several wide stairways, or by an ele- 
vator. The building contains an assembly 
hall or chapel, conservatory of music, reception 
rooms, parlors, library and reading-room well 
supplied with books and periodicals, three halls 
for the ladies' literary societies, and a large. 
light dinine-room. 



The veranda of Monnett Hall was built at 
an expense of $5,000, which was paid by that 
generous friend of the University, Mr. D. S. 
Gray, of Columbus, Ohio. A loggia, or art 
annex, is being constructed. This will add 
fifteen feet to the width of the building for a 
distance of thirty-five feet, and in the space 
thus acquired, numerous works of art will be 
placed. The cost of this improvement will 
be about $2,500, which is being defrayed prin- 
cipally by Mrs. Anna Clason. There are now 
about 3.000 volumes in Monnett library. At 
the beginning of the fall term of 1907, there 
were 502 young ladies enrolled at Monnett 
Hall ; of this number 260 reside at the Hall, 
besides officers, teachers and help. For the 
first six years, until 1883, Dr. W. F. Whitlock 
was Dean of Monnett Hall ; since that date 
Dr. C. B. Austin has filled the office. 

RESULTS ACCOMPLISHED. 

A brief glance at the results actually ac-. 
complished by the University will be of inter- 
est. Unfortunately, the statistics have not 
been collated to date and we shall therefore 
have to content ourselves with a quotation 
from "Fifty Years of History," which brings 
the figures down to 1894. 

"Two thousand one hundred and eighty- 
six students have been graduated. About 
seven times that number have drunk at the 
same fountain for a longer or shorter period, 
in the earlier history of the institution the 
relative number of those not graduated was 
much larger than in recent years. 

"Three hundred and seventy-seven gradu- 
ates have been ministers of the Gospel, and 
six thousand five hundred years of service 
already stand to their credit. * * * Af- 
ter the war many of the graduates began to 
seek professional training in the leading uni- 
versities of this country and of Europe, and 
have secured the degrees of M. A. and Ph. D. 
from them. More than one hundred have 
taken a full post-graduate course in law and 
received the degree of LL. B.. and are in the 
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States of the Union. The same is true of the 
medical profession. Some sixty of the gradu- 
ates have become college presidents, about 
three times this number college professors, 
and a still larger number have been instructors 
in academies and the public schools. Dr. Nel- 
son estimates six thousand years of service in 
the work of teaching. * * * He also says 
that one hundred and forty-six homes have 
been built up in which both husband and wife 
are alumni of this institution ; that sixty of the 
University's grandchildren have been gradu- 
ated ; and that great-grandchildren have al- 
ready been enrolled. 

"The statistics make clear what has long 
been the pride of trustees, faculty and friends 
— a prevailing missionary spirit. Sixty-four 
graduates and fifteen undergraduates have 
gone to the ends of the earth in the holy 
and heroic crusade of missionary work. They 
are in every mission field of the Church, save 
Africa. Such men as Drs. Nathan. Sites and 
H. H. Lowry in China; T. J. Scott and Wil- 
liam A. Mansell, in India ; J. F. Thomson and 
Charles W. Drees, in South America, will 
indicate the cast and the efficiency of the 
workers sent forth." 

The enrollment of students in the Univer- 
sity for the first year was one hundred and 
ten and gradually increased until in 1850 it 
numbered two hundred and fifty-seven. The 
next year showed 506 names. This sudden in- 
crease was due to the system of cheap scholar- 
ships put into successful operation that year 
by the Board of Trustees. Since 1851 the 
attendance has always been large. Only once, 
in 1863. the dark year of the war. has the 
aggregate fallen as low as 300; and up to the 
union of the two schools it usually exceeded 
400. After that event, the enrollment sprang 
at once to more than 600 and in two years went 
up to nearly a 1,000. The University has ma- 
triculated upwards of 26,000 students. The 
enrollment in the departments at Delaware, 
but not including in this statement the Medical 
College at Cleveland, is as follows for the past 
fourteen years: 1894, 785; 1895, 8 4 8 ; 1896, 
763; 1897, 736; 1898, 775; 1899. -~2\ 1900. 
757; 1901, 802; 1902, 800; 1903, 886; 1904, 



905; 1905, 914:1906, 921; 1907, 1,003. 
The most cordial relations have always 
existed between the University and the citi- 
zens. No invidious class words are known 
here such as, in the University towns of the 
Old World, mark the antagonisms between the 
university and the people — "Gown and town;" 
"College and Philistines." Living as most of 
the students do, in the families of the citizens, 
intermingling in the same circles, attending 
the same churches, members of the same po- 
litical or other organizations, many of the stu- 
dents coming from the families of the town 
and many of the students from other places 
finally intermarrying with the families here, 
there has been no possibility, as there has been 
no occasion, for antipathy between them. 

SUMMARY OF DEPARTMENTS WITH ROS- 
TER OF OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRA- 
TION AND OF INSTRUCTION. 

The College of Liberal Arts, established in 1S4.4. 

The Academic Department, established in 1841. 

The School of Music, established in 1877. 

The School of Fine Arts, established in 1877. 

The School of Oratory, established in 1894. 

The School of Business, established in 1895. 

The College of Medicine (Cleveland College of 
Physicians and Surgeons), founded in 1863, incorpor- 
ated with the University in 1896. 

OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION. 

Herbert Welch, D. D. LL. D., president. 

Professor William Francis Whitlock, D. D., LL. D., 
vice-president ; Dean of Men. 

Professor Cyrus Brooks Austin, D. D., Dean of 
Women ; Dean of Summer Session. 

Professor Mary Wheeler Newberry, M. A., Asso- 
ciate Dean of Women. 

Professor John Henry Grove, M. A., Principal of 
the Academic Department. 

Professor William Emory Smyser, M. A„ Registrar. 

Assistant Professor Russell Benjamin Miller, B. D., 
Ph. D., Librarian. 

Professor Lewis Gardner Westgate, Ph. D., Curator 
of Cabinets ; Secretary of the Faculty. 

Professor William Garfield Hornell, Ph. D., Superin- 
tendent of Buildings and Grounds. 

Katharina Christiana Schock, B. L., Assistant Li- 
brarian. 

Helen Isabel Albright, B. L., Cataloguer. 

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Louise Christine Schrote, Reference Librarian. 

James Harvard Denney, Reading Room Attendant. 

Ethel Stout, B. L, Secretary to the President. 

Sarah Irene Disney, B. A., Secretary to the Regis- 
trar. 

Marie Antoinette Disney, B. L., Secretary to the 
Registrar. 

FINANCIAL OFFICERS. 

Sue Clippinger, Auditor; 2~\ North Sandusky 
Street. 

James Crawford Roberts, M. A., B. D., Financial 
Secretary, 175 North Liberty Street. 

Darius Lyman Edwards, M. A., Field Agent, 16 
West Fountain Avenue. 

Lemuel Dyer Lilly, M. A., Land and Loan Agent, 
New Hayden Building, Columbus, Ohio. 

Rev. Aaron Jackson Lyon, D. D., Financial Agent, 
North Ohio Conference. 

Rev. Isaac Fenton King, D. D., Financial Agent, 
Ohio Conference, Columbus, Ohio. 

OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION. 

College of Liberal Arts and Academic Department. 

William Francis Whitlock, D. D., LL D., Brown 
Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. 

Rev. Hiram Mills Perkins, M. A., LL. D., Emeritus 
Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. 

Jchn Henry Grove, M. A., Professor of Latin. 

Rev. Richard Parsons, M. A.. Wright Professor of 
the Greek Language and Literature. 

Cyrus Brooks Austin, M. A., D. D., Parrott Pro- 
fessor of Mathematics and Astronomy. 

Rev. William Walter Davies. M. A., B. D.. Ph. D., 
Professor of German and Hebrew. 

Robert Irving Fulton, M. A., Professor of Elocution 
and Oratory. 

♦Richard Taylor Stevenson, B. D., Ph. D., James 
S. Britton Professor of American History 

William Garfield Hormell, Ph. D., Professor of 
Physics. 

Clara Albertine Nelson, M. A., Professor of French. 

Trumbull Gillette Duvall, B. D, Ph. D., Professor 
of Philosophy, and Amrine Professor of Christian Evi- 
dences. 

Edward Loranus Rice, Ph. D., Professor of Zoology. 

Rollin Hough Walker, M. A., S. T. B., Ph. D., Eliza 
Meharry Jeffers Professor of the English Bible. 

Lewis Gardner Westgate, Ph. D., Professor of Ge- 
ology. 

William Emory Smyser, M. A., Dr. Benjamin F. 
Cessna Professor of the English Language and Lit- 
erature. 



*Absent on leave. 



Mary Wheeler Newberry, M. A., Professor of 
English. 

George Oswin Higley, Ph. D., Professor of Chem- 
istry. 

Benjamin Lincoln McElroy, B. D., Ph. D., Morris 
Sharp Professor of Theology. 

William Henry Menges, First Lieutenant. Coast 
Artillery Corps, U. S. Army, Professor of Military 
Tactics. 

George Gorham Groat, M. Pd., Ph. D., Associate 
Professor of Economics on the Homer E. White 
Foundation. 

Gordon Nelson Armstrong, M. A., Associate Pri 1- 
fessor of Mathematics. 

*Grace Stanley. M. A., Assistant Professor of Latin. 
Emma Louise Konantz, M. A., Assistant Professor 
of Mathematics. 

Russell Benjamin Miller, B. D., Ph. D., Assistant 
Professor of Greek, and Acting Chrisman Professor 
of Biblical Literature. 

Wesley Branch Rickey, B. L. Director of Athletics. 
John. Wesley Page, B. A.. Director of Gymnasium. 
William Henry Siebert, M. A., Professor of Euro- 
pean History, Ohio State University, Lecturer in 
History. 

Edmund Daniel Lyon, M. A., Principal of Wood- 
ward High School. Cincinnati, Ohio, Lecturer in 
Pedagogy (Summer Session, 1907). 

Mary Elizabeth Davies, Instructor in German. 
Evelyn May Albright, M. A., Instructor in English. 
Nathaniel Waring Barnes, M. A., Instructor in 
English (Summer Session, 1907). 

Sarah Cory Cantwell, B. A., Instructor in Greek. 
Charles Wellington Edwards, John W. Richard- 
son Instructor in Engineering. 

Theodora Louise Blakeslee, B. L., Instructor in 
French. 

Allen Anders Seipt. Ph. D., Instructor in German. 
William Rader Westhafer, B. A., Instructor in 
Mathematics (Summer Session, 1907). 

Robert Pelton Sibley, M. A., Instructor in English. 
Russell Hissey Erwine, B. L, Instructor in History. 
George Norton Thurston, B. S., Instructor in 
Physics. 

George Richard Kingham, B. A., Instructor in 
Philosophy. 

Harriet Pyne Grove, B. L., Instructor in Latin. 
Homer Calvin Bayliss, Instructor in Engineering. 
Daniel Abraham Ferree. Instructor in Mathematics. 
Edith Salmans, Instructor in Spanish. 
Jason McVay Austin, Major of Cadet Battalion. 
Murray Thurston Titus, Leader of Cadet Band. 

SCHOOL OF MUSIC. 
Charles M. Jacobus, Director, Instructor in Piano 
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*Isabel Thomas, Instructor in Piano and History 
of Music. 

Clara Faville Williams, B. A., Instructor in Voice. 

Edith Emma Bratton, Instructor in Violin. 

Emma Adele Crane, Instructor in Harmony, Coun- 
terpoint, and Piano. 

Edward Young Mason. Instructor in Organ and 
Piano. 

Jessie Wilma Pontius, Instructor in Piano and 
History of Music. 

John Adam Bendinger, Instructor in Voice and 
Vocal Sight-Reading. 

Harry Nelson Wiley, Instructor in Piano. 

SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS. 

Sallie Thompson Humphreys, Director, Instructor 
in Decorative Design, Oil and China Painting. 

Mary Bertha Purdum, Instructor in Antique Draw- 
ing and Water Color Painting. 

SCHOOL OF ORATORY. 

Robert Irving Fulton, M. A., Dean, Professor of 
Elocution and Oratory. 

Lucy Dean Jenkins, M. A.. Instructor in Elocu- 
tion, Oratory, and Physical Culture. 

Pearl Myers Leas, B. L, Instructor in Elocution 
and Oratory. 

Thomas Clarkson Trueblood, M. A., (Professor of 
Oratory, University of Michigan.) Lecturer and In- 
terpretative Reader, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS. 

Lycurgus Leonidas Hudson, M. A., Principal, In- 
structor in Accounting, Banking, and Business Prac- 
tice. 

Estella May Hutchisson, B. A., Instructor in Short- 
hand, Typewriting and Correspondence. 

Harry Wicklifife Crist, B. A., Instructor in Com- 
mercial Law. 

Harry Pudens Greemvall, Assistant in Business 
and Ornamental Penmanship. 

Frank Decatur Steger, Assistant in Commercial 
Arithmetic. 

George Clausing, Assistant in Advertising. 

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. 
(Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons) 
Cleveland, Ohm. t 

Roland Edward Skeel, M. D., Dean, Professor of 
Obstetrics. 

Clyde Ellsworth Cotton, M. D.. Emeritus Profes- 
sor of Anatomy, Black Mountain, N. C. 

Charles Franklin Dutton, M. D.. Emeritus Pro- 
fessor of Medicine and Clinical Medicine. 
*Absent on leave 



Henry Warren Rogers, M. D., Emeritus Profes- 
sor of Medical Diagnosis and Clinical Medicine. 

Marcus Rosenwasser, M. D., Professor of Dis- 
eases of Women. 

Albert Rufus Baker, M. D., Professor of Ophthal- 
mology. 

Daniel Buttrick Smith, M. A., M. D.. Professor of 
Ophthalmology. 

Charles Barnsdall Parker, M. A., M. D., M. R. C. 
S., Professor of Clinical Surgery. 

Samuel Walter Kelley, M. D., Professor of Dis- 
eases of Children. 

Joseph F'ranklin Hobson, M. D., Treasurer, Pro- 
fessor of Principles of Surgery. 

Henry Ebenezer Handerson, M. A., M. D.. Pro- 
fessor of Hygiene and Sanitary Science. 

John George Spenzer, Ph. D., M. D„ F. C. S., Pro- 
fessor of General and Medical Chemistry and Phar- 
macology. 

John Bernard McGee, M. D., Secretary, Professor 
of Therapeutics. 

Robert Pollock, M. D., Professor of Materia 
Medica. 

Thomas Charles Martin. Ph. D., M. D., Professor 
of Proctology. 

Edson Burton Bauder, M. A., LL. B., Professor 
of Medical Ethics. 

Robert Gilcrest Schnee, M. D., Professor of Bac- 
teriology and Pathology. 

Charles John Aldrich, M. D., Professor of Neur- 
ology. 

Morris Daniel Stepp, M. D., Professor of Opera- 
tive Surgery. 

Arthur Julius Skeel, M. D., Professor of Anatomy 
and Lecturer on Obstetrics. 

Milton Jay Lichty, Ph. B., M. D.. Registrar, Pro- 
fessor of Medicine. 

John Nicholas Lenker, M. D., Professor of Otology, 
Rhinology and Laryngology.' 

Martin Friedrich, M. D., Professor of Medicine. 

Benjamin Franklin Hambleton, B. S.. M. D., Pro- 
fessor of Physiology. 

Alfred Clum, LL. M„ Professor of Medical Juris- 
prudence. 

Nathan Weidenthal. B. A.. M. D., Associate Pro- 
fessor of Diseases of Children. 

Charles Given Foote, M. D., Associate Professor 
of Genito-Urinary Diseases and Lecturer on Surgery. 

Frederick Yingling Allen, M. D., Associate Pro- 
fessor of Histology. 

George Seeley Smith. M. A., M. D., Associate Pro- 
fessor of Medicine. 

Augustus Farlin House, M. D., Associate Professor 
of Clinical Surgery. 



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LECTURERS AND ASSISTANTS. 

Edward Lauder, M. D., C. M., Lecturer on Ophthal- 
mology. 

Lillian Gertrude Towslee, M. D., Lecturer on Dis- 
eases of Women. 

Norman Cary Yarian, B. L., M. D., Lecturer on 
Medicine. 

Adolph Steiner, M. D., Lecturer on Rhinology, 
Otology and Laryngolgy. 

Adams Bailey Howard, M. D., Clinical Lecturer 
on Mental Diseases. 

Harry Bertolette Kurtz, M. D., Lecturer on Der- 
matology and Venereal Diseases. 

Henry O. Feiss, B. A., M. D., Lecturer on Ortho- 
pedic Surgery. 

Joseph Charles Placak. M. D., Lecturer on Path- 
ology. 

Ralph Kinsey Updegraff, M. D., Lecturer on Physi- 
cal Diagnosis. 

Julius Goldfinger, M. D., Lecturer on Obstetrics. 

Harry J. Stoll, M. D., Lecturer on Surgery. 

Edward Patrick Monaghan, M. D., Lecturer on 
Osteolcgy. 

Frederick William Linn, M. D., Instructor in 
Physiology. 

Henry Charles Crumrine, M. D., Instructor in Com- 
parative Anatomy and Embryology. 

Frank Roth, M. D.. Instructor in Medicine. 

Homer John Hartzell, M. A., M. D., Instructor in 
Diseases of Children and Assistant in Chemistry. 

Willis Theodore Parsons, M. D., Instructor in Dis- 
eases of Women. 

Clyde Ellsworth Ford, M. D., Instructor in Sur- 
gery. 

Edwin Alan Hannum, M. D., Instructor in Electro- 
Therapeutics. 

Asa Fleming Voak, M. D., Instructor in Materia 
Medica. 

Israel Biskind, M. D.. Assistant in Diseases of 
Women. 

Alexander William Lueke, M. D., Assistant Dem- 
onstrator of Anatomy. 

Sherman Eldon Carlton, M. D., Assistant in Dis- 
eases of Children. 

Herbert Leslie Plannette. M. D., Assistant in His- 
tology. 

Warner Hoskins Tuckerman, M. D., Assistant in 
Ear, Nose and Troat. 

Walter Ball Laffer, M. D., Assistant in Mental and 
Nervous Diseases. 

Pearl Aaron Hahn, M. D.. Assistant in Dermat- 
ology. 

Cora Sechrist, M. D., Assistant in Ophthalmology. 

Julius Moses Rogoff. Assistant Demonstrator in 
Physiology. 



EXTRAMURAL TEACHERS. 

John Vincent Gallagher, M. D., Lecturer on Sur- 
gery at St. Alexis Hospital. 

Thomas Joseph Calkins, A. M., M. D., Lecturer on 
Medicine at St. Alexis Hospital. 

Milton Jay Parke, B. S., M. D., Lecturer on Medi- 
cine at St. John's Hospital. 

Augustus Farlin House, M. D.. Lecturer on Sur- 
gery at St. Clair Hospital. 

J. Arthur Jones, M. D., Lecturer on Medicine at 
St. Clair Hospital. 

Frank A. Stovering. M. D., Instructor in Surgery 
at St. John's Hospital. 

Walter Gustav Stern, B. S., M. D., Instructor in 
Orthopedic Surgery at Mt. Sinai Hospital. 

Grace Dean Outland, Assistant Secretary. 

THE OHIO WESLEYAN TRANSCRIPT. 

The official publication of the students of 
the University is the Ohio Wesleyam Tran- 
script, a sixteen-page paper that is issued 
weekly during the academic year by a board 
of editors appointed after a competition. Its 
publication is vested in a permanent organiza- 
tion, consisting of the junior and senior mem- 
bers of the editorial staff in any single year and 
three representatives of the Faculty. This 
board administers the business affairs of the 
paper, passes on the work submitted by the 
candidates for vacancies on the editorial staff, 
and makes appointments to the staff. The edi- 
torial conduct of the paper is entirely in the 
hands of an editor-in-chief and his associates, 
who are responsible for its policy, and for the 
various departments, local, athletic, exchange, 
literary, and Monnett, which comprise the 
paper. 

The Transcript was established in 1866 by 
Joseph B. Battelle. of the class of 1868. under 
the name of The Western Collegian; in 1873 
the name was changed to The College Tran- 
script. In 1874 the ladies of the senior class 
at Monnett were admitted to a representation 
on the editorial corps. In 1902. when the 
present method of competitive appointment 
was adopted, the name was changed to The 
Ohio Wesleyan Transcript. In 1888 Wilbur 
F. Copeland. of the class of 1889, started 
The Practical Student, a weeklv that for ten 



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years was a contemporary and a vigorous 
rival of the Transcript. 

We give below brief sketches of the five 
distinguished men who have filled the office 
of President of the University. 

1. The Rev. Edward Thomson, M. D., D. 
D., LL. D. He was torn in 1810, at Portsea, 
England ; but by growth and education he was 
an American. His home from early youth 
was at Wooster, Ohio. He received a good 
classical training, and afterward graduated in 
medicine at Philadelphia. In 1832 he entered 
the ministry, in the Ohio Conference of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, anil at once be- 
came noted for his ability as a preacher and a 
writer. In 1838 he was chosen principal of 
the Norwalk Seminary, the first Methodist 
school in the State of Ohio. His success here 
established his reputation as an educator, and 
pointed him out as the fittest man for the 
presidency of the University, to which po- 
sition he was elected first in 1842, and again in 
1844. In the spring of the last named year, 
he was elected editor of the Ladies' Repository 
in Cincinnati, but resigned this office after 
two years' service, to assume the active duties 
of his position at Delaware. For fourteen 
years he filled and graced this office. No 
college president in the Church has shown 
larger administrative abilities, or won a more 
enviable place in the affections and admiration 
Mt' College and Church alike. In i860 he was 
called by the General Conference to edit the 
Christian Advocate, in New York; and again, 
in j 864, to the higher office of bishop in the 
Church. He died suddenly in Wheeling, W. 
\'a.. March 22, 1870. 

President Thomson taught but little dur- 
ing his connection with the University. He 
usually had the senior class in one study, but 
he found his happiest field of instruction and 
influence in the Sunday lectures before the 
University. It was here that he made his won- 
derful power felt, and left the lasting impress 
of his thoughts and spirit on his rapt listeners. 
His lectures, whether written or extemporized, 
were models of sacred eloquence, worthy of any 
audience for their depth, beauty and fervor. 
Bishop Thomson's publications are numerous, 



and his literary remains yet in manuscript are 
very extensive. 

2. The Rev. Frederick Merrick, M. A. 
He was born January 29, 18 10, a native of 
Massachusetts, and was educated at the Wes- 
leyan University, Conn. In 1836 he became 
principal of Amenia Seminary, New York, 
and in 1838, professor of Natural Science in 
Ohio University, Athens, and member of the 
Ohio Conference. For one year, 1842-43, he 
was pastor of the Methodist Church in Mari- 
etta. In 1843 tne Conference appointed him 
financial agent of Ohio Wesleyan University, 
to which institution he thereafter devoted his 
life for fifty-one years. 

In 1845 he was elected professor of Nat- 
ural Sciences, and was made acting president 
for the year, until Dr. Thomson entered upon 
duty. In 185 1 he was transferred to the chair 
of Moral Philosophy; and, on the resignation 
of President Thomson, in i860, he was chosen 
as his successor. He held the office for thirteen 
years; and then, in 1873, m view of failing 
strength, he resigned the presidency, and was 
appointed lecturer on Natural and Revealed 
Religion. This relation to the college he sus- 
tained for twenty-one years, until his death. 
In addition to his other duties, President Mer- 
rick was auditor of the University for nearly 
forty years, and often acted as its agent in 
raising the endowment, or in getting funds for 
improvements upon the buildings and grounds. 
He died March 5, 1894. 

President Merrick's life as an educator 
was one of marked excellence and influence. 
His interest in young people and his sympathy 
with them in their work were unbounded. As 
a teacher, his enthusiasm and devotion knew 
no limit. As a man of affairs, he possessed 
rare foresight, wisdom, and efficiency. His 
consecration, self-sacrifice, and generosity to 
the institution of which he was so great a 
part were complete. By his Christian zeal, 
earnest appeals, spiritual leadership and 
saintly character, he moved multitudes to a 
Christian life, and by the cultivation of a 
missionary spirit among the students, his in- 
fluence has been felt to the ends of the earth, 
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Ani<mg- all who knew him his presence was felt 
as a benediction, and the example of his daily 
life as an inspiration to a stronger Christian 
manhood. And the wise provision which he 
made in the "Merrick Lectures before the 
University" for the stated inculcation of relig- 
ious principles and practice, will perpetuate his 
influence in the University, the Church and the 
world. 

After President Merrick's resignation, the 
Rev. Fales Newhall, D. D., of Boston, was 
elected to the presidency; but. from prostra- 
tion induced by intense and continued literary 
work, he was unable to enter upon his duty, 
and resigned his office the following" year. Dr. 
Newhall died April 6, 1883. The University 
meanwhile, and until the accession of his suc- 
cessor, was for three years successfully ad- 
ministered by Prof. McCabe, the senior and 
vice-president of the University. 

3. The Rev. Charles H. Payne, D. D., 
LL. D. President Payne was born at Taun- 
ton, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1856 at 
Wesleyan University, Middletown. Connecti- 
cut. He taught several terms in his early 
years, and was tutor for six months after 
graduation, but spent most of his life in the 
ministry. A vigorous thinker, an accomplished 
speaker and writer, and a devoted pastor, he 
served some of the leading Methodist churches 
in Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. It 
was from this last city that he was called to 
the presidency of the University in 1875. He 
took his seat the following year. His admini- 
stration began in the gloomiest days of finan- 
cial depression ; but the growth of the Uni- 
versity during his administration was rapid 
and great. A quickened interest for the Uni- 
versity was felt throughout the Church ; the 
patronizing Conferences were stimulated to 
renewed efforts for the endowment ; the school 
was advertised on a much more liberal scale 
than before; the area of its patronage greatly 
enlarged ; and, not least, the University and 
the Female College were united. As the re- 
sult of all these influences, both the enroll- 
ment and the income of the University were 
doubled in a few years, and the endowment was 
largely increased. Dr. Payne was always 



alert for the interests of the University. It 
was during his administration that the beauti- 
ful President's House was built, in 1885 (on 
a lot given by Mr. Mast ) , at a cost of $10,000. 
Dr. Payne remained president for thirteen 
years, until his election by the General Con- 
ference to the office of corresponding secre- 
tary of the Board of Education. 

4. The Rev. James W. Bashford. Ph. D., 
D. D., was born in Wisconsin. He graduated 
at the University of Wisconsin in 1873, and 
was elected tutor in Greek. He took post- 
graduate courses in Boston University, in 
theology, oratory and philosophy, completing 
these courses in 1879. In 1880, and again 
in 1887, Dr. and Mrs. Bashford spent many 
months abroad, traveling and visiting the Ger- 
man universities. His pastoral work began 
while he was a student in the School of The- 
ology ; and he here revealed the characteris- 
tics that were to make his ministry so marked 
a success. He subsequently filled leading pas- 
torates in Portland and Buffalo. He declined 
repeated invitations to professorships and to 
the presidency of colleges, but in 1889 accepted 
his election to the presidency of Ohio Wes- 
leyan University as a call from God. 

President Bashford's genial personal 
qualities, and his remarkable ability and ver- 
satility in the class-room, in the religious cul- 
ture of the students, and in the management 
of affairs, gave him a strong hold on the Uni- 
versity. During his administration, the 
growth of the school was rapid, constant and 
gratifying. Its scholastic, religious and ma- 
terial interests were never more promising. 
The courses of study were reconstructed, the 
work better digested and distributed, the fa- 
culty strengthened, the enrollment of students 
greatly increased, the buildings doubled in ex- 
tent and convenience, and the endowment in- 
creased one-third. Dr. Bashford resigned on 
June 14, 1904. During the interregnum, Dr. 
William F. Whitlock served as acting-presi- 
dent. 

5. Rev. Herbert Welch. D. D.. LL. D., 
was installed as president of the University 
on June 21 1905. Dr. Welch was born in 



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New York City, November 4, 1862, where his 
father, Peter A. Welch, was engaged in busi- 
ness as a merchant. He was graduated from 
the New York grammar schools, with the 
Girard medal, in 1877. He subsequently en- 
tered Brooklyn College and Polytechnic In- 
stitute and was graduated therefrom in 1880 
with a diploma for proficiency in the scientific 
course. He then spent two years in classical 
study and in 1882 entered the Wesleyan Uni- 
versity at Middletown, Conn., where he con- 
tinued as a student for several years, being 
graduated in 1887 with the degree of B. A. 
He was out of college, however, in 1884 and 
1885. In 1890, after a three years' course he 
was graduated from the Drew Theological 
Seminary with the degree of B. D.. and in the 
same year obtained his M. A. degree from 
Wesleyan University. He received that of 
D. D. from the same college in 1902, and 
that of LL. D. in 1906. In 1902-03 he was a 
student in Oxford University, England. 



After his graduation from Drew Semin- 
ary Dr. Welch filled successively various pas- 
torates in the New York Conference and af- 
terwards in the New York East Conference; 
he was pastor of the First Church at Middle - 
town, Conn., in 1898- 1902, and pastor of the 
Chester Hill Church. Mt. Vernon, N. Y., 
1903-1905. In the year last mentioned he 
accepted and entered upon the duties of his 
present position as president of the Ohio Wes- 
leyan University at Delaware. His services 
in this capacity have been eminently satisfac- 
tory. Dr. Welch is the author of various 
scholarly contributions to religious literature 
and is active in promoting various educational, 
missionary and other religious and philan- 
thropic enterprises. Several years of his life 
have been spent in travel in the United States, 
Canada and Europe. He was married in 
1 891 to Adelaide F. McGee, of Plainfield, 
New Jersey, and has two children — both 
daughters. 



CHAPTER. XIII. 



RELIGIOUS OR CHVRCH HISTORY OF DELAWARE COVNTY. 

First Churches and Pioneer Ministers — General History of Religious Organizations 

Churches and Clergy of Today. 



"Ye pioneers, it is to you 
Our debt of gratitude is due ; 
Ye builded better than ye knew 

The broad foundations 
On which the superstructure stands ; 
With noble aim and willing hands. 
Your earnest labor still commands 
Our veneration." 

It is highly commendable to the early set- 
tlers of this county that the teachings of the 
Christian religion were felt in every settle- 
ment. What a lesson to the ministers of the 
present day, with their beautiful churches and 
good salaries, as they look back on the toil 
of those early men who labored with little 
compensation, traveling through the forests, 
with no blazed path, with no companion, but 
the faithful horse they rode, visiting the scat- 
tered settlers in their log cabins and planting 
the Cross of the Christ, as the symbol of the 
redemption of men. 

It is not possible to state, certainly, who 
was the first minister to visit and preach the 
first sermon in the bounds of Delaware County. 
But, as far as known, it was Rev. Joseph S. 
Hughs, who came from Washington, Pennsyl- 
vania, in 1810. 

Rev. Hughs was a Presbyterian minister. 
He possessed a liberal education, oratorical 
power of superior order, and, naturally, a pleas- 
ant and persuasive voice. He had the repu- 
tation of being one of the most effective 
speakers known to the old settlers. He ex- 
celled iri the social circle, and had a great love 



for festivity and amusement. An incident il- 
lustrating this is reported in Howe's Historical 
Collections of Ohio, but as often is the case, 
Mrs. Rev. C. H. Perkins, who remembers him 
well, says the incident related there is over- 
drawn, and in part not correct. Mrs. Per- 
kins is still living at this date, 1908. It was the 
custom at that time to call ministers to ac- 
count strictly for their conduct, and he was at 
one time called before his Presbytery, and 
made his own defense and was completely 
vindicated. He organized the Liberty, Dela- 
ware and Radnor (now Radnor Thompson) 
Presbyterian churches, the first organized 
churches in the country. Rev. Hughs con- 
tinued to supply these churches, and do much 
pioneer work in all parts of the county unt'l 
the fall of 1823. with the exception of a few 
months during the War of 18 12, when he 
was chaplain. He was with Gen. Hull when 
the latter surrendered at Detroit, and returned 
to Delaware after that event. About the same 
time that Rev. Hughs came, a Baptist minister 
by the name of Jacob Drake came, and was 
active in the early work connected with that 
denomination, and many of the early societies 
took their origin from his work. Revs. Hughs 
and Drake established the first paper ever pub- 
lished in the county, and the Delaware Gazette 
is the continuance of that paper. His salary 
being small, he also served as clerk of court 
and recorder for many years. In the fall of 
1823. there was an epidemic of fever and Rev. 
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in the old graveyard, east of O. W. U., and 
near the Odevene Spring. At the time of the 
removal of the old cemetery, his remains were 
removed by his grandson. Dr. D. E. Hughs, 
to Oak Grove Cemetery, on the lot of Dr. 
Hughs. The grave of Rev. Hughs had not 
been marked, but the remains, which had been 
buried in a walnut coffin, were so preserved 
at the time of removal, 1900, that they were 
identified. Rev. Hughs was a brother-in-law 
of Moses Bixby, the founder of Delaware. 

Having noticed the pioneer beginning of 
the early Christian work of Delaware County, 
we will gather the history of the churches by 
towns and townships. 

THE CHURCHES OF DELAWARE. 

DELAWARE PRESBYTERIAN. 

This church was organized under the la- 
bors of Rev. J. S. Hughs, a licentiate, with 
fourteen members. In connection with this 
church, the Liberty Presbyterian Church, and 
what is now the Radnor Thompson Church, 
were organized, and for many years all three 
were under the care of a joint session. Rev. 
Hughs was ordained in 181 1. and was stated 
supply of these churches until his death in 
1823, except during the short time he was ab- 
sent as chaplain in the War of 181 2. Rev. 
Henry Vandeman became pastor in 1824, and 
continued until 1838. During this time a stone 
edifice was erected. Alexander Anderson, the 
two Ferrises and Robert Brown were well 
known elders. The membership in 1837 was 

215- 

At this time the controversy between Old 
School and Xew School ran high, and culmi- 
nated in the division of the Presbyterian 
Church at Philadelphia in the spring of 1838. 
Rev. Vandeman attended that General As- 
sembly, and voted with the New School party. 
The Delaware church voted by a majority to 
go into the New School body. A part of the 
congregation separated themselves, and united 
with the Old School body. Both parties re- 
tained the name of Marion Presbytery, so that 
there were two Marion Presbyteries. Rev. 



Vandeman continued pastor of the New 
School branch. The Old School was vacant, 
only having occasional supplies from 1838 to 
1 84 1. Rev. John Pitkin served as stated sup- 
ply from 1 84 1 to 1845 inclusive. In April, 
1848. Rev. Vandeman and his congregation 
made the request and were received by the Old 
School Presbytery, and the two congregations 
were again united. Rev. Vandeman continued 
pastor of this church until i860. A large 
brick church, the audience room of the present 
church, was erected. In 1841 a great revival 
occurred in Delaware, and on the part of many 
dissatisfaction took place with the ways and 
activities of the old church. On November 
8th, fifty-four members withdrew from the first 
church and were organized by a committee 
from the New School body, consisting of Revs. 
Franklin Putnam, Henry Shedd, and Henry T. 
Hitchcock, as the Second Presbyterian Church 
of Delaware. The Second Church soon after 
its organization erected a frame building be- 
tween Franklin and Sandusky Streets, on the 
south side of Winter Street, and at the time 
of organization David McCullough, John Mc- 
Elroy and Manly Covell were chosen elders. 
Franklin Putnam was stated supply from 1842 
to 1845. Joseph Tuttle, afterwards president 
of Wabash College for many years, was pas- 
tor from 1846 to 1847; Charles W. Toprey, 
stated supply from 1848 to 1850; Gideon 
Dane, stated supply from 1851 to 1852; 
Charles H. Delong, pastor from 1852 to 1855. 
Rev. H. Newton, who afterwards became 
chaplain at the Ohio Penitentiary, and died at 
Mt. Vernon, August, 1878, was pastor from 
1856 to 1865. The membership in i860 was 
257. Calvin W. Mateer supplied the First 
Church from 1861 to 1863. Rev. Mateer then 
went to China as a missionary, and has spent 
a successful and honored life in that country. 
Milton W. McMillen, two sons of whom are 
now. honored ministers in the Presbyterian 
Church, was stated supply from 1863 to 1804, 
and pastor from 1865 to 1867. J. L. Lower, 
now H. R. at Denver, was stated supply from 
1867 to 1868, and David King from 1869- 
1870, and Robert Maclaren, 1871. The mem- 
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The reunion of the Old School and New 
School assemblies took place at Pittsburg in 
1869. Soon after this the two congregations 
began negotiations to unite, and on the 7th 
of June, 1870, the Delaware Presbyterian 
Church was formed of the two congregations, 
in accordance with an act of the Ohio Legis- 
lature passed April 2, 1870, and had been 
ratified by a vote of each church. The build- 
ing of the Second Church was sold, and is m >w 
occupied with offices and business places, and 
the united congregation occupied the First 
Church building. The reunion of the two 
Presbyteries, Marion Old School and Marion, 
then changed to Franklin New School, oc- 
curred at Delaware. September 13. 1870. 
Rev. C. H. Perkins preached the sermon, and 
Rev. Henry Shedd was chosen moderator. In 
February, 1870. Rev. Robert Maclaren began 
preaching to the united congregation and was 
called as pastor, which relation continued until 
1873. Mr. Maclaren is now a pastor on the 
Pacific coast. Rev. N. S. Smith was called 
after Rev. Maclaren, and was installed pastor, 
which relation continued until 1878. During 
the pastorate of Rev. Smith, the church build- 
ing was remodeled, a new front with spire was 
added, the basement enlarged and improved, 
the audience room reseated and frescoed, and 
fitted with stained glass windows, all costing 
$1,200. Rev. A. D. Hawn, of Zanesville, 
Ohio, was called to succeed Dr. Smith in De- 
cember, 1878, and entered on his work in 
January. 1879. The membership was 463. 
Dr. Hawn served the church nearly a quarter 
of a century. During his ministry the church 
was continuously prosperous, large amounts 
were contributed to all its benevolences, ac- 
cessions were made at every communion sea- 
son, an addition was added to the rear of the 
church, and a pipe organ installed. Dr. Hawn 
is honored by all churches and classes of Dela- 
ware, and is still living, and pastor emeritus, 
and able to do some work. Rev. Paul R. 
Hickok. assistant pastor of the Old Stone 
Church of Cleveland, was called to succeed 
Dr. Hawn, and was installed December, 1902. 
The church membership is now, 1907, over 
six hundred, and the congregation under the 



care of Mr. Hickok is united and prosperous 
in all departments of church work, and the 
future is hopeful. 

DELAWARE FEMALE COLLEGE. 

The idea of establishing a Ladies' Semin- 
ary had been contemplated by the Presbytery 
for several years. Rev. James Smith had been 
conducting, tor some time, an academy at 
Marysville for young men and women. James 
A. Stirratt taught for several years in this 
school. The Methodists were interesting 
themselves in Christian education at Delaware, 
as were also the Presbyterians. In 1853, the 
enterprise was undertaken and Delaware was 
chosen as the place, and the old Seminary 
property where St. Paul's Church now stands 
was purchased on November 3, 1853. The 
price paid, as reported by the committee was 
$5,100, with interest from date; the whole to 
be paid in three equal installments, at the 
following periods: 1st installment, January 
1. 1854; 2nd installment. May 1, 1854; 3rd 
installment. May 1, 1855. 

The committee had already signed the 
article on their own responsibility, and the 
school was then in operation, with about 
eighty ladies in attendance. The report was 
adopted and trustees elected as follows : Ahab 
Jinks, Rev. Dr. Heard (M. E. Church), Henry 
Van Deman, L. A. Brunei", I. N. Shepherd, 
Dr. S. L. Yourtee, T. S. Powell, James A. 
Stirratt. Dr. C. Fulton. John Ross. S. K. 
Hughes. Dr. Yourtee had been connected with 
the school previous to the purchase, and was 
one of the two men in whom the title was 
vested, and of whom the purchase was made, 
and John Ross was the other. 

Two mistakes were made : First, the field 
was already occupied at Delaware by the 
Methodists ; second, the Old Seminary build- 
ing did not suit the new enterprise. The man- 
agement fell into the hands of Henry Van 
Deman, a man of energy and ability, but with- 
out system. He made an active canvass for 
subscriptions throughout the Presbytery, and 
bordering churches, and obtained the promise 
of a considerable amount of money. Instead 



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of opening an account and keeping a careful 
statement of the financial business, he collected 
as he could and applied the money where it 
was most needed. In a few years the school 
was deficient in funds, and a demand was made 
for a report of receipts and expenditures. The 
trustees were unable to give such a report. 
This produced dissatisfaction and a loss of 
sympathy. Things went from bad to worse 
until the mortgage was foreclosed, and the 
property was sold at sheriff's sale at a heavy 
loss, to Samuel Miller, on the 5th day of 
September, 1861, having been sold for $1,- 
568. This left a burdensome debt on the 
Presbytery. The churches were appealed to 
time after time, but the full amount could not 
be raised. Mr. Van Deman and Judge Powell 
both became alienated and much trouble re- 
sulted. It was taken to court but never 
brought to trial, and final settlement was made 
in April, 1882, by Hon. J. W. Robinson, who 
paid liberally from his own means to have the 
matter adjusted. The enterprise was under- 
taken by the Presbytery in hope of doing much 
good. It terminated in loss and disappoint- 
ment. 

st. peter's protestant episcopal church. 

St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church 
was organized in 181 7. by the Rev. Philander 
Chase, afterwards ordained the first bishop of 
the Diocese of Ohio. Bishop Chase came to 
this state in March, 1817, and was an uncle to 
Governor Chase of Ohio. The articles of or- 
ganization were signed May 9, 1817, by Wil- 
liam Little, William Mansur, Abner Root, 
Aaron Strong, Solomon Smith, Thomas Put- 
ter, Hezekiah Kilburn, Caleb Howard, James 
Wolcot, Robert Jamison and Milo D. Petti- 
bone, all of whom bore an important part in 
the founding and growth, and fixing the des- 
tinies of the city of Delaware. The first offi- 
cers of the church were Aaron Strong and 
William Mansur. wardens, William Little, 
Thomas Rutter and Abner Root, vestrymen, 
William Little, recording clerk. This church 
was about the fifteenth in the order of or- 
ganization in the state. During this year small 



parishes were organized in Berkshire. Radnor 
and Norton, all now extinct, by Rev. James 
Kilburn, afterwards known as Colonel Kil- 
burn. At that time there were but three Epis- 
copal ministers in the state. The early pioneer 
conditions of Delaware is graphically stated by 
Bishop Chase in a letter dated July 10, 1817. 
"Wednesday I went to Delaware, Thursday 
to Norton, on the frontier of the United States 
land, bordering on the Indian possession, ten 
miles from Delaware." Occasional services 
were conducted in the church by the Rev. 
Bishop, Rev. William Sparms. Rev. Marius 
T. C. Wing, and Rev. Philander Chase, Jr., 
until 1828, when Rev. Nathan Stem was 
chosen rector, a popular preacher, a good man 
and a gentleman. Large congregations at- 
tended the church, many coming regularly 
from Radnor and Berkshire. 

The corner-stone of the first church edifice 
in Delaware was laid May 1, 1825. under the 
direction of Bishop Chase. It was a stone 
building and stood where the present church 
edifice stands, built after a Gothic model pre- 
sented to the Bishop by Mr. Wilson of Iberry 
House, near London. One hundred dollars 
of the one hundred pounds sterling given to the 
Bishop by the Countess Dowager of Rosse, 
was cheerfully given and thankfully received, 
towards its construction. Before that, the 
congregation worshipped in the Court House, 
which was used by other denominations for 
the same purpose. It is reported that the 
house was always full, an example of "Church 
Union" which it would be well to imitate. 

On April 21. 1827, the first Sunday school 
in Delaware County was organized in St. 
Peter's parish by Isaiah Whiting, of Worth- 
ington, with Caleb Howard and Mrs. Webb 
as superintendents. In 1830 the first church 
bell was brought to town and hung in the 
tower of St. Peter's Church. It served as a 
town clock to the citizens, as it was rung by 
Benjamin Woods at 9 A. M.. 12 »M., and 9 
P. M. The latter was the signal for all per- 
sons away from home, and all boys to hurry 
home. The bell was afterwards hung in the 
old Court House and later rang out all fire 
alarms. In May, 1832, Rev. James McElroy 



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was chosen rector. He was a 'perfect specimen 
of "a fine old Irish Gentleman" of superior 
cultivation and talents, who was before that 
a professor at Kenyon. In 1844 the old church 
edifice became too antiquated for the improved 
condition of the town, and was torn down in 
give place to the present structure. Of the 
present church Bishop Jaggar once said: "It 
was the most churchly church in his diocese." 
It was consecrated by Bishop Mcllvain, Au- 
gust 7, 1846. The rectory was built in 1854. 
and the parish house in 189.2. 

The first visit of Bishop Mcllvain was 
made December 5, 1832; Bishop Bedell, Oc- 
tober, 1859; Bishop Jaggar, October 5, 1875, 
and Bishop Vincent, October, 1887. It may 
not be improper in this historical sketch to give 
the succession of ministers. Thev are : Rev. 
Mr. Stem, from 1828 to 1831 : Rev. Mr. Mc- 
Elroy, from 1832 to 1835; Rev. Mr. Bails- 
man, from 1835 to 1836; Rev. Mr. McElroy, 
from 1836 to 1840; Rev. Mr. Gassaway. from 
1N41 to 1843; R ev - Mr. Canfried, from ^844 
to 1849; Rev. Mr. French, from 1850 to 1851 ; 
Rev. Mr. McElrov, from 1852 to 1863; Rev. 
Mr. Ufford, from 1863 to 1880; Rev. Mr. 
Boyer, from 1880 to 1882; Rev. Mr. Bower, 
from 1882 to 1891 ; Rev. Mr. Edwards, from 
1891 to 1892; Rev. Mr. Marshall, from 1892 
to 1894; Rev. Mr. Watt, from 1894 to 1901 ; 
Rev. Mr. Walton, from 1902 to 1903; Rev. 
Mr. Juny, from 1903 to 1906. Rev. Frank 
H. Stedman is the present incumbent. 

From its organization this church has been 
highly favored in having the ministerial ser- 
vices, both regular and occasional, not only 
men of intellectual ability, but of de\ nit 
Christian character, free from errors in doc- 
trine, able and earnest preachers of the Gospel, 
who lived as they preached. 

WILLIAM STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH. 

1 \hridged from the article written by the Rev. 
Elias D. Whitlock, D. D., in 1879.) 

William Street Methodist Episcopal 
Church was the first of this denomination or- 
is 



ganized in the city of Delaware. It was plant- 
ed some time in the year [819, by the Rev. 
Jacob Hooper, of Hocking Circuit. Si 
District, Ohio Conference, though there were 
Methodists who had settled in the place and 
meetings had been held at different times sev- 
eral years before a formal organization. From 
the most reliable data at hand it seems a class 
of seventeen members was organized in this 
year, consisting of Abraham Williams and 
wife, James Osborne and wife, John E. De- 
witt and wife, Thomas Galleher and wife, 
William Sweetser and wife, Ebenezer Durfee. 
Gordon Sprague, Franklin Spaulding and 
wife, Stephen Gorman, William Patton, Moses 
Byxbe and possibly others. 

From the inception of the societv, until 
the year 1822, the residence of Moses Byxbe 
and the county Court House were the head- 
quarters of Methodism in Delaware. During 
this year, under a second pastorate of the Rev. 
Jacob Hooper, the society decided to build a 
house of worship, and appointed Stephen Gor- 
man, William Patton, Moses Byxbe. Thomas 
Galleher, Moses Byxbe. Jr., Elijah Adams, 
Robert Perry, William Sweetser and Henry 
Perry as trustees. 

Lot Number" Sixty, original plat of the 
site of Delaware, on the northwest corner of 
Franklin and William Streets, was deeded 
February 21,, 1822, by Moses Byxbe. Sh, and 
Henry Baldwin and his wife. Sally Baldwin, 
to the trustees of William Street Church in 
trust. On this lot the first church structure 
was erected. The edifice was a plain, square 
structure with galleries on the east, south, 
and west sides. The entrance was from the 
south on William Street. There were two 
rows of windows which gave the impression 
of a two-story building from the external 
view. At the north end of the auditorium 
there was a box-like pulpit with an opening 
on either side with eight steps. This gave the 
speaker a full view of the congregation above 
and below. 

It is not known what this edifice cost, as 
many of the subscriptions were made in ma- 
terials and labor. Although commenced in 
1822. it was not completed until some time in 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



the year 1824, when, with Thomas Mc- 
Cleary as preacher in charge, it was dedi- 
cated under the name of William Street 
Church, by Jacob Young, the presiding elder 
of Scioto District, Ohio Conference. 

Here the Methodists of Delaware con- 
tinued to worship until 1845, when, owing to 
the growth of the society, and to the establish- 
ment of the Ohio Wesleyan Un|iversity, a 
larger church edifice was required to accom- 
modate the growing congregation. Accord- 
ingly, under the pastorate of Henry E. Pil- 
cher, measures were adopted to erect "a new 
house nf worship." 

The records show that a committee of the 
Board of Trustees was raised December 13, 
1845, arR l authorized to dispose of the old 
structure. This committee reported back to 
the Board of Trustees December 29, 1845, 
that they had contracted to sell the old edifice 
to the school district for school purposes, for 
the sum of $1,100. This building after being 
used for various purposes has been torn down. 

At this same meeting the trustees voted 
to procure a site for a new church structure. 
The site selected was Lot Sixty-one, original 
plat, just across Franklin Street from the for- 
mer site, on the northeast corner of Franklin 
and William Streets. 

On May 6, 1846, the building committee, 
consisting of John Wolfley, Nathan Chester 
and Augustus A. Welch, let the contract to 
William Owston, "to erect a house of wor- 
ship." The building was to be a neat, plain 
church, 50 by 80 feet, two stories high, with 
a vestibule in the front both above and below; 
the audience room was to have a gallery across 
the south end, and to furnish sittings for about 
six hundred persons ; the seats and other wood 
work to be of black walnut. The walls were 
of limestone. This edifice was not finished 
until the summer of 1847. The cost was about 
$5,600. This edifice was capacious and well 
built for its time. It was dedicated August 
3, 1847, by Bishop Edmond S. Janes, assisted 
by Rev. Thomas E. Bond, D. D., editor of the 
Christian Advocate, New York. 

The lot purchased for this new church 
was not deeded to the trustees until four years 



after the church had been dedicated. The 
deed is dated June 2, 1851. The grantors are 
William R. Piatt, Fanny R. Piatt, Ruther- 
ford B. Hayes and Sophia Hayes. The trus- 
tees named are Wilder Joy, Emery Moore, 
Nathan Chester, John Ross, E. W. Littell, 
John H. Dean, Abraham Blymyer, Augustus 
A. Welch and John Wolfley. The parsonage 
was erected in 1861, during the pastoral term 
of Rev. Thomas Parker. This stone church 
was replaced by the present elegant structure 
in 1887. 

William Street Church has been an ec- 
clesiastical center for Methodism in Delaware. 
She is not only older than the other Methodist 
churches here, but she is their mother. In 
1852, she gave St. Paul's Church to South 
Delaware; in i860 she had something to do 
with the origin and "raising" of Grace Church 
in East Delaware, and in 1886, she gave As- 
bury Church to North Delaware. 

The ecclesiastical connections of William 
Street Church have been varied. From the 
time of its organization until 1840, it was un- 
der the jurisdiction of the Ohio Conference. 
Then it was attached to the North Ohio Con- 
ference until 1856, when it was put into the 
Central Ohio Conference, of which it is still 
a part. 

While an appointment of the Ohio Confer- 
ence, it was for four years a part of Scioto 
District, with Jacob Young as presiding elder; 
from 1823 to 1825, of Lancaster District; 
from 1825 to 1828, of Sandusky District with 
James McMahon as presiding elder; from 
1828 to 1833, of Portland District with Rus- 
sel Bigelow and Greenberry R. Jones as pre- 
siding elders; from 1833 t0 J 840, of Colum- 
bus District, with Augustus Eddy, Jacob 
Young and John Ferree as presiding elders. In 
the ecclesiastical year of 1840-41, it became a 
part of Bellefontaine District, North Ohio 
Conference, where it remained until the year 
1844-45, with William S. Morrow as presid- 
ing elder. In 1845-46 it was assigned to Dela- 
ware District, at whose head it has appeared 
ever since, with the following presiding eld- 
ers : John H. Power (1845-47 ) ; John Quig- 
ley (1848-51); Samuel Lynch (1852-53); 



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245 



Joseph Avers (1854): Henry E. Pilcher 
(1855-58) : Thomas H. Wilson (1859-62); 
Leonard B. Gurley (1863-66); Alexander 
Harmount (1867-70); Daniel D. Mather 
(1871-74) ; David Rutledge (1875-78. ; Isaac 
Newton (1879-81); Leroy A. Belt (1882- 
86) ; David Rutledge. Louis M. Albright, J. 
M. Avann. L. A. Belt. J. H. Fitzwater and W. 
McK. Brackney. 

From its foundation until the ecclesiastical 
year 1821-22, it was one of the preaching- 
places on the Hocking Circuit : from this time 
to the year 1840-41. it was the head of Dela- 
ware Circuit. It had now reached a member- 
ship of two hundred and ninety-six persons, 
and at the Conference of 1841, it was declared 
a "station," and Adam Poe was appointed 
pastor. Since that time for almost seventy 
years it has been one of the leading and most 
flourishing stations in Ohio Methodism. 

The appointments to William. Street, al- 
lowing that name to cover its entire history, 
are as follows, the years dating from about the 
last of August or the middle of September : 
1818, Jacob Hooper; 1819, Andrew Kinnear; 
1820, James Murray; 1821, Jacob Hooper; 
1822, Thomas McCleary; 1823, Thomas Mc- 
Cleary and James Poe; 1824. Jacob Dixon; 
[825, James Gilruth; 1826, Aimer Goff; 1827, 
James Gilruth and Cyrus Carpenter; 1828, 
David Lewis and Samuel P. Shaw; 1830, 
Samuel P. Shaw and Alfred M. Lorain; 183 1, 
Alfred M. Lorain and David Cadwallader ; 
1832, Charles Goddard and J. M. McDowell; 
1S33, Leonard B. Gurley and John C. Ha- 
vens; 1834, John C. Havens and R. Doughty; 

1835, Joseph B. Austin and William Morrow; 

1836, Nathan Emery and Joseph B. Austin; 

1837, John Alexander and Ebenezer T. Web- 
ster; 1838, William S. Morrow and John W. 
White ; 1839, William S. Morrow and John 
Blanpied; 1840 and 1841, Adam Poe; 1842, 
David Warnock: 1843, Adam Poe; 1844. 
William L. Harris: 1845 and 1846, Henry E. 
Pilcher: 1847, Cyrus Sawyer; 1848, E. Yo- 
cum : 1849, Horatio Bradley: 1850 and 1851, 
Lorenzo Warner; 1852, Joseph Avers; 1853, 
Charles Hartley; 1854 and 1855, Leonard B. 
Gurley; 1856 and 1857, Alexander Nelson; 



1858 and 1859, James M. Morrow; i860 and 
1861, Thomas Parker; 1862 and 1863, Loring 
C. Webster; 1863, 1864 and 1865, Alexander 
Nelson; 1866 to spring of 1869, Wesley G. 
Waters; from spring of 1869 to fall of same 
year. Park S. Donelson; 1869 and 1870, Dan- 
iel D. Mather; 1871 and 1872, Franklin Mar- 
riott; 1873, 1874 and 1875, Russell B. Pope; 
1876 and 1877, Isaac Newton: 1878, 1879 
and 1880, Elias D. Whitlock; 1881 and 1882, 
Joseph H. Bethards; 1883-1886. Wesley G. 
'Waters; 1886-1887, W. J. Hodges; 1887- 
1890, Dustin Kemble; 1890-1895, Fletcher 
Wharton; 1895-1897, C. R. Havighorst; 
1897-1902, H. C. Jamison; 1902-1903, J. M. 
Avann; 1903-1904. William W. Lance; 1904, 
C. W. Barnes. 

William Street Church all through her his- 
tory has been the center of great spiritual 
power. Though again and again a part of her 
membership has left her to found dther 
churches, she is still vigorous and strong, with 
a membership of eight hundred souls. 

The present church edifice was built in 
1887, at a cost of nearly $42,000. It was 
dedicated in 1888 by Bishop Charles McCabe 
and President Charles H. Payne of Ohio Wes- 
leyan University. The sum of $17,000 was 
raised on that day. 

This sketch would be incomplete without 
reference to the noble men, most of whom 
have gone to their reward, by whose liberality 
and sacrifice this beautiful church structure 
has been made possible. 

In 1885, the project of erecting a new edi- 
fice was the absorbing theme of the member- 
ship of William Street Church. The question 
of the site was a disturbing element, and finally 
the membership divided on this point, the ma- 
jority voting for the present site, the others 
withdrawing and forming the nucleus of what 
is now Asbury Church. In the year 1886, the 
Board of Trustees, now re-organized, voted to 
build a new church, and presented the enter- 
prise to the membership with $7,000 subscribed 
as a starter. The following names are men- 
tioned in the vote : A. A. Welch. Dr. Calvin 
Welch, J. C. Evans. Dr. ]. H. White. Thomas 
F. Joy.'B. W. Brown, W. H. Pumphrey. F. 



zt£> 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



P. Vergon, Charles Steenback and \Y. E. 
Mcore. The members, though now dimin- 
ished in number, loyally and liberally support- 
ed the trustees. The largest donation from 
one individual was given by Henry J. Eaton, 
win i would never consent to take official posi- 
tion in the church. 

For eighty-eight years this society has 
been in continuous existence. Throughout its 
history, it has been marked in its influence on 
Ohio Methodism. It has given some of the 
brightest lights to the church anil its representa- 
tives are found all over the world. It still 
maintains the vigor and fire of youth, and pre- 
serves the traditions of the fathers. 

ST. MARK'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH. 

The early history of the St. Mark's Evan- 
gelical Lutheran Church is largely involved in 
obscurity. The records now accessible are 
meager and imperfect; something may, how- 
ever, be ascertained from tradition, as well as 
from such written records as are at hand. It 
is well known that si >me Lutheran families 
were scattered here and there among the earl- 
iest settlers in Delaware County. Of these 
pioneer families may be mentioned those of 
Frederick Weis'er, Henry Worline, Mr. Wel- 
schaus, Andrew Harter and others. They 
were natives of Pennsylvania, coming here 
from Northumberland, Bucks and other coun- 
ties, and were settled in Delaware and the vi- 
cinity as early as 1810 and 181 1. These few 
families, many years ago, were more or less 
regularly favored with the preaching of the 
gospel. It appears from such data as are 
within reach, that the Rev. Charles Henkel, of 
Shenandoah County. Va.. was the first Luth- 
eran minister who visited the Lutheran fami- 
lies along the Olentangy River between Co- 
lumbus and Delaware. Before any one 
dreamed of railroads, before roads were made, 
when Indian trails and footpaths were the 
(inly lines of travel, this pioneer preacher 
found the few scattered Lutherans in and 
about the present site of the city of Delaware, 
and readily succeeded in organizing them into 
a pioneer congregation. Indeed, they were 
glad once more to hear the old gospel tidings 



that had cheered their hearts and had brought 
peace and gladness into their former homes. 
It was their delight to bring their little chil- 
dren to Jesus by means of the same old bap- 
tism to which they had .been so warmly at- 
tached in former years, and to appear at the 
altar where the same old sacrament of the 
body and blood of the Lord was administered. 
The old familiar sound made the wilderness in 
which they had chosen their lot seem to them 
like a new home. The old tidings of salvation 
following them into the forests of Ohio, re- 
minded them that God is everywhere present, 
and pleasantly recalled the old, cheering prom- 
ise, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the 
end of the world." 

But the bloom of civilization did not burst 
forth in this wilderness without bard labor 
and severe privation. For a very little while 
it seemed well enough to have the word 
preached in the small and inconvenient log 
dwellings of the settlers. But soon the need 
of a place of worship began to be felt. A 
church was needed, and that meant work. 
The productiveness of their primitive farms 
was comparatively limited; market prices were 
low, and money was hard to get. The people 
usually found it difficult even to pay their 
taxes. Accordingly, instead, at first, of build- 
ing a church, the use of Shoub's Hall, on the 
present site of the new City Hall, was secured 
as a place of worship. Probably in this ball a 
permanent organization of the Delaware Luth- 
eran congregation was effected. A constitution 
was adopted January 28, 182 1, and signed by 
the Rev. Charles Henkel. pastor, ami by fifty- 
five lay members. During the space of some 
seven years. Pastor Henkel continued to 
serve this congregation. He resided at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, where he bad charge of another 
congregation, but came to Delaware every four 
weeks. Great success attended his labors, and 
he was held in high regard by his hearers. He 
preached in both the German and the English 
languages, at first in Shoub's Hall, and then in 
the old court room, which was for some time 
used as a place of worship. 

After Pastor Henkel had been called away 
from his Columbus and Delaware charges, a 
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247 



ing which the congregation made considerable 
progress in external growth; but the internal 
gr< >wth seems to have been meager. The old 
constitution was neglected and almost forgot- 
ten. The people had almost lost sight of the 
old landmarks of Lutheranism. Yet, during 
this period of spiritual carelessness and indif- 
ference, quite an amount of activity was dis- 
played. The congregation was served by sev- 
eral successive pastors. Rev. Mr. Shulz 
served a very short time, and was followed by 
Rev. Mr. Weil. Rev. Mr. Snyder, a young 
man of promising talent and of good repute, 
preached less than a year; he died in 1835, 
and his body lies at rest in the old cemetery. 
Subsequently, the Rev. S. S. Klein served 
some eight years, and, during his pastorate, 
the first church was built about the year 1834, 
on the corner of William and Henry Streets, 
the site now occupied by the German Reformed 
Church. This church was the property of 
both the Lutheran and the German Reformed 
congregations. Quite an amount of real toil 
and self-denial was required to accomplish the 
work. The people contributed their money 
and their time, and the labor of building was 
shared by both pastor and people. Mr. Klein 
worked faithfully and daily until the new- 
church was ready to be occupied. Previous 
to the building of the church, the Lutheran 
people of Delaware had assisted, by their con- 
tributions, in building the Episcopal Church, 
in which they also, for a time, conducted their 
divine service. 

The former pastor, the Rev. Charles Hen- 
kel, died at Somerset, February 2, 1841. His 
death seems to have aroused the minds and 
hearts of the people to a sense of duty. The 
truth that had cheered and comforted them in 
earlier davs was once more remembered, and 
a few weeks after they had heard of the death 
of their former pastor, a meeting was held, 
at which the old constitution was once more 
unanimously adopted, and the blessing of a 
merciful God invoked upon the congregation. 
About this time the Rev. Mr. Pope became 
the pastor. But things do not seem to have 
moved along smoothly; the readoption of the 
old constitution made trouble, and some who 



had learned to love the careless, free-and-ea>y 
system of church government, that had i< >r 
some time prevailed, were not willing to be 
governed by the old power of Gospel truth. 
Accordingly, a committee was appointed in 
November. 1845. :o submit a revised form of 
the constitution, as well as ways and means of 
having it more stringently enforced. This 
committee, consisting of John Hoch, George 
Wachter Conrad Brougher, John Troutman, 
Frederick Weiser and Benjamin Ely. met on 
the 15th of November, and, at a subsequent 
meeting of the congregation, their work was 
approved and the revised constitution adopted 
by a large majority. 

In 1848, Mr. Pope removed from Dela- 
ware, and. in 1849, tne R ev - M. Loy became 
the pastor of the congregation. Mr. Loy la- 
bored here with much success during a period 
of some sixteen years. In the first years of 
this period, the conjoint ownership of the 
church property on the corner of William and 
Henry Streets was dissolved, and the new 
stone church on William Street was built in 
1852, and has since been occupied by the con- 
gregation. A new constitution, the one now 
in use by the congregation, was adopted Au- 
gust 31, 1852. The congregation increased 
largely in membership, as well as in spiritual 
prosperity ; not, however, without trials and 
perplexities. Yet the Lord dealt very gra- 
ciously with his people, causing many eyes to 
be opened, so that the truth of His mighty 
word was recognized and accepted. At this 
time the contest with secret-societyism was 
successfully waged. This is the history of a 
Lutheran congregation, and no one should ex- 
pect, in such a history, to find any peculiarities 
omitted. Xot. however, in regard to this 
question only, but in regard to all others, has 
the congregation taken a truly Lutheran and 
scriptural position. They who desire to form 
a more intimate acquaintance with the di c- 
trines of the Lutheran faith, have easy access 
to them in our Book of Concord, and we con- 
stantly challenge comparison of our doctrines 
with the Holy Scriptures themselves. They 
are our only rule of faith and practice. This 
true position came to be occupied more and 



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more during the period of Mr. Loy's ministry. 
Mr. Loy resigned his pastorate here to accept 
a professorship of theology in the Capitol Uni- 
versity, Columbus, Ohio, where he still re- 
mains. 

Prof. Loy's successor was the Rev. C. H. 
L. Schuette, at that time a student of theology 
in the Capitol University. The last baptism 
administered by Mr. Loy was on July 16, 
1865, and the first by Mr. Schuette was on 
July 28th following, showing that the va- 
cancy in the pastorate was very short. Mr. 
Schuette served the people very acceptably 
during nearly eight years, when he, too, was 
called to a chair in his Alma Mater. Some- 
time in the same year, i$7j. the Rev. 
Emanuel Cronenwett accepted a call to this 
congregation, and his labors here extended 
from June, 1873, to January, 1877. 

He was followed by Rev. H. A. Becker, 
who came to Delaware May _'_'. 1877. in re- 
sponse to a call extended by the congregation. 
He served the congregation faithfully until 
his death, which was in 1884. Lhider his pas- 
torate the communicant membership was four 
hundred and fifty. 

After the death of Rev. Becker the con- 
gregation was without a pastor for a space of 
about seven months, but finally succeeded in 
securing the services of Rev. Edward Pfeiffer, 
who came to Delaware early in the year 1885. 
Under his ministry a division took place in the 
congregation occasioned by the secret society 
question. An attempt was made on the part 
of some members to break down the position 
which the congregation had always held over 
against secretism. This effort failed of its 
purpose, hut resulted in the withdrawal of 
many members who thereupon formed what i- 
now St. John's Lutheran congregation. Rev. 
Pfeiffer continued as pastor until 1890, when 
he followed a call to Fremont, Ohio, and at 
the present time is professor of theologv in 
Capitol University, Columbus, Ohio. 

The next man to serve St. Mark's was 
Rev. J. Sheatsley. who took charge Septem- 
mer 18, 1890. He labored here faithfully and 
with manifest blessing and success for a pe- 
riod of seventeen years. During his adminis- 
tration a commodious Sundav-school room 



was built to the church, also a handsome pipe 
organ installed in the church auditorium. He 
resigned his position here in August, 1907, to 
follow a call to Columbus, where he is serving 
as pastor of Christ Church, and also has 
charge of religious instruction in Capitol Uni- 
versity. The present pastor, Rev. F. B. Hax, 
was installed October 6, 1907. St. Mark's at 
present numbers some 300 communicant mem- 
bers, is free from debt, and looks hopefully 
into the future. 

ZION REFORMED CHURCH. 

Among the pioneer families of Delaware 
County, there was a considerable numbeir 
from East Pennsylvania. As they were all of 
German descent, and were brought up in Ger- 
man communities, they could feel themselves 
properly at home only in their native German 
element, and in the use of their own language. 
Especially was this true in a religious view. 
A characteristic of the Germans is that they 
carry Germany with them in their hearts 
wherever they go, and hence, wherever they 
put up their tents, there is "Der Deutschen 
Vaterland." Even the blessed Gospel seems to 
them more precious when it is proclaimed in 
the trumpet tones of the language of Luther 
and Zwingle. 

These families generally belonged to the 
Reformed and Lutheran Churches. They had 
found rich farms and comfortable homes here, 
but they were far away from their kindred, 
and the holy altars where they had been bap- 
tized and confirmed. They were not in their 
natural element. As the fish seeks the clearest 
water, and the bird the purest air, so these 
pious souls sought a congenial spiritual home 
for themselves and their children. Nor did 
they seek in vain. The longed-for and happy 
hour came at last, when, in their own conse- 
crated temple and around their own sacred 
altar, they could thankfully and joyfully unite 
in their beloved German Te Deum, 

"Nun danket alle Gott, 

Mit Herzen, Mund und Haenden, 
Der Grosze Dinge thut, 
An tins und alien Enden." 



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In the early history of Ohio and of Dela- 
ware Countv, it is known that missionaries of 
the Reformed Church made occasional visits 
to the German settlements for the purpose of 
preaching the Gospel and administering the 
sacraments of the church. The earliest name 
definitely known in the history of the present 
Reformed Church of Delaware is the Rev. 
Georg Weisz, who in a report of missionary 
labors in 1821 speaks of having preached in a 
home in the vicinity of Delaware. Henry Wil- 
liard was another of the pioneer ministers who 
visited Delaware. Under date of February 5, 
1 833, a deed for a plot of ground at the south- 
east corner of William aild Henry Streets was 
executed by John Davis and Mary, his wife, to 
Samuel Rheem, Gottlieb Albright and Benja- 
min Ely. consideration $75. This plot of 
ground seems to have been purchased for 
church purposes, for the following entry, 
taken from Delaware County records, vol. 23, 
p. 96, as found in "Historical Sketch of Zion 
Reformed," by Jacob Klee, was made long 
after the church building was erected : 

"Recorder's Office, Delaware, Ohio. 

Samuel Rheem and Sarah his wife, Gottlieb 

Albright and Mary his wife, Benjamin Ely and 

Lydia his wife, 

to 

Zion Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed 

Church of Delaware, Ohio. 

West part of Out-lot Two, Consider- 
ation $75. 

Consisting of one acre and one hun- 
dred and twenty rods. 
Executed February 7, 1842. Recorded Feb- 
ruary 15th, 1842." 

In the year 1834 there was erected on the 
plot of ground above referred to a church edi- 
fice, the joint property of the Reformed and 
Lutherans. It was built of stone, 30x45. and 
cost Si. 300. For three years before they were 
organized into a church, the Reformed mem- 
bers worshiped in this house, and had the Gos- 
pel preached and the sacraments administered 
to them by the pastor of the Lutheran congre- 
gation. But few besides themselves knew 
that they were Reformed, and thev were com- 



monly regarded as members of the Lutheran 
Church. 

By an act of the General Assembly January 
2 3- l &37' Frederick Weiser, Samuel Rheem, 
Benjamin Ely, Jacob Miller, Michael Kline 
and associates were created a body politic and 
corporate to be known as Zion Evangelical 
Lutheran and Reformed Church of Delaware, 
Ohio. In the same year the Reformed or- 
ganized a separate organization. They se- 
cured the services of Rev. C. H. A. Allardt, 
the necessary steps were taken, an appropriate 
sermon was preached, and "in the name of 
God the Father, and the Son and the Holy 
Ghost," they were declared to be a Christian 
church, to lie known by the name of Zion's 
Reformed Church, of Delaware, Ohio. Those 
who had been chosen to fill the respective of- 
fices were now solemnly ordained and in- 
stalled. The church consisted of eighteen mem- 
bers. Its first elders were Abraham Call and 
Henry Fegley, and its first deacons. Jacob Mil- 
ler and Israel Breifogel. The frail little bark 
was now afloat on the sea. 

This congregation stands in connection 
with "The Reformed Church of the United 
States," is under its control, "and is in all re- 
spects governed by its rules and regulations." 
The contents of its faith are the Holy Scrip- 
tures, as set forth in the Heidelberg Cate- 
chism; and its government, both in spirit and 
form, is strictly presbyterial. Its aim is to 
cherish and enjoy true Christian freedom, in 
believing, and cheerful obedience to divine au- 
thority and law. and to obtain salvation from 
sin, and eternal life in Jesus Christ — the "Al- 
pha and Omega, the beginning and the end." 

From the time of its organization the Re- 
formed congregation occupied the church 
built in 1834. in common with the Lutherans. 
And these twin sisters for many years pro- 
ceeded together as harmoniously and prosper- 
ously as could reasonably be expected. Still, 
their relations were not always and in all re- 
spects of the most satisfactory character. At 
last, it seemed best to both parties to follow 
the example of Abraham and Lot. and the 
union which had existed so long was quietly 
dissolved. The Reformed bought the Luth- 



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eran interest in the 'Union Church," giving 
for it all the ground belonging to it, except the 
lot on which the church stood, and $400 in 
cash. These $400, however, were to liquidate 
a debt still resting on the property. This dis- 
solution was effected in April, 1852. during 
the pastorate of Rev. D. Rothrock. 

In 1855 it was determined to remove the 
old stone church and substitute for it one bet- 
ter suited to their wants. Accordingly, a new 
brick edifice was erected, 40x55 feet in size, 
with an end gallery, and a basement arranged 
for a parsonage and lecture room. Its cost in 
money and labor was about $5,000. In 1868. 
this was remodeled by building an addition of 
twelve feet to its front, removing the gallery, 
etc. Other changes and improvements were 
made in 1877, costing together $2,300. This 
edifice, now 4 ox 67 feet in size, is the one at 
present occupied by the congregation. 

The church has been served by the follow- 
ing ministers: Rev. C. H. A. Allardt served 
it from its organization in 1837 to 1839. He 
was succeeded in 1841 by Rev. Jacob Van 
Linge. who prosecuted his work until 1843. 
Rev. Henry Hess became pastor in 1844, and 
served until 1849. During this pastorate the 
weekly prayer meeting was introduced. After 
a period of six months. Rev. S. K. Denius 
began his pastorate in the same year, and re- 
signed- in 1 85 1. Rev. D. Rothrock became 
pastor in 1852. and served one year. In [854, 
Rev. M. G. O. Stern became its pastor, and re- 
mained until 1857. In the spring of 1857, 
Rev. J. B. Thompson began his labors as 
pastor and served until 1862. On the first 
day of January. 1863, Rev. John Vogt as- 
sumed pastoral relations and served until July 
1. 1892. Dr. Vogt, known as the "Marrying 
Parson." was called from his earthly field of 
labor Sunday, November 3. [901, at his home 
on South Sandusky Street, Delaware. Dr. 
Vogt was followed in the pastorate by the 
Rev. I.. B. C. Lahr, whose pastoral relations 
began January 1, 1893, and continued until 
his death on April 11. [906. Dr. Lahr was 
followed by the Rev. John C. Gekeler, the pres- 
ent pastor, who began his labors September 
15. 1007. 



Numerous disadvantages and obstacles 
have impeded its usefulness and prog- 
ress from the start. Its original union 
arrangement was never satisfactory, and 
was, no doubt, a hindrance to both 
parties. For many years. Its services 
were conducted exclusively in German, and 
many of its young people, and even entire 
families, became dissatisfied and sought homes 
in English churches. Since about 1875, tne 
use of the German language has been discon- 
tinued in the conduct of all public services of 
the church. The burden of debt under which 
the congregation labored for vears has been 
entirely removed. 

During the past quarter of a century Zion 
Reformed Church has made substantial 
growth in every way, her membership has in- 
creased and her building improved at various 
times. During the fall of 1904 a beautiful 
pipe organ was installed at a cost of $1,500. 
The congregation at present is engaged in se- 
curing a home for its pastor. The societies 
of the congregation are the Sunday School, 
Ladies' Aid Society, the Zwingle Missionary 
Society, and a Society of Christian Endeavor. 
The membership is three hundred and twen- 
ty-five. 

THE GERMAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

This church dates back to 1836. In that 
year. Rev. William Nast. D. D.. the first Ger- 
man missionary of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, traveled through Central Ohio from 
the river to the lake, preaching daily to the few 
German settlers, here and there, who had 
sought a home in this Western country. On 
these mission tours. Dr. Nast passed through 
Delaware and preached to the few of his coun- 
trymen who were willing to hear his tidings. 
About 1844. the Rev. John Barth. the German 
pastor at Columbus, traveled through Dela- 
ware and Marion Counties, and once more 
looked up the Germans, in the interest of the 
Methodist Church. In the revival meetings 
which he held, many were converted and 
joined the Methodist Church. This was the 
beginning of the German Church in Dela- 
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These people were poor and few, and their 
meetings were held at first in private houses. 
When these were filled, they moved, first to 
the stone schoolhouse at the corner of Frank- 
lin and Winter Streets, then to the old Metho- 
dist Church, one square south, and then to 
the old academy on Hill Street. In 1846, the 
Rev. John Kindler became the pastor for one 
year, and in 1847, tne R ev - G. A. Brauning. 
During his pastorate, a little frame church 
was built on a lot on Henry Street, given by 
the first member of the church — Father Al- 
bright. It was not long, however, that the lit- 
tle building on Henry Street was large enough 
to hold the congregation, and, in 1854, under 
the pastorate of the Rev. G. Nachtrieb, a lot on 
Hill Street was bought, and the present brick 
church erected and dedicated in 1855, by 
Bishop Simpson. From 1845, Delaware and 
Gabon had constituted one mission, but in 
1854 Delaware became self-supporting, and 
was made a separate station. Since the estab- 
lishment (if the mission, twenty-four preachers 
and assistants have labored in this work. 
Delaware belonged to the North Ohio Con- 
ference until 1865, when the German Confer- 
ences were organized, since which time it has 
been attached to the Central German Confer- 
ence. 

The membership of the church has m it 
been permanent, owing to the constant migra- 
tion to the West, and the aggregate has never 
exceeded one hundred and fifty members. For 
many years the church declined on account of 
deaths, removals, and fewer persons desiring 
to hear preaching in the German language. 
The society disorganized about four years 
ago, and the building was sold in 1907 to 
William Nye. The audience room is still used 
Eor a mission, conducted by I. S. Walters, and 
is filling a needed place in the religious life of 
I )ela\\ are. 

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL (WI'.I.SIl) CHURCH. 

This church was organized in 1844. The 
first Welsh sermon preached in Delaware was 
delivered by Rev. George Lewis in the year 
[841, at the residence of Mr. Henry Thomas, 



on Washington Street, between William and 
Winter. Prayer meetings were held from time 
to time at this house from 1841 to 1844. In 
this year the congregation was organized with 
the Rev. Rees Powell as pastor, and with 
twenty-two charter members, viz. : Henry 
Thomas and wife, John E. Davis and wife, 
John Rowland and wife, John Rowland, Sr., 
Reese Price, George Pugh, David Thomas, 
John L. Jones, Robert Dolby. Thomas Row- 
lands, Willliam Rowlands, John E. Davis, 
Edward Williams, Mary Jones, Elizabeth 
Jones, Catherine Rowlands. Jane Rowlands. 
The first services were held in a small frame 
school house between William and Winter 
Streets, which was purchased and used until 
1858, when a brick structure was erected on 
Winter Street, between Liberty and Elizabeth 
Streets. Rev. Powell continued pastor until 
1862, when Rev. John H. Jones became pas- 
tor, and served until in the 8o's. The member- 
ship remained in all these years about the 
same, between twenty and thirty. - The serv- 
ices were held in the Welsh language and the 
children did not learn this language, and so 
one by one dropped away. 

Several years ago, services ceased to be 
held in this church, and the building was sold 
to the Public School Board and has been re- 
moved and the ground now forms part of the 
north lawn of the West School Building. 

st. mary's church, Delaware, ohio. 

The Catholics of Delaware and the sur- 
rounding country did not form a regular con- 
gregation and had no resident pastor until the 
year 1856, when the Most Rev. J. B. Pureed. 
bishop of the Diocese of Cincinnati, sent the 
Rev. Caspar Wiese. a middle-aged German 
priest, to undertake the spiritual charge of the 
few people who professed the Catholic religion 
and resided in the city or neighborhood. But 
for fully twenty years previous to that date, 
missionary priests from all over the State had 
visited at very irregular times, the little flock 
for the purpose of administering the sacra- 
ments, and of encouraging those, who, in spite 
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clung to the religion of their forefathers. As 
early as 1834 some German Catholic families 
had settled in Delaware, among whom were 
Gerhard Nuss, Chistopher Kirchner. and last 
but not least, Adam Miller, the father of our 
still-living, old and respected townsman, Mar- 
tin Miller of West Winter Street. It may 
be stated here as the plain truth, that had it 
not been for the deeply religious zeal and piety 
of said Adam Miller, little if any trace of dis- 
tinctly Catholic worship would have been wit- 
nessed in Delaware in all those years until 
late in the fifties and the beginning of the six- 
ties, when a large number of Irish Catholics 
came and settled in East Delaware. It is not 
known positively whether any Catholic clergy- 
man visited Delaware until 1838 or 1839. but 
on or about that time. Father Young from 
Lancaster, Ohio, is remembered to have 
reached the town and tn have celebrated the 
first Mass, said or sung in Delaware, in the 
front mom of a small frame house still stand- 
ing today on the south side of Park Avenue 
near Franklin Street in South Delaware, and 
which was the residence of Adam Miller. From 
then until 1850, only, or possibly twice a year, 
would a Catholic missionary priest make his 
appearance and remain over Sunday. But in 
the meantime, and regularly every Sunday 
morning. Mr. Adam Miller would convert his 
front room into a little church, gather therein 
as many of his Catholic neighbors as he could 
notify, and devoutly preside over that part of 
the Catholic worship which laymen could per- 
form in the absence of a priest, such as the 
recitation of the Rosary, the singing of hymns, 
the reading of the Gospels of the Sunday and 
Catechetical instruction. It was thus that the 
spark of faith and religion was kept up and 
transmitted by these few pious and simple- 
hearted people to their children. In 1850 the 
number of Catholics in Delaware had in- 
creased somewhat; they were visited more 
regularly by the neighboring priests of Colum- 
bus, and finally they purchased a lot on Uni- 
versity Avenue, on which a few years later, 
in 1854, under the direction of Rev. Caspar 
Borgess, afterwards bishop of Detroit, they 
erected a little frame church, whose size, how- 



ever, answered the purpose of their still very 
small number for many years to come. 

From 1850 to 1856 the little church was 
attended irregularly by Father Borgess and 
other clergymen from Columbus, and carefully 
kept up by the few devoted pioneers who had 
helped to erect it. Among them, were many 
who may be still remembered by the present 
generation, such as Adam Miller, the patriarch 
of all of them, his son, Martin Miller. John 
Shea, whose home near the church was at all 
times hospitably open to the visiting priests, 
George Kraus, John B. Zeller, Thomas Mc- 
Donald, the father of our well known and 
prosperous contractor, James McDonald, 
Christopher Kirchner, John Grady, Sr., James 
Cantwell and a few others. At this time, 
however, all of those first pioneers of St. 
Mary's Church have gone into eternity, with 
the exception of Martin Miller, who, in spite 
of his ripe old age, is still enjoying the best 
of health in our midst, and gives good promise 
to outlive many others who came to Delaware 
long after him. 

Towards the end of the year 1856. the lit- 
tle congregation having received many acces- 
sions by the immigration of a number of Irish 
families, Rev. Caspar Wiese was installed as 
the first permanent pastor, but there being no 
pastoral residence, Martin Miller, who lived 
then in the old brick house still standing on the 
southwest corner of William and Union 
Streets, shared his house with the forlorn 
clergyman, and along with John Shea took 
care that the newly appointed pastor was made 
as comfortable as possible with the scanty sal- 
ary the still very small congregation could 
furnish him. From that time until today, 
Delaware was never without a resident priest. 
In the early fifties, when the Springfield rail- 
road was being built, at least two hundred 
Irish Catholic families from the neighbor- 
hood of Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland, es- 
tablished themselves in East Delaware, and 
remained there permanently even after the con- 
struction of the railroad. The number of 
Catholics in Delaware increased at once al- 
most tenfold, and the original little frame 
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Rev. Henry Fehlings, who was one of the im- 
mediate successors of Father Wiese, went to 
work, therefore, with much vim and energy, 
to enlarge the church, but the people being all 
poor, it was impossible to build an entirely 
new church. He struck, therefore, upon e. 
very peculiar and ingenious idea, seldom, if 
ever, carried out anywhere before him, and 
which for twenty-five years to come, certainly 
made St. Mary's Church in Delaware a some- 
what queer and unsightly architectural curi- 
osity. To the little frame church a much 
higher and wider brick addition was in some 
way attached, a process which gave to the 
building as a whole, a most curious and in- 
congruous appearance outside and inside. In 
Father Fehling's mind, this improvement was 
to be but a temporary shift for obtaining 
room, and had he entertained the remotest 
suspicion that this ungainly and unsightly 
edifice would remain there for a quarter of a 
century, he would certainly never have thought 
of erecting it. The whole of it was only de- 
molished in 1887. 

During Father Fehlings' administration. 
the congregation of St. Mary's also purchased 
an old store room and frame house adjoining 
the church on University Avenue, which build- 
ings served, like the church, for twenty-five 
years, as parochial school and pastoral resi- 
dence. Had Rev. Henry Fehlings remained 
in Delaware, there is little doubt that in a very 
few years all these old, unsightly and dilapi- 
dated buildings which were purchased simply 
for emergency and temporary purposes, would 
soon have made room for something more 
suitable. But Father Fehlings was removed 
very suddenly and abruptly to other fields of 
labor, and then there came upon St. Mary's 
Church and congregation a period of torpor 
and sleepiness as to any material progress, sel- 
dom witnessed in a congregation which num- 
bered in 1869 at least one thousand souls. 
Owing chiefly to very indifferent direction on 
the part of the many pastors who succeeded 
each other from 1864 to 1884, perhaps also to 
the lack of initiative and encouragement 1 m the 
part of the people, little or no attempt was 
made in the following twenty years, to im- 



prove the old church properties, which soon 
became so dilapidated looking that they were 
a positive disgrace to the street on which they 
stood. Only once during that sleepy period, 
in 1880, was there a slight awakening. Two 
large lots on East William Street were con- 
tracted for during the pastorate of Rev. N. E. 
Pilger, with the vague intention of building 
a new church thereon in the future. How- 
ever, in 1884, when the present rector of St. 
Mary's. Rev. Ph. Steyle, came to Delaware, 
these lots were only about one-half paid it >r. 
and there seemed to be little prospect for erect- 
ing a new church. But precisely in that year 
of 1884, a new and surprising period of activ- 
ity succeeded those twenty years of neglect 
and torpid carelessness. In less than six years, 
that is from the spring of 1885 until 1890, 
under the direction and initiative of the pas- 
tor and the hearty co-operation of nearly all 
the members of the church, a most beautiful 
and large brick and stone church, a sch << il 
house, a pastoral residence and a sisters' 
house sprung up, as if by magic, on East Wil- 
liam and Henry Streets, and were almost paid 
for immediately by the congregation. From 
worshipping in the meanest and most dilapi- 
dated looking church in Delaware, the mem- 
bers of St. Mary's Church in this year of 
1908. possess, without the slightest doubt, 
the most valuable, and architecturally speak- 
ing, the finest looking church property in 
Delaware. St. Mary's congregation, includ- 
ing many farmers, numbers at this date in the 
neighborhood of 1,400 souls. The new S:. 
Mary's cemetery adjoining Oak Grove, was 
purchased and solemnly consecrated by Bishop 
Watterson in 1899. In the following list we 
give the names of the clergymen who acted 
as pastors of St. Mary's Church, from the 
year 1856 to the present year, 1908: Rev. 
Caspar Wiese from 1856 to i860. Rev. Jo- 
seph Fitzgerald and his brother, Rev. E. M. 
Fitzgerald, from i860 to 1862. Rev. Mc- 
Sweeney to 1863. Rev. Henry Fehlings from 
1863 to 1869. Rev. Joseph McPhilips from 
1 So.', to 1874. Rev. A. O. Walker, J. B. 
Schmidt and J. C. Goldschmidt each for a 
few months in succession. Rev. N. F. Pilger 



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from 1875 to July, 1884, and from September, 
1884, to the present year. 1908, Rev. Ph. 
Steyle, who is therefore fulfilling the twenty- 
fourth year of his long pastorate of St. Mary's 
Church. 

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 
OF DELAWARE, OHIO. 

This church — within the bounds of the 
North Ohio Annual Conference, since its for- 
mation in 1882. but originally in the Ohio — 
was organized late in the fall of 1845. tne 
Rev. Daniel Winslow becoming its first pastor, 
being appointed to its pastorate by the Rt. 
Rev. Bishop Paul Quinn. from the Ohio An- 
nual Conference, which convened in Colum- 
bus, Ohio, October 18, 1845. The corner- 
stone of the first building was laid in 1853, 
and ere long Zion A. M. E. Church was dedi- 
cated. In 1876 it was razed and rebuilt. The 
cornerstone of this new edifice was laid by 
Rev. John W. Lewis; the walls completed and 
building roofed by Rev. J. B. Stansbury, and 
the building finished, seated and opened by 
Rev. N. M. Mitchell. 

During the pastorate of Rev. Jesse Hen- 
derson, 1880-3. a feud rent this church, and 
some of its most substantial members, being 
unjustly expelled, remained out and formed 
what is now Trinity M. E. Church. On the 
whole, it is safe to say at this writing the A. 
M. E. is the leading church among the people 
of African descent in the city. Three of its 
ex-pastors have reached the bishopric, namely: 
John M. Brown, James A. Shorter, and C. T. 
Shaffer. One. O. J. W. Scott, is at present 
chaplain in the United States army. While 
some of its pastors showed clearly the doings 
of slavery, yet among them have been found 
polished men; teachers, jurists, theologians, 
orators. Christian scholars, and some of these 
were ex-slaves. There has been some dross, 
too, among the gold; some pygmies amid the 
giants; yet. somehow, God has used this dross 
and these pygmies for his glory and the good 
1 >t men. 

One of the potent forces of this church 
has been its native-born singers. Mr. Wil- 



liam H. Alston, its chorister for years, pos- 
sessed, say critics, one of the finest basso 
voices in the state, if not in the country; he, 
with his brother, F. B. Alston, being two of 
the "stars" in the far-famed original "Dona- 
van's Tennessee Jubilee Singers." 

Its pastors have been : Revs. Daniel Win- 
slow, Chas. Peters, Nelson Turban, Jesse Di- 
vine, Levin Gross, Alex. Austin, W. B. 
Lewis, William Davidson, Allen Brown. John 
Ridgewav. John Tibbs, James A. Shorter, 
John M. Brown, E. D. Davis. T. W. Roberts, 
Rev. Grafton H. Graham, the historian, phil- 
osopher, theologian and polished orator, 
Stonewall Jackson, Robert Hurley, Jesse As- 
burv. John Rickman, W. D. Mitchell, Na- 
thaniel' M. Mitchell, G. W. Maxwell. John F. 
Hamilton. P. Alston. H. A. Jackson, C. T. 
Shaffer, John W. Lewis J. B. Stansbury. 
Jesse Henderson, D. F. Caliman. O. J. W. 
Scott, J. D. Singleton. H. W. Toney, L. E. 
Tohnson, R. B. P. Wright, R. G. Mortimer, 
Jesse H. Smith, E. Fort, J. M. Tate. 

The foregoing list of pastors may not be 
in exact order, as it was obtained from the 
older members and citizens as they remember 
them. 

The present pastor, Rev. N. M. Mitchell, 
is duplicating himself, having served as pas- 
t< >r here quite a quarter of a century ago. The 
present edifice is in fairly good repair, with a 
membership of seventy-six and seven proba- 
tioners. 

From Rev. N. M. Mitchell it is learned that 
while the Ohio Annual Conference was in ses- 
sion in this church in April. 1865, a dispatch 
was received saying. "President Lincoln has 
been assassinated." In a few hours — the same 
day — a second dispatch came, saying: "117/- 
berforce has been burned to the ground." This 
was the only college owned by the church. 

st. Paul's methodist episcopal church. 

St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, of 
Delaware. Ohio, was originally within the 
bounds of the North Ohio Conference, but at 
the General Conference for the year i860 it 
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which it now belongs. In the fall of the year 
[852, the Rev. John Quigley was appointed 
li\ the North Ohio Conference to organize a 
church within ;the southern boundaries of 
Delaware to accommodate the membership of 
that portion of the, then, village of Delaware. 
The early records of the organization seem to 
have been lost or destroyed. The first official 
record of this church now extant is dated Oc- 
tober 16, 1858. and includes the names of per- 
sons who afterward became prominent minis- 
ters of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for- 
eign missionaries, ccillegfe professors and 
business men of Delaware, and elsewhere. 
Jacob T. Caples was the pastor in charge, and 
Samuel Lynch, agent of the O. W. F. College. 
The local preachers were : Tin imas Scott, 
Stanley Stevens, George Lansing Taylor, J. 
Bushong, L. J. Powell, Isaac Crook. Nathan 
Sites, I. Mast, H. J. Clark. The exhorters 
were H. M. Perkins. J. G. Deardorff, John 
Sites, W. B. Edwards, L. P. Smith. 'The 
stewards were lohn A. Clippinger, Hiram 
Hull, Charles Niel, Nathan Ely, Paul Randall. 
The class leaders ' were Watson Karr, Isaac 
Crook, N. B. Edwards, James G. Deardorff, 
W. O. Semans. Nathan Sites, George Lansing- 
Taylor, Samuel Burkholder, H. M. Per- 
kins. 

From this date, the official records are re- 
plete with such names as Dr. F. Merrick, 
Prof. William Godman, Prof. John P. Lanorx, 
Michael J. Cramer, Prof. H. S. B. Newton, 
Prof. F. S. Hoyt, John F. Thompson, Rev. 
Edward Thompson ( afterward bishop ) , and 
many others. But in the space allotted us 
for this sketch, it would be impossible to name 
the many useful and afterwards prominent 
men and women whose names are found on 
the official records of this church, and the 
reader must look to the biographical portion 
of this volume and to other sources, to com- 
plete the list. 

But while we are unable to give a com- 
plete history of the organization of the church, 
we can give a complete list of the pastors whi 1 
have served it from its organization down to 
the present time. Beginning with the first, 
the following: is the list: 



Rev. John Quigley 1852- 1854 

Rev. Thomas F. Hildreth 1854-1856 

Rev. L. B. Gurley 1856-1858 

Rev. Jacob T. Caples 1858-1859 

Rev. H. S. Bradley 1859-1860 

Rev. James F. Given 1860-1861 

Rev. T. H. Philips 1861-1862 

Rev. F. S. Hoyt 1862-1863 

Rev. J. M. lameson 1863-1865 

Rev. A. H. Windsor 1865-1867 

Rev. George W. Brush. .. 1867-Jan. 25. 1868 

Rev. L. B. Gurley Jan. to Oct.. 1868 

Rev. David H.Moore (now Bishop) 1868-1870 

Rev. Joseph H. Creighton 1870- 1873 

Rev. Isaac Crook 1873-1874 

Rev. Robert W. Manley 1874-1875 

Rev: Samuel A. Keen 1875-1878 

Rev. J. C. Jackson, Jr 1878-1881 

Rev. Timothy W. Stanley, 1 881 -May 18, 1883 
Rev. F. Merrick and others. May to Oct., 1883 

Rev. Isaac F. King 1883- 1884 

Rev. John W. Dillon 1884- 1886 

Rev. Isaac Crook 1886-1888 

Rev. B. L. McElroy 1880- 1890 

Rev. J. H. Gardner 1890-1891 

Rev. D. C. Thomas 1891-1896 

Rev. W. F. Oldham (now Bishop) 1896- 1898 

Rev. Carl G. Doney 1898- 1900 

Rev. Arthur M. Mann 1900-1904 

Rev. R. F. Bishop 1904- 1905 

Rev. Homer J. Smith 1905- 1907 

Rev. B. D. Evans 1907- 

St. Paul's started with a membership of 
about thirty persons, most of whom had been 
members of the parent church ( William 
Street). Since then it has grown in numbers 
from year to year, until, at the present time its 
membership is six hundred. It has a prosper- 
ous Sabbath school with an average attend- 
ance of about three hundred persons. From 
its organization it has been essentially a mis- 
sionary church. It was in this church that the 
first auxiliary of the Woman's Home Mis- 
sionary Society. was organized, on July 2j. 
1880. It is replete with missionary work, and 
societies; an annual collection is taken for the 
general work or parent society. It has a well- 
organized and well-supported Woman's Home 
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Foreign Missionary Society, a young woman's 
home missionary society called "The Queen Es- 
ther Circle," a Young - Woman's Foreign Mis- 
sionary Society, a children's society known as 
the Home Guards. The Sabbath school is or- 
ganized into a missionary society. It has also 
a Ladies's Aid Society, to which the most of 
the ladies of the church belong. It supports a 
Junior Epworth League, to which the must 
of the children of the church under fourteen 
years of age belong. And it has a prosper- 
ous Senior Epworth League with a member- 
ship of about one hundred and fifty persons, 
and this League is entitled to one of the first 
charters issued under the auspices of the or- 
ganization. Immediately after it was or- 
ganized, by a committee who met in the city of 
Cleveland. Ohio, the Rev. Samuel A. Keen, 
who was a member of the Committee of Or- 
ganization, on his way home from the meet- 
ing, stopped at Delaware to visit his former 
postorate, St. Paul's Church, and Rev. B. L. 
McElroy, who was then its pastor in charge. 
Dr. Keen, who was full of the spirit of the 
League, made some remarks at the Wednes- 
day evening prayer meeting in reference to 
the League, and immediately after the close 
of the prayer service, St. Paul's Epworth 
League was organized, and a charter called for 
by telegram. This League is one of the most 
zealous organizations of the church, and one 
of the most potent factors in promoting its 
good. The young people of this congregation 
had been well trained for an organization of 
this kind, under the pastorate of Rev. T. \\ . 
Stanley, during the time he had served the 
church (which was from the fall of 1881 to 
the spring of 1883). A very successful young 
people's meeting had been organized and it 
was well prepared to take up the work of the 
league, and it is believed that much of the 
good it has accomplished in after years is due 
to the spirit and zeal it received from that 
first organization of the young people of the 
church. 

St. Paul's has sent to the foreign and home 
missionary fields more than fifty missionaries 
and teachers, which is believed to be a greater 
number than any other Methodist Episcopal 



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Mrs. 



church has sent since its organization. The 
following is a list of the persons who have 
been sent out from this church, and the sev- 
eral fields to which they have gone : 

Armenia — N. A. Morjickian. 

Mexico — Galdino Guiterrez. 

Porto Rico — Charles W. Drees. 

Korea — Lillian N. Harris, M. D. ; 
W. Harris. 

Singapore — Charles S. Buchanan 
Emily Early Buchanan, Merrill C. Miller. 

South Africa — Mrs. Belle Gates Ehnes, 
James L. DeWitt, Mrs. Byrna Adams De- 
Witt, \ n-ginia Swarmstead (now Coffin). 

Japan — Rev. Harry B. Swartz, Mrs. Mary 
Frazier Swartz, Anna V. Bing, Ume Ha- 
mada, Lenora Seeds, Mable Seeds, Fannie 
(i. Wilson, Mary Wilson (now Buchanan). 

Si >uth America — Rev. John F. Thompson, 
Rev. George D. Froggatt, Rev. P. B. Cuppett, 
Rev. John L. Reeder, Jeanette Carpenter, 
Charles H. Wertenberger. 

India — Rev. Thomas J. Scott, Rev. Archi- 
bald Gilruth, Rev. Levan R. Janney. Rev. 
William A. Mansell, Mrs. Hetty Mansell Mon- 
roe, Rev. Noble L. Rockey, Mrs. Mary Had- 
sell Rockey, Annie Gallimore, Marion New- 
ton, Mrs. Phila Keen Linzell, Nora Waugh, 
Myrtle Bare (now Faucett). 

China — Rev. Nathan Sites, Rev. George 
R. Davis, Rev. Hiram H. Lowry, Mrs. Hi- 
ram H. Lowry. Rev. Nathan J. Plumb. Clem- 
ent M. L. Sites, Ruth Sites (now Brown), 
Rev. J. F. Hayner, George D. Lowry. M. D., 
Mrs. Cora Calhoun Lowry, Edward K. Lowry, 
Mary E. Schockley (now Drake), George L. 
1 )avis, Titus Lowe. 

To the home missionary field in the south 
it has sent — Miss Marie Disney, Miss Irene 
Disney, Miss Winifred Myser, Miss Nellie 
Carson, Miss Alfleda Myser. 

The first church, a good substantial brick 
building, was erected about the year 1856, on 
the same site where the present church now 
stands. It cost over $5,000, and was built 
during the pastorate of the Rev. Thompson F. 
Hildreth. The following are the names of the 
trustees to whom the deed was made : Edward 
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J. R. Watkins, Coe Roe, Hiram Hull, Samuel 
Burkholder and James K. Brittain. The deed 
is signed by Elnathan C. Gavitt and wife, and 
is dated May 31, A. D.. 1855. 

The parsonage was bought about the year 
1869, and adjoins the church site on the east. 
Both are located mi the southeast corner of 
Franklin Street and University Avenue, on 
one of the highest points in the city, and are 
visible for miles from all directions. During 
the years of 1873 and 1874. under the pastor- 
ate of Dr. Isaac Crook, and the leadership of 
Prof. John P. Patterson, superintendent of the 
Sabbath school, the church grew so rapidly in 
numbers that it became necessary to arrange 
for more room and greater facilities to accom- 
modate the Sabbath school. An addition to the 
old church had been ordered, but in excavat- 
ing for the new portion, the foundation of the 
old part was undermined and the rear wall fell 
with a crash which was beard all over the city. 
This necessitated the building of a new 
church. After several adjourned sessions of 
the Quarterly Conference a soliciting commit- 
tee was appointed who reported to an ad- 
journed session that they had procured sub- 
scriptions sufficient to justify the beginning of 
the new church. A Building Committee was 
chosen, consisting of the following named 
persons : John Lane, Prof. H. M. Perkins. 
Thomas Craven. James R. Lytle and J. Frost. 
Dr. Ralph Hills was selected as the architect, 
who donated his services, and the new church 
was at once begun. In a few months a sub- 
stantial two-story brick church, 60 by 90 feet, 
ornamented with stone trimmings, was under 
roof, and the first story finished at a cost of 
about $13,000. The church was afterward 
completed at a cost of about $12,000. so that the 
present church structure has cost about $25,- 
000. The present parsonage was built at a 
cost of about $3,500. and was completed in 
the spring of the year 1898. 

St. Paul's, with its well established mis- 
sionary spirit, laid the foundation for the first 
mission church in Delaware. The pastorate 
of Rev. Joseph H. Creighton was marked by 
the beginning of Faith Church, or Merrick 
Chapel. Under the leadership of Mrs. Mary 



Knowles. Miss Fidelia Perkins and Mrs. Ann 
Lane, three of St. Paul's faithful workers, a 
Sabbath school was organized which met for 
a short time under the trees near the corner of 
Liberty and Harrison Streets. Later a room 
was secured, and finallly the present church 
edifice was erected, which was dedicated on 
the fourth day of January, A. D. 1891, and in 
1898, the same was set apart as a separate 
church, and has alwavs been well beloved by 
St. Paul's. 

Time and space would not permit the men- 
tion of the many faithful servants among the 
laity of this church. But a history of St. 
Paul's would not be complete without the name 
of Mrs. Mary Knowles. the faithful and ef- 
ficient teacher of the infant class in the Sab- 
bath school. She took charge of this class on 
the first Sunday in September, A. D.. 1868, 
and has had charge of it continuously ever 
since. Fully a generation has passed away 
since she first had charge of this class, and to- 
day many who have been her pupils are oc- 
cupying high positions in state, church, mis- 
sionary fields and social circles, and in the 
great hereafter hundreds will arise and call 
her blessed. 

St. Paul's raises, annually, for the support 
of the church about $2,500. It pays its pas- 
tor $1,500 per year. The remaining $1,000 is 
used for lighting, heating, organist, janitor, 
insurance and other necessary expenses of the 
church. St. Paul's is without a debt, except a 
debt of gratitude, which it owes to the many 
faithful pastors who have served it. It owes 
much to its leaders, stewards, trustees, Sab- 
bath school superintendents and teachers, 
the many other constant workers among its 
laity who have clone so much to promote its 
good. But most of all. it is indebted to the 
great God to whom it prays, and in whom it 
implicitly trusts, and from whom all its bless- 
ings flow. 

THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. 

The First Baptist Church was organized 
August 6. 1853. with thirty-seven members. 
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the first pastor and served until May, 1855. 
The church held its meetings in Templar Hall 
until its house of worship was built. In March, 
1S54, the society purchased a lot on North 
Franklin Street, and a church building was 
here erected and dedicated August 1, 1858. 
Since the first pastor, the church has had ten 
regular pastors, who served as follows : Rev. 
Elias George from October, 1855, to April, 
1856; Rev. James Harvey, from May, 1856. 
to \pril, 1862; Rev. P. Kennedy, from May, 
1862, to May, 1865; Rev. D. A. Randall, from 
August, 1866, to April, 1867; Rev. A. J. 
Lyon, from September, 1867, to April, 1870; 
Rev. I. B. Toombs, from April, 1870, to July, 
1871 ; Rev. B. I. George, from March. 1873, 
to March. 1874; Rev. G. T. Stanbury. from 
November, 1874. to November, 1876; Rev. T. 
I. Sheppard, from September, 1877, to May, 
1878; the Rev. T. W. Icenbarger, from Octo- 
ber, 1878, to 1884; Rev. E. A. Stone, from 
1884 to 1886; Rev. A. H. Batchelder from 
1886 to 1889; 1890, no pastor; Rev. Charles 
C. Haas from 1891 to 1892; Rev. J. B. Wood- 
land from 1892 to 1894; 1895, no pastor; 
Rev. Albert Read, from 1896 to 1899; Rev. 
H. C. Lyman from 1900 to 1904; Rev. CM. 
Brodie from 1905 — 

During the last year of J. B. Woodland's 
pastorate, a church meeting was called to see 
if the church would take action on the build- 
ing of a new house of worship, having long 
felt the need of larger and better accommoda- 
tions. At that time the church was $200 in 
debt, and some of the members thought ; t 
was too great an undertaking, but before the 
meeting closed the church voted unanimously 
to build, and a committee was chosen with in- 
structions to proceed at once. The Lord was 
evidently with the committee, and they real- 
ized that "except the Lord build the house, 
they labor in vain who build it." The work 
went on steadfastly, and harmoniously to the 
end. The bills were all paid when due, ex- 
cept a few hundred dollars which were sub- 
scribed and soon paid. The house is built of 
brick with stone trimmings. It was dedicated 
October 3, 1897, free of debt. The audience 
room is 40x60 feet, with a room 25x40 feet 



on the north side for Sunday school and 
prayer meetings. This room can be thrown 
open to the audience room by means of rising 
doors. An addition 12x25 teet nn the wot 
end of the audience room is an addition that 
was built to the old house but a short time 
before, and was utilized for committee meet- 
ings, and preparation rooms. The house cost 
about Si 2.000. 

Shortly after the dedication, one of the 
members. Mr. Morgan Savage, who had con- 
tributed largely to the church building, pro- 
posed to have a pipe organ put in, which the- 
church did not feel able to do till later, but 
Mr. Savage felt earnest to have it now, and 
said, "if you, will put one in I will pay for 
it." It was put in, and bears his name as the 



GRACE CHURCH. 

Grace Methodist Episcopal Church was 
organized in January, i860, by the Rev. Henry - 
E. Pilcher, in a small schoolhouse near the 
grounds of the Agricultural Society. Twelve 
members in full connection and thirty upon 
probation constituted the original organiza- 
tion. 

When this church was first organized it 
was in the bounds of the Central Ohio Confer- 
ence, but at the General Conference of i860, it 
was transferred to the North Ohio, where it 
has since remained. During the year 1861-, by 
perseverance, and not without sacrifice, the 
membership succeeded in erecting a small 
frame church. In this the congregation wor- 
shiped until 1875. Many glorious outpour- 
ings of the Holy Spirit were received by the 
membership in the little white church. Here 
manv weary sinners were moved to repentance, 
sought pardon, and started upon the way to 
happiness and usefulness. 

The church edifice which is now occupied 
by the congregation was begun by the Rev. 
Charles F. Creighton in 1872. After many 
reverses it was finally completed and dedicated 
February 7, 1875, by Rev. Bishop Randolph 
S. Foster. It is located in the eastern part 0: 
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ire Streets. It is a neat building of brick with 
spire and turret. It will comfortably seat rive 
hundred people. The seats are of ash trimmed 
with black walnut and flexed at the sides, giv- 
ing all the auditors a front view of the pul- 
pit. Its commodious and tasteful arrangement 
is commended by all who are acquainted 
with it. 

Grace Church includes within its mem- 
bership and congregation nearly all the Eng- 
lish-speaking Methodists on the east side of 
the river, and many from the west side, but 
most of its members live in the country. It 
has never abounded in wealth, but. under lib- 
eral and wise management, it has been able to 
erect a substantial, neat edifice, and to pay an- 
nually the average amount of about $600. It 
has not increased in membership as rapidly as 
some other churches more favorably located. 
It has filled to a considerable extent the place 
of a mission church, and has exerted much in- 
fluence upon the fallen, and the lower classes 
of society. Its members have, however, as a 
rule, been good, substantial men and women, 
who have indeed been servants of the Lord. 
Consequently many revivals have characterized 
the history of the church. In 1865. the mem- 
bership had grown to about one hundred per- 
sons. During the winter of 1871-72, a pow- 
erful revival took place, in which many stu- 
dents of the Ohio Wesleyan University took 
an active part. At the close of this year the 
membership numbered about one hundred and 
fifty. 

From i860 to 1865. this church was in- 
cluded in the bounds of the Woodbury Cir- 
cuit; in 1865, it was transferred to the Galena 
Circuit; in 1868, it was made the chief ap- 
pointment of a newly formed circuit, called 
Delaware and Eden Charge. 

The following is a list of the pastors who 
have served the church: 1860-61, Revs. Sam- 
uel Mower and C. B. Brandebury ; 1861-62, 
Revs. Philip Plummer and John Blampied ; 
1862-63, Revs. Chilton Craven and John 
Blampied; 1863-64, Revs. John Mitchell and 
William Jones. Mr. Mitchell died in Novem- 
ber, 1863, and Rev. Oliver Burgess was sent 
to fill the vacancy. 1864-65. Revs. James 
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Wheeler and William Junes ; 1865-66, Revs. 
Allen S. Moffit and Frances M. Searles; 
1866-67, Revs. Ileman Safford and facob S. 
Albright; 1867-68, Revs. Heman Safford and 
William Hudson; 1868-69, Rev - Cadwalader 
H. Owens; 1869-71, Rev. Joseph F. Kennedy. 
Soon after the commencement of the vear 
1870-71, Mr. Kennedy was appointed agent 
of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, and 
Rev. Wesley B. Farrah was appointed to fill 
out the year. 1871-72, Rev. Stephen Fant 
was pastor; 1872-73, Rev. Charles F. Creigh- 
ton; 1873-76, Rev. Benjamin F. Bell; 1876-77, 
Rev. William L. Phillips; 1877-80, Rev. Sam- 
uel R. Squier; 1880-83, Rev - Charles Galli- 
more; 1883-87, Rev. A. J. Lyon; 1887-89, 
Rev. William Kepler, Ph. D., 1889-91, Rev. 
M. L. Wilson; 1891-96, Rev. G. W. Dennis; 
1896-97, Rev. J. H. Deeds; 1897-1902, E. D. 
Smith, Ph. D., D. D. ; 1902-05, Rev. E. J. V. 
Booth; 1905-07, Rev. E. Loose and Rev. Carl 
Gage; 1907-8, Rev. Jesse Lacklen. 

SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH. 

The Second Baptist Church of Delaware, 
Ohio, was organized June 8, 1868, in Joseph 
Townsend's house on High Street, by Elder 
Berrv Moss, of Urbana, Champaign County, 
Ohio. 

It was reorganized by Elder S. D. Fox, 
of Springfield, Ohio. The members in the or- 
ganization were Joseph Townsend , Martha 
Curry, Peter Woodley, Jane Townsend, Van 
Evan, Mandie Campbell, James Curry, Nellie 
Hunter, Mary Lewis. H. C. Clay joined the 
same day by experience, making ten in the 
start. The first deacons were Joseph Town- 
send, Van Evan. Peter Woodley, James Curry. 
The trustees were Joseph Townsend, Peter 
W< "idley and James Curry. 

The pastors in succession are : Rev. Wal- 
lace, of Ripley, Brown County. Ohio; Elder 
Frank Mitchell, of Columbus. Ohio; Elder 
Richard Meredith,, of London, Madison 
County, Ohio; Elder John Moody, of Xenia, 
Green County, Ohio; H. C. Clay, of Dela- 
ware, Ohio; G. W. Curry, of Delaware, Ohio; 
Elder Isham Lafavette, of Kalamazoo, Michi- 



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gan; E. C. Clay, of Springfield, Ohio; Elder 
John Robertson, of Cincinnati, Ohio; J. W. 
Johnson, of Richmond, Virginia ; Elder G. W. 
Curry, of Delaware. Ohio; H. C. Clay, of 
Delaware, Ohio; Elder William Balay, of 
Xenia, Green County, Ohio; Elder W. M. 
Lowry, of Virginia ; R. Martin, of Spring-field, 
Ohio; Robert Johnson, Jr., Delaware, Ohio; 
C. A. Gilman, Columbus, Ohio; W. N. Allen, 
Urbana, Ohio. 

The number and names of preachers that 
were licensed by the Second Baptist Church 
of Delaware, Ohio — H. C. Clay, G. W. Curry, 
L. J. Artist, John Curry, W. N. Allen, G. W. 
Mayo. A. P. Warrick — seven in number. 
Those called to ordination by the Second Bap- 
tist Church of Delaware, Ohio, are H. C. Clay, 
who was ordained by the council at association 
in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio, Septem- 
ber, 1874; G. W. Curry, who was ordained 
at home in the Second Baptist Church, of 
Delaware, Ohio. Council — Elder William 
Rickman, Elder J. L. Rickman, Elder 
H. C. Clay. W. X. Allen was ordained 
at home in Delaware, the council being Elder 
J. W. Isenberger, pastor of First Baptist 
Church of Delaware, Ohio; Elder G. W. 
Curry, of Delaware. Ohio;H. C. Clay, of 
Delaware, Ohio. 

The places rented to worship in are: Fa- 
ther Jeffrey Day's house, on High Street, Mrs. 
Shavious* house on Ross Street. Robert 
Whyte's house on Ross Street, J. J. William- 
son's house, corner of Railroad and Liberty 
Streets, the engine-house northeast corner of 
the Park. Mr. Heibie's house on the east side 
of Washington Street, opposite the City Park; 
bought lot and built on it on Ross Street ; 
lost the same; afterward bought lot from Rob- 
ert Whyte. and an old house from Mrs. Mary 
Shavious. and moved it on the lot and made a 
little addition to the house; bought a lot from 
Mr. Richard Reynolds on Ross Street, and 
built on it, which is clear of debt. 

We were assisted by our white brethren, 
the Ohio Baptist Convention, and friends to 
the church in Delaware, Ohio. 

Rev. B. A. Phillip, of Mechanicsburg, 
( 'liampaign County, Ohio, pastor and modera- 



tor. Rev. Henry C. Clay, Committee on His- 
tory. 

st. John's English Lutheran church. 

This church was organized in the Opera 
House, Delaware, Ohio, November 22, 1885, 
by Dr. Ort and J. F. Shaffer, then of Spring- 
field, Ohio. A number of members connected 
with the German Lutheran Church (St. 
Mark's ) desired more freedom to mingle with 
Christians of other denominations than the 
constitutional authority of that church per- 
mitted, and with others established a distinc- 
tive society on the basis of the General Synod 
of the English Lutheran Church. A consti- 
tution in harmony with their purpose was 
adopted, and sixty-two signed this constitu- 
tion as charter members. 

Services were inauguarated and worship 
conducted thereafter, in a small brick church 
owned by the Welsh Congregationalists, lo- 
cated on West Winter Street. On November 
29, 1885, Rev. Shaffer, then president of Mi- 
ami Synod, and one of the editors of the Lu- 
theran Evangelist, also professor of Hebrew, 
church history, and Biblical archaeology, in 
their theological seminary at Springfield, 
Ohio, was called to be their pastor. Rev. 
Shaffer, at a sacrifice of these things men- 
tioned, accepted the call and on the nth of 
December moved his family to the city of 
Delaware, and at once took hold of the work. 
Steps were taken immediately to erect a church 
building. A lot was secured on the east side 
of Sandusky Street, opposite the Court House, 
and on May 30th. the cornerstone was laid, 
Dr. S. O. Ort, of Springfield, Ohio, preaching 
the sermon, the ceremony being performed 
by Rev. Shaffer. The pastor announced that 
the tin box deposited in the cornerstone con- 
tained a copy of the incorporation of the 
church, a hymnal, a catechism, Lutheran Ob- 
server, and Evangelist, Delaware papers, and 
some others. So rapidly was the work pushed 
that on October 17th, only eleven months after 
the organization, a beautiful and commodious 
brick structure costing about $17,000 was 
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hers of the Miami Synod were present at the 
dedication. Dr. Shaffer — the doctorate hav- 
ing- been, worthily, bestowed on him at the 
Spring- Commencement of Wittenberg Col- 
lege. June, 1887 — has been their only pastor. 
On the twentieth anniversary of his pastorate, 
he preached a sermon from which the follow- 
ing statistics are taken : Total number of 
members admitted during the twenty years, 
471 ; deaths, 61 ; removals. 144; dropped from 
the roll, 32 ; membership at date, 202 ; Sunday 
school membership. 220, of which sixty are 
in Home Department and twenty on the Cra- 
dle Roll. The church has continued to pros- 
per, and a few months ago a pipe organ was 
added, and the audience room artistically fres- 
coed. 

Dr. Shaffer continued pastor of the church 
until Easter Sunday, March 31, 1907, at which 
time much to the regret of the congregation, 
he offered his resignation, which was later ac- 
cepted, but he still is stated supply of the 
church. This church, together with its pastor, 
who has also for many years been an active 
member of the Public School Board, has tilled 
one of the most useful places in the city of 
Delaware, and as the church is now looking 
for a pastor, it is the wish of all citizens of the 
city, that the congregation will find a worthy 
successor to Dr. Shaffer. 

ASBURY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

This church had its origin in 1886. Prior 
to that time much consideration had been given 
as to whether William Street Church in re- 
building should move farther north, or a new 
organization should be formed in the north 
part of the city. 

At the Quarterly Conference of William 
Street M. E. Church, held February 25. 1886, 
Prof. John H. Grove offered the following 
resolutions : 

"Whereas, The Quarterly Conference of William 
Street M. E. Church, Delaware, Ohio, has been for 
a series of years trying to awaken interest in favor 
of a new church edifice for said church, and 

Whereas, That body is divided as to where said 



church shall be located, though united in their belief 
as to the need of a new edifice; and 

Whereas, It appears inevitable that there will still 
continue to be a church on the old site, though a new 
church be built elsewhere ; and 

Whereas, There is a desire on the part of many of 
the membership of this church that a new church 
edifice be built for the use of the northern portion 
of the members of this church ; therefore 

Resolved, That we, the members of the Quar- 
terly Conference, favor the division of the mem- 
bership of this society into two churches, pro- 
vided that a sufficient number of members signify a 
willingness to withdraw from the parent society, or 
church, for the purpose of organizing another church." 

On March 11, 1886, ninety-five members 
placed their names to the following: These 
were regarded as the charter members : 

"We, the undersigned members of William Street 
M. E. Church, Delaware, Ohio, Central Ohio Confer- 
ence, Delaware District, in accordance with the ac- 
tion held February 25, 1886, providing for the volun- 
tary formation of a new society, or church, by sub- 
scribing our names do hereby signify our desire to 
withdraw from said William Street Church for the 
purpose of forming such a new society." 

On May 28, 1886, a number of the mem- 
bers of William Street Church, most of them 
residing in the north part of town, met at the 
home of Mrs. Martha A. Sanborn for discuss- 
ing the new church project. At this meeting 
Mrs. A. S. Clason offered the following which 
was unnanimously adopted : 

"Recognizing the importance of a church in the 
north part of the city, therefore, we hereby express 
our willingness, in connection with others, to take 
the necessary steps for organization." 

On July 19, at a meeting of the charter 
members, they declared themselves a corporate 
body, and Mrs. A. S. Clason, J. C. Watson, N. 
J. Galleher, T. C. O'Kane, and Miss M. Mur- 
phy were elected trustees. 

In September following the Central Ohio 
Conference added to its list of charges Asbury 
Church, Delaware, Ohio, and Rev. L. M. Al- 
bright was appointed pastor. The new organi- 



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zation was at that time without a church heme. 
The Baptist society tendered their church edi- 
fice for the use of the new church organization 
on Sunday afternoons and Thursday evenings, 
a kindness then highly appreciated and not to 
be forgotten. 

The first preaching service of the new- 
organization was held September 19, 2:00 p. 
m., the pastor preaching from John 12:31, 32. 

The present site of the church had already 
ben purchased, the selection having been made 
July 19th. The official body determined soon 
after the appointment of the pastor to build a 
temporary edifice on the rear part of the lot. 
Ground was broken October 5th, and the edi- 
fice was completed November 3rd. The cost, 
including furniture, chairs, pulpit, carpet and 
curtains, amounted to $1,340. This structure 
seated about four hundred persons, and proved 
in every particular a most happy and success- 
ful enterprise. November seventh was the 
opening day. Dr. Isaac Crook, then pastor of 
St. Paul's Church, preached from Isaiah 66, 
first and second verses, and he and Dr. L. D. 
McCabe conducted the ritualistic service. 

The evening sermon was by Rev. D. Kem- 
ble, D. D., then missionary to Mexico. By 
this time the membership was 200. and weekly 
additions became the rule. 

On January 5. 1887, the trustees com- 
pleted their contract with Air. J. G. Grove for 
his lot located on the southwest corner of 
Franklin Street and Lincoln Avenue. The 
purchase price was $4,500. 

The trustees then turned their attention to 
the preparation needed for the erection of a 
permanent building. J. W. Yost, Esq., 
of Columbus, was secured as archi- 
tect. There was some delay in deter- 
mining whether the walls should be stone 
mi- brick. It was found that the additional 
cost for stone walls amounted to $4,000. Cap- 
tain V. T. Hills and J. C. Watson, Esq., ar- 
ranged for the extra expense, and a formal 
contract for the construction of the edifice was 
made with Wellington Long. Esq.. March 1, 
1888. The cornerstone was laid June 13, 
1888. A sermon of unusual spiritual force 



and feeling was delivered by Rev. H. A. Buttz, 
LL. D., president of Drew Theological Semi- 
nary, of Madison, New Jersey. 

In the spring of 1889 a special contract 
was made for completing the Sunday school 
room. It was completed and informally 
opened in August following. The opening 
sermon was by Rev. Prof. L. D. McCabe, 
LL. D., and the first sacramental occasion of 
the church was held in the evening. 

In the autumn following, the necessary- 
steps were taken for the completion of the au- 
dience room. 

Rev. L. M. Albright, D. D., now closed a 
pastorate of three years, and received instead 
the presiding eldership of Delaware district. 
His pastorate was a model of leadership, un- 
wearied effort and success. He had received 
beside its charter members about three hun- 
dred persons, most of them having hitherto 
no membership in any church in Delaware. 

In September Rev. E. D. Whitlock, D. D., 
was appointed to the charge and entered into 
the work with zeal and enthusiasm. In the 
winter following there was a marked revival 
and many young people belonging to the fami- 
lies of the church and congregation became 
members. 

The edifice was brought to its comple- 
tion in the autumn of 1900 and was dedicated 
November 1 6th. The occasion was one of 
great interest to the church, city and com- 
munity. The pastor was assisted in the serv- 
ices by Drs. Albright. Wharton and ex-Presi- 
dent Merrick. Rev. Charles E. Sims. LL. D.. 
president of Syracuse Lhiiversity. preached 
from Ps. 137; 5, 6, and also in the evening 
from Luke 16:25. 

The indebtedness on the church at the time 
of dedication was $8,000. It seemed like a 
large sum for a people who had been giving 
generously for four years, but they cheerfully 
gave what was needed and closed the day with 
subscriptions amounting to $8,500. The 
whole day was one of spiritual enthusiasm and 
exaltation. The people had planned, • prayed, 
toiled and given constantly since the great en- 
terprise began ; now their joy over the outcome 
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The edifice is remarkable for its plainness, 
simplicity and solidity. Every expression of 
mere ornamentation and cheapness had been 
carefully avoided. Its walls are of dark blue 
lime stone. It is rectangular in form, and is 
about 70 by 1 10 feet. The auditorium is 50 
by 60 feet. The floor is slightly bowled and 
of amphitheatre seating. The architecture is 
of the old cathedral and Romanesque style. 
The entire cost of the plant was about $37,000. 
The society has been remarkable for its con- 
tinuous growth, healthy and harmonious de- 
velopment, and for its family and social spirit 
and life. Its Sunday school and Epworth 
League are seldom equalled in fullness and 
regularity of attendance, and in contribution 
of members to the church. Its membership 
now numbers 490. 

In 1896 the charge was transferred from 
the Central Ohio to the North Ohio Confer- 
ence. Its pastors from 1886 to 1896 were 
from the Central Ohio ; since from the North 
Ohio. Thev have been as follows: 1886-89. 
Rev. L. M. 'Albright. D. D. ; 1889-1892, Rev. 
E. D. Whitlock, D. D. ; 1892-94, Rev. Richard 
Wallace; 1894-96, Rev. Melvin M. Figley; 
1896-99, Rev. A. D. Knapp, D. D. ; 1899- 
1901, Rev. C. T. Erickson; 1901-6. Rev. F. I. 
Johnson, B. D. ; 1906, present. Rev. W. A. 
Wright, D. D. 

FAITH METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

This church is situated on South Liberty 
Street, opposite High Street, in South Dela- 
ware. The church, which was dedicated Jan- 
uary 4. 1 So 1. was the result of much mission- 
ary wi n"k carried on chieflv under the auspices 
of" the St. Paul's M. E. Church. Before the 
church was built the mission workers met and 
held their services in the homes of the people. 
Later a store room was secured, and finally a 
hall in the old brick building on the south- 
w est corner of Liberty and Ross Streets be- 
came the home of the congregation until the 
church was built. Much of the success of the 
work was due to the benevolent and self-sacri- 
ficing spirit of Dr. Frederick Merrick and his 
beloved wife, both now erone to their reward. 



The work grew so rapidly that a church be- 
came necessary, and was accordingly built and 
dedicated as stated above. 

Rev. J. Mitchell, a superannuate member 
of the Ohio Conference, was appointed to take 
charge of the work, and truly the work he has 
done has not been in vain. His name and 
character are indelibly impressed upon all the 
old homes of South Delaware. In 1897, Rev. 
A. L. Rogers, a student in the University, 
took charge of the work, and so rapidly did it 
grow, that it was necessary to build a large ad- 
dition on the rear end of the church. Brother 
Rogers carried this work through successfully. 
He ministered unto the people for three years. 
Following him came Rev. J. A. Currier, who 
served the charge three years. In 1903 Rev. 
P. C. Hargraves served one year. Rev. C. E. 
Turley came in 1904 and served two years. 
In 1906 the present pastor was sent to the 
work. 

The church is thoroughly organized, and 
still continues to do good work in South Dela- 
ware. The church has a membership of eighty, 
and maintains a Sunday school with an aver- 
age attendance of sixty, which meets every 
Sunday. It still has the old-time class meet- 
ing, which meets every Sunday morning at 
9 130. During the present pastorate the church 
has been covered with a new slate roof, and a 
new furnace has been placed in the enlarged 
and improved building. 

TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

The pioneer members of this church were : 
A. Highwarden and wife; Jesse Merritt and 
wife: Alexander Austin and wife: Abel Wil- 
son; J. W. Highwarden; Hattie McLamore, 
Rosa Austin, Anna Brown, Thomas Brown 
and wife ; Fannie Crawford, George Merritt, 
and others. 

The first meeting held consisted of Bible 
readings at the houses of the various persons 
mentioned. After which the members were 
organized into a church society by Rev. I. F. 
Brown, who preached the first sermon in 
Abram Highwarden's house on Ross Street, 
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Street. The trustees and members of the 
Second Baptist Church very kindly permitted 
them to hold some meetings in a room they 
had on Ross Street. After that they held 
meetings in a small house on Eaton Street for 
several years. Following this, the trustees, 
Thomas Brown, Abel Wilson and George 
Merritt, secured a lot which was purchased 
from Mrs. W. T. Watson, for $300, upon 
which a foundation was placed, costing $55. 
This was paid by these people and the present 
church building erected through the efforts 
of Rev. G. W. Bailey. The cost estimated at 
$1,278 (by the builder, E. M. Heller), was 
somewhat modified by a few changes in the 
plan, which made the amount really paid 
about one thousand dollars, secured from the 
People's Building and Loan Association, and 
which has Ijeen canceled through the untiring- 
efforts of that grand and noble Christian gen- 
tleman. Rev. J. H. Payne. 

The names of the preachers who have had 
charge of the church are : J. F. Brown, W. C. 
Echols, O. W. Fox, Alexander Austin, J. G. 
Jones, Elijah Henderson, W. W. Heston, Rob- 
ert Adkins, G. W. Bailey, Elam Whyte, Rev. 
Mr. Flanigan, Joel Perkins, William Renfro, 
D. V. Disney, Rev. Mr. Brooks, G. D. Wil- 
liams and J. H. Payne. The elders who have 
presided over the district are Joseph Court- 
ney, E. W. Hammonds. M. S. Johnson, T. L. 
Ferguson and Elder Simmons. 

This society was presented to the Lexing- 
ton Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church by Rev. J. F. Brown, and accepted un- 
der Bishop Foss. This society from the first 
has complied with the requirements of the 
church in regard to organizing- a Sunday 
school, and other auxiliaries of the church. J. 
W. Highwarden being the first Sunday 
school superintendent, followed by Hattie Mc- 
Lamore, George Merritt and A. V. Austin. 
The membership of the school is forty-five, 
with an average attendance of thirty-eight. 
The present pastor is Rev. J. T. Leggett. 

UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH. 

This society was organized in 1902, by 
Rev. Galbrand and H. Hatton. It was the re- 



sult of a revival held in Faith Chapel. Several 
of the U. B. faith having taken part in this 
revival, were not satisfied to unite with the 
Faith M. E. Church, and formed a society of 
twenty members. They first held their serv- 
ices in the Highwarden Hall, and Rev. Whit- 
nell was their first minister. After the Trin- 
ity M. E. Church erected their new church on 
Liberty Street, they occupied the building 
which the Trinity people had used on Eaton 
Street. Since that time, Rev. N. Allebaugh, 
Rev. Berry, Rev. Smith and Rev. A. Gar- 
brand, have been pastors. The present supply 
is a lady, Rev. Mary Lemmon. About 1904, 
what was known as the Woodgrove Church 
was moved to Delaware by Wayne Hazelton, 
and they now occupy that building. The so- 
ciety remains in connection with the Radical 
L T . B. Church as distinguished from the Lib- 
eral U. B. Church. The present membership 
is fifty-six. 

BERKSHIRE TOWNSHIP. 

The religious history of this township is 
an interesting one, and dates back to the ar- 
rival of the first settlers, as they were nearly 
all religious people. The family of Colonel 
Byxbe was of the Presbyterian creed, that of 
Major Brown, together with the Paines, 
Plumbs and Curtices were members of the 
Episcopal Church. 

With the advent of the Carpenters in the 
southern part of the township came the Meth- ' 
odist. Gilbert Carpenter was a minister in 
that church, and it was not long until a society 
was organized in that locality. There were 
about fourteen members, and their meetings 
were held in a hewed log schoolhouse. erected 
not far from 1813. Gilbert Carpenter and his 
nephew, Benjamin, Jr., with occasional visits 
from itinerants, supplied the society with 
preaching. 

Two years later the Methodist organized 
a society in Sunbury, and held their meetings 
during the winter in the surrounding cabins, 
and in the summer in Judge Carpenter's barn. 
The people came from a distance of ten miles 
with ox-teams and barefooted in summer, and 
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meetings. The ministers were not" college- 
bred men, nor men marked with special gifts 
for the ministry. They wore the home-made 
clothing of the settlers, and were often com- 
pelled to endure hardships, not even known by 
those living in the cabins. In 1825. a frame 
building now standing in Galena, was erected, 
is well maintained, and continues to be the 
rallying-point for the Methodists in the south- 
ern part of the township. 

At Sunbury the society used a brick school- 
house for their services until 1839, when they 
erected a frame church costing $1,500. The 
Episcopal society helped in building this 
church with the understanding that they were 
to have the use of it part of the time. The 
latter organization became extinct through 
removal and change of membership. The 
church was used by the Methodists until about 
two years ago, when a larger and more com- 
modious structure was erected. The first cir- 
cuit was established in 1831, with Rev. James 
Mclntyre as presiding elder. 

Another organization of the M. E.'s was 
effected at the Berkshire Corners in 1858, by 
Rev. Amos Wilson, with twenty members. 
This society erected a good frame church in 
i860, and have maintained an even course, 
with about sixty members to the present time. 

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL. 

The second denomination to organize in 
point of time was the Protestant Episcopal. 
The first sermon was preached in Major 
Brown's house in 1818, by Bishop Chase, the 
first bishop of the diocese, on Monday after 
Easter, March 23, 1818. Those of this belief 
met at the house of David Prince and or- 
ganized a society and elected the following of- 
ficers : Clerk, Carlos Curtis ; wardens, Icha- 
bod Plumb, Zenos Ross and Aaron Strong; 
lay readers, David Prince and Carlos Curtis. 
For ten years or more services were held in 
private houses and Rev. Stern and others 
served as rectors. A brick church ' with a 
triple Gothic windows in front was erected. 
This church was considered a great achieve- 



ment at this early date. This building is said 
to be the third Episcopal church building 
erected in the State. The society has been 
abandoned, but the building still stands at 
Berkshire Corners, and has been used for a 
number of years as a public school building. 

The leading church of this denomination 
is at Galena, and was organized in 1875 by 
Rev. John Eley, with ten members. The re- 
maining members at Berkshire Corners united 
with this society. In 1877, assisted by the 
community, a handsome brick church was 
erected, the plan being drawn by a Xew Jer- 
sey architect. The society still exists and is in 
a moderately flourishing condition. 

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

There were at the Corners several fami- 
lies, viz. : Bennett, Gregory and Paterson, who 
attended services at the old Court House, 
Delaware, conducted by Rev. Hughs, a son- 
in-law of Colonel Byxbe. In 181 7 Rev. 
Ebenezer Washburn, a Presbyterian minister, 
drove in the Corners in a steel-shod sled, a cir- 
cumstance which gave him no little distinction 
at that time. He held services in the cabins, 
but the Presbyterians united with what is 
known as the Blue Church, and he moved to 
Genoa Township. In 1844, a church called 
Galena, and in 1846 another called Porter, 
had been organized by Rev. Ahab Jink's, and 
supplied by him. These churches were united 
in 1848 and called Union. Union was united 
with Sunbury in 1861. The society had but 
little preaching, and in 1866 was dissolved. 
These organizations w : ere connected with the 
New School branch of the Presbyterian 
Church. 

In 1878, a society was again organized at 
Sunbury by Rev. Robert Wyley and others, 
with thirty-four members. The society was 
served by Rev. Wyley, but did not flourish. 
The services were held in the school house and 
hall, no house of worship being erected. The 
society was disbanded by Marion Presbytery 
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BAPTIST CHURCH. 

This denomination was represented in 
Berkshire as early as 1812 by Elder Henry 
George. He was a Welshman, spoke with 1 
marked brogue, and a plain man with excellent 
common sense. No church was organized, 
however, until 1835. This occurred in Dis- 
trict No. 2, of Trenton Township, and was 
called the Walnut Creek Baptist Church. They 
worshiped in a log school house until 1837, 
when the society moved to Sunbury. and in 
1838 erected the structure which has been used 
continuously until the present time. The first 
pastor after coming to Sunbury was Rev. Gil- 
dersleve, followed by Rev. Roberts. 

FREE WILL BAPTIST. 

In the winter of 1876-77, Rev. Mr. Mur- 
ray of Sunbury held a series of meetings at 
Rome Corners, which were crowned with suc- 
cess, and he sought to establish a church at 
that place. There did not seem to be a de- 
sire for such an organization, and in a perfectly 
friendly spirit, the minister and people joined 
m inviting Rev. Mr. Whittaker to organize a 
Free Will Baptist society. This society in 
1877 erected a substantial frame church, lo- 
cated at the Corners. This building still 
stands, but is not occupied, the society having 
been disbanded several years ago. 

SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 

The Sunday schools, as they existed in the 
early settlements, were not such as we have 
now In many cases the rudiments of educa- 
tion were joined with instruction in the Scrip- 
tures. The first school of this sort was opened 
by Julia Strong, daughter of Major Strong, 
about [814. The house stood on the Gaylord 
property near the bridge east of Sunbury. An- 
other school akin to this was opened about 
[816 by Miss Bowen, a sister-in-law of Rev. 
Ebenezer Washburn. Her method was to in- 
vite the little folks to her bouse on the Sab- 
bath, and read to them a passage of Scripture, 
then a historical sketch calculated to interest 



children's minds, and then would teach them a 
short passage of Scripture, which they were 
to repeat the next Sabbath. The Hon. O. D. 
Hough was one of her pupils, and believes 
these to have been the first Sunday schools in 
the east part of the county, if not the first in 
the county. 

BERLIN TOWNSHIP. 

The Baptists were the first to enter the 
field in this township. Rev. Mr. Wyatt came 
early in this locality and organized a society 
in the Olentangy Valley, and went into Ber- 
lin Township once a month and preached in 
the cabins of the early settlers. He carried on 
his work as far East as Trenton Township, 
and from time to time as the membership 
would warrant it, would set off from the parent 
society in Liberty Township separate organi- 
zations. 

The Alum Creek Baptist Church was or- 
ganized in 1816. and met for the first time in 
the blockhouse which had done service in time 
of war. For eight years the Baptist Church 
held its meetings here, and then voted to erect 
a frame building, on the road about half-way 
between Cheshire and Berlin Station, where 
the old cemetery is. The building is now a 
town hall, and the cemetery is sadly neglected. 

Among the members at that time were 
Isaia Muuroe, David Lewis. Sr., Joseph 
Eaton, and their wives, John Johnston, Sarah 
Brady and Polly Noko. The two latter were 
colored women. Sarah Brady died at the age 
of one hundred and fourteen. She was a serv- 
ant in George Washington's family and for a 
long time was connected with the family of 
General Sullivan of Revolutionary fame. In 
1854, the Baptist Church building now stand- 
ing in Cheshire, was erected at a cost of $700. 
It was dedicated the latter part of the year, 
and a bell placed in the belfry the next year. 
Rev. Philander Kelsey was the first pastor in 
this edifice. Another minister contemporary 
with Rev. Wyatt was Elder Jacob Drake. He 
was a surveyor and was much among the peo- 
ple. His preaching was done mostly in the 
cabins of these early pioneers. An incident is 




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related which shows that "chickens" were not 
considered then the only diet good for a minis- 
ter. He came out from Delaware one morn- 
ing - in 1808 before breakfast, and a meal was 
prepared for him. The table was a puncheon, 
smoothed off on the upper side, and supported 
by pins driven in the logs of the cabin. When 
the meal was announced he sat down to a 
single baked potato, with salt in a clam shell, 
and water in a gourd. He hail walked seven 
miles and relished this breakfast as well as we 
do our fine dinners. 

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

Probably the first Presbyterian minister 
who preached in the bounds of Berlin Town- 
ship was a Rev. Stevens who came from the 
East on a missionary tour of exploration. Rev. 
Ebenezer Washburn came to Berkshire in 
181 7. He organized the Presbyterian fami- 
lies in Kingston, Berkshire and Berlin Town- 
ships in a congregation in 181 8. A great re- 
vival occurred in 1828, and the families living 
in Berlin Township were organized into a sep- 
arate congregation in October, 1829. The 
first elders were John Roloson. Stephen 
Chandler and Paul Ferson. In 1830 there 
were ninety members. Rev. Ahab Jinks lie- 
came stated supply from 1829 to 1832. He 
was a man peculiar in more respects than his 
name. It is said that when a young boy he 
was the leader of a godless band of young 
ruffians, for whose support he would mimic the 
preachers he heard, giving their sermons ver- 
batim. Going to hear Dean Swift, his course 
of life was changed, and he turned his ability 
toward the right. On one occasion he preached 
from Isaiah 1 .2. an especially brilliant sermon 
to his parishioners in Berlin, which greatly 
impressed them, and it was generally regarded 
that the minister had outdone himself. One of 
his parishioners went to Genoa in the after- 
noon where the heard to his utmost astonish- 
ment the same identical sermon delivered by 
Mr. Judson, the earliest of the Sunday school 
agents. At another time, desiring t* 1 get up 
a camp-meeting in Berlin, Mr. Jinks preached 
a sermon which carried everv obtacle before 



it, and aroused the people to the pitch of 
camp-meeting fervor. The arrangements 
were made for the meeting in the Dickermaii 
woods, and it was carried on with great suc- 
cess. Near the close, Mr. Jinks had a Rev. 
Mr. Pomeroy to assist in conducting the meet- 
ings. He came and delivered for his first ef- 
fort the very sermon which had so aroused the 
people some time before. When asked to ex- 
plain these coincidences, Mr. Jinks quietly re- 
marked that he had heard them delivered, con- 
sidered them good sermons, and thought he 
would give his parishioners the benefit of 
them. 

During this time a frame church edifice 
was erected. Milton H. Sackett became an 
elder and Rev. Calvin N. Ranson was pastor 
from 1832 to 1837. At this date the mem- 
bership was one hundred. Elders alter that 
date to 1870 were Benonah Dickerman, Jo- 
seph Roloson. A. M. Spear, Lewis Thompson, 
C. W. Smith and J. C. Ryant. Ministers, 
Darius C. Allen, Henry Shedd, A. D. Chap- 
man, A. S. Avery, John W. Thompson. Since 
1870, J. L. Tower, Thomas Hill, A. C. Crist. 
James Darah, W. F. Cellar, John McDowell, 
S. S. Arkman, M. W. Brown, James Hickling, 
E. M. Scott, Samuel Heucker. J. M. Wyhe 
have served the church, and at present J. G. 
Curry is the pastor. The church was rebuilt 
all but the old frame in 1875, under the pas- 
torate of Rev. A. C. Crist, and is in good re- 
pair. The building stands about three-quar- 
ters of a mile south of Cheshire. 

WEST BERLIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 

This church was organized in 187'). Rev. 
Thomas Hill, Rev. W. G. March, and Elders 
Dr. J. M. Briggs, being the committee desig- 
nated by Presbytery, with thirty-two mem- 
bers, eighteen of these being dismissed from 
the Berlin church to join in the organization. 
For several months before the organization 
Rev. Thomas Hill had preached in the West 
Berlin schoolhouse, which led to the above re- 
sult. A frame structure was soon erected, and 
is now the home of a substantial congregation 
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greater part been associated with the Old Ber- 
lin Church and supplied by the same pastor. 

METHODIST EPISCOPAL. 

This church was the third in point of time 
organized in the township. Rev. \ "inal Stew- 
ard was the first minister who in 1814 formed 
a class composed of Jacob Aye, wife and chil- 
dren, John Jacob, Jr., Henry, Betsy, Katie, 
Polly, and Peggy, Lewis Sherwood and wife, 
John Lewis and wife. About 1829 they put 
up a hewed log meeting-house, north of Che- 
shire Corners in which they worshiped until 
1845. They then held their services in the 
Presbyterian Church for about three years. A 
frame house of worship was erected at a cost 
of $500 in the village, and dedicated in 1849. 
In 1878 the society added a bell. The building 
is in good repair and occupied by a flourishing 
society. 

The Wesleyan Methodists had an organi- 
zation in the southwest corner of the township 
about 1870, and was continued for about 
twenty years. This society became extinct, 
and the Christian Union occupied the build- 
ing for five years. This society has also be- 
come extinct, and a Society of Friends now oc- 
cupy the building, which is known as the Fair 
View Church. 

UNITED BRETHREN. 

The Peach Blow Church in the southern 
part of the township belongs to this denomina- 
tion. It was organized in 1857 with twenty 
members. Their meetings were first held in a 
schoolhouse in the west side of the township. 
The house of worship now occupied was 
erected in 1808 on land belonging to G. A. 
Stover. The building is a neat frame one and 
cost at the time $700. The first pastor was 
Virgil Pond. The church was dedicated as 
Berlin Chapel, but on account of the color 
which it was once painted, it is said to have 
taken the name of Peach Blow, the name by 
which it is now known. A few members of 
this denomination settled around Alum Creek 
Postoffice on the road from Delaware to Sun- 



bury, and previous to i860 held services at the 
home of O. R. May. About this time, a frame 
building was erected on the land of Nathaniel 
Roloson, and was known as the North Berlin 
United Brethren Church. Mr. Roloson gave 
the aid he did with the understanding that the 
house would be open for the use of all de- 
nominations. The first pastor was Rev. Wil- 
liam Davis. The society is now abandoned 
and the church not used. 

UNIVERSALIST. 

The Umiversalists made an attempt to get 
a foothold in this township in 1820. They 
held a camp-meeting in a grove near the bridge 
south of Cheshire, conducted by Rev. Mr. 
Rogers, but no results came of the effort. 

As we trace the history of these pioneer 
efforts the feeling comes to us like this, 

"Something beautiful has vanished 

Which we sigh for now in vain. 
We behold it everywhere, 
On the earth and in the air, 

But it never comes to us again." 

BROWN TOWNSHIP. 

The early training of the pioneers of 
Brown Township soon made itself felt after 
their settlement in the wilderness. Though 
their trials and cares were heavy, they found 
time to read a chapter from the old Bible, and 
return thanks to God for preservation and pro- 
tection. The first society formed in the neigh- 
borhood was in 1828. and of the Methodist 
Episcopal denomination. It was organized at 
Mr. Thurston's, and consisted of himself and 
wife, Joseph Thurston and wife, Zenas Leon- 
ard and wife, and Phoebe Thrall. Once a 
week they would meet together, and. as they 
were without a shepherd, prayer-meetings 
only were held. Soon after the Methodists 
got well into the harness, the Presbyterians 
commenced work. They organized a society 
at Mr. Thurston's, as his cabin seems to have 
been a kind of religious headquarters. For a 
number of years, these two societies continued 
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stances. At length, a society of the New 
School Presbyterians was formed, with the 
following members: John Hestwood and 
wife, Hugh Lee anil wife, Robert Kinkaid and 
wife, James Kinkaid and wife. They, with 
the Baptists, in 1836, built a church of hewed 
logs, in which they worshiped for several 
years ; the Methodists also occupied it on spe- 
cial occasions. In 1841, a frame church build- 
ing was erected by the congregation near the 
same spot. But they allowed their imagina- 
tion to run away with them, and laid their foun- 
dation on such an extensive scale, that they 
were unable to complete the building. Finally 
they tore it down, and of the material erected 
a smaller one upon the same site. This build- 
ing was superseded by a more pretentious one 
in 1855, and the old church converted into a 
residence, which is now occupied by Norton 
T. Longwell. This building was erected in 
the south part of the village of Eden. The 
New School Branch mentioned above was dis- 
banded in 1S48, and nearly all the members 
united with the Old School Branch, and it was 
the united society that erected this church. 
The building has been improved at various 
times, and is still occupied by a flourishing con- 
gregation. During the existence of the New- 
School church, it was served by the following 
ministers : The first pastor of the congrega- 
tion was Rev. Mr. Jenks. who had charge of a 
church in Kingston Township at the same 
time. A. D. Chapman, from 1838 to 1842; 
John Hunt, from 1845 to l8 40- The Old 
School Church was served by William D. 
Smith, occasionally; John Pitkin, 1841-1843; 
Ahab Jinks. 1S44-1854; David McCarter, 
1 855- 1 860; Robert L. Adams, 1863- 1864; Da- 
vid H. Coyner. 1865-1866; J. L. Lower. 1868- 
1871. Members in the vear 1871 numbered 
sixtv-eight. A. C. Crist 1872-1876; M. M. 
Lauson. 1877-1878; D. C. Porter and D. H. 
Green. 1879: W. E. Thomas, 1880-1885; T.' 
1'. Atkins. 1 887-1888; E. A. Scott, 1892-1900; 
A. C. Crist, six months : Samuel Huecker, 
1901-1906; present supply, H. Huffman, a 
student of the Ohio Wesleyan University. 

It may well be added that the eldership of 
these Presbyterian churches were men of noted 
and substantial character, and several of them 



took an active part in the Underground Rail- 
road. The most of them are buried in the old 
cemetery by the place where the log church 
was erected. 

There were others who took an active pari 
in the formation of a Free-Will Baptist 
Church, and the original members were John 
Moore, Thomas Cowgill and wife. Isaac Eaton 
and wife, Orlando Root and wife, Zenas Root 
and wife, Thomas Agard and wife. Spofford 
Root and wife. Nathaniel Arnold and wife, 
and Isaac Thurston and wife. Rev. Isaac 
Eaton was the pastor, assisted occasionally by 
Rev. S. Wyatt. In 1848. some twelve years 
after its organization — years of more or less 
usefulness — it was discontinued as a society. 
The next year, after the disbanding of this so- 
ciety, the Baptists and Methodists, together 
with Charles Neil, O. D. Hough. Vinal and 
Norton Thurston, and Thomas Hargraves. 
with their families, built the church in the vil- 
lage of Eden. Rev. William Godman. a son 
of Lawyer Godman, of Marion, was the 
preacher in charge of the circuit at the time 
the church was built. He was a graduate of 
the Ohio Wesleyan University, and a minister 
of considerable merit. An addition has just 
been added to this church and Rev. C. A. 
Edington, a student of the Ohio Wesleyan 
University, is the present pastor. 

Leonardsburg M. E. Church. This church 
was organized in the winter of 1862. In i860. 
Rev. William Litell and some students of the 
Ohio Wesleyan University preached in the 
school at this place. In the fall of 1861 a 
prayer meeting was held on the Sundays 
when there was no preaching, and Isaiah Wil- 
liams was the leader of this meeting. In the 
following January, revival meetings were held 
by Rev. H. Van Gundy and Valorus 
Pond (United Brethren preacher), Rev. 
Van Gundy being retained as pastor 
for one year. An M. E. society was organized 
and in 1862 a frame building was erected cost- 
ing in all about $1,500, being dedicated about 
the first of January, 1868, by Rev. Harvey 
Wilson. The church now has a membership oi 
fifty, and Rev. Frank T. Cartwright is their 
pastor. 



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The Baptist Church at Leonardsburg 
was organized September 12, 1880. with a 
membership of eleven members, as follows: 
Edward Evans and wife, Elias Frost and wife, 
James Beckwith and wife, James Jones. C. 
Main and wife, Sarah Hornbeck and Sarah 
Evans. Only two of the number now remain. 
C. Main and Sarah Nelson, nee Evans. Rev. 
J. Wenman was chosen pastor and C. Main as 
clerk, and Edward Evans treasurer. In 1882, 
they erected a frame church, costing $860. J. 
Hevalow being the builder. The society now 
consists of nine members, but has no regular 
preaching. 

CONCORD TOWNSHIP. 

The first church building in Concord 
Township was an old granary, donated for 
that purpose by James Kooken. Soon after 
this, A. Depp ( colored) put up a log-cabin 
church on his farm, as a place of worship for 
the colored Baptists. The Bellepoint United 
Brethren Church was formerly situated in 
close proximity to the old Oiler Cemetery. 
about a mile below Bellepoint, on the east 
side of the river. The church was originally 
started by the Oilers, Jacob, Peter and George, 
and was a frame building. The early records 
are lost, and hence much of its history cannot 
be obtained. In 1864, being somewhat torn 
by internal strife and differences, some of the 
most prominent members left and formed a 
new society called the Christian Union Church. 
The frame structure, after existing for thirty- 
five years, was torn down, and the charge 
transferred to Bellepoint. The present church 
is a fine brick building, and is the first built at 
the village. It cost about $2,600, and the 
fund for its erection was raised by general 
subscription. It was dedicated by Bishop 
Weaver, of the Northern Ohio Conference, in 
June, 1873, and the first sermon preached in 
it was by Elder Long, a Christian minister. 
The names of the different ministers since its 
removal to the village are as follows: Revs. 
John V. Pott-. |. C. Beady, D. W. Downey, I. 
B. Resler. J. IT Cray ton, C. 1.. Barlow, D. F. 
Cender. J. E. Hill, E. Barnard, and others. 



The Christian Church was formed of dis- 
satisfied members of the old United Brethren 
Church, the dissatisfaction growing out of ques- 
tions as to the result of the War of 1861-65. 
The society was organized the first Sunday in 
April, 1864, at the house of Rev. R. Gates, 
and the first sermon was preached by him. For 
several years, the society had no meeting- 
house. They made an effort to buy the old 
frame church from the United Brethren, hut 
owing to the high price they were unable to 
do so, and for a time their meetings were held 
in private residences and. when the weather 
would admit, in the groves, "God"s first tem- 
ples." Alter great exertions, they at length 
succeeded in building a comfortable brick edi- 
fice, 40x30 feet, at a cost of $1,050. It was 
erected on the site occupied by the United 
Brethren Church. The following ministers 
have officiated since its formation : Revs. R. 
Gates, W. W. Lacy, George W. Higgins. 
Jacob Haskins, Levi Ely, Purdy King, Wil- 
liam Davis, Rev. Hanawalt, and others. 

The Baptist Church is situated on the 
pike, a half mile east of Bellepoint, and was es- 
tablished in 1853. The following ministers 
have had charge of the society : Rev. Levi R. 
Jones, who officiated from October, 1855. to 
March, i860; Rev. R. Gates, who held the 
charge from March, i860, to March, 1865. 
when he joined the Christian Union Church. 
The church then accepted the ministrations 
of Rev. Seth Gates, his brother, who had 
just repudiated the United Brethren Church. 
He officiated until 1869. when the church com- 
pletely died out, and continued in a dormant 
state until 1879, and was then resuscitated. 
On the 24th of May, of this year, it was again 
opened for worship, and the day following 
Rev. Isenbarger, of Delaware, preached an 
excellent sermon. For a time they had their 
pulpit occasionally supplied by pastors of other 
charges. The old building still stands, but the 
society disbanded several years ago. 

The Eversole United Brethren Church 
takes its name from old Father Eversole. who 
fault it, and was long instrumental in keeping 
it up. No records are to be found, and au- 
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Rev. Mr. Bernard was the last pastor. A 
frame church was erected between the Home 
and Jerome, and is now used as a hay barn. 

Presbyterian Church. In 1852, Rev. \V. 
H. Brinkerhoff organized a church in tins 
township with thirteen members. He was the 
only supply, and the church was dissolved in 
i860. The name given to the church was 
Stanbury. Xo church building was erected. 

Many years ago, camp-meetings used to be 
in vogue in Concord, as they were in many 
other sections of the country. The first of 
these of which we have any account was held 
at the house of Mr. Eversole, near where the 
United Brethren Church'now stands. After a 
few years, the place of holding the meetings 
was changed to grounds near Rigger's bridge, 
which spans the Scioto where the Marysville 
pike crosses it. The bridge is now in Sen >t< > 
Township, but at that time (about 1838-39), 
was in Concord. For a number of years, this 
was a place for holding camp-meetings, and 
the scene of much good and some evil. 

Spring View. This church situated on 
the east bank of the Scioto, overlooking the 
Girls' Industrial Home, was the outgrowth of 
a Sunday school held in a schoolhouse near by. 
When Rev. Thomas Hill was pastor of the 
Liberty Presbyterian Church, he urged his 
members to look up places where Sunday 
schools could be organized. C. T. Carson and 
wife were members of the Liberty Church, and 
took heed to the request of their pastor. They 
asked leave of the school directors to use the 
schoolhouse for a Sunday school, which was 
readily granted. Thomas Hall, who was em- 
ployed at the Girls' Home, was elected the 
first superintendent. Some difficulty was ex- 
perienced in getting some one to open the 
school with prayer. But Mrs. Carson volun- 
teered to perform the duty and was the first 
to offer prayer for the new enterprise. Dr. 
Frederick Merrick, of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, was a trustee for the Home, and t' x >k 
an interest in the work, and helped the school 
by a donation of books for their use. He also 
arranged for the Methodist Episcopal minister 
who was preaching at Jerome, to go and hold 
services at the school house. A revival was 



the result, and those desiring a Methodist or- 
ganization predominated, with the result 1l1.1t 
a .Methodist Episcopal Church was organized. 
The schoolhouse was soon found too small for 
the growing interest, and the need of a church 
building was felt. The proposition was made 
by Lige Carl (not a church member), George 
Stokes and C. T. Carson, that they would give 
$400 ($133 each), if the enterprise was con- 
summated. This was done by smaller con- 
tributions, and a frame church was erected 
(the building now occupied), and dedicated by 
Elder King. The following ministers were 
the first to serve the new organization : Revs. 
Thurston, Shoop, the wife of whom died 
when he was living on the field, Abernathy, 
Argo, Prios, Creighton, Holcomb, A. S. Rodg- 
ers, Judd, Tubbs, H. H. Miller. T. M. Rick- 
etts. T. Z. Wakefield, P. H. Mindling. The 
society is connected with the Jerome circuit. 
A good Sunday school is maintained. 

DELAWARE TOWNSHIP. 

There have been two organized churches 
in this township, outside the limits of the city 
of Delaware, Wood Grove, and Stratford, 
both Methodist Episcopal. 

Wood Grove. This church was organized 
in the early fifties, and a frame building 
erected on the Bellepoint Road, about two 
miles southwest from Delaware. It formed 
a part of the Delaware circuit. Regular preach- 
ing services were maintained only for a few 
years, and then it became a mission in connec- 
tion with St. Paul's Church. A mission was 
established in South Delaware about this time 
by St. Paul's church, and the Wood Grove 
building was purchased by the Presbyterian 
Church of Delaware, under the pastorate of 
Rev. N. S. Smith, about 1874. A Sabbath 
school w^as maintained by the Delaware 
church for several years and among the work- 
ers was Dr. H. N. Allen, who afterwards 
went to Corea, and became the noted mission- 
ary worker in that land. The school was main- 
tained irregularly until five years ago, when 
the building was sold to Wayne Hazelton. 
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Street, Delaware, and recently gave it to the 
Radical United Brethren Society, and it is 
now occupied by that church as a place of 
worship. 

Stratford Methodist Episcopal Church. 
After a lapse of more than sixty years, since a 
church was first built in what is now Strat- 
ford, and with the absence of all the old pio- 
neer ministers, elders, class leaders and mem- 
bers, either in other sections of the county, or 
in the Happy Land, it is a very difficult matter 
to give a definite account of its original and 
early history. 

A little later than the middle of the 30*s, 
Messrs. Hosea Williams and Caleb Howard, 
of Delaware, secured a site and commenced 
work on a large stone structure for the purpose 
of manufacturing paper, and while one set of 
men were engaged in this, another set were 
engaged in building a commodious frame house 
a few rods farther north for a boarding house. 
This was completed first, and here was the first 
public preaching place. In fine weather, the 
preacher stood on a porch on the south side 
of the house, the congregation seated in the 
shade of a mammoth elm tree, apparently of 
several centuries' growth. In bad or indiffer- 
ent weather, services were held in the large 
west room. The first preaching was done by 
an Episcopalian minister from Delaware, Mr. 
Fairfield, the first boarding-house keeper, and 
Mr. Howard, both being members of that de- 
nomination. Rev. James McElroy and Rev. 
Mr. French, being some that I recall. The 
second boarding-house keeper was Alex. An- 
derson, of Delaware, a Presbyterian, and 
while he was there, the people listened to 
Revs. Putnam and Henry Van Deman. Dur- 
ing this time, a large Sunday school was in ex- 
istence during the summer, held in the Meeker 
schoolhouse some distance north. Stratford 
was named July 4, 1841. a few months after 
the paper mills first burned out. 

After some trouble in securing a site, 
work was started early in 1842, on what is 
now the present Methodist Episcopal Church 
at Stratford. This church was about midway 
between Delaware and the Cellar (Presbyter- 
ian) Church in Liberty Township. The first 



public service held in this new church build- 
ing was on July Fourth, 1844, on the occasion 
of the celebration of the sixty-eighth anniver- 
sary of the Declaration of Independence. It 
was filled from pulpit to the door. There was 
fine singing, an eloquent prayer, reading of 
the Declaration of Independence, followed by 
a grand oration by Rev. Adam Poe, of Dela- 
ware ; then a procession was formed which 
marched to the yard at the Meeker homestead, 
where, under the cedar trees, a great dinner 
was spread; after this was disposed of, some 
fancy drills were given by the Delaware Lan- 
cers under command of Captain Eugene Pi w- 
ell. (This Fourth was on Thursday.) For 
nearly three years, the congregation and Sun- 
day school continued like the small cloud, no 
larger than a man's hand, until the winter 
of 1846-47, when came what was popularly 
called for long years thereafter, "Pilcher's Re- 
vival." This meeting was opened early in 
January, 1847. and continued until "sugar 
making." At the same time, the Olentangy 
River was a mighty flood of waters. Rev. H. 
E. Pilcher, of Delaware, had general charge, 
while Methodist Episcopal ministers from 
Delaware, Professors in the College, students 
and local exhorters assisted. A long list of 
souls were happily converted and added to the 
church. It soon became under Methodistic 
control, and for some years, the congregation 
worshiping there was the largest of any sin- 
gle Methodist Episcopal Church in Delaware 
County. Through deaths, removals and other 
good reasons, for many years, the attendance 
has greatly decreased. Not long since the 
building was enlarged, improved, and will 
compare favorably with any in this section. It 
is attached to the Lewis Center Circuit, and the 
pastor, a Rev. Mr. Davis, is a good and worthy 
man residing there. The presiding elder, 
Rev. A. Mann, resides in Delaware. 

GENOA TOWNSHIP. 

In the winter of 1806-07, John Williams, 
a local minister in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, came to this locality and erected a 
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bridge crosses the Big' Walnut, at what was 
known as Williams' Ford. It was not until 
the summer of 1807 that he moved his family, 
consisting of his wife and ten children, into 
their new home. He found this country al- 
most an unbroken wilderness, and, like a true, 
earnest pioneer, worked as well as prayed. In 
the daytime, the blows of his axe could be 
heard resounding through the woods, while 
in the evening he gathered his family about 
him and held a service of prayer. When Sun- 
day came, he would repair to the home of one 
of the early settlers, and deliver a sermon to 
those who had assembled. His first sermon 
was preached in the cabin of Joseph Latshaw, 
on the farm now occupied by John Roberts. 
Mr. Williams was the first minister in the 
neighborhood, but lived only five years after 
he had erected his cabin. 

The Rev. E. Washburn came with his 
wife to Genoa in the winter of 1816-17, when 
society and all else in this newly settled coun- 
try was comparatively in a primitive state. 
Money was almost unobtainable, and the lit- 
tle in circulation was, in many instances, un- 
stable and depreciated. Necessities were more 
difficult to secure than luxuries are now. Un- 
der such circumstances, and amidst these try- 
ing conditions, it would appear that a field of 
great usefulness was open to the advent of a 
man like Mr. Washburn. He was a uni- 
versally esteemed and beloved father in the 
Presbyterian ministry, an ordained and ap- 
pointed missionary of the Cross, but was solely 
dependent for support upon his labor and the 
voluntary contributions of the people among 
whom he devoted his untiring energies. At 
the time of his coming, there resided on Yan- 
kee Street only the families of Jonas Carter, 
John Curtis, William Hall. William Cox, 
Marcus Curtis, Johnson Pelton and Sylvester 
Hough. Previous to Mr. Washburn's arrival, 
there had been but one sermon preached by a 
Presbyterian clergyman within the present 
limits of the township, and not one had been 
preached upon the Sabbath day. He imme- 
diately commenced preaching throughout the 
regions which are now embraced in the town- 
ships of Blendon, in Franklin County. ( lenoa, 



Berkshire and Trenton, in Delaware County, 
and continued so to preach until the year 1829 
or 1830. He often spoke of the many acts 
of kindness and fraternal regard he and his 
family received from the hands of the early 
settlers and pioneers of the forest. Just pre- 
vious to his coming, there had been organized 
by the Rev. Mr. Hughes, then of Delaware, a 
Presbyterian Church in Berkshire, the mem- 
bers of which were scattered over Genoa and 
adjoining townships, but on looking for the 
records, none were found; so that, in 1818, 
the church was again formally organized, and 
Samuel Thompson, Julius White and John 
Brown were chosen and ordained as its ruling 
elders. This society soon became absorbed in 
the Kingston and Genoa churches. A New 
School church was organized in 1837 by Rev. 
C. N. Ransom, with ten members. No church 
building was erected, and the society was dis- 
solved in 1839. Mrs. Rachel Curtis, Mrs. 
Katy Curtis, Ralph Smith, William Hall and 
Alexander Smith were members of the Berk- 
shire church, but resided in the vicinity. In 
1830, the Presbytery set off the members who 
resided in the vicinity, and constituted them 
into a separate church, known as the "Presby- 
terian Church and Congregation of Genoa." 
The members who were thus set off were six- 
teen in number, and, as near as can possibly 
be ascertained, were Marcus Curtis and Katy, 
his wife, Ralph Smith, Rachel Curtis, William 
Hall, Alexander Smith, Nancy Allen, Free- 
man Chester, Simeon Chester and Clarissa, his 
wife, Diadatus Keeler, Eleazar Copeland, 
Obediah Seebring and Abigail, his wife. 
Mary Foote and Augustus Curtis. Just pre- 
vious to this time, the Rev. Mr. Washburn 
was living upon a tract of land containing a 
few acres, which he had purchased and im- 
proved, situated on the farm then owned by 
William Hall, nearly opposite the road leading 
to the mill, a little north of Mr. Roberts' resi- 
dence on Yankee Street. He continued to 
supply his neighborhood with preaching until 
some two years after he removed his residence 
to Blendon. 

On the 19th of February, 1831, the session 
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the Rev. Ahab Jinks being moderator, and Dia- 
datus Keeler and Dr. Eleazar Copeland, elders. 
These men were appointed by the Presbytery, 
and as there is no mention made on the rec- 
ords of their ordination, it is presumed they 
were elders in the Leburn, or Blendon Church, 
at the time of their transfer to this organiza- 
tion. The Rev. Ahab Jinks continued to min- 
ister to the congregation until 1836, when he 
was succeeded by Rev. Calvin Ransom. Dur- 
ing this year, fourteen members who resided 
in Trenton Township and its immediate vi- 
cinity, were set oft* and organized as the First 
Presbyterian Church of Trenton. In 1837, 
Mr. Jinks was again the stated supply, and so 
continued until 1841. During the year 1840, 
a protracted meeting was held, in which the 
Rev. Mr. Cable assisted the minister in charge. 
In 1842, the Rev. John McCutchen was their 
pastor, and continued to minister to the con- 
gregation one year. In 1844. the Rev. R. De 
Forrest came and preached as an evangelist 
for the space of about eight weeks. In the 
succeeding year, 1845, the Rev. Mr. Avery 
officiated, and continued his ministrations one, 
or perhaps, nearly two years. From the year 
1845 to the >' ear '850, the congregation en- 
joyed the labors of the Rev. Mr. Whipple, 
Rev. Milton Starr and Rev. M. Brown. In 
1850, the Rev. Warren Nichols occupied the 
pulpit and remained until about the close of 
the year 1852. In the summer of 1853, the 
Rev. David Coyner, then a licentiate of Frank- 
lin Presbytery, was employed, and continued 
his labors for two years and part of a third. 
From the fall of the year 1855 until the sum- 
mer of 1856, the pulpit was vacant. At that 
time, the Rev. Homer McVey, then a student 
of Lane Seminary, during his vacation 
preached for the charge occasionally. August 
1, 1856. the Rev. Warren Jenkins — from 
whose discourse delivered January 1, i860, has 
been gathered this information in relation to 
the church, and other items of interest — en- 
tered upon his labors, and, at the time this 
sermon was delivered, had supplied this con- 
gregation and that of Trenton alternately. Fol- 
lowing him, and for the space of three years 
and five months thereafter, the Rev. Mr. 



Coyner had charge, after which time for a 
number of yerirs the}' had no regular pastor. 
The following ministers have supplied the 
church since those above mentioned : Eben- 
ezer Washburn, Hugh B. Scott, lohn Camp- 
bell, 1867-68; Levi P. Sabin (J. A. F. Cellars 
and Arnold Glass became elders in 1858), 
James A. Darrah, Wilson F. Cellar, H. j_. 
Nave, S. S. Aikman, 1885, the last minister. 
In the summer, however, they had a Sunday 
school. When the church was first organized', 
it held meetings in the schoolhouse then stand- 
ing in the rear of the present residence of Au- 
gustua Curtis. In the year 1837-38, a house 
of worship was erected, and the same was 
dedicated the 8th of December, 1838. The so- 
ciety w r as dissolved September, 1890. The 
house still stands, but is now used for a hay 
barn. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church existed 
as an organization as early as 1840, worship- 
ing in schoolhouses and cabins of the settlers. 
It was not until 1849, they commenced to 
build at Maxwell Corners a frame church at a 
cost of $800. The church was dedicated by 
an English minister named Taylor. The 
ministers who have held this charge are as fol- 
lows : George G. West, Havens Parker. Wil- 
liam Porter, Havens Parker, Samuel C. Riker, 
Martindale, Brown, Dr. Gurley, Hooper. El- 
lis, Adair, and Elliott. This denomination ex- 
isted and worshiped in this church until about 
1865. At that time, the ministers in charge, 
Revs. Adair and Elliott, declined preaching 
longer on account of political differences, and 
brought the matter before the Quarterly Con- 
ference. The conference decided the church 
to be a non-organized band, and appointed a 
committee, consisting of John Millicent, Bijah 
Mann and Eligah Adams, to sell the church 
edifice. This committee immediately adver- 
tised the church for sale, and H. Bennett bid it 
off for $336 for the Christian Union denomi- 
nation, which had been formed out of the dis- 
solution of the Methodist Episcopal Society. 
The church was then rededicated, about 1866, 
by the Rev. Green, from Columbus, who had 
organized it. The ministers that have offici- 
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Green, _ Gates, Stephenson, Durant, Allen, 
Mann, Flax and others. The present pastor 
is J. W. Maxwell. Ph. D. The membership 

is forty, and the Sunday school membership 
is seventy-five. 

HARLEM TOWNSHIP. 

The first church or meeting-house built 
in this township was by the Methodists, in the 
year 1812, on the farm of Benajah Cook, 
Esq. It was a plain log house, small in size, 
and the first minister who officiated in it was 
the Rev. Daniel Bennett. For many years, 
there was regular preaching on "week days," 
once a month, and at first it belonged to the 
Columbus circuit, but afterward was attached 
to the YYorthington circuit. The congregation 
worshiped in this log house until 1838, when 
a new church was built upon the present site, 
about one-half mile north of Harlem. It is a 
large and commodious brick structure. The 
dedication sermon was preached by the Rev. 
Uriah Heath, of Worthington. At Center- 
ville, the Methodists have a church, an off- 
shoot of the Harlem Church, which was built 
about the year 1845. At first the congrega- 
tion worshiped in a schoolhouse just east of the 
village, and the Campbellites also worshiped 
in the school house on alternate Sundays, and. 
on account of the difficulties that would some- 
times occur between the respective congrega- 
tions, it was called, in derision, "Confusion 
Schoolhouse." The present structure was built 
about 1855, at a cost of $1,600. The bell cost 
§372. This church was also dedicated by the 
Rev. Uriah Heath. 

The Disciples, or Campbellites, organized 
a church in this township, in the year 1840. at 
the residence of Jonathan Bateson. The first 
organization consisted of nine members, as 
follows, viz. : James Oglesbee and wife, Jona- 
than Bateson and wife, James Beauseman and 
wife, C. D. Clark and Daniel Hunt and wife. 
The present church edifice is located about 
one mile east of Centerville, and cost $1,500. 
The membership is about seventy-five. A Sun- 
day school is maintained, but there is no regu- 
lar pastor at this time. 
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in the year 1861, the Old School Pre- 
destinarian Baptists organized a church, and 
built the church edifice in [868, the monej to 
build the same having been donated by Mrs. 
Huldah Fairchild. The first pastor was the 
Rev. John H. Biggs, followed by Elder Ly- 
man B. Hanover. Jackson Hanover, his son, 
is now pastor. 

KINGSTON TOWNSHIP. 

The early settlers of this township were a 
God-fearing and Christian people, and be- 
lieved implicitly in that religion that promises 
to the meek an earthly inheritance, and they 
brought with them the Bible, the prayer book 
and the hymn book, and they immediately ap- 
plied themselves to the improvement of their 
homes, the construction of roads, and the 
building of churches and schoolhouses. For 
many years, religious services were conducted 
in private houses and in the early schoolhouses, 
and, when the weather was pleasant, meetings 
were held outdoors in the groves. 

Kingston Presbyterian Church. This 
church was organized in 1818 by Rev. Eben- 
ezer Washburn, who had come to Berkshire 
in 1817 and preached there and in Kingston 
Township. The first elders were John White, 
William Gaston and John Wan Sickle. Rev. 
Washburn supplied the church from 1818 to 
1820, and William Matthews from 1821 to 
1824. In 1822, the first church was built. In 
that year, the Presbyterians erected a log 
meeting-house near the center of the township, 
as well as the center of population at that time, 
on the present site of the Old Blue Church, 
the cognomen by which it is now so widely 
known; and. while this humble church edifice 
belonged exclusively to the Presbyterians, 
when not occupied by them its doors were 
thrown open for all denominations. The 
Presbyterians in numbers were the strongest 
and next in numerical strength were the Meth- 
odists, and then the Baptists. At this time, 
the church membership and the population 
were rapidly on the increase, and five years 
after this, in 1827, they raised by subscription 
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a frame structure in place of the old one. This 
was quite an imposing church edifice for that 
day. Among the membership of this church, 
at this early day, were Moses Decker and 
wife, John Van Sickle and wife, John White 
and wife, Mr. Finley and wife, James Wheeler 
and wife, Isaac Finch and wife, Gilbert Potter 
and wife, John Brown and wife, Benjamin 
Benedict, William Wigton and his wife, Rich- 
ard Waldron, Thomas Carney and his brother 
James and his wife, William Waldron and 
others. The Rev. Ahab Jinks was their pas- 
tor. When finished, all but the painting, a 
skillful painter was employed, who went to 
work, and soon had the outside painted a 
beautiful drab color. Not long after its com- 
pletion, to the surprise of all. the color turned 
to a beautiful blue, which gave the church the 
church the name of the Blue Church, and it 
has ever retained that name, notwithstanding 
the change of color. This church was occu- 
pied until early in the 50's, when a new frame 
church was erected on the same ground. This 
church has been remodeled in 1907, and beau- 
tified, and is now a beautiful structure. Ahab 
Jinks supplied the church from 1827 to 1838. 
The membership at this time was one hundred 
and twenty-one. John Pitkins was pastor 
from 1841 to 1844; Ahab Jinks, second pas- 
torate, from 1849 to J 854; David McCarter 
from 1854 to i860; Calvin Mateer from 1861 
to 1862 (Mr. Mateer afterwards went to China 
as a missionary and has done a great work in 
that country): Robert L. Adams, Sr., from 
1863 to 1865; David H. Coyner from 1865 to 
1866; J. L. Lower from 1868 to 1871 ; Rev. 
Best a short time; A. C. Crist from 1873 t0 
1874; M. M. Lawson from 1875 to 1877; 
David H. Green from 1877 to ^78 ; John Mc- 
Dowell from 1878 to 1880; Nelson K. Crowe 
from 1881 to 1882; W. E. Thomas from 1883 
to 1886; T. B. Atkins from 1887 to 1888; E. 
M. Scott from 1893 to 1900; Samuel Huecker 
from 1901 to 1906; H. Hoffman, a student of 
the Ohio Wesleyan University is the present 
supply. For Kingston New School, see Por- 
ter Township. 

The next church in the township was the 
old Methodist Episcopal Church at Stark's 



Corners. It was built in the year 1836, al- 
though the society that built it was organized 
ten years previous. The society held their 
meetings for many years in the old log school- 
house, located on the first cross road west of 
Olive Green. This society also organized 
about the same time a Sabbath school, which 
was held in this schoolhouse. When the 
weather would permit, they would hold their 
quarterly meetings in a grove near by. where 
they had seats and a stand, and everything in 
readiness for the occasion ; but, when the 
weather was unfavorable or inclement, they 
used, by invitation, the Old Blue Church of 
the Presbyterians. The schoolhouse became 
too small to accommodate the congregation, 
and they changed their meetings to the dwell- 
ing - house of Mr. John Haselett. By his own 
personal effort, unaided by others, Mr. Hase- 
lett raised by subscription sufficient funds to 
build the church spoken of. The services of 
this congregation were irregular. The pas- 
tors who rode the circuit were compelled to 
hold meetings nearly every day of the week 
to get round once a month over their charge. 
Thus they were compelled to have week-day 
services and hold prayer meetings on the Sab- 
bath. Moses Decker, the architect and builder 
of the Old Blue Church, was the architect and 
builder of the M. E. Church, aided by Mr. Reid 
M. Cutcheon. At this church the society met 
and worshiped for many years, when the 
question of repairing the old church came up ; 
it needed a new roof, re-plastering, re-seating 
and re-painting. All these needful repairs 
would cost nearly as much as a new church, 
with the assistance offered them; and then 
again, the congregation in numbers had out- 
grown the capacity of the church for their ac- 
commodation, and to repair it they thought 
would lie a useless expenditure of money and 
time. Olive Green is a village three-quarters 
of a mile distant, in Porter Township, and its 
citizens held out inducements to rebuild the 
church and locate it there. At a meeting of 
the society, the Board of Trustees were di- 
rected to rebuild the church at Olive Green, 
which was done accordingly; and the new and 
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year 1853. Many of the membership in the 
southern part of the township obtained their 
letters from the Olive Green charge and joined 
the M. E. Church at Berkshire. 

The same year the Old Blue Church was 
built, Moses Decker, Isaac Finch, Samuel 
Finley and a few others, and their pastor. Rev. 
Mr. Jinks, came together and organized a 
Sunday school, and held it in the old log 
schoolhouse on the corner, near the church. It 
is thought this was the first Sabbath school 
organized in Delaware County. They or- 
ganized at the same time the first Sunday 
school library in the county. It was made up 
of small Sabbath school books and kept by the 
superintendent, Mr. Decker, in a trunk. The 
M. E. Sabbath school was the second in order 
of time in the county, but it was organized 
several years afterward. 

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. 

The first organized congregation of this 
township was the Liberty Presbyterian 
Church. This society was organized by Rev. 
Joseph Hughes in 1810, and was supplied by 
Rev. Hughes until his death in 1823. The 
session during the pastorate of the above and 
that of Henry Van Deman was united with 
the Delaware Church, and the first elders were 
Thomas Cellars, Josiah McKinnie, Leonard 
Munroe, James Gillis, Andrew Harter, S. W. 
Kuapp and Thomas C. Gillis. 

The membership in 1837 was about one 
hundred. After the death of Rev. Hughes, 
Rev. Van Deman supplied the church until the 
division into New School and Old School in 
1837. From this time there was a divided 
congregation, the elders of the New School 
party being Andrew Harter, S. W. Knapp, 
Seth S. Case. The membership in 1840 was 
seventy-one. The following ministers supplied 
the church : Joseph Labaree, James Brown, 
Charles W. Torrey. W. H. Brinkerhoff, Stil- 
man Tucker, John \V. Thompson. About the 
year 1854, the society was dissolved, and 
some went to the Old School and some to the 
Second Church of Delaware. 



The Old School branch continued to exist 
with the following elders: James Gillis, 
Thomas C. Gillis, Robert M. Cellar, and some 
others whose names could not be obtained 
The membership of this branch in 1840 was 
eighty, and in 1863 eighty. The church was 
without a pastor much of the time, but during 
this time, 1837 to reunion 1870, was supplied 
by the following ministers : John Pitkin, 
Rufus D. Antell, John D. Hervey, S. K. 
Hughes, David McCarter. At the reunion in 
1870, there were one hundred and thirty mem- 
bers. At an early date a frame structure was 
erected on the west bank of the Olentangy 
River, eight miles south of Delaware. This 
building has been repaired, remodeled, and an 
addition added to it, so that at the present 
time, it is a beautiful building, and situated 
as it is, by the cemetery where are buried the 
old pioneers of this neighborhood, forms a 
sacred and attractive spot. A Sunday school 
was organized at an early date in connection 
with this church, and has been continuously 
maintained from the beginning with a very 
few interruptions. Since the reunion the 
church has been supplied by the following 
ministers in the order named : Henry Shedd, 
David Anderson, Thomas Hill, E. M. Shultz, 
Samuel P. Herron, W. F. Cellar. James Hick- 
ling. \Y. D. Wallace, J. M. Wylie and at pres- 
ent time by J.. G. Curry. May this church 
long live. 

"Where cordial welcomes greet the guest, 
By the lone river of the west, 
Where faith is kept and truth revered, 
And man is loved and God is feared, 
In woodland homes." 

Methodist Episcopal. Before any society 
of this denomination was formed; Rev. Mr. 
Beach and other itinerant ministers, preached 
in the neighbirhood at the homes of the pio- 
neers. A local minister by the name of Bacon 
held meetings at the home of a Mr. Carpenter. 
The first society was organized by Rev. Mr. 
Emery at the home of Jarvis Buell about the 
year 1825. The society built its first house 
about 1840, a log structure just south of Pow- 



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ell. It was christened Emery Chapel, in honor 
of Rev. Every, who had organized the society. 
In 1859, a new frame structure was erected 
just across the road from the first structure, 
under the pastorate of Rev. Levi Cunningham. 
This building was moved up to the village a 
few years ago, has been remodeled, and beau- 
tified, and is now the home of a flourishing 
society. 

Hyattsville M. E. Church. This church 
was organized about twenty-five years ago, 
largely through the influence of H. A. Hyatt, 
D. E. Hughs, George Curmode, and others. 
A substantial frame structure was erected in 
the village of Hyattsville, H. A. Hyatt having 
donated the lot. The society is united under 
one pastorate with Faith Church of Delaware 
at this time, 1907, and Rev. Mr. Myers, a 
student of the "O. W. U." is their pastor. 

A Baptist society was formed at an early 
date, probably as early as that of the Liberty 
Presbyterian society, but the details of this 
society cannot be obtained. It soon became a 
part of the Berlin Township society. 

.MARLBOROUGH TOWNSHIP. 

The old Baptist Church situated in what 
is now Troy Township, was the first to or- 
ganize in Marlborough, Its history will neces- 
sarily fall within the historical limits of Troy. 
The Lutheran Church was situated just across 
the Olentangy River, east about a mile from 
Norton. The congregation used to worship 
in an old log schoolhouse, near where the pres- 
ent church now stands. Just when the organi- 
zation took place cannot be ascertained, but the 
name of the first minister was Henry Cline, 
and it must have been at an early date. In the 
year 1X52, from some cause a revolt occurred 
en the part of some of the members, the result 
being the organization of the German Reform 
Church. The Germans immediately set to 
work and built a new frame church, which 
was dedicated by Prof. Loy in the year 1853, 
and the German Reform congregation, not to 
be outdone, put forth their energy and, in 
[855, also succeeded in building for them- 
selves a frame church adjoining the Luth- 



erans. It was dedicated the same year by J. 
G. Ruhl, who took charge as their .pastor, 
while the first minister in the new Lutheran 
Church was a man by the name of Gast. The 
little cemetery in the same lot in which the 
two churches stand is used conjointly by both 
congregations. The first interment in it was 
a man by the name of Snarr, who was buried 
there in 1835. He was poor and a stranger. 
Both societies built churches in Waldo, Mar- 
ion County, where they are still flourishing. 
One of the old churches still stands by the 
cemetery. 

The Baptist Church is situated in the vil- 
lage of Norton. The society was an offshoot 
from the Old Marlborough Baptist Church. 
The present building is a substantial frame 
structure, and was erected in 1859 and cost 
$1,200. It was dedicated in i860 by James 
Harvey, who used to preach at Delaware. The 
following are the names of the ministers since 
its foundation : James Harvey, Thomas Jen- 
kins, Air. Weiter, C. King. Thomas Deal, 
Thomas Griffith. The church is without a 
regular pastor, but maintains a Sabbath 
school. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church is a 
frame structure situated in the village of Nor- 
ton, and was built in 1855, and dedicated by 
the Rev. Pilcher. There was an organization 
in existence some two years previous to this 
date, originated by the Rev. Plumer, and the 
class used to worship in schoolhouses and other 
convenient places. The church cost $1,200. 
The pulpit has been supplied of late quite fre- 
quently by students from the Universitv at- 
Delaware. S. W. Metz, of the "O. W. U.," 
is the present supply. 

The Wyatt Cemetery is the historical bury- 
ing place of this vicinity. It is situated across 
the line in Marion County, being located in 
that part of Marlborough set (iff to that county 
in 1848, and the white marble slabs mark the 
resting place of the earliest settlers of Marl- 
borough Township. Here lie the Wyatts, 
Drakes, Brundiges, and others whose names 
are familiar to the reader. The cemetery is 
pleasantly situated on a knoll near where the 
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tary road. The occasion of the first burial in 
this cemetery cannot be ascertained, as a num- 
ber of the soldiers of 1812 found their last 
resting" place amidst the evergreens that 
adorned its surface. 

ORANGE TOWNSHIP. 

The Methodist denomination was probably 
the first church influence that found its way 
into the wilderness of Orange Township. A 
Methodist settlement on the east of Alum 
Creek is among the earliest traditions, and a 
church of that denomination was established 
in this neighborhood as early as 1828. They 
erected a church building which still stands, 
and fell in the hands of the United Brethren 
denomination. About 1847, another church 
was organized at Williamsville, but seems to 
have died out at an early day. In 1843. the 
fierce agitation of the slavery question in that 
body throughout the land, culminated here, 
as in many other places, in a separation — the 
anti-slavery portion organizing the \Vesieyan 
Church. Their first services were held in a 
calbin on the flats, near the present residence 
of Samuel Patterson, with Rev. Mr. Street as 
pastor. This church started with a member- 
ship numbering twenty-nine, which has since 
increased to one hundred. In 1876. they built 
a modest building on the hill, at a cost of 
$800. About five years ago the church was 
remodeled, and modern windows and seats 
substituted for the old. and the house heated 
by a furnace, making it a convenient and 
pleasant church. Rev. E. F. Calhoun is pas- 
tor at this time. A good parsonage has also 
been secured for the use of the pastor. In 
1864, a Methodist Episcopal Church was or- 
ganized at Lewis Center, with a membership 
of twelve, which has since increased to one 
hundred members. Their building, winch 
cost at war prices $2,600. was dedicated No- 
vember 4. 1866. In 1871. a parsonage was 
built, at a cost of $2,000. Since its organiza- 
tion, the church has maintained a Sunday 
school without a break, which now numbers 
about ninety members. Rev. F. D. Davis is 
now pastor. 



A Catholic Church was organized here in 
1864, and a frame building for worship put 
up. But the society ceased to exist several 
years ago. 

A United Brethren Church was organized 
at Williamsville in 1877. This church occu- 
pied the building erected some years before 
by the M. E. Church, but disbanded about 
1895. . 

Friends' Church. About 1900, a society 
of Friends was organized in this neighborhood 
and in 1904 erected a new building costing 
$4,100. This work was the result of a re- 
vival. The membership at present is fifty-five. 
They have no regular pastor at this time. 

OXFORD TOWNSHIP. 

The earliest church organization in Ox- 
ford Township was the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. A society of this denomination was 
organized at Winsor Corners as early as 181 5. 
They accommodated themselves as the circum- 
stances of the case afforded until 1857. when 
they built a neat frame building, which was 
dedicated by Elder Harvey Wilson. In Feb- 
ruary, 1839, Rev. E. S. Gavitt, of this de- 
nomination, came from Muskingum County 
and bought the Houston farm, situated about 
three-quarters of a mile southeast of Ashley. 
In the following year, with considerable min- 
isterial enterprise, in company with the Shoe- 
maker family, he erected a log church a few 
rods north of his home. The logs were hewn 
square on the inside. Mr. Gavitt dedicated 
the building and conducted services in it and 
about here until he died in 1892, aged eighty- 
nine, at home. He was respected and there is 
scarcely a family within a radius of five miles 
of his home, but that sometime or other called 
upon him to marry the living or bury the 
dead. 

The church thus organized held its serv- 
ices in the old log house until the spring oi 
1852, when the meetings were transferred to 
Ashley. Here the church occupied the 1< *g 
house built by Robert Brown for a dwelling, 
and afterward the town schoolhouse until 
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used by T. Chapman as a residence. In De- 
cember, 1866, the church sold this building, 
and, from that time until 1868, they used the 
Presbyterian place of worship, which they 
finally bought, using it until about 1896, when 
they erected a brick church, costing $5,000. 
The first regular pastor was the Rev. L. War- 
ner. The present pastor is Rev. E. B. Shu- 
maker ; the present membership is one hun- 
dred and twenty. 

From the remains of an Episcopal Meth- 
odist society, which had existed for some years 
in the Alum Creek district, slavery having 
something to do with its disorganization, the 
Wesleyan Methodist Church in East Oxford 
Township, Delaware County, Ohio, was or- 
ganized in the year 1862-3, by Rev. George 
W. Bainum. It consisted of about twelve 
members, among whom were Henry Bell and 
daughter Sarah, Samuel Nelson, Israel Pot- 
ter and wife, Solomon Shoemaker and wife 
and Vinol Thurston. A revival the next year 
resulted in about thirty additions to the mem- 
bership. Among those since prominent in the 
affairs of the church were Edmon Scott and 
wife, Noah Whipple and wife, Henry T. Crist 
and family, George White and family, Wil- 
liam Thurston and family, William Nelson 
and family. John McCurdy and wife. Rev. 11. 
R. Smith and family. Adolphus Crist and 
family and Mrs. Frank Westbrook and chil- 
dren. The present church building was dedi- 
cated February 9, 1868, by Rev. George W. 
Bainum, who preached from the text, "Lord, 
send now prosperity." The church has been 
served by the following persons as pastors : 
Rev. George W. Bainum, Richard Horton, 
Evans Thompson, Thomas Hicks, William 
Sewell, I. J. Xonrse, Henry R. Smith, T. H. 
Teter, Levi White, M. Friedley, I. W. "Rice, 
O. H. Ramsey. Ralph Davy and C. H. Whet- 
nall. Revs. Horton, Sewell and Smith each 
served two pastorates. 

The Baptist Church was organized in the 
Ashley neighborhood in June of 1835, ' )V 
Rev. Daniel Thomas. Seven years later, the 
society built a frame building near the present 
site of the cemetery. Here they worshiped 
until 1 85 1. when they moved their building to 
Ashley, where it still serves them as a place of 



worship, and they have preaching occasionally. 

On April 27, 1852, a committee, consist- 
ing of Rev. Henry Shedd, Rev. John W. 
Thompson, Rev. William S. Spaulding, and 
Elders John Mateer and John McElroy. hav- 
ing been appointed by the Franklin Presby- 
tery to go to Ashley to establish a Presbyter- 
ian Church, met and proceeded to organize a 
society as directed. The first elders were Z. 
P. Wigton and Henry Slack. On May 24, 
1857, James M. Eckles was added to the list 
of elders. Rev. Henry Shedd was the first 
minister of the church. In the summer of 
1853, the society purchased Lot No. 2j, in 
Ashley, and two years later built a place of 
worship, which they used until 1868. Six 
years later, the society sold this building to the 
Methodists and erected a neat brick building, 
costing $3,000, in which they still worship. Its 
present membership is twenty. The following 
persons have ministered to the congregation : 
Henry Shedd, 1852-53; Stilman Tucker, 
1854-55; Homer McVey, 1857-61; John O. 
Hall, 1862-63; Thomas J. Domeny. 1865-66; 
John McCutcheon, 1870-73; Horace Snod- 
grass, a short time; Milton McMillen, 1874; 
A. C. Crist, a short time in 1875; Russel A. 
McKinley, 1876-77; David H. Green. 1878; 
W. E. Thomas, 1879-1883; Isaac I. Holt, 
1885; Robert Colmey, 1891 ; E. M. Scott, 
1893-98; C. O. Anderson, 1889-1902; Samuel 
Heucker, 1903-05; the present pastor, John R. 
Lloyd. 

Friends' Church. More than twenty years 
ago, two ministers, Revs. Noah McClain and 
Willis, of the Friends denomination, held re- 
vival services in Ashley, and the result was a 
large number of conversions. These converts 
were organized into a Society of Friends, and 
soon proceeded to erect a large and commo- 
dious frame building which has been their 
home since that time. The society is not as 
prosperous as formerly, but still maintains 
services and a Sabbath school. Miss Geyer 
ministers to them at this time, 1908. 

PORTER TOWNSHIP. 

The Presbyterian Church (New School). 
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society soon after the division of the church, 
probably in 1837 or 1838. John Van Sickle, 
Muses Decker and a Air. Richards were the 
first elders, and soon after Charles M. Fowler 
became an elder. Rev. Abner B. Chapman 
was their first minister in the years 1838-1X44. 
The membership at that time was fifty-four. 
The church was at first named Kingston, as 
man}- of the members, probably a majority, of 
the Kingston Church (Old School) had 
joined with this society, and there were two 
organizations claiming the name Kingston. A 
frame church edifice was erected in East Lib- 
erty, Porter Township, and the church was 
called Kingston and Porter, but afterwards 
the name Kingston was dropped and the church 
ever since has been known as the Porter 
Church. The principal parties in the build- 
ing of the church were Mr. John Van Sickle, 
Charles M. Fowler, William Gaston, Isaac 
Finch, Jesse Finch, Charles Wilcox, George 
Blainev and others. They at once organized 
a Sabbath school in connection with the 
church, which for several years prospered, and 
was productive of great good. In the year 
1864. the same parties who built this place of 
worship laid out and established a cemetery 
just east of the church and town of East Lib- 
erty, in which the remains of many of those 
most conspicuous and enterprising in the con- 
struction of the church and the Sabbath 
school now sleep. The church still stands, has 
been repaired several times, and is now in a 
good condition. Services are still maintained, 
but the society is not in as prosperous a condi- 
tion as in some former years. The following 
ministers have supplied the church since Rev. 
Chapman's time : 

John Hunt 1845-1846 

John W. Thompson 1849-1851 

Warren Nicholis 1852-1853 

A. B. Chapman, again 1854-1859 

William Bridgeman 1860-1861 

George H. Pool 1862-1864 

John Martin 1864-1867 

Ri .bert Wylie 1868-1870 

J. Best ..' 1871-1872 

A. C. Crist 1873-1874 

M. M. Lawson 1875- 1877 



I. .McDowell 1878-1880 

X. K. Crowe 1881-1882 

Robert Wylie, again 1885-1887 

A. S. Sharpless 1888-1889 

E. M. Scott 1893-1897 

Samuel Huecker 1900- 1906 

Mr. H. Huffman, a student of the Ohio 
Wesleyan University, is the supply at present. 

Olive Green M. E. Church. For the his- 
tory of this church, see Kingston Township. 
The society is in a flourishing condition, and 
Rev. C. A. Edington, a student of the Ohio 
Wesleyan University, is their pastor at this 
date, 1908. 

Mt. Pleasant M. E. ■ Church. This or- 
ganization first used the Old School Presbyter- 
ian building in Trenton Township, but after- 
wards moved to Porter Township, and be- 
came known as the Mt. Pleasant Church. The 
present frame building" was erected about 
1868. An incident occurred in connection 
with the erection of this building worthy of 
mention. The night after the frame was 
raised a wind storm came up and blew it 
down, much to the discouragement of the con- 
gregation. They, however, pressed on, and 
the church was dedicated about one year after 
this event. As was the custom at that day. 
a cemetery was located by the church, the land 
being donated by William Baker. In this 
cemetery nearly all the old settlers are buried. 
Rev. C. A. Edington is pastor at this date. 

Advent Christian Church. This society 
was organized August 27, 1890, and a frame 
church edifice was erected in 1891. on land 
donated by Samuel Clawson. on the road lead- 
ing from Olive Green to Rich Hill. The 
building was dedicated November 27th by El- 
der Shamhart. The membership at that time 
was twenty, at the present time it is about 
eighty. They have no regular pastor at 
present. 

Porter Congregational Church. A church 
of this order was maintained for a short time. 
Charles Wilcox. Liman C. Meeker and Mor- 
gan Johnston were prominent members. A 
frame building was erected in Olive Green, 
but the society did not flourish and became ex- 
tinct about 1873, and the members for the 



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most part connected with the Porter Presby- 
terian Church at East Liberty. The church 
building was sold for a Township House and 
is now used for that purpose. 

RADNOR TOWNSHIP. 

The Baptist was the first religious society 
organized in the township. It was constituted 
May 4, 1816, in a log schoolhouse, on land 
owned by William Lawrence, Esq. The coun- 
cil consisted of Elder Henry George, of Knox 
County; Elder William Brundage. and Breth- 
ren Cole, Dix, Bush and Wilcox, of Marlbor- 
ough Church, and Elder Drake, and Brethren 
Monroe and Phelps, of Liberty Church. The 
constituting members were John Philips and 
Hannah, his wife, William David, Thomas 
Walling, David Penry and his wife, Mary ; 
James Gallant, Eleanor Lodwig. Daniel Bell. 
Reuben Stephens and his wife. Elizabeth, 
eleven in all. They had no pastor for two 
years; Elders Drake, George and Brundage 
supplied the church with preaching once a 
month. From 1818 to 1824, Elder Drake 
served the church as pastor, and his labors 
were greatly blessed. In 1827, the church 
called the Rev. Jesse Jones, at a salary of $100 
a year, one-fourth in money, the rest in trade. 
He was an able preacher in Welsh and Eng- 
lish, a scholar and a faithful pastor. He served 
the church acceptably for two years, and re- 
turned to Oneida County, Xew York, where 
he died, an old man and full of years, honored 
and beloved by all who knew him. In 1830, 
Elder Thomas Stephen, recently from Wales, 
an eloquent and earnest preacher, was called to 
the pastorate and served the church for six 
years. He is now living in Oregon, enjoying 
the eventide of a long and useful life. Rev. 
William Terrer and Rev. Thomas Hughes 
preached for several years in the Welsh lan- 
guage. In 1836, Elder Elias George was 
called and labored successfully until 1842. 
Since that time, the following ministers have 
labored in the service of the church: Rev. 
lames Frew Rev. F. V. Thomas. Rev. D. 
Pritchard, Rev. T. R. Griffith, Rev. R. Evans, 
Rev. R. R. Williams. Rev. E. B. Smith. Rev. 



C. King, Rev. F. Dyall and Rev. William 
Lect. 

The first deacons chosen at the organiza- 
tion of the church in 1816 were John Philips 
and David Davies. The first house of wor- 
ship was built of logs, 20x22 feet, and located 
near the graveyard. The settlers, without re- 
gard to denomination, were glad to help build 
the house of the Lord. Each one brought a 
few logs already hewed, and assisted in the 
raising and' completing of the tabernacle of the 
Most High. The memory of that old log 
church is yet fragrant, and cherished by the 
descendants of those whose piety and zeal se- 
cured its erection. In 1833. the congregation 
built, near the site of the log, chapel, a neat 
stone edifice 30x40 feet, and, in 1867, the 
present house of worship, of brick, was built at 
the cost of $4,500. This venerable church of 
Christ, numerically strong and spiritually 
prosperous in sixty-three years of its existence, 
welcomed into its fellowship and communion 
over five hundred members ; ordained four 
ministers, and sent out five of her sons to 
preach the Gospel, one of whom, Rev. W. 
Williams, is a very successful missionary in 
India ; another, Rev. C. D. Morris, became an 
esteemed pastor of the First Baptist Church 
in Toledo, Ohio. In January, 1901, the brick 
church burned down, and a lot was secured a 
little east of the cemetery, and in 1902, a more 
commodious brick structure was erected cost- 
ing $13,000. The present membership is one 
hundred and seventy-five, and the pastor is 
Rev. L. Dickerson. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church had its 
representatives in Radnor at an early day. 
Tradition informs us that, in an early period 
of our religious history, an itinerant preacher 
found his way to the settlement and preached 
unto the people the word of the Lord. The 
cabin of Henry Perry, who was a Wesleyan. 
afforded a house for the faithful herald of the 
Cross, and there the first Gospel sermon was 
preached in the township — probably as early 
as 1 80S. Several years afterward, the cabin 
of Elijah Adams became a regular preaching 
place, and a class was formed. Among the 
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Elijah Adams and wife. Robert Perry and 
John Hoskins. In 1827, the writer attended 
a quarterly meeting held in the double log 
barn on the farm of Elijah Adams. With 
other boys, he sat in the hay-mow. for the 
crowd tilled the barn floor and stable to their 
full capacity. The seraphic Russell Bigelow 
was the preacher. His text was, "Which 
things the angels desire to look into." — I 
Peter, 1, 12: and his theme, "The marvels of 
redemption." On the mind of a boy seventeen 
vears old, instructed in the teachings of the 
Bible concerning the redeeming work of 
Christ, and in full sympathy with the eloquent 
preacher and his theme, the effect of this dis- 
course was powerful and enduring. In 1838, 
a frame meeting-house was built, and the con- 
gregation supplied with preaching regularly. 
A Sunday school was established about this 
time, with Robert Perry as superintendent. 
Besides the persons already named as the early 
Methodists of Radnor, may be enrolled George 
Wolrley, Duncan Campbell. David and Eben- 
ezer Williams, John Owens. David Lewis and 
families. In 1855. the brick meeting-house 
was erected — evidence of the growth and pros- 
perity of the church. This is the building oc- 
cupied at this date. 1907, and the society is 
still prospering. 

The Radnor Welsh Congregational Church 
was another of the early established churches 
in this township. From 1818. when a large 
accession was made to the Welsh population 
of Radnor, meetings for prayer and religious 
conference were held in the Welsh language. 
These services were held in the cabin home- -1 
the settlers, and sometimes in the log chapel, 
through the courtesy of the Baptist Church. 
In 1820. Rev. James Davies, of Aberhaferp. 
North Wales, organized a Congregational 
Church at the cabin of John Jones (Penlan). 
The original members were William Penry 
and his wife, Mary (who died in 1878. aged 
ninety-two years). John Jones (Penlan), and 
Mary, his wife. Margaret Morgan. D. Mor- 
gan and wife, John A. Jones and wife. J. 
Jones (Penlan), and Walter Penry were 
chosen deacons. Mr. Davies, the pastor of this 
little flock in the wilderness, was a good 



scholar, educated in the Theological Seminary 
in North Wales, and an eloquent preacher. In 
1822, he received a call to the city of New 
York, and labored there until 1828, when he 
returned to Radnor and served the church for 
rive years. In 1825, Rev. James Perregrin. 
from Domgay, North Wales, came to Radnor 
and preached with acceptance for two years. 
In 1827, Rev. Thomas Stephens, from Oneida 
County, New York, accepted a call and labored 
with success for one year. In 1838, Rev. 
Rees Powell, from South Wales, became pas- 
tor of the church, and continued until 1852. 
Under his labors the church increased. In 
1841, the frame meeting-house, 30x40 feet, 
was built. At the time, this was a great un- 
dertaking, but the people had a heart to work 
and to give, so that in 1842 the dedication 
services were held — a memorable and inter- 
esting occasion. In 1853, Rev. Evans was 
called, and served the church for three years, 
preaching in Welsh and English with encour- 
aging results. In 1857, Rev. Rees Powell 
was recalled, and labored successfully for five 
years. In 1863, Rev. James Davies, formerly 
from Hanfair. North Wales, but for several 
years the efficient pastor of the Welsh Church 
at Gomer, Allen County, Ohio, was called. 
During his pastorate, the brick meeting-house 
was built at a cost of $3,000. On the 7th of 
April, 1867, twenty-three members were re- 
ceived into the church on profession of faith 
in Christ, the fruits of a gracious revival. The 
same year, the useful and venerated pastor 
died, aged seventy-one years. His grave is in 
the midst of his people in the old cemetery, 
honored by a beautiful monument placed there 
by his sons, James and Benjamin Davies. In 
1870. Rev. Thomas Jenkins, of Johnstown. 
Pennsylvania, was called, and his useful pas- 
torate continued eight years. His successor 
was Rev. Mr. Evans, who was followed by 
Rev. J. P. Davis. Rev. J. B. Stevenson, and 
Rev. Benjamin Harris, the present pastor. 

The Radnor Presbyterian Church was or- 
ganized, in the Dunlap neighborhood, be- 
tween what is now known as the Stone Church 
and the village of Radnor, formerly called 
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1820, in a sugar-grove on the farm of Joseph 
Bunlap and was widely known as the Dunlap 
meeting-house. This was the home of B. W. 
Chidlaw, afterwards so widely known as a 
minister, and State superintendent of the Ohio 
Sunday School Association, also as the author 
of "The Story of My Life." Services were 
often held in the Welsh language. Conditions 
changed, and the congregation changed the lo- 
cality and built the stone church in Scioto 
Township, and further history of this church 
will be found in the history of that town- 
ship. 

The Protestant Episcopal was another of 
the early church organizations of this section 
of the county. In 1836 Rev. Abraham Ed- 
wards, a native of Wales, educated at Kenyon 
College, and a minister of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church, labored in Radnor, preaching 
in the Welsh language. A church was estab- 
lished and a house of worship erected. David 
E. Jones, Richard Savage. William Watkins 
and Joseph Cox were the vestrymen. In a 
few years Mr. Edwards left the field, and after 
his departure, having no regular services, the 
church disbanded. 

Delhi, now Radnor Presbyterian Church. 
This church was organized April 23, 1849 
(New School), by Reverends Henry Shedd, 
E. W. Torrey and W. S. Spaulding and Elder 
D. Davids, committee of Presbytery (Frank- 
lin N. S.) with twenty-two members. The 
first elders were Robert Davis. Thomas Cratty 
and Dr. Albert Mann. The brick church was 
erected in 1854. The church is still occupied, 
having recently been re-roofed, papered and 
otherwise repaired. The church prospered, 
so that in i860 there were one hundred and 
two members, and at the time of the reunion 
of the New School and the Old School, there 
were ninety-eight members. The community 
was largely composed of Welsh people and 
they were a church-going community. Four 
churches have been maintained in this little 
village through all these years, and many able 
and distinguished ministers have supplied 
these churches. In recent years, through the 
changes in the community the Presbyterian 
Church has not been able to keep up its mem- 



bership with that of former years. The fol- 
lowing ministers have supplied this church: 
Reverends Shedd. Spaulding, O. H. Newton, 
Evan Evans, Homer McVey, David M. Wil- 
son, Samuel D. Smith. D. S. Anderson, Ches- 
ter H. Perkins, Nelson H. Crowe, Thomas 
Hill, Robert A. Watson, Thomas J. Cellar, 
Frank S. Kreager, A. D. Hawn, and John R. 
Lloyd, the ' present pastor. 

The Welsh Presbyterian is of more modern 
organization than any other of the Radnor 
churches. Many of the Welsh settlers were 
members of the Calvinistic Methodist Church 
in Wales, but for many years they had no 
distinctive church relations, but united cheer- 
full)' with the American Presbyterians or the 
Welsh Congregationalists. About the year 
1N50. it was determined to secure a church, 
and they occupied the Episcopal building. In 
faith and church government, the Welsh Cal- 
vinist Methodists are almost identical with 
the Presbyterian Church in this country, and 
therefore they have adopted the name, and they 
maintain a correspondence with the General 
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the 
United States, by sending and receiving fra- 
ternal delegates, and their young men are 
educated for the ministry in Presbyterian 
theological seminaries. The pastors of this 
church have been Welsh-speaking ministers, 
good and faithful shepherds of the flock of 
Christ. Among them may be named Rev. 
Hugh Roberts, Rev. William Parry, and Rev. 
Daniel Thomas. In 1877 the congregation 
built a house of worship, a neat and beautiful 
temple consecrated to the services of God and 
the promotion of religion in the community. 
Their Sunday school was conducted in the 
Welsh language and is attended by the parents 
as well as the children, a feature which every- 
where characterizes Welsh Sunday schools, in 
Wales and in the Welsh settlements in this 
country. The children did not take to the 
Welsh service and the congregation declined, 
and in 1892 ceased to hold services. Evan I. 
Jones secured the house, remodelled it, and 
now occupies it as a dwelling house. 

South Radnor Congregational Church. 
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a Welsh name which means "At the foot of the 
hill," a name given in memory of the Welsh 
church in Wales from which the early settlers 
had come. Before the organization was ef- 
fected the Welsh settlers were accustomed to 
meet in their homes for service, and especially 
in the home of David Perry. The services 
were held in the Welsh language. The society 
was formed in 1839. A hewed log church 
was erected about 1S46 on the lot near by 
where the brick church now stands, on the 
Delaware and Warrensburg road, about mid- 
way between Delaware and the above village. 
This log building was used for about ten 
years, when the present brick building was 
erected. A lot for a cemetery was purchased 
at the time when the first building was erected, 
and in this lot many of the old time settlers 
are buried. Services and a Sabbath school 
have been maintained from the beginning. 
There were thirty members at the time of the 
organization, and there are ninety at present 
The minister who supplies the congregation at 
Radnor preaches for this society in the after- 
noon. The following ministers have supplied 
this church : Rev. Powell, Rev. D. A. Evans, 
Rev. J. B. Davis, Rev. James V. Stephens, and 
Benjamin Harris, the present pastor, and 
earlier probably some others. 

The first Sunday school in Radnor was es- 
tablished April 18, 1829, in the log meeting- 
house. A constitution was adopted and signed 
by forty-two members, constituting the "Rad- 
nor Sunday School Union," John N. Cox and 
Mi rgan Williams were chosen superintend- 
ents, and B. W. Chidlaw. secretary and treas- 
urer. The payment of twenty-five cents con- 
stituted any person a member. The original 
records, still extant, show that the school was 
eminently successful. The following were the 
teachers : John Lodwn'g, John Cadwalader, B. 
W. Chidlaw, David Kyle, Miss M. A. Adams. 
Mary Foos and Nancy Wolfley. Primers, 
spellers and the Bible were the text-books. 
The records show- an attendance of from sev- 
enty to ninety scholars. One Sunday six 
hundred and nine verses of Scripture were 
recited from memory, and in five months a to- 
tal of 6,990 verses. In May, 1829, the treas- 



urer went on horseback with a large leather 
saddle-bag to Gambier, Knox County, Ohio, 
and invested $6.75 in books published by the 
American Sunday School Union, and sold by 
Prof. Wing, of Kenyon College, an early and 
faithful friend of Sunday schools in Central 
Ohio. The books were of good service to the 
youth of Radnor, as they greatly needed such 
valuable helps in acquiring a taste for mental 
and moral improvement, and storing their 
minds with religious knowledge. 

-In after y«ars. as churches were organized, 
other Sunday schools were established and 
exerted a wide and blessed influence on the 
rising generation. These schools have been 
conducted in the Welsh and English lan- 
guages; popular sentiment has always been in 
their favor. At present five Sunday schools 
are sustained in the township, and are ac- 
complishing much good. 

SCIOTO TOWNSHIP. 

The first religious services held in' Scioto 
Township were in the cabins of Richard Hos- 
kins and Zachariah Stevens. The date of 
these first meetings cannot be definitely settled, 
but the facts gathered indicate as earlv as 
1810. 

In the year 1814 or 181 5, three Presby- 
terian families, viz. : William C ratty. John 
Lawrence and Andrew Dodds, settled in the 
neighborhood of Little Mill Creek, and at first 
connected with the church at Delaware, which 
church was prospering under the ministry of 
Rev. Joseph Hughs. The journey to Delaware 
in those days was quite an undertaking, as they 
were compelled to ford the Scioto River, which 
at certain times was dangerous or impossible. 
When these pioneers could not reach Delaware, 
the next most available place of worship was a 
log meeting-house on Big Darby, in Union 
County. The only route to this place was a 
trail through the dense woods. About the 
year 1816, several other Presbyterian families 
were added to the Little Mill Creek settle- 
ment, and a number located on the Scioto 
River. With these acquisitions, it was deemed 
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meeting was held and the proper authorities 
petitioned for the privilege which was granted, 
but with the proviso that they should join 
with the families of Radnor Township and 
that the church be known as the Presbyterian 
Church of Radnor. This was acceded to, and 
the organization consummated in the year 
1816. 

This connection continued until 1834, when 
those of Little Mill Creek neighborhood, hav- 
ing received many accessions, were organized 
in a separate church by the authority of the 
Presbytery of Columbus, November 9. 1834, 
and the name of the new organization was to 
be the Little Mill Creek Presbyterian Church. 
The following are the names of the original 
members : James Dean, Hannah Dean, Han- 
nah R. Dean, James Flanegin, Margaret 
Flanegin, William Cratty, St., Sarah Cratty, 
William Porter, Samuel D. Dean, Eleanor 
Cratty. William M. Flanegin. Jane Flanegin, 
Mary Flanegin, Nancy M. Flanegin, William 

C. Dodds, Mary Dodds, Joseph Lawrence, 
Mary Lawrence. Elmer Winget, Alexander 
Ross, Nancy Ross. Sarah Dodds. These per- 
sons were transferred from the churches of 
Radnor, Delaware and Marysville. William 
Cratty, Sr., William Porter and William C. 
Dodds were elected elders. 

A church building of hewn logs was erected 
about one-half mile north of Ostrander. and 
just north of what was then known as Eden- 
burg, and where the cemetery is located. This 
was the first house of worship erected in Scioto 
Township. It was not provided with perma- 
nent seats for some time, in consequence of 
which, during service the congregation pre- 
sented a novel appearance, each providing liis 
own seat, being chairs used in their wagons 
when riding to and from church. This church 
was torn down. The first minister secured 
was in 1836. being the Rev. James Perigrin, 
who also supplied the church of Marysville. 
He supplied the church only eight months, 
then gave all his time to Marysville. In 
the fall of 1837. the churches were again 
united, and secured the services of Rev. W. 

D. Smith, a man noted for his scholarship and 
as an author. For his service they were to 
pay him $133.33 f° r one-third of his time. 



In the year 1862 a new building was erected in 
Ostrander and the name was changed to the 
Ostrander Presbyterian Church. At this time 
Rev. W. Mitchell was in charge. He was fol- 
lowed by Rev. O. H. Newton, Henry Shedd, 
Mason, Horace Snodgrass, John Price, 
Thomas Hill, Elias Thompson, A. C. Crist, 
M. W. Brown, William Wilson. J. P. War- 
ren. A. M. Chapin and J. S. Galbreath. who 
is pastor at this time, 1907. During the pas- 
torate of Thomas Hill, a good parsonage was 
erected. The membership at present is about 
one hundred. A Sabbath school was organ- 
ized in the year 1827, and probably has not 
failed to meet every Sabbath since, only a 
few times, when prohibited by the prevalence 
of small-pox. This school is also the first 
Sabbath school organized in the township. 

The Baptist Church was organized in 
1828. Previous to this date a minister by 
the name of Drake had held meetings in the 
cabins of the early settlers, and seems to have 
agitated the question of an independent church. 
The first permanent organization took place 
about the year 1835 or 1836, with a member- 
ship of eighteen. About this time a log meet- 
ing-house was erected on the north bank of 
Mill Creek, one mile south of Ostrander. In 
the year 1853 a substantial brick church was 
erected to take the place of this structure. 
This building was occupied until 1889, when 
it was torn down and a substantial frame build- 
ing was erected in Ostrander, where the con- 
gregation of more than one hundred members 
now worship. Probably more than eight hun- 
dred members have been received into the 
church, either by baptism or certificate. 

The Protestant Methodist Church was 
formed by members who had become dissatis- 
fied with the M. E. denomination, and formed 
a society and built a frame structure in Mill- 
ville in 1844. The building was small and 
another larger building was erected in 1857, 
and dedicated by Rev. Thomas Graham. The 
society soon began to decline and is now ex- 
tinct. The old building is still standing in 
\\ arrensburg, a relic of the past. 

The Christian Union Church. This 
church was the outgrowth of several denomi- 
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composed of those who favored peace and not 
war. They first met in the Methodist Protest- 
ant Church at Millville, now Warrensburg. 
It was in that church that a few gathered on 
August 5, 1866, to hear the Rev. James F. 
Givin, of Columbus. The first council met 
about 1867, and engragred the Rev. W. W. Lacy 
to preach for them at $300 per annum. From 
that date until 1869 the membership increased 
rapidly and a good frame church was erected 
that year, costing about $1,400, and was dedi- 
cated by Rev. George Stevenson. This pros- 
perity did not last long, and the decay was as 
rapid as its growth. The following minis- 
ters served the charge from its beginning to 
its dissolution: Rev. W. W. Lacy, G. W. 
Hagans, J. W. Hoskins, Purdy King, and 
Hanawalt. The church building still stands 
at Warrensburg. and for several years was 
looked after by Dr. Mclntire until his recent 
death. It is now offered for sale. 

The Wesleyan Methodist originated from 
a series of union meetings which were held 
with the Presbyterian Church at Edenburg, or 
Fairview, in the year 1854. With the zeal 
characteristic of a new enterprise, although 
few in numbers, they set to work and built a 
substantial frame church located about one 
mile west of Ostrander, which was dedicated 
with imposing ceremonies in 1859. But soon 
after the War of 1861-65 tne zea l began to 
decline, and by the year of 1870 the fire had 
gone out, and the Wesleyan organization had 
become a thing of the past. 

The Methodist Episcopal. Before the dis- 
solution of the Wesleyan Society the Methodist 
Episcopal Society had sprung into existence. 
It continued to grow, and finally absorbed 
the remnant of the Wesleyan Society. It soon 
became necessary to dispose of their building, 
and it was donated to the "M. Es." in 1870 
on the following conditions, viz.: That they 
would move the building to a suitable loca- 
tion in the town of Ostrander. The proposition 
was accepted, and in compliance it was moved 
about half-way toward the town, when for 
want of funds to defray the expense it was 
deposited in a field where it remained for two 
years. About 1873 or 1874 Mr. Welsh, of 



Delaware City, took the matter up and had 
it moved to its present location on North 
Street, and is now owned by the United 
Brethren Church. The church was dedicated 
and was supplied by Rev. Boyer, William Dun- 
lap, Prof. W. W. Davies, now of the Ohio 
Wesleyan University, J. W. Donnan, and 
Lucas Crawford, and after that, until the so- 
ciety ceased to be active, by students of the 
University. In 1888 the United Brethren or- 
ganized a society, under the ministry of Rev. 
E. Barnard. This society bought the prop- 
erty and it is now a flourishing congregation 
under that denomination. The Methodists 
also formed an organization at White Sulphur 
Station, about the year 1837. Its first meet- 
ings were held in a little log house. About 
the year 1864 and 1865 a good frame struc- 
ture was erected, costing them $1,000. The 
society ceased to flourish and was disbanded 
and the building fell in the hands of a Mrs. 
Thompson, who afterwards sold it and gave 
the money to the Radnor Stone Church, with 
the understanding that that church should bear 
the name, the Radnor Thompson Church. The 
Methodist Episcopal Church also early formed 
an organization near Millville, in what is 
known as the Newhouse neighborhood. A 
good frame church was erected and dedicated 
in 1869, about one mile west from Warrens- 
burg. The congregation soon centered at 
Warrensburg, and erected a substantial frame 
structure in that village. This is now the only 
Methodist Episcopal Society in the township, 
but is in a flourishing condition. About the 
year 1893 the building west of the village 
was repaired and is now known as the W. C. 
T. U. Hall, the society which had charge of 
making these repairs. 

The United Brethren Church. A society 
of this denomination was organized about the 
fifties, in the neighborhood half-way between 
Ostrander and Warrensburg. A frame struc- 
ture was erected and dedicated in the year 
1866, by Bishop Weaver of the North Ohio 
Conference: Previous to this time, the meet- 
ings were held in the school house which 
stands near by the present church, or in the 
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held this charge was Chancy Barlow. This 
congregation is now united with the Ostrander 
United Brethren Church (already mentioned) 
as one pastoral charge. 

THOMPSON TOWNSHIP. 

In following through the history of the set- 
tlement of this township, it will he noticed that 
but comparatively few families found homes 
here at so early a period as in adjoining town- 
ships, anil it was m.it until a late date that a suffi- 
cient number had been added to the neighbor- 
hood to enable themlfc 1 support those institutions 
that are necessary adjuncts to the well-being of 
all civilized communities. It is not surprising 
then that churches and schools were not insti- 
tuted here until after they were enjoyed in 
almost every other locality throughout the 
country, Radnor and Scioto Townships be- 
ing contiguous, afforded opportunities for 
those living in Thompson for worship, and it 
was to churches in these localities that the 
good people would make their regular Sun- 
day journey. These, of course, were at times 
attended with some difficulties. The Scioto 
River intervened between Radnor and 
Thompson; this had to be forded, which in 
times of high water was not only a dangerous 
undertaking, but in the flooded stages impos- 
sible. Thus were the devout who journeyed 
in that direction either compelled to forego 
their accustomed pilgrimage to the temple of 
God. or avail themselves of similar privileges 
afforded in Scioto. It was not until about the 
year 1840, that religious organizations began 
to take shape here. About this time, the New 
Lights or Christians formed their society, and 
in 1843 erected a church on Tau Way Run, 
the Rev. Isaac Walters officiating as their first 
minister. Here they held their services until 
1873. when the church burned down, it is 
thought through the act of an incendiary. 
Nothing daunted, and with commendable zeal, 
they immediately commenced their plans for '. 
new building, and this they completed in 1875. 
the site being one mile west of the old church. 
Since that the society has been disbanded. 



The Methodist Episcopal organization, ii 
is supposed by some, existed prior to that of 
the Christian, but this is in doubt. The first 
meetings of the Methodists were held at the 
residence of Joseph Russell, and then in a 
small log church put up by them, in union with 
the Disciple Society. In this they worshipped 
under ministrations of the Rev. Ebenezer Web- 
ster, who was on the Richwood Circuit, this 
charge having been placed under that juris- 
diction. A few years later, they were changed 
to the Delhi Circuit, and the congregation as- 
sembled at the house of Henry C. Flemming to 
hear the "word expounded," changing oc- 
casionally to other conveniently situated resi- 
dences, and at times holding services in the 
neighborhood school house. In 1867 the}' 
were again changed, at which time the little 
charge was placed on the Prospect or Middle- 
town Circuit, and there they gathered together 
in their little circles, constant in their adher- 
ence to faith and duty. During this unsatis- 
factory state of affairs, in 1868, they began 
agitating the question of building a church 01 
their own. Accordingly one-fourth of an acre, 
situated on the State road, a short distance 
north of the covered bridge, was bought for 
a site, including space for a burying-ground. 
A subscription having been raised, work was 
immediately commenced for the construction 
of a frame building that would amply satisfy 
the wants of the people. At this time the so- 
ciety embraced in its membership but two male 
members, Henry C. Fleming and James Maize. 
To them belong a great share of the credit 
for the present prosperous condition of the 
organization. However, the ladies, constitut- 
ing as they did a large majority of its strength, 
must have wielded an influence in shaping the 
course of affairs that cannot be ignored, and 
to them, undoubtedly, is due great praise for 
their active co-operation in all matters per- 
taining to the welfare of the society. The 
new church was finished the latter part of De- 
cember, 1869, and dedicated the first day of 
January, 1870. by Rev. Benjamin Powell, at 
that time on the Delhi Circuit, Rev. Caleb 
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The first class was' composed of the following 
named persons: James Maize and wife, Henry 
C. Fleming, Ann Evans and James Fleming. 
The church is in a prosperous condition. Since 
the new building has been in use the following 
clergymen have filled the pastoral charge . 
Caleb Hill, A. D. Mathers. William Lance, 
Frank B. Olds, Henry Pilcher, John Hills, 
Benjamin Powell, and others. 

Fulton's Creek M. E. Church is in the west- 
ern part of the township, near the creek from 
which it is named. Their present meet- 
ing-house was built in 1868, and cost $1,100. 
It is a frame structure, conveniently located 
for the accommodation of the people, and well 
adapted for its purpose. The original trustees 
were Thomas Armstrong, John KennecK, 
Thomas Love, John G. Curry, Lewis Wolfley 
and Henry Perry. It was dedicated by the 
Rev. Mr. Henderson. The organization ex- 
isted some years before the present church 
building was erected, the information in re- 
lation to time and its early condition not be- 
ing accessible. 

The New Disciple or Campbellite denomi- 
nation have a comfortable frame church, situ- 
ated in the north central part of the township, 
which was built in 1853, and dedicated the 
same year. The organization existed as such 
previous to that date. The society has now 
ceased to exist, but the church building still 
stands on what is known as the Bill Decker 
farm. 

TRENTON TOWNSHIP. 

The first church society organized in Tren- 
ton, we believe, was that of the Presbyterians 
about 1836, by Rev. Calvin N. Ransom, with 
twenty members. The first elders were Silas 
Ogden, A. P. Condit, and Robert Lewis. This 
church until the reunion was connected with 
the Franklin Presbyterian, New School. 
Among the original members were Simeon 
Condit, Silas Ogden, A. P. Condit, Robert 
Lewis, Squire Wheaton, Elizabeth Condit. 
Elizabeth Leak, Magdalene Van Dorn, Maria 
Condit, Mercy Wheaton, Mary Condit. Jane 
Os:den and .Andrew Herrons and wife. The 



facts leading to the organization of this church 
were something as follows: After holding a 
meeting in June, 1835, with reference to the 
formation of a society, Messrs. A. P. and J. S. 
Condit were sent to Alexandria to confer with 
the minister of that place, but receiving no 
encouragement from him, they next visited the 
Presbyterian Church in Genoa Township. 
From Mr. Ransom, the pastor of that church, 
they received but little more encouragement 
than at Alexandria. He prevailed on them, 
however, to unite with the Genoa Church. In 
the September following these visits, a gloom 
was cast over the community by the death of 
J. S. Condit. Mr. Ransom being called upon 
to preach his funeral sermon, took occasion to 
refer to the visit of Mr. Condit and the object 
of his mission to him some time before. He 
said upon further reflection, he had come to 
the conclusion that he had done wrong in dis- 
couraging their project, and believed the time 
had come for them to organize a church in 
their neighborhood. Accordingly, a meeting 
was called at the Ogden School house to con- 
sider the propriety of at once organizing a 
society. At that meeting, A. P. Condit was 
appointed to present the matter to the presby- 
tery, which body decided in favor of the move- 
ment, and Rev. Mr. Ransom was directed to 
establish a church. He was the first pastor 
and preached to them for one year, for which 
he received the sum of $18.50, all that could 
be raised by the members. The second 
preacher was Rev. Mr. Allen for one year; the 
third. Rev. Ezra G. Johnson ; the fourth. Rev. 
Ahab Jinks. "But," adds our informant, "he 
being a farmer, and judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas, only a part of his time could 
be given to the church." 

At a meeting held February 21, 1837. the 
practicability of building a church edifice was 
discussed, and finally a resolution was passed 
to proceed at once with the undertaking. Soon 
after, their first building was put up, which 
served them as temple of worship until 1855. 
The following is a transcript of the proceed- 
ing of a meeting held February 5, 1875 : "At 
a meeting of the members of the First Pres- 
byterian Church, of Trenton Township, Dela- 



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ware County, a motion was adopted that a 
committee be appointed to circulate a subscrip- 
tion paper for the purpose of building a new 
meeting house, and if a sufficient amount for 
the purpose is secured, they are authorized to 
act as a building committee, and to select a site 
and build the house." A. P. Condit, John E. 
Ketcham and E. M. Condit were appointed 
the committee, and the further duty imposed 
upon them of selling the old church building. 
This they accomplished April 1, 1875, selling 
it for the sum of $100, to the United Brethren 
Church for a house of worship. Air. Miles 
and Mr. Skinner gave their obligations for 
the payment of the amount, and also agreed to 
either move the house or secure the lot upon 
which it stood for the benefit of their society. 
The new building of the Presbyterians 
cost $1,000 and was dedicated by Revs. War- 
ren Jenkins and John W. Thompson. This 
building was erected about one-half mile west 
of where the new building now stands, and 
was sold to Mr. L. A. Pierson, who now uses 
it for a barn. It served the congregation until 
1879, when a new church was erected at a cost 
of $3,000, and was dedicated May 25th, by 
Rev. Nathan S. Smith, of Delaware, assisted 
by Rev. Carson, of Westerville. Five years 
ago a Sunday school room was added, and with 
changes made in the audience room, it cost as 
much as the main room. It is now the best 
country church in Marion Presbytery. The 
church is in a flourishing condition, and has 
exercised a wide-spread influence in the entire 
community. The following ministers have 
served the church since Rev. Ransom: 

Ahab Jinks 1837-1841 

Joseph Fowler 1842- 

John McCutcheon 1S43- 

Ezra Johnson 1844- 1848 

James Hamser 1849- 1852 

Edmond Garland 1853-1854 

Warren Jenkins 185 5- 1860 

Robert Wylie 1870-1887 

Albert Sharpless 1888-1892 

William D. Wallace 1893-1900 

John Glenn, 1901, and continues as pastor. 



The Methodist Episcopal Church dates 
back almost to the organization of the Pres- 
byterian Church. Sometime between 1835 
and 1840. a society of this denomination was 
formed in a school house, embracing in its 
original membership many of the early settlers 
of the township. The first minister who 
preached to the congregation in the little 
school house was Rev. Curtis Godhard. An- 
other of the pioneer preachers of this society 
was Rev. Mr. McDowell. The present church 
was built in 1855, and was dedicated by Rev. 
Samuel Lynch. Its early ministers were : 
Revs. John Mitchell, William Morrow, Alex- 
ander Blamfield, D. R. Moore, and others. 
The church cost originally about $700. It has 
been repaired and is prosperous. A Sunday 
school is maintained most of the time. This 
church has been productive of much good in 
the neighborhood, and many souls, through 
its influence, have been brought home to 
Christ. 

The Old School Presbyterians organized a 
society and built a church in this township, but 
did not exist any great length of time. In 1850 
thep built their church, but became lukewarm 
and sold out to the Methodists. This society 
moved over into Porter Township, and es- 
tablished what is known there as the Mount 
Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church. It is 
more fully noticed, however, in the historv of 
that township. 

The United Brethren had an organized so- 
ciety in the township and a church building 
was erected, but the society has gone down, 
and the church has not been used for five 
years. 

Trenton Christian Union Church. This 
church was organized on the first Saturday 
of July, 1849, by Rev. William H. Ashley. 
Their church building was erected in 1863, 
and was dedicated by Rev. Mills Harrod, No- 
vember 9, 1863, the sermon being preached 
by Rev. James Marion. The church is located 
near the road leading from Sunbury to Tren- 
ton village. Rev. Miles Harrod served the 
church twenty-one years. The present pastor 
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clerk from the beginning, [849, to 1892, since 
which time his son. R. W. Fisher, has taken 
his place. The present membership is seven- 
ty-nine. The principles of this church are: 
First. The word of God as our only rule of 
faith and practice; second. Christian character 
and spirit as the only test of fellowship ; third. 
Christian as the only name by which the church 
shall be known. This church is the only one 
of this kind in Delaware County, and is con- 
nected with the Ohio Central Christian Con- 
ference. 

TROY TOWNSHIP. 

About the year 1806 a tornado passed over 
a portion of Delaware County, which, on ac- 
count of its strength and destruction was 
designated as "the Great Windfall." Many 
of the early settlers remember windfalls which 
did considerable damage, but this was the most 
devastating of which they have any recollec- 
tions. It struck Scioto and Thompson Town- 
ships, and with a curve swept across the north- 
west corner of Delaware Township into Troy. 
Here, in some cases for a mile wide, the great 
trees were prostrated, and it seemed as if a 
mighty scythe had cut a swath through the 
forest. For many years after the path could 
be discerned by means of the smaller timber 
and the decaying logs. 

The first church built in this township, and 
around which clusters the most historic inter- 
est, is the old Marlborough Baptist Church. 
The records from which we take the accom- 
panying sketch are very full and complete, 
and appear to have been made a short time 
previous to July 14. 1810, and show the causes 
of organization. They run as follows : "It 
pleased God in His good providence to re- 
move a number of His people to this part of 
the world, and we were from different parts 
of the country and strangers to each other. 
We became acquainted in the love of Jesus 
Christ and the profession of our faith in God, 
and brother Joseph Cole gave them permission 
for meetings to be held at his bouse, and also 
did a number of other people open doors like- 
wise, and it pleased God to cause Elder Brun- 

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dige's lot to fall amongst us. and we are to he 
constituted into a church July 14, 1810, by El- 
der William Brundige and Elder Jacob Drake." 

The first meeting of the Baptist Church at 
Marlborough took place the Saturday before 
the third Lord's Day, July 14, 1810, and the 
following are the minutes of the first meet- 
ing: 

"The church proceeded to renew covenant 
and found a union, and Joseph Cole was 
chosen deacon on trial, and David Dix, clerk. 

"The church voted to give Elder William 
Brundige a call to the pastoral chair of the 
church, and the clerk was instructed to write 
a letter to Liberty Baptist Church, request- 
ing a dismission for him from that church, and 
to lay the letter before the church for inspec- 
tion at our next church meeting, which is to 
be held at the cabin of brother Joseph Cole." 

After the first meeting the letter was writ- 
ten to Liberty Church, and after being ap- 
proved was sent to Liberty Church. 

August 19, 1 8 10. The church met at 
brother Joseph Cole's cabin on Saturday be- 
fore the third Lord's Day in August. Elder 
Wyatt was chosen moderator. The church 
proceeded to renew covenant and found a 
union. The following is a copy of the letter 
sent to William Brundige from the church in 
Liberty : 

Elder William Brundige, living a member in full 
communion with us, now living in the bounds of a 
sister church of the same faith and order, and being 
desirous of a letter of dismission from us so that he 
may join them, and applying now by the mouth of 
Elder Wyatt for a letter, we now give him a letter as 
a minister of the Gospel and recommend him as such, 
and being in good standing with us at this time, and 
as soon as he is joined to another church of the 
same faith and order, he will be considered as fully 
dismissed from us. This letter is given at Delaware 
town by order of the Baptist Church of Liberty. 
(Signed) Joseph Eaton, clerk. 

Aug. 10, 1810. 

Elder William Brundige came forward to 
join the church, and gave in his letter of dis- 
missal from the pastoral charge of Liberty 
Church, and was appointed to the pastoral 
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In 1810 occurred the first withdrawal, 
Pierce Main severing his connection with the 
church. 

The meeting on the Saturday before the 
third Lord's Day in April. 1811, was inter- 
rupted by the male members of the church 
being called to military training. 

May 16, 181 3. No meeting of the church 
as the men were called to the field against the 
enemy. 

The meeting in June, 1813, postponed on 
account of the men being under arms to repel 
a threatened attack of the British and In- 
dians. 

The meetings in August and September 
also postponed on account of a threatened in- 
vasion of the enemy. 

In March. 1814. Pierce Main came for- 
ward, and, after confessing his fault, was re- 
admitted into the church. The following is 
a copy of the letter of dismissal of Nathaniel 
Wyett, the first settler in this section of the 
county, from the Liberty Church. 

The Baptist Church, called Liberty Church, in 
Delaware County, State of Ohio, holding the doc- 
trine of unconditional election, justification by Jesus 
Christ, justification by the spirit of grace; the resur- 
rection of dead, both of the just and the unjust, etc. 
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: That our Elder 
Nathaniel Wyatt has requested a letter of dismissal 
from this church as his local situation, and the helps 
we are blessed with in the church justify his request. 
We do now dismiss him as being in full fellowship 
with us, and as such we recommend him to the other 
churches of the same faith and order. 

Done on July 8, [815. 

Joseph Eaton, clerk. 

It was not until about [819 that the so- 
ciety built their first church. It was con- 
structed of hewn logs, from Joseph Cole's 
land. The situation was the same as now oc- 
cupied by the new church, which overlooks the 
river in the extreme northern and eastern part 
of the township. 

In 1836 they tore down the old log church. 
Joseph Cole bought it and moved it to his 
farm and placed it opposite his house. It 
is now used as a hay barn. A frame one was 
then built, which they occupied until 1873, 



when it was replaced .with a new one. The 
present church is an elegant structure, large 
and commodious, and is built of brick and 
freestone, at a cost of $3,300. The first minis- 
ter that preached to the society was William 
Brundige. 

The first Methodist organization in Troy 
Township was the Windfall Class. It took its 
name from the fact that it worshipped in a 
small school house on the southwest corner 
of Hiram Welch's farm, which was situated 
in the path taken by the "Great Windfall," of 
1806. This organization had an existence as 
early as 1 834, and continued for a number of 
years, but had no church building. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church, situated 
just above Judge Norris' farm, first came out 
as an organization and at first worshipped in 
the school house situated near where the pres- 
ent structure stands. The first frame structure 
was built upon the site of the present brick 
church, and was a very cheap affair. Soon 
after it was put up, they were joined by the 
"Windfall Class," and worship was continued 
for some time. At last their building becom- 
ing so poor and dilapidated as to seriously 
inconvenience those worshiping in it, the ser- 
vices were discontinued, and in 1867. finding 
all efforts to rebuild it unavailing, it was sold 
to J. B. Jackson for $25 and moved by him to 
his farm near by, where it can still be seen. It 
was not until 1872 that the organization again 
showed signs of life and activity. In that year, 
the congregation built a fine brick structure, 
at a cost of $2,200, which was dedicated the 
same year, by D. D. Mather. J. F. Richard- 
son is the present pastor. 

The Baptist Church, which is situated in 
the eastern part of the township, near the 
"Horse Shoe," owes its origin to the revolt 
of elder Briggs and other members, in 1856, 
from the old Marlborough Baptist Church. The 
church is a frame structure, in good condition 
and the society maintains occasional services. 
Maple Hil'l M. E. Church. About 1885 
John Hoorley, a young local preacher of the 
M. E. Church, came from Columbiana County 
to this neighborhood. He was full of zeal 
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Horse Shoe school house, which resulted in 
about twenty conversions. These at first 
united with the surrounding churches. It was 
decided to organize a Sunday school, hut when 
the parties interested met to do so they found 
that the school directors had locked the doors 
of the school house against them. Air. Reed, 
a Presbyterian who lived near by, invited 
them to come to his house, in which place the 
school was held. 

Soon after it was decided to organize a 
church, and about fifteen persons, belonging 
to different denominations, went into the new 
organization. As nearly as can be ascertained 
the original membership was composed of the 
following families : Frank Sherman and 
family ; Frank Ashville and family ; Henry 
Reed and family ; Samuel Tayler and wife, 
and a Air. Smith. A frame church was soon 
erected by voluntary subscriptions and named 
the Maple Hill Church. 

The congregation was supplied for several 
years by students from the Ohio Wesleyan 
University. The society is not, at this date, 
maintained, but ministers of various denomi- 
nations preach occasionally in the church and 
a Sunday school is maintained during a part of 
the year. 

The Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion in Delaware is one of the city's latest 
organizations and one with a remarkable 
career for the brief time that it has been in 
existence. The influences that led to its or- 
ganization are to be found in a spontaneous 
movement among a number of the city's young 
men. who had become familiar with its needs 
and who had been impressed with the fact 
that there was great need among the young 
men for some central place where clubs and 
gymnastic features, around which had been 
thrown the influence of a Christian home, 
could be secured. From this movement fol- 
lowed quickly other movements that gave 
Delaware an Association that is rapidly as- 
suming a prominent place in the city's life. 
and also a prominent place among the associa- 
tions of the State. 

It was in the Spring of 1905 that a number 
of young men became interested in the pro- 



pi isal of a Young Men's Christian Association 
for the city of Delaware. A number of con- 
ferences among themselves, led these men to 
draw up papers which they personally circu- 
lated among the men of the city asking that 
every man who would be glad to see the es- 
tablishment of such an organization should 
sign. The result was a remarkable one. The 
signers embraced the leading business men of 
the city, many of the professors of Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, as well as many of a younger 
class. The move, thus accelerated, at once 
assumed a definite shape. Rev. F. I. Johnson, 
at that time the pastor of the Asbury Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Air. W. A. Morrison, the 
president of the Delaware Underwear Factory 
and a leading business man. and Air. Weyland 
Alichener, became the leaders of an effort to 
at once secure a building and place the or- 
ganization on its feet. 

On the first day of August, with six weeks 
left to secure the option on the old Blee Hotel 
building at the corner of East Winter and 
Union Streets, a building removed far enough 
from the business center to insure the neces- 
sary quiet, and at the same time furnish a 
most convenient meeting place for the men 
coming from all parts of the city, began the 
contest for the Association. A saloon that 
then occupied the building and the Association 
made the race for the building's control, and 
the Young Alen's Christian Association won. 
After one of the hardest fought financial cam- 
paigns in the history of Delaware, the needed 
$20,000 was secured and the building which 
is the home of the Association formally pur- 
chased. A mass meeting of the citizens that 
followed chose fifteen incorporators, who 
were. Messrs. W. A. Morrison, C. D. Young, 
E. D. Pollock, E. F. Young. V. T. Hills, L. 
L. Denison. N. F. Overturf. Jas. Ovsey, E. AI. 
Hall. Stephen Potter, J. F. Denison. Robert 
P. Benton. J. L. Anderson. R. J. Pumphrey 
and Jas. Wilson. Captain V. T. Hills was 
chosen as the first president of the Associa- 
tion. 

On January 15, 1906. in the interval lie- 
fore possession of the building could be se- 
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tary of the Association, anil Mr. W. A. Morri- 
son succeeded Mr. Hills as president. Dur- 
ing this year repairs on the building were be- 
gun, and a wonderful transformation made in 
its appearance and arrangement. Probably no 
greater transformation of a building has ever 
taken place within the city. A gymnasium 
was arranged, club rooms prepared, and plans 
formed for general Association work carried 
into effect. 

Xew Year's day, 1907, brought the As- 
sociation into complete possession of the build- 
ing, and Mr. Oscar M. .Miller, who had been 
employed as assistant secretary of the Toledo 
Association, became the general secretary. 
The formal opening of the building followed 
about the last of March, a big celebration 
marking the real beginning of the Associa- 
tion's work in the city. 

Nine months of the work were completed 
on the first clay of January, 1908. It is counted 
a difficult matter to organize any institution 
or commercial company having a single line 
of work and give it more than a start in such 
a length of time. The Y. M. C. A., while it 
has as its single aim the building of strong 
mental, physical and moral men — has many 
kinds of work included within its scope, so that 
the problem of conducting very diverse inter- 
ests becomes a difficult one. 

The Delaware Association in the nine 
months has not only met these problems, but 
it has boldly undertaken almost every feature 



of Association work. The building on the cor- 
ner has become the social center for over four 
hundred members, more than one-third of 
whom are boys and another third business 
men. Its four walls include a gymnasium, 
with special classes in physical training for 
boys, young men and business men ; athletic 
sport provided by inter-class basket ball and 
volley-ball contests ; social recreation and 
clean fun, centering in a bowling league of 
three dozen members ; bath-tubs, sponge and 
shower, for the members to use as frequently 
as they wish ; a Boy's Club ; the Commercial 
Club's headquarters ; a glee club of twenty 
male voices; a Boy's Orchestra; a pleasant 
residence for thirty men ; a night school, pro- 
viding instruction in a number of hues of 
work; a Sunday afternoon Bible Discussion 
Class; and a training class for the men Sun- 
day school teachers of the city. Besides all 
this, there have been many social evenings for 
the men and boys of the city, and a number of 
addresses and big Sunday meetings for men. 
The plans for a greater enlargement of 
the work and the more effective carrying out 
of the plans already under way is the work 
of the future. Step by step the officers of the 
Association are doing their best to bring it 
into a greater and more intimate touch with 
the needs of the city, and there is every indi- 
cation that it is to become one of the most 
vital factors in the religious, social, and moral 
life of the people of Delaware. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE BENCH AND BAR. 



Early History — First Court and First Lawyers — The Present Bur and Its High Standing. 



It would not be commensurate with a his- 
torical sketch of the Bench and Bar of Dela- 
ware County to name all the judges who have 
presided on its bench, or to describe the nu- 
merous lawyers who have practiced before its 
courts ; yet it is thought best to refer to the 
organization of its several courts and to name 
some of the early judges who held them and 
the members of the bar who practiced before 
them, as well as the judges and lawyers who lo- 
cated here. 

The first judicial system to be organized 
in that part of the United States which is 
now known as the State of Ohio, was that put 
in operation by the "Ordinance of 1787," by 
which the vast "territory northwest of the 
River Ohio'* was set apart as a separate gov- 
ernment, and a local judicial system given to 
it under said ordinance. The court was to 
consist of three judges, any two of whom 
could form and constitute a court. This court 
was to have common law jurisdiction and the 
judges must reside in the district and have 
therein a free hold estate of not less than five 
hundred acres of land during the time they 
held their office, and their commission was to 
continue in force during good behavior. These 
judges, with the governor of said territory 
were to select from the civil and criminal laws 
of the original states such laws as they thought 
suitable for the territory and they were au- 
thorized t<> promulgate and enforce the law. 
until amended or repealed by a general as- 
sembly which was to be later organized accord- 
ing to the terms of said Ordinance under which 
they were appointed. 



In accordance with such provision of the 
Ordinance, Congress on the sixteenth day of 
October, 1787, elected as judges for the North- 
west Territory, Samuel Wolden Parsons, 
John Armstrong and James Mitchell Varnam. 
Mr. Armstrong declined the appointment and 
on the nineteenth day of February, 1788, 
John Cleves Symmes was chosen in his place. 
The salary of the judges was fixed at eight 
hundred dollars per year. This organization 
of the court continued, with various changes 
which were made in the appointment of the 
judges, until the organization of the State of 
Ohio, in the year 1802. 

Under the first constitution of Ohio, the 
number of supreme judges was three, with 
power vested in the General Assembly to au- 
thorize the selection of one additional judge. 
Their term of office was fixed at seven years 
and their salaries were not to exceed one tin iu- 
sand dollars per annum, each. These judges, 
under the constitution, were to be chosen by 
the General Assembly, and on the second day 
of April, 1803, they elected Samuel Hunting- 
ton, Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr., and Wil- 
liam Spriggs, who composed the first Supreme 
Court of Ohio. Under this new constitution 
the first court was organized which concerned 
Delaware County directly. This was known 
as the Court of Common Pleas. The consti- 
tution of 1802 provided that the several Courts 
of Common Pleas shall consist of a president 
judge and associate judges: that the State 
should be divided by law into three circuits 
and that there should be appointed a president 
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office should reside therein ; that there should 
be appointed in each county not more than 
three nor less than two associate judges, who 
during their continuance in office should reside 
in the county, and the president in the circuit 
and the associate judges in the county should 
constitute the Court of Common Pleas, which 
court was to have common law and chancery 
jurisdiction. The several judges under this 
provision of the constitution were elected by the 
General Assembly. 

Under this subdivision of the State into 
three circuits, Delaware County belonged to 
the middle subdivision, and the first presiding 
judge who held court in Delaware County 
after its organization was Levin Belt, who re- 
sided in Chillicothe, Ohio ; his associates were 
Moses Byxbee, Thomas Brown and Josiah 
McKinney. The first session of the court was 
held on the third day of June, A. D., 1808, 
in a temporary log building near the sulphur 
springs, on what is now the Ohio Wesleyan 
University grounds. The presiding judge and 
all the members of the bar were from neigh- 
boring counties. The associate judges above 
named were from Delaware County, and 
Moses Byxbee, Jr., was appointed clerk of 
courts. He also resided in Delaware County. 
The early journals of the Common Pleas Court 
were destroyed by an incendiary fire about the 
year 1825 and it would be difficult to give a 
full and complete history of this court prior 
to the year 1825. But from other sources we 
have compiled a complete history of all the 
judges and their associate judges who have 
held the several courts in this county since its 
organization. 

From February 8. 1808, the date when 
Delaware County was set off' from Franklin 
County by an act of the General Assembly, 
down to the date of the adoption of the new- 
constitution in 1 85 1, this county never had a 
resident presiding judge, but during all that 
time it had its quota of associate judges, who 
were men chosen from among its best and 
most prominent citizens. As before stated, 
these judges were elected bv the General As- 
sembly and the first three were Moses Byxbee, 
Thomas Brown and Josiah McKinney. These 



were elected February 13, 1808. Benjamin 
Carpenter was elected February 17. 1809; J°~ 
siah McKinney. Ezekiel Brown and David 
Marks, elected February 4, 1815; Samuel 
Hughes elected January 27 \ 1818; Josiah Mc- 
Kinney and William S. Drake elected Febru- 
ary 4, 1822. David Prince elected at the ses- 
sion in 1825; William S. Drake and Hosea 
Williams elected at the session in January, 
1829; Ezra Griswold elected at the January 
session, 1832; John Brundage and John Lug- 
enbeel elected at the January session, 1830; 
William P. Norris elected at session of 1842; 
Marshall L. Griffin elected at session of 1:842; 
Almon Stark elected at session of 1846; Fred- 
erick Avery elected at the session of 1850; 
Caleb Howard elected at the session of 1850. 

Under the new constitution of 185 1 the 
State was divided into nine Common Pleas 
districts, and these districts were subdivided 
into three districts each and the election of 
the judges of these courts was vested in the 
people of the subdivision instead of in the 
General Assembly as under the Constitution of 
1802. According to this subdivision Dela- 
ware County was placed in the Sixth Judicial 
District, which was composed of Delaware, 
Knox, Licking, Ashland, Morrow. Richland, 
Coshocton. Holmes and Wayne Counties, and 
the first subdivision of said district is com- 
posed of Delaware, Knox and Licking coun- 
ties and it has always been the same since the 
adoption of the new constitution. 

The first election for judges of the Com- 
mon Pleas Courts under the Constitution of 
1 85 1 was held on the second Tuesday of Oc- 
tober, 1 85 1. and the judges elected began their 
terms of office on the second Monday of Febru- 
ary, A. D., 1852. Under this subdivision of 
the Sixth District, the following named per- 
sons have been elected from Delaware County 
and have presided over this court and over the 
other courts in this subdivision : Sherman 
Finch, from February. 1857, to February, 
[862. Thomas C. Jones, from February, 
1862, to February, 1872. Charles H. Mc- 
Elroy, from February. 1882. to February, 
1892. John S. Gill, from February, 1892, to 
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February, 1897, to February, 1902. George 
Coyner, from February, 1902, to February, 
1907. Emmett M. Wickham, from February, 
1907. present incumbent. The foregoing are 
all of the judges who have been elected or ap- 
pointed from Delaware County. 

THE PROBATE COURT. 

The Probate Court was first established 
under the new constitution in the year 1852. 
Up to that date the business of the Probate 
Court was done in the Common Pleas Court. 
The Probate Court is the most popular court 
with the people. It has been said that prac- 
tically all the property in the count}' pa-<c^ 
under the jurisdiction of this court once in 
each generation. 

The first judge of the Probate Court of 
Delaware County was David T. Fuller. The 
first entry made on the Journal of the court by 
him is dated March 2, A. D., 1852. and the 
last entry made by him is dated August 5, 
[854. He died during his term of office and 
John E. Rosette was appointed by Governor 
William Madill to fill the vacancy. The first 
entry made of the Journal by Judge Rosette 
is dated September 16, 1854. 

The next judge of the Probate Court was 
Isaac Ranney, and the first entry made by him 
on the Journal is dated October 20, 1854. 

The next judge was Thomas W. Powell, 
and the first entry made on the Journal by him 
is dated November 3, 1862. These three 
judges were lawyers. 

The next judge was B. C. Waters, and 
the first entry made by him is dated March 18, 
1870. Judge Waters was not a lawyer. The, 
next judge of this court was F. B. Sprague, 
and the first entry made by him on the Journal 
of the court is dated February 14, 1876. Mr. 
Sprague was not a lawyer. 

The next judge of this court was Rufus 
Carpenter, and the first entry made by him 
is dated February 9, 1882. Mr. Carpenter was 
not a lawyer. 

The next judge of this court was X. F. 
Overturf and the first entry made by him on 



the Journal is dated February 0. 1888. Judge 
Overturf is a lawyer. 

The next judge of this court was I'.. F. 
Freshwater, and the first entry made on the 
Journal of this court by him is dated Febru- 
ary 9, 1894. Judge Freshwater is a lawyer. 

The next judge of this court was E. Lee 
Porterfield. and the first entry made on his 
Journal is February 9, 1900. Judge Porter- 
field was admitted to the Bar during his in- 
cumbency in office. 

The next judge of this court was John 
A. Cone, who is the present incumbent. The 
first entry made by him on his docket is 
dated February 9, 1906. Judge Cone i-- a 
lawyer. 

Leonard H. Cowles. The first lawyer 
to settle in Delaware County was Leonard H. 
Cowles. He came from Connecticut about the 
year 1810, two years after the organization 
of the county. He was said to be a scholarly 
gentleman, a graduate of Yale College and a 
college mate of the late John C. Calhoun of 
South Carolina. He was said to have been 
one of the most thorough-read lawyers of his 
age. Not long after he came to Delaware he 
was married to a daughter of Colonel Moses 
Byxbee, which brought him into one of the 
wealthiest families of the county and the most 
of the county. He was a scholarly 
own personal business, so that as a lawyer he 
did not acquire as great a reputation in his 
professional life as he might have done if his 
talents had been devoted to his profession 
strictly. He was the only resident lawyer of 
the county until the year 1818, and his name 
appears frequently on the deed records of the 
county. He was a member of the Twenty- 
first and Twenty-second General Assemblies 
of Ohio which convened respectively on the 
second day of December. A. D., 1822. and the 
first day of December, A. D.. 1823. He is said 
to have been a person of good and command- 
ing presence, always well dressed and gentle- 
manly in his appearance, and he devoted much 
of his time to social life and was fond of 
and sociable with his friends. He reared 
large family, none of whom are now living. 



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At the close of his life he had but little left 

of his large fortune. 

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Milo D. Pettibone was also a native of 
Connecticut, and he, it is believed, was a 
graduate of Yale College, also. He came to 
Delaware in the year 1818. He was also <x 
scholarly gentleman, a trustworthy lawyer and 
occupied a high and responsible position at the 
,bar until the time of his death, which occurred 
in the year 1849. He devoted some of his 
time to land speculation and was the owner 
of large tracts of land at the time of his death. 
The partition of his real estate, which was 
made in the Court of Common Pleas of Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, shows that he was the 
owner of large tracts of land both in Delaware, 
Marion and other counties in this State. He 
devoted the most of his time to the accumula- 
tion of his fortune, yet he was not lacking in 
his social relations and he always engaged 
in all the improvements of his time, whether 
social, moral or religious. He believed in the 
abolition of slavery in the United States and 
was considered one of the emancipators. He 
was enterprising and liberal toward public 
improvements and favored the advancement 
of Delaware. He was a member of the Twen- 
ty-seventh General Assembly of Ohio, which 
convened at Columbus, Ohio, on the first day 
of December. A. D., 1828. At the time of 
his death he had a large family of sons and 
daughters, to whom he left a large estate, some 
oi whom are still living but none are now resi- 
dents of this countv. 

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There were several other persons who 
came to Delaware and practiced at this bar 
for a short time but they only remained for 
a short period or died before they became 
well established in business and little can be 
learned of them or said about them at this late 
period. 

Among those are Henry Brush, Justine 
Cook, and Richard Murray. Of Henry Brush 
nothing is known except that he was here for 
a short time and was a contemporary of and 
with Leonard 11. Cowles and Milo D. Petti- 
bone. 



Justine Cook is said to have been a very 
bright young man, who developed great hopes 
in the minds of. his friends for a resplendent 
professional career, but they were disap- 
pointed by his early death, which occurred 
about the year 1828. 

Richard Murray began the practice of 
law in Delaware with flattering hopes for a 
bright professional career, but about the year 
1830 he developed disease of the lungs which 
resulted in tuberculosis, and he was compelled 
to seek a better climate. He removed with his 
family to the south and located on the east side 
of Lake Pontchartrain, where he lived but a 
few years, and died and was buried there, but 
his family returned to Delaware, Ohio. His 
widow resided in Delaware for many years 
and was prominent as an early educator. 

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Judge Thomas Watkins Powell was 
born in South Wales, September, 1797, and 
died December 12, 1882, in Delaware, Ohio, 
at the advanced age of eighty-five years. His 
father, in the year 1801, immigrated to 
America and settled in Utica, in the State of 
New York. He sought and obtained such an 
education as his opportunities afforded. But 
the War of 181 2 with Great Britain soon be- 
gan, and during that war he drove his father's 
team with the baggage of a regiment to Sac- 
ket's Harbor in the spring of 1813, and entered 
that place at the close of the battle. In the 
year 1814 be was appointed to a post of great 
trust, by the military authorities — the bearer 
of dispatches to Plattsburg, and at the close 
of the battle entered the town with dispatches 
to General McCombs. He attended an 
academy for two years where he studied and 
mastered such branches as were then taught 
at such institutions, including the higher 
branches of mathematics, for which he had 
a taste and genius to excel. It was 
ever with him a subject of great regret that 
his opportunities in early life to obtain a 
thorough education had been so limited. Could 
he have been indulged in the natural bent of 
his mind he would have excelled in literature 
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entered the law office of Charles M. Lee. of 
Utica, when about the age of twenty, and in 
the year 1819, came to Ohio and passed his 
quarantine in the law office of Hon. James W. 
Lathrop, of Canton, Ohio. In the year 1820 
he was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme 
Court on the circuit at Wooster, Ohio. He 
immediately located in Perrysburg. on the 
Maumee River, and began the practice of the 
law. He was §oon made prosecuting attorney 
and afterward county auditor of Wood 
County. He remained in Wood County until 
the year 1830, when he removed to Delaware, 
Ohio, where he remained in active practice 
for more than fifty years. He was always re- 
garded by the profession in Delaware and 
throughout the counties in central Ohio as an 
able and successful lawyer. In special and 
equity pleading, to which he devoted par- 
ticular attention, he excelled. He was ever 
noted for his zeal for his client's interest and 
welfare in all his practice. Polite and in- 
telligent, his society was courted by his breth- 
ren of the bar and in whatever circle he en- 
tered his presence . was always welcome. 
Probably no lawyer did more in assisting 
young men at the bar, and no one had more 
law students than did Judge Powell. Among 
the many men of note who studied in his of- 
fice was Hon. Charles Sweetser, Edward 
Jones, Hon. Thomas C. Jones, Hon. Royal T. 
Wheeler, afterwards chief justice of Texas. 
Gen. J. S. Jones and many others. In addi- 
tion to his industry in his profession, Judge 
Powell added great enterprise in all matters 
of interest to the public. He projected and 
prosecuted to its completion the "Mansion 
House" at the Sulphur Springs, which in its 
early history was famous as a fashionable re- 
sort and which subsequently secured to Dela- 
ware the Ohio Wesleyan University. He laid 
out and had platted one of the largest addi- 
tions to the town (now city) of Delaware. He 
built the flax mills and was interested in many 
other projects to benefit the city. Though not 
a seeker of place, he filled many of the most 
responsible offices in the gift of the people. He 
was first elected and served as prosecuting at- 
torney of this county. He was elected to the 



General Assembly or House of Representa- 
tives of Ohio and served for the years 1841 
and 1842. He was elected to the Ohio State 
Senate, from the Delaware District which was 
at that time composed of Delaware and Craw- 
ford Counties and served during the years 1844 
and 1845. He was elected probate judge of 
Delaware County in the year 1862 and held 
the office for eight years. He was also a mem- 
ber of the Third Constitutional Convention 
of Ohio which met in Columbus, Ohio, in 
May, 1873, and he was considered one of the 
most prominent and useful members. Not- 
withstanding he was always a very busy man 
in his practice, he gave to the profession of his 
choice, two books which were much needed 
and which are highly prized and much used 
by the courts and liar, viz., "Powell's An- 
alysis of American Law" and "Appellate Jur- 
isdiction." He has also written a "History of 
the Ancient Britains," and a book entitled 
"What is Knowledge." He was always an 
untiring worker and though almost blind in 
the latter years of his life, he never ceased 
to write until the final call came when it was 
said to him, "Well done thou good and faith- 
ful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a 
few things," etc. 

Hon. John Anthony Quitman was born 
in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New Yi irk, 
September 1, 1799. He came to Delaware 
County. Ohio, about the year 1820, as a clerk 
in the land office under Piatt Russell, who 
was register of the land office at that time. 
Mr. Quitman read law with Piatt Russell, who 
was also a lawyer, and he was admitted to the 
Bar in the year 182 1. He practiced for a 
short time only in this county, when he re- 
moved to the State of Mississippi, where he 
became a man of great note and prominence. 
He became a member of the Mississippi Legis- 
lature in 1827. was chancellor of the State 
from 1828 to 1834 and became president of the 
State Senate. He was appointed brigadier- 
general in the war between the United States 
and Mexico; after the close of the war he was 
elected governor of the State and in the year 
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State, was re-elected to succeed himself in 
1857, and became chairman of the .Military 
Committee. He died in the city of Natchez, 
July 17. 1858. 

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Hon. Charles Svveetser was born about 
the year 1805 in the State of Vermont, lie 
came to Delaware County with his lather in 
the year 181 7, who settled on a farm just 
north of Delaware. Ohio. He engaged in 
mercantile pursuits for a few years and began 
the study of law in the year 1830 in the office 
of the Hon. Thomas W. Powell. He was ad- 
mitted to the Bar in the year 1832 and imme- 
diately began an active practice, which was 
distinguished more lay his activity than by his 
sound knowledge of the law or his study of its 
more abstruse principals. His education was 
limited to the public schools and his activity 
never permitted him. by industry and persever- 
ance, to overcome its defects. He disliked 
discipline, study, and technicality and boasted 
that genius and original common sense were 
the vantage ground for him. He was captious 
and capricious and was often the cause of 
violent squabbles at the bar. But with all his 
irregularities he was remarkably successful 
both in the law and in politics. He was a mem- 
ber of the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Con- 
gress, having been chosen from the Tenth Dis- 
trict, to which Delaware County then be- 
longed. He served during the years 1849- 
1850 and 185 1-1852. He continued his prac- 
tice up to a short time before his death, which 
occurred in the year 1864. He was always 
noted for his taste in the elegance of his 
equipment. For many years he kept a very 
fine carriage and a span of cream-colored 
horses. This it is said he used during his can- 
vass for member of Congress. Upon one 1 ic- 
casion in addressing a large Democratic meet- 
ing he said that some of his friends advised 
that he should, while a Democratic candidate, 
dispose of his carriage and cream-colored 
horses. "But," said he, "I will do no such 
thing, for I think that a good Democrat has 
as good a right to a fine carriage and horses as 
anybody else." This sentiment is said to have 
been vigorously applauded. He left to his 



family a large estate. He built and occupied 

at the time of his death what was then 

known as the "Sweetser Mansion" located on 

the corner of Sandusky Street and Central 

Avenue, and which was for many years the 

most imposing residence in the city. He laid 

out a large addition to the town (now city) 

of Delaware, just north of the original site 

of the town, which is known as Bomford and 

Sweetser's addition to the town. 
* * * 

Judge Sherman Finch came to Dela- 
ware as a lawyer in the year 1832, having 
been born in the State of Connecticut. He 
was a graduate of Yale College. He was a 
good scholar and had been a professor in 
Latin in Kenyon College, at Gambier. Ohio. 
He was a man of strong intellectual powers 
and was a good logician. He was a distin- 
guished lawyer, especially in the principles of 
equity. He was elected judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas in the first subdivision of the 
Sixth District, from Delaware County and 
served from February, 1857. to February. 
1862. During his official term he moved to 
Mt. A^ernon in Knox. County, which is in the 
same subdivision as Delaware. At the end of 
his judicial term he moved to St Paul, Min- 
nesota, where he died in the year 1873. Sher- 
man Finch left many monuments of his pres- 
ence and residence in Delaware County, espe- 
cially upon the court and deed records of the 
countv, having owned at various times numer- 
ous tracts of land. He laid out an addition to 
the town on the east side of the river, which is 
known as Finch and Lamb's addition to Dela- 
ware. 

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Judge David T. Fuller settled in Dela- 
ware. Ohio, early in the thirties. He was 3 
brother-in-law of Judge Finch, they having 
married sisters. Judge Fuller was a native 
of the State of Vermont. He was the son of 
a clergyman and is said to have been a grad- 
uate of Williams College. He was scholarly, 
well versed in literature and theology, and 
had also been a professor in Kenyon College. 
He was at one time a law partner of Judge 
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auditor of the county and was subsequently 
probate judge, having served for less than one 
term in that office. He died in the year 1854, 
before he had completed his first term. The last 
entry made by him on the journal of his court 
was August 5, 1S54. 

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Hon. Cooper K. Watson came to Dela- 
ware County as a member of the bar in the 
year 1834. having heen admitted to the Bar at 
Newark, Ohio. He remained in this county 
but a few years and from here went to Marion 
G unity and from there to Seneca and finally- 
settled at Xorwalk, Huron County. Ohio. He 
was a member of Congress from the Ninth 
Congressional District from Seneca County 
and served in the Thirty- fourth Congress for 
the years 1855-1856. He was elected judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas for the Fourth 
Judicial District and served from February, A. 
D., 1876, to the time of his death, which oc- 
curred in the year 1880. He hecame very 
eminent in his profession as an advocate and 
jury lawyer. While at Delaware he gave 
full assurance of his future eminence by his 
great capacity for public speaking. But he 
more particularly distinguished himself as an 
amateur actor in the Thespian Society, which 
then flourished here. This so tempted him 
that he thought stongly of abandoning the 
profession of law for that of the stage. 

Edward Jones was the son of Robert 
Jones, wdio resided in the parish of Myfod, 
Montgomeryshire, North Wales. He was 
born on Wales and was an elder brother of 
Thomas C. Jones. The family immigrated to 
America about the year 1822. and settled near 
Delaware, Ohio. Edward Jones was admitted 
to the Bar about the year 1836, and began the 
practice of his profession. He was a young 
man of great talent and was noted particularly 
for his gift of oratory. Contrary to the pre- 
dilections of his brother Thomas C. Jones, who 
was a Whig. Edward Jones was a thorough 
Democrat and though not yet twenty-five 
years of age at the time of his death, his party 
had hoped to make him governor of the State. 
It is said of him that in the year 1836, at a 



Democratic meeting held in Franklinton, 
Franklin County, Ohio, which had been ad- 
dressed by Alfred Kelley, he was urged by 
his party to make a reply, which he did in a 
manner highly gratifying to the leaders of his 
party and which was greatly admired and com- 
mended by all who heard him. He died in 
the year 1838, at the age of twenty-four years. 
His death was greatly lamented by the whole 
community as a premature departure of one 
who promised to be a great man. 

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James M. Barnes came to Delaware 
from Newark, Ohio, about the year 1839. hav- 
ing just been admitted to the Bar. He soon 
became a law partner of the Hon. Charles 
Sweetser, which partnership continued until 
the year 1850, when he went to California by 
the Overland Route with a company of gold 
seekers. He returned in about two years, hav- 
ing obtained some success in the gathering of 
gold. He again began the practice of law and 
he did not fancy the profession as well as he 
did the making of money and he turned his 
attention to the manufacture of linseed oil. in 
which he was successful. He built the large 
linseed oil plant on the corner of Winter and 
Depot Streets, just opposite the Big Four 
depot, and he erected a large warehouse near 
the depot on the railroad lands and was in 
business there for many years. He was later 
elected mayor of the city of Delaware. Owing 
to failing health he quit business in Delaware 
and removed to the State of California where 

he died a number of years ago. 

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Judge Thomas C. Jones was born in the 
parish of Myfod. Montgomeryshire, North 
Wales, February 9, 18 16, and died at Dela- 
ware. Ohio, August 13, 1892. His father, 
Robert Jones, was a farmer in his native coun- 
try of Wales, and the family immigrated to 
America in the year 1822 and settled on a 
farm near Delaware. Ohio. At the early age 
of thirteen years the subject of this sketch 
earned his own living by working on farms 
for the neighbors in the spring and summer 
and fall and attending school in winters. In 
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teach. In the year 1837, he began the study 
of law with his brother Edward, who had just 
previously opened an office in Delaware. The 
brother died in the year 1838 and Thomas 
taught a district school in the winter of 1839, 
and in April of that year he started to Wales 
to settle his father's estate. He traveled from 
Delaware to Philadelphia on horseback, where 
he sold his horse and sailed for his former 
home. He studied law in England for about 
eighteen months, and as a student attended the 
sessions of the English courts with great bene- 
fit to himself. In the spring of the year 1841 
he returned to America and was admitted to 
the Bar before the Supreme Court of Ohio, 
which was then being held at Gallipolis. Ohio, 
Justices Peter Hitchcock, Thomas A. Grimke 
and S. F. Vinton, examiners. He immediately 
opened an office in Delaware, Ohio, with good 
prospects. In a short time he entered into a 
partnership for the practice of his profession 
with Judge Sherman Finch, which partnership 
continued for only a short time. In the year 
1843, Mr. Jones removed to Circleville, Pick- 
away County, Ohio, where he continued in the 
practice of his profession for thirteen vears. 
In the year 1856 he returned to Delaware 
County, where he formed a partnership for 
the practice of law with H. M. Carper, the 
stvle of the firm being Jones & Carper, 
which partnership continued until Mr. Jones 
was elected to the Common Pleas bench. In 
the year 1859. he was elected State senator 
from the Sixteenth Senatorial district, at that 
time composed of Delaware and Licking Coun- 
ties, as a Republican, though the district was 
largely Democratic. Mr. Jones was elected 1>\ 
a handsome majority. In January. 1850- Mr. 
Jones was elected a member of the State Board 
of Agriculture, which office he held for eight 
vears. being president of the board for two 
years. 

In the autumn of the year [861, Mr. Jones 
was elected judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas for the First Subdivision of the Sixth 
Judicial District, composed of Delaware. 
Knox and Licking Counties. He was re- 
elected in the autumn of 1866, serving for the 



term of ten years with general satisfaction to 
the public and to the Bar. 

He was a delegate to the National Repub- 
lican Convention held at Chicago in the year 
1868, which nominated Grant and Colfax for 
president and vice-president, respectivelv. 1 if 
the United States and was chairman of the 
delegation. He was also a member of the Na- 
tional Republican Convention which nomi- 
nated R. B. Hayes for president in the year 
1876, and he was one of President Hayes' 
strongest supporters, having known him from 
childhood, they having been school boys to- 
gether. After the expiration of Judge Jones' 
second term on the bench, he engaged in agri- 
culture and the breeding of thoroughbred 
short-horned cattle, Southdown sheep and 
other fine stock, for which he always had a 
taste, no doubt inherited through many gen- 
erations from his ancestors. He was appointed 
trustee of the Ohio Agricultural College, lo- 
cated at Columbus, Ohio, was made chair- 
man of the Executive Committee, and was 
largely responsible for the design and erec- 
tion of the college buildings as well as the se- 
lection of the first professi >rs and the charac- 
ter of the course of study. In the year 1876 
he was one of the jury selected to award the 
honors in the cattle department of live stock 
at the Centennial at Philadelphia and he was 
made chairman of that body. 

In the year 1880 he visited Great Britain, 
including his native Wales, taking with him 
his wife, and with the aid of a letter from 
President Hayes, his old school fellow, he 
made extensive observations with reference to 
our live stock trade with that country and the 
effect of its restrictions upon our exports. The 
result of his observations was made known 
to the president in a letter by Mr. Jones, which 
letter he caused to be published for distribu- 
tion among breeders and others interested in 
this most important branch of our export 
trade. In the year 1881 he was appointed on 
a commission by a special act of Congress to 
examine and report upon the agricultural needs 
and resources of the Pacific States. In the 
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settle the Indian question the wisdom of Judge 
Junes was recognized by His appointment to 
several commissions. 

Judge Jones was at one time an official 
visitor to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. 
As a writer on agricultural subjects and espe- 
cially in the department of stock-breeding, he 
had a national reputation. 

Judge Jones was chosen as the first presi- 
dent of the Ohio Association of Breeders of 
short-horn cattle and was really the leading 
spirit in its organization. The judge was a 
man of sincere and earnest convictions, liberal 
and public spirited, of a genial temperament 
and was interested in his fellow citizens and 
his company was sought after in the social 
circle. 

Religiously, he was a positive character. 
He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, had clear views on the subject of re- 
ligion and he believed in a God as taught by 
his church and the Bible. He had no patience 
with non-believers or with the doctrines of the 
rationalists. He was for many years a trustee 
of the Theological Seminary and of Kenyon 
College, which was established by his church 
at Gambier, and his eldest son is a professor 
of Ecclesiastical History and Church Polity 
in Kenyon College. 

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Colonel James Williams Crawford 
was born in Franklin County, in the State of 
Pennsylvania, December 2, 1788/ His father's 
ancestors came from the Highlands of Scot- 
land to the north of Ireland at an early date. 
His mother was of Welsh descent. The an- 
cestors of both families immigrated to Amer- 
ica before the war of the Revolution and in 
America they were known as "The Scotch 
Irish." These people took a very active part 
in the struggles for American independence. 

In the year 1810 the subject of this sketch 
came to Delaware County, Ohio, bringing with 
him his young wife, whose maiden name was 
Elizabeth (Van Lear) Crawford. He pur- 
chased a tract of wild land on the west bank 
of the Olentangy River in Liberty Township, 
where they built a log cabin and began cut- 
ting down the timber in order to make a home 



in the wilderness. At the beginning of the 
War of 1812, Air. Crawford put aside his axe 
and plow and took up his musket in defense of 
his country's cause. He was chosen a lieu- 
tenant of his company and served until the 
close of the war. Just before the close of the 
war, he was chosen colonel of his regiment, 
from which he derived his title of colonel. 

At the close of the war. Air. Crawford re- 
turned to his home in Liberty Township and 
began, with his neighbors, the task of felling 
the forests, cutting down the thickets and pre- 
paring the highway for future generations. 
To Mr. Crawford and Elizabeth, his wife, were 
born five children. 

In the year 1818, he sold his farm in Lib- 
erty Township and bought a farm on the west 
bank of the Scioto River in what is now- 
known as Thompson Township, on the old 
Military Road which led from Franklinton to 
the seat of war in 181 2. Here he again began 
to clear up his land and built his log cabin, 
but he was soon destined to disappointment ; 
his faithful wife, Elizabeth, died in the year 
1 82 1 and passed to her final reward. A short 
time after this sore bereavement, Mr. Craw- 
ford was called away from his home for the 
night, leaving his children during his absence 
with a housekeeper. The cabin took fire and 
burned to the ground with all its contents, 
the inmates escaping with nothing but their 
night clothes. The}- were taken care of by 
their neighbors with true frontier hospitality. 
Early in the following spring the cabin was 
rebuilt and Mr. Crawford again began house- 
keeping in true western style. On the eigh- 
teenth .day of May, 1823, Mr. Crawford was 
married to Miss Nancy Stevens, a daughter of 
Zacharia Stevens, who was one of the pioneer 
settlers of the county. To this union was 
born a family of ten children. In the same 
year Mr. Crawford sold his farm and bought 
another, where he built a saw mill. 

In the year 1832, Mr. Crawford was 
elected to the Ohio State Senate. The district 
at that time was composed of Delaware. Mar- 
ion and Crawford Counties. He served in 
what was known as the Thirty-second General 
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the year 1838. when he became financially in- 
volved, through his generosity toward his 
•friends. But his gallantry and courage was 
equal to the occasion. He sold his farm and 
all his belongings, paid out his liabilities, and 
moved to Delaware in the autumn of 1839, 
with his large family to support and only 
three shillings with which to start. He imme- 
diately opened an office and began the practice 
of law, being then fifty-two years of age. His 
old friends in the legislature having heard of 
his misfortunes and anticipating his necessi- 
ties, had passed on the sixteenth day of March. 
1839, the following bill of relief: "An act 
for the relief of James W. Crawford." 

"Section One. Be it enacted by the General As- 
sembly of the State of Ohio, that James W. Crawford 
of Delaware County, may be admitted to an examina- 
tion t< lie permitted to practice as an attorney and 
counsellor at law as provided in the act entitled an 
Act to Regulate the Admission and Practice of Attor- 
neys and Counsellors at Law, passed February 14, 
1824, without presenting to the judges as provided 
in said act, a certificate that he has regularly and at- 
tentively studied law during the period of two years 
previous to his application for admission." 

"James J. Foran, 
"Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

"William Haskixs, 
"Speaker of the Senate." 
"March 16th, 1839." 

This was an unusual proceeding and it 
only goes to show Mr. Crawford's high stand- 
ing with the members of the General Assembly 
and their estimate of his ability to fulfill his 
obligations as an attorney-at-law. Mr. Craw- 
ford's successful practice of law for twenty 
vears after his admission to the bar in Dela- 
ware and surrounding counties, proved that 
the Legislature had not over-estimated his 
ability and he was never known to betray his 
trust. Mr. Crawford was connected with 
many of the most important cases before the 
courts of Delaware County during his prac- 
tice here. One case in particular, in which he 
was personally concerned, began by himself in 
the Common Pleas Court, is worthy of men- 
tion. The Council of the village of Delaware 
had changed the grade of North Sandusky 



Street, in front of Mr. Crawford's residence. 
He brought suit for damages and recovered a 
judgment in the Common Pleas Court. The 
village claimed that it could not be held in 
damages for such an injury. It was at the 
time an unsettled question. The case was 
taken to the Supreme Court, which court held 
that the village was liable and that case has 
become a leading authority both in this and 
other states. It is reported in the Seventh O. 
S. R., Page 457. An amusing incident oc- 
curred during the trial of this case in the Com- 
mon Pleas Court which goes to show the earn- 
estness and zeal with which Mr. Crawford 
tried a case. Hon. Thomas W. Powell and 
Ji ihn D. Van Deman were representing the 
village in the trial of the case and Mr. Craw- 
ford was arguing his own case. Mr. Powell 
contended that the injury lor which Mr. 
Crawford claimed damages was an injury for 
which there was no remedy in law and in his 
argument quoted the Latin Maxim. "Damnum 
absqui injuria." Mr. Crawford (who was not a 
Latin scholar), in his reply to Judge Powell's 
argument, turned to him and quoting the 
maxim as he understood it, said to Mr. Powell, 
"I'll show you before I get through with you, 
whether it is a dam tight squeeze." Colonel 
Crawford was a ready speaker, a good de- 
bater, was full of wit and repartee. He lived 
in Delaware from the time of his admission to 
the bar until the date of his death, which oc- 
curred the eleventh day of December, A. D., 

1859. 

^ * ^ 

Israel E. Buck was admitted to the bar 
in the year 1842. He was a native of Dela- 
ware County and his opportunities for an edu- 
cation were limited to such as the county then 
afforded, but he was a hard student and he pur- 
sued his studies with vigor and diligence. He 
was distinguished for his strong and robust in- 
tellect, so that he ranked among the best in- 
f< irmed and most intelligent men of the county. 
As a lawyer he was more distinguished for his 
knowledge of the law and his common sense 
and good judgment than for his eloquence in 
trials at the bar. He was for many years a 
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and their names are attached to many plead- 
ings in the Clerk of Courts' records. 

He platted and laid out an addition to the 
city of Delaware which is known as Buck's 
Addition to the Town (now city) of Dela- 
ware. Ohio. He was mayor of the city at the 
time Kossuth, the distinguished Hungarian 
patriot, visited Delaware and he delivered an 
address in his honor which was much admired 
and complimented. On account of his sound 
judgment, good learning and diligence, he 
gave hopes to his friends that when an occa- 
sion presented he would he promoted to the 
bench, but he died at an early age, much la- 
mented by his friends and those who knew 
him. His only child, Henrie E. Buck, is still 

living and is a resident of Delaware County. 

* * * 

John Egan Rosette was the son of 
George G. and Ann (Egan) Rosette. The 
parents located in Delaware, Ohio, in the year 
[825. The subject of 'this sketch was horn at 
Reading, Ohio, January 16, 182 1. He re- 
ceived his education at a private school taught 
by Mrs. Murray in Delaware at that time, in 
which school he prepared himself lor the pro- 
fession of teacher. He taught for several 
years in the public schools of the county, 
studied law with Hon. Charles Sweetser, and 
was admitted to the Bar December n, 1844. 
He immediately formed a partnership for the 
practice of his profession, with his former 
teacher, Hon. Charles Sweetser, the style of 
the firm being Sweetser & Rosette, which 
partnership continued as long as Mr. Rosette 
remained in Delaware. David T. Fuller, the 
probate judge of Delaware County, died dur- 
ing the time he held that office and Mr. Ro- 
sette was appointed by Governor William Ma- 
dill, on the twelfth day of September, A. D., 
1854. to fill the vacancy. The original ap- 
pointment is yet in existence and is now in the 
possession of the nephew of John E. Rosette. 
viz., our genial deputy sheriff, William Wells. 
In the year 1855. Mr. Rosette went to Spring- 
field, Illinois, where he located and continued 
the practice of his profession, until the date of 
his death, which occurred in that city October 
1, 1881. In the year 1867. Mr. Rosette was 



appointed United States district attorney by 
President Andrew Johnson, which position he 
held during the incumbency of Johnson as 
president. 

Isaac Rannev was admitted to the Bar 
in the year 1842. He studied with the law 
firm of Sweetser & Barnes. He began to 
practice in this city and was soon elected prose- 
cuting attorney of the county. He was a man 
of good legal ability, but he did not apply him- 
self closely to his profession. In the year 
1857 he went to California by the Overland 
Route, where he remained about two rears, 
when he returned and again entered upon the 
practice of his profession. At the commence- 
ment of the Civil War he was appointed col- 
lector of this district, which he filled with 
credit to himself for a short time, when he re- 
signed. He was elected probate judge of this 
county and was re-elected to succeed himself 
and served out his two terms, having served 
from October 20, 1854. to November 1, 1862. 
He had in various ways accumulated quite a 
fortune, but the same was greatly reduced by 
his many changes of his residence in Delaware 
County, Washington. D. C. and other places. 
His name appears frequently upon the records 
at the Court House, which shows that he had 
at various times quite a business in the county. 
He finally settled upon a farm he had pur- 
chased in the valley of the Potomac, a few miles 
from Georgetown, where he died. 
* * * 

Lucius P. Marsh came to Delaware 
.about the year 1848, from the State of Xew 
York. He was then a young man about twen- 
ty-f( iur years of age. He seems to have studied 
law before he came here. He was first em- 
ployed by the Board of Directors as superin- 
tendent of the public schools of the town at a 
salary of forty dollars per month. The school 
house was the old William Street Methodisl 
Episcopal Church which had been bought by 
the Board of Education and converted into a 
schoolhouse. It was located on the northwest 
corner of William and Franklin Streets, just 
west of the present church. Mr. Marsh had 
a number of teachers under him and at the 



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end of the two years he asked for a hetter sal- 
ary. This having been refused, he resigned 
his position and began the practice of law in 
Delaware. He only remained here for a sh< irt 
time when he removed to Zanesville, Ohio, 
where he afterward became a prominent lawyer 
and was elected one of the judges of the Court 
of Common Pleas of the Eighth Judicial Dis- 
trict. 

Hon. James H. Hubbell was born in 
Lincoln Township, which was at that time a 
part of Delaware County, July 13, A. D., 
1824. His parents' names were Shadrac Hub- 
bell and Rebecca (Randolph) Hubbell. He 
received his early education in the public 
schools and began the study of law in the 
office of Judge Thomas W. Powell about the 
year 1843 an d was admitted to the Bar on the 
fifth day of January, 1845. Mr. Hubbell be- 
came a law partner of his former preceptor 
and he soon acquired a remunerative practice 
but his greatest success in life was in the politi- 
cal field. Mr. Hubbell was pleasant, genial 
and affable and was a born politician. He 
had been in the practice of his profession but 
a few years when he was called to fill the office 
of representative in the General Assembly of 
Ohio. He was first elected as a member of 
the Forty-eighth General Assembly in the 
autumn of 1848. He was again elected as a 
member of the Fifty-third, Fifty-fifth, and 
Fifty-sixth General Assemblies and he be- 
came the speaker of the house, in the Fifty- 
fifth and Fifty-sixth General Assemblies. He 
resigned his office as a member of the Fifty- 
sixth Assembly to accept the nomination for 
Congress in the Eighth Congressional Dis- 
trict of Ohio. He was elected and served in 
that capacity during the years 1865 and 1866. 
At this time the Ohio delegation in Congress 
was composed of such men as Rutherford B. 
Hayes, Robert C. Schenck, William Law- 
rence, Samuel Shellabarger, Ralph P. Buck- 
land, James M. Ashby, Columbus Delano, 
John A. Bingham, Ephraim R. Eckley and 
James A. Garfield, and among all these distin- 
guished representatives of Ohio, the Hon. 
James R. Hubbell stood as a peer. At this 



period in Mr. Hul Fell's life, the tide which 
had carried him to this high pinnacle began 
to recede and though his ambitions were not 
altogether swept away in this receding tide, the 
foundations of his future greatness seemed to 
have been undermined, and he was never again 
restored to the position he had held in the con- 
fidence of his constituents. At the time Mr. 
Hubbell took his seat in Congress, Andrew 
Johnson had succeeded to the presidency by 
reason of the assassination of President Lin- 
coln and during the long struggle in Congress 
for the reconstruction of the Southern States 
after the Civil War, and in the memorable an- 
tagonism between the president and the party 
that had elected him and had also elected Mr. 
Hubbell as a representative from Ohio, Mr. 
Hubbell, unfortunately adopted the views of 
Andrew Johnson in regard to the policy of re- 
construction and thereby alienated himself 
from the majority of his party and ever aft- 
erward was unable to restore himself to its 
confidence and support. Like the president he 
drifted away to '.he policy of the Democratic 
party, the principles of which he maintained 
to the time of his death, which occurred at the 
home of his son, at Bellville, Richland County, 
Ohio, on the twenty-sixth day of November, 
1890. Mr. Hubbell delivered a noted speech 
in Congress on February 5, 1866, on the sub- 
ject of reconstruction, in support of President 
Johnson's policy, in which he maintained that 
Johnson was simply carrying out the policy 
inaugurated by President Lincoln, viz., the 
policy of peace, forgiveness, reconciliation and 
restoration. In illustrating the character of 
Lincoln in the line of policy adopted by John- 
son, Mr. Hubbell in the closing of his speech 
quoted these lines : 

"The quality of mercy is not strained. 
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven. 
It is twice blest: 

It blesseth him that gives and him that 
takes." 

Which quotation would seem to give a 
key to Mr. Hubbell's own motives in the 
course he adopted and in thef closing para- 
graphs of that memorable speech, he said : "I 



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heartily approve of what has been done by the 
president. In our deliberations it seems to 
me our aim should be to heal and not to ir- 
ritate, to bind up the nation's wounds and so 
conduct our legislation as to restore to all 
parts of our heretofore unhappy and distracted 
country, peace, concord and harmony." 

Mr. Hubbell, up to this time had been a 
Whig and a Republican in his party affilia- 
tions. He had been, in fact, one of the or- 
ganizers of the Republican party. He had 
been presidential elector on the Fremont and 
Dayton ticket in 1856. Mr. Hubbell' s politi- 
cal career did not wholly end with his accept- 
ing the policy of President Johnson ; he was 
appointed minister to Portugal by President 
Johnson, but owing to the bitter contest be- 
tween the president and the Republican senate, 
his nomination was not confirmed. Mr. Hub- 
bell was nominated in the autumn of 1869 by 
the Democratic Party, in the Sixteenth Sena- 
torial District, at that time composed of Dela- 
ware and Licking Counties, for the office of 
State Senator and was elected, but after hav- 
ing served one year, he resigned for the pur- 
pose of accepting the Democratic nomination 
for Congress in the Eighth Congressional 
District, but he was defeated by his Republican 
opponent, Hon. John Beatty. of Morrow 
County, Ohio. 

Mr. Hubbell was in many respects one of 
the most remarkable men the county has ever 
produced. He studied closely and very care- 
fully the political events of his state and na- 
tion. He possessed a marvelous memory and 
was well versed in the history, lives and genea- 
ology of all the public men of the nation. 
There were but few of the prominent families 
of this county with whom he was not person- 
ally acquainted, and his friends and acquain- 
tances were such as desired to honor and pro- 
mote him. 

There was a time when Mr. Hubbell 
might have commanded the highest honors and 
distinctions within the gift of his constituents. 
There are yet many living witnesses who date 
the inspiration of their success to the friendly 
aid and counsel he gave them. It was his pe- 
culiar pride to extend a helping hand to some 

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young man struggling for recognition in law. 
medicine, politics or military services and to 
no one who asked his aid or assistance did he 
turn away and in his declining years it was 
a great comfort to him to hear from these per- 
sons, that they appreciated those acts of kind- 
ness and that they held -him in grateful remem- 
brance. 

^ ^ ^ 

Col. William P. Reid was born in Ox- 
ford Township, Delaware County, Ohio, on 
the eighth day of January, A. D., 1825. His 
advantages in early life for an education were 
very meager. During his boyhood Oxford 
Township was new and the schools were few 
and far between, so that Mr. Reid's early edu- 
cation was limited and during all his life he 
felt the loss of an early education. Though he 
labored under this disadvantage, he was not by 
any means an uneducated man. He became a 
close student of human nature and was one 
of the most careful lawyers in the selection of 
a jury that Delaware County ever produced. 
What he lacked in early education and train- 
ing he overcame by arduous study and in- 
dustry. He was admitted to the Bar in the 
year 1849, and he immediately located in 
Delaware. He served as a Justice of the 
Peace, but through his perseverance and in- 
dustry he soon rose to distinction in his pro- 
fession. His greatest success was in the man- 
agement of a case before a jury. He pre- 
pared his case with great care ; he saw the wit- 
nesses and knew what they would say ; he 
knew the jury and all their surroundings, and 
when he came to argue the facts and testimony 
to the jury, his good common sense enabled 
him to select the strongest points in his favor 
and to pass by the weak ones, so that the jury 
was apt to see the case as he saw it. Early in 
his practice he made the trial of personal in- 
jury cases a specialty, and he became an ex- 
pert in that particular branch of the practice, 
so that for many years before his death he 
had a reputation for being one of the best 
jury lawyers in the State and his services 
were sought in important cases, not only in his 
own but in many other counties of the State, 
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courts of last resort and became leading au- 
thorities in personal injury cases. 

During the second year of the Civil war Mr. 
Reid organized the One Hundred and Twen- 
ty-first Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry 
and was made its Colonel, and it was this 
fact which gave him the title of Colonel. He 
was compelled to resign by reason of sickness 
and after recuperating for a time he again 
took up the practice of his profession. He 
became the law partner of Henry J. Eaton 
with whom he was associated in the practice 
for many years, the style of the firm being 
Reid and Eaton. He afterward formed a 
partnership with Hon. Thomas E. Powell, 
which continued to the time of Colonel Reid's 
death, the style of this firm being Reid & 
Powell. 

Colonel Reid was an ardent Democrat in 
his political views, and was called to fill several 
important positions by his party, yet he never 
devoted his time and talents to politics; his 
time and energy was principally devoted to 
his chosen profession. He was elected State 
Senator by his party, for the Sixteenth Dis- 
trict, composed of Delaware and Licking 
Counties, serving in the Fifty-third General 
Assembly during the years 1874 and 1875. 
These positions he filled with his usual perse- 
verance and industry and he soon became a 
leader in the Senate. But his greatest suc- 
cess in life was in his professional career, and 
in this he had few equals and in his manage- 
ment of jury cases he had no superiors. He 
died in the prime of his manhood, on the 
twenty-second day of January. A. I).. 1879, 
at the age of fifty-four years, having worn 
out his life by ardent work devoted to his pro- 
fession. 

Homer McKendree Carper was born jn 
Licking County. Ohio, July 24. 1826. He died 
at Delaware, Ohio, January 14, 1895, having 
almost completed his three score and ten years 
when called to bis final reward. He was the 
son of Rev. Joseph Carper, a minister of the 
Gospel in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He received his early education from the teach- 
ings of his mother and in the public schools. 



He was a student for a short time in the 
Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. In Novem- 
ber, 1844, h e entered the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity at Delaware, Ohio, and completed a 
classical course, and was graduated with 
honors in 1848. His attachment for his alma 
mater lead him to locate in Delaware and he 
afterward became a member of the Board of 
Trustees of his chosen university and was its 
trusted counsel at the time of his death. 

Mr. Carper studied law at Lancaster, 
Ohio, under the tutorship of those great mas- 
ters of the profession, Thomas Ewing and 
Hocking H. Hunter, and was admitted to the 
Bar in the year 1850, having imbibed from 
these eminent teachers, the great principles of 
the law, which he ever afterward taught and 
followed. He settled in Delaware and com- 
menced the practice of his profession as a 
partner with Hon. James R. Hubbell, then a 
leading member of the Delaware County Bar. 
At the end of three years this partnership was 
dissolved and a new one was formed with Hon. 
Thomas C. Jones, which continued until Mr. 
Jones was elected Judge of the Common Pleas 
Court. In the year 1862 he became associated 
with Hon. J. D. Van Deman in a partnership 
which continued for a period of almost 
thirty years. By that time Mr. Carper had 
obtained a sufficiency for the support of him- 
self and family and he gradually retired from 
active practice and often refused to accept 
new business. A few of his clients, however, 
clung to him and insisted upon his legal ser- 
vices when they needed a counsellor or had 
important litigation. One of these clients was 
the C. C. C. & St. L. Railway Company, 
which he had served as counsel for many 
years. 

Mr. Carper had few aspirations for official 
honors. He declined a nomination for the 
Common Pleas Bench in the year 1881, al- 
though urged to accept by the members of 
the Delaware County Bar. He was however 
a delegate from this congressional district to 
the National Republican Convention which 
nominated Benjamin F. Harrison for Presi- 
dent of the United States. He served Dela- 
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attorney. Mr. Carper, like many of the older 
school of attorneys, was well versed in the 
common law. He argued from its principles 
and presented his cases to the court and jury 
upon its theories and precepts rather than 
from cases cited. He was, therefore, what 
woiul be styled an elementary practitioner 
rather than a case lawyer. He was a man of 
great scholarly attainments and he drew about 
him a circle of admirers who delighted in his 
conversation. He enjoyed his home to which 
he was greatly attached, and he rarely spent 
an evening away from his own fireside. Mr. 
Carper died very suddenly and his death 
created a great shock in the community. The 
Bar in which he had been so long a prominent 
figure adopted a memorial which was spread 
upon the court records as an inspiration to his 

brethren and fellow members of the Bar. 

* * * 

Leander J. Critch field graduated at the 
Ohio Wesleyan University in the class of 
1849. He studied law with Judge Finch and 
was admitted to the Bar soon after, and then 
became the law partner of Mr. Finch and for 
several years their names are attached io 
numerous pleadings in the Clerk's office, and 
Mr. Critchfield's name is attached to many 
other papers recorded in the records of the 
county. He was a successful practitioner at 
the Delaware County Bar. until he was ap- 
pointed reporter of the Supreme Court of 
Ohio. His first volume of the reports entitled, 
"The Ohio State Reports," being the fifth 
volume of the new series, was published in 
the year 1858, beginning with the decisions 
of that court in the term of December, 1855. 
He remained official reporter of the court un- 
til the year 1872, when he published his last 
volume of the new series. His duties as re- 
porter were ably and faithfully performed, 
and these reports remain as an honorable 
monument to his professional abilities and in- 
dustry. Soon after he began the publication 
of the reports he removed to Columbus, where 
he continued his practice in Franklin and sur- 
rounding Counties. For many years he re- 
sided on a farm near Flint, just over the Dela- 
ware County line in the edge of Franklin 



County, and went to his office in Columbus, 
Ohio, by train. He died about ten years 
ago, having accumulated an abundance for his 
family. 

Hon. John D. Van Deman is the Nestor 
of the Delaware County Bar. He was born in 
Delaware County, Ohio, on the twelfth day of 
February, 1832. His father,. Rev. Henry Van 
Deman, was a native of Pennsylvania. He 
was a minister of the Presbyterian Church, 
and was pastor of the church in Delaware for 
nearly forty years. His mother, Sarah Dar- 
linton, was a daughter of General Joseph Dar- 
linton. who was one of .the pioneers in the 
settlement of the Northwest Territory, and 
was a member of the Territorial Legislature 
of Ohio and a member of the convention held 
to frame the first constitution of the State. 

When a child Mr. Van Deman received his 
primary lessons from Mrs. Murray, in the 
basement of the building located on the Court 
House lot, being the same building where he af- 
terwards completed his legal studies, prepara- 
tory to his admission to the Bar. ( President R. 
B. Hayes had been a student at this same 
school.) Mr. Van Deman completed the clas- 
sical course in Ohio Wesleyan University, and 
received his degree in the year 1851, and is 
now one of the oldest graduates of that institu- 
tion. Immediately upon his graduation he 
entered the law office of Messrs. Powell and 
Buck, where he completed his course in law 
in the year 1853, and was admitted to the 
Bar before the District Court of Delaware 
County, which was presided over by Allen G. 
Thurman, then chief justice of the Supreme 
Court of Ohio. He began the practice in 
Delaware, soon achieving a success which 
was very gratifying. His first partnership 
was with Judge Thomas W. Powell, which 
continued until the year 1862, the success of 
which may be seen by reference to the court 
records, where the names of Powell and Van 
Deman, attorneys, appear subscribed to numer- 
ous pleadings. He then entered into a part- 
nership with the late Homer M. Carper, which 
was maintained without interruption until the 
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from a general practice. At the time of this 
dissolution, it was the oldest law firm in the 
State, having been in existence for nearly 
thirty years. During all this time the rela- 
tions of Mr. Carper and Mr. Van Deman were 
not only friendly and cordial but were of the 
closest intimacy. The firm name was known 
as Carper & Van Deman, and this firm was 
for many years employed in most of the im- 
portant cases tried in the county, as will ap- 
pear by reference to the Court Journal and 
other records of the court. 

Mr. Van Deman's first case was one which 
afterwards became famous by reason of the 
principle established. in it when it reached the 
Supreme Court of Ohio. It was a question 
affecting the grade of streets and it became a 
leading authority throughout the states on 
that subject. The title of the case was James 
W. Crawford vs. the Village of Delaware, 
and the same is reported in the Seventh O. 
S. R., Page 459. Judge Thomas \V. Powell 
was associated with Mr. Van Deman in the 
trial of the case. Mr. Crawford had brought 
suit against the village of Delaware for dam- 
ages for cutting" down the grade in front of 
his residence. On a hearing in the court, 
Judge Powell was trying to call to mind a 
Latin maxim which he thought was applicable 
to the case but which for the time being he 
could not recall. Finally, Judge Finch, who 
was a fine Latin scholar, said to Mr. Powell. 
'You refer to the Maxim, 'Damnum absqui 
injuria,' ' "Yes, yes," said Judge Powell, 
"that is it." Mr. Crawford, who was pleading 
his own case and was not a Latin scholar, at 
once replied, "I will show you, Mr. Powell, 
before I get through with you, whether it is 
a damn tight squeeze." 

There were very few important cases tried 
in the courts of Delaware County, during the 
time of Mr. Van Deman's active relations with 
the Bar, in which he was not engaged. One 
of the most celebrated cases which he man- 
aged was that of the prosecution of L. Houck, 
who was a manipulator of three card monte. 
Houck had killed a man on a Hocking Valley 
train just before the train stopped at the Dela- 
ware station. He was indicted for murder and 



Mr. Van Deman was employed to prosecute 
the case. Of his argument to the jury in the 
trial of the case, the Ohio State Journal said, 
"His address was admired by all who heard 
it. It was clear and sound in argument and 
his rhetoric was unusually fine, his speech was 
pronounced one of the best ever delivered at 
the Bar of Delaware County." Houck was 
convicted of manslaughter and was sentenced 
to the Ohio Penitentiary tor many years. 

Another celebrated case was one growing 
out of the failure of a bank at Logansport in 
the State of Indiana. The case was tried in 
the Federal Court at Toledo, Ohio. An at- 
tempt was made on the part of the Indiana 
bank management to hold Mr. E. R. Thomp- 
son, a non-resident, as a stockholder in the 
bank. There was a verdict on the first trial 
against Mr. Thompson. The case was taken 
to the United States Supreme Court, and the 
judgment was reversed, after a delay of many 
years. The case was again tried and a verdict 
was had in favor of Mr. Thompson's estate, he 
having been called long years before to his 
final account. 

Mr. Van Deman always prepared his 
pleadings with great care and tried his cases 
in court with great skill. Politically Mr. Van 
Deman has always been a Republican, but 
rarely aspires to political honors. He was sat- 
isfied with the emoluments as well as the fame 
which a lawyer who attends strictly to the pro- 
fession may secure. He was just entering his 
professional career when the Republican party 
was organized. He took a great interest in 
it and in 1856 he took the stump in support 
of Fremont and the new political platform 
which opposed the further extension of slavery 
into the territories. 

He became acquainted with Abraham Lin- 
coln in the year 1859, when Mr. Lincoln made 
his great speech from the east side of the State 
House in the city of Columbus, against Ste- 
phen A. Douglas. Mr. Van Deman was 
so charmed with the great simplicity and true 
nobility of the martyr president that he be- 
came one of his most zealous adherents. He 
continued in his work as a campaign orator 
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when lie retired from the political field, leav- 
ing the more arduous service to younger men. 
But in the campaign of 1896, he again en- 
tered the political arena and under the appoint- 
ment of the national committee made many 
speeches in Ohio and spent about four weeks 
in Kansas, most of the time in the district of 
"Sockless" Jerry Simpson. 

Mr. Van Deman was four years prosecut- 
ing attorney of Delaware County. He was 
mayor of the city of Delaware for two terms 
and in the year 1876 was a candidate for 
judge of the Common Pleas Court, on the Re- 
publican ticket, in the First Subdivision of the 
Sixth Judicial district and later was a candi- 
date for circuit judge of the Fifth Judicial 
District on the Republican ticket, but in both 
cases the Democratic majority was so great 
that even though he ran more than one thou- 
sand votes ahead of his ticket, he was unsuc- 
cessful. Mr. Van Deman has been for several 
terms a member of the City Council and was 
its presiding officer most of the time and was 
recognized as one of its most useful members. 
Mr. Man Deman's disposition is to be con- 
servative, believing that permanent success for 
the county will be found in guarding carefully 
the public expenses and public treasury. He 
is in favor of reducing the taxes to a minimum 
and he would exact of public officials, perfor- 
mance of their duty and an honest execution of 
the public trust. 

Mr. Van Deman was a lieutenant in Com- 
panv E. One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regi- 
ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil 
War, and is a charter member of George B. 
Torrence Post, G. A. R., and was its post 
commander. He served as aid on the staff of 
General Alger, grand commander of the Grand 
Army of the Republic. He is a member of 
Hiram Lodge. No. 18. F. & A. M. : Delaware 
Chapter. No. ^4. R. A. M. and a member of 
Delaware Council. No. 84. R. & S. M. 

Mr. Van Deman has displayed great tal- 
ent for business and is one of Delaware's most 
prosperous citizens. He assisted in organiz- 
ing the Columbus and Toledo Railway Com- 
pany and was one of its direct* >rs for many 
years. He was its counsel for thirty-five years 



and was counsel for the Big Four Railway 
for about the same length of time. He has 
been a director in the First National Bank of 
Delaware for many years and is now its presi- 
dent. He helped to organize the first building 
association in Delaware and was its president 
and he is now a member of the Board of Di- 
rectors of the Fidelity Building Association 
and Loan Company. 

Mr. Van Deman is a member of the Prot- 
estant Episcopal Church of Delaware and is 
now its senior warden. He has served for 
many years as president of the Board of Trus- 
tees for the Diocese of Southern Ohio, which 
board has the management of the church prop- 
erty of the diocese and the investment of its 
charitable and benevolent funds. 

In the year 1903. Mr. Van Deman having 
completed fifty years of active work at the 
bar. retired from the profession, having ac- 
cumulated a sufficiency for himself and family. 
He spends his winters in his southern home 
and his summers at his home in Delaware, 
where he enjoys the utmost confidence and re- 
spect of his neighbors and fellow citizens. 

General John S. Jones was born Febru- 
ary 12. 1836, in Champaign County. Ohio. 
and died in Delaware. Ohio, April 11. 1903. 
He lived on his father's farm and was edu- 
cated in the public schools until his great de- 
sire for an education led him to the Ohio 
Wesleyan University, where he completed his 
course of study in the year 1855, supporting 
himself in the meantime by teaching school. 
In the autumn of the year 1855 he began the 
study of law in the office of Thomas W. Pow- 
ell and was admitted to the Bar in the autumn 
of the year 1857. He immediately entered 
upon the practice of his profession in Dela- 
ware, Ohio, with gratifying success and was 
soon elected prosecuting attorney of Delaware 
County. He had not served out his first term 
when the Civil War began. He was among 
the first to volunteer from this county in the 
Union army. He enlisted as a private in 
Company C. Fourth Regiment O. V. I., but 
was immediately elected first lieutenant of the 
company and on the twenty-fifth day of Sep- 



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tember, 1862, he was promoted to captain of 
Company B, of said regiment and served un- 
til the expiration of Iris term of service. He 
returned to his home and again in the autumn 
of the year 1864, he organized the One Hun- 
dred and Seventy-fourth Regiment, becoming 
its colonel, and which he commanded until 
the close of the war. He was breveted briga- 
dier-general at the close of the war, for meri- 
torious service and gallant conduct in the war. 
General Jones was mustered out of the 
service, July 27, 1865, and returned to Dela- 
ware and entered upon the practice of his pro- 
fession and was on the second day of April, 
1866, elected mayor of the city of Delaware. 
In October of the same year he was again 
elected prosecuting attorney of the county, 
which office he held for four years. In the 
year 1872, he was appointed trustee of the 
Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, 
one of the most noble institutions of this State. 
He was president of its Board of Trustees for 
many years. He gave to this institution much 
of his best though and many hours of his most 
valuable time and cherished for it a most 
kindly feeling up to the date of his death. He 
was presidential elector on the Grant and Wil- 
son ticket in the year 1872, representing the 
Ninth Congressional District. He was elected 
tn Congress in the year 1876 from said Ninth 
District, serving as a member of the Forty- 
fifth Congress, but was deprived of a second 
term by a "gerrymander" of the district. He 
was elected to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth 
General Assemblies of the State of Ohio, in 
which assemblies he served as chairman of the 
Judiciary Committee. Having served his 
county, district and State so well and faith- 
fully, his neighbors and fellow citizens called 
upon him to serve them in the City Council, 
which position he filled with as much zeal and 
ardor as the more responsible positions he had 
heretofore held. He was afterward, by reason 
of his faithfulness, chosen a member of the 
Board of Education, which position he held for 
many years. He was the instigator of the City 
Library Association and was a member of its 
board of Trustees at the time of his death. 
This organization was the means of bringing 



to our city the beautiful Carnegie Library 
building of which our citizens are so justly 
proud. Notwithstanding the many positions 
lie held, General Jones was a faithful student 
in his chosen profession and he became one of 
the best lawyers in central Ohio. He entered 
into a partnership for the practice of law, with 
Jackson Hippie, about the year 1866, which 
partnership continued for four years. The 
firm was known as Jones & Hippie. In the 
year 1870, he formed a partnership with the 
writer of this sketch. This firm was known as 
Jones & Lytle and continued for twenty-five 
years, the partnership having been dissolved 
by mutual consent, on the first day of April, 
1895. At this time both his sons having been 
admitted to the Bar, he formed a partnership 
with them and the new firm was known as J. 
S. Jones & Sons. This partnership continued 
until about the year 1899, when Carroll H., 
the younger son, withdrew and went to Chi- 
cago, where he is now located. He then con- 
tinued the practice with his elder son, William 
B. This firm was known as Jones & Jones, 
which partnership continued to the time of Mr. 
Jones' death, he having appeared in court but 
a few weeks prior to his death. 

Henry C. Godman was the son of Gen- 
eral J. W. Godman, who resided in Marion 
County, Ohio, and who was an attorney-at- 
law in that county. The subject of this sketch 
was born in Marion, Ohio, where he received 
his early education. He came to Delaware as 
a lawyer, having been a practitioner in that 
county ; having been a law partner at one time 
of Judge W. Z. Davis, now on the bench of 
the Sunpreme Court of Ohio and it is said 
Judge Davis was a former law student of Mr. 
Godman. 

He first formed a partnership with John 
J. Glover, the style of the firm being Godman 
& Glover. This partnership was soon dis- 
solved and Mr. Godman soon thereafter went 
into the firm of Reid & Powell, the style of the 
firm being Reid, Powell and Godman. This 
lasted until after the death of Colonel Reid, 
when the partnership was dissolved, Mr. God- 
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Ohio, where he went into other business, at 
which he succeeded and became quite wealthy. 
He died during the winter of 1908. 

Hon. Early F. Poppletox was one of 
most prominent representatives of the legal 
profession in Delaware County and was also 
one of its most influential political leaders, both 
in county and state politics and he was chosen 
to fill many positions of trust by his Dem- 
ocratic adherents. 

He was born in Richland County. Ohio, on 
the twenty-ninth day of September, 1834. His 
father, Samuel Poppleton, was a native of Ver- 
mont, where he was burn July 2, 1793. He 
acquired a fair English education and was a 
regularly ordained minister of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church and often preached, though 
he devoted the greater part of his life to mer- 
chandising. At the age of nineteen he enlisted 
in the War of 181 2, where he served his coun- 
try until the close of the war. At the close 
of the war he removed to the state of Xew 
York and in the year 1818, came to Ohio and 
settled in Richland County, where he engaged 
in merchandising for many years and it was 
while he lived in this county that the subject 
of this sketch was born. 

Mr. Poppleton's mother's name before 
marriage was Julia A. Smith. She was the 
second wife of Samuel Poppleton. She was 
born in the Dominion of Canada, though she 
was descended from New York ancestry. 
Fri mi this union there was born to Samuel and 
Julia A. Poppleton, a family of children who 
became very prominent in the business, legal 
and social circles of this and- other states. 
Emery E., the eldest son, became the manager 
of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad 
Company. Parthinia P., became the wife of 
Judge Stevenson Burke. Damaris A. became 
the wife of George B. Lake, chief justice of the 
Supreme Bench of the State of Nebraska. 
Early F., the subject of this sketch. Houston 
H.. for many years attorney for the Big Four 
Railway Company, and Julia C, who became 
the wife of Colonel Thomas H. Linnell, com- 
pletes the family. 



Early F. Poppleton received his early edu- 
cation in the public schools. At the age of 
twelve years he entered the Wilcox High 
School at Bellville, Ohio. He also attended 
the Ohio Wesleyan University for three years. 
In the year 1855 he entered the law office of 
his brother-in-law, Judge Burke, at Elyria, 
Ohio, and completed his course and was ad- 
mitted to the Bar in the year 1858. 

He returned to Delaware after his admis- 
sion to the Bar, to look after the affairs of his 
father, who was at that time living in Dela- 
ware. In the spring of the year 1861, he 
opened an office in this city and began the 
practice of his chosen profession, which he 
followed continuously to the date of his death, 
which occurred at Delaware, Ohio. May 6, 
1899. Mr. Poppleton was an able advocate; 
he was sought by his clientage in particular 
for his ability in that direction and also by his 
fellow members of his profession, when they 
had a close question to the jury, and when they 
had grave doubts about the result of the ver- 
dict. He was keen and quick in his percep- 
tions and was ready for any emergency which 
might develop in the trial of a case and he 
often wrung from a jury through his great elo- 
quence a verdict, which, but for his efforts, 
might have been given to his opponent. Mr. 
Poppleton was perhaps best known to the pub- 
lic through his official life. He served for 
six years as a member of the City Council and 
was its president most of that time. It was 
during the time he was a member of that body, 
that the water works were built and the elec- 
tric light plant was put in. also the electric 
railway was built, to all of which he gave 
his ardent support. He was elected to the 
Ohio State Senate from the Sixteenth Ohio 
Senatorial District, composed of Delaware and 
Licking Counties, in the year 1870 and in the 
year 1874 he was elected to Congress from the 
Ninth Congressional District, at that time 
composed of Delaware. Marion, Hardin. Knox 
and Morrow Counties. Mr. Poppleton was 
for many years a prominent leader in the Dem- 
ocratic councils of his State and there were but 
few great issues promulgated by that party, 



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in which he was not greatly interested and in 
his early death the party lost one of its most 
valued counsellors. 

# * * 

Henry James Eaton was the son of 
James and Elizabeth (Caulkins) Eaton. He' 
was born October 25, 1828, in Berlin Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio. James Eaton 
was for many years surveyor of Delaware* 
County and the early records of the county 
are replete with his doings. He was very 
careful and particular about his surveys and 
marking his corners, and his son, the subject 
of this sketch, must have inherited much of 
his father's carefulness and particularity. The 
family lived on a farm near Cheshire, in Ber- 
lin Township, at the date of the son's birth. 
Henry J. Eaton received bis early education in 
the public schools of his native township. The 
family removed to Delaware in the year 1844, 
and Henry J. soon entered the Ohio Wesleyan 
University, from which he graduated in the 
year 1849. He studied law with Thomas \Y. 
Powell and was admitted to the Bar in the 
year 1853. He began the practice in the city 
of Delaware and soon formed a partnership 
with Colonel William P. Reid, for the prac- 
tice of law, which continued until the year 
1866, when Mr. Eaton, owing: to failing- health 
was obliged to withdraw from the practice. 
His health having improved, he again opened 
an office in the Reid and Powell Block, where 
he continued his practice for many years. A 
few years before his death he gave up his of- 
fice, yet he continued his practice up to a short 
time before his death. His clients went to his 
home and met and consulted him there. Mr. 
Eaton never aspired to become a trial lawyer 
and he seldom argued a case to a jury, yet he 
was one of the most careful and technical 
lawyers at the Delaware County Bar. He 
prepared his cases with the greatest care and 
his opponent before the court never knew 
when he was to meet some technical question 
which might put him out of the case. 

Mr. Eaton never aspired to hold office; in 
fact, he never held an elective office during 
the long period he practiced law. Up to the 
summer of the year 1903. his many clients con- 



tinued to see him at his home, and he con- 
tinued to see and meet them in this quiet, easy- 
way. He died September, A. D.. 1903. 

* * * 

General John Calvin Lee. John C. 
Lee was born in Brown Township, Delaware 
County, Ohio. He was the son of Hugh 
Lee, one of the pioneer tanners of Brown 
Township. The subject of this sketch received 
his early education and began his career of 
usefulness in the city of Delaware. He chose 
the profession of the law and studied his pro- 
fession here and was admitted to the Bar, but 
he never became an active practitioner in this 
county. He removed to Tiffin, Ohio, from 
which place he entered the army as colonel of 
the Fifty-fifth Regiment, O. V. I.', in the Civil 
War. He later became colonel of the One 
Hundred and Sixty-fourth, O. V. I., and was 
breveted brigadier-general. He was nomi- 
nated for lieutenant-governor of Ohio, on the 
ticket with General R. B. Hayes in the year 

1867, after the close of the Civil War. 

* # # 

Judge Charles H. McElroy was born 
at Gambier, Ohio, March 19, 1830. His par- 
ents, Rev. James McElroy and Maria (Bur- 
rows) McElroy, were natives of Ireland. They 
were married in Ireland in 1828 and came di- 
rectly to Kenyon College, where he taught for 
some time. He was a graduate of Trinity 
College, Dublin. He removed to Delaware, 
Ohio, in the year 1832 and was rector of St. 
Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church. He re- 
moved to Staunton, Virginia, in the year 1840, 
at which place the subject of this sketch re- 
ceived his earry education. Judge McElroy 
attended the Law School of the University of 
Virginia during the sessions of 1 850-1 851 
and 1851-1852. He was admitted to the Bar 
by the Court of Appeals of the State of Vir- 
ginia at Lewisburg in the summer of the year 
1852. He immediately came to Delaware, 
where his parents had removed. He engaged 
in civil engineering for a few years but re- 
turned to Delaware and was admitted to the 
Bar of Ohio in the year 1855. when be began 
the practice. In the year 1857 and 1858 and 
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mayor of Delaware by the citizens without re- 
gard to party and with but little opposition. 

In August. 1861, Judge McElroy enlisted 
as a private in Company D. Twentieth Regi- 
ment. O. V. I. He soon became captain of 
the company and in August, 1862, by reason , 
of his meritorious conduct and at the request 
of the governor of Ohio and on order of the 
War Department, he was transferred to the 
Ninety-sixth Regiment O. V. I. and was ap- 
pointed major of the regiment. He remained 
with the command in the campaign down the 
Mississippi and up the Yazoo Rivers and 
Chickasaw Bayou, but his failing health ad- 
monished him that unless he quit the service, 
he would not be able to reach his home alive, 
and soon after the surrender of Yicksburg, 
therefore, he resigned his command and came 
home and after a partial recovery he again 
began the practice of his profession. He was 
elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas 
in the autumn of 1881 and again in the autumn 
of 1886, in the first Subdivision of the Sixth 
Judicial District, comprising the counties of 
Delaware. Knox and Licking, and served 
from February. 1882, to February, 1892. and 
his opinions as a judge were always recognized 
by members of the Bar as able. He was a 
close student of the principles of the law and 
his early reading had made him a recognized 
authority on what is known as the common 
law. After he retired from the bench he again 
took up the practice, which he continued up 
to the time of his death, which occurred March 
l. 1904. He was solicitor for the Fidelity 
Building Association and Loan Company up 
to the time of his death. He was associated 
at various times during his long continued 
practice, with Hon. Early F. Poppleton. Hon. 
Henry S. Culver and Hon. George \Y. Car- 
penter, the styles of his several partnership? 
being Poppleton & McElroy, McElroy & Cul- 
ver, and Carpenter & McElroy. 

Jackson Hipple was horn in Washington 
County, Pennsylvania. March 10. [835. Ili'- 
parents, George and Nancy Hippie, immi- 
grated to Ohio in the year 1842 and settled on 
a farm near Kilbourn, in Brown Township, 



Delaware County, where the subject of this 
sketch resided and received his early educa- 
tion. He was educated in the public schools 
of Brown Township and was fortunate to have 
been a pupil of Cbarles Neil, who for many 
years taught in that township and who al- 
ways impressed upon his pupils the principles 
of a thorough mathematical education. Mr. 
Hippie was in early life apprenticed to a har- 
ness-maker in the village of Eden, where he 
worked for several years at bis trade. But 
having higher ambitions, he left the farm and 
his trade and came to Delaware, entering the 
Ohio Wesleyan University, and where he 
studied for some time. He had determined 
upon a professional career, and being in haste 
to begin it, he left the college and entered the 
law office of Hon. James R. Hubbell, who was 
at that time and for many years thereafter a 
successful practitioner at the Bar of Delaware 
County. Mr. Hippie was admitted to the Bar 
in the year 1861 and he immediately entered 
upon the practice of his chosen profession in 
the city of Delaware, where he continued the 
practice for over forty-two years. Mr. Hippie 
was for some years a law partner of General 
J. S. Jones, the style of the firm being Jones & 
Hippie. He was later a partner of F. M. Joy, 
the style of the partnership being Hippie & Joy. 
Mr. Hippie applied himself studiously to 
the practice of his profession and never cov- 
eted office or political preferment. Though 
never a seeker of office, he was called upon 
by his fellow citizens to fill some of the m< >st 
trustworthy offices in both the city and county 
of Delaware. He was called upon by the citi- 
zens of his ward to fill the office of .city coun- 
cilman and was made president of the City 
Council. He was elected solicitor of the city 
of Delaware and was also elected mayor of the 
city of Delaware. He also served as justice 
of the peace of Delaware Township and was 
twice elected prosecuting attorney of Delaware 
County. In all of these offices he was faithful 
in the discharge of everv duty and acquitted 
himself with honor. Mr. Hippie was a faith- 
ful student of the law and an able practitioner. 
He prepared his briefs with great care and was 
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case. At a time when his country must needed 
his services he answered its call. He enlisted 
in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-fifth 
Regiment, O. V. I., and served with his com- 
mand until his regiment was discharged. He 
was subsequently a member of George B. Tor- 
rence Post, G. A. R. 

Mr. Hippie in early life became a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He joined 
William Street Methodist Church in 1863, 
but when that church was divided and Asbu'ry 
Church was built he became one of the charter 
members and retained his membership up to 
the time of his death, which occurred in Febru- 
ary, 1903. His funeral was attended by the 
members of the Delaware County Bar as a 

body. 

* * * 

Hon. John J. Glover was born 111 Bel- 
mont County, Ohio, March 12, 1835. His 
father's name was Samuel Glover and his 
mother's maiden name was Eliza Thompson 
McKesson. He was educated in the public 
schools in the county of his birth and at Alle- 
gheny College, from which he received the 
degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. 
He studied law with the law firm of Carroll 
& Glover and was admitted to the Bar at 
Zanesville. Ohio, in the year i860. He imme- 
diately started to the great West in pursuit of 
a location and landed in the gold fields of 
Colorado. Having imbibed the spirit of min- 
ing which was so prevalent in that locality at 
the time, he engaged in gold mining, with 
some success, but not having been accustomed 
to the severities of a miner's life, he soon re- 
turned to his father's home in Belmont Count)', 
Ohio, where he remained until the spring of 
1861. He had just opened an office for the 
practice of his profession in St. Clairesville, 
Ohio, when the first call for volunteers in the 
Union army was made. He joined the first 
company of volunteers from St. Clairesville 
and entered the service of his country, where 
he remained during that, and his re-enlist- 
ment for over three and a half years. He en- 
listed as a private, was promoted to second 
lieutenant and to captain, and was in all the 
battles in which his command engaged. 



He came to Delaware in the year 1868 
and opened an office and began the practice of 
his profession! He was elected prosecuting at- 
torney of Delaware County in the autumn of 
1876 and served for one term. He was ap- 
pointed clerk in the office of the first comptrol- 
ler of the treasury, January 5. 1882, and im- 
mediately went to Washington, D. C, and en- 
tered upon the duties of his office, at a salary 
of twelve hundred dollars per year. In the 
year 1894 he was transferred to the Depart- 
ment of Justice, with an increased salary, and 
in the year 1900 he was promoted to the office 
of chief of the division of accounts, at a salary 
of twenty-five hundred dollars per year, which 
position he at present holds with a corps of 
twenty-five clerks to assist him. 

David Humphreys was born in Radnor 
Township, in Delaware County, Ohio. He was 
the son of Hugh Humphreys, who came to 
Radnor from Wales at an early date. The sub- 
ject of this sketch was educated in the public 
schools of his native township. He then en- 
tered the Ohio Wesleyan University, from 
which he graduated in the year i860. He then 
studied law and was admitted to the Bar. He 
located at Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he remained 
for several years and then returned to Dela- 
ware, Ohio, where he opened an office about 
the year 1870 and began the practice of his 
chosen profession. He planted and laid out 
two additions to the city of Delaware, Ohio, 
in the winter of 1 870- 1 871 and became well 
identified with the city but he only remained 
a few years. He located in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
where he practiced for a number of years and 
then removed to New York City, where he 
pursued his profession up to the time of his 
death which occurred several years ago in that 

city. 

* * * 

Hon. Thomas E. Powell was born at 
I Delaware, Ohio, on the twentieth day of Feb- 
ruary, 1842. His father, Thomas W. Powell, 
was a lawyer and for many years a leader at 
the Delaware Bar. The mother of Thomas 
E. Powell was Elizabeth Gordon, a native of 
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education in the public schools of Delaware. 
\t the early age of thirteen years he entered 
the Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated 
in the year 1863 at the age of nineteen years. 
He then enlisted as a private in Company E. 
Eighty-fourth Regiment, O. V. I., and served 
out his time with said regiment. In the 
month of May, 1864, he again enlisted in 
Company E, One Hundred and Forty-fifth 
Regiment, O. N. G. I., and was discharged 
with the command as a lieutenant of the com- 
pany. 

He at once entered his father's office as 
a student of the law and was admitted to the 
Bar in 1865, and during the same year he 
forme'd a partnership with William P. Reid, 
which continued up to the time of the death of 
Mr. Reid. During the existence of this part- 
nership there were but a few contested cases 
in the Delaware County courts in which the 
firm of Reid & Powell were not interested. 
A few years before the death of Colonel Reid 
the firm associated with them Henry C. God- 
man, formerly of Marion, Ohio, and the style 
of the new firm was Reid, Powell & God- 
man. After the death of Colonel Reid. Mr. 
Powell associated with himself, John S. Gill, 
and the style of the new firm was Powell & 
Gill. Later their law student, Frank A. 
Kauffman, was taken into the new firm after 
his admission to the bar and the style of the 
new firm was Powell. Gill & Kauffman, 
which partnership continued up to the time of 
Mr. Powell's removal to Columbus. Ohio. 

Mr. Powell was always interested in the 
politics of his State and nation. He was a 
delegate to the Democratic National Conven- 
tion in 1872, which nominated Horace Gree- 
ley for president of the United States and was 
a candidate for presidential elector on the 
Greeley ticket. In the year 1875. he received 
the nomination for attorney general on the 
Democratic ticket, with Governor William Al- 
len. In the year 1879 he placed General 
Thomas Ewing in nomination for governi ir, in 
the State convention and in the year 1882. he 
did the same for James W. Newman, when he 
was nominated for secretary of the State and 
the same year Mr. Powell was the Democratic 



nominee for Congress in the old Ninth Dis- 
trict and although he was not elected he car- 
ried Delaware County by a handsome major- 
ity. In the year 1883, Durbin Ward (that 
faithful Democratic war horse) selected Mr. 
Powell to present his name to the State con- 
vention. In the year 1884, he was a dele- 
gate to the Democratic National Convention 
and at the request of Governor George 
Hoadly, placed that gentleman's name in 
nomination for the presidency. During the 
year 1885 he was chairman of the Democratic 
State -Executive Committee and in the year 
1887 he was the Democratic nominee for gov- 
ernor of Ohio, and although defeated at the 
polls he ran about ten thousand votes ahead 
of his ticket. Mr. Powell has always taken an 
interest in educational matters. He has been 
for a number of years one of the trustees of 
his alma mater, the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity, in which institution he has always been 
greatly interested. 

He moved to Columbus about the year 
1887, where he is still actively engaged in the 
practice of his profession in partnership with 
his eldest son, Edward T. Powell, and where 
he has ever since kept up his active interest in 
the politics of the State. 

Mr. Powell has many friends and ac- 
quaintances in Delaware and not a few of his 
old clients here call on him when they have 
need of the services of an attorney. Since his 
removal to Columbus. Mr. Powell has ex- 
tended his practice as a corporation lawyer. 
He is the general attorney for the National 
Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio. He 
has also been the attorney for the Sugar Re- 
fining Company of New York and the Stand- 
ard Oil Company of New York and has been 
engaged in many of the most important cases 
in Ohio. 

Judge John A. Cone was born January 
17. 1836. in the city of Delaware, Ohio. His 
father's name was John W. Cone and his 
mother's name was Mary (Williams) Cone. 
The father was a pioneer of Delaware County, 
having been born in that portion of the county 
which comprises Kingston Township, in the 



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year 1809. His mother, Mary Williams, was 
born in South Wales. 

The subject of this sketch grew to man- 
hood in Thompson Township and he received 
his early education in the public schools of that 
township. He attended the Ohio Wesleyan 
University during the years 1858 and 1859 and 
began the study of law with the firm of Reid 
& Eaton in the year 1861. During the time 
he was completing his course in law, he taught 
in the public schools in this and other counties 
and he was admitted to the Bar by the Dis- 
trict Court of this county in the year 1865. 
He immediately opened an office in Delaware 
and began the practice of his chosen profes- 
sion. He became the editor of the Delaware 
Weekly Herald for about six months of the 
year 1867. In the year 1868 Mr. Cone set- 
tled in Delhi (now Radnor), in Radnor 
Township, Delaware County, where he re- 
sided for about thirty years and continued the 
practice of his profession. He was elected 
justice of the peace of that township, which of- 
fice he held for eighteen successive years. At 
the same time he became clerk of that town- 
ship, which position be held for sixteen years. 
He also had charge of the public schools of 
that village at this time, which he taught for 
many years. During the time that John T. 
Evans was clerk of the court of Delaware 
County. Mr. Cone occupied the position as 
his deputy for about two years. Mr. Cone 
was also postmaster of the village of Radnor 
for many years during the time he lived there. 
He returned to Delaware and opened an of- 
fice for the practice of his profession in the 
spring of 1897. He was nominated for the of- 
fice of probate judge by the Democratic party 
of Delaware County in the summer of 1905, 
to which office he was duly elected in Novem- 
ber of that year. He assumed the responsibil- 
ity of his office February 9, 1906. and is the 
present incumbent. 

In the early part of the Civil War Mr. 
Cone enlisted as a private in Company C. 
Eightv-sixth Regiment, O. Y. I., and served 
until the discharge of the regiment. He again 
enlisted on the second day of May. [864, in 
Company E, One Hundred and Forty-fifth 



Regiment, O. Y. I., and he became the first 
lieutenant of his company and served with the 
command until the regiment was discharged 
August 24, 1864. Fraternally, Mr. Cone is a 
member of George B. Torrence Post, G. A. 
R., and is affiliated with Radnor Lodge, I. 
O. O. F. 

Hon. James R. Lvtle was born in Fair- 
field County, Ohio, on the ninth day of April, 
A. D., 1 841. He is the son of James and 
Catharine (Freymyer) Lytle. The parents 
were natives of Lancaster County, Pennsylva- 
nia, and were of Scotch-Irish and German de- 
scent, respectively. They located in Fairfield 
County, Ohio, about the year 1837. The sub- 
ject of this sketch received his early education 
in the public schools of his native county and 
worked on his father's farm until twenty years 
of age, when he entered the Ohio Wesleyan 
University at Delaware. Ohio, in the autumn 
of 1861. After one year in the University, 
his brother having enlisted in the Union Army, 
he returned to the farm and took up the man- 
agement of affairs there. In the month of 
May, 1864, he enlisted in Company I, One 
Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment. O. V. I., 
and served out the term of his enlistment and 
was discharged with the regiment. 

At the completion of his term of service, he 
again entered the Ohio Wesleyan University. 
impleting the classical course in that institu- 
tion, with the class of 1868. Having com- 
menced the study of law during his college 
course he was admitted to the Bar in the 
month of June in the year 1869. He immedi- 
ately began the practice of law in Fremont. 
Ohio. He remained in that city for one year 
and in the summer of the year 1870. he re- 
turned to Delaware and entered into partner- 
ship with his former preceptor. General John 
S. Jones, which partnership continued for 
twenty-five years, the style of the partnership 
being Tones & Lytle. During the existence of 
this partnership the firm of Jones & Lytle were 
employed in most of the important cases tried 
m I )elaware County. 

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practice alone and is still in active work. He 
has devoted much of his time to office work 
and has been very successful in his practice 
before the Bureau of Pensions. He has pro- 
cured for the veterans of the Civil War, their 
widows, minor children and dependent fathers 
and mothers, more than fifteen hundred pen- 
sions, also hundreds of bounties for these vet- 
erans, their widows and heirs at law. Having 
become very familiar with the bounty records 
of Delaware County, Mr. Lytle discovered 
what has been commonly known as "The 
Bounty Frauds of Delaware County." 

Delaware County, during the Civil War, 
offered bounties to volunteers who would give 
their credit to its quota, and certain scrip or 
promises to pay had been issued to the soldier, 
which were payable to him, his widow or legal 
heirs or representatives. Many of these had 
not been paid and certain parties who claimed 
to represent these veterans, their widows and 
legal representatives, forged their names to 
applications and affidavits and procured the al- 
lowances of these claims by the commissioners 
of the county and warrants were issued for the 
amounts. These forgeries having been discov- 
ered by Mr. Lytle before the warrants were 
paid, the county was thus saved more than 
twenty thousand dollars, and in addition Mr. 
Lytle collected for the rightful heirs of these 
veterans many thousand dollars, having prose- 
cuted many cases from the Common Pleas 
Court to the Supreme Court of Ohio. 

Probably the most notable litigation in 
which Mr. Lytle ever engaged was the prose- 
cution of two cases for the heirs of Leonard 
Case, which involved the recovery of real es- 
tate in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, of which 
this well known multi-millionaire died seized, 
which suits involved the Case Library, the 
City Hall, about one mile of lake front, about 
four thousand lots in the city of Cleveland, 
and about nineteen hundred acres of land ad- 
joining the city, amounting in value to many 
millions of dollars. The cases were prose- 
cuted through the United States Circuit Court 
and resulted in a verdict for the defendants in 
one and a dismissal without prejudice in the 
other. The time spent and labor performed 



in the preparation and trial of these cases was 
necessarily very great. The defendants in one 
case numbers six hundred and forty-eight and 
the lots and tracts of land over four thousand. 
Opposed to Mr. Lytle in this litigation were 
the noted legal lights of the Cleveland Bar. 

Mr. Lytle has been remarkably arduous 
and successful in his chosen profession, al- 
ways manifesting a great interest in his clients' 
cause, which has made him many personal 
friends and owing to these traits of character 
he has succeeded in building up and retaining 
a large and remunerative practice. He has al- 
ways taken an active interest in public affairs 
ami has filled many positions of trust and re- 
sponsibility, both in the city and in the church. 
He is absolutely honest and trustworthy and 
for a period of more than thirty years he has 
been regarded by the profession in Delaware 
and throughout the counties of central Ohio, 
as an able and successful lawyer. His indus- 
try has seemed untiring both in his profes- 
sion and as a student. Law. history and liter- 
ature have received constant attention, when 
not occupied with the cares and duties of his 
professional engagements. He has always 
taken an active part in the politics of his 
county and is recognized as one of the ablest 
organizers in the county, being also re- 
garded as a careful, conservative and safe 
leader. He has ever been interested in the 
young men of Delaware and especially in those 
who have studied law under his tutelage, sev- 
eral of whom have become prominent lawyers 
and politicians in this and other counties and 
states. 

Mr. Lytle is the attorney for the Fidelity 
Building Association and Loan Company of 
Delaware, Ohio, in which organization he has 
ever manifested a lively interest. 

Fraternally Mr. Lytle is affiliated with the 
Masonic order, being a member of Hiram 
Lodge No. 18, F. & A. M. ; Delaware Chapter 
No. 54, R. A. M. ; Delaware Council No. 84. 
R. & S. M.. and of George B. Torrence Post, 
G. A. R. 

[The above sketch was prepared by Wil- 
liam B. Jones, a member of the Delaware 
County Bar.] 



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William A. Hall is the only son of John 
W. Hall and Susan A. Hall. His parents set- 
tled in Kingston Township, Delaware County, 
Ohio, where he was born on the first day of 
June, 1849. He received his early education 
in the public schools of his native township, 
working by turns on his father's farm and at- 
tending the district schools in the winter sea- 
sons and later he attended the Ohio Wesleyan 
University at Delaware, Ohio. In the year 
1871 he began the study of law with H. C. 
Carhart of Gabon, Ohio. He completed his 
studies at Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he 
graduated from the law department of the 
University of Michigan in the year 1873. He 
was admitted to the Bar the same year. He 
immediately commenced the practice of his 
chosen profession in Galion, Ohio, where, he 
continued the practice with gratifying success 
until the year 1876. His parents having 
moved to Delaware. Mr. Hall came here and 
opened an office in this city where he has ever 
since continued the practice of his profession. 

Mr. Hall has also engaged in other busi- 
ness which be has prosecuted with success, 
having been a member of the Board of Direc- 
tors of the Deposit Banking Company of Dela- 
ware, Ohio. He is now the secretary and 
treasurer of the Hotel Donavin Company and 
he is the owner of lands in his native township, 
which he manages successfully and profitably. 

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Hon. Fredrick Merrick Joy was born 
November 15, 1846, in Delaware, Ohio, and 
died March 17, 1883, being only a little over 
thirty-six years of age when called to his long 
rest. He grew up in the community in which 
he was born and attended the public schools 
until he had advanced as far as the course 
would take him. He entered the Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, from which he graduated in 
June. 1867. He immediately began the study 
of the law in the office of Messrs. Reid & 
Powell, attorneys, and was admitted to the 
Bar in the summer of 1869. from which time 
to the date of his death he devoted his ener- 
gies and talents to the profession of his choice. 
He w : as a justice of the peace for two terms 
and mayor of the city of Delaware for two 



terms. He was a law partner of Hon. H. M. 
Marriott at the time of his death. 

He was possessed of a keen and lively hu- 
mor, but his sarcasm left no sting. In his so- 
cial relation he was congenial and companion- 
able, but in his domestic life the real beauty 
of his character shows most resplendent. As 
a husband be was affectionate and devoted, as 
a father he was indulgent and kind, as a neigh- 
bor civil and obliging, and as a citizen zealous 
and patriotic, and his early demise was la- 
mented by all who knew him. 

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Henry S. Culver was born in Delaware 
County, Ohio, April 17, 1854. He attended 
the public schools while young, worked on his 
father's farm until he was seventeen years of 
age. He then attended a select school and later 
became a teacher in the public schools of the 
county for two years. He attended the Com- 
mercial College at Cleveland, Ohio, for two 
years, and in the fall of 1874 began the study 
of law in the office of Judge G. H. Stewart of 
Columbus, Ohio. He came to Delaware, 
Ohio, in the year 1875 and entered the office 
of Hon. H. M. Marriott, where be completed 
his course of study and was admitted to the 
Bar by the Supreme Court in the month of 
June, A. D., 1876. He at once began the 
practice of his profession in Delaware, Ohio 

Mr. Culver is prominent in the politics of 
the county and was elected prosecuting attor- 
ney of the county in the year 1878 and was 
re-elected in 1880. In politics he has always 
been a Republican. He has shown marked 
ability as a public speaker and has always com- 
manded the respect of the court and jury. He 
is a man of fine physique and commanding 
and dignified bearing. In the spring of the 
year 1890 he was elected mayor of the city of 
Delaware, Ohio. He continued the practice 
of law at Delaware. Ohio, until the autumn of 
1897. when he was appointed consul to Lon- 
don, in the Dominion of Canada, which posi- 
tion he held until 1906, at which time he was 
appointed consul to Cork, in Ireland, which 
position he is still filling satisfactorily to him- 
self and his friends and to the government of 
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Hon. Francis Marion Marriott was 
born in Eden Township, Licking County. 
Ohio, September 5, 1847. He is the son of 
Thomas Homewood Marriott and Druzilla 
(McClelland) Marriott, who were the parents 
of nine children. Thomas Homewood Mar- 
riott was born in Utica, Licking County. Ohio, 
in the year 1814, being the son of Homewood 
and Mary ( Ridgeley ) Marriott who came 
from the State of Maryland to Ohio in the 
year 1811. Joshua Marriott, the great-grand- 
father of the subject of this sketch, came from 
France ami settled in Maryland in the year 
1740. His wife Rachel Ann Homewood. was 
of English birth. 

Thomas Homewood Marriott was a suc- 
cessful farmer of Licking County and was a 
man of great prominence and local distinction 
in the community in which he lived. He was 
an uncompromising Democrat in his political 
views and he early instilled in the minds of 
his children his political principles so that his 
sons, including the subject of this sketch, have 
never departed from their allegiance to the 
faith of their father. 

F. M. Marriott received his early education 
in the public schools of Licking County, Dan- 
iel Paul being one of his early teachers. In 
the year 1864 Thomas H. Marriott came to 
Delaware County with his family and settled 
in Harlem Township on the farm now owned 
by his son. The subject of this sketch. Francis 
M. Marriott, soon thereafter began a higher 
education by attending school at Central Col- 
lege, Franklin County. Ohio. He afterward 
attended the Ohio Wesleyan University, teach- 
ing at times during the winter terms to en- 
able him to defray the expenses of his educa- 
tion. Mr. Marriott became prominent as a 
teacher in Delaware and Union Counties, hav- 
ing taught the high school at Sunbury during 
the year 1870. In the spring of the year 1871 
he began the study of law in the office of Hon. 
Charles H. McElroy, who afterwards became 
judge of the Common Pleas Court. After 
three months of study, Mr. Marriott, in order 
to help defray expenses, taught another term 
of school at Sunbury. Ohio, and again in the 
autumn of 1871 resumed the study of his 



chosen profession with the law firm of Reid 
& Powell of Delaware, Ohio, who at that time 
comprised one of the leading law firms of 
central Ohio. Mr. Marriott was admitted to 
the Bar on March uj, 1874. The same year 
he was nominated by the Democratic Partj 
for prosecuting attorney of Delaware County 
and he was elected by a majority of four hun- 
dred and eighty-nine, the nominal Republi- 
can majority of the county at that time being 
about seven hundred. Mr. Marriott's experi- 
ence in the office had brought to him a cli- 
entele, which made it inexpedient for him to 
serve a second term and he therefore refused 
a second nomination, and beg'an a successful 
practice which be continued until the year 
1879, when he was nominated by his party for 
State Senator in the Sixteenth Senatorial Dis- 
trict composed of Delaware and Licking Coun- 
ties. He was duly elected in October of that 
year and faithfully and efficiently served his 
party and district during the Sixty-fourth Gen- 
eral Assembly. He became a leader of that 
body and his counsel was always sought, es- 
pecially on all parliamentary questions. He 
was chosen by the Democratic members of the 
Senate as one of the committee to visit the 
National Democratic Committee at Washing- 
ton. D. C, for the purpose of inviting that 
body to hold the national convention in this 
State and he with his co-laborers, so prevailed 
upon that committee that the National Dem- 
ocratic Convention was held in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, in the year 1880. To this convention, 
Mr. Marriott was unanimously chosen as a 
delegate from the Ninth Congressional Dis- 
trict, Delaware County at that time being a 
part of the Ninth District. 

Mr. Marriott was again chosen as a dele- 
gate to the National Democratic Convention 
irom the Eighth Congressional District which 
met in Chicago, in the year 1896 and which 
nominated as its candidate for president, the 
Hon. William Jennings Bryan, and for whose 
nomination Mr. Marriott was very enthusias- 
tic. In the year 1884, Mr. Marriott was ap- 
pointed by Governor Hoadley as one of the 
three managers of the intermediate peniten- 
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having been re-appointed by Governor James 
E. Campbell, Governor William McKinley, 
Governor Asa S. Bushnell and Governor 
George K. Nash. 

Mr. Marriott's greatest achievements were 
in the practice of his profession. He has been 
for many years one of the acknowledged lead- 
ers of the Delaware County Bar, and there 
have been but few hotly contested cases in 
which he was not employed, either by the 
plaintiff or defendant. He is an able advocate 
and his success to the court and jury is largely 
due to his ability in that direction. Frater- 
nally Mr. Marriott is prominently identified 
with the Masonic order, having taken all the 
degrees of both the York and Scottish rites. 
He has served as master of Hiram Lodge No. 
18, F. & A. M., also as high priest of Chap- 
ter No. 54, Royal Arch Masons, at Delaware, 
Ohio. 

Cyrus C. Brooks is the son of David and 
Jane (Butler) Brooks. He was born in Lick- 
ing County, Ohio, January 29, 1845. He re- 
ceived his early education in the public schools. 
He attended the high school at Sunbury, Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, and the Normal School at 
Lebanon, Ohio, where he prepared himself to 
teach. He taught in the public schools for a 
number of years and during the time he was 
teaching he read law under the preceptorship 
of Messrs. Powell and Reid, attorneys of 
Delaware, Ohfo, and he was admitted to the 
Bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio, in the 
year 1874. He opened an office in the village 
of Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio, where he 
has continued the practice ever since. Mr. 
Brooks, living near the Franklin, Knox and 
Licking County lines, has practiced in all of 
these counties as well as in his own county. 

He has been elected mayor of the village of 
Sunbury for four terms and has held that of- 
fice for eight years. In the early part of his 
practice he was elected to the office of justice 
of the peace, which office he held for a great 
number of years and from which he derived 
the title by which he is most generally known 
of "Esquire Brooks." 



Royal Duglass Robinson was the son 
of William and Mary Robinson, who resided 
in Knox County, Ohio. He was born near 
Danville, Knox County, August 10, 1839, and 
died in the city of Delaware, Ohio, January 5, 
1894. He was educated in the public schools 
of Knox County, Ohio, and at Kenyon Col- 
lege, Gambier, Ohio. He studied law in Mt. 
Vernon, Ohio, and was admitted to the Bar 111 
the year 1866. He immediately began the 
practice of his chosen profession in the city of 
Mt. Vernon, where he remained until the 
autumn of 1872. when he removed to Sun- 
bury, Delaware County, Ohio. He opened an 
office in November of that year in the village 
of Sunbury, which he continued to keep up to 
the time of his death. His practice, however, 
was not confined to Delaware County, as he 
had an office in Columbus, Ohio, where he 
staid part of the time. He was elected mayor 
of the village of Sunbury about the year 1885, 
but he declined a re-nomination. This was the 
only elective office he ever held in the county. 
He was for many years attorney for the Bank 
of Sunbury and he was the attorney for the 
C, A. & C. Railway Company for Delaware 
and Franklin Counties from the time the road 
was built to the date of his death. He was 
married to Miss Sarah E. Meredith March 7, 
1861, from which union four children were 
born, two of whom survive, viz., Harry L. 
and Edson M. Robinson, who reside in the city 
of Columbus, Ohio. 

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Hon. Archibald Lybrand is the son of 
Archibald and Jemima Lybrand, who resided 
at Tarlton, Pickaway County, Ohio. The sub- 
ject of this sketch was torn May 23, 1840. 
while his parents resided in Tarlton. He re- 
ceived his early education in the public schools 
of that village. His parents came to Dela- 
ware, Ohio, in the year 1857, when their son 
entered the Ohio Wesleyan University with 
the purpose of completing a classical course, 
but before he had done so the Civil War be- 
gan and like many other young men of the 
university, Mr. Lybrand enlisted in his coun- 
try's cause; first in Company C, Fourth Regi- 



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ment, O. V. I., and next in Company E, Sev- 
enty-third O. V. I. He was wounded twice, 
first at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, and 
again at Dallas. Alter the close of the war. 
Mr. Lybrand began the study of law in the 
office of E. F. Poppleton and he was admitted 
to the Bar in the year 1871. He soon formed 
a partnership for the practice of law with Mr. 
Poppleton, his former preceptor, the style of 
the firm being Poppleton & Lybrand. In the 
year 1869, Mr. Lybrand was elected mayor 
of the town of Delaware and served one term. 

Mr. Lybrand only practiced for a few 
years, having with his brother, Robert G. Ly- 
brand, Thomas E. Powell and others, former 
what has ever since been known as "The Dela- 
ware Chair Company." He quit the practice 
of law and became the head ot that institution 
which has become one of the most successful 
manufactories of this city. 

He was appointed postmaster of the city 
of Delaware, in the year 1881 and served un- 
til 1885, one term. He was elected to the 
Fifty-fifth Congress of the United States in 
the autumn of 1896 from the Eighth Con- 
gressional District, composed at that time of 
Champaign, Delaware. Hancock, Hardin, 
Logan and Union Counties and was re-elected 
to succeeed himself in the autumn of 1898, 
to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served both 
terms. 

He has charge of the Delaware Chair Com- 
pany as its president and is now traveling in 
the far east in the interest of that organiza- 
tion. 

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Judge John Smith Gill was the sen of 
Mason and Harriett (Granger) Gill. He was 
born May 9. 1842, at Darby Plains, near Mil- 
ford Center, Union County. Ohio, and died at 
Columbus, Ohio, December 12. 1906. An- 
drew Gill, the grandfather of Judge Gill, was 
a native of Virginia and was of Irish descent. 
He immigrated to Ohio with his family in the 
year 1804, floating down the river in a flat 
boat, and settled near Cincinnati, Ohio. About 
the year 1812, at the beginning of the war of 
that time, he settled in that part of Ohio 
which became Union County, where Mason 
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Gill, the lather of Judge Gill was born. The 
subject of this sketch was educated in the pub- 
lic schools and worked on his father's farm un- 
til the beginning of the Civil War. In the 
month of August, 1862, he enlisted in the 
Union army and was assigned to Company 1, 
One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment. O. 
V. I., and served with his command until the 
close of the war. He was severely wounded 
at the battle of Chickamauga. Georgia. Sep- 
tember 20, 1863, and was sent to the hospital 
and while he never fully recovered he rejoined 
his regiment and served with his command and 
was in every engagement in which his regi- 
ment fought, and was with General Sherman's 
command on his famous march to the sea. 

After the close of the war, Mr. Gill re- 
turned to his native county, wdtere he taught 
in the public schools and engaged in farming. 
During this period he was married to Miss 
Frances Iva Mitchell, a daughter of John Mit- 
chell of Union County, Ohio. One son was 
born of this union, Mason Mitchell Gill, who 
resides with his widowed mother in Colum- 
bus, Ohio, and where he is engaged in busi- 
ness. 

In the year 1874, John S. Gill removed to 
Delaware, Ohio, where he entered the law of- 
fice of Messrs. Reid and Powell, as a law stu- 
dent. He was admitted to the Bar in 1876 
and he soon afterward entered the firm as the 
junior member thereof, the style of the firm 
being Reid, Powell & (nil. After the death of 
Colonel Reid. he formed a partnership with 
Mr. Powell, the title of the new firm being 
Powell & Gill. During the continuance of this 
partnership Frank A. Kauffman studied with 
the firm, and when he was admitted he was 
taken into the firm and the style of the new- 
firm became Powell. Gill & Kauffman. 

Judge (lill was an ardent Democrat, and 
in the summer of the year 1N87 he was nomi- 
nated by his party for the office of Representa- 
tive, and he was duly elected and served as a 
member of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly 
from Delaware County, being one of the few 
Democratic members elected from Delaware 
County since the close of the Civil war. In 
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nominated by his party for the office of Judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas, for the first 
subdivision of the Sixth Judicial District of 
Ohio, from Delaware County, and in the 
autumn of that year was elected and took his 
seat in February, 1892. At the close of his 
term he declined a renomination and soon re- 
moved to Columbus, Ohio, and took up the 
practice of the law in which he continued to the 
time of his death. 

Judge Gill was an active Grand Army 
maii. He was appointed by Governor James 
E. Campbell, one of the members of the Ohio 
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Mili- 
tary Park Commission, under an act of the 
General Assembly of Ohio, providing for such 
a commission to mark the sites where the Ohio 
troops were engaged on those fields of battle. 
The monuments provided for that purpose 
were dedicated September 2j, 1895. in which 
services Judge Gill took an active part. 

Fraternally Judge Gill was affiliated with 
the Grand Army of the Republic and with the 

Union Veteran Legion. 

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Judge Gideon G. Banker was born in 
Cardington, Morrow County. Ohio, on the 
twenty-fifth day of December, 1850. He is 
the eldest son of Captain Benjamin A. Banker 
and Elizabeth (Worline) Banker. The par- 
ents, soon after the birth of their son, came 
to Delaware County and located on a farm, 
where the subject of this sketch spent his boy- 
hood days and received bis early education in 
the public schools. 

When Mr. Banker was sixteen years of 
age, his parents moved to the city of Delaware, 
and he attended the city schools and prepared 
himself for a collegiate education. He then 
entered the Ohio Wesleyan University and 
took a classical course, being graduated in 
the month of June. 1873. Mr - Banker im- 
mediately entered the office of Messrs. Reid 
and Powell, attorneys at law. where he read 
for two years, when he was admitted to the 
Bar in the year 1875. 

He was soon after elected solicitor of the 
city of Delaware, which position he held for 
three successive terms. Mr. Banker continued 
the practice in Delaware County until about 



the year 1888, when he was employed as a 
traveling agent for a collecting association, in 
which agency he continued for five years, dur- 
ing which time he resided in Delaware, Ohio. 
In the year 1893, Mr. Banker removed to 
Findlay. Ohio, where he opened an office and 
began the practice of his chosen profession. 
In 1902 he received the nomination for the 
office of probate judge by the Democratic 
Party of Hancock County and was duly elected 
at the November election of that year. He 
assumed the duties of his office on the ninth 
day of February. 1903. He was re-nominated 
by the same party in the year 1905 to succeed 
himself, and was again elected and he is now 
the present incumbent. His second term will 
expire February 8, 1909. 
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Otway Carey Cowgill was born in Lo- 
gan County, Ohio, on the twenty-fifth day of 
September. 1846. His parents' names were 
Daniel and Mary (Everett) Cowgill. He re- 
ceived his early education in the public schools 
of his native county. The family came to 
Delaware County in the year 1859, and located 
on a farm in Delaware Township, where the 
subject of this sketch worked on his father's 
farm and attended the public schools. He 
attended the Ohio Wesleyan University for 
about two years and then entered the law- 
office of Messrs. Reid and Powell, attorneys at 
law, where he studied for two years and in 
the year 1877 he was admitted to the Bar. 
He was elected township clerk of Delaware 
Township in the year 1875. and in the year 
1876 was elected justice of the peace, which 
office he held for two terms. He opened an 
office in Delaware. Ohio, immediately after 
his admission to the Bar and began to practice 
his chosen profession. In the year 1883 he 
returned to Logan County and opened an of- 
fice in Bellefontaine, the county seat, where 
he continued his practice for three years. He 
then moved to the west and located in Sterl- 
ing, in the State of Kansas, where he died 
July 31, 1888. 

Eugene D. Hamilton was the son of 
John Hamilton and Jenette Hamilton. He 
was born January 15, 1854, in Concord Town- 



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ship, Delaware County. Ohio. He received 
his early education in the public schools of 
that township. He prepared himself for a 
teacher and taught his first school when he 
was but seventeen years of age. He attended 
the Ohio Wesleyan University for a time, hut 
he finished his course and took his degree fn im 
the Northwestern University of Chicago, 
Illinois, about the year 1877. From the time 
he began to teach, he supported himself in 
that way and at intervals attended college, 
taught, and studied law, and he was admitted 
to the Bar in the year 1878. He immediately 
opened an office in the city of Delaware and 
began the practice of his chosen profession. 
He was married to Miss Alice E. Freshwater 
on the fifteenth day of January, 1880. He 
was elected solicitor of the city of Delaware, 
Ohio, in April. 1880. but he only lived about 
two months after he had taken his office, 
his death taking place June 14, 1880. 

H* ^ ^ 

Judge Benjamin F. Freshwater was 
born November 24, 1852, on the "Hinton 
Farm" in Delaware Township, and grew to 
manhood on his father's farm in Berlin Town- 
ship. He is the son of Captain Archibald 
Freshwater, an honored veteran of the Civil 
war. The subject of this sketch received his 
early education in the public schools. At the 
age of nineteen he entered the Ohio Wesleyan 
University, where he completed the classical 
course, and was graduated in the year 1877. 
He began the study of law in the office of 
Carper and Van Deman, teaching school at 
times to help defray expenses. He was ad- 
mitted to the Bar on the second day of June, 
1880, by the Supreme Court of Ohio, and on 
the first day of July, 1880. began the practice 
of his profession, having formed a partnership 
with F. B. DeYYitt, of Paulding County, Ohio. 
The style of the firm being DeW'itt and Fresh- 
water. In the year 1881 the partnership was 
dissolved, Mr. Freshwater continuing the prac- 
tice in Paulding County until the year 1885, 
when he returned to his old home and he 
opened an office in Delaware in the autumn of 
that year. 

Mr. Freshwater is a Republican in politics, 
and he was chosen secretary of the Republican 



Central Committee in which he served the 
party for two years. He was nominated for 
probate judge by the Republican party in the 
year 1893, and was elected and entered upon 
the duties of his office February 9, 1894. He 
was re-nominated and re-elected in the year 
1896, and served out his full term. After 
his retirement from office he entered into a 
partnership for the practice of law, with Hon. 
F. M. Marriott, the style of the firm being 
Marriott & Freshwater. This firm continued 
in the practice until February, 1902. when 
Judge Wickham retired from the Common 
Pleas bench, at which time a new partnership 
was formed and Judge Wickham was taken 
into the firm, the style of the new firm being 
Marriott, Freshwater and Wickham. This 
partnership continued until December, 1906, 
when Judge Wickham retired from the firm to 
accept the Common Pleas Court judgship, to 
which he had been elected in November, 1906, 
since which time Marriott and Freshwater 
have continued the practice under the style of 
the old firm of Marriott & Freshwater. 

Mr. Freshwater belongs to the following 
named fraternal organizations, viz. : Hiram 
Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Lenape Lodge. No. 28, 
K. of P., and Delaware Lodge. B. P. O. E. 
He is one of the Alumni Trustees of the Ohio 
Wesleyan University, and is one of the di- 
rectors of The Delaware Savings Bank Com- 
pany, and is the attorney for the People's 
Building and Loan Company, and is now in the 
midst of an active and lucrative practice of 
his profession. 

Harry H. Beecher was horn at Johns- 
town, Licking County, Ohio, on the fourth 
day of July, A. D., 1857. He is the eldest 
son of William A. and Oral Beecher. Hi- 
parents came to Delaware County in the year 
1875. an '' are ' ) ° t ' 1 bvinR- having celebrated 
their Golden Wedding anniversary. The sub- 
ject of this sketch received his education in 
the public schools of Delaware Count}-. 

He began the study of law with Godman 
& Glover, attorneys, completed his course 
with the firm of Jones & Lytle. and was 
admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court of 
Ohio on the fourth day of Tune, 1881. He 



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opened an office in Delaware in the spring of 
the year 1882, and entered upon the practice 
of his profession. He was elected solicitor 
for the city of Delaware at the April election 
of the year 1888, and was re-elected to suc- 
ceed himself in the year 1890, and again in 
the year 1892. He was chosen clerk of the 
County Board of Elections when it was first 
organized after the adoption of the Australian 
ballot system in Ohio, which position he held 
continuously until the autumn of the year 1905. 
He was elected justice of the peace for Dela- 
ware Township at the April election, for the 
year 1903, which office he resigned in the 
autumn of 1905 to accept the nomination for 
mayor of the city of Delaware. He was 
elected mayor at the November election and 
served as mayor one term, 1906 and 1907, 
having retired in January, 1908. 

Mr. Beecher is a member of both the fra- 
ternal orders of the I. O. O. F., and the K. 
of P., and has passed through the chairs of 
both lodges. 

Edward Thompson Brandebury was 
born in Delaware, Ohio. He is the son of 
Rev. Brandebury, a minister of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church. The subject of this 
sketch received his early education in the pub- 
lic schools of this city. Having graduated 
from the high school about the year 1876, he 
entered the Ohio Wesleyan University the 
same year from which institution he graduated 
in 1880. He studied law in Delaware and 
was admitted to the Bar. He located in 
Minneapolis, where he practiced for some 
years, and then returned to Delaware, Ohio, 
where he began the practice. He was soon 
after elected justice of the peace of this town- 
ship, which .office he held for several years. 
Me returned to Minneapolis but a short time 
since, where he is again engaged in the prac- 
tice of his profession. 

* * * 

Frank A. Kauffman came to Delaware 
County to attend the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity. He soon after entered the law office 
of Powell and Gill, with whom he completed 
his course of study and was admitted to the 



Bar. He entered the firm of Powell and Gill 
as junior member, and he was soon after 
elected prosecuting attorney oi the county. 
He held the office for two terms and at the 
expiration of his term of office he retired from 
the practice in this county. He located in 
Spring-field, Clark County, Ohio, and he soon 
after became attorney for the Deering Har- 
vester Company. He later became the general 
attorney for that company, and removed to 
Chicago, where he now resides. 

George W. Carpenter was born in Dela- 
ware County, Ohio June 28, 1859. His fa- 
ther's name was Mandeville Carpenter. He 
was a farmer by occupation and was one of the 
early settlers of the county. The subject of 
this sketch received his early education in the 
public schools of Delaware County, in which 
he afterward taught for several years. He 
also taught in a graded school at Fredricktown, 
Ohio, for some time. He later attended the 
Ohio Wesleyan University. In the year 1884 
he began the study of law under the tuition 
of Hon. Henry S. Culver. In the year 1886, 
he was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme 
Court of Ohio, and in the autumn of the 
same year he opened an office in Delaware and 
began the practice of his chosen profession. 
In the year 1888 he was elected to the office 
of prosecuting attorney of Delaware County, 
and in the year 1891 he was re-elected to suc- 
ceed himself, there being no opposition in the 
field against him for his second term. Mr. 
Carpenter has always been an active Republi- 
can. He has frequently occupied a seat in the 
State, Congressional and Judicial Conventions 
of his party, and has greatly aided the party 
by his speeches during the campaign in which 
he has engaged. In the year 1895 he was 
a candidate for the nomination of State Sena- 
tor in the Sixteenth Senatorial District, and in 
the year 1899, he was a candidate before the 
Republican State Convention for attorney- 
general from this county. In the year 1895 
Mr. Carpenter formed a partnership for the 
practice of his profession with Judge C. H. 
McElroy, the style of the firm being Carpen- 
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Mr. Carpenter is a close and careful stu- 
dent of the law, and his services are sought 
often by the members of his profession in 
the trial of complicated and difficult cases, 
both before the court and jury. 

On the first of July, 1899, Mr. Carpenter 
opened an office in Columbus, Ohio, and two 
years later removed to that city, at which time 
he formed a partnership with Campbell M. 
Voorhees, where he is now engaged in an 
active practice. Although Mr. Carpenter has 
not lived in this county for six or seven years, 
mam- of his Delaware County clients often 
consult him, and his name still appears on our 
court docket. Fraternally Mr. Carpenter is 
affiliated with the Masons and the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. 

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Hon. Norman Fuller Overturf was 
born in Liberty Township, Licking County, 
Ohio, February 13, 1846. He is the son of 
Solomon and Elizabeth (Griffey) Overturf. 
He was educated in the public schools and ;>t 
different select schools and acadamies and at 
the Normal School at Lebanon. Ohio. He 
began to teach when he was but seventeen 
vears of age and taught in the public schools 
nf this and Madison Counties until he was 
thirty-two years old, it being his principal oc- 
cupation until about the year 1878, when he 
began the study of law. He was at that time 
living at Somerford. Madison County, Ohio, 
where he was teaching. He began to practice 
in the justice's courts, though he had not yet 
been admitted to the Bar. He also devoted 
a part of his time to the business of collections. 
He came to Delaware, Ohio, in the year 1883, 
and entered the law office of the Hon. Henry 
S. Culver, where he remained until he was 
admitted to the Bar in the year [885. 

In the spring of the year 1886 he was 
nominated by the Republican Party for city 
solicitor of Delaware, to which position he 
was elected in April of that year, the term of 
office being two years. He was re-nominated 
by the same party to succeed himself and was 
again elected in April of the year [888, which 
position he resigned for the purpose of ac- 
cepting the nomination to the office of probate 



judge of Delaware County, to which office he 
was duly elected in the autumn of 1887. He 
was re-nominated to succeed himself and was 
again elected in September of that year, his 
second term expiring in 1894. He then retired 
from office, having served the people for six 
consecutive years, and began the practice of 
his chosen profession, to which he assiduously 
devoted himself. He was nominated by the 
Republican Party for the State Senate in the 
year 1902, by the Ffteenth-Sixteenth Joint 
Subdistrict, which is composed of the counties 
of Delaware, Licking, Muskingum and Perry, 
to which position he was elected at the N >- 
vember election of that year. 

Hexry Griffin Sheldon was born at 
Greenwich, Huron County, Ohio, July 16, 
1838, and died at Delaware, Ohio, April 12, 
1889. He received his early education in the 
public schools in Huron County, and some 
time in the latter fifties began a course in 
Oberlin College, and was a junior at said col- 
lege at the beginning of the Civil war. Soon 
after the call for troops he enlisted as a private 
in Company C, Seventh Regiment, O. V. I. 
He was severely wounded at the battle of 
Cross Lanes. West Virginia, for which wound 
he was discharged from the service on the 
third day of July, 1862. He returned to his 
home, where he began to recuperate and on 
July 26, 1862, he re-enlisted and became cap- 
tain of Company D, One Hundred and First 
Regiment, O. V. I., but his old wound soon 
warned him that he must quit the service if 
he expected to live, and he resigned his com- 
mand, and mi January 28. 1863. returned to 
his home. After recuperating he again en- 
tered Oberlin College;, where he graduated in 
the summer of 1864.' He studied law at the 
Law School at Albany. New York, from 
which he received his degree in the year 1865, 
and he immediately entered the practice of his 
profession. He located at one time in the 
State of Kansas, but he only remained there a 
short time, when he came to Delaware — some 
time in the seventies — where he remained and 
practiced his chosen profession up to a short 
time prior to his death. 



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Werter B. Albright was the son of 
Jacob S. Albright and Nancy Albright. The 
father was a minister of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and the mother a faithful help- 
mate in her husband's calling. The subject of 
this sketch was born on the twelfth day of 
October, 1858. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Delaware and at the Ohio Wes- 
leyan University. Mr. Albright studied law 
and was admitted to the Bar in the year 1885. 
He soon thereafter opened an office in Dela- 
ware, and began the practice of his chosen 
profession. Mr. Albright gave special atten- 
tion to the law of real estate, and he became 
an expert in that particular branch of his pro- 
fession. He was an untiring student and pre- 
pared an abstract of title to all the lands of 
Delaware County at a cost of hundreds of 
dollars and several years of labor to himself 
and employes. This work had just been com- 
pleted a short time before his death, which 

occurred on the eighth day of January, 1893. 

* * * 

Robert Lorenzo McCabe is the son of 
Lorenzo Dow McCabe, one of the well known 
professors of the Ohio Wesleyan University. 
He was born in Delaware, Ohio, and received 
his early education in the public schools of 
this city. He graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan 
University with the class of 1883. He began 
the study of law with the firm of Harrison 
and Olds, of Columbus, Ohio, and finished 
with Hon. F. M. Marriott, of Delaware, 
Ohio, and was admitted to the Bar about 
the year 1888. He soon after formed a part- 
nership with Mr. Marriott, his former pre- 
ceptor, which partnership continued for one 
year, when it was dissolved. Mr. McCabe re- 
tiring and entering into other business. Mr. 
McCabe is now located at Dayton, Ohio, 
where he is known as a successful promoter 
and dealer in stocks. 

* * * 

James T. Shoup was born in Scioto Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio. His parents 
lived on a farm in that township, where the 
subject of this sketch received his early edu- 
cation. He came to Delaware, Ohio, in the 



early eighties, where he studied law with Hon. 
Early F. Poppleton. In the summer of 1883 
he -was nominated for prosecuting attorney of 
Delaware County by the Democratic party 
and in the autumn of that year he was duly 
elected to that office. He took his seat on the 
seventh day of January, A. D., 1884, and 
served his full term, retiring at the end of 
his term. He removed from this county to 
Springfield, Ohio, at the close of his term, 
where he now resides. 

Franklin A. Owen was born in Knox 
County, Ohio, near the village of Rich Hill. 
His father's name was Franklin M. Owen and 
his mother's was Pauline (Boughton) Owen. 
His grandfather located in Knox County in 
the year 1818, and was a native of Vermont. 
His mother's people, the Boughtons, immi- 
grated to this state in the year 1840, from 
Scipio, New York. The subject of this 
sketch was born on the twenty-second clay of 
December, 1853. and is the eldest son. 

The family came to Delaware County in 
the month of April, i860, and located on a 
farm in Kingston Township, where Mr. 
Owen spent his boyhood and where he ob- 
tained his early education. At the age of 
eighteen he began to teach school and con- 
tinued his education, completing a classical 
normal course at the Ohio Central Normal 
School, which was then located at Worthing- 
ton, Ohio. He then taught in the public 
schools of Delaware County for about four- 
teen years. During this course of teaching 
he began the study of law, with the firm of 
Powell, Gill and Kauffman, and on June 7, 
1888. he was admitted to the Bar by 'the Su- 
preme Court at Columbus, Ohio. He im- 
mediately began the practice of his profession 
and located in the same office which he now 
occupies , and where he has enjoyed a lucrative 
practice ever since. In January, 1906, at the 
unanimous request of the members of the 
Delaware County Bar, he was appointed one 
of the referees in bankruptcy for the Southern 
District of Ohio. In the year 1902 he entered 
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S. Owen, for the practice of his profession, 
the style of the partnership being F. A. and 
E. S. Owen. 

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William Bernard Jones is the eldest 
son of General J. S. Junes, and was born 
September 9, 1868. He attended the public 
schools and graduated at the high school in 
Delaware, Ohio, with the class of 1884. He 
entered the Ohio Wesleyan University and 
completed a classical course with the class ot 
1889. He began the study of law the same 
year in the office of Jones and Lytle. attorneys, 
and was admitted to the Bar in March, 1891. 
He became a law partner with his preceptors 
and the new firm was Jones, Lytle and Jones. 
In the spring of the year 1895. the partnership 
firm was dissolved by mutual consent and the 
subject of this sketch entered into a partner- 
ship with his father and brother for the prac- 
tice of the law, the style of the new firm be- 
ing John S. Jones and Sons. In the autumn 
ot the year 1898. at the earnest request ot 
O >ngressman Archibald Lybrand, of the 
Eighth Congressional District. Mr. Jones be- 
came secretary to Mr. Lybrand, and during 
the remaining portion of Mr. Lybrand's term 
of office Mr. Jones remained with him, and 
when Congressman William R. Warnock be- 
came the representative from the Eighth Dis- 
trict, Mr. Jones became his secretary. He re- 
mained with Mr. Warnock as secretary until 
the fourth day of February, 1903, when at the 
request of Mr. Warnock, he was appointed 
postmaster of the city of Delaware, and is 
the present incumbent with a second appoint- 
ment for four years. Mr. Jones is the local 
attorney for the Delaware and Magnetic 
Springs Interurban Railway, and be has been 
a successful practitioner both in our State and 
in the United States Courts. He is a kind 
and affable gentleman, and has made one of 

the best postmasters Delaware has ever had. 
* * * 

Judge Emmett M. Wickham was born 
in Genoa Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
October 29, 1859. His father and mother 
were of English and Dutch origin, respec- 
tively. He is able to trace his genealogy on 



his father's side back to a period of more than 
two hundred years. But it is not intended in 
this sketch to refer to the family history, but 
rather to the Judge's early life and education 
and his progress from teacher, lawyer and 
judge. He received his early education in the 
public schools of Genoa Township, in which 
schools he prepared himself for a teacher. He 
taught his first school in the same district 
where he had attended school, viz., Sub-Dis- 
trict No. 5, in said township. His compensa- 
tion was $18.33 P er month. He continued to 
teach for a period of twelve years, having 
taught in eight of the eighteen ti iwnships com- 
posing Delaware County. 

He began the study of law in the year 
1889, under the tutorship of Hon. F. M. 
Marriott, of Delaware, Ohio, during the time 
he was teaching, and on the third day of De- 
cember. 1 89 1, he was admitted to the Bar 
by the Supreme Court of Ohio, having taught 
school seventeen months during the time he 
was preparing himself for admission to the 
Bar. His contract to teach did not expire 
until May, 1892. after his admission. In the 
autumn of the same year he came to Delaware 
and began the practice of his profession, hav- 
ing his office with his former preceptor. Hon. 
F. M. Marriott, and in January. 1895, en ~ 
tered into a partnership with Mr. Marriott, the 
style of the firm being Marriott and Wick- 
ham. 

At the Democratic Convention which was 
held at Centerburg, Knox County, Ohio, in 
July. 1896, he was nominated as one of the 
candidates for Common Pleas Judge in the 
First Subdivision of the Sixth Judicial Dis- 
trict, composed of Delaware, Knox and Lick- 
ing Counties, and at the November election 
following was elected by a good majority. In 
the year 1900 he was re-nominated to suc- 
ceed himself as judge. The slump in the 
Democratic vote in the district was so great 
that he was defeated, his opponent having a 
majority in the district of but eight votes. In 
this campaign Mr. Wickham ran ahead of his 
ticket very largely. 

In the year 1906 he was again nominated 
by his party for Common Pleas judge, and 



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was elected in November of that year by a 
majority of over four hundred votes, carrying 
Delaware County by a majority of two hun- 
dred and sixty-rive, while the county gave to 
President Roosevelt the same year, a majority 
of fifteen hundred and sixty-five, and at the 
same time he carried Knox County by one 
hundred and thirty-three, while that county is 
largely Republican. 

After the campaign of 1900. Judge Wick- 
ham returned to the practice of his profession, 
and in July of the year 1901, he became a 
member of the firm of Marriott. Freshwater 
and Wickham. During his practice in this 
firm Judge Wickham became identified with 
two cases which involved the constitutionality 
lit the "Valentine Anti-trust Law" and "The 
County Road Improvement Act," both of 
which cases went to the Supreme Court of 
Ohio. The former grew out of the indictment 
of several coal dealers for a violation of the 
Valentine Anti-trust Law. The Common 
Pleas courts throughout the State had been 
declaring this act unconstitutional. Judge 
Wickham was appointed by the county com- 
missioners to assist the prosecuting attorney 
to carry oik- of these cases to the Supreme 
Court to make a test case out of it. Judge 
Wickham's contention was that this anti-trust 
law was constitutional and the Supreme Court 
of Ohio upheld his views and the act was de- 
clared by the court of last resort to be not 
within the inhibitions of the constitution of 
Ohio. The other case involved the constitu- 
tionality of the act known as "The County 
Road Improvement Act." Judge Wickham 
was again employed to assist the prosecuting 
attorney to lake this ease up and after hav- 
ing been heard in the Common I 'leas and Cir- 
cuit Courts, the Supreme Court upheld the 
constitutionality of this act and settled the 
law on that subject. 

Judge Wickham, on the thirty-first day of 
December, A. I).. [906, retired from the firm 
of Marriott, Freshwater and Wickham. and 
on the seventh day of February, 1907, he 
again took up the judicial ermine which he had 
always worn with dignity to the office and 
credit to himself. Judge Wickham is a 



strong man mentally and physically and of 
pronounced and positive views. He has al- 
ways been a close and hard student of the 
law. In his analysis of a case he is clear and 
conclusive. Though one of the younger 
judges of this district, his decisions have been 
sustained by the higher courts in as great pro- 
portion as any of the judges who have held 

the position in this district. 
* * * 

Judge George Coyner, the eighth son of 
David H. and Eliza C. Coyner, was born at 
Lexington, Richland County, Ohio, on the 
fifth day of June, 1858. His early childhood 
was spent in Virginia, which was the native 
state of his parents. During the Civil war, 
after the death of his mother, he with the rest 
of his family, except four of his brothers 
who were in the Union Army, returned to Vir- 
ginia. Owing to his father's sympathy with 
the Union and the Union Army, the family 
was compelled to flee to the North. Thej 
came to Columbus. Ohio, where the father en- 
listed in the Union army and became chaplain 
of the Eighty-eighth Regiment of Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry. After the close of the 
war, Mr. Coyner removed to Eden, Delaware 
County, Ohio, where he became the minister 
of the Presbyterian Church of that place. 
Rev. Coyner was a graduate of Washington 
and Lee University, Virginia, and of Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary. He was a man 
of fine literary attainments and paid particular 
attention to the education of his family. 

George, the subject of this sketch, received 
his early education from his father's instruc- 
tion and in the public schools of the village 
of Eden, and from private teachers. He 
graduated from the University of Cincinnati 
in the year 1879. He then returned to his 
home in Brown Township where he was elected 
township clerk in the spring of the year [880, 
which position he held for five consecutive 
terms. He was then appointed superintendent 
of the Deleware County Infirmary, which po 
sit ion he held from [882 to 1892. During 
the time he was superintendent of the In- 
firmarv he began the study of law. and after 
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the Law School of Cincinnati, from which 
institution he graduated in the spring of 
1893. He was soon afterward admitted to the 
Bar and located in Delaware, Ohio, where he 
began the practice. 

In the summer of 1895, he was nominated 
by the Republican party for prosecuting at- 
torney for Delaware County, and was elected 
in the autumn of the same year. He was re- 
nominated to succeed himself in 1898, and 
was re-elected, having served two full terms. 
He continued in the practice and in the year 
1902 he was nominated by the Republican 
party for the office of Common Pleas Judge 
in the First Subdivision of the Sixth Judicial 
District of Ohio, to which position he was 
duly elected in the autumn of the same year, 
and which he held until February, 1907. 
After his retirement from his official position, 
he removed to Mt. Vernon, Knox Count}', 
Ohio, where he is now successfully engaged in 

the practice of his chosen profession. 
^ ^ =£ 

Edwin G. Lybraxd was born November 
2. 1863, in Lafayette. Allen County, Ohio, 
and died in Delaware, Ohio, August 8, 1906. 
He was the son of Samuel and Isabella 
( Mow ery ) Lybrand. His parents came to 
Delaware while he was quite young, and he 
was educated in the public schools of Delaware 
and attended the Ohio Wesleyan University 
for a time. He began the stud}- of law with 
Franklin A. Owen about the year 1S89. and 
was admitted to the Bar in the year 1892. He 
only practiced his profession for a few years, 
when, owing to the failing health of his father. 
he quit the practice to take charge of his fa- 
ther's business. 

Eugf.xe S. Owex was born near Rich 
Hill. Knox County, ( >hio, .March 9. 1860/ He 
is the son of Franklin M. Owen and Pauline 
1 Boughton) Owen. His parents removed to 
Delaware County, Ohio, in April. 1S60. hence 
the subject of this sketch has lived in Dela- 
ware Count}- practically all his life. The par- 
ents located on a farm in Kingston Town- 
ship, Delaware Count}-, where Mr. Owen re- 
ceived his earl}- education in the public 



schools. He worked on his father's farm dur- 
ing the summer season, and attended school in 
the winter. While at home he began the 
study of law under the tutorship of his 
brother, Franklin A. Owen, who was at the 
time a practitioner in Delaware. He came 
to Delaware about the year 1892, and com- 
pleted his course of study and was admitted 
to the Bar on the ninth day of March, 1893, 
the day he was thirty-three years of age. He 
began the practice in the office of his brother. 
Franklin A. Owen, and was elected justice 
of the peace by the Republican party in the 
spring of 1895. which office he held for two 
successive terms of three years each. 

In the year 1902 he formed a partnership 
for the practice of his profession with his 
brother, Franklin A. Owen, the style of the 
firm being F. A. and E. S. Owen. He was 
elected city solicitor of Delaware. Ohio, in 
the autumn of 1904, and was re-elected to suc- 
ceed himself in November, 1907. and he is the 
present incumbent of that office. 

^ ;jc ^ 

Arthur J. White is the son of Johnson 
and Catherine P. White, of Brown Township, 
Delaware County, Ohio. The subject of this 
sketch was born near the village of Eden, 
Delaware County, Ohio, on the seventh day 
of January, 1871. He received his early edu- 
cation in the public schools of Brown Town- 
ship. He attended the Northwestern Univer- 
sity at Ada, Ohio, during the years 1889 and 
1890, and the Ohio Wesleyan University dur- 
ing the years 1891 and 1892. In the fall of 
the year 1892 he began the study of law in 
tin- office of B. F. Freshwater and remained 
with him until Mr. Freshwater was electe I 
probate judge. He then entered the office of 
Messrs. Carpenter and McElroy, where he 
finished his course and was admitted to the 
Bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio in the 
month of June, 1X04. In the autumn of the 
^anie year he opened an office in the city of 
Toledo, Ohio, and entered upon the practice of 
his chi '-en pri ifessi m. 

lie continued the practice with very grati- 
fying success for about five years, when by 
reason of the failing health of his father he 



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felt it his duty to return to his home and take 
charge of the latter's farm, in order to re- 
lieve him of the responsibility- He managed 
the farm for a number of years, and in the 
meanwhile travelled for the Spaulding Buggy 
Company, until the autumn of 1906, when his 
father died. After the settlement of his 
father's estate he opened an office in the city 
of Delaware, in the spring of 1907, and began 
again the practice of his profession with bright 
prospects for future success. He has recently 
been appointed justice of the peace of Dela- 
ware Township, to fill the vacancy caused by 
the resignation of J. T. Hutchisson. 

Carroll H. Jones is the younger son of 
General John S. Jones. He was born October 
29, 1871. in Delaware, Ohio. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Delaware and 
graduated from the high school in the year 
1887. He immediately entered the Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, where he studied for four 
years and graduated with the class of 1891, 
taking his degree in June of that year. He 
spent some time in newspaper work on the 
Delaware Gazette and as correspondent for 
other papers. He then began the study of the 
law with the firm of Jones, Lytle & Jones, 
and was admitted to the Bar by the Supreme 
Court of Ohio, in the spring of 1895. 

The firm of Jones, Lytle & Jones having 
been dissolved, he formed a partnership with 
his father and brother. The new firm was 
known as J. S. Jones & Sons. He con- 
tinued in the practice until the winter of 1897, 
when he became secretary to Hon. Archibald 
Lybrand, who had been elected Congressman 
from the Eighth Congressional District of 
Ohio. He ably filled this position during Mr. 
Lybrand's first term in Cingress, but early in 
the year 1899 he resigned his position as 
secretary and removed to Chicago, Illinois, 
where he entered upon the practice of his 
chosen profession, and where he soon became 
a successful practitioner. He is now occupy- 
ing a position in the legal department of the 

Northwestern Elevated Railway Company. 
* * * 

James Reverdy Selover is the son of 
Isaac Selover and Catherine (Fallin) Selover. 



He was born November 3, 1862, in Morrow 
County, Ohio. His parents came to Delaware 
County when he was but six years old. and 
located on a farm north of Delaware in Troy 
Township. His father was born near Ithaca, 
in the State of New York. His grandfathei 
was a Revolutionary soldier and was with 
Washington at Valley Forge. His grand- 
father on his mother's side was also a Revo- 
lutionary soldier and endured the hardships 
of prison life on the prison ship Jersey, having 
been captured by the British at the battle of 
Long Island, with about a thousand men and 
he and one other were the only soldiers who 
escaped. The Fallins came from Fairfax 
County, Virginia. 

Mr. Selover received his early education 
in the public schools of Troy Township, and he 
graduated from the Delaware high school in 
the class of 1881. He attended the Ohio 
Wesleyan University for two years and then 
began the study of law under the tutorship of 
Judge Emmett M. Wickham, supporting him- 
self by teaching school at various times while 
he completed his studies. He attended the Law- 
School of the Ohio State University for one 
year, and was admitted to the Bar in the year 
1895. He taught school for some time to 
replenish his exchequer and then opened an 
1 iffice in Delaware and began the practice of his 
profession from which he has maintained him- 
self and family ever since. 

Mr. Selover has been chosen President of 
the City Council of Delaware. Ohio, his po- 
sition being that of vice-mayor. It would de- 
volve upon him to fill the office of mayor in 
case of that official's death or disability. 

Harry \V. Jewell was born in Pi irter 
Township, Delaware County, Ohio. November 
19, 1872. He is the son of Warren S. Jewell 
and Laura A. (Moody) Jewell. He received 
his early education in the public schools of 
Porter Township. When he was fourteen 
years of age he entered the high school at 
Centerburg, Knox County, Ohio, from which 
he graduated. He then entered Hiram Col- 
lege, Portage County, Ohio, from which he 
graduated in the year 1895. He began the 
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and Carpenter in the same year of his gradu- 
ation and was admitted to the Bar in 1897. 
He immediately opened an office in the city of 
Delaware, and began the practice of his pro- 
fession alone. He soon achieved a success 
which was very gratifying to himself and 
friends. March 12, 1907, he entered into a 
partnership for the practice of his profession 
with Bert P. Benton, the style of the firm be- 
ing Jewell & Benton. Fraternally Mr. 
Jewell is affiliated with the Masonic Order, 
being an active member of Hiram Lodge, No. 
18. F. & A. M., and an official of said lodge. 

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Edward Thompson Humes was born 
March 7, 1872, on a farm in Brown Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio. He is the son 
of Isaac N. Humes and Mary (Overturfj 
Humes. The father was born in Ohio County, 
West Virginia, and the mother was born in 
Delaware County, Ohio. The subject of this 
sketch was educated in the public schools of 
Delaware County and the National Business 
College of Logansport, Indiana. He began 
the study of law with Messrs. Overturf and 
Coyner in Delaware and was graduated at the 
Law School of Cincinnati. Ohio, completing 
his course with the class of 1898. He was 
admitted to the Bar by the Supreme Court of 
Ohio on the eleventh day of June, 1898, and 
immediately opened an office in Delaware. 
Ohio, and began the practice of his profession, 
achieving a gratifying success. 

He was nominated for the office of prose- 
cuting attorney of Delaware County in the 
summer of 1900, and was duly elected in No- 
vember of the same year, assuming the duties 
of the office on the sixth day of January. 1901. 
He was re-elected to the same office in X' >- 
vember. 1903, and retired on the seventb of 
January. 1907, having completed his two 
terms, which is the limit allotted to that office 
by a time-honored custom and tradition in 
this county. During the time of Mr. Hume's 
incumbency of office, two noted cases were 
commenced by him, which involved the con- 
stitutionality of the Valentine Anti-trust Law 
and the County Road Improvement Act, which 
suits both terminated in the Supreme Court 



of Ohio. The fust was a case in which Mr. 
Humes had a number of the coal dealers in 
Delaware indicted for a violation of the Valen- 
tine Anti-trust Law. They were fined by the 
Common Pleas Court and they had their cases 
taken to the Circuit Court, which court held 
the act to be unconstitutional. A test case 
was then made and it was taken to the Su- 
preme Court of Ohio, which court sustained 
the law and that case has become one of the 
leading authorities in the United States in 
sustaining the anti-trust acts. The other case 
involved the constitutionality of the County 
Road Improvement Act. This case was 
brought in the Common Pleas Court and taken 
to the Supreme Court of Ohio, which court 
also held this act not to be within the in- 
hibition of the Constitution of the State of 
Ohio. 

Immediately upon bis retirement from bis 
office of prosecuting attorney. Mr. Humes 
again opened an office in Delaware and is now 
actively engaged in the practice of his chosen 
profession. Fraternallv Mr. Humes is affili- 
ated with the B. P. O. E., No. 76, Delaware. 
He was married October 12. 1898. to Mis^ 
Oro Belle Perfect, of Delaware, Ohio, and he 
is a member of the Presbyterian Church of this 

city. 

* % * 

Harry Leonard is a native of Delaware 
County, Ohio. He was born in Brown Town- 
ship, December 17, 1865, and is the son of 
Jonathan Leonard and Elizabeth Leonard. 
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard were the parents of 
four children. Dr. W. N. Leonard was an 
elder brother of the subject of this sketch. 
He lived and practiced medicine in this city 
lor many years. Harry Leonard spent his 
boyhood on his father's farm in Brown Town- 
ship, where he received his early education in 
the public schools in the Eden School District. 
After he had completed his course in the pub- 
lic schools he attended college at Ada. Ohio, 
and afterward the Ohio W'esleyan University 
at Delaware. Ohio. He began the study of 
law under the tutorship of Frank A. Owen of 
Delaware, Ohio, and completed his course 
under fudge C. H. McElroy. and was admitted 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



to the Bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio, 
June 6, 1899. August 1, 1899, he opened an 
office in Delaware, where he has continued 
the practice of his profession with flattering" 
prospects for success. He was elected to the 
office of justice of the peace in the year 1901 
for Delaware Township, and was re-elected to 
succeed himself in 1904. and has just com- 
pleted his second term. During the six years 
Mr. Leonard held this office of justice he tried 
seven hundred and sixty-four cases, many of 
which were taken to the Common Pleas Court 
on appeal or error and only six cases which 
were carried up were modified and but two 
were reversed. Mr. Leonard was also ad- 
mitted to practice in the Federal Courts of the 
United States on examination by the Circuit 
Court for the Southern District of Ohio, on 
December 4, 1906, at its session held in Co- 
lumbus, Ohio. 

Benson Walker Hough is the eldest son 
of Leonard Samuel Hough and Mary (Linn) 
Hough. He was horn in Berkshire Town- 
ship. Delaware County. Ohio. March 3, 1875. 
He received his early education in the public 
schools of Delaware and graduated from the 
high school in the year 1892. He attended 
the Ohio Wesleyan University for three years 
and the Ohio State University, from which 
he graduated in the law department in the year 
1899. He began the study of law in 1897 
with Messrs. Overturf and Coyner and was 
admitted to the Bar in the month of March, 
1899. He immediately began the practice of 
his chosen profession with flattering prospects 
for success. 

In the year 1902 he formed a partnership 
for the practice of law with Judge N. F. 
Overturf, the style of the firm being Over- 
turf and Hough, which partnership has con- 
tinued ever since. In the spring of the year 
1902, Mr. Hough was nominated by the 
Republican Party for city solicitor of Dela- 
ware, to which he was duly elected in April of 
that year. He was re-nominated to succeed 
himself in the spring of the year 1004. and 
was again elected and served bis second term, 
retiring from office in the spring of [906 



Since that time he has continued in the prac- 
tice of his profession with the firm of Overturf 
and Hough. 

Hon. Harry W. Crist is the only son of 
Rev. A. C. Crist and Lavina P. Crist. He 
was born in Eden, Brown Township, Dela- 
ware County, Ohio. November 19, 1875. 
While he was less than a year old, his parents 
moved to Iberia, Morrow County, Ohio, where 
he received his early education. When he was 
about thirteen years of age his parents re- 
moved to Ostrander, Delaware County, Ohio, 
where young Crist entered the public schools. 
He graduated from the Ostrander high sch< 11 il 
in the year 1892. He taught in the public 
schools of Scioto Township for one year, and 
in the autumn of 1893, he entered the Wooster 
University, from which institution he gradu- 
ated with honors in the month of June, 1S97. 
He entered the law office of James R. Lytic 
of Delaware, Ohio, with whom he read law 
and he was admitted to the Bar by the Su- 
preme Court of Ohio in December, 1900. 

About the first of January, 1901, Mr. 
Crist entered into a partnership for the prac- 
tice of law with Wells K. Stanley, of Dela- 
ware, Ohio, who had also just been admitted 
to the Bar. The new firm opened an office in 
the city of Cleveland, Ohio, and began the 
practice which they continued for about a 
year with very satisfactory results. But the 
severe climate of the lake shore did not agree 
with Mr. Crist and he retired from the firm 
and returned to Delaware. Here he again 
entered the office with James R. Lytle and 
began the practice of law. and while they are 
not partners, they have much business together 
and assist each other in the practice. 

In the year 1904, after the death of Judge 
McHlrov, Mr. Crist was appointed referee in 
bankruptcy, to fill the place of Judge McElroy, 
who had held that position for a number of 
years. In the year 1905 Mr. Crist resigned 
the office of referee in bankruptcy for the pur- 
pose of accepting the office of representative 
of Delaware County, to which position he had 
been elected by the Republican party in No- 
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holds and has so creditably filled since his 

election. 

* * * 

Clerk of Courts Edson R. Williams. 
Edson R. Williams is the son of Charles W. 
and Alary J. (Sherman) Williams. He was 
born April I, 1874, in Berlin Township, 
Delaware County, Ohio. He was educated in 
the public schools of that township. He pre- 
pared himself for a teacher and began to teach 
when he was but seventeen years of age. He 
attended the Ohio Wesleyan University for a 
time but he completed his course and received 
his degree from the Ohio Northern University 
in the year 1896. He continued to teach in 
the public schools of this county after he had 
received his degree, and has taught in Troy, 
Orange. Radnor, Berlin, Scioto and Concord 
Townships. He taught the high school at 
Bellpoint one year and the high school at 
Warrensburg for one year. During the time 
he was teaching he studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the Bar in the year 1902. He con- 
tinued to teach until the spring of 1905. when 
he opened an office in Delaware, Ohio, and 
began the practice of his chosen profession. 
He was nominated by the Democratic party for 
clerk of courts of Delaware G mnty in the 
summer of the year 1905 and was elected to 
that office in November of that year, and 
he is now the efficient clerk of this county. 

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Judge E. Lee Porterfield was born in 
Oxford Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
on the thirty-first day of May, 1867. His 
father's name was Jarvis L. and his mother'- 
was Mary J. (Foust) Porterfield. The father 
was born near Westfield. while Westfield was 
yet a part of Delaware County, and his mother 
Alary J. Foust was born in Oxford Township, 
her father having been one of the pioneer set- 
tlers of that township. The subject of this 
sketch attended the public schools of his 
native township, and when sufficiently ad- 
vanced, the graded schools. He also attended 
the Northwestern University at Ada. Ohio, 
and later the Ohio Wesleyan University. He 
became a teacher and taught in the public 
schools of Oxford township for six years. 



He then became principal of the high school at 
Ashley, where he taught for seven years. 
During the time he had charge of the high 
school he was granted a life certificate to 
teach. This was about the year 1897. 

In the summer of the year 1899 he was 
nominated by the Republican party for probate 
judge of Delaware County, and he was duly 
elected in the autumn of the same year, and 
he assumed the responsibility of his office on 
the ninth day of February, 1900. He was 
re-nominated to succeed himself in the year 
1902, and was re-elected to the same office, 
which he held until the close of his term, 
February 9, 1906. 

During the years that he held this office 
he began the study of law under the tutorship 
of Judge N. F. Overturf and was admitted 
to the Bar in the month of December. A. D., 
1905. Immediately upon his retirement from 
the probate judge's office he entered into a 
partnership for the practice of law with Fred 
McAlester, the style of the firm being; Porter- 
field & McAlester. The new firm opened an 
office in the Reid and Powell Block with 
bright prospects for success. Fraternally, Mr. 
Porterfield is allied with Ashley Lodge, No. 
457, K. of P., and with Delaware Lodge. No. 
76, B. P. O. E. 

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Burt P. Benton was born October 11. 
1872. in Scioto Township, Delaware County, 
Ohio. His parents' names were Thomas B. 
Benton and Emma L. (Crawford) Benton. 
T. B. Benton was for many years a member of 
the Bar of Union County. When the subject 
of this sketch was but four years old, his 
parents moved to Marysville. Ohio, where they 
resided for ten years, and during that time 
Mr. Benton attended the public schools and 
received his early education. When he was 
fourteen years old his parents returned to 
the farm in Scioto Township. Young Ben- 
t( hi attended the public schools of that town- 
ship, and at the age of eighteen had prepared 
himself for teaching. He taught for several 
years during the winter term and attended 
the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, 
where he graduated. 



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He took charge of the Warrensburg 



schools at the organization 



of the special 
school district and he established the high 
school of Warrensburg, which he taught f< ir 
six years. 

He was nominated by the Republican party 
for clerk of courts and was elected to thai 
office at the November election of the year 
1899, am l assumed the duties of his office in 
August, 1900. He was re-nominated to suc- 
ceed himself in 1902, and he was re-elected to 
the office without opposition. During the time 
he was serving in the capacity of clerk of 
courts he completed the law course at Ohio 
State University, where he graduated with the 
class in June, 1905. He was admitted to the 
Bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio, at Colum- 
bus, on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1905. 
On the completion of his second term as clerk 
of courts, Mr. Benton formed a partnership 
for the general practice of law with Harry 
W. Jewell, of Delaware, Ohio, under the firm 
name of Jewell and Benton, and the firm is 
now engaged in a successful and lucrative 
practice. Mr. Benton served the honorable 
Ralph D. Cole, representative in Congress 
'from the Eighth District, in the capacity of 
private secretary, during his first term in 
Congress, but declined the appointment for 
the second term, feeling that his duties to 
his profession required all his time and en- 
ergies. 

% % % 

Fred A. McAlester is the son of Coridon 
and Jennie (Adams) McAlester. He was 
born in Thompson Township, Delaware 
County, Ohio, October 17, 1878. He re- 
ceived his early education in the public schools 
of his native township. He then entered the 
high school at Richwood, Union County, Ohio, 
from which he graduated in the year 1898. 
He attended Kenyon College for one year and 
the Ohio Wesleyan University, where he com- 
pleted the classical course and was graduated 
in June, 1902. He immediately entered the 
office of the probate judge of Delaware 
County as deputy clerk', where he remained 
for three years. During the time he was in 
that office he began the study of law under the 
direction of Judge N. F. Overturf. He com- 



pleted the course in December, 1905, and took 
the State examination and was admitted co 
the Bar by the Supreme Court of Ohio. 

Soon after his admission he formed a part- 
nership for the practice of law with E. Lee 
Porterfield, the style of the firm being Porter- 
field and McAlester. In the summer of the 
year 1906 he was nominated by the Republican 
party for prosecuting attorney and at the No- 
vember election of that year was duly elected 
to the office. He took the office on the seventh 
day of January, 1907, and is the present in- 
cumbent. 

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David M. Cupp was born at Pleasant 
ville, Fairfield County, Ohio, in the year 
1874. He is the son of Marvin and Elizabeth 
( Freeman) Cupp. The subject of this sketch 
was educated in the public schools of that vil- 
lage, and attended the Northwestern Univer- 
sity at Ada, Ohio, where he began the study 
of law. He later entered a law office at Lan- 
caster, Ohio, where he completed his course 
and was admitted to the Bar. He located 
in Sunbury, Delaware County, Ohio, in Sep- 
tember, 1907, where he opened an office and is 
now actively engaged in the practice of his 
chosen profession. 

J. I'. Maloney is the son of John C. and 
Mary Maloney. He was born in the State of 
Kentucky, where his parents lived at the time 
of his birth. The family came to Ohio and lo- 
cated on a farm near Ashley, in Oxford Town- 
ship, Delaware County. The subject of this 
sketch received his early education in the pub- 
lic schools of Ashley. He then came to Dela- 
ware where he attended the Ohio Bushier 
College for a time, and then went to the Cin- 
cinnati Law School, where he graduated and 
was soon after admitted to the Bar. He 
opened an office in Delaware, Ohio, about the 
war 1882, and began the practice of his pro- 
fession. He only remained here for five 1 >r 
six years and about the year 1888 he went 
West, locating in the State of Kansas. 

^ * ^ 

J. Coleman Marriott was born in Lick- 
ing County, Ohio, September 4, 1877. His 
parents' names were Greenburg O. and Amy 



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(Willey) Marriott. He received his early 
education in the public schools of his native 
county and completed a course at Hiram Col- 
lege, Portage County, Ohio, from which insti- 
tution he received his degree in the year 1903. 
He taught for some time both before and since 
his graduation, having had charge of the high 
scln » il at Bellepoint last year. He studied law 
with Messrs. Marriott. Freshwater and Wick- 
ham, and was admitted to the Bar in Decem- 
hioii. He opened an office during the 
last year in Newark. Licking County. Ohio, 
and began the practice of bis chosen profes- 
sion with nattering prospects for future suc- 
cess. He is at this time a prominent candidate 
for prosecuting attorney of Licking County. 
Mr. Marriott, though not having practiced in 
this county, has been so long identified with 
it while teaching here and having been ad- 
mitted to the Bar as a student from this county. 
\*e are glad to recognize him as one of our 
number. 

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C. H. Maxwell is the son of Henderson 
Maxwell, a former justice of the peace of 
Kingston Township. Delaware County, Ohio. 
The older members of the Bar will all re- 
member "Squire Maxwell." as he was gener- 
ally known, twenty-five years ago. The sub- 
ject of this sketch was educated in the public 



^chl>ols of his native township, and at the 
Ohio Wesleyan University. He studied law 
with the firm of Marriott and Wickham, in 
the early part of the nineties and was ad- 
mitted to the Bar. He soon after went to 
Toledo, Ohio, where he opened an office, but 
owing to the failing health of his father he 
returned to his father's home in Delaware 
County to look after his farm. He remained 
in Delaware County until after the death of 
his father, and until about two years ago, when 
he went to the State of California, where he 
now resides. 

George \Y. Barry is the last acquisition 
to the Delaware County Bar. He came to 
Delaware in June. 1907. as a practicing lawyer 
from Morgan County. Ohio, and while he has 
bought property and moved to Delaware with 
his family, he still retains his office and busi- 
ness in McConnellsville, the county seat of 
Morgan County, where be is in active practice. 
He has not procured an office in this city as 
yet, hut he expects to become an active mem- 
ber of this Bar and make Delaware his per- 
manent home. Mr. Barry has been in the 
practice for about twenty-five years, and has 
been one of the leading lawyers at the Mc- 
Connellsvile Bar. and will be a worthy acqui- 
sition to the Delaware County Bar. 



CHAPTER. XV. 



THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. 

Dilaware County Medical Men of the Past and of the Present. 



When the Queen of Sheba, from South- 
ern Arabia, came to visit King Solomon, she 
brought with her a physician, and the great 
medicinal agent, the Balm of Gilead. The 
piety, wisdom, glory and courtesy of Solorw >n 
greatly impressed her. Upon her return to 
her own country she sent, contrary to the laws 
of her land, the great medicinal tree so long 
known to her kingdom, eight hundred miles 
away, to this admired ruler, to be planted 
along the river Jordan. The tree grew, in- 
creased, and furnished medicine to Palestine. 
Jeremiah, six hundred years after, and six 
hundred years before the Christian era. said, 
"Is there no balm in Gilead, is there no physi- 
cian there?" 

In the pioneer days in this country, the 
Doctor held a very conspicuous and import- 
ant position with the settlers. In many parts 
of the Far West, the physician, like the pio- 
neers of our county, are compelled to ride long 
distances to administer to the sick and af- 
flicted. In those early days the only question 
was, "Is he a doctor?" "Isms" and "pathies"' 
were unknown. This peculiar state of opinion 
did not last always. The surgeon, the physi- 
cian, the obstetrician, the dentest or tooth - 
puller, and finally the druggist, established a 
new order of things. The large and increasing 
population, continuously flowing into the new 
world, made inroads on this important func- 
tionary, the Doctor. He was compelled to 
share honors with the new members coming 
to the land of promise. The newcomers as 
well as the old timers, became divided in their 
opinions, and the innovations soon had then 



adherents. The herb and root doctor, like 
the physician of over three thousand years ago 
with his Balm of Gilead, began laying the 
foundation of a new school with his roots and 
herbs, his mortar and kettle, in his crude la- 
boratory. 

This empiric school gave impetus to the 
more careful study of gathering, selecting and 
preparing from nature's laboratory. It is 
needless to tell how the mighty original think- 
ers and investigators of bygone days, reduced 
to exact knowledge the uses of many remedial 
agents now scientifically manufactured and 
furnished to the students of medicine of to- 
day. Our forefathers were imperfectly ac- 
quainted with the mineral medicinal agents, 
as well as the deadly poisonous principals in 
the vegetable kingdom. Their limited em- 
pirical knowledge gave them but few physio- 
logical ideas of the action of the herbs and 
vegetables they used as remedial agents ; but 
their discoveries stimulated the desire for ex- 
act knowledge in our day. until today we 
have a greater knowledge as to the action on 
the normal and the pathological body. Today 
these drugs are reduced to standardization. 
Hence you will understand that the root and 
herb doctor indirectly contributed much to our 
profession. The old Indian doctor made his 
contribution — his knowledge of remedial 
agents. 

The old school of Eclectics gathered herbs 
and prepared the medicine under its own 
supervision. The Eclectics established a Medi- 
cal College at Worthington in 1830; Dr. I. 
J. Steel, president, Dr. J. G. Jones, dean. The 



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Litter was a partner of Dr. Case, the husband 
of Mrs. Jane Case, who donated so liberally 
to the Delaware Hospital; and Dr. John A. 
Little, a resident of our county was associated 
with them for a while. . This school had 
much influence in this and Franklin Counties. 
( Ine of the most learned and highly cultured 
physicians, Dr. J. A. Little, was a student; 
and a teacher, but afterward became a mem- 
ber of the Regular profession. This school 
was moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and became 
the Eclectic Medical College. 

The Homeopathic doctrine made its ap- 
pearance in about 1850. Since then it has bad 
a representative in the county, particularly in 
Delaware. It was perhaps through its influ- 
ence that greater study was given to the ef- 
fect of blood letting, since abandoned. Its 
remedial agents were studied more scientific- 
ally and reduced to a standardization and made 
more palatable. 

It was in 1824 the Thompsonian system 
was given to the world, of which the present 
generation knows but little. Thompson ad- 
vocated that "heat was life, and cold was 
death." He had formulas numbering from 1 
to 6. He steamed the patient outside ; and 
stimulated him inside with his No. 6. His 
books were sold to families, as well as to 
physicians. In a few years the system 
passed away, or nearly so. Vet the steaming 
and the bathing had made an impression, 
which culminated in the erection of many 
large sanitariums in this and all lands. 

One of the citizens of Delaware at that 
time. Mr. Horton Howard, bought the rights 
to Ohio and several western states for the 
promulgation of the Thompsonian system. 
Howard became a great power, and soon 
moved to Columbus, where he. in [832, in- 
duced the Legislature to change the medical 
laws, and thus disorganize all of the Regular 
medical societies of the State. Soon after 
this innovation, in 1838, came the Uroscopists, 
who thought the kidneys the source of all of 
our ills. They soon passed away, yet they 
stimulated thought. The original thinkers of 
the Regular profession, by means of chemis- 
try, studied the secretions of the kidneys, and 
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the diseases that affected them, and benefitted 
mankind thereby. 

Following these came the Specialists. The 
Cancer doctors, as we have them today, made 
no discoveries, and added nothing to the 
treatment of the disease. Are we discovering 
anything new for the treatment of cancer? 
The same way may be said of the Consump- 
tive doctor, for of the disease he knew nothing 
and the remedial agents were largely detri- 
mental to the patient ; yet they stimulated pro- 
fessional thought. Then came the ear and 
eye specialists, who bad very limited ideas of 
the disease of these organs; yet they caused 
investigation, until today mankind is blessed 
beyond comprehension with nearly an exact 
science. Then appeared the Clairvoyant, the 
Wizard, and the Spiritualist, to delude. To- 
day they are known as Christian Scientists. 

Next appeared the Masseurs, and the sys- 
tem of massaging. Today it is called Osteo- 
pathy. They have a school at Kirksville. Mo. 
This system was known and taught long be- 
fore the Christian era by the Chinese and 
Hindoos; their books described and taught 
the treatment. This system fell into the hands 
of the Brahmin fakirs and sorcerers, and was 
filled with mysteries and delusions. 

About 1840, the profession extended the 
hand of fellowship to a new and highly im- 
portant newcomer, the lady physician. This 
welcomed practitioner soon found the roads 
impassable and the work too laborious for her, 
and her stay was of short duration; but in 
about 1890 the marvelously changed environ- 
ments brought her back into the field of labor 
b 1 stay. 

Just when the first Medical Society was 
formed is uncertain; we think in about 1848. 
It would be uninteresting and superfluous to 
record the ups and downs of the many or- 
ganized and re-organized medical societies 1 1 
the county. We might do so; but it would be 
pernicious; so we shall let the subject sleep. 
After some fifteen or twenty years of desue- 
tude, the present Delaware County Medical 
Society was formed upon the broad plan of 
charity to all, when in 1904 all schools of 
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and now for three years and over, the society 
has been working in perfect harmony, all 
working to advance the healing art, regardless 
of "isms" and "pathies." 

An article in the Delaware County history 
of 1880 brought down the biographical 
sketches of the members of the profession of 
the county from the earliest period to 1880. 
Now at the earnest request of the historian, 
Hon. J. R. Lytle, for his new history of the 
county, I continue the biographical sketches of 
the profession in the country, and bring it 
down to 1907. The work would have been 
arduous without the earnest co-operation of 
nearly every member of the profession in the 
country. To these we extend our sincere 
thanks. 

Those who have been in active work for 
the last thirty years will, like Rip Van Winkle, 
awake and rub their eyes and exclaim, "Is it 
true that so many changes have taken place, 
and so many have passed to their reward?" 
While so many original thinkers, and earnest 
workers have passed away, the communities 
are blessed with many new members equally 
qualified to fill the vacant places. 

There is very little authentic memorial evi- 
dence of the lives and doings of the pioneer 
physicians of this county, and very little writ- 
ten evidence, with the exception of a few dates 
of their arrival and a letter or two written to 
anxious friends back in the far east. It was 
the good fortune of the writer in the begin- 
ning of his practice, to be intimately associated 
with the scholarly and renowned Dr. Ralph 
Hills (a son of Dr. James Hills, one of the 
first physicians to locate in the county, and 
of whom we shall speak later). Drs. T. B. 
Williams. W. T. Constant. John A. Little and 
the writer often met in the studio of Dr. 
Ralph Hills to listen to the stories of the pio- 
neer, so graphically related by him, as well 
as to hear the history of those who came later. 
The pathfinders and axe wielders have long 
since passed away. There are no more out- 
posts for the daring physician, no more ad- 
vanced guard to administer to the various 
forms of disease which afflicted the early set- 
tlers. All is changed. Few of our profession 



have any recollection of our pioneer forefa- 
thers, traditional or otherwise. The history 
of old. 

* * * 

Dr. Reuben Lamb, the first doctor to lo- 
cate in the county, is most interesting and en- 
tertaining, and we would be only too glad to 
tell of some of the many heroic deeds and 
dangers he passed through while visiting the 
sick, as related by Dr. Ralph Hills, who knew 
him intimately. Dr. Lamb was born and 
raised in the East (New York). As to just 
where he secured his medical education, little 
is known. But that he read under a careful 
student of medicine was proven by his thor- 
ough preparedness. He left home, relatives 
and friends in 1805 for the far southwest — 
New Orleans as his destination. When he 
reached Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, he chanced 
to meet Colonel Moses Byxbe. who persuaded 
the young physician to go with him to Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, and locate in Berkshire, 
the new and only town in the county. The 
trip down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers was 
abandoned, and in a few weeks they landed at 
Worthington, Franklin County, where they 
were entertained over night by some settlers 
who had located there a year before. The next 
day they arrived at Berkshire, where the young 
physician found work at once among those 
who had preceded him. Dr. Lamb had 
brought some well selected text books, and a 
fine set of surgical instruments with him. After 
a short time he was called to Worthington to 
see a sick lady. Soon the attraction to this 
village became stronger, and the following 
year he moved there and married a belle of the 
village. The following year he returned to 
Berkshire to join his old friend Colonel Byxbe. 
The next year he and the colonel and other 
friends laid out Delaware on the Olentangy 
River in 1808, Dr. Lamb acting as the first 
physician and first recorder for the county. 
His practice increased rapidly and extended 
from Delaware to Portland on the north, now 
Sandusky City on Lake Erie ; and from Dela- 
ware to Chillicothe on the south. Through 
the woods and along the bypaths, through 
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wild beast and Indian, lie traveled with and 

without escort to administer to the afflicted. 
His surgical skill and education was sought 
for far and near. They said he disliked sur- 
gery anil was only too glad to loan his set of 
fine instruments to his professional brothers 
who needed and would use them. 

Dr. Lamb was born in about 1775, and 
died in 1850. He was married three times. 
First to Miss Campbell of Worthington ; after 
her death to a Miss Sloper of Delaware, Ohio, 
in 1815. They then moved to Galesburg. Illi- 
nois. The following year he lost his wife and 
at once returned to Delaware, and soon after 
married a Mrs. Piatt, a sister of his last wife. 
His first home was on the site of the present 
"Home for the Aged Women" the new home 
for the first settlers fittingly succeeded by the 
last home for the aged. The deed for the land 
where the Lamb block is standing is the same 
today, having never been changed, except 
from the Doctor to his son Reuben Lamb, who 
was known to many living today. Dr. Ralph 
Hills stated that Dr. Lamb was a man of few 
words, very sympathetic, generous and kind- 
hearted. Professionally and socially very re- 
ticent, he was often believed to be cold and 
distant. 

Dr. Noah Spaulding located in Berk- 
shire in the latter part of 1809, but in a short 
time removed to Delaware, where he practiced 
until 1 83 J. the year of his death. He came 
from the mountains of New Hampshire. He 
graduated from Dartmouth College in medi- 
cine and literature. He was a man of great 
knowledge, but slow in expression. His ami- 
ability, social and temperate habits gained 
him many warm friends. He was a fine story 
teller, and often entertained his many friends, 
with his feet supported on some convenient ob- 
ject higher than his body. He was an active 
member in the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
He was one of the first organizers of a Sunday 
school in the county. He served also on the 
first Board of School Examiners for the 
county. The pleasant impression made up< >n 
Dr. Ralph Hills when a youth, and while un- 
dergoing an examination, was never effaced. 



Dr. Spaulding in a few moments dispelled all 
the trepidation of the youth by telling anec- 
dotes of other teachers, and the degree of 
qualification of those presenting themselves 
for examination. Suddenly he turned to 
young Hills and asked, "Ralph, what is the 
difference between six dozen dozen and a half 
dozen dozen?" A prompt answer brought 
forth a certificate. Dr. Spaulding remarked, 
"This is one of Dr. Hills' sons, and we km iw 
what he is." Dr. Hills met Dr. Spaulding on 
the street one day and said, "Doctor, I have 
given my wife some blue pills and they have 
not acted as they should, see what you think 
of them." Dr. Spaulding examined one given 
him, and quickly remarked, "You see they are 
buck shot and made of lead." 

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Dr. N. Hawley followed Drs. Lamb and 
Spaulding. He came to the well advertised 
field of attraction, Berkshire, in 181 2, from 
which time traditional history fails to tell any- 
thing. His remarkable energy, shrewdness 
and great skill gave him his share of the work 
in the new land. He, like Dr. Spaulding, 
was armed with pleasing anecdotes and attrac- 
tive stories which entertained his numerous 
friends. He died in 1822. He was advanced 
in years when he came to Berkshire, and was 
known from the beginning as "old Dr. Haw- 
ley." 

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Silas C. McClary. In 1813 another ad- 
dition to the profession was made by Dr. Silas 
C. McClary coming to Berkshire. After 
twenty years of labor there, he removed to 
Delaware and in a short time went to Radnor 
where he died. 

* * * 

Dr. Samuel Moultox. Six years passed 
when Dr. Samuel Moulton located in what 
was supposed would be the capital of the 
county. Berkshire. He came from Vermont 
and was a student from Rutland, and a grad- 
uate of medicine. His erudite habits and no- 
ble character gave him a very prominent place 
in the town. He was well read and possessed 
great skill, and had the reputation of making 
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cut short a useful career. He died at the age 
of twenty-nine years, in the year [821. His 
counsel was sought by his fellow practitioners, 
and lor years they kept his memory green 
among the community by using the "Moulton 
Cathartic Pills." 

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Dr. Eleazer Copeland soon followed 
Dr. Moulton from Vermont, but he located in 
Galena, or Zoar, as it was called then. He 
was a shoemaker by trade and, like many oth- 
ers, obtained his education while working on 
the bench. It is said that while pounding the 
last, he committed to memory the whole of 
Murray's English Grammar, and accomplished 
the task in two weeks. He prepared himself 
for a teacher while working at his trade, and 
while teaching school, he studied Greek and 
Latin, which he mastered without an instruc- 
tor, and became a good translator of both lan- 
guages. He studied medicine in the same 
manner, and became one of the best practition- 
ers in the county. He was held in high esteem 
by all of his confreres, and for many years was 
the censor for the First and Sixth and Elev- 
enth Medical Districts of Ohio. The Eleventh 
District was composed of Franklin, Delaware, 
Marion and Crawford Counties. He died in 
1X34 from drowning in the Big Walnut, near 
Galena. This sudden ending was a great loss 

b ' the county. 

* * * 

Dr. Royal X. Powers located in Dela- 
ware in 1820. He was given "a ride on a 
rail" after being here a short time. Where he 

went was never known. 

* * * 

Dr. Alphus Bigelow located in Galena 
in [821. He was a brother of the noted evan- 
gelist, Rev. Russell Bigelow of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. These two brothers 
were self-educated and self-made men. They 
both possessed great energy and strong minds. 
The doctor was not a regular graduate, but 
was an excellent physician. He died in 1850. 

Dr. James H. Hills. One of the most 
widely known physicians in the county was Dr. 
James Harvey Hills, who was born at Farm- 
ington, Hartford County, Connecticut, in 



[782, and died in Delaware in 1830. After a 
course at Yale College he read medicine with 
his brother-in-law, the celebrated Dr. Eli Tod. 
After his medical course he began the prac- 
tice at Farmington. He soon grew restless 
and sought the western field. His first place 
was Worthington, Franklin County, Ohio. 
He arrived there in 1808, and began his work. 
After ten years he moved to Darby Plains, 
and in 1822 came to Delaware, a more rapidly 
growing town, where he remained until his 
death at the age of forty-nine years. He was 
one of the most highly educated physicians in 
the county. He was an original thinker, and 
possessed strong perceptive faculties and sound 
judgment. He w : as a successful surgeon and 
physician, yet though he never liked the for- 
mer work, he never refused to operate, and 
when he did it was always in a commendable 
manner. Those who knew him well and in- 
timately said to the writer "Dr. Hills was a 
grand physician, and was highly serviceable to 
suffering humanity. His early taking off was 
a great loss to the community. In 1801 he 
married Miss Beulah Andrews, who died in 
1866. It was in 1812 that the doctor was 
taken very sick at Defiance, Ohio, while he 
was with the army at Fort Defiance. The 
courier brought the news of the danger to the 
faithful wife. She soon had the family mare 
ready for the long and dangerous trip. 
Through the trackless forest, crossing swol- 
len streams, braving the threatening of the 
wild beasts, and the treacherous Indians, she 
traveled, until she reached the bedside of the 
loving husband. Here she remained nursing 
him until they could return to Delaware with 
an escort of soldiers for protection. Dr. Hills 
was the father of eleven children, some of 
whom became the foremost professional and 
business men in the county and State. All of 
the children have joined the great majority, 
and it is left to the grand-children to take up 
the burdens with the same energy, integrity 
and power. The impress made upon the com- 
munity by Dr. James H. Hills and his children 

and grandchildren will last for ages. 
* * * 

Dr. Jonathan N. Burr. It was the good 
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of those old and highly appreciated pioneer 
physicians. Dr. Jonathan N. Burr. He grad- 
uated in medicine and came to Delaware in 
[823. He at once formed a partnership with 
Dr. James H. Hills. This partnership lasted 
until 1825, when Dr. Burr moved to Mt. Ver- 
non, Ohio. He entered upon a large practice 
in Mt. Vernon, and when we knew him, in 
1870, he had accumulated a large fortune and 
practically retired from active work. He was 
an intimate friend of Dr. J. W. Russel, and 
both were strong supports to the Episcopal 
Church. He was about ninety years old at the 
time of his death. 

^ ^ ^ 

Dr. George M. Smith. The next year 
after Dr. Burr left Delaware, Dr. George M. 
Smith, a newcomer, formed a partnership with 
Dr. Hills, which continued as long as he was 
in Delaware. He went to Mississippi and 
married a rich lady. A few years after his 
marriage, he came north on a visit and died of 
cholera. Dr. Smith was a thorough anato- 
mist. He was born in New Hampshire. He 
was compelled to leave his native State for ex- 
huming a body for the purpose of study. After 
several years in Delaware, his abode was dis- 
covered by the authorities in the East. He 
then went South. He introduced quinine into 
the county in 1826, and was the first to use it 
in the treatment of chills and fever. 

Dr. W. M. Miller. Virginia in 1827 
sent one of her sons to Delaware to contend 
for business. He first located at Worthing- 
ton, the favorite resort of the new physician 
to the new world. After a brief stay. Dr. W. 
M. Miller opened an office in Delaware. He 
was an alumnus of an eastern college and a 
well-read physician. He did not succeed very 
well, and soon moved to Columbus, and after- 
ward to Missouri. He was a brother-in-law 
of President Tyler. 

^ ^ ^ 

Dr. Charles H. Pickett made his ad- 
vent to this favorite resort in [831, after a 
shorl stay in Worthington. He died here in 
[855. He was educated in New York City 
and came of a very influential family. His fa- 



ther and brothers conducted a female semi- 
nary in the city, and the father was the authi >r 
of several school books. None questioned his 
ability, and it is said that he never questioned 
it himself. His son, Alexander, read medi- 
cine with him and soon after died suddenly. 

* # # 

Dr. C. C. Ransburge came to Delaware 
about the same time, and became a partner of 
Dr. Pickett, but soon retired from ill health. 
Some of his descendants are yet living in this 

locality. 

* * * 

Dr. James Langworthy came here from 
Albany, N. V., in about 1835. and engaged in 
the drug business. In a short time he began 
to practice medicine. 

Dr. Elijah Carney was from Kentucky. 
He settled in old Berkshire in 1835. He and 
Dr. Ralph Hills entered the profession about 
the same year, the latter in Delaware. There 
are many yet living in the county, and espe- 
cially around Berkshire, who well remember 
old Dr. Carney. His wonderful ability and 
ways gave him the entire business for many 
miles in and around the village of Berkshire. 
He graduated at the Cleveland Medical Col- 
lege. His attention to his patients, his indus- 
trious and studious habits, as well as his sym- 
pathetic power, gained him the confidence of 
the people. He died in 1869, leaving numer- 
ous relatives in this and Morrow Counties. 

* * * 

Dr. Kingsley Ray came first to Worth- 
ington in 1820, and then here in 1837. He 
graduated at Berkshire. Massachusetts. Not- 
withstanding his superior qualifications, he 
never succeeded here very well in the practice. 
In 1848 he moved to Circleville. Ohio, where 
he had a large business for many years before 
his final call. 

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Dr. Ralph Hills. No physician of the 
county, or of Delaware, was ever more highly 
respected for his high qualifications as a 
scholar, citizen and physician than Dr. Ralph 
Hills. His looks, demeanor, education, and 
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attention. This son of Dr. James H. Hills had 
every known advantage, and improved them to 
the limit of his ability. When the elder physi- 
cian came to Delaware from the Darby Plains, 
after leaving Worthington, this son was a 
youth of twelve years. At th'e age of seven- 
teen he began the study of medicine with his 
father, as well as pursuing his studies in the 
day schools. He continued reading and pre- 
paring for his future professional life under 
the guidance of his father until the latter's 
death ; when he was given a license to practice. 
The father's business came to him at once. He 
related how he rode over the first bridge in 
the county, which spanned .Mum Creek on the 
road to Sunbury from Delaware. Dr. Hills 
was a great student of the nervous system, and 
mental diseases. After having been in the 
general practice a few years, his illustrious 
uncle. Dr. Eli Todd, who was in charge of 
the Hospital for the Insane at Hartford, Con- 
necticut, sent for the nephew to take the place 
of first assistant on the staff. Here he re- 
mained for several years, drinking from the 
well of knowledge he was interested in. The 
instruction and knowledge gained here proved 
of the greatest benefit to him in after life. He 
returned to Delaware, and uninterruptedly fol- 
lowed the general practice for twenty years. 
In 1830 the degree of M. D. was conferred 
upon him for meritorious service. He became 
known throughout the county and central part 
of the State. He had a wonderful and exact 
knowledge of botany and chemistry, as well 
as of astronomy. From 1836 to 1838 he was 
called to lecture in Russell's Great Planetar- 
ium. This gave him prestige both at home and 
abroad. These side issues never detracted 
from his interests in his studies in medicine, 
in which all gave him credit for being an able 
thinker and a profound student. His ability 
was never questioned except by the mediocre. 
He was an able and clear writer on all sub- 
jects coming under the influence of his remark- 
able brain. Mis executive and financial abil- 
ity were recognized by the county, church and 
State authorities. It was in his home that 
the idea originated which finally developed 
the Ohio Wesleyan Female College. The facts 
concerning the origination and final develop- 



ment of this idea will be found in another part 
of this history. In 1854 Dr. Hills established 
and edited the medical journal known as the 
"Counsellor." This was the first medical 
journal published in the West, and was a 
weekly edition. After two years of practice 
and editorial life, he was called to take charge 
of the Ohio Central Lunatic Asylum at Co- 
lumbus. Ohio — the largest one in the country. 
He remained at the head of this institution 
for eight years, bringing it to a high state of 
usefulness and .scientific attainment. His or- 
iginality in treatment of the insane gave him a 
reputation far beyond his native county and 
State. He became national and international 
in fame. He visited Europe to study during 
the war, and again in 1872 for pleasure. He 
was called in the latter part of the sixties to 
plan and superintend the erection of the larg- 
est asylum in the United States, at Weston, 
West Virginia. After completing his labors 
there he returned to Delaware to rest. Did he 
rest ? No, this great, brainy man could not be 
idle. He was called to the superintendency of 
the Girls' Industrial Home — a State institu- 
tion. Here he again established many timely 
changes and reformations, bringing the home 
up to the idea it was intended to be by the law 
of such institutions. He died in 1879 at the 
age of sixty-eight, while engaged at his work. 
The monument of honest ability and high at- 
tainment crowns his life. Never was a word 
of suspicion breathed against any of his ad- 
ministrations of the places he was called upon 
to fill. He died a Christian. He died as he 
lived, known of all men for his noble, honest 
and well-spent useful life. 

Dr. H. Lathrop. Worthington in 1S37 
sent another of her arrivals to Delaware, Dr. 
H. Lathrop. In 1838 he came to contest for 
business. He first located in Liberty Town- 
ship in the old Case or Carpenter District, and 
operated a saw mill, and looked after the health 
of pioneers. He left Delaware for Columbus, 

where he died. 

* * * 

Dr. M. Gerhard was born, raised ami 
educated in Easton, Pennsylvania. He came 
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thus engaged he read medicine and attended 
lectures in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Jef- 
ferson Medical College. After completing his 
studies he came to Delaware County and lo- 
cated on the Scioto River near his old friend, 
John Detweiler. but soon moved into Dela- 
ware to practice. He was a thorough student 
and scholar, and a careful practitioner. He 
married a granddaughter of old Dr. Lamb. He 
died in 1S68, leaving a wife and two children, 
who are now living in Minneapolis. Minne- 
sota. 

* ^ ^ 

Dr. William Johnston came from 
Crawford County, and located in Norton in 
1 842, where he died. 

^ ^ ^ 

Dr. Klapp and Dr. Henry Gregg located 
in Liberty Township in 1845. I' 1 I|l ^ 3 diey 
both left the county. Dr. Klapp moved to the 
West, and Gregg moved to Indiana. 

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Dr. D. \Y. Howell and Dr. W. Hen- 
dom located here in 1845. but soon moved 
away. 

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Dr. H. C. Mann came to Delaware from 
Butler County in 1846. In 1849, he with his 
family joined the "forty-niners" for Califor- 
nia, where he died. His wife, soon after his 
death, returned to Ohio. Dr. Mann possessed 
a fine education and great intelligence. He 
wrote the sketch, for Howe's Historical Col- 
lection, of Ohio, which has been of great bene- 
fit to historians. 

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Dr. P. A. Willis was a native of Dela- 
ware County, and was the oldest son of a fam- 
ily of many children. He received his educa- 
tion in the district school and the Ohio Wes- 
leyan University. He read medicine in the 
office of Dr. J. W. Hamilton of Columbus, 
Ohio, and graduated at the Starling Medical 
College in 1862. He entered the army as 
contract surgeon, and was soon promoted to 
assistant surgeon of the Forty-eighth Regi- 
ment, O. V. I., and in 1863 to a full surgeon of 
the regiment. At the close of the war he was 
made medical director of an army corps under 



General Andrews. Upon his return home, he 
engaged in farming and country practice at 
Bellpoint. Delaware County. Ohio. He died 
111 1876. His widow is now a resident of the 
city of Delaware. Ohio. 

* * * 

Dr. James Caruthers was a student of 
Dr. A. Blymer. He graduated from the 
Cleveland Medical College in 1846. and at 
once located at old Eden. In 185 1 he became 
a partner of his preceptor for a few years only, 
when he left for California, where' he is still 
living. He is very old, but is yet practicing. 
He passed safe through the recent earthquake. 
His brother. Dr. John A. Caruthers. succeeded 
him at old Eden. He was a soldier from 1861 
to 1865, and served with distinction. He was 
superintendent of the Infirmary for several 
years, and served one term in the Legislature. 
He died in California at the home of his 
brother. 

* * * 

Dr. Barbour came to Delaware in 1840 
from Richland County. After several years 
he located at East Liberty. Ohio, and enjoyed 
a limited practice. He died a few years ago. 

*■ * * 

Dr. B. F. Loofbourrow was the Nestor 
of the root and herb doctors. He lived and 
practiced in the country for many years, first 
on Alum Creek and then at Cheshire. Finally 
he moved to the west where he died. 

* ^< ^ 

Dr. Daniel Skeels was another root and 
herb doctor. He came to Sunbury in an early 
day. He. like others of his school, had a 
large practice. He died in 1824. 

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Dr. Leach and Dr. Skinner settled in 
Millville, now WarrenSburg, and practiced 
homeopathy, about 1840. Dr. Leach later 
moved to Cincinnati, and afterward to Middle- 
ton, where he died in 1878. 

^ ^ ^ 

Dr. William H. Davis, in 1850, settled 
in Bellpoint, Ohio. In 1856 he went to South 
America. He became a governor of one of 
the small states. He was highly educated and 
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America, and settled in Iowa. He was a sur- 
geon of an Iowa regiment during the war. 

* * * 

Drs. Deming and Brown were located in 

an early day at Galena, Ohio. 

* * * 

Dr. Granger was a student in the Worth- 
ington Botanical School, and graduated from 
the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. He 

located at Westfield and died in 1863. 

* * * 

Dr. Messe was the only uroscopic physi- 
cian in the early days. He settled in Dela- 
ware in 1838. They say he had no special 
knowledge of this branch of medicine. He 
made war on quinine, but used it. mixed with 
prussiate of iron. He fooled both patients 
and doctors. After about seven years he re- 
tired from the field. 

There were others who remained here in 
the county for a short time, and moved, and 01 
whom little can be learned— Dr. Joseph Cox of 
Radnor, Drs. Morehouse. Mount. Black, Mc- 
Crarv. Maine, Stamberg, and Dr. Longwell 
who was at Eden. He died there, leaving two 
children, who are both living in the county. 

* * * 

Drs. Robinson, Hill, Dennison and 
Eaton located for a short time in Delaware. 

* * * 

Dr. T. B. Williams. To show what push, 
energy and honesty will do for one wishing to 
succeed in life, the history of Dr. T. B. \\ il- 
liams fully exemplifies. He was a poor Welsh 
child, born in South Wales in 1819. coming 
to America with his parents when only an in- 
fant. They located in Gallia County. Ohio, 
for five years, when they moved to Delaware 
Countv, 'Ohio. Soon after coming to their 
new home, the father died, leaving the wife to 
raise eight children, and fight the battle of life 
alone in the new world. The lad. Thomas B., 
was only six years old when the father died. 
The little lad began the bread winning by do- 
ing light work '"'" the Welsh friends, and 
thus assisting the mother. His marked abil- 
ity to do things was the talk ..I" all the people, 
lie attended school as much as possible, until 
he arrived at the age when he wished to learn 



shoemaking. It is said that no better work- 
man ever drove a peg. His honesty and abil- 
ity grew with his years. His kindness, atten- 
tiveness and skill led one of the foremost 
physicians to employ the young man as a 
nurse to a patient at the leading hotel — the 
"American House." The shrewd physician, 
Dr. Hills, discovered the dormant qualifica- 
tions of a great physician in the youth, and told 
his friends, and advised him to study medi- 
cine. After consulting with his mother and 
friends, he entered Dr. Hills' office, where he 
remained for five years studying by day and 
far into the night, and still doing some work 
at his trade to pay expenses. He graduated 
from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. 
Ohio, in 1848-9. He at once became a part- 
ner of Dr. Hills, his preceptor. For thirteen 
years his practice grew, and he became one of 
the leading physicians of the county. In 1862 
at the call of his adopted land, he entered the 
service as a surgeon of the One Hundred and 
Twenty-first Regiment, O. V. I. He gave up 
his business, bade farewell to home, wife, 
mother and friends, and enrolled as a patrii >t 
for duty. From 1862-5, he was found faith- 
fully doing his work for his country, and for 
the sick and dying in camp and on the field of 
battle. His great skill and thoroughness gave 
him the brigadier surgeonship after the battle 
of Perryville — the Second Brigade under 
General John G. Mitchell. Battle after battle 
he passed through with such remarkable en- 
ergy and success in the care and attention to 
the sick in camp and on the battlefield, together 
with the cleanliness and excellent arrangement 
of his hospitals, that he was promoted at once 
to division surgeon in the Fourteenth Army 
Corps under the command of General Jeff C. 
Davis. It was often said that his daring, cool- 
ness, and self-possession never forsook him in 
danger. He was always ready for the most 
extreme emergency. General Steadman at 
the danger point called the doctor and said 
"We are completely hemmed in, and I cannot 
see how we can escape being cut to pieces." 
"Well, sir," he replied, "1 must arrange my 
hospitals on a more permanent and efficient 
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may befall our troops."' The praise and ad- 
miration he was given by such men as Hon. 
H. ML Carper. Rev. Dr.' L. D. McCabe, and 
the army officers, would make an article alone. 
He u ent b 1 the sea with General Sherman, 
and was at Bentonville at the closing struggle 
of the war. Dr. Williams was widely known 
and universally loved as a physician, man, 
soldier, and citizen. For many years he was a 
member of the School Board, with Prof. Wil- 
liams and others, and was a member of the 
Sixty-first General Assembly, and at the close 
positively declined another nomination. He 
belonged to the American Medical Association, 
Ohio State Society, and was several times 
elected vice-president, and of the County Medi- 
cal Society he served as president. Through 
his modesty he declined other elections say- 
ing, "Pass it around." 

He was married in 1855 to Miss Nancy 
Ritchey of Perry County, Ohio, who was one 
of the first graduates of the Ohio Wesleyan 
Female College, now united with the "O. W. 
U." Their only child, Miss Clara, graduated 
from the same institution as the mother, and 
is a professor in the School of Music 1 if the 
"O. W. U." The doctor was a faithful mem- 
ber of the William Street M. E. Church. He 

died in 1879. 

* * * 

Dr. John A. Little was a native of this 
county. He was born in 1825. He was the 
second child of Mr. William Little, a pioneer 
merchant, business man, and landowner, who 
has been frequently mentioned in history. 
None disputed the superior scholarship of this 
son. All knew him as a student, gentleman 
and true friend. At the age of fifteen, he en- 
tered the preparatory department of Kenyon 
College, in Gambier, Knox County. He there 
met his old playmate and friend (President) 
R. B. Hayes, and together they roomed for 
three years while at Gambier. Dr. Little grad- 
uated in 1845. He had a high standing in 
college, and graduated with honors. He was 
admired and loved by both faculty and stu- 
dents. After completing his college course, 
he entered the office of Dr. John Case ( who 
is mentioned in this article), of Columbus. 



Ohio. Dr. Little was a careful and thorough 
student of medicine, botany, chemistry, and 
general literature. He could tell the names of 
all the flowers in the woods. He first at- 
tended lectures at the Transylvania Univer- 
sity at Louisville, Kentucky. While there he 
was a member of the family of Dr. Drake, so 
well known to the profession. In 1847 an d 
1848 he attended a course of lectures at the 
University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, 
from which he received his degree of M. D. 
After his return home, he went to Sandusky 
City on Lake Erie. In a short time he was 
offered and accepted a partnership with his 
old preceptor. Dr. Case (husband of Mrs. 
Jane Case, spoken of in this article). Dr. Jones, 
a former partner, retiring. Dr. Case soon 
died and Dr. Jones became a partner of Dr. 
Little. In three years Jones died and Little 
was left alone. His popularity and ability "in- 
troduced him into the best society and a large 
and lucrative practice. Through the persua- 
sion of his relations and friends, he was in- 
duced, in 1865, to come back to his old home 
in Delaware to locate. He at once entered 
upon a large practice. Dr. Little, all admit- 
ted, was a horn physician. He was ambi- 
dextrous, and possessed almost intuitive 
knowledge of diseases and remedies. His 
bearing in the sick room was ever calm and 
assuring, was always reposed and cheerful, in- 
spiring his patients with confidence and hope. 
To the student he was an invaluable instruc- 
tor, ever imparting the most important truths 
to the listener. He never indulged in st- iry 
telling, and to young physicians he ever ex- 
tended a kind word and a kindly hand, and to 
the older members of the profession, advice 
and counsel of the ablest character. He was 
1 '<d and esteemed by all classes. He was a 
member of Ohio State Medical Society, and in 
1873. read before it one of the most valuable 
papers on the antidotal properties of bella- 
donna in opium poisoning. He was a member 
of the State Central and county societies, and 
a member of the Agassiz Scientific Associa- 
tion. He read the proof of Dr. J. G. Jones' 
"American Eclectic Practice of Medicine." In 
[850 he married the youngest daughter of the 



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Hon. Hosea Williams. He had one si m and 
three daughters. The son is a hanker in Co- 
lumbus, one daughter is living in California, 
one in Cleveland, Ohio, and one in Mt. Ver- 
non, Ohio. He died in 1877. 

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Dr. Joseph H, \ 7 an Deman was hum in 
Delaware, Ohio, in 1829. He is a good ex- 
ample of a self-made man, of an ambitious 
young American, who without inherited 
wealth, overcame obstacles, conquered diffi- 
culties and achieved success. He was a grad- 
uate of the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1849, 
M. A. in 1852, and the same year graduated 
in the Cleveland Medical College. He at once 
opened an office in Delaware, where he re- 
mained until 1857, when he was elected clerk 
of the Ohio Senate, and served at two sessions. 
At the close of his term of office he returned 
to Delaware and to his practice until 1861. 
Prior to that time, for a short time, he prac- 
ticed his profession at Millville, Delaware 
County, Ohio, and at Waldo, Marion County, 
Ohio. When the Civil War broke out he 
espoused the cause of the Union, and raised 
Company K, in the famous Sixty-sixth O. V. 
I. He participated in the battles of Winches- 
ter, Port Republic, and Cedar Mountain, Vir- 
ginia. In the last mentioned battle he was 
wounded and captured while leading a recon- 
noisance at night. He was taken to Libby 
prison, kept there five months and was ex- 
changed January, 1863, and rejoined his com- 
mand near Washington. 1). C. He resigned 
in January, 1863, and was appointed assist- 
ant surgeon of the Tenth O. V. I. in May; 
joined his regiment at once and participated in 
the battles around Chattanooga, Tennessee 
He remained with that regiment one year, 
when he was promoted to chief surgeon, with 
seven assistants of the United States Military 
Railroad Division of Mississippi, and re- 
mained in that capacity with headquarters at 
Chattanooga until the close of the war. After 
that he was surgeon in charge of the Refugee 
and Freedman's Department at Chattanooga, 
and for seventeen years after, was examining 
pension surgeon. He was also post surgeon 
of that post until it was closed. During his 



residence in Chattanooga of over thirty years, 
he passed through three epidemics of small- 
pox, two of cholera, and one of yellow fever, 
remaining at his post during the continuance 
of each. He was elected president of the Ten- 
nessee Medical Society in 1873, an d presided 
over that body for two years. For over twen- 
ty-five years he was a member of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association, and was for three 
years a member of the judicial council of that 
body. He was a member of the Public Health 
Association since 1874. He frequently con- 
tributed to medical literature, notably two ar- ' 
tides — one on the cholera of 1873. and one on 
the yellow fever epidemic of 187S — published 
in the reports and papers of the latter associa- 
tion. He retired from active practice in 1883, 
except as surgeon, which he continued until 
1890, when he retired absolutely from the 
practice of both medicine and surgery. He 
was a 33rd degree Mason, a Knight of Pyth- 
ias, a member of the G. A. R., and of the Ohio 
Commandery of the Loyal Legion. His first 
vote was for the Whig ticket, but when that 
party died, he went to the Democrats, and al- 
w ays remained a Democrat. He was married 
to Miss Rebecca Norris, daughter of Judge 
William G. Norris, in 1855 at Delaware. His 
father was Rev. Henry Van Deman, for over 
forty years pastor of the Presbyterian Church 
at Delaware. Dr. Van Deman enjoyed a re- 
spected and honored position in the city of his 
residence. He died in 1902. and was buried 
in the National Cemetery at Chattanooga with 
Masonic rites and honors. 

Dr. James Busby Norris was born on his 
father's farm in Troy Township in 1849. His 
father was Judge William G. Norris. who was 
a pioneer of that township. He was graduated 
at Kenvon College in 1869. After his grad- 
uation he studied medicine with his brother- 
in-law. Dr. J. H. Van Deman, then entered the 
Miami Medical College, and also took private 
instructions from the famous Dr. Carson of 
Cincinnati. He went to Detroit, where he was 
graduated at Detroit Medical College in 1872. 
After his graduation he went to Chattanooga, 
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fession. He labored faithfully and fearlessly 
in the cholera epidemic of 1873, and in 1874 
in the smallpox epidemic. In August, 1878. 
the chairman of the Howard Association pub- 
lished a call to the country for physicians to 
come to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where an epi- 
demic of that fearful disease, yellow fever 
was raging. Dr. Norn's, with that true hero- 
ism which goes wherever duty calls, saw the 
call, caielully consulted the subject, and de- 
termined to volunteer his services. On the 
28th of August, he left with a corps of fifteen 
nurses, arrived the 1st of September, went tc 
work at once, and had at one time one hun- 
dred and eighteen cases under his care. He 
was taken with the dread disease, September 
1 all. and breathed his last September 9th. He 
died a hero, and so highly was his martyrdom 
considered, that on the recommendation of the 
President of the United States, the War De- 
partment issued an order, permitting his re- 
mains to be buried in the National Cemetery 
at Chattanooga; and he is the only one not a 
soldier who was ever buried there. The Presi- 
dent thought his brave life and heroic death 
well fitted him to lie among the 18.000 other 
heroes who died in the call of duty. Dr. Nor- 
n's was a member of the Episcopal Church and 
was never married. He was a son of Dela- 
ware County, and though he never practiced 
here, the memory of this great sacrifice honors 
the county of his birth, and he is worthy of a 
place among Iter medical heroes. 

Dr. J. H. White. The aged Nestor of 
the profession, Dr. J. H. White, located in the 
county in 1841, and died July 13, 1907. He- 
was born in Lewis County, New York, in 1817. 
He received his education in the common 
schools, and his medical education at the 
Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, 
After his graduation he was located in Mill- 
ville, now Warrensburg. for a short time, and 
then in Ashley for five years, when he came to 
Delaware. His social and temperate habits, 
combined with his professional qualifications, 
soon brought him into a large practice. His 
strong constitution gave him endurance to 
contend with all kinds of roads and weather 



by day and night During the war he was 
a contract surgeon for the camp near the city. 
He was associated for some time with one 
his students, Dr. W. T. Constant, in profes- 
sional work. By mutual consent the partner- 
ship was dissolved. He became a charter mem- 
ber, in 1859, of William Street Church, and 
was one of its trustees for twenty years. He 
was. while in practice, a member of the State 
and Delaware County Medical Societies, and 
was always present to take an active part in 
the work. In 1849 he took the California 
-old fever, and crossed the Rocky Mountains. 
The western life cured the fever, and he re- 
turned the following year. For many years 
his familiar face could be seen at his home and 
office on Sandusky Street. In 1890 he gave 
up the practice to a large extent, but pre- 
scribed for his old patients until about 1896, 
when he refused all professional labor. A 
short time before his death he suffered a par- 
tial stroke of paralysis, but had not been seen 
on the streets of Delaware for several years. 
He was always glad to meet his friends at his 
home, and he was one of the most cheerful, 
intelligent and interesting citizens of Dela- 
ware. He had accumulated a competency and 
resided in his beautiful home on the corner of 
William and Franklin Streets in Delaware, 

Ohio. 

* # * 

Dr. J. McCann. Another wise counsellor 
of the profession of the county is Dr. J. Mc- 
Cann, who was born in 1824 in Muskingum 
County, Ohio. The foundation of his wonder- 
ful mental and physical development, like that 
of that stalwarts of his early days, was laid 
while working on the farm of his father. Max- 
well McCann. He mastered all that was 
taught in the common schools before reaching 
the age of twenty-one. In the spring of 1S47 
he entered the office of Drs. Beakman and 
Ball at Irville, Ohio, and attended lectures in 
the Starling Medical College, from which he 
graduated later. He began the practice in 
Licking County, Ohio. After his marriage to 
Miss Margaret Waters, daughter of Dr. R. A 
Waters of Irville in 1850, he located in Xash- 
port. Ohio. In 1854 he removed to Irville. 



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where he remained in active practice until 
1869, when he came to Delaware to give his 
four children the advantages of a college edu- 
cation ; three of whom graduated from the "O. 
W. U." with high honors. After nearly fifty 
years of continual work in the profession he 
retired in 1904 from active work. Yet at the 
age of eighty-three he has attended some dif- 
ficult cases with the same pleasure and skill as 
of many years ago. He has always been 
known as a true worker in his Master's vine- 
yard from youth up, and today enjoys attend- 
ing divine worship at Asbury M. E. Church 
more than ever. The doctor for many years 
was a member of the State and County Medi- 
cal Societies. His earnest and active work 111 
them was a great stimulus to the younger 
men. Notwithstanding his advanced age. his 
mind is as active and exact as ever, and he 
shows no bodily infirmities. His eldest daugh- 
ter is a teacher in the public schools. The 
eldest son, 

Dr. Joseph McCann, followed in the 
footsteps of his illustrious father. He was 
born in 1854, and graduated from the "O W. 
U." in 1876. He read medicine with his fa- 
ther, and graduated from the Columbia Medi- 
cal College in 1879. Fi rst locating in Radnor, 
Delaware County. Ohio, and afterward at Mill- 
ville or Warrensburg, he soon accepted a ten- 
dered position at the Keeley Institute at 
Marysville, Ohio. After a lew years, he was 
sent to Columbus, Ohio, to practice in the 
branch of the same Institute, where he is lo- 
cated now. 

Dr. E. H. Hyatt, the subject of this 
sketch, undoubtedly was one of the best known 
physicians and surgeons that Delaware ever 
had. He was born in Wayne County, Ohio, 
in 1827. He attended an academy for a time 
near Wooster, Ohio, and entered the junior 
class of Ohio Wesleyan University in [850, 
and graduated in 1 S 5 _> . He studied medicine 
at the Starling Medical College, and received 
his diploma from there in [856. After his 
graduation he felt that be was called to the 
ministry; but soon gave it up. and entered 
upon the practice of medicine at Bellpoint. At 



the outbreak of the war he organized a com- 
pany at Chesterville, Morrow County, Ohio, 
and was elected captain. He, together with 
his company, was mustered into the service in 
1861, September 3rd, with the Twentieth Regi- 
ment, O. V. I. After the battle at Fort Don- 
elson in 1862, he was discharged on account 
of sickness. Before entering the service, he 
was married to Miss Eliza Ely, a daughter 
of one of the prominent families in Delaware. 
Upon his return from the service he located 
in Delaware in 1862. He was a thorough stu- 
dent, and possessed one of the best selected 
libraries in the county. He built up and held 
a large practice until he retired from the field 
of labor to enjoy a well earned rest. His var- 
satile habits of study, and adaptability pecu- 
liarly fitted him for the man}- positions he was 
called upon to fill during his life. He was one 
of the organizers of the Columbus Medical 
College, and filled the Chair of Materia 
Medica. and Therapeutics for eighteen years. 
Then for two years he lectured on the Theory 
and Practice of Medicine. He was elected to 
the presidency of the Ohio State Medical So- 
cietv, and of the County Medical Association. 
He was the surgeon of the C, C, C. & St. L. 
R. R. for twenty-five years ; and during that 
time was called to different parts of the sys- 
tem to give expert testimony for the road in 
many cases of injury. He was in early life an 
ardent -Democrat. Later he advocated the 
Prohibition doctrine, and finally, under the 
teachings of President McKinley, became a 
staunch supporter of Republicanism. It was 
under the last that he was elected to the town 
Council and became its president in 1894. He 
was a member of the George B. Torrence Post 
No. 60. His first wife died in 1871. and in 
1873 he married Miss Johnston of Ashley. 
Ohio, by whom he had two sons, Frank, now 
a professor of music in Boston, and Gaylord, 
the second son, who is preparing to follow in 
the footsteps of his father. 

Dr. William T. Constant was a versa- 
tile genius. He was born on a farm ( as 
nearly all of the subjects of these sketches 
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His father was raised in old Kentucky. After 
finishing his common school education he be- 
gan teaching. He was a steamboat engineer 
for a time. He then with his small savings, 
entered the "O. W. L\" here, in Delaware, 
and graduated in 1861. He enlisted in Com- 
pany I. Fourth O. V. 1.. as a private, and was 
promoted rapidly from private to second, to 
first lieutenant, and to the captaincy of the 
company. He was in the battles of Rich 
Mountain, Greenbriar, Romney and the Wil- 
derness, and Fredericksburg. After being hon- 
orably discharged, he returned to Delaware 
and finished his medical education in the 
Cleveland Medical College, in 1868. His of- 
fice reading was done in the office of the illus- 
trious Dr. T. B. Williams, whose biography 
is in the old Delaware County history and he 
was a student of Dr. J. H. White also. Dr. 
Constant was at one time first assistant super- 
intendent in the old Central Lunatic Asylum 
under the eminent Dr. Ralph Hills. Dr. Con- 
stant was an indefatigable worker, and was 
filled with unbounded energy. He worked up 
to his final sickness. He was at one time as- 
>■ iciated in the practice of medicine with the 
old Xestor. Dr. J. H. White, and afterwards 
for a short time with Dr. J. A. Caruthers. He 
served as U. S. pension examiner for eighteen 
years. He held many official positions in city 
affairs. Early in life he united with William 
Street Church, and was a member until the 
time of his death. He was an active member 
of the G. A. R. and of the I. O. O. 1-'. He 
died at the age of forty-eight years. 

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Dr. A. E. Westbrook, of Ashley, Ohio, 
was born in 1840 at South Woodbury, Mor- 
row County. Ohio. His father came to Ohio 
in 1816. The doctor was educated at Mt. 
Hesper Seminary, and at the Ohio Wesleyan 
University. He read medicine with Dr. I. H. 
Pennock at Cardington, Ohio, who was one of 
the best-read physicians in the State. He grad- 
uated from the Cincinnati College of Medi- 
cine and Surgery in 1863. and soon after en- 
tered the army with the One Hundred and 
Sixth O. V. I. as surgeon, which position he 
held until the close of the war. A part of the 



time while in the service, he had charge of the 
Post Hospital, and was medical director on the 
staff of Brigadier-General Payne. He also 
had charge of the Forts Negley, Huston and 
Morton at Nashville, Tennessee. After the 
close of the war he returned to Ashley and at 
once entered upon a large practice. Notwith- 
standing he is nearly three score years and 
ten, he is full of vigor, and enjoying his work. 
He never made any distinction between the 
poor and the rich ; but was always ready to 
attend the afflicted and those who needed his 
services. He is a member of the American 
Medical Association, the Ohio Medical Society 
and belonged to the old Delaware County 
Medical Association, and served as president 
of it at one time in 1878. He has always 
been an active member in the schools of his 
town, and has served in various capacities 
many years. He was married to Judge Cun- 
ard's daughter at Mt. Gilead. 
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Dr. John W. N. Vogt is the son of Rev. 
John Vogt, wdio was one of the most beloved 
and best known pastors in Delaware for many 
years. Dr. Vogt was born at Seven Miles. 
Butler County, Ohio, in 1852. He came to 
Delaware with the family in 1863, when the 
father was called to the pastorate of the Ger- 
man Reform Church. He was given a fin- 
ished education, and afterward became an ex- 
pert druggist, which profession he followed 
for many years, when he entered the office of 
Dr. E. H. Hyatt to read medicine. After 
graduating at the Columbus Medical College 
with high honors, he became a partner of his 
illustrious preceptor in 1876. Two years la- 
ter he went into an office alone : but after a 
short time became associated with Dr. John O. 
McDowell for three years — 1880 to 1883, 
when he opened an office again by himself, 
and has since continued in practice. Dr. Vogt 
was and is a great student, both of medical 
and general literature. He has accumulated 
one of the largest and finest libraries in the 
o lunty. There never was a more genial and 
more honorable member of the profession in 
the county. His counsel for many years has 
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throughout the county, and he has always 
been found to be true to the patient and to his 
associates. He has been a member of the 
State and County Medical Societies. For sev- 
eral years he was a member of the Board of 
U. S. Pension Examiners. He is now in his 
prime and has many useful years ot labor 
ahead of him. 

* * * 

Dr. William Merrick Semans was bom 
in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, December 29, 
1861, the old home of his mother. He was 
educated in the city schools, graduated from 
the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1883 and 
had conferred upon him the A. B. degree in 
1883; and the B. S. and M. A. degrees in 
1886; and M. D. from the Miami Medical 
College of Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1887. From 
1887 to 1890 he was associate physician in the 
Toledo Insane Asylum. He returned to his 
old home in 1890 and began the practice of 
medicine. He was married to Miss Jessie 
Freeman of Mt. Vernon in 1891. He is a 
member of Hiram Lodge, F. and A. M.. No. 
18; R. A. M.. Chapter No. 54; Delaware 
Council No. 84, R. & S. M. ; Marion Com- 
mandery No. 36, K. T. ; Aladdin Temple ; 
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has been 
secretary of all the Masonic bodies of Dela- 
ware for fourteen years, and is now one of 
the most active and proficient Masons of the 
State. He served for a number of years as a 
member of the Board of Examiners of the U. 
S. Pension Board at Delaware, Ohio. 

Dr. Edward Merrick Semans was born 
in Delaware, Ohio, in 1863. Like his brother, 
he attended the public schools, and graduated 
from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1886. 
He took the A. M. degree in 1889; and the 
M. D. degree from the Miami Medical Col- 
lege of Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1890. He was 
major of the Fourth O. V. I. in the Spanish- 
American War. and served his time in Porto 
Rico. He was married to Miss Sallie Reed of 
Portsmouth, in 1895. He is a member of 
Hiram Lodge No. 18, F. & A. M.. and Dela- 
ware Chapter No. 54, R. A. M. Drs. Wil- 
liam and Edward are sons of Prof. W. O. 



Semans, who graduated from the O. W. U. 
in 1857, and held a professorship of chemistry 
in his Alma Mater from that time until his 
death in 1904. It was under his teachings 
that these physicians were brought to a high 
scholarship in this important branch of their 
profession, and the permanent foundation of 
superior scholarship in all of the departments 
of medicine as well as of science was laid. From 
childhood they have had before them the teach- 
ings of honesty, sobriety, and morality. Fol- 
lowing in the footsteps of their illustrious 
father and uncle, President F. M. Merrick of 
the "O. W. XJ.." they continue their studious 
habits ; selecting to study the medical and 
scientific books of the finest writers. They 
have always been associated together in the 
practice of medicine. Their true fraternal 
friendship with the profession none may ques- 
tion. Their rebuke to pretense and bluff and 
sham all will admit. Early in life they united 
with the William Street Church, and have 
fulfilled the requirements to their Master in 
the highest degree. No two physicians in the 
county ever had such a wide acquaintance. 
They are known by the hundreds of students 
of the University throughout this and foreign 
lands. The profession and citizens are proud 
to have such representative men. They are 
members of the State and County Medical So- 
cieties and the American Medical Association. 
Dr. Edward M. Semans is a member of the 
Board of Education of the city of Delaware, 
Obit 1. 

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Dr. Arthur H. Buck is the second son of 
John T. Buck, county surveyor and engineer 
for many years of Morrow County. He was 
torn in 1868 near Cardington, Ohio. This 
precocious youth began attending the country 
school nearly two years before the school age, 
and graduated from the High School at Card- 
ington at the age of eighteen. He read medi- 
cine in the ofhce of Dr. C. C. Dunham at Ful- 
ton, Ohio, and graduated from the Columbus 
Medical College in 1 89 1 . Before his gradua- 
tion from High School he began teaching 
school, and taught after finishing his 
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in all. He began the practice of medicine 
at Marits, Morrow County, Ohio. After 
a short time he sold out to another 
physician and moved to Lama. Ohio, 
and took post-graduate work in efectric 
therapeutics, and was given a position in the 
faculty to lecture. He remained there one 
year, when he came to Delaware in 1899. He 
was married to Miss Dora B. Strawman, of 
Caledonia in 1895. She died in Delaware 111 
1903, leaving two children. He married in 
1906 Miss Jennie L. Hartje. of McComb, 
Ohio. Dr. Buck is a member of the Meth- 
odist Church. He belongs to the I. O. O. ¥., 
and the F. & A. M. and is a member of the 
State and County Medical Societies. He is 
the surgeon of Delaware Magnetic Springs 
Electric Railway. 

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Dr. J. K. James was born in Ripley, 
Brown County, Ohio, in the year 1868. The 
correct teaching and high moral training of his 
Welsh father and mother were planted in good 
soil, and are now bringing forth a rich har- 
vest. The father. Rev. E. P. James, filled 
many important pulpits during his life, and 
left the imprints of his life work upon the sev- 
eral communities. Dr. James was educated 
and graduated from the High School of 
Bethel (where his father was then stationed) 
in 1 887. He became a great favorite in the dif- 
ferent places where his father was called to 
take charge of a new congregation. The son, 
a great lover of music, often filled a place in 
band organizations, as well as in the church 
choir and concerts, with much credit to him- 
self and satisfaction to his friends. The time 
of life had arrived when it became necessary 
for the father to retire from the active minis- 
terial labor; and he came to Delaware to give 
his children a college education. In 1890 the 
move was made; Dr. James preceding his fa- 
ther two years to attend the "O. W. U.." 
where he remained for four years. He en- 
tered the office of Dr. D. E. Hughes, and at- 
tended lectures in the Ohio Medical Univer- 
sity at Columbus, Ohio, from which he gradu- 
ated in 1897. He immediately opened an 
office in Delaware. He made electrical thera- 



peutics a special study, and equipped his of- 
fice with one of the finest outfits in the Slate. 
He has always observed his office hours to the 
minute, and thus has built up a large office 
practice as well as outside work. He added 
to his electrical outfit the X-ray, much to the 
benefit of not only the profession, but to the 
public in general. He is now making the 
eye a special study, and has procured a com- 
plete optical outfit. In 1897 he married 
Miss Maud Stanton, and has a son, Dor- 
rance. 

Dr. William Huntington Woodworth 
was born at Millfield, Athens County, Ohio, 
in 1865. After attending the public schools, 
he took the B. S. degre in the "X. X. U." at 
Lebanon, Ohio, in 1888. He graduated from 
the College of Physicians at Baltimore, Mary- 
land, in 1890. After practicing for about* 
five years at Corning. Ohio, he located in 
Delaware'. For a few years he was associated 
with his brother. Dr. John B. Woodworth. 
After being in the practice here for some time, 
he went East and took a post-graduate course. 
He married and then returned to Delaware. 
He has always taken an active part in the 
Medical Societies to which he belongs — Ohio 
State Medical Society. Delaware County 
Medical Society, and the Tenth District Medi- 
cal Society. He has devoted much of his time 
to electric therapeutics, stomach diseases, and 

the eye, especially optical work. 
* * * 

Dr. John B. Woodworth was born at 
Millfield. Athens County, Ohio, in 1869. He 
was educated at the common schools, and at 
the National Normal University at Lebanon. 
Ohio. He became a very successful school 
teacher and taught for five years in his na- 
tive county. He read medicine, and attended 
Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, 
from 1893 to 1896. when he took his de- 
gree. He located in Delaware, and associated 
himself with his brother for several years, 
when he opened an office alone. He is a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church. He was 
elected secretary of the Delaware County 
Medical Society under the new organization in 



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1903, and has been re-elected each year since, 
lie resigned the position in May, 1-907, to take 
a post-graduate course before going to his 
new field of work in Texas. He goes to this 
drier climate for the benefit of his throat 
trouble. He is a member of the Ohio State 
Medical Society. He married Miss Melinda 
Hill, of Athens County. Ohio. 

Dr. James H. Hughes was a son of a 
pioneer Presbyterian minister in this vicinity, 
whose life work and faithfulness grow 
brighter as the years pass. The son was born 
near Delaware in 1854. From the common 
schools near the old farm, he entered the of- 
fice of Dr. E. H. Hyatt to read medicine. He 
graduated from the Columbus Medical Col- 
lege in 1879. He married Miss Ada McCann, 
youngest daughter of Dr. J. McCann of Dela- 
ware, and at once located in the city to prac- 
tice. He began at once upon an eventful ca- 
reer. He had a large country practice; but 
overwork soon broke down his health, and 
he went to California to rest. He died in 
[888, soon after reaching the health resort, 
and was brought back for burial. He was 
associated for some time in the practice with 
his preceptor. 

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Dr. Dorrance E. Hughes, brother of 
Dr. J. H. Hughes, read medicine with Dr. 
J. W. N. Vogt. He was born in 1856. near 
Delaware, Ohio. He graduated from the Mi- 
ami Medical College, Cincinnati. Ohio, in 
1881. Upon his return home he married Miss 
Emma Newhouse, and at once located at 
Hyattsville, where he remained five years, 
when he came to Delaware to practice his 
profession. No kinder physician ever admin- 
istered to the afflicted. He never recognized 
any cast; all afflicted were alike to him. His 
large practice has made inroads upon his ruddy 
constitution, and all see the time coming 
when he must begin to husband his strength. 
He was elected president of the Delaware 
County Medical Society in 1907. He is also 
a member of the State Medical Society, and a 
member of the City Council. 



Dr. Abraham Virgil Conklin was born 
in [832, in Westfield. Ohio. He is a son of 
Jacob Conklin, a soldier of 1812, under Gen- 
eral McArthur. He received his education in 
the common schools, and at Mt. Hesper Semi- 
nary. After ten years of school teaching, he 
learned telegraphy, and was employed at 
Wooster and other places for some years. In 
1866 he graduated in the Eclectic Medical 
Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio. He located near 
his old home and began the practice at Dela- 
ware, Ohio, and afterward moved to Waldo, 
Marion County. After a short time, he moved 
to South Woodbury, Morrow County, and in 
a few years located in the country near Dela- 
ware, where he now lives. Years of hard la- 
bor have told upon him, and after nearly 
four score years he has retired from work. 

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Dr. W. T. Ropp was born in West Vir- 
ginia in 1833. He came to Delaware in 
1859, and attended the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity. He read medicine in the office of 
Dr. C. Welch, and graduated from the Medi- 
cal College of Ohio at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 
1863. In January. 1864, he enlisted in the 
Thirty-third Regiment, O. V. I., and was dis- 
charged honorably from the service, July 12, 
1865. He was an assistant surgeon of the 
regiment. He went with the army to the sea 
under General Sherman. After his return 
home he became a partner of his proceptor 
for a short time, when he located at Bell- 
point, Ohio. He married a Mrs. Cutler, and 
located on his farm between Delaware and 
Bellpoint, where he remained until his death. 
While living on the farm he devoted a greater 
portion of his time to his profession in the 
surrounding country, and at the Girls' In- 
dustrial Home, a State Institution about five 
miles from his farm. He was appointed physi- 
cian to the Home soon after it was located, 
and for twenty years did good and faithful 
work for the State. He belonged to the Odd 
Fellows, the Masonic Order, the G. A. R., 
and to the State and County Medical Societies. 
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Dr. W. Henry Pulford, the Nestor of 
the Homeopathic School, .is rapidly nearing 
his four score years; yet there 'Seems no sor- 
row or pain" for this worthy practitioner. 
His quick and upright walk of many miles 
each day will classify him with the younger 
members of the profession. He was born in 
Woodhouse Carr, near Leeds. England, in 
[829. He studied chemistry and pharmacy 
in Bradford. Yorkshire, England , in 1853. 
He entered the homeopathic practice under 
Dr. Evans, his preceptor, in 1858, and gradu- 
ated from the Homeopathic College near Bath, 
West London. England, in 1864. He prac- 
ticed pharmacy and medicine in Bradford, 
England, until 1875. when he came to 
America. After visiting one year in his 
adopted country, he was induced to locate at 
Ashley, Ohio, in 1877. After eighteen years 
of hard work he went to Connecticut to visit, 
and was persuaded to locate. In [892 lit 
came to Cleveland. Ohio, and took a course <>\ 
lectures in the Homeopathic school there, and 
graduated there in 1894. and at once became 
a member of the faculty. He subsequently 
came to Delaware and has since been doing his 
share of work. He is a member of the Con- 
necticut and Ohio Homeopathic Societies, and 
of the International American Homeopathic 
Institute. 

* ^ ^ 

Dr. William Francis Crickard is the 
oldest son of an old soldier who served his 
country long and well. The farm life de- 
veloped a mentally and physically strong man 
in Dr. Crickard. He was an apt student and 
made the best use of every moment of his 
time. He was born in Knox County. Ohio, 
in 1850. and after several years, came with 
his father's family to this county. He en- 
tered the office of our eminent Dr. McCann 
in 1871, and attended lectures and graduated 
from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and 
Surgery in 1874. He came to Delaware and 
opened an office. He has never changed his 
location. The patients under his care always 
received the closest and best attention. He 
has been exceptionally kind to those who have 
had to fight the battle of life as bread win- 

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ners. They have never had a truer friend than 
Dr. W. F. Crickard. He belongs to both the 
State and County Medical Societies. 

Dr. H. P. Feaster was born in Troy 
Township, this county, in 1850. His father, 
James Feaster, was an early settler in this 
county, and was located on the Marion, Dela- 
ware and Columbus turnpike, and often enter- 
tained the weary travelers who so frequently 
passed that way. He read eclectic medicine 
with Dr. Frank Howald in 1886. and gradu- 
ated in 1889 from the Eclectic Institute at 
Cincinnati, Ohio. He began the practice at 
Agosta, Marion County, in 1890. After lour 
years he removed to La Rue. Ohio, and then 
came to Delaware in 1898. He married Miss 
Ellen Woodward, of Morrow County. Ohio. 
He is a member of the State Eclectic Medical 
Association ; the Northwestern, and the Ohio 
Central Medical .Associations. 

* * * 

Dr. Edward M. Hall has been engaged 
in the practice of medicine and surgerv since 
1871, when he graduated from the Homeo- 
pathic Hospital College at Cleveland, Ohio. 
After taking his degree in medicine, he located 
in Fredericktown, Ohio, where he soon gained 
a satisfactory practice and the good will and 
respect of the people of that community, and 
was honored by them in being elected, for 
many years in succession, a member of their 
Board of Education, which position he held, 
as well as that of Pension Examiner for Knox 
County, when he removed to this city in 
1889. With the experience gained in an ac- 
tive practice of nearly twenty years and. hav- 
ing taken a post-graduate course in medicine 
previous to resuming practice here, he from 
the first took rank with the leading physicians 
'if the county. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Medical Association, the Ohio State Medi- 
cal Society, and at the re-organization of the 
Delaware County Medical Society he was 
chosen its vice-president, and on the following 

year its president. 

* * * 

Dr. Helen K. Smith was one of the 
leading homeopathic physicians in Delaware 



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for eleven years. Miss Helen Kaulbach was 
born in Baldensburg, New York, in 1865. She 
attended school at Waverley, New York. 
After completing her studies she married Mr. 
Smith. After his death she commenced the 
study of medicine in 1890. She graduated in 

1892 from the Cleveland Homeopathic Col- 
lege. She commenced practicing medicine in 

1893 in Delaware, Ohio. She belonged to 
the State Homeopathic Society. She remained 
in this city until her marriage to Mr. W. D. 
Halsey. in 1904. She is now living in Tru- 
mansburg. New York, and no longer looks 
after the sick. She was the first lady physician 
in the county for about fifteen years. She be- 
came a favorite, and had a large practice 

while in this city. 

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Dr. Marie Perfect was burn in Mt. Ver- 
non, Ohio, in 1874. As Miss Simons she 
studied medicine in the Miami Medical Col- 
lege at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which she 
graduated in 1894. and entered the regular 
profession. She began the practice at De- 
troit, Michigan, the same year. After two 
vears there she was induced to locate at her 
home in Richwood, Ohio. After her mar- 
riage to Mr. Perfect she was persuaded to 
remove to Delaware in 1901. She has proven 
herself able, and well qualified for her pro- 
fessional work, and in each locality where she 
has practiced, has enjoyed a large work. She 
is a member of the Union County, Delaware 

County, and Ohio State Medical Societies. 
* * * 

Dr. Ivadale Rodgers was born in Syl- 
vania, Lucas County. Ohio, in 1861. She 
graduated with honors from the Baldwin Uni- 
versitv at Berea, Ohio, in 1892. She read 
medicine, and graduated from the Eclectic 
.Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1898. 
She came here the same year, and was the 
second lady physician to practice in Delaware 
after woman's first advent in 1838. She is a 
bright, faithful and earnest physician with 
malice toward none, and charity for all. She 
is a member of the Delaware County Medi- 
cal Society, the Ohio Central, and the North- 
western Eclectic Medical Associations. 



Dr. John Otho McDowell was a son of 
Dr. Robert M. and Emily McDowell. He was 
born in 1848 in Ouakersbottom, Lawrence 
County, Ohio. He graduated from the Iron- 
ton High School in 1870. and from the Ohio 
Wesleyan University in 1874; and from the 
Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
in 1877. After completing the course, he was 
appointed resident physician in the Cincinnati 
City Hospital. In 1878 he came to Delaware 
and began practice. He married Miss Hettie 
Wolfley, only daughter of Mr. John Wolfley. 
She belonged to one of the oldest and best 
known families in the county. Dr. McDowell 
was elected alumni trustee of the "O. W. U." 
in 1882. which office he held to the time of his 
death in 1890. His extended acquaintance in 
the college and town, and with the students, 
gave him a large practice at once. He was 
associated for a time with Dr. John W. X. 
Vogt. 

^ ^ sfc 

Dr. Horace White was born in Brown 
Township. He was a partner of Dr. J. O. 
McDowell. He graduated from the "O. W. 
U." in 1882; in medicine at Miami Medical 
College, 1886. He located in Delaware in 
1886, and died in 1888. 

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Dr. Cyrus W. Chidester was torn in 
Kingwood, West Virginia, in i860. He, like 
many others, worked on a farm and attended 
the common schools. He began teaching 
school early in life to secure money to defray 
his expenses for a higher education. In 1883 
he attended the Ohio University at Athens, 
Ohio. He then went to the Ohio Northern 
University at Ada, Ohio, was graduated there 
in 1887, and took the B. S. degree. He 
graduated from the Columbus Medical Col- 
lege in 1890, and was given the cash prize by 
the faculty for meritorious work. He came 
to Delaware the same year, and associated 
himself with Dr. E. H. Hyatt. He served two 
ters as coroner of the county ; has served on the 
Board of Pension Examiners since 1897, and 
is now president of the Board. After the 
death of Dr. E. H. Hyatt, he was appointed 
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ware, and is now the surgeon for tin's di- 
vision. He is a member of the Delaware 
County Medical Society, and served as presi- 
dent one year. He is also a member of the 
State Medical Society, and the American 
Medical Association. He was at one time the 
president of the Big Four Railroad Associa- 
tion of Surgeons. He is a member of the 
M. E. Church. He married Miss Clara M. 
Freshwater in 1892. 

Dr. 0. \Y. Bonner was born in Licking 
County, Ohio, in 1866. He, with his par- 
ents, moved to Bloomtield. Morrow County. 
Ohio, in about 1870. He was educated at 
Sparta High and Normal schools. He com- 
menced the study of medicine in 1888. He 
attended one year at the Western Reserve 
Medical College, and graduated in 1892 from 
the Columbus Medical College. He began 
the practice at Norton, Delaware County, Ohio, 
and about ten years ago came to Delaware, 
Ohio, where he is now in active work, and en- 
gaged in a large practice. He served as health 
officer for the city of Delaware for five years, 
with great satisfaction to the city. He has 
been tor several years a member of the local 
Board of Pension Examiners. He is a mem- 
ber of the Delaware County, and Ohio State 
Medical Societies. 

* * * 

Dr. F. E. Michexer was born at Attica. 
Seneca County. Ohio, in 1856. He is a di- 
rect descendant of Count John T. Michener. 
who came to America with William Penn in 
1682. The Doctor was educated at Valpar- 
aiso, Indiana. He graduated in medicine at 
the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, 
Ohio. After practicing several years at To- 
ledo, he moved to Barberton, Ohio, in 1901, 
and came to Delaware in 1905. He is a 
member of the Delaware County Medical So- 
ciety, and the Ohio State Medical Society. He 
has retired from the practice and is taking the 
good of life. 

* * * 

Dr. Charles B. Brewster was born at 
Corning. Perry County. Ohio, in 1876. He 
graduated from the High School in 1893. ^ t_ 



ter clerking in a bank for a time, be went to 
Hiram College. He began reading medicine 
in 1899. and graduated from Pulte Homeo- 
pathic College at Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1904. 
He began the practice at his home in 1904, 
and came to Delaware in 1906. 

^ ^ ^ 

Dr. George Slack was horn in 1841, and 
raised in Brown Township, Delaware County, 
Ohio. His foundation for an education was 
laid in the old district common schools. He 
was a graduate of the "O. W. U." in the 
early history of the college. He practiced the 
homeopathic system. He began practicing in 
Huron County, and after several years he lo- 
cated in Delaware, and later went to Lakeside, 
Ohio. While visiting here in 1897. he died 
from' typhoid fever. His family have their 
home at Lakeside, Ohio. He married Miss 
Hattie Williams, of Cardington, Ohio. 
* ^ * 

Dr. Frederic L. Gage was born in Con- 
cord, Ross County, Ohio, in 1847. He first 
attended the Academy at South Salem. Ross 
County, and was a classmate of Hon. J. B. 
Foraker. He graduated at Marietta College. 
Ohio, in 1 87 1. He attended Starling Medical 
College, and graduated from the Long Island 
College Hospital in Medicine in 1876. He be- 
gan the practice of medicine in Mt. Sterling 
in 1876, and came to Berkshire. Delaware 
County, Ohio, in 1877, and moved to Dela- 
ware in 1900. He was coroner of the county 
from 1900 to 1904. and was elected health 
officer January 1, 1907. His eldest son, Carl, 
graduated from the "O. W. U.," and is soon 
to leave for China as a missionary. 

Dr. W. B. Hedges is a native of McCon- 
nellsville, Morgan County. Ohio. He was 
born in 1835. He was educated in the High 
School of McConnellsville. He possessed an 
active and studious mind, and at an early 
time, after completing his school life, he began 
reading medicine in the office of Dr. M. Ed- 
wards, May, 1858. He took up the study of 
the drug trade, and prepared himself for the 
work in i860. After two years, in 1862. he 
resumed the study of medicine in the old office, 



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to prepare himself for the army, now needing 
doctors. He graduated from the Medical Col- 
lege of Ohio at Cincinnati, Ohio, July. [863. 
He passed the examination of the State Board 
of Examiners for the position of assistant 
surgeon for the volunteer service. He was 
assigned to the Eighty-sixth O. V. I., a six- 
months organization, in September, 1803, and 
joined the regiment at Cumberland Gap, Ten- 
nessee. He was at once put in charge of the 
Medical Department of the Eighty-sixth Regi- 
ment, which position he held until the muster 
out of the organization, at the expiration of 
their term of service in February, 1864. He 
was appointed assistant surgeon of the Eighty- 
second Regiment, O. V. I., Third Brigade, 
First Division, Twentieth Army Corps, April 
2j, [864; and joined the regiment in May, 
[864, at Atlanta, Georgia. They went on 
duty at once and were under fire of battle for 
one hundred and twenty days. The doctor 
was the only surgeon with the regiment from 
Atlanta, Georgia, to the sea, or Savannah, 
Georgia. Then on to Goldsborough, North 
Carolina, 1864 and 1865; then to Raleigh, 
North Carolina, and to Washington, D. C. 
Here he was detailed to care for the sick and 
wounded at Richmond, Virginia, and to ar- 
range for transportation to the North those 
able to go. In 1865, while waiting for the 
muster out at the close of the war, he was at 
Louisville, Kentucky, and was in charge of the 
hospital there. He was mustered out at Co- 
lumbus, Ohio, July 2~, 1865. He returned 
to his home and began the practice again. In 
[873 he located at Beverly. Washington 
County. Ohio, and in (879 came to Delaware. 
Ohio. He is in active practice today. He 
has been a member of the County Hoard oi 
United States Pension Examiners for fourteen 
years. He served two years as health officer 
for Delaware, lie was physician to the Girls' 
Industrial Home for several years. He is a 
member oi the Delaware County Medical As- 
sociation; Ohio State Medical Society, and 
the American Medical Association. He was 
married to Mrs. Mary Pewthers in [872. He 
is an elder of the Presbyterian Church. 



Dr. David P. Bliss was born at Sparta. 
Morrow County, Ohio, in 1843. He received 
his education in the public schools. At the 
age of nineteen he enlisted in the service of 
his country with the One Hundred and Twen- 
ty-first Regiment, O. V. I., and received an 
honorable discharge from the service in 1S65, 
at the close of the war. He was an exemplary 
soldier, and one of the highest Christian char- 
acter. After returning from the army, he en- 
tered the office of the illustrious Dr. J. W. 
Russell, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and graduated 
from the Jefferson Medical College at Phila- 
delphia, in 1867. After many long years of 
hard work, he came to Delaware in 1901 to 
enjoy a much needed rest. He is a member 
of Asbury M. E. Church, and is always ready 
to do the Master's work. 

* sJ 1 ^ 

Dr. Ben. F. Kearny was born in 1858, 
in Fayette County, Ohio. He graduated from 
the "O. W. U." at Delaware, Ohio, in 1884. 
After teaching for some time at Washington 
Court House, Ohio, he returned to Delaware, 
and entered the office of his old friend. Dr. 
J. II. Hughes. He attended the Miami Medi- 
cal College in Cincinnati, Ohio, for two years, 
and then went to the Long Island Hospital, 
Xew York, for graduateion in 1891. He re- 
turned to Delaware the same year, and began 
professional work for two years when he lo- 
cated at Stewart, Iowa, where he remained 
tor twelve years. He moved then to Cleve- 
land, Tennessee, in 1905, to devote his at- 
tention to the eye and optical work. He mar- 
ried Miss, Jennie Volk, of Delaware, in 1888. 
He and his family have recently moved to 
Delaware ( 1907) to make his home, and to 
devote his attention to eye diseases and to 

optical work. 

* * * 

Dr. A. J. Pounds was born in Delaware 
County, Ohio, in 1858. From the common 
schools he went to the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity in 1876. He graduated from the Co- 
lumbus Medical College in 1881. He began 
the practice at Ostrander, and moved to Dela- 
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Delaware County Medical Society in 1907. 
He is a member of the State and County So- 
cieties. 

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Dr. James William Watts was born in 
Rodney, Gallia County, Ohio, in 1856. He 
read medicine with Dr. W. M, Watts at South 
Webster, Scioto County. Ohio. He attended 
medical lectures in Cincinnati, at the Ohi ) 
Medical College, from which he received his 
diploma. He began practice at Gallia County. 
Ohio, and was these for fifteen years. He 
then came to Delaware, where he practiced sev- 
eral years before moving to Columbus, where 
he is now devoting his attention to diseases of 
the eye and ear. He was given, in 1876, the 
beneficiary scholarship from the Eleventh 
Congressional District, represented by Hon. 
H. S. Bundy. He was to prepare himself for 
a government medical cadet ; but gave up this 

prospect in order to practice medicine. 

* # # 

Dr. J. Robinson was born in Union 
County, Ohio, and educated at Dover. He 
read medicine in Ohio Medical University, 
and graduated from there in 1904. He began 
the practice at Ostrander, Ohio, and removed 
to Bellpoint. He was married to Miss Edna 
Green, who died in 1906. He is a member of 
the I. O. O. F. and K. of P. 

^ ^K 'fc 

Dr. H. N. Coomer was born in Ontario 
County. New York, in 181 7. He read medi- 
cine in his native State, and located at Ashley, 
Delaware County, Ohio, in 1852. He was a 
quiet and unassuming man, and was engaged 
in a fair practice up to the time of his death. 
He was a regular attendant of the State and 
County Medical Societies for many years. 
He died from general breaking-down a few 
years ago. 

^ ^ ^ 

Dr. William C. Bucky was born in 
Franklin County, Ohio, in i860. He attended 
the "O. W. U.." Delaware, Ohio, for a while, 
and graduated from the Eclectic Medical In- 
stitute at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1890. He read 
medicine with Dr. S. M. Sherman in Co- 
lumbus. Ohio, and settled in Ashley, where he 



is now practicing. He is a member of the 
Ohio Eclectic Medical Institute. 

Dr. Miranda Scheble was in Ashley 
many years, ami enjoyed a large practice. 
She graduated from the Cleveland Homeo- 
pathic Hospital in 1883. She died in 1901, 

at about sixty-eight years of age. 

* * * 

Dr. Ella Dennison Welch was born in 
Peru Township, Morrow County, Ohio, in 
1863. She studied in the office of Dr. G. 
Foster, of Olive Green, Delaware County. 
Ohio, in 1889. She entered the Toledo Medi- 
cal College in 1891, and for the summer term 
1892 went to the Wooster Medical College at 
Cleveland, Ohio, and returned to the Toledo 
Medical College to graduate in 1894. She 
came direct to Ashley after her graduation, 
where she has since practiced. 

Dr. M. A. McGonigal was born neat- 
Ashley in 1873. He graduated from the Ash- 
ley High School in 1890, and from the Ohio 
Medical University at Columbus, Ohio, in 
1906. Returning to Ashley he began the 

practice the same year. 

* * * 

Dr. I. T. McCarty was raised in Olive 
Green, Ohio, where he began the practice in 
1897; but only remained there a short time — 
three years — when, in 1900, he moved to his 
present location in Constantia, Ohio. He 
graduated at the Western Reserve Medical 

College in 1897. 

* * * 

Dr. Frank Andrews located in Cheshire 
after the death of his uncle, who was an able 
practitioner. He graduated in 1883 at the 
Starling Medical College, and came direct to 
Cheshire. He sold to Dr. H. C. Kious in 
1885. of Columbus, and moved to Westerville, 

where he is now located. 

* * * 

Dr. H. C. Kious was born in Columbus. 
Ohio, in 1855. He was educated in the Cen- 
tral Normal University and the "O. W. U. ;" 
read medicine with Dr. J. F. Baldwin, of Co- 
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Island Hospital, in New York, in 1881. He 
began to practice in Columbus, Ohio, in 1882, 
in Cheshire in 1883, and only remained a 
year, when he sold to Dr. H. C. Dumm, who 
was located at Stratford. Dr. Kious came to 
Delaware in 1883 and practiced for several 
years, when he sold to Dr. F. M. Murray, in 
1892, and moved to Columbus, where he is 
now practicing. He married Miss Jennie La- 
vender, of Delaware. Ohio, in 1883. 
* * * 

Dr. A. W. Dumm was raised near Chesh- 
ire, and graduated at the Columbus Medical 
College. After practicing at Cheshire a few 
years, he remi ived to Columbus, Ohio, where 
be labored several years, and then moved to 
Toledo, Ohio. His brother had practiced a 
few years at Cheshire, before going to Colum- 
bus, where he died several years later. 

Dr. Cobart located at Cheshire in 1889; 
but remained only a few months when he en- 
tered the regular army. 

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Charles C. Vankirk, M. D., was born 
at Condit, in 1872. He read medicine with 
his father. Dr. T. H. Vankirk, at Condit, 
Delaware County, Ohio. Dr. Charles gradu- 
ated from Starling Medical College in 1896, 
and at once located at Sunbury, Ohio. In 
1901 he moved to Gettysburg, Darke County 
Ohio. Soon after he joined the regular army. 

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Dr. Alonzo \Y. Taylor was born in 
Champaign County. Ohio. He attended the 
Ohio Wesleyan University, and graduated 
tram the Ohio Medical Eclectic College at 
Cincinnati. Ohio. He located at Sunbury, 
Ohio, in 1892. He died in [901. 

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Dr. A. P. Taylor located in Sunburj 
many years ago, and after a long and success- 
ful practice he sold out and moved to Colum- 
bus, Ohio, where he is now practicing. 

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Dr. Thomas J. Williams was bom near 
Somerset. Perry County, Ohio, in 1843. J' 1 
[849, at six years of age, he came with his 
parents to Morrow County, Ohio. In [863 
he left the farm and schools to enter the arnrv 



with the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth O. 
V. I. He remained with the regiment until 
mustered out in 1865. There was no more 
patriotic or faithful soldier in the service of 
the Union Army than this boy of twenty 
years. Upon his return he took his savings 
and entered the high school at Mt. Gilead, 
Ohio. After one year of hard and faithful 
work, he came to the "O. W. U," at Delaware, 
to gain a higher education to prepare himself 
for the medical profession. He read medicine 
with his brother. Dr. J. W. Williams, at Ches- 
terville, Ohio, until the fall of 1868, when he 
went to the University of Michigan, at Ann 
Arbor, from which he graduated in 1870. 
Having completed his professional work in 
the university, he at once located in Sunbury. 
Delaware County, Ohio. In 1873 ne felt the 
need of a post-graduate course to render him 
more proficient in the great work before him. 
He left for the Long Island Medical College 
in New York, where the clinical advantages 
were great for the absorbing mind. He 
graduated from there the same year and at 
once returned to his work in Sunbury, where 
he is now practicing. He was a member of 
the Board of Pension Examiners for several 
years. He is a faithful Mason, and a consci- 
entious Christian man. He married Miss E. 
A. Pumphrey, of Croton, Ohio, in 1879. 

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Dr. Henry Kistler was born in Lancas- 
ter, Ohio, in 1879. He was educated at the 
Lancaster schools, and at Basil. Ohio. He read 
medicine with his brother. Dr. George B. 
Kistler, at Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas 
County. Ohio, in 1896 and 1897. and was 
graduated from the Starling Medical College, 
Columbus, Ohio, in 1902. He at once located 
at Sunbury, Ohio, and entered upon a success- 
ful practice. He is a close student, and 
promises to be of great benefit to Sunbury. 
He belongs to the American Medical Associa- 
tion, and the State and County Medical So- 
cieties. He married Miss Dell McLanden, of 
Columbus, Ohio. He is an active Mason, a 

K. P.. and belongs also to the Elk lodge. 
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Dr. John Utley was born in Westerville, 
Franklin County. Ohio, in 1843. He gradu- 



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ated From the Whetsone Seminary, read medi- 
cine in Sterling, Illinois, and graduated from 
the Rush Medical College in 1862. He located 
at Galena at once, and today is the oldest and 
best known physician in the eastern part 01 the 

county. 

* * * 

Dr. Norton Ekelbery was horn near 
Delaware in 1864. He attended the common 
schools, and also for a short time, the "O. 
W. U." He graduated at the Miami Medi- 
cal College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1886, after 
reading medicine with his brother. Dr. Frank 
Ekelbery, who was located for several years 
at Bellpoint, Ohio. Dr. Norton Ekelbery is 
now practicing at Galena, where he first lo- 
cated. 

* * * 

Dr. John H. Gerhardt was born in Madi- 
son County, Ohio, in 1858, and attended 
school at West Jefferson, Ohio. He read 
medicine with Dr. Charles Snyder at West 
Jefferson in 1878. He graduated from the 
Columbus Medical College in 1882. He was 
assistant physician to the Ohio penitentiary 
from 1884 to 1886; and surgeon of the Ohio 
National Guards for eight years. He was 
married to Miss Emma Avers, of Columbus, 
in 1887. s He began the practice at Sunbury, 
Ohio, in 1887, and is now in active work. He 
is a member of the Baptist Church, also the 
F. & A. M.; the Delaware County and State 
Medical Societies. 

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Dr. E. B. Mosher was raised in Morrow- 
County, Ohio, where he read medicine. He 
located at Olive Green, practicing there many 
years, when he removed to Sunbury. and was 
in the practice there for some time. He then 
sold out, and moved to Columbus, Ohio, where 
he is now practicing. 

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Dr. L. Wise was born in Johnstown, 
Ohio, in 1858. After attending the common 
schools, he read medicine with Dr. G. H. 
Foster, at Olive Green, Delaware County. 
( H110. He began the practice at Galena in 
1S84. after graduating" at the Columbus Medi- 
cal College. 



Dr. A. E. Bennett, who was born near 
Maxtown, in Genoa Township, and graduated 
from an Eclectic College in Cincinnati. Ohio, 
located in Lewis Centre for a time; but now 
is on a farm near his old home. 

* * * 

Dr. J. C. Wintermute, a regular physi- 
cian, was in Lewis Centre from 1879 to 1882, 
when he removed to Celina, Ohio, where he 
died. 

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Dr. H. A. Keifer from 1882 to 1887 was 
the physician in Lewis Centre. He then re- 
moved to Westerville, where he still resides. 

* * * 

Dr. R. C. Alexander bought out Dr. 
Keifer, and remained in Lewis Centre for 
two years, when he removed to Catawba. 
Ohio. He is a graduate of Starling Medical 
College. 

Dr. Mercer was one of Lewis Centre's 
oldest physicians, locating there in about 1850. 
He died there in about 1880. 

Dr. Alexander Hendrixson was a 
strong competitor of Dr. Mercer in Lewis 
Centre, during the seventies. He later re- 
moved to Columbus, where he died in 1895. 
He was a graduate of the "O. W. U." of 
Delaware. He married Miss Waldron, of 

Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio. 

* * * 

Dr. M. M. Cochran was located in Lewis 
Centre from 1889 to 1892. He read medicine 
with Dr. J. W. Russel, of Ait. Vernon, Ohio, 
and graduated from the Starling Medical Col- 
lege. He died at Independence, Ohio, a few- 
years ago from diphtheria. 

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Dr. W. M. T. Simms bought out Dr. 
Cochran, of Lewis Centre, in 1902. In 1900 
he removed to Columbus, Ohio, and from there 
t<> Groveport, Ohio, where he is now practic- 
ing. He is a graduate of the Columbus Medi- 
cal College. 

Dr. Perry W. Willey was born in Troy 
Township, Delaware County. Ohio, in 1875. 



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He is a son of John and Kasson Willey, a 
highly influential family of Delaware County. 
After finishing a course in the common 
schools, he completed his education with the 
class of 1904 in the Delaware High School. 
He at once entered the office of Dr. S. W. 
Fowler, and began the study of medicine. He 
graduated with honors from the Starling 
Medical College, in Columbus, Ohio, in 1897. 
He located at once in Lewis Centre, Ohio, 
and entered into competition with his com- 
petitors. He soon had the entire field to 
himself. During the last ten years he has won 
and held the confidence of the entire com- 
munity. He is a member of the County an 1 
State Medical Societies. He is now the 
coroner of Delaware County. 

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Dr. Frank A. Stickney was born in 
LJnion County, Ohio, in 1852. He graduated 
from the academy in Henry County, Illinois, 
in 1872, and completed the business course in 
Sharp's Business College at Delaware in 
1874. He read medicine in the office of Dr. 
E. H. Hyatt, and graduated from the Co- 
lumbus Medical College in 1880. He began 
the practice in Delaware. He married Miss 
Mary Campbell in 1881. In 1882 he located 
in old Eden, or Kilbourne, Ohio, where he has 
been the leading and highly respected physi- 
cian and most successful doctor ever in that 
locality. After the death of his wife, he mar- 
ried Miss Porter, a daughter of one of the 
most influential families of the Presbyterian 
Church, and citizens of Brown Township. He 
is a member of the State and County Medical 
Societies. 

There have been many changes in the 
profession in Eden, or Kilbourne. during the 
past forty years or more, of which we have 
been unable to gain much information. 

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Dr. Mills was there from 1865 to 1869. 

He is now at Rich Hill. Knox County, Ohio, 

in the practice. 

* * * 

Dr. Lyman Potter, of Kilbourne and 
Leonardsburg, was one of the oldest and most 
learned and talented members of the medical 



fraternity of the county. He was an active 
member in his day of the State and Count v 
Medical Societies. At the advanced age of 
seventy years, he studied and learned short- 
hand, and became very proficient at it. He 
was able to take down a discussion and lecture 
with great accuracy. He lived on his farm 
and had a limited but successful practice. His 
strong Christian character gave him the confi- 
dence of the entire community. He died at 
the advanced age of nearly ninety years. 

Dr. D. R. Ross was born in Saratoga 
County, New York, in 1842. He graduated 
at the University of Pennsylvania in 1867, 
and located in Kilbourne the same year. He 
married a daughter of John Mathews in 1868. 
In 1872 he moved to Martinsburg, Virginia. 
He is the chief surgeon of the B. & O. R. R. 
for that division. He served during the war 
in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty- 
fifth Regiment. During the war he was a 
prisoner in Andersonville Prison for over ten 
months. 

Dr. A. M. Crane was raised in Porter 
Township. After reading medicine he located 
in Kilbourne, Ohio, for a short time, when 
he moved to Waldo, and then to Marion, 
Ohio. His brother, Adelbert Crane, who mar- 
ried Miss Ross, of Delaware, a daughter of 
an old soldier, took his place in Kilbourne. 

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Dr.. Lewis Barnes came to Delaware 
about 1856, having traded his practice in Co- 
lumbus with Dr. D. M. Kensell, of Delaware. 
Dr. Barnes belonged to the Homeopathic 
School. He was here in Delaware for many 
years. He died at an advanced age at his son's 
in Norwalk, Ohio. 

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Dr. S. P. Cummins came to Delaware in 
about 1870, from Beaver, Pennsylvania. He 
had a limited practice, and died about 1882. 

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Dr. J. M. Snodgrass came to Delaware 
from Union County, Ohio, in about 1874. He 
and his sons bought the Lybrand Drug Store. 
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gaged in the practice for a few years. He died 

in about 1886. 

* * * 

Dr. James Morgan Cherry was born in 
182 1 in Oswego. New York, and in 1838 came 
with his father's family to Marysville, Ohio. 
A few years later he studied medicine with 
Dr. Ross, graduating from Starling Medical 
College of Columbus. Soon after he com- 
menced the practice of medicine at I'n >spect, 
Ohio. In 1846 he married Miss Susannah 
Gooding, of Delaware County. Ohio. He 
moved to Delaware in 1850. where he lived 
for nearly half a century. He early united 
with the Presbyterian Church of which he was 
a most devoted member. He died in 1898. 

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Dr. Robert C. Wintermute was born at 
Norton, Ohio, in 1861. He read medicine 
with Dr. Robertson, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, 
and graduated at the Eclectic Medical Insti- 
tute in Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1880. He lo- 
cated in Delaware the same year. In 1890 he 
removed to Cincinnati to fill the Chair of Ob- 
stetrics and Diseases of Women, at his Alma 
Mater, as well as to engage in general prac- 
tice. He died in 1906. He published a book 
on Diseases of Women, which is used as a 
text book at the Eclectic College. He mar- 
ried Miss Belle Cherry, daughter of Dr. J. M. 

Cherry. 

* * * 

Dr. N. S. Sampsell came to Delaware in 
the sixties. He was a root and herb doctor. 
His office and home was where the Carnegie 
Library now stands. He had a large practice 
throughout the county for many years. He 
died in Delaware several years ago. 

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Dr. Francis Marion Murray was born 
in Bluffton, Allen County. Ohio, in 1855. He 
entered the local drug store as an apprentice. 
He continued his attendance in the public 
schools during the winter terms. He re- 
mained in the store for four years. In the 
autumn of 1872 he went to Key West. Florida, 
to become apothecary to the United States 
Marine Hospital under his brother. Surgeon 
Robert D. Murray. He spent the major part 



of four years here. The last three winters of 
these were spent in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania, prosecuting pharmaceutical ami medi- 
cal studies. He would return to his duties in 
the south each spring. He graduated from 
the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in [876, 
receiving the degree of Ph. G. In 1877 he re- 
ceived the degree of M. D. from the Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia. He then took 
a supplementary course in scientific subjects at 
the University of Pennsylvania, for which he 
received the degree of Ph. D. in 1878. He 
was acting librarian to the College of Physi- 
cians during the summer. The following 
winter he was assistant to the professor of 
Materia Medica at the Philadelphia College of 
Pharmacy. In 1879 he located in Lenni, Dela- 
ware County. Pennsylvania, eighteen miles 
from Philadelphia. 

In 1880 he was married to Amanda M. 
Kirby. After remaining five years in this lo- 
cation, the Doctor removed to the northern 
section of the city of Philadelphia. From 
there he removed to Delaware. Ohio, in 1892. 
and continued in the general practice of medi- 
cine. In 1900 he formed a co-partnership 
with Mr. J. D. Knowles. and established a 
third daily and weekly newspaper, the Dela- 
ware Journal. The following year they ac- 
quired the long established Democratic Herald, 
and united them under the name of the 
Journal-Herald. Notwithstanding his news- 
paper interests the Doctor has continued in 
the active work of his profession, and enjoys 
good practice. He is a member of Hiram 
Lodge. No. 18, F. & A. M.. of the Delaware 
County, Ohio State and American Medical So- 
cieties. Dr. Robert D. Murray was a recog- 
nized expert in yellow fever for the Govern- 
ment Marine and Public Health Service. 
Robert D. was killed by accident at Laredo, 
Texas, in 1904. thus depriving the Govern- 
ment of one of its greatest experts. Dr. F. M. 
Murray was born a Campbellite. raised a 
Methodist, and now belongs to the Presby- 
terian Church. 

Dr. A. Blvmer. There never was a 
practitioner of medicine so widely known, or 



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had such an extensive practice in Delaware 
County as Dr. Abraham Blymer. He was so 
long in the county that his name became a 
In lusehold word, and few knew when he set- 
tled in Delaware. He became the standard of 
perfection for the true physician in the minds 
of the many students who went out of his 
office, some to fill high positions in the pro- 
fession in many parts of the country. For 
fifty years he went in and out before the peo- 
ple, visiting hundreds of homes throughout 
the county in the early days of mud and forest 
roads, and these marked by emblazing the 
trees; and no bridges to cross the swollen 
streams, be went to administer to the afflicted. 
Through the midnight darkness with bis old- 
time lantern and saddlebags, through the 
storms of winter and shades of the forest in 
summer, he went on his mission of mercy to 
the well-to-do, and to the poor and the needy. 
The long years of faithful labor and broken 
rest made little impression upon his wonder- 
ful German constitution. Up to the very hour 
of his final visit, he rivaled in activity many 
of his younger brethren, who numbered but 
months, while he counted years of faithful 
labor. 

Dr. Blymer was born in Shippinsburg, 
Pennsylvania, in 1804. His father was a man 
of education and followed school teaching. 
Under the instructions of this talented man, 
the son received his education. In 1824 be 
began the study of medicine. In 1826. 
through his wife, he inherited a large amount 
of money. Anxious to increase his fortune, 
he entered into the mercantile business, which 
prospered and promised him great riches. 
Alter a few years he ventured again into the 
iron industry, which held out flattering 
promises. This new venture swept away all 
of his money and his bright hopes. Seventeen 
thousand dollars went to pay debts. He fell 
back upon his profession, and after two years 
he took a course of lectures in the Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. 
He then attended the Barten Medical Institute 
in Philadelphia and received his diploma. 
Somewhat broken in spirit he moved to the 
then western country, locating at Mansfield, 



Ohio, where he opened an office and began the 
practice of his profession. The ten years of 
professional life at Mansfield, gave him great 
prestige. About this time the old Willoughby 
.Medical College near Cleveland, Ohio, now 
tlie Starling College, conferred upon him the 
M. D. degree as a token of merit. In 1840 he 
was induced by friends to move to Gabon. 
Ohio, but soon discovered that this was a mis- 
take, and after one year he located at Dela- 
ware, one of the thriving towns in Ohio. In 
Delaware, his great energy and acumen soon 
pushed him to the front place in professional 
work, and made him one of the first citizens 
of the place. Always gentle, kind and con- 
siderate, his advancement went on uninter- 
ruptedly. He held peculiar views regarding 
the treatment of the great scourge called milk 
sickness, that prevailed in early times. The 
patients were taken with vomiting and ex- 
treme nausea. They became prostrated and 
weak, unable to take or retain any food. They 
became reduced day after day, until they died 
in great mental anguish, but little real pain. 
The Doctor began the use of calomel or the 
mercurial treatment. This gave relief and 
saved the lives of many valuable citizens. His 
name was soon carried from neighborhood to 
neighborhood, until his fame became so great 
that he was called for far and near to consult 
with his professional brothers. He read, at 
one time, a highly instructive paper on Milk 
Sickness before the County and State Medical 
Societies. The discovery of the tyroccine by 
Vaughn, demonstrated the correct principles 
underlying the treatment by this able practiti- 
oner, as the antiseptic influence or mercury 
killed the exciting cause of this form of sick- 
ness. Dr. Blymer took an active interest in 
young men; and during his life educated and 
started over forty students in the medical 
profession, after furnishing them with money 
and equipments to begin their work. He was 
a leader in organizing a county medical society 
and, notwithstanding his busy life, found time 
to attend the State and County Societies, of 
which be was an honored member. He was 
thrice elected vice-president of the State So- 
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president of the County Society. He died in 
[882. 

Dr. Henry Besse was born in Licking 
County, Ohio, in 1823. He, in those early 
days, read medicine one year, took one term 
of lectures, and began practicing. He located 
at East Liberty, in the eastern part of the 
county in 1847. I' 1 1854 he graduated from 
the Western Reserve Medical College, 
Cleveland, Ohio. After he had been in East 
Liberty two years, he married a daughter of 
Elder John Vansickle, one of the wealthy men 
of Kingston Township. In 1863 he moved to 
Delaware, Ohio. The same year he enlisted 
in the Forty-fifth Regiment, O. V. I., as sur- 
geon; but from ill health was obliged to resign 
in six months. In 1864 he again enlisted as 
assistant surgeon in the One Hundred and 
Forty-fifth Regiment, O. V. I. After the 
close of the war he continued practicing. He 
retired a year or two before his death in 1901. 
He was a quiet, unassuming man, a true 
Christian, and a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. He left a daughter, Mrs. Crum, hy- 
ing near Delaware. His aged wife is still hy- 
ing on West Winter Street. 

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Dr. F. W. Morrison came from Richland 
County. After graduating from the "O. W. 
I".." he read medicine with Dr. A. Blymer. 
He was a poor boy. but worked and earned 
money to carry him through college. He 
graduated in medicine, and then located in 
Richland County, where he practiced several 
years. He entered the service of his country, 
and served as a surgeon faithfully and well. 
He came to Delaware about 1870. He accum- 
mulated a comfortable fortune before his 
death. He died from the effects of a disease 
o infracted in the sendee. 

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Dr. Frank E. Eckelbery was born on 
Alum Creek, six males east of Delaware. 
\ iter graduating in medicine, he located at 
Bellepoint, Ohio, in 1877, tne haven for the 
beginner. He soon entered upon a large prac- 
tice. Broken in health, after a few years of 
hard work, he died from a complication of 



diseases, and was buried near his old home. 

* ^ * 

Dr. J. Edwards is of Welsh parentage. 
He took adwantage of every opportunity, and 
graduated from the Starling Medical College, 
yery young. He began the practice at his old 
home, Delhi, or Radnor, and is now attending 
to the afflicted. 

* * * 

Dr. L. B. Simpson graduated from the 
Ohio Medical University, Columbus, Ohio, in 
1890. He began practicing in Richland 
County, and after a short time moved to 
Marion, then to Radnor. Ohio. 

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Dr. H. M. Day graduated from the Cleve- 
land Medical College in 1881. He is a son 
of the late Dr. Day, of Pandora, Ohio. The 
son began the practice in his home town, and 

came to Delaware in 1903. 

* ^ * 

Dr. Leucius Bumstead, osteopathic, 
graduated at the American School of Osteo- 
pathy. Kirksville, Missouri. June 14, 1906, 
and he came to Delaware, Ohio, in 1906. 

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Dr. L. S. Lupton. Dr. Seigle Lupton 
was a graduate of the Columbus Medical Col- 
lege, 1887. He attended the "O. W. U." for 
a time. He died in 1896.. 

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Dr. Robert Blee Smith graduated from 
the Hight School. Delaware. He graduated 
from Starling College, 1901. After register- 
ing, he moved to Columbus, where he is now 

making the treatment of the eye a specialty. 

* * * 

Dr. George F. Foster, of Olive Green, 
bought out Dr. E. B. Mosher about 1874. He 
is a graduate of the Starling Medical Col- 
lege. 

* ^ * 

Dr. Charles E. Kinney graduated from 
Michigan University at Ann Arbor Michi- 
gan. 

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Dr. Charles H. Spencer graduated 
from the Chicago Homeopathic Medical Col- 
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Dr. John Bingham Hunt was born in 
McConnellsville, Ohio, in 1829. His educa- 
tion was received there and in Athens County, 
in the country schools. He married Angel me 
Patterson in Delaware County, Ohio, in [852. 
In 1862 he graduated in medicine in the Cleve- 
land Homeopathic Medical College, and be- 
gan the practice of his profession in Welling- 
ton. Ohio, Newark, Ohio, and Indianapolis, 
Indiana. He moved to Delaware. Ohio, in 
[881, where he remained until 1887. From 
there he went to Worthington, Ohio, where he 
successfully conducted a sanatorium. He 
later moved to Westerville, Ohio, where his 
wife died in 1895. Dr. Hunt died in 1906, 
at the age of severity-six years. 

Dr. Maurice P. Hunt, Columbus, Ohio, 
was born in Delaware County. Ohio, in 1853. 
His father. Dr. J. B. Hunt, was directly de- 
scended, in the maternal line, from Miles Stan- 
dish. Dr. Hunt attended private and public 
schools, and acquired his professional educa- 
tion in the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital 
College, graduating with the class of 1879. 
He parcticed in Selma, Ohio, 1879-83; Dela- 
ware, Ohio, 1883-93; Ann Arbor, Michigan, 
1893-95; anc ' m Columbus since 1895, where 
he is now engaged in a large practice. He 
pursued a post-graduate course in the New 
York Polyclinic in 1885. He had charge of 
the Good Samaritan Dispensary, Cleveland, 
Ohio, 1878-79; Huron Street Hospital, 
Cleveland, 1878-79; was professor of Gyne- 
cology in Cleveland Medical College, 1892-93; 
professor of obstetrics and diseases of women 
in the University of Michigan, 1893-95, and 
has been surgeon to the Sixth Avenue Private 
Hospital, Columbus, since 1896. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Homeopathy; 
the Ohio State, (persident in 1897). the Mi- 
ami Valley, and the Northwestern Ohio 
Homeopathic Medical Societies; the Round 
Table, and Magnolia Lodge. A. F. and A. M.. 
of Columbus. While practicing in Delaware 
he was a member of the City Council from 
1888 to 1892. Dr. Hunt married Miss Luella 
Kitchen, of Selma. Ohio, in [881. 



Dr. Calvin Welch was a man of strong 
physique, and large stature, being over six 
feet tall. He had strong likes and dislikes. 
In early life he lacked the opportunities for 
an education ; yet he had great natural mental 
fore. He was born and raised in Delaware. 
He studies medicine under Dr. Abram Blymer. 
and after graduating in the fifties, he became 
a partner of his preceptor. He possessed pe- 
culiar, natural surgical qualifications. He was 
often called in consultation to different parts 
of the county in various cases. He accumu- 
lated a comfortable competency, and retired 
from the practice, living in town in his com- 
modious home. He attended to his farm out- 
side of the city up to the time of his death in 
1 901. He was an active member of the State 
and County Medical Societies. 

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Dr. William McIntvre was born in 
1824 in Bedford County. Pennsylvania. He 
was one of nineteen children, and was of 
Scotch descent. His father came to America 
before the Revolution. His uncle was a sol- 
dier in the Revolution and was killed at the 
battle of Brandywine. The subject of this 
sketch worked at the saddlery and harness 
business with his father. He attended school 
at Bell vi lie when chance afforded the oppor- 
tunity. From early life his great desire was 
to become a doctor. At the age of sixteen, he 
began reading medicine with the old family 
physician, Dr. Deming, in McConnellsville, 
Pennsylvania. In 1842 he came to Columbus, 
Ohio, and was with Dr. Howe for several 
years. In 1848-49 he attended lectures at 
Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. 
He remained one year with his preceptor in 
Franklin County, coming to Millville, now 
Warrensburg, Ohio, in 1850. He was mar- 
ried to Eliza Perry the same year. His wife 
died in 1903. The doctor died in Warrens- 
burg in 1906, at the age of eighty-two. He 
had six children, twenty-four grandchildren, 
and two great-grandchildren. This early pio- 
neer traveled the lonely forests, visiting the 
sick and the afflicted, crossing streams with- 
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muddy roads, often with nothing but the 
blazed trees to guide him, woods to the right 
of him, woods to the left of him, woods all 
about him, braving dangers seen arid unseen, 
enduring hardships unknown to the profes- 
sii hi today, often taking for his fee a pig or a 
calf or a chicken, or other farm commodities. 
Dr. Mclntyre's name was a household word 
throughout a greater portion of the county. 
He was for many years an ardent Democrat; 
but became a staunch Prohibitionist, and re- 
mained an advocate of temperance until the 
time of his death. His brusque and out- 
spoken condemnation of this evil lost him a 
few friends: yet all gave him credit for his 
honesty of purpose. He loved his home, and 
his life was devoted to his Christian wife. 1 lis 
small, but well-selected library, received the at- 
tention of his spare moments. He was a faith- 
ful member and attendant of the State and 
County Medical Societies. Many remember 
him by his quaint sayings, and particularly 
the following: "Doubtful things are very un- 
certain." "There is just as much difference in 
people as there is in anybody." Dr. Mclntyre 
owned about half of Warrensburg. the town 
he lived in. 

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Dr. J. H. Miller came to Delaware in 
1903 from a town in western Pennsylvania. 
He graduated in medicine from the Western 
Pennsylvania College in 1887. He is a mem- 
ber of the State and County .Medical So- 
cieties. 

Dr. Wilber X. Leonard was born in 
Brown Township, Delaware County, Ohio, in 
i860. After finishing his education in the 
common schools and attending for a time the 
"O. W. U.," he entered the office of Dr. John 
O. McDowell, and afterward graduated from 
the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, 
Ohio, in 1884. Soon after his graduation he 
settled in Delaware, where he practiced until 
his death in 1896. He first married Miss 
Clara Wolrley, who died soon after the mar- 
riage. He was married to Miss Grace How- 
ard in 1892. At his death at the age of thirty- 
six, Delaware lost an active and bright physi- 
cian in earlv life. 



Dr. Walter M. Haggett was born at 
Sidney, Ohio, in 1858. He graduated from 
the High School, and graduated in medicine at 
Keokuk, Iowa, in 1887. He first located al 
Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1887. After nineteen 
years of labor in this town, he came to Dela- 
ware, Ohio, in 1907. He bought out Dr. John 
B. W lworth, who left for Texas. 

Dr. E. Luellen was born in Meigs 
County, Ohio, in 1824. He graduated from 
the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati. 
Ohio, about 1863. He read medicine with Dr. 
Granger at Westfield, Ohio. He married Miss 
Nancy Trindele. in 1853, in Westfield. Ohio, 
where he began the practice of medicine in 
1852. He came to Delaware in 1873, and 
returned to Westfield in 1877, where he is 
now in the practice at the advanced age of 
eighty-three years. He always had the confi- 
dence of the people for his true Christian life. 

Dr. J. C. Campbell is a successful prac- 
titioner at Powell. Delaware County, Ohio. 
He was born in Elwin County, in the Province 
of Ontario, Dominion of Canada. He was 
educated in the public schools in his native 
county. He studied medicine with Dr. J. M. 
Penwarden in St. Thomas, Province of On- 
tario, and graduated at the University of Michi- 
gan in the year 1879. He practiced medicine 
in the State of Michigan for two years. He 
then took a post-graduate course at Rush 
Medical College, Chicago. Illinois, from 
which he received a diploma in the year 1882. 
He then located at Powell, Delaware County, 
Ohio, where he has enjoyed a lucrative prac- 
tice ever since. 

Dr. J. W. Avery was born in Delaware. 
Ohio, in 1859. He is a grandson of the late 
Judge Avery, one of the early pioneers of the 
ci unty. His mother was a daughter of Dr. 
James Hill, the sketch of whose life is in this 
article. It will be seen that he descended from 
two of the oldest and most prominent fami- 
lies of the county. After passing through the 
city schools, he entered the office of Dr. W. T. 
Constant, and took his M. D. degree in 1884, 
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Ohio. The same year lie began practice in his 
native town. The next year, 1885, he was 
tendered, and accepted the assistant physician's 
position at the Dayton Hospital for the In- 
sane, where he remained until 1888. He then 
left for western Pennsylvania to enter the 
general practice of medicine. A few years ago 
his health caused him to withdraw for a time 
from practice. He is now in Delaware, wait- 
ing until he is restored in health that he may 
again resume his professional work. 

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Dr. Austin D. Mann was born in New 
Jersey in 1825. He graduated 111 medicine at 
Starling Medical College in 1845. He lo- 
cated in Centre Village the same year, where 
he remained for forty-five years. In 1890 
he moved to Sunbury, where he practiced thir- 
teen years. After fifty-eight years of prac- 
tice in Delaware County he gave up the prac- 
tice and moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he is 
now living with his grandson. He married 
Miss Mary Gorsuch and is the father of two 
girls and ten boys. 

Dr. Charles Francis Talley graduated 
at the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, 
Ohio, on the 5th day of March, 18S6. He lo- 
cated at Hyattsville, Delaware County, Ohio, 
but soon removed to Powell, Delaware County, 
Ohio, where he is now located and is engaged 
in a successful practice. 

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Dr. A. E. Main graduated at the Colum- 
bus Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, Febru- 
ary 27, 1879. He located in Delaware, Ohio, 
and was elected coroner of Delaware County, 
but soon removed to the west, where he is 
still practicing his profession. 

* * * 

Dr. Arthur J. Willey was born in Dela- 
ware County and is the son oi Samuel and 
Ellen E. Willey. He was educated in the 
public schools and at the Ohio Wesleyan Ini- 
versity. He read medicine with Dr. Clovis 
M. Taylor, of Columbus, Ohio, and graduated 
from the Ohio Medical University at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, in April, 1898. He was assistant 
to Dr. Clovis M. Taylor as surgeon to the 
Protestant Hospital in Columbus for about six 



months, and located in Delaware, Ohio, in 
December, 1898, where he has been in the 
practice ever since. He was instrumental in 
the founding of the Jane M. Case Hospital, of 
which Delaware people are so justly proud. 

George W. Morehouse, M. D., was born 
in Kankakee, Illinois, September 16, 1858. 
The family moved to Marengo, Morrow 
County. Ohio, in 1864. In the common schools 
and under the old school masters, he was 
given the foundamental foundation of his edu- 
cation. He, at an early age, began teaching 
in the common schools, and for ten years he 
was sought as a teacher in Knox, Morrow and 
I (elaware Counties. 

While teaching, he began his studies in 
medicine; and in 1886 graduated from the 
Columbus Medical College at Columbus, Ohio. 
He first located in Marengo, Morrow County. 
In the same year he married Miss Luella C. 
Harrison, a daughter of one of the first fami- 
lies in Morrow County. Soon after the mar- 
riage, he moved to Sparta, and entered upon 
an extensive practice, which he held until Sep- 
tember, 1907. when he located in Delaware, 
Ohio, wishing to there give bis children the 
advantages of a higher education. Always 
affable, genial and well qualified in his profes- 
sion, he at once enters upon a promising ca- 
reer. He is, and has always been, a prominent 
Methodist. 

Drs. C. Churchill Croy and Alice B. 
Croy. The last addition to the profession in 
1907 were Dr. C. Churchill Croy, and his wife. 
Dr. Alice Butler Croy. Dr. C. C. Croy was 
born in 1870, and reared at New Dover, Union 
County. Ohio. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools, and began the study of medicine 
in 1893. graduating from the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, in 
1 81 )8. He was elected superintendent of 
Mercy Hospital 1897-1898. In 1898' he lo- 
cated at Bonaparte. Iowa, for a short time, and 
came to Delaware, Ohio, in 1907. 

Dr. Alice Butler Croy was born in Page 
County. Iowa. She attended the common 
schools, and graduated from Harper College 
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medicine at the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1898. She was 
elected matron of Mercy Hospital in 1898 for 
two years. With her husband they had full 
charge of the hospital until they located at 
Bonaparte, Iowa. She. with her husband, came 
to Delaware. Ohio, in 1907, where they are 
engaged in a general practice. 

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Dr. Eugene Wilson was born at Sun- 
bury, Ohio, in 1867. He graduated from the 
National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. 

He read medicine, and graduated from the 

Ohio Medical University in 1906. He located 

in Galena in 1906. He is a member of the 

Presbyterian Church. 

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Dr. Hexry Furniss was born in 1854, 
and reared in Berlin Township. He received 
his education in the common and select schools, 
and in 1S76 was graduated in medicine from 
the Columbus Medical College. He read 
medicine with Dr. Andrews, of Constantia, 
Delaware County, Ohio. He has been in the 
practice at Galena most of the time since 
1 871 i. 

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Dr. F. R. Whitacre was born in Wells- 
ton, Ohio, in 1870. He graduated from the 
Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati. Ohio, in 
1900. and in the same year came to Galena. 
He belongs to the M. E. Church. He removed 
to Prairie Depot, Wood County. Ohio. 

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Dr. V. H. Gorselexe located in Radnor 
in 1876. After remaining there for a few- 
years he moved to Columbus. Ohio, to ac- 
cept the position of physician to the penitenti- 
ary. He graduated at the Columbus Medical 

College. 

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Dr. Titus K. Jones. In 1853, in Troy 
Township, near Delaware, the subject of this 
sketch was born. His father and mother were 
two of the early settlers in this Welch set- 
tlement. The common schools and rural life 
prepared him early in life for teaching, which 
he followed until he took a normal course at 
the Ohio Business College in Delaware ; and a 



course at Ogden Normal School at Worthing- 

ton, Ohio. In the winter of 1878 he com- 
menced reading medicine in the office of Dr. 
S. W. Fowler, at Delaware. Ohio, and gradu- 
ated at the Columbus Medical College in 1883. 
He at once, at the earnest solicitation of his 
Welsh friends and others, located in Delhi, 
now Radnor, Ohio, where he has been the 
leading physician and the most prominent doc • 
tor ever in Radnor or that part of the coun- 
try. In 1890 he married Miss Harsh, of Rad- 
nor, the daughter of the late Caleb Harsh, 
one of the most wealthy men of the county. 
The honesty and high moral principles of Dr. 
Jones have given him the entire confidence 
of all the people be comes in contact with. He 
is a member of the church, a Mason, and an 
Odd Fellow. He has a good wife and four 
children of whom he is justly proud. 

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Dr. A. Shuey is a graduate of the Eclec- 
tic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio. He 
came to Radnor in 1890. After a short time 
he moved to Prospect, Ohio, where he is now- 
practicing. 

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Dr. T. A. Owens, of Pomeroy. Ohio, 
came to Radnor in [892. After a short time 
he moved to Elwood, Indiana. He is a 
graduate of the Columbus Medical College. 

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Dr. Lingle A. Starr came to Radnor in 
1890. but only remained a short time. 

Dr. D. C. Fay is and has been the leading 
physician of Ostrander since he located there. 
He was born in Union County. Ohio, in 1843. 
He attended the High School and the Academy 
at Marysville. Ohio. After finishing his 
studies he read medicine with Dr. J. M. South- 
ard, one of the leading practitioners in that 
county. In 1S64 he attended the Starling 
Medical College, and in 1867 graduated from 
the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati. 
Ohio. He returned home and located at Os- 
trander. Ohio, the same year. He married in 
1 87 1 Miss Marv A. Liggett. He belongs to 
the I. O. O. F.', the I'. & A. M. and K. P. 
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community have made him one of the land- 
marks ; for he is known and appreciated by 
all. He has witnessed many changes in the 
profession, not only in his vicinity, but in the 
county as well. 

jjc sje s(< 

Dr. Erastus Field. The old and much 
respected Dr. Erastus Field began his work 
in Bellpoint, and after eight years moved 
to Ostrander, where he labored until about 
1876, when, with his sou, Dr. J. H. Field, 
who graduated from the Cincinnati College of 
.Medicine in 1870, and who was associated with 
his father, moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. 
The old doctor was brought back to his old 
home for burial several years ago. His son is 

still practicing in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

* * * 

Dr. G. E. Cowels was born in Bellpoint 
in 1862. He attended Columbus Medical Col- 
lege, and located for practice in Ostrander in 
1889. He married Miss Johnston in 1894. 
He is a member of the State and County Medi- 
cal Societies. 

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Dr. G. B. Weller was born in Unit m 
County, Ohio, in J 877. He attended Antioch 
College. He graduated from the Starling 
Medical College in 1901, and located in North 
Lewisburg in the same year. He located in 
Ostrander in 1904. He married Miss Lydia 
Loveless. He is a member of the State and 
County Societies. 

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Dr. Lewis Hamilton located in Ostran- 
der after graduating from the Columbus Medi- 
cal College. After five years he moved to 
Marion, Ohio, where he is engaged in a large 

practice. 

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Dr. Silas Williard Fowler is a son of 
Charles M. and Catherine Ann Fowler, who 
came to Delaware County. Ohio, in 1847. The 
father was an oilcloth manufacturer in New 
York. The doctor was the fourth child, and 
was born in Green County, New York, and 
when one year old came with his parents to 
Porter Township in the eastern part of the 
countv. He, like many others, was educated 



at first in the common schools. At an early 
age he was sent to Central College in Frank- 
lin County, Ohio. After two years in the Col- 
lege he began teaching. By the consent of his 
father, in 1864 he enlisted in the army in the 
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, O. 
V. I. After being mustered out of the serv- 
ice, he entered Oberlin College, where he re- 
mained until the fall of 1868, when he en- 
tered the office of that celebrated surgeon, Dr. 
J. W. Russell, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He was 
one year at -Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend 
the University. In 1871 he graduated from 
the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. While at Jefferson College he 
had the advantages of the lectures of the great 
authors. Gross, Dickson, Wallace, Rand, 
Keen ami Pancoast. After his graduation he 
returned to Delaware and opened an office, his 
father and fanlily having preceded him to 
Delaware in 1869. For thirty-six years he has 
been on the main street, and is one of the six 
business men remaining, who were on the 
street at that time. During all this time he 
has been in the forefront of the practice of his 
profession. He has been a frequent contribu- 
tor to medical journals, and newspapers, and 
for many years was the local correspondent of 
the Cleveland Leader. He has always main- 
tained high professional standing. 

The Doctor has been an extensive traveler. 
He has visited all parts of the United States, 
Mexico, Cuba, the Azores, Africa, Egypt, 
Palestine, Greece, Asia Minor, Turkey, Switz- 
erland, Germany, Belgium, France and Eng- 
land. 

He was raised a Presbyterian, but now 
belongs to the Methodist Church. He is a 
member of Hiram Lodge. F. and A. M.. No. 
18; Delaware Council. No. 84, R. and S. M.; 
Delaware Chapter, R. and A. M.. and Mar- 
ion Commandery, K. T., No. 36. He is a 
member of the Delaware County, the Ohio 
State, and the .American and the Tenth Dis- 
trict Medical .Associations. Pie was twice 
made delegate to the International Medical 
Congress. He prepared the history of the 
medical profession for the old county history 
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the history of the medical profession is re- 
corded to the present time. 

Dr. Fowler has always stood for a high 
standard of medical education and professional 
ethics, always gave his services freely to the 
worthy poor, and has done more literary work 
than most memhers of the profession in the 
county. The Doctor*s natural bent towards 
literature, and his long familiarity with news- 
paper work, has made him one of the most in- 
teresting and profficient writers the county has 
ever produced, and it is to he hoped that he 
will yet put many of his interesting articles 
into the form of a book, so that the public 



may have the benefit of his experience as a 
traveler. The I )< ctor's extended acquaintance 
throughout this county, his lohg profi 
sional career, and his close and intimate asso- 
ciation with the older members of the profes- 
sion who have passed to their reward, have en- 
abled him to prepare this chapter on the medi- 
cal profession with much more accuracy and 
proficiency than it could have been written 
by the author of this history, who has pre- 
pared this sketch of Dr. Fowler's life: and the 
writer hereby wishes to acknowledge his 
gratefulness to him for this full and complete 
chapter on the medical profession. 



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CHAPTER XVI. 



MILITARY HISTORY OF THE COUNTY. 

Revolutionary War — War of 1812 — Seminole War — Mexican War — War of the Rebellion 

— Spanish-A merican 1 1 'asr. 



REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 

The patriotism of Delaware County is one 
of which we can be proud. The bravery of her 
sons has been tested on hundreds of battle 
fields. Many of the early settlers of the county 
were soldiers in our great struggle for inde- 
pendence. This war, however, occurred long 
before there were any settlements made in 
Delaware County. When the Revolutionary 
War closed it found the government weak 
and bankrupt and the soldiers who had fought 
for liberty were forced to accept western lands 
in payment for long years of military service. 
This brought many pioneers to the western 
wilderness and particularly to Ohio, where 
large areas of land were designated as 
"United States Military Lands" and "Virginia 
Military Lands." The land on the east side of 
the Scioto River being designated as the 
United States Military Lands and that on the 
west side of the Scioto River, as the Virginia 
Military Land. These lands were set apart 
for the benefit of the Revolutionary soldiers 
by the United States Government. This caused 
many of the old Revolutionary soldiers to set- 
tle in Delaware County. Peace found them 
broken down in spirit and fortune and when 
lands were offered to them in the West, they 
were ready to accept and to move toward the 
setting sun. Such was the noble and warlike 
stock which made up the early settlers of Dela- 
ware County. The Revolutionary War and 
the causes which led to it arc familiar to all 



our school children and require no special ex- 
planation in this chapter. 

"Where are our sires, our noble sires, 
Those men of toil and early thought 

Who lit our sacred vestal fires, 
A heritage so dearly bought?" 

"Ah ! bright upon historic page, 

Enrolled their names shall ever shine 

With peerless lustre, age on age 

Through bright'ning realm of coming time." 

The following is a list of the soldiers of the 
Revolutionary War who came to Delaware 
County and died within its bounds. 

Adams, David, died and buried in Harlem Town- 
ship. 

Bidlack, Philemon, died in 1844, aged 84 years, buried 
at Sunbury. 

Black, William, Concord Township ; buried at Mill- 
creek Cemetery. 

Brown. Ezekiel. buried at Sunbury. 

Carpenter, Judge Benjamin, buried at Galena. 

Carpenter, Rev. Gilbert, brother of Benjamin, buried 
at Galena. 

Carpenter, Nathan, Liberty Township, buried on Car- 
penter farm. 

Clark, James, served seven years: buried at Marl- 
borough. 

Conklin, David, died in 1858, buried in Orange Town- 
ship. 

Conrad, Cline, buried at Marlborough. 

Curtis, Captain John, taken for burial to Marietta. 

Hillman, John, buried in Stark cemetery, near Olive 
Green. 

Huff, John, died in 1848, aged 85, buried at Sun- 
bury. 

lameson, Robert, buried in old cemetery, Delaware. 

Kooken, James, founder of Bellepoint, buried near 
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Long well. James, probably buried at Berkshire. 

Lott, Ebenezer, buried in Stark cemetery, near Olive 
Green. 

Martin, Jacob, died at Johnstown, Licking County, 
aged 104, buried there. 

McNett, Adam, died 1848, aged 85, buried at Sun- 
bury. 

Monroe, Isaac, buried in Cole cemetery, near Hyatts- 
ville. 

Morgan, Pelatiah, buried at Cheshire. 

Myers, , buried near Galena. 

Pain;, John, Scioto Township, buried in Baptist ceme- 
tery. 

Potter, Joseph, buried in cemetery at Blue Church. 

Rodgers, Bigsby, buried in Burnside cemetery, south 
part of cemetery. 

Root. Azariah, burial place unknown. 

Smith, Daniel, buried at Marlborough. 

Smith, Col. Solomon D., buried in old cemetery, Dela- 
ware. 

Spaulding, Abel, served in Vermont militia, burial 
place unknown. 

Swartz, John, probably buried in Thompson Town- 
ship. 

Taylor, Daniel, died in 1853, aged 93. buried at Sun- 
bury. 

Van Dorn, Gilbert, probably buried at Van's Valley. 

Warrington, John, on Washington's staff : buried in 
Baptist cemetery. 

Wilcox, , buried at Norton cemetery. 

Williams, James, buried at Marlborough. 

Williams, Nehemiah, buried at Marlborough. 

WAR OF l8l 2. 

In the War of 181 2 and the Indian wars 
of that period. Delaware County contained a 
population of but a few hundred but they came 
forward with the same lofty spirit of patriot- 
ism which has ever since pervaded her sons 
and which characterized their Revolutionary 
sires. There were some who had been present 
at the surrender of Cormvallis and others who 
had been with Gates and Green in the south, 
while many others were descendants of such 
heroic stock. 

Two block houses had been built in the 
county for defense from the Indians. One of 
these was situated near Norton in the north- 
ern part of the county and the other just west 
of Cheshire in the southern part. For fuller 
particulars concerning these buildings and in- 
cidents connected with them, see chapter on 
the Indian history of the county. 

It was through the village of Delaware 
that one division of Harrison'- army marched 
"ii their way from Chillicothe to Sandusky; 
having passed along what is now Sandusky 



Street and from this incident the street re- 
ceived its name. Another division passed on 
the west side of the Scioto and from this inci- 
dent received the name of Military Road. 
General Harrison was with the division that 
marched through Delaware and as this was the 
line of march between the north and the south 
it will account for some of the incidents men- 
tioned in what follows. 

At what is known as Cole's cemetery, south 
of Stratford, near and west of the Olentangy, 
in a lone grave, repose the ashes of one of 
our real pioneers, a near relative of one 
of the early piesidents of the United States, 
who was with Washington at Valley Forge 
and at the crossing of the Delaware River 
at Trenton ; that man's name was Leonard 
Monroe. In the shade of a magnificent beech 
tree, which stood in another part of this same 
God's acre, in a long but shallow grave, sleep 
half a score of soldiers of the war of 181 2-1 4. 
who perished while on their way to their 
homes in the vicinity of Chillicothe. They 
were sick and wounded members of General 
W. H. Harrison's army, who were following 
a trail midway between the Scioto and Olen- 
tangy Rivers and had stopped for the night 
under this tree. Weak from hunger and 
wounds, scantily clothed, they were ill pre- 
pared to stand the storm which stole upon 
them like a thief in the night, while they slept 
and dreamed of home and their loved ones. 
Near midnight it began to rain hard and grew 
intensely cold. The rain put out all their fires, 
thoroughly wetting them. It was a night like 
the one experienced by our Boys in Blue on 
New Year's eve in '63 and '64. only much 
more severe. The result was that all but the 
few vigorous and strong ones perished and 
were buried by their surviving comrades in 
that lonely grave. 

There is a tradition which is more than 
probable that the army under General Harri- 
son camped for some time in Delaware. Dur- 
ing this time an epidemic prevailed and a num- 
ber of old soldiers died and were buried 1 
where the Odovene Spring is now located. 
When the Big Four Railroad was built it was 
necessarv to remove these soldiers and the re- 



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mains were gathered together without distinc- 
tion and interred in one grave in what is 
known as the old cemetery, and heing un- 
marked have never been removed. 

"They sleep their last sleep, 

They have fought their last battle ; 

No sound shall awake them to glory again." 

The following is a list of soldiers of the 
War o-f 1812 who lived and died in Delaware 
County, and their burial places. 

Abbott, Charles, died 1853, aged 85, buried at Sun- 

bury. 
Adams, Elias, buried at Cheshire. 
Bartlett, Joel, buried in Oiler cemetery. 
Beach, Israel, Berkshire cemetery; died 1868, aged 77; 

enlisted as substitute under another name. 
Bean, John- buried in Baptist cemetery at Ostrander. 
Bishop, Elisha, buried at Marlborough. 

Bixby, . buried in Burnside cemetery. 

Black, Marshall, buried at Cheshire. 

Boyd, William, buried in cemetery at Radnor. 

Brown, Robert, buried at Ashley. 

Burroughs, , buried at Ashley.' 

Butt, Isaac, buried in Oiler cemetery. 

Carney, Thomas, buried in cemetery of Blue Church. 

Case. Ralph, died in Liberty Township, aged 82, buried 

m Liberty cemetery. 
Caykcndall, Peter, buried in cemetery of Blue Church. 
Cellar, George, member of Capt. Drake's company, 

buried in Liberty cemetery. 
Cellar. John F., member of Capt. Drake's company, 

buried in Liberty cemetery. 
Cellar, Robert, member of Capt. Drake's company, 

buried in Liberty cemetery. 
Cellar. Thomas McCoy, mem. Capt. Drake's company. 

buried in Liberty cemetery. 
Clawson, Elder, buried 111 Burnside cemetery. 
Cline, Henry, buried at Marlborough. 
Cole, Joseph, buried at Marlborough. 

fare, Peter, buried in cemetery at Radnor. 
Copeland, Week-, buried in Burnside cemetery. 
1 orbin Reuben, buried in Oiler cemetery. 
Covell, Calvin, buried in Oak Grove cemetery. 
Cowgill. Thomas, buried in Oak Grove cemetery. 
Crawford, James \\ , father of James M., buried in 

( 1,1k < ini\ e. 
, Kail, buried ai Ashley. 
Cunningham. Joseph, buried in Oak (.1 
Curren, Joseph buried .'11 Marlborough. 
Curtis, Marcus, buried at Galena. 
1 ds, William, buried at Radnor. 
Decker, Joseph, born 1786, died [863, buried at Bokes- 

creck. 
Decker Moses, buried at Sunbury. 
Dildine, Ralph, buried at Radnor. 
I ill, nil-. Michael, born ij.sj, died [849, buried at 

Boki ;cn 
Dobson, John, buried a' Gn ■• cemetery. 
I i' idds, )' iseph, buried ;il I ■ 
Ferson, Samuel, buried in cemetery al \irica. 



Fisher, Jacob, buried at Berk-hire; born I7=;9, died 
1843. 

Fisk. Claudis L., buried at Ashley. 

Freese, John, buried in Oiler cemetery. 

Gillis, James, buried in Liberty cemetery. 

Grigsby, John, buried in Oiler cemetery. 

Hardin, John, played the fife six miles without stop- 
ping ; buried at Liberty. 

Harris, David, buried in cemetery at Old Eden. 

Harrison James, buried in cemetery at Olive Green. 

Harter, John, buried at Oak Grove. 

Haskins, James, buried at Cheshire. 

Haszlett, Jacky, buried in cemetery at Olive Green. 

Hevelo, David Stapleford, buried in cemetery at Old 
Eden. 

Hill, Caleb, buried at Radnor. 

Hillman, Aaron, buried in cemetery at Olive Green. 

Horner, John, buried at Olive Green. 

Howlett, Heman, buried in cemetery at Cheshire. 

Hughes, Rev. Joseph S., buried in Oak Grove ceme- 
tery. 

Hultz, Jesse, buried in cemetery at Cheshire. 

Hurlburt, Lee, buried in cemetery at Africa. 

Ingram, Isaac, buried in Oiler cemetery. 

Jackson, James, buried at Oiler cemetery. 

Jacobus. John C, buried at Trenton. 

James, Robert, died 1876, aged 82, buried at Sun- 
bury. 

Jameson, Robert, buried at Oak Grove. 

Johnson, Zachariah, buried at Oak Grove. 

Johnson, David, buried at Marlborough. 

Jones, Abrarrl, buried in the Oiler cemetery. 

Kelly, James, buried at Olive Green. 

Kepple, Abraham, buried at Radnor. 

Kirk. John, buried at Bokescreek. 

Lawrence, John, buried at Fairview. 

Lawson, Peter P., died 1852, buried in Oak Grove 
cemetery. 

Lewis, Dr. John, buried at Cheshire. 

Little, William, died March, 1848; buried in Oak 
Grove. 

Long, Daniel, buried in cemetery at Millcreek. 

Longwell, Ralph, buried at Old Eden. 

Lott, Joseph, buried at Olive Green. 

Loveless, John, buried in Oiler cemetery. 

Main, Eleazer, buried in Marlborough. 

Main, Timothy, buried at Marlborough. 

Marley. Frank, buried in Oiler cemetery. 

Martm, Benjamin, buried at Marlborough. 

Mather, , taught school in Delaware. 

McCoy. Robert W., buried in Oak Grove cemetery 

McCumber, Jeremiah, buried at Eversole', south of 
G. I. H. 

McKinney, Josiah, buried in cemetery at Liberty. 

Meeker, Forest, under Gen. Harrison; buried in Oak 
Grove cemetery. 

Monroe. Leonard, the old Cole cemetery, south of 
Stratford. 

Newhouse, Anthony, born 1772, died 1851, buried in 
Newhouse cemetery. 

Oiler, George, buried in Oiler cemetery. 

Oiler, Jacob, buried in < lller cemetery. 

Omble, Martin, buried in Oiler cemetery. 

Orcutt, Sylvester, died [866, aged 83, buried at Sun- 
bury. 
Patrick, Benjamin, died [843, aged 68, buried at Sun- 
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Perry, Robert, buried at Radnor. 

Philips, John, buried at Radnor. 

Pierce, Co. Joshua, buried in Burnside cemetery. 

Piper. Adam, buried at Center Village. 

Potter, Gilbert, buried in cemetery at Blue Church. 

Powers, Avery, killed by Indians near Sandusky. 

Randolph, Marsh, no record of burial place. 

Ray. Rowland, buried in Ollen cemetery. 

Rhode-, William, buried in Eversole cemetery, south of 
G. I. H. 

Ripley. Thomas, buried at Radnor. 

Roberts. Hezekiah, buried in Burnside cemetery. 

Ryant, John, buried at Cheshire. 

Salesbury, John, buried in Oiler cemetery. 

Salmon, Joohn. died April 14. 1S04. probably buried 
in Eden. 

Sewell, Henry, buried at Cheshire. 

Shahan. Joshua, died in Belmont county. 

Sharp, William F.. buried at Marlborough. 

Slack, John, buried at Cheshire. 

Smead, Livingston, gth Va. Vol. ; buried in Newhouse 
cemetery. 

Spaulding, Micah, buried at Marlborough. 

Sprague, Col. P., buried in old cemetery, Delaware. 

Stover, Benjamin F., burial place unknown. 

.Stratton, Isaac, buried at Marlborough. 

Swartz, Sebastian, died 1822. buried probably at ceme- 
tery near Thompson. 

Swartz, Henry, probably buried in cemetery near 
Thompson chapel. 

Van Deman, Henry, buried in Oak Grove at Dela- 
ware. 

Waldron, George, no record of burial. 

Wheaton, Esquire, buried at Trenton. 

White, . no record of burial. 

Williams, Hosea, Q. M. Dep't. ; buried in Oak Grove 
cemetery. 

Woodstock, Cornelius, buried in cemetery at Blue 
Church. 

Worline, Adam, buried in old cemetery in Delaware. 

Worline, John, buried in Marlborough. 

Worline, Michael, buried at Marlborough. 

A number of these old soldiers of 181 2 are 
buried at what is known as Wyatt cemetery, 
just over the northern line of Delaware County 
in Marion County, who lived within the boun- 
daries of this county but their names could not 
and probably will never be obtained. 

"\ dirge tnr the brave old pioneers 

111- muffled drums resound! 
Our warriors are slumbering here 

Near to their battle-ground ; 
For not alone with beasts of prey, 

The bloody strife they waged, 
But foremost in the deadly fray. 

Where savage combat r;i 



SEMIXOLE INDIAN WAR. 



Two from this county served in this war. 
namely Pinckney Lugenbeel and Calvin T. 



Townley. Mr. Lugenbeel was the first to re- 
ceive an appointment as a cadet to the military 
school at West Point. He graduated with 
honor in 1840 and after his graduation was 
sent to take part in this conflict, serving later 
in the Mexican War. Mr. Townley was 111 
the U. S. Marine Corps. 

THE MEXICAN WAR. 

After the War of 1812 and the Indian 
wars aco unpanying it, the people of Delaware 
County were no more disturbed until the Mex- 
ican War. The circumstances which led to 
this contest resulted from the admission of 
Texas into the American Union. The "Lone 
Star" State,. by which name this state had been 
known, was a province of Mexico, had seceded, 
and for years its citizens had been carrying on 
a guerrilla warfare with the mother country, 
with varying results. In 1836 a battle had been 
fought in San Jacinto, at which Santa Anna, 
dictator of Mexico, was captured and his 
whole army either killed or made prisoners. 
Santa Anna was held in strict confinement 
and finally signed a treaty acknowledging the 
independence of Texas ; but in violation of the 
treaty, the Republic of Mexico treated Texas 
and its inhabitants just as she had previously 
done. From this time on petitions were fre- 
quently presented to the United States govern- 
ment, asking admission into the Union. Mex- 
ico used every means possible to prevent the 
admission by declaring that her reception would 
be regarded as a cause for declaration of war, 
thinking thus to intimidate the United State-. 
In the presidential contest of 1844 between 
Clay and Polk, the annexation of Texas was 
one of the leading issues before the people. 
Mr. Polk favored the admission and was elec- 
ted and this was taken as a public declaration 
on the subject. After this election Congress 
did not hesitate to grant the petition of Texas, 
and on the first of March, 1845. formally re- 
ceived her as a part of the United State*. 
Mexico at once broke off all relations with the 
United States and called home her mini-tor. 
which was equivalent to a declaration of war. 
Congress immediately passed an act. authoriz- 



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ing the president to accept the service of fifty 
thousand volunteers and made an appropria- 
tion of ten millions of dollars to carry on the 
war. 

The war feeling swept over the country 
and its patriotism was aroused to the highest 
pitch of excitement. In the call of the presi- 
dent for fifty thousand men, Ohio was required 
to furnish three regiments. Delaware County 
was ready to do her part. Cincinnati was the 
place of rendezvous. 

Mr. Z. L. White, who is now vice-presi- 
dent of the City National Bank at Columbus, 
Ohio, was one of the Mexican War soldiers 
from Delaware County. 

The following list of soldiers that served 
in the war with Mexico, from Delaware 
County, includes the names of a few who en- 
listed elsewhere, but became citizens of the 
county after the war : 

Albright, Samuel. 

Bill, Daniel, private, Co. E, 4th O. V. I. 

Bogan, J. M. C, private, Co. E, 4th O. V. I. 

Borgan, Joseph. 

Boyd, William, private in Capt. Hawkin's ind. com- 
pany. 

Brentvvell, Isaac, private, Co. E, 4th O. V. I. 

Brithartz, Lewis. A., sergt., Co. F, 3d O. V. I. 

Carpenter, Dorman, private, Co. B, Mounted In- 
fantry. 

Clark, Lewis H. 

Crawford, A. J., private, Co. B, 1st O. V. I. 

Crawford, Thomas J„ private, Co. B. 4th O. V. I. 

Cryder, George S., private in a Perm, regiment. 

Cutler, James, private, Co. E, 2nd U. S. I. 

Daily, Nathan, killed at the battle of Buena Vista. 

Davis. John R., private. Co. E, 4th O. V. I. 

Deppen, Hiram, private, Co. E, 4th O. V. I. 

Deppen, Lucius, private, Co. E, 4th O. V. I. 

DePugh, Calvin, enlisted in New York in U. S. regu- 
lars. 

Foreman, Alfred, buried in Millcreek, Co. E, 4th O. 
V. I. 

Hanover, John, private in Co. F, 2nd O. V. I. 

Hay. Jacob, 2nd Reg't, died Nov. 15, 1847. at Jalapa, 
Mexico. 

Hinton, Edgar, enlisted in Col. Donephan's command. 

Lawson, Oris. 

Linder, Charles, 

Linder, Jacob. 

Maddox, Bednigo. 

Moore, Abel, 2nd lieut. Co. E, 4th O. V. I. 

Olds, Henry, private, Co. H, 2nd O. V. I. 

Osgood, Berard. 

Parks, Tine. 

Powers, Hiram, member of the Texas Rangers. 

Riddle. J. 

Rogers, Joseph, private Co. I, 1st O. V. I. 

Roman, Dorrence. 



Rose. Calvin, private, Co. E, 4th O. V. I. 
Slife, Phillip, private in Capt. Duncan's ind. Co. 
Slife, Samuel, private in Capt. Duncan's ind. Co. 
Smith, Lewis, corp. in Co. B, U. S. Mounted Rifle- 
men. 
Taylor, George, private, Co. D, 2nd O. V. I. 
Trout, Amos, private, Co. E, 4th O. V. I. 
Trout, Joseph, private, Co. E, 4th O. V. I. 
Wasson, William. 

WAR OF THE REBELLION. 

After the war with Mexico, comes the 
War of the Rebellion, the greatest struggle in 
the world's history, occurring in the years 1861 
to '65. Any history of Delaware County that 
did not contain some record of this great 
struggle would not be complete. Nothing will 
be of greater interest to coming generations 
than a true and faithful account of the events 
of those five long and gloomy years. 

"Armies met in the shock 
Of war, with shout and groan, and clarion blast, 
And the hoarse echoes of the thunder-gun." 

We owe it as a duty to the soldiers who 
took part in this struggle to record and pre- 
serve the leading facts and to preserve the 
names of the living and dead who freely of- 
fered their lives for this cause. 

Delaware County furnished about twenty- 
five hundred men in this great struggle. They 
were represented in almost every regiment that 
went from the State and in many regiments 
from other states and in many regiment^ of 
United State troops, were the state from which 
they had enlisted is not indicated. 

In the first call for three months' service 
Delaware County was largely represented. 
The first regiment in which this county is 
represented, was the Fourth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry. It was organized in April, 1861, 
at Camp Jackson, Columbus, under the old 
militia law of the state. This regiment con- 
tained two full companies from Delaware 
County. The first was Company C. which was 
recruited by Capt. James M. Crawford. The 
officers were: James M. Crawford, captain; 
Eugene Powell, first lieutenant ; and Byron 
Dolbear, second lieutenant. Lieutenant Powell 
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other company, of which he was elected cap- 
tain, and mustered in as Company I. 

A few days after the President's call 
for three years* men, a majority of the regi- 
ment, including almost the entire companies 
of Captains Crawford and Powell signified 
their willingness to enter the service for that 
period and were mustered in for three years. 
The regiment endured hard service and was 
engaged in many battles. 

The Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry 
was the next regiment in which Delaware 
County was represented. The regiment was 
organized for three years service at Camp 
Chase, in September 1861. Delaware County 
was represented by Company D, which was 
recruited by C. H. McElroy to the number of 
fifty men, with whom he reported to Col. 
Whitlesey and was assigned as Company G 
and was mustered into service. V. T. Hills 
was commissioned as second lieutenant, under 
which authority he returned to Delaware and 
recruited the company to its full number and 
the assignment was then made as Company 
D. C. H. McElroy was elected captain, V. T. 
Hills, first lieutenant, and Henry Sherman. 
second lieutenant. 

The company soon became one of the best 
drilled in the regiment and when the colors 
were received, they were assigned to Com- 
pany D. 

After valiant service during the three 
years, the original members, (except veterans) 
were mustered out and the organization com- 
posed of veterans and recruits was retained 
in service until July 15, 1865, when it was 
mustered out in accordance with orders from 
the War Department. 

The Twenty-sixth 0. J'. I. — The Twenty- 
sixth O. V. I. contained much material from 
this county. Company C was recruited largely 
in the vicinity of Ashley and was mustered 
into the three years service in August. 1861. 
Jesse Meredith was captain; E. A. Hicks,, 
first lieutenant ; and William Clark, second 
lieutenant. 

This regiment bore a conspicuous and hon- 
orable part in nearly all of the battles along 
the Tennessee and around Chattanooga. The 



regiment was honorably discharged at the close 
of the war. 

The Twenty-eighth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first 
and Thirty-second regiments contained many 
members from Delaware County, especially 
Company I of the Thirty-second, which was 
largely recruited from this county, of which 
Jay Dyer was captain. The Forty-third and 
Forty-eighth contained many men also re- 
cruited in Delaware County. 

The Sixty -sixth O. V. I. — This regiment 
was organized under the President's second 
call for troops, and was mustered into service 
on the seventeenth of December. 1861. It 
contained two companies, E and K. from this 
county. It did valiant service in the Army of 
the Cumberland and was with Sherman on the 
march from "Atlanta to the sea." 

The Eighty-second 0. V. I. — This regiment 
drew one company from Delaware County, 
namely. Company I, of which the following 
were the first officers : George H. Purely, cap- 
tain ; Alfred E. Lee, first lieutenant, and H. 
M. Latzenberger, second lieutenant. On the 
thirty-first of December, 1861, the regiment 
was mustered into the service with nine hun- 
dred and sixty-eight men. Few regiments 
from this State performed better service or 
did more hard fighting than the Eighty-sec- 
ond. 

The Ninety-sixth 0. V. /.—The Ninety- 
sixth Regiment was organized at Camp Dela- 
ware, August 19, 1862, to serve three years. 
Two companies of this regiment were re- 
cruited in Delaware County, namely. F and 
G. The first officers of Company F were S. 
P. Weiser, captain; J. N. Dunlap, first lieuten- 
ant, and H. C. Ashwell, second lieutenant; 
of Company G, J. H. Kimball, captain: H. J. 
Jarvis, first lieutenant ; E. M. Eastman, sec- 
ond lieutenant. The regiment did service 
along and west of the Mississippi, extending 
as far as the southern cost of Texas. It was 
consolidated into a battalion of five companies, 
November 18, 1864, and on July 7. 1865, 
was mustered out by order of the War De- 
partment. 

The One Hundred and Twenty-first 0. J'. I ■ 
— This regiment was organized at Camp Dela- 



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ware, the old camp of the Ninety-sixth, in 
September, 1862. Four companies were largely 
drawn from Delaware County — Companies C, 
D, H and K. This regiment did valiant ser- 
vice in the Army of the Cumberland and par- 
ticularly in all the battles in the vicinity of 
Chattanooga, Tennessee. The regiment was 
mustered out of service June 8, 1865, by order 
of the War Department. 

The One Hundred and Forty-fifth O. V. I. 
— In the spring of 1864 the cry was "( >n 
to Richmond." A council of war was held at 
Washington, in which the governors of Ohio, 
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa took part. Gen- 
eral Grant desired seventy-five thousand more 
troops before beginning his march to Rich- 
mond. The governor of Ohio, on returning 
home, called into service the Ohio National 
Guard; these governors having pledged to 
furnish seventy-five thousand troops within ten 
days for one hundred days' service. The call 
was responded to with few exceptions and all 
were on the field within the time designated. 
Many of these men lived on farms and had 
made no plans for being absent, and many oi 
them were persons who had been exempted 
on account of age or physical disability. The 
above regiment was largely composed of Dela- 
ware County men. The regiment was or- 
ganized at Camp Chase on the twelfth of May, 
1864, and was immediately ordered to Wash- 
ingt; n City. Upon its arrival it was assigned 
to General Augur for defense of Washington. 
The service of the regiment consisted prin- 
cipally of garrison and fatigue duty, in which. 
during the whole period, it was constantly em- 
ployed. It was drilled in both infantry and 
heavy artillery tactics. Although not en- 
gaged in battle during the term of service, it 
took the place of veteran soldiers who were 
permitted to re-enforce General Grant in his 
advance on Richmond. The regiment was 
mustered out at Camp Chase on August 23, 
[864, 

The (hie Hundred and Seventy-fourth 0. 
V. I. — This regiment was , me of the last regi- 
ments raised in the State to serve one year, 
and was composed largely of those who had 
served in other regiments. This regiment and 



also the One Hundred and Eighty-sixth num- 
bered many soldiers in their ranks from Dela- 
ware County. 

Tlie Eighteenth United States Regulars — 
This regiment drew one full company and 
part of another from Delaware County, both of 
which did valiant service during the entire 
war. To find a complete record of this regi- 
ment, the reader is referred to the roster of 
the United States troops. 

Besides those who served in the infantry, 
a large number served in various cavalry regi- 
ments of the State, reference to which is made 
in the roster of Delaware Count)- soldiers 
which follows. Also a few from this county 
served in the navy, record of which is also 
made. Quite a number from Delaware County 
served in the Second Regiment of Ohio Heavy 
Artillery, and some in the independent organ- 
izations. 

Delaware County has been fruitful in pro- 
ducing men who have become prominent in 
the history of our country. Four of her sons 
became generals during the war of '61 to '65. 

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Major-General Rutherford B. Hayes 
was born in Delaware, October 4, 1822. He 
studied law with Thomas Sparrow at Colum- 
bus and graduated from the law school at 
Harvard College. At the outbreak of the 
Civil War he offered his services and was 
appointed a major of the Twenty-third Ohio 
Infantry, June 7, 1861 He was promoted 
to lieutenant-colonel. November 4, 1861. On 
October 15, 1862, be was promoted to colonel 
of the Ninety-second Regiment. He dis- 
tinguished himself by heroic conduct at the 
battle of Winchester and was disabled at the 
battle of South Mountain. For his gallant 
service in these and other battles he was ap- 
pointed brigadier-general. October, 1864. He 
had three horses shot under him and was 
wounded four times. He served two years in 
Congress, three times was elected governor 
of Ohio, and served one term as President of 
the United States. The old Hayes homestead 
still stands in Delaware on East William 
Street, and should he preserved as a memorial 
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William Stark Rosecrans was a native 
of Delaware County. He was born on a farm 
south of the Blue Church, in Kingston Town- 
ship, September 6, 18 19. Young Rosecrans 
was possessed of great energy of character 
and mainly through his own individual ex- 
ertion he gained admission into the Military 
Academy at West Point. At this place he was 
known as a diligent student. After his gradu- 
ation he entered the Engineer Corp of the 
regular army as brevet second lieutenant, and 
was assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe. 
After serving in this capacity for a time, he 
resigned his position and resided in Cincinnati 
until the breaking out of the Rebellion. From 
the moment that war was declared, Rosecrans 
gave his time and thoughts to no other sub- 
ject. He devoted this time to organizing and 
drilling the Home Guards against any sudden 
rush over the border from the South. When 
Governor Dennison appointed McClellan 
major-general of the Ohio militia, he accepted 
the position of engineer on his staff and pre- 
pared a camp for instruction of the volun- 
teers that were now pouring into camp. On 
June 9 he was commissioned chief engineer 
of the State and a few days later was made 
colonel of the Twenty-third Ohio and assigned 
to the command of Camp Chase. Four days 
afterwards, he received a commission as 
brigadier-general in the United States army. 
From this time the record of General Rose- 
crans is familiar to all readers of the history 
of the great rebellion. He died a few years 
ago and his remains were buried in Arlington 
Heights overlooking the city of Washington, 
D. C. At this time only a small monument 
marks his grave. Here we will leave him and 
like many another deserving individual 

"The flame 
Has fallen, and iN lush and fitful gleams 
Perchance have faded, but the living fires 
Still glow beneath the ashes." 



General J. S. Jones was born in Cham- 
paign County. Ohio, February 12. [836. 
Passing his boyhood days mi the farm and 



attending the district schools. March 3, 1853, 
at the age of seventeen years he entered the 
preparatory department of Ohio Wesleyan 
University, applying himself to such manual 
labor as he could secure about the town to de- 
fray the expenses of his college course. He 
was graduated in the scientific course, June 
13, 1855, and then turned his attention to the 
study of law. He prosecuted his studies in 
the office of Powell & Van Deman at Dela- 
ware, and was admitted to the Bar in 1857. 
When the dark cloud of the Civil war cast 
its shadow over the national horizon in 1801, 
Mr. Jones resigned his position to which he 
had been elected, that of prosecuting attorney, 
and enlisted on April 16, of that year in 
Company C. 4th O. V. I. He was soon 
elected first lieutenant of his company, his 
commission dating from the date of his enlist- 
ment. He was in many battles during the 
war. He was promoted to a captaincy in 1862. 
He served as a member of the Legislature and 
in the congress of the United States. On 
the twenty-seventh of June, 1865, he was 
breveted brigadier-general for "gallant and 
meritorious service during the war." 

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Eugene Powell was born in Delaware, 
November 18, 1834. When Lincoln made his 
first call for troops at the outbreak of the 
war, he enlisted as a captain in the Fourth 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served in this 
capacity until October, 1861, when he was 
made a major in the same regiment. He was 
appointed lieutenant-colonel of the One Hun- 
dred and Ninety-third and March 13. 1865. was 
made brigadier-general. General Powell re- 
mained in the army until the close of the war 
and on his retirement. Secretary of War Stan- 
ton offered him. the rank of major in the regu- 
lar army, which he did not accept. He held 
many positions of trust throughout his long 
and busy life. He commanded the respect of 
all and numbered, throughout the State, a 
large circle of sincere friends. 

Of the minor offices from that of colonel 
down, Delaware County furnished a large 
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EXPLANATORY NOTE. 

So far as diligent and patient research 
could find the record, the following roster 
presents the name of every soldier who went 
from Delaware County in the War of '6i-'65, 
and many who enlisted elsewhere but are now 
living or have lived in the county. Where 
no other mention is made, the enlistments were 
usually within the county. Where the soldier 
is credited with veteran service the re-enlist- 
ment was usually in the same regiment unless 
otherwise stated. Although as our title indi- 
cates it is mainly composed of the rank and 
file of those who fought and won our vic- 
tories, it also includes general staff and field 
officers, where such belong to the county. A 
brief record of the Ohio regiments in which a 
company or more from Delaware County 
served, has been given, and we believe the 
children and children's children of the soldiers 
of the county have just cause for pride in con- 
necting their names with the roster by com- 
pany and regiment and the achievements of 
these troops. For a list of the battles and en- 
gagements of the war in which these brave 
men took part, we refer the reader to the 
many histories of the war. In preparing this 
chapter, the writer, while sparing no effort to 
make it a full and complete roster of Delaware 
county's troops in the War of the Rebellion, 
is aware that many errors may be found and 
smiie names not obtained. We believe our 
patrons, realizing the magnitude of the work, 
will not be unduly critical, when such errors 
occur. The chapter has grown beyond the 
limits expected and it is believed the soldiers 
for whom it has been written will appreciate 
the result obtained. The following is the 
key to the abbreviations used in the roster : 

A. C. — army corps. A. D. C. — aide-de- 
camp. Adjt. — adjutant. App. — appointed. 
Art. — artillery. Artif. — artificer. Bat. — bat- 
tery. Batn. — battalion. Bet. — between. Brew 
— lire vetted. Brig. — brigade. Capt.— cap- 
tain. Cap. — captured. Cav. — cavalry. Co. — 
company and county. Col. — colonel. Com. 
— commissioned. Corny. — commissary. Corp. 
— corporal. Consol. — consolidated. Det. — 



detailed. Dis. — discharged. Disab. — disa- 
bility, disabled. Div. — division. E. — enlisted. 
Eng. — engineers. Gen. — general. H. A. — 
heavy artillery. Hd. Qtrs. — headquarters. 
Hosp. — hospital. Indp. — independent. Inf. 
— infantry. Isl. — island. L. A. — light artil- 
lery. Lieut. — lieutenant. M. O. — mustered 
out. Mt. — mountain. Ord. — orderly. Pro. 
— promoted. Prov. — provost. Q. M. — quar- 
termaster. Reg. — regiment, regimental. Res. 
— resigned. Sergt. — Sergeant. Squad. — squad- 
ron. S. S. — sharpshooters. Sta. — station. 
Stew. — steward. Trans. — transferred. Twp. 
— township. V. I. — volunteer infantry. V. 
V. I. — veteran volunteer infantry. V. C. — 
volunteer cavalry. V. V. C. — -veteran volun- 
teer cavalry. Vet. — veteranized. W R. C. — 
veteran reserve corps. 

Abbott, Elijah, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Abrams, John, Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Abrams. Marion, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. ; died on hospital 

boat Jan. 13, 1863. 
Adams, Augustus, mem. "Berkshire Gray Guards ;" and 

Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Adams, Francis M.. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Adams, Henry P., Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Adams. Jesse, corp. Co. K. 121st O. V. I., died Aug. 

12, 1869. 
Adams, John, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Adams, Joseph J., Co. A, 95th O. V. I.; disabled at 

Richmond, Ky. 
Adams, Milo S., Co. K. 121st O. V. I. 
Adams, W. L., Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Adkins, Charles I., Co. K, 27th O. V. I. 
Adkins, William H.. Co. G, 48th Ind. V. I. : died 1863, 

Stone River, buried there. 
Aigen, Stephen P., Co. C, 4th O. V. I., trans, to inv. 

corps. 
Akum, Peter, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. : mortally wounded at 

Fredericksburg, Va. 
Akum. Samuel, Co. E, 46th O. V. I.; killed at At- 
lanta. 
Akum. William. Co. E. 3rd Mich. Cav. 
Aldrich, David, Co. C, 26th O. V. I. and Co. C, 10th 

O. V. C. 
Aldrich, Davidson, Co. C, 26th O. V. I. ; died in hosp., 

Charlestovvn, W. Va. 
Aldrich, Elias, Co. D. 65th O. V. I., served last year of 

war in Co. G, 88th. 
Aldrich. Jarvis, Co. D, 121st O. V. I., killed at Chicka- 

mauga. 
Aldrich, John M., Co. A, 76th O. V. I. 
Aldrich, Nelson C. bat.. 2nd O. V. H. A. 
Aldrich. Reuben, Co. C, 96th O. V. I. 
Alexander, George B., Co. F, 138th Ind. V. I. 
Alexander. Hosea W., Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Alexander. Joseph C. Co. K, 66th O. V. I., wounded 

at Culpepper C. H. 
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Allen, Arrow B., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Allen, Frank, Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 

Allen, Flavins, E. at Lancaster in an Ohio regiment 

Allen Herman W., hosp, steward 96th O. V. I.; died- 

1863. 
Allen. Heber, corp. Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Allen, lacob, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Allen, Tohn, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Aller, John, Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 
Allison. Thomas, Co. H, list O. V. I. 
Alston, David, 100th U. S. I. 
Anderson, Andrew M., lieut. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. ; 

Qm. 189th O. V. I. 
Anderson, Gillis J., Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 
Anderson, Charles, 127th O. V. I. 
Anderson. John A., 1st lieut. 187th O. V. I. 
Anderson, George, Qm. 127th O. V. I. 
Anderson, Robert, sergt. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Anderson, Samuel, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Anderson. William, Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 
Andrews, John A.. Co. B, 46th O. V. I. : died at Chat- 
tanooga. 
Andrews, Isaac, Co. I, S2nd O. V. I. ; killed in battle. 
Andrews, William G., Co. B, 46th O. V. I. 
Angell, Gideon C, Co. I, nth Pa. Cav. 
Armstrong. Edson S., Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
Armstrong, George, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Armstrong, J. Hamilton, Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 
Armstrcng, J. S., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Armstrong, Jared E.. Co. A, McLaughlin's Squadron. 
Armstrong, Samuel, Co. E, 75th N. Y. V. I. 
Armstrong, Win., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Arnold, Charles, sergt. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Arnold, Gardner, Co. A. 31st O. V. I. 
Arnold, Irwin B., sergt. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Arnold, John S., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Arnway, Xicholas, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Arthur, Anson. Co. D, 120th Cav. 
Arthur, F. T., Co. C, I2tst O. V. I. 
Arthur, Francis T., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Ashbrook. Welcome, Co. C, 15th O. V. I. 
Ashwell, Francis D., Co. E. 18th 111. V. I. 
Ashwell, Henry C, in 3rd O. V. I., 96th O. V. I. and 

Col. 145th O. V. I. 
Ashwell, Nelson, E. at age of 17, Co. C, 82d O. V. I. 
Ashwell, Richard, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Askins. Addison, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Atkinson, David, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Atkinson, George. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Author, X. B., 2d lieut. Co. B, 187th O. V. I. 
Axton, Thomas H., Co. A, 179th O. V. I., age 15 

years 
Avers. Jacob, Co. I, 82d O. V. I., E. at age of 15. 
Avers. John, Co. C, 121st O. V. I., killed at Perrys- 

ville. 
Avers, Thomas. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Avers, William, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Avne. Tohn J.. Co. G. 45th O. V. I. 
Babbit, Cvrus B., Co. F, 1st Bat., 18th U. S. I. 
Bachelor, Bazil. Co. D, 92d O. V. I. 
Bacon, George, 4th O. V. I. 
Bacon, William, Co. F, 43d O. V. I. 
Baglev. Adam, Co. C, 39th O. V. I. 
Bailer, Charles K.. Co. A. 18th U. S. A. 
Bailer. William H., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. (missing in 

action). 
Bailey. Albert C, Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 



Bailey, James, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Bailey, James, Co. B, 187th O. V. I. 

Bailey. Theodore F., Ind Co. Union Light Gu; 

Bailey, Thomas, 133d O. V. I. 

Bailev, William, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Baker, Daniel, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Baker, Joseph. Co. E, 66th O. V. I., and Co. A. 145th 

O. V. I. 
Baker, Robert, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Baker, Samuel, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Baldwin, Charles. Co. B. 55th O. V. I. 
Baldwin, L. S., Co. A. 60th O. V. I. 
Baldwin, S. H„ sergt 48th O. V. I. 
Bancels, Solomon, Co. E, 31st O. V. I. 
Banker, Benjamin, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Banks, John, U. S. N., "The Ohio." 
Barber, Barnabus, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Barcus, James, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Barcus, Rufus. Co. G, inth O. V. I. 
Bardwell Alfred H., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Barker, Andrew, 22d Ind. Bat. 
Barker, Bernard, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Barker, Orlando H., Co. C, 4th O. V. I., and lieut. Co. 

C. 186th O. V. I. 
Barker, Robert M., sergt. Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 
Barkhurst. John W. F., Co. D, 51st O. V. I. 
Barley, Daniel, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Barnes, Abner, Bat C, 2d O. V. H. A. 
Barnes. George, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Barnes, Henry, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Barnes, Homer, President's body guard. 
Barnes, George W., Co. D. 121st O. V. I.; died with 

measles. 
Barnes, L. S., Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 
Barnes, Wheeler. Co. F, 121st O. V. I. 
Barr, J. A, Co H, 121st O. V. I. 
Barr, James, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
Barrett, James, Co. C, O. V. I.; killed at Resaca, Ga. 
Barrett, Joseph J.. Co. B, 136th O. V. I. 
Barrett, William W., E. Sept. 15, 1861. 
Barry, Joshua, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Bartholomew, Chester, Co. D, 121st O. V. I., killed at 

Kenesaw Mt. 
Bartlett, George, Co. C, 4th O. V. I., and Co. C. 145th 

O. V. I. 
Barton, Andrew. Capt. Co. G, 06th O. V. I. 
Barton, Ebenezer, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Barton. Levi. Co. C, 88th O. V. I. 
Bassinger. John. capt. Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Battenfield. L. W, Bat. C. O. V. H. A. 
Battenfield, Milton, 86th O. V. I., and 174th O. V. I.; 

died April 12. 1869. 
Bauman, Henry, musician, Co. C. 15th U. S. I. 
Baxter, George W., sergt. pro. lieut. Co. H. 63d III. 

V. I. 
Baxter, Herod, Co. C. 26th O. V. I. 
Baxter, Philip D., Co. D, 121st O. V. I.: starved to 

death in Andersonville. 1864. 
Baxter. William, Co. D, 121st O. V. I.; killed at 

Cbickamauga. 
Bavers, George L, Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 
Bavler, Charles K., Co. A. 18th U. S. I. 
Bayler, William H., Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 
Beach, Theron A.. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Beard. Emery, Co. G. 145th O. V. I. 
Beard, Roswell, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Beard, Truman, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Beatty, William, Jr., Co. E. 6oth O. V. I. 

Beaver, William, Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 

Beck, John G., Co. B, 14th N. Y. V. I. 

Beck, Thomas, Co. H, 186th O. V. I. 

Beckham, John. Co. I, 4th, and Co. H. 74th O. V. I. 

Beckley, Henry, Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 

Beckley, Samuel, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 

Beckwith, James, Co. D, 27th O. V. I. 

Bedow, Benjamin, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Beddow. Garrett, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Bedford, M. S., Co. B, 1 s?th O. V. I. 

Beach, James W„ Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Beecher, John. 2d Bat. U. S. I. 

Beecher, Mordecai, Co. I, 18th U. S. I. ~^ 

Beiber, James. Co. K. [45th O. V. I. 

Bell, Austin J.. Co. H. 174th O. V. I. 

Bell, Emmett Co., Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 

Bell, John C, Co. A. 60th O. V. I. 

Bell, Joshua A., Co. H, 25th Mo. V. I. ; Qm. 125th 

O. V. I. 
Bell. Robert, Co. I. 4th O. V. I. 
Bell. Stanley, Co. H. 85th O. V. I., and Co. H. 174th 

O. V. I 
Bell, Thomas B., Co. F, 06th O. V. I. 
Bell. William, died during war, G ncord Twp. 
Belta, Wra. G., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Benedict, A. F., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Benedict, Henry, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Benedict, Stephen. Co. D. 65th O. V. I. 
Benedict. William H.. Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Bennett, Emery A., Co. E, 1st Iowa V. C. 
Bennett. Ralph. Co. D. 95th O. V. I. 
Bennett, Russell B., Chaplain Co. I, vd O. V. I. 
Bennett. Willard, Co. E, 31st O. V I 
Benslev, William. Co. C, 20th O. Y. I. 
Benson. Nelson W., Co. C, 15th O. V. I. 
Bentley, E. E., Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 
Benton, Alfred, Co. C, 1st Bat., 15th U. S. I. 
Benton, Benjamin. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Benton, Erastus, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Benton, Henry, Concord Twp, 
Benton, William, Co. A, 60th O. V. I. 
Bergstresser, George, sergt. Co. H, 63d 111. 
Berlett, Johnston C. Co. E. 145th O." V. I. 
Berry, Tames, Co. G, 96th O. V, I 
Berry, James B„ Co. G, 74th O. V. I 
Berry. Samuel, Co'. P.. 121st O. V. I. 
Berry. William G., Co. F, 136 Pa. V. I. 
Besse, Henry, ass't surg. 45th O. V. I. ; surg. 145th 

O. V. I. 
Besse, .Man. .11. Co. 1, 88th O. V. I. 
Bethard, Charles W , Co B, 187th <> V. I. 
Bevan, William, Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 
Bevil, Joseph. [8th U. S. I. 
Bickett, Robert, Co. K. [45th O. V. I. 
Bickle. David, Co. E, [45th O. V. I. 
Bickle, T„ Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Biddle. Henry. Co. K, tilth O. V. I. 
Bieber, John. Co. C. 4th O. V 1 
Bierman, William II., Co. G, 48th Pa. V. I. 
Biglow. Henry C. 
Biglow, O. S.. Co. V. Gov't (in." 
Bill, Daniel. Co. D. 20th ( 1 V. [. 
Billingsly, Robert Co, G, 82d I I. V, I 
Bird, Abner !.. Co, F, 81st 0. V. I. 
Birdsall, John, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Bishop, Bra/ilia. Co. D, r2i^t O. V. I. 
Bishop, Alvin, Co G, r87th O. V. I. 



Bishop. H. H., Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 

Bishop, Henry, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Bishop, James D., Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 

Bishop, Joseph C, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Bishop, Levi, Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 

Black. G.. .3d O. V. I. 

Black, Franklin, 2d lieut. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Black, John, Co. C. 26th O. V. I. 

Black. Wilson. Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Blackbury, Samuel. 

Blackford, Gilbert, M.. Co. F, 147th O. V. I. 

Blackledge, Isaac, served in Ind. reg't ; died during 

war. 
Blaine, Elam J., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Blaine, Samuel, Co. H, 76th O. V. I. 
Blaine, Solomon, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
Blakelee. Henry H„ Co. C, 82d O. V. I. 
Bland. Silas W, Co. C, 49th O. V. I. 
Blanev, Edwardr 86th O. Y. I. ; died in service. 
Blaney, Henry C, Co. K. 121st O. V. I. 
Blanpied, Sauren J., Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 
Blauvelt, Alonzo L., Co. I. 32d O. V. I. 
Blaynev. Edwin R., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Blinn. Newton. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Blue, J. G.. capt. Co. I. .3d O. V. I.; 31 months a 

prisoner. 
Blymyer. Chas. W.. Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Boardman, John E.. Co. K, 17th Mich. V. I. 
Bockoven, Charles O., Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 
Bockoven, William J., Co. E, 82d O. V. I. 
Bogan, Joseph. Co. E. 30th O. V. I. 
Boham. Ephraim, Co. H. 2d O. V. I. 

r.nham, George, Co. E. iXtli U. S. I. 

Boham, George E., Co. — , 26th O. V. I.; killed at 
Crab Orchard. 

Bollinger. Jacob. Co. B, 48th O. V. I., Co. D, 145th 
O. Vol. 

Bolton, Thomas, Co. H. 174th O. V. I.; died during 
war. 

Boone, Daniel, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Boone, John L., Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Borden, George, Co. F, 90th O. V. I. 

Borey. Homer T.. Co. K, 121st O. V. I. Killed. 

B'ist.in. Andrew, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Boston, A. P., Co. D, 88th O. V. I. 

Boston, Henry. Co. D, i2Tst O. V. I. 

Boston. John W.. Co. F. 82d O. V. I. 

Boston, Solomon, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Boston, Thomas, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Boston, William. 45th O. V. I. 

Boudel. George B., Co. H. 45th O. V. I. 

Bowdle, James F., Co. E, 82d O. V. I. 

Bower, Jacob, 5th Ohio Ind. Bat. 

Bower. Daniel, Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 

Bower, Evans. Co. A. 145th "0. V. I 

Bower, Jacob, Co. A, 176th O. V. I. 

Bower Marcus, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Bowi rs, C. W . iSth U. S. I. 

Bowers, I >avi<l. 121st O. V. I. 

Bowersmith, Isaac, corp. Co. I. 87th O. V I. 

Bowman, 1. Co V 5th O. V I 

B yd, Bishop. Co. H, 121st V. I. 

Bradlev. T., G>, E, 145th O. V. I. 

Brake, Joseph M., Co. D, 22d O. V. I. 

Bram, Michael, Co. H. 174th O. V. I. 

Bratton. W. P., Co. D, 43d O. V. I. 

Brecht. Albert T„ Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Brecht, Johnson C. sergt, Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 



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389 



Breckinridge, George A., Co. C, 82d O. V. I. 
Breece, Tobias C, Co. G, 125th O. Y. I. 

Brewer. E. M., corp. Co. F. 15th O. V. I. 
Brewer, William, Co F, 15th O. V. I. 
Breyfogle, Charles D., 4th O. V. I., and capt. 174th 
O. V. ] 

Brevfogle, George R., Gx K. 53d O. V. I. 

Breyfogle, Henry, Co. C. 186th O. V. I. 

Breyfogle, Israel. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Brevfogle, Joshua, Co. C, 4th O. V. I., and 10th O. 
A'. I. 

Breyfogle, Roland C, Co. C, 4th O. V. I, capt. Co. C, 
186th O. V. I. 

Brevfogle. William F., Co. D. 151st O. V. I. 

Brevfogle. William D.. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Bricker, Norman \\\. 2d O. V. H. A. 

Bright, roshua A.. Co. F, 20th O. V. I. 

Bright, Samuel M., Chap. 155th O. V. I. 

Briney, Simcn P.. Co. G. 101st Pa. V. I. 

Brooks, A. J., Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Brooks. Charles, Co. 1, 4th O. V. I. 

Brooks, Cyrus C. Co. A, 178th O. V. I. 

Brooks, Rufus C, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Brown, Albert, Co. A. iS?d O. V T. 

Brown Beverly \\\, Co. K, 2d O. V. I. 

Brown, Daniel, Bat. C. 2d O. V. H. A. 

Brown, Emanuel, 127th O. V. I. 

Brown, Fletcher L„ Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Brown, George W., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Brown James, 174th O. V. I. 

Brown. James B., capt. Co. B. 64th O. V. I. 

Brown. John A., Co. E. 31st O. V. I. 

Brown, Leonard, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 

Brown, Preston. Co. I, 4th O. Y. I. 

Brown, Robert, Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 

Brown, Samuel B., Co. F, 39th Wis. V. I. 

Brown, Thomas, Co. C. 1st U. S. V. 

Brown, William, Co. D, u^th O. V. I. 

Brown, William \V., Co. H. t2ist O. V. I. 

Brown, Wilson, Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 

Brown. W. T., Co. F. nth O, V. I. 

Browning, Albert R., Co. C, 2d O. V. I. 

Browning, Jeremiah, Co. C. 50th 111. V. I. 

Browning, Orrin, Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Brownmiller, Isaac, Co. I, 8id O. V. I. 

Brownmiller, Jeremiah. Co. K, 48th O. Y. I. 

Brownmiller, James, Co. G. iSth U. S. I., and Co. Ff, 
174th O. V. 1. 

Brownmiller. Joseph, Co. H. 174th O. V. I. 

Brownmiller, Reuben, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Brownmiller. Samuel. Co. F. 96th O. V. I.: died at 
Youngs Point, La. 

Bruce, John. Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Brundage, James, Co. F, 43d O. V. I. ; died in ser- 
vice. 

Bruner, Edward, Co. I, 4th O. Y. I. 

Brynds, James P., Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 

Buchannon, Thomas, Co. F, 20th O. V I. 

Buck. Andrew M., Co. D. 65th O. V. I. 

Bump, Winters M., Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 

Bunford, Thomas. Co. A. r 45 th O. Y. I. 

Burch, Adrial, Co. C. 145th O. Y. I. 

Burchbes, Titus, Co. F, 43d O. Y. I. 

Burchiel, Janus, U. S. X. 

Burke, Freeman. Co. K. 121st O V I. 

Burke, Mathew. Co. K. 62d Pa. V. I. 

Burkholder, Lorenzo M., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 



Burnett, Willard F., Co. K, 20th O. V I. and Co E 

31st O. V. I. 
Burney, James X., Co. K, 121st O. V. I 
Burns, John, Co. C, 4th O. Y. I 
Burns, Timothy, Co. M, 6th U. S. C. 
Burroughs, Albert. Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Burroughs, Daniel, Co. F, 96th O. V. I., and Co E 

145th O. Y. I. 
Burroughs, E., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Burroughs, James W., 121st O. V. I. 
Burroughs, Jerome W., Co. F. 96th 6. V. I. 
Burroughs, John W., Co. K, 121st O. V I 
Burton. John W., Co. G, 46th O. V. I. 
Burton, N. N., Co. E, 31st O. V. 1. 
Bush, Lewis, Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 
Butterfield, Svlvester, Co. E.. M3d O V I 
Butts, Charles E., Co. E, 66th 0. V. I. 
Butts, John F., Co. K, and Co. I, 12th Pa V I 
Butts, Robert. Co. A, 179th O. V. I. 
Butts, Thomas, Co. E, 69th Pa. V. I. 
Buxton, Thomas, capt. 66th O Y I 
Byers, Alfred G.. Co. C, 145th O. V. I 
Byers, John, Co. D. 1st O. V. I. 
Byers, John M., Co. B. Steward's Ind. Inf. 
Byers, Levi. Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 
Byers, Thomas M., Co. E, 145th O. V I. 
Cackler, Marion, Co. G, 18th U. S. I. 
Cadwallader, Robert A., Co. C, 86th 6. V. I. 
Cain. Charles, Co. D, 196th O. V. I. 
Campfield, Henry, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Campbell, Andrew J.. Co. H, 10th W. Va. V. I., 2d 

sergt. 
Campbell, David, 61 st X. Y. Y. I. 
Campbell, Ransom, Co. F. 96th O. V I 
Canaday A., Co. A. 2.1 Bat. U. S. I. 
Canady, Monroe, 1 5th U. S. I. 
Canady. Rev. Titos' A., Co. F, Ti3th 111. V. I. 
Camjfield, John Benj., Co. E. 4i>t O. Y. I. 
Canfield, James, 103d O. V. I . 
Canfield, Thomas, 1st O. V. I.; died in hospital at 

Chattanooga. 
Cannon, Joshua, Co. E. 42d O. Y. I. 
Cannon. Morgan, Co. E. 12th O. V. I. 
Cannon, William, Co. C, 49th O. V. I. 
Carhart, Lucius, Co. G, 96th O. Y. I. 
Carmichael, Albert. Co. I, 41b O. V. I. 
Carnahan, John. Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Carnes, Emmett, Co. G, 96th O. V. I., and Co. A, 77th 

O. V. I. 
Carnes, Wm. F. Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 
Carney. Thomas L., Co. F, 95th O. V. I.: died at 

Y ung's Point. 
Carpenter, Albert. Co. D, 121st O. Y. I. 
Carpenter, Augustine, served three years. 
Carpenter, Benjamin F., Co. I, 90th O. V. I. 
Carpenter, Charles. Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 
Carpenter. Ezra. 121st O. V. I.; died in hospital, Dan- 

ille, Ky 
Carpenter. George, Co. F. 17th O. V. I. 
Carpenter. George F... Co. I. 4th O. V. I. 
Carpenter. Henry, Co. D. 121st O. Y I. 
Carpenter. H. R„ Co. K, 145th O. V. I 
Carpenter. James. 18th U. S. I.: died at Louisville. 
Carpenter, John I., Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 
Carpenter. Johnson. Co. C. 32(1 O. V. I. 
Carpenter. Lafayette \\\. Co. H, I2Ist O. V. I. 
iter. Xewell E., Co. D, 27th O. Y. T. 



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Carpenter, Thomas F., Co. D. 27th O. V. I. 

Carpenter, William, Co. D, 121st O. V. I 

Carr, Henry C, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Carr, Albert, Co. I. 82d O. V. I 

Carr, Henry C, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Carr, Jacob, Co. I, 32c! O. V. I. 

Carr, Leander, Co. E>, 145th O. V. I. 

Carr, Peter C, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Carr. P. N„ Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 

Carr, Solmon, Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 

Carroll, John, Co. F, 17th O. V. I. 

Carson, Cicero T., Co. K, 145th O. V. I., sergt. 

Carson, William W., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Carter. William, 'Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 

Case, Cicero, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Case, George, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. : died in Texas. 

Case, G. W„ corp. Co. A, 60th O. V. I. 

Case, F. M., Co. A, 60th O. V. I. 

Case, Henry, Co. C, 66th 111. V. I. 

Case, James H., Co. R, 48th O. V. I. 

Case, John S., Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Case, Joseph H., 66th O. V. I. 

Case, Josiah M.. Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Case, Lester W., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Case, Lewis A., Co. A, 18th U. S. I. 

Case, Oscar, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Case, Oscar I., Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 

Case, Ralph, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Case, Thomas W., Co. A, 60th O. V. I. 

Case, William, Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 

Caulkins, Albert J.. Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 

Caulkins, Christopher, 2d lieut. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Cave, Grattan B., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Cellar, George C, Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 

Cellar, John, capt. Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Cellar, John A. F, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Cellar, John G. F, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Cellar, Joseph A., 15th U. S. I.: died aged 23 vears. 

Cellar, Robert, Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Cellar, Thomas J. and Moses H., Co. K, 145th O. 

V. I. 
Cellar. Wilson F, Co. I, 8ad O. V. I. 
Chadwick, John, Co. C, 88th O. V. I. 
Chamberlain, James H.. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Chamberlain, Oscar W., 1st lieut. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Chambers, Cyrus, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Chambers, Henrv D. 121st O. Y. I. 
Chambers, Horatio G. Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 
Chambers. Nicholas, Co. F, 123 O. V. I. 
Chambers. William. Co. H, 145th O. A'. I. 
Chandler, Robert L„ Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Chandler, William S., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Chapman. John, Co. C. 8sth O. V. I., and Co. G, 

88th O. V. I. Lieut. 180th. 
Chase. O. C, Co. G. 136th O. V. I. 
Chase, Ottawa C, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Cherry, Burroughs. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Cherry. William H. lieut. 63d O. V. I.; killed on 

railroad, 



Clark. 
Clark. 
Clark. 
Clark. 
Clark, 
Clark. 
Clark, 
O 
Clark. 



11 LfdU, 

Andrew N., Co. I). r2lst O. V. I. 

Ub.Trv, Co. II, 174th O. V. I. 
Charles \\\. Co. V 1 1.5th V. I. 
Charh - We li v. Co. II. 174th O. V. I. 
Cicero V., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Elihu, Co. D. t2ist O. V. I. 
George, Co. K, 145th O. V. I.; Co. E, 

V 1 
G rge IT. Co. K. <;sth O. V. I. 



[82d 



Clark, Harrison, Co. D, 65 O. V. I. 

Clark, Isaac. Co. G, 4th O. V. I. 

Clark. Isaac F., sergt. Co. K, 45th O. V. I. 

Clark. Isaac O., Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 

Clark. Joab, Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 

Clark. John, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Clark, John A., Co. I. 15th O. V. I. 

Clark. John M., Co. D, 65th O. V. I., and 8th Regt. 

V. R. C. 
Clark, John W., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Clark, Lewis M., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Clark. Patrick, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Clark. Thompson, Co. B, 46th O. V. I. 
Clark, William, Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Clason, Marshall, capt. Co. B, 121st O. V. I. 
Clawson, Charles, Co. D, 15th U. S. A.; died at An- 

dersonville. 
Clawson. James W.. Co. G, 46th O. V. I. 
Clawson, Cornelius, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Cleary, Patrick, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. ■ 
Clement, Benjamin, Co. C. 113th O. V. I. 
Cleveland, Alexander B., Bat. H, 5th U. S. A. 
Cleveland. Silas H., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. and Co. 

E, vd O. V. I. 
Click. James, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Clifton, David, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Clifton. John, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Cline, Luther. Co. H. 127th O. V. I. 
Clink, R. B.. Co. B. 43d O. V. I. 
Clippinger, W. C, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Clowson, Jesse A., Co. E, 31st O. V. I. 
Cobaugh, Carey W., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Cochran, W. N.. 145th O. V. I. : died in service. 
Cockrell, James M., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Cockrell, William H., corp. Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Cole, C. W., Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 
Cole, Charles W., Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 
Cole, Elias, sergt. Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Cole, James, Co. C, 25th O. V. I. ; accidentally killed. 
Cole. Tohn M., died in service. 
Cole, Marcellus, Co. D. 1st O. V. C. 
Cole, Mathias, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Cole, William, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Colflesh, Jacob C, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Col flesh, Samuel C. Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 
Collins, Timothv D, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Colton, Evan R., Co. G. 46th O. V. I. 
Commager, David H.. Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 
Compton, John R., Co. D. 24th O. V. I. 
Conant. R. B., Co. A, 20th O. V. I. 
Cone, John A.. Co. C, 86th O. V. I., 1st lieut. 145th 

O. V. I. 
Cone, Nelson W., capt. Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Conklin. Adam, Co. V, Gov't Guards. 
Conklin, Cicero, Co. G, 06th O. V. I. 
Conklm. David, Co. C, 15th U. S. I. 
Conklin, Henrv, Co. C. 4th and 66th O. V. I. 
Conklin John, 5th O. I. C. 
Conklin. Martin. 5th O. I. C, and Co. D, 145th O. 

V. C 
Conklin, Peter. 3d O. V. I., and 15th U. S. I. 
Conn, Benjamin F., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Conrad, George B., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Conrad, John J.. Co. A. McLaughlin's Squadron. 
Con rev. Stephen C. 5th O. C. 
Conrev. Robert. Co. ( ,. 06th < >. V. I. 
Constant. W. T.. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

erse, George, 1 )o. C, 4th O. V. I. 



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39' 



Converse, John. 

Conway, Ebenezer, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Conway, Joseph, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Conwav, Lewis W., corp. Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Cook. Emmett, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Cook, Rodney R., e. at Delaware. 

Cook, Rodney B., age 17, e. gunboat, "The Nymph," 
No. 54, Miss. Squad. 

Cook, Zepheniah, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Cooley, David. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Coomer, Alexander, Co. A, 30th Ind. 

Coomer, C. B., Co. C, 88th O. V. I. 

Coomer, Jerry E., .capt. Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 

Cooper, Lavender, Co. E. 179th O. V. I. 

Cooper, John, e. at Delaware in an Ohio regiment. 

Coover, Robert M., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Cooper, William, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Copeland, O. D., Co. K. 133d O. V. I. 

Corbin, George W., Co. D, 95th O. V. I. 

Corbin, lames H.. Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 

Corbin. William D., Co. D, 95th O. V. I. 

O rk, Isaac. Co. H, 82d O. V. I. 

Corwin, Levi J., Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Cosart, Thomas, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Cotton, Bryant, Co. B, 13th O. V. I. 

Courter, Emmons, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Courter. I. M.. Co. H, 82d O. V. I. 

Courter, Pell T., Co. I, 4th and Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Courter, Peter, Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 

Courter, Ward C, Co. F, 43d O. V. I. 

Courtwright, Taylor, was on march to the sea. 

Cowan, Ambrose, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Cowgill, Daniel, sergt. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Cowles, Charles, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Cowles, George W., Co. I. 4th O. V. I. 

Cox. D. J., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Cox. John J., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Cox, John S., Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 

Cox. Robert J., Co. C, 86th O. V. I. 

Cox, Thomas, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Cox, Thomas P., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Coyner. Rev. David H., chaplain at Camp Chase, 
' 1865. 

Coyner, Harniss, Co. A, 128th O. V. I.; died on John- 
son Island. 

Coyner, William S., no record. 

Crabb, Thomas W., Co. A, 61st O. V. I., sergt. 

Craig, James B., Co. D. 3d W. Va. V. C. 

Craig, Samuel F, brother of James B., in a W. Va. 
regt 

Crane, Reese N., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Cratty, David G.. 1st lieut. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Cravens, Isaac M., Co. C, 2d O. H. A. 

Crawford, Charles D„ Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Crawford. George, 8th Mo. V. I. 

Crawford, H., Co. C, 86th O. V. I. 

Crawford, fas. M. capt. Co. C, 4th O. V. I.; col. Co. 
D, 145th O. V. I.: col. 21st O. N. G. 

Crawford, form, Co. C. 4th O. V. I.; killed at Miine 
Run, Va. 

Crawford, Stephen. Co. C, 86th O. V. I. 

Crawford, William E„ Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Crego, Monroe, Co. B, I42d O. V. I. 

Crego, Isaac, Co. D, 4th O. V. I. 

Crickard, lames, capt. Co. D. 82d O. V: I 

Crider. John M., sergt. 96th O. V. I. 

Cring, Henry, Co. B. 103d O. Y. I, 



Crist, A. C, Co. D, 136th O. V. I 

Croak, James, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 

Croninger, Hosea W., 88th O. V. I. 

Croninger, Peter, Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 

Cronkleton, James, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Cronkleton, Charles B., on gunboat "Queen City." 

Cronkleton, William, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Crow, Conrad, Co. D, 37th O. V. I. 

Crow, Joseph E„ Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Crow, Thomas B., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Crowell, John A., Co. C, 87th Pa. V. I. 

Crowell, Marion, Co. C, 60th O. V. I. 

Croy, Mathias, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Croy, William, Co. C, 131st O. V. I. 

Crozier, James, Co. E, 3d O. V. I. 

Cruikshank, Erwin P., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Crumb, Sidney W., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Cullens, H. B., color sergt. Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Cummins, Orson, sergt. Coo. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Cunard, Edward, Co. I, 3d O. V. I., capt.; killed at 

Perrysville. 
Cunningham, George W., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Cunningham, James H., Co. C, 96th O. V. I. 
Cunningham, James S., Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Cunningham, James S. A., Co. C, 121st O. V. I.; 

96th and Co. A, 145th. 
Cunningham, Joseph M., Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Cunningham, Oscar, Co. I, 82d O. V. I., died of 

wound. 
Curren, Edward, Co. B, 1st Ky. V. I. 
Curren, Henry, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Curren, Joseph, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Curren, Joseph F., Co. D, 20th; sergt. maj. 66th; lieut. 
and adiut, O. V. I.; lost right arm, Petersburg, 

V. R. C. 
Currv, William, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Curtin, John, Co. B, 23d O. V. I. 
Curtis, Albert F., Co. B, nith N. Y. V. I. 
Curtis, Dwight C, U. S. Novy. 
Curtis. J. C, Co. B, I nth N. Y. V. I. 
Curled, William H., sergt. Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Cutler, William, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Dale, John. Co. B, 4th O. V. I. 
Dall, Alexander, Co. C, T2ist O. V. I. 
Daniel, Thomas E., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Darst, Milo J„ Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Dart, William T„ Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Davenport, John, Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Davenport, Ralph, Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 
Davev, John L„ Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Davey, William, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
David, Thos. E., Co. A, 155th O. V. I. 
Davids, Benjamin F„ Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Davidson, John E., Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Davidson, Samuel A., Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 
Davies, Thomas. Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 
Davis, Albert, Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Davis. Bingham F., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Davis. Bazaleel J.. Co. D. 145th, and Co. C, 186th 

O. Y. I. 
Davis, Charles P., Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
1 lavis, Cyrus I . Co. II. t2ist O. \ . I. 
Davis, David. Co. E, 66th O. Y. 1. 
Davis George W. R., Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 
I lavis, Ira, Co < '. [21st O. Y. I. 
[esse, Co [, 1st U. S. Eng. 
Davis, Joseph, Co. A. 179th O. Y. I. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Davis, Joseph F., Co. I, 2d Me. V. C. 

Davis Justin C, Co. I, 174th O. V. I. 

Davis, L. W., Co. I, 174th O. V. I. 

Davis, Newton, Co. D, 145th, and Co. C, 186th O. 

V. I. 
Daviis, Simeon A., Co. B, 101st O. V. I. 
Davis, S., Co. F; 121st O. V. I. 
Davis, Thomas, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Davis, Thomas A., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Davis, Thomas H., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Davis, Tildon S., Co. H, 10th 111. V. C. 
Davis, William, e. in an Ohio reg. ; buried at Bellaire. 
Davis, William P.. Bat. I, 2d O. V. H. A. 
Davis, Zachary, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Dav, Charles, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Day, David, Co. L, 3d O. V. C. 
Day, Ingham, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Day, John, Co. I, 145th O. V. I. 
Day, Leroy, Co. D, 15th U. S. I. 
Dav, Thomas, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Day, William, 65th O. V. I. 
Dean, James W., Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 
Debolt, Meeker, Co. B, 174th O. V. I. 
Decker, Aaron M., 2d lieut. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Decker, Arel M., Co. G, 145th O. V. I. 
Decker, George, Bat. C, 2d O. V. H A. 
Decker, John G„ 2d O. H. A. 
Decker, Leroy, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
DeGood, Alvey, Co. B, 83d O. V. I. 
DeGood, Thomas R., 48th O. V. I. 
Delphin, John H„ Co. K, U2d Pa. V. I. 
Dener, Henry C, Co. C. 2d lieut. ; Co. D, 17th O. 

V. I. 
Dennison, J. W., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Dennis, William, Co. V, Gov't Guards. 
Dennis, William, Co. C. 88th O. V. I. 
Dent, John H., Co. C, 56th O. V. I. 
Denton, Benjamin, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Depew, David, Co. F, 76th O. V. I. 
Deeper, David, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
DePuy, Calvin, Co. B, 17th O. V. I.; Co. K, 76th 

O. V. I. 
Devore, Silas W., Co. C, 96th O. V. I.; killed at 

Arkansas Post. 
Dewees, Elijah S., Co. F, 174th O. V. I. 
Dewer, Henry C, 2d sergt. Co. D, 17th O. V. I. 
Dewey, lamer- H., Co. F, 43d O. V. 1. 
Dewey, William W.. Co. I, 63d O. V. I. 
DeWitt, F. B., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
DeWitt, George C, Co. H., 154th O. V. I. 
DeWitt, Charles, Co. K, 121st O. V. I. ; musician. 
Dickerman, Edward P., Co. Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Dickerson, R. G., Co. M., 1st 11. A. 
Dickinson, A R., Co. E., 145th O. V. I. 
Difany, C. William, Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Difany, Edward, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Dill, John, Co. H, 95th O. V. I. 
Dilsaver, Georgi ( , Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Dirst, Sylvester, Co. K. 121st O. V. T. 
Diven, George, Co. C. 96th O. V. I.; died at Vicksburg. 
Diven, William O.. Co. 8, 46th O. V. I. 
Dix. D. F., Co. G, 96th O V. I. 
Dixon, Franklin. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Dixon, Joseph S.. Co. A. [76th < >. V. I. 
Dixon. Milt, n, Co. II, 121st O. V. I. 
Dixon, Walker L., Co. K, 20th O. V. 1. 
Dixon, William O., Co. B. 46th 0. V. I. 



Dodds, David L., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Dodds, Joseph H., Co. A. 18th U. S. I. 

Dodds, Robert. Co. F, 31st O. V. I. 

Doherty, Thomas. Co. A, 43d O. V. I. 

Dolbear, Byron, Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 

Dolbear Edward B., Union Light Guards 

Dolbear., Joseph L., 54th O. V. I. : died at Memphis. 

Donaldson, Oglivie, Co. G. 19th Iowa V. I. 

Donavin, lames, Co. E, 2d 111. V. I. 

Dooley, Henry, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Doolin, Garrison, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Dorman, Samuel C. Co. G, 90th O. V. I. 

Dorman, William, Co. A, 73d O. V. I. 

Dotv. Cephas E., Co. C, 2d O. H. A. 

Doty, George W., Co. C, 85th O. V. I. 1st lieut. 

Dotv, Isaac, Co D. 121st O. V. I. 

Dotv, J. F., Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 

Doty, John, Co. C, 85th O. V. I. 

Doty, Martin, sergt. 174th O. V. I.; died during war. 

Doty, William Harrison, Co. C, 96th O. V. I. 

Doughman, Isaac H., Co. E, 17th O. V. I. 

Dowd, Edward, Co. D. 24th Mass. V. I. 

Drake, Benjamin, Co. A, 2d batn., 18th U. S. I. 

Drake, Jacob, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Drake, Marcus, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Drumm. Daniel, Co. A. 12th O. V. I. 

Drumm, George W., Co. I, 82d O. V. 1 

Drumm, James A., Co. B, 13th O. V. I. 

Drumm, Solomon, 76th O. V. I. : died in hospital. 

Drummond. Lemuel, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Dumm, Dr. A. W.. helped repel Morgan invasion. 

Dumm, John W., Co. C, 116th O. V. I. 

Dunham, Ampuda, Co. I i. 145th O. V. I. 

Dunham, Elmore, corp. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Dunham, Lyman, Co. C. 86th O. V. I. 

Dunham, T." B.. Co. E, 745th O. Y. I. 

Dunham. J. C, Co. E, 145th O. V. I 

Dunham, Samuel. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Dunham. Samuel H, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Dunham, Thomas H., 145th O. V. I. 

Dunlap, Newton, 18th U. S. A. 

Dunlevy, J. L.. Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Durbin, William J.. Co. C, 175th O. V. I. 

Durfee, Dixon. Co. G, 45th 6. V. I. 

Durfee, Gran', Co. C. 4th O. Y. I. 

Durfer, Jerome.Co. E. 68th O. V. I. 

Durfey, Benjamin, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Durfey, Charles H., Co. G. 145th O. V. I., drummer, 

aged 16 years. 
Durfey, Girard, Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 
Durline. Charles W., Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Dusenberv, Daniel, Co. C, 133d O. V. I. 
Dustin, John H.. Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Dutcher, Tohn H. Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 
Dutcher, John H., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Dutcher, 'William J.. Co. G. 133d O. V. I. 
Dutton, James, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. ; dud in hospital at 

Memphis. 
Dwight, Henrv O., Co. D. 20th 0. V. I. 
Dwinnell, Clark P., Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
Dyarman, John P., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Dyer, Taw capt. Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 
Dyer, Oliver, Co. B. 48th O. V. I. 
1 agleston, Sylvester, bat. I. 2d O. V. H. A. 
Earl, Seman, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Eastman, Emerv. 1st lieut. Co. G, capt. Co. F, 96th 0. 

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393 



Eastman, E. M.. capt. Co. A, 96th O. V. I. 

Eberhart, Peter, Co. D, 45th O. V. I. 

Eckels, Joseph C. Co. E, 194th O. V. I. 

Eckels, Samuel R., Co. A, 2d Bat., 18th U. S. I. 

Eddlehhite, C. W., Co. F, 96th O. V. 1. 

Eddleblute, Jacob, Co. I, 86th O. V. I. 

Eddleblute, John W., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Eddleblute, Lewis. Co. I, &>d O. V. I. 

Eddy. Lorenzo, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Edelman, Anthony, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Edwards, C. M., 2d O. I. bat. 

Edwards, Cornelius, Co. A, 69th O V. I. 

Edward. Eli. Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Edwards, John R., Co. A, 179th O. V. I. 

Edwards. Joseph, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Elborn, William C, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 

Ellimaker, Fred, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Elliott. George N., Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Elliott. Patrick N., Co. G, 96th O. V. I.; mortally 
wounded at Grand Coteau. 

Elsbree, Augustus C, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Elsbree, George F, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Elsbree. Martin V.. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Elzey, William H., Co. C, 10th O. V. I. 

Emerson, Asa, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Emerson, Silas, capt. Co. K, 121st O. V. I.; died at 
Franklin, Tenn. 

Emmons. Nathaniel, musician Co. C, 63d O. V. I. 

Engel, Christian, Co. B. 186th O. V. I. 

Engel, John B., Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 

Erwin, Anderson, Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 

Essig, Daniel, in L'nion service, Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 

Essig. William, Co. C. 186th O. V. I., 1st in Confed- 
erate army. 

Estep, John, Co. K, 45th O. V. I., age 17. 

Estep, Levi, 121st O. V. I. 

Estep, Valentine, Co. C, 121st O. V. I . 

Estep. William, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. ; shot at Nash- 
ville. 

Evans. Aaron, Co. C. 96th O. V. I. 

Evans, Alfred B., Co. B, 2d O. V. I. 

Evans, Bowen, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Evans, David. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Evans, Evan S., no record. 

Evans, Francis. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Evans James C, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Evans, John, Co. F. 91st 111. V. I. 

Evans, John T., Co. C, 17th O. V. I. and Co. C, 86th 
O. V. I.; E, 145th. 

Evans, Jonas G., Co. C. 2d O. V. H. A. 

Evans, Joseph. Co. C, 86th O. V. I. 

Evans, Zidick R„ Co. A, 62d 111. V. I. 

Everetts, George, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. ; died on steamer 
"J. C. Swan." 

Fahrion. Lew, bat. B. 1st O. V. L. A. 

Faris, George H., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Faris, G. W., C. I. 4 th O. V. I. 

Faris James H., Co F, 96th O V. I. 

Faris. William H., Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 

Farnsworth, Lorenzo D., Co. K, 45th O. V. I. 

Farrier, David G.. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Farris, George, Co. H. 48th 111. V. I. 

Farvman, Luke, Co. F. 181st O. V. I. 

Fauber, James H., Co. B, 53d Ind. V. V. I. 

Faucett, Ami, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Faulkner, James C. Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Fawn, George, Co. I. 82nd O. V. I. 
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Feaster, George, Co. C. 145th O. V. I 

Felky, Jacob, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Felky, James, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Felky, Sidney, Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 

Ferguson. James, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 1st lieut. 

Feruson, James, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Ferguson, Joseph J., 3d Ind. Bat. L. A. 

Ferguson, N. P., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Ferguson. William, Co. B, 78th O. V. I. 

Ferson, James, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Ferris, Cvrus, Co. E, 176th O V I 

Ferris, George, Co. H, 48th 111. V. I. 

Field, Marshall, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Field, Syre. corp. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Fielding, Alfred, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Fielding. James, Co. B, 146th O. Y. I. 

Fields, Miller, 34th Iowa V. I. ; died of smallpox. 

Filler, William, was in service a short time from 
Delaware. 

Fink, Fred. Bat. C 2nd O. V. H. A. 

Finkham, Reuben, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Finlev, J. D., Co F, 96th O. V. I. 

Finlev, David A., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Firtch, John, Co. E., 66th O. V. I. 

Fish. Solomon. Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Fitzgerald. Daniel, Co. D, 20th O. V. I 

Fix, Jackson, 3d O. V. V. C. 

Flagg, Dana, 145th O. V. I. ; died at Arlington H'ghts. 

Flagg, George, corp. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Flagg, Melville C. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Flagg, William C, Co. G, 06th O. V. I. 

Flemmer, Justin. Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 

Fletcher, John, Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 

Fleckner, Henry, Co. A, 2nd bat. iSth U. S. I. 

Fleckner, John, e. near close of war; died in hospital. 

Fleckner, William, 4 th O. V. I. and Co. A, iSth U. S. I. 

Fleming, C. W., Co. E, 66th O. V. I 

Fleming. D. H., 186th O. V. I. 

Fleming, J. L., Co. E. 66th O. V. I. 

Fleming, Joseph D., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Fleming Mathew C. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Fleming, M. H., Co. A. 145th 6. V. I. 

Fleming, Mathey C. Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 

Fleming, Sidney, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Fleming, Thomas, Co. B, 4^1 O. V. I. 

Fleshman, Martin 18th U. S. I.: Co. H, 174th O. V. I 

Fleshman, McMillen, Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Foreman, Edward, Co. K, 133d O. V. I. 

Foulk, Harrv T.. 2nd bat. U. S. I. 

Foulk, George W., Co. A. 2nd bat. 18th U. S. I. 

Foulk, Jacob C. Co. C. 2nd bat. iSth U. S. I. 

Foulk, Lafayette, Co. A, 2nd bat. iSth U. S. I. 

Foulk, Levi, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Foulk, Steward. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Fox, Steward, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 

Fox. Michael. Co. B, and Co. FL, 48th O. V. I. 

Forsyth, George, Co. F, 18th U. S. I. 

Forsyth, William H.. Co. D. 18th U. S. I. 

Fowler, James, Co. A, 2nd U. S. A. and lieut, col- 
ored Co. 

Fowler, Silas W., Co. G, 136th O. V. I. 

Fnx. Charles Co. D, 39th X. T. V. I. 

Fraker. A. P., Co. A, 126th O. V. I. 

Fraker, Henry D, 121st O V. I. 

Frantz, Aaron. Co. I, 84th O. V. I. and Co. E. 145th 
and Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 

Frantz, Charles, 66th 111. 



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Fravel. Abner, Bat. ; ist 111. V. L. A. 

Fravel, Gilbert, Co. I. 32nd O. V. I. 

Freeman, Edward, Co. H, 76th O. V. I. 

Freeman, George, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Freeman, John, Co. D, 15th U. S. I. 

Freeman, Theodore, age 16, Co. H. 76th O. V. I. 

Freese, Burroughs, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Freese, Henry, 48th O. V. O. ; killed in service. 

Freese, Lewis, Co. F., 96th O. V. I. 

Freese, S., 48th O. V. I. 

Freese, Martin, 48th O. V. I. ; died at Nashville. 

Freshwater. Archibald, capt. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Freshwater, Arkason, Co. I, 82nd O. V. I. 

Freshwater, George, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 

Freshwater, Jacob, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Freshwater. R„ Co. H, 136th O. V. I. 

Freshwater, William H.. Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Friend, Charles, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Fritz, Daniel, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Fritz, George H„ Co. B, 86th O. V. I. and also Co. B, ' 

32nd O. V. I. 
Fritz, Jacob M., Co B. 32nd O. V. I. 
Fritz, W. B., Co. C. 186th O. V. I. 
Fritz, William, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Fruchy, Isaac C, Co. K. 14th O. V. I. 
Frv, James R., Co. C. 142 O. V. I. 
Fry, N. W., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Fryman, Thomas, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Fuller, Amos, Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 
Fuller, Henry M., Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 
Fuller, John, Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Fuller. Hiram C, Co. I, 32nd O. V. I. ; killed. 
Fuller, Stephen, Co. B, 10th O. V. I. 
Fuller, Thomas, Co. A. 145 O V. I. 
Fuller, William, Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 
Furniss, Edward A.. Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Furry, John W„ Co. F, 160th O. V. I. 
Gaily, Samuel. Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
(,aincs, Theophilus A., Co. G, 145th O. V. I. 
Galbreath, John J., corp. Co. A, 16th Kv. V. I. 
Gale, Leroy, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Gallowav, lames H., Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 
Galpin, Ebenezer, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Gammel, David, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Gannon, William G, Co. A, 17th O. Y. 1. 
Ganway, Daniel, Co. C. 4th O. V. I. and 186th O. V. I. 
Gardner, Aaron D., Co. C. 18th Iowa V. 
Garnder, James H, chap. 17th O. V. I. 
Gardner, John M., Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Gardner, Lewis E., Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 
Gardner, Lyman, Co. C, 26th O. V. I 
Garvin, Anderson, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Gaston, James H., Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Gatton, George W., Co. G, ist Md. P. H. B 
Gay, Nicholas, sergt. Bat. E, 2nd O. V. H. A. 
Gaylor, Charles, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Gaylor. Matthew, Co. C, 4th O. Y. I. 
Gavlor, Thomas, Co. I. 32nd O. V. I. 
Gearv, Tnsiah M-. Co. C, 86th 0. V. I. 
Geary, Samuel, Co. H, 145th O. Y. I. 
Gearv. William C, Co. H, 145th 0. V. I. 
Gelvin, loseph, Co. B, 59th 0. V. I. and Co. B, 5th 

O. Y. Y. I. 
Genier, John, Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 
George, Benjamin, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
George. R. E., Co. E, 66th 0. V. I. 

er, William T., Co. A. 7th Minn. V. I. 



Getzendenner, Jacob H., Co. H, 95th O. V. I. ; died in 

service. 
Gibson, Calvin. Co. E. 66th O. V. I. 
Gilbreath, William, Co. C, 88th O. V. I. 
Gill, John S.. Co. I, 121st O. V. I. 
Gillette, Charles, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Gillette, F. H., Co. A, 15th O. V. I. 
Gillette, Howard H., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Gilson, Daniel, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Gilson. Harlow C, Co.- K, 121st O. V. I. 
Ginn, Leroy S., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Glaze. Adam C, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Glaze, William W., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Glover, Amos, Co. F, 15th O. V. I. : wounded at Stone 

River. 
Glover, J. J.. Co. F, 15th O. V. I. 
Goare, John, Co. I, 82nd O. V. I. 
Goddard, Harrison C, Co. C. 4th O. V. I. and sergt. 

Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 
Goodrich, Horace L., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Gordon, Jackson, 58th O. Y. I. ; killed at Chickamauga, 

aged 19. 
Gorey, John, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Gorsuch, Samuel, ist Bat. 18th U. S. I. 
Goslin, William H., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Gough. Robert, 54th Ohio Zouaves. 
Gould, Hiram F.. Co. D. 20th O. V. I. ; died at Bolivar, 

Tennessee. 
Graff. Christopher F., musician 63d O. V. I. 
Graff, G. L., Co. C. 86th O. V. I. and Co. D, 145th 

O. V. I. 
Grammill, Samuel S., Co. G. and Co. D, 96th O. V. I. 
Granger, Charles C, Co. D. 15th U. S. I. 
Granger. Erastus, Co. I, 32nd O. V. I. 
Granger, James N., 3d O. V. I. 
Granger, Wilbur, corp. nth O. V. I. 
Granstaff, William H., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Grant, Asa T., Co. C, 12th O. Cav. 
Grantham, William P., Co. E, 137th O. V. I. 
Graves. George A., Co. D. 121st 0. V. I. 
Gray, Alexander, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Gray, Charles, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Gray, Ebenezer S., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Gray, Robert, Co. A., 2nd Bat. iSth U. S. I. Died. 
Grav. Wesley, Co. C. 2nd Bat. 18th U. S. I. Died. 
Gray, William, Co. I, 82nd 0. V. I. 
Green, Ansfield, Co. H.. 121st O. V. 1. 
Green, Noah, Co. B, 32nd O. V. I. 
Green, Russell B., Co. H, 75th O. V. I. 
Greenlee. John, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Gregg. Fred, Co. D, 20th O. V. I.. Co. A, 179th O. V. I. 
Gregg. J. C, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Gregg, John, Bat C, 2nd O. V. H. A. 
Gregg, Israel, Co. D. 26th O. V. I. 
Gregg, Joseph, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Gregory, Herbert, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Grennen, Lawrence. Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Grev, Oliver T., Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 
Grieble, Henry. Co. B, 6th U. S. C. and Co. I, 4th 

1 ) V. I. 
Griffin, John. Co. H. 84th O. V. I. 
Griffin, Tohn. Co. I. 82nd O. V. I. 
Griffin. Josiah. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. ; killed at Chancel- 

lorsville. 
Griffin, Patrick, Co. H, 174th 0. V. I. 
Griffin, Russell, musician. 63d O. V. I. 
Griffith, Elias, Co. C, Ind. Inf. 



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Griffith, Chas. F.. Co. G. 27th O. V. I. 

Griffith. John R., Co. A., 145th O. V. I. 
Griffith, Milo H.. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Griffith, Richard G.. Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Griffith. I'h. .mas R., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Grindell, John W'., Co. A, [21st O. V. I. 

Griner, William A., Co. I. 159 and Co. E, 185th O. V. I. 

Grist. Thomas H., Co. I, 32nd O. V. I. 

Groff, T. F., Co. Dr 133d O. V. I. 

Gross, Edward, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 

Grove, Joseph G., corp. Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Grover, Sylvester. Co. I, 4th O. V. I.; killed in battle. 

Grove. William, Co. F, [51st 111. V. I. 

Grubaugh. W. S.. Co. C, 26th and 76th O. V. I. 

Gruber, Alfred, Co. C, 186th O. V. L; died at Nash- 
ville. 

Grumley, Joseph, Co. D, 82nd O. V. I. 

Crumley, Frank C. Co. D, 51st O. V. I. 

Grummon, Fowler, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Guess, Alexander. Co. D, 17th O. Y. I. 

Guess, Mathias, Co. G, 151st O. V. I. 

Guess, Uriah, capt. Co. H, 151st O. V. I. 

Guthrie, Jasper K.. Co. F, 1 3th O. V. I. 

Hahn, S. W"., Co. H, 64th O. V. I. 

Hahn, William F.. Co. E. 30th O. V. I. 

Haines, Jasper, Co. D, 54th O. V. I. 

Hale, Watson, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Hall. Alexander. Co. I, 4 th O. V. I. 

Hall, Amos, Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Hall, Asa G., Co. H, 88th O. V. I. 

Hall, A. W., 15th U. S. I. 

Hall, Edward M„ Co. E, 121st O. V. I. 

Hall, Edwin J., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Hall, George, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Hall, George A.. Co. H, 21st O. V. I. 

Hall. John L., Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 2nd lieut. 

Hall, Russell, Co. H, 145th and Co. B, 188th O. V. I. 

Hall, Theodore D.. Co. C, 26th O. V. I.; mortally 
wounded at Atlanta. 

Hall, Thomas S., Co. C. 86th O. V.- I. and 1st lieut. Co. 
K, 145th O. V. I. 

Hamilton, John H.. Co. L., 15th N. Y. V. I. 

Hamilton, Armstrong, Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 

Hamilton, John, Co. E, 50th O. V. I. 

Hamilton. Wesley, Bat. C. 2nd O. V. H. A. 

Hammond, Zachary P., sergt. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Hanawalt, Allen, Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 

Hanawalt. Levi T., Co. K, 176th O. V. I. 

Haney, Albert F., Co. C. 145th G\ V. I. 

Haney, Robert, Co. C, I2lsmt O. V. I. 

Hanlev, Joseph W.. bugler, Co. F, 3d O. V. C. 

Hanna, George W., Bat. K, 2nd O. V. H. A. 

Hanover, John, Co. B. 6rst O. V. I. 

Harager. John, Co. C, 221st O. V. I.: mortally wounded 
at Jonesboro. 

Harvert, William J., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Harbottle. James, O >. 1 '•. 96th O. V. I. and Co. D, 96th 
O. V. I. 

Harbottle, Richard, Co. I, nth O. V. C. 

Hardin. Erastus, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Hardin, James. Co. G, 90th O. V. I. 

Hardin, John H., musician Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Hardin. Nathan C. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Hare, Pant, rd, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Hager, Slyvanus, Co. F. 31st O. Y. I. 

Harkleroa'd, J. S., Co. B. 147th Pa. V. I. 

Harkelroad, John W., 28th Pa. V. I. 



Harkness, John, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Harman, Carson J., Co. E, 31st O. Y. I. 

Harman, H. A., Co. A. 145th O. Y. I. 

Harman, James S., 2nd lieut. G>. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Harman, John, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Harman, John W., Co. F, 66th O. V. I. 

Harman, Silas B., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Harman, W. P.. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Harper, James L., Co. I, 179th O. V. I. 

Harrington, Gipson H., Co. C, 145th O. V. 1. 

Harriott, William H., Co. B, 32nd O. V. I. 

Harris, Batson, Co. G, 45th 6. V. I. 

Harris, James E., in a Pa. regiment. 

Harris, John, Co. B, 25th U. S. I. 

Harris, Lafayette, 4th Iowa V. I. 

Harris, Lucius, musician, Co. F, 133d O. V. I. 

Harris Samuel R„ Co. H, 7th Pa. V. I. 

Harris, Simon. Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 

Harris, Thomas, in a Pa regt. 

Harris. Thimas L., Co. K. 6th N. J. V. I. 

Harris, William, 4th Iowa. 

Harrison, James H., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Harroun, Franklin. Co. G, 145th O. V. I. 

Harrow. Silas B., Co. A, 149th O. V. I. 

Hart, Levi, Co. D, 145th o. V. I. 

Hartenstein, Jacob, Co. H, 145 O. V. I. 

Harter, Andrew J., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Harter, Charles. Inland Navy, and Co. C, 188th O. V. I. 

Harter, John A.. Co. F, 06th O. V. I. 

Hartley, Benjamin J., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Hartroun, Ira, Co. G, 3d O. V. I. 

Hartman, Stanley, Co. B, 43d O. V. I. 

Hartsock, George, Co. D, 23d O. V. I. 

Harvey, W. N.. Co. B, 48th O. Y. I.; wounded at 

Shiloh. 
Hatch, Henry H., Co. C. 4th O. Y. I. 
Hatch, John T., Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Hatch. Samuel, Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 
Hatton, Alexander, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Hauston, Joseph, 13th U. S. I.: died at Atlanta. 
Hauston. Norman, 18th U. S. I. : died at Nashville. 
Hautz. Daniel, Co. E, 31st O. V. I. 
Hautz, Joseph M., Co. E, 31st O. V. I. 
Havens, Alfred, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Havens, Andrew J., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Havens, George W., Co. G. 88th O. V. I. 
Havens, Ansel! D, Co. F, 96th O. Y. I. 
Havens, John, Co. H, 145th O. Y. I. 
Havens, Robert. Co. E, 145th O. Y. I. 
Hawley, Robert, Co. B, 176th O. V. I. 
Haycock. George, Co. G, 3d O. V. I. 
Haycock. Nathaniel, C. I, 32nd O. Y. I. 
Haves. William W., Co. C, 124th O. V. I. 
Haynes, C. F.. Co. C. 1st U. S. V. V. 
Hazelton, Wavne, Co. H. 174th O. Y. I. 
Head, Merrick A.. Co. E, 145th O. Y. I. 
Headington, Clark. Co. A., 65th O. Y. I. 
HeacHey, Henry, Co. F. 18th U. S. I. 
Healy, James, sergt. Co. K, [23d O. Y. I. 
Heath, Chas. W\, Co. H, 6th Ind. V. 
Heaverlo. Henry. Co. A. ,th Bat. O. Y. I. 
Heck. John H., Co. G, 7th Mo. Y. I. and Co. E, 145th 

O. V. I. 
Hedces, Dr. Wm. B., ass't surg. 06th O. V. I. 
Hedges, William M„ Co. E. 145th O. Y. I. 
Hefifner. Patrick, Co. A, 43d O. Y. I. 
Heinlen, Abram, Co. B. 43d O. Y. I. 



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Heller, Elias, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Heller, Elias M., 4th O. V. I. and 63d O. V. I. 

Heller, E. M., Co. H, 174th O. V. I.; age 17. 

Heller, John, 48th O. V. I. 

Helphrey, Henekiah, Co. G. 96th O. V. I. ; died at Wil- 
kin's Bend. 

Helt, Jonathan J., Bat. E, 2nd O. V. H. A. 

Henderson, Alexander, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Henderson, R. A., maj. 121st O. V. I. 

Hendrick, Levi, Co. K, 133d O. V. I. 

Hendrickson. H., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Henesv, George W., Co. I, 82nd O. V. I. 

Henne, Gottlieb, Co. C, iS6th O. V. I. 

Hennis, Hezekiah, Co. F, iSth U. S. A. 

Hennis, Jeremiah, Co. F. 15th U. S. I. 

Hennis, John. Co. G, 3d Wis V. C. 

Hennis, Joseph, Co. E, 31st O. V. I. 

Henry, G. W., corp Co. I, 82nd O. V. I. 

Henry, Lewis, 145th 111. V. I. 

Harrington, William, Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 

Herman, John H., Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Herron, James, Trenton tp. 

Herron, Frank, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Heslocker, H. H.. Co. C, 2nd Wis V. I. 

Hewitt, John, Co. D., 13th Mo. V. I. 

Hewitt, John, Co. D, 22nd O. V. I. 

Hickle, Isaac, corp. Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Hicks, Milt. hi. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Hicks, J. S., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

High, Andrew P., Co. E, 129th O. V. I. 

High, Benjamin, Co. F, 96th O. V. I.; killed at Ar- 
kansas Post. 

Highland, James A., in an Ohio regt, Van Wert 
County. 

Highwarden, Abram, Co. H, 27th U. S. I. 

Higinbotham, Ezra, Gov't Guards. 

Hilderman, Riley, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 

Hilford, Nehemiah. Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Hilf, Charles F., Co. A, '19th U. S. I. 

Hill. Andrew, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 

Hill, Edward R., Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 

Hill. Elias, Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 

Hill, Josiah W., Bat. C, 2nd O. V. H. A. 

Hill, Peter, corp. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Hill, Solomon. Co. A, 144th O. V. I. 

Hill, Thomas J., Co. I, 120th O. V. I. 

Hill, William A., Co. C, 121 O. V. I. 

Mi!]-, Thomas J., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Hills, R. Howell, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Hills V. T., capt. Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Hines, Alfred, in last year of war. 

Hines, John, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 

Hines. Philip, Co. B, 18th U. S. I. 

Hinkle, James, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Hinkle, Michael H., Co. K, 1451b O. V. I. 

Ilint'in, Samuel G., Co. D, 20th 0. V. I.; died at La- 
Grange, Term. 

Hippie, Jackson, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. • 

Hippie. John, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Hitt, Jonathan J., 2nd U. S. A. 

Hobart, Lorenzo, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Hodges. lames B., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

HofT, John W., Co. C, 1451b O. V. I. 

Hoffman. Carr, Co. B, 142nd O. V. I. 

Hoffman, George F., Co. H, 153d O. V. I. 

Ilouans. David, Co. F, 24th O. V. I. 

lb lcombe, H. \Y„ Co. I, 6th N. Y. C. 



Hollenbaugh, Henry, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Hollenbaugh, William, Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 

Hollington, Ambrose, chaplain, mth O. V. I. 

Holly, Robert, Co. B, 176th O. V. I. 

Holmes, Andrew J., Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 

Holmes, Simeon, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Holmes. W. W., Co. B, 50th N. Y. V. V. I. 

Holt, Charles, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Holt, Charles, Co. F, 133d O. V. I. 

Holt, George W., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Honnetter, Jeremiah, Co. B, 18th U. S. I.; Co. A, 45th 

O. V. I. 
Hooper, James, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Hoover, Gilbert C, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Hooer, Homer H., Co. B, 46th O. V. I. 
Hoover, John, 1st O. V. I. and 19th U. S. I. 
Hoover, Joseph, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Hoover, Oscar, Co. G. 96th O. V. I. ; died at Columbus. 
Hoover, Seth L., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Hoover, William H., Co. B, 46th O. V. I. 
Hopkins, Ludwig, Co. F, 46th O. V. I. 
Hopper, Daniel D., capt. Co. H, 10th O. V. C. 
Hopper. Peter J., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Hord, Bodiski, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Hord, J. M.. in an Ohio regt. 
Hord, Oliver W., 60th O. V. I. 
Hord, Severius, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Hord, Thomas E., 128th O. V. I. 
Horn, Leroy, 76th O. V. I. 
Horr. Andrew C, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Horton, W. H, Co, C, 154th O. V. I. 
Hornbeck, Norton, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Houseworth, Doren, Co. E, 26th O. V. I. 
Houseworth, Edward, Co. F, 98th O. V. I. 
Houseworth, George, Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 
Houseworth, Henry, Co. C. 26th O. V. I. 
Houtz, David F., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Howald, Jacob, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Howard, Albert C, Co. B, 3d Batn. 3d U. S. I. 
Howard. Frank B., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Howard, Newton, Co. A, 2nd Batn. U. S. I. 
Howe, David M., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Hubbell, Burton, Co. I, 12nd O. V. I. 
Hubbell, Charles P., Co. G, 44th Ind. V. V. I. 
Hubbell. Daniel, Co, G. 45th O. V. I. 
Hubbell. Harvey S., Bat. E, 2nd O. V. H. A. 
Hubbell, Preston D., Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Hubbell, Sbadrick, lieut. 186th O. V. I. and 1st U. S. I. 
Hubbell, Thomas C, Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 
Hubbell, William. Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 
Hubbell, William, Co. I, 32nd O. V. 1. 
Huddle, Daniel W., Co. C, 88th O. V. I. 
Huff, Lewis C, Co. I, 32nd O. V. I. 
Huffine, Henry, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Huffine, Lewis. Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Hughes, George W.,"Co. F. 3d Batn. 18th U. S. I. 
Hughes, William, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Hull, Cornelius, 1st lieut. Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Hull, Samuel E., Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Hull, Herman W. Co. C, 145th O. Y. I. 
Hulse, Frederick, Co. K, t2ist O. V. I. 
Hults, Charles, Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 
Hubs, Henry, Co. D, 27th O. V. I. 
Hults, John F., Co. K, 121st O. Y. I. 
Humble, James R. Co. K, 121st O. Y. I. 
Humes, Josiah, Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Humes, William, Co. K. 121st O. V. I. 



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397 



Hummel, Henry, Co. K, 96th O. V. I. 

Humphreys, Harvev A., 1st sergt. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Humphrey, Hezekiah H.. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Humphrey, John H., col. Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Humphreys, Edward, Co. E, 96th O. V. I. 

Humphreys, Gibson, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Humphreys, Richard, 4th O. V. I. and 86th O. V. I. 

Hunt, Milton, Co. E. 4th O. V. I. 

Huntley, Albert, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Huntley, Lvman S., sergt Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Huntley, Oscar F., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Hupp. George, Co. F, 121st O. V. I. 

Hupp. Harvey. Co. F, 65th O. V. I. 

Hurll.urt, Noah, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Hurlburt, Robert F., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Hurley. William P., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Huston, Archibald, Co. A. 121st O. V. I. 

Huston, George W.. corp. Co. C, 36th O. V. I. 

Huston, Joseph, Co. G, 46th O. V. I. 

Huston, Noah, Co. F, 181st O. V. I. 

Huston, Norman, Co. B, 18th U. S. I. 

Hutchis. Jasper N., Co. C, 133d O. V. I. 

Hyatt, Dr. E. H., capt. Co. A, 20th O. V. I. 

Hyatt, Servis, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Hyde, Frank C, 32nd O. V. I. 

Hyde, Joshua M.. Co. C, 7th Ver. 

Hvde, Russell, capt. 32nd O. V. I. at Harper's Ferry. 

Ingalls, Pearl P.. Co. A, 60th O. V. I. 

Ingham, Melville C, Co. G, 14th O. V. V. I. 

Ingle, Peter, Co. C, 86th O. V. I. 

Ingle, William, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Ingmire, Fernando B., 18th O. Ind. Bat. 

Ingram, William, Co. D, 64th O. V. V. I. 

Inskeep, A. J., Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Inskeep, Gustavus, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Irwin, D. S., Co. I, 32nd O. V. I. 

Irwin, Isaac, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Jackson. Benjamin, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Jackson, James W., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Jackson, John, Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 

Jackson, William H., Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 

Jacobus, John, Trenton tp. 

James, Alfred S.. Co. F. 43rd O. V. I. 

James, John S., Co. E. 66th O. V. I. 

James, William. Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 

Jameson, George, nth O. V, I. and 66th O. V. I. 

Tarvis, Henry J., 1st lieut. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Jaycox, C. A. Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 

Jaycox, Ephraim. Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 

Jaynes, Charles M.. Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 

Jaynes, D. H., in Ohio regt. ; starved to death in An- 

dersonville. 
Jaynes, Fred N., Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 
Jaynes, G. L., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Jaynes, Herbert A., Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 
Jaynes, Seymour, Co. H, 145th 6. V. I. 
jaynes, Solomon, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Jeffcott, Joseph, U. S. N. 
Jenkins, Beniamin A., Co. G, 187th O. V. I. 
Jenkins, David. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Jenkins, Erastus, Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 
Jenkins, John W., Co. D. 83rd. O. V. I. 
Jenkins, Thomas, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Jennings, Benjamin, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Jennings, Edward, Co. H, 124th O. V. I. 
Jennings, Joseph. Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Jennings, Reuben, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 



Jennings. Robert P., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Jennings, Simon H., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Jewett, William, Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 

John, Williams, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Johnson, Alexander, Co. A, 18th U. S. I. and Co. K, 

145 O. V. I. 
Johnson, Amos, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Johnson, Charles B., Co. C. 186th O. V. I. 
Johnson, Clark. Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Johnson, Daniel W., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Johnson, Darwin, Co. B, nth U. S. I. 
Johnson, Harrison, Co. E, 72nd 111 V. I. 
Johnson. Joseph C, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Johnson, Levi, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Johnson. Robert. Co. A, 2nd Batn. 18th U. S. I. 
Johnson, Robert A., Co. F, 88th O. V. I. 
Johnson, Thomas, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Johnson, William A., Co. A. 88th 111 V. I. 
Johnson, William C, 96th O. V. I. 
Johnson, William C, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Johnston, Anthony, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Jolly, Aaron R., 18th O. Ind. Bat. 
Jolly, Henry, 18th O. Ind. Bat. 
Jones, Andrew R., Co. D. 131st O. V. I. 
Jones, Anthony, Co. A, 176th O. V. I. 
Jones, Beniamin, Co. B, 23d U. S. I. 
Jones, Charles L., 1st Batn., Co. E, Yates' S. S. ; 64th 

111. V. V. I. 
Jones, David, Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, David, Sr., Batn, I, 2nd O. V. H. A. 
Jones, David, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, David F., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Jones, D. F., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Jones, D. L., Co. E. 66th O. V. I. 
Jones, Edward M., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Jones, Edward M., capt. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, George W., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Jones, George W., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, Harry, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, Henry, Co. G. 45th O. V. I. 
Jones, Hiram, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, Isaac, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Jones, Ishmael A„ Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, J. A., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones. J. D., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, John, Co. H, 4th and 121st O. V. I. 
Jones, John S., 1st lieut. Co. C, 4th O. V. I.; capt. Co. 

B; col. 174th O. V. I. 
Jones, Lawson, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Jones, Lewis, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, Martin, Co. A. 76th O. V. I. 
Tones, Nicholas, Co. C, 145 O. V. I. 
Jones, Samuel D, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Jones, Solomon, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, Thomas B„ Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Jones, William, Co. F. 18th O. V. I. 
Jones. William T.. Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 
Jones, William W., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Jones, Winfield S., Co, C. T4=ith O. V. I. 
Jones, W. W., Co. A, 145th 6. V. I. 
Jordan, Enos, Co. C, 2nd Batn. 18th U. S. I. 
Jordan, Henry, 15th U. S. I. 
Jordan, James M., Co. F, 15th U. S I. 
joslyn, John H., Co. E, 133d O. V. I. 
[oy, M. F., Co. E, 145 O. V. I. 
lovner. Robert J.. 18th U. S. I. 
Joyner, William T., 49th O. V. M. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Julian, Samuel, Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 

Kaley, Patrick. Co. E. 66th O. V. I. 

Kampf, Jonathan, Co.. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Kanauss, Abraham. Co. E, 63d O. V. I. 

Kanauss, Charles S., Co. K, 102nd O. V. I. 

Kanauss, Daniel A., 66th O. V. I. 

Kanauss, Edward, 20th O. Ind. Bat. 

Kanauss, Manuel G., 87th O. V. I. and 20th O. Ind. Bat. 

Kanauss, M. J. 20th O. L. A. 

Kane, Charles I., Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 

Karr, P. M., Co. E, 145 O. V. I. 

Kautfmnn, John, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Kauffman, Pasawell, corp. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Keifer, Christopher. Co. B, gist O. V. I. 

Keifer, Lawrence, Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 

Keeler, Bradley, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Keeler, Ford, Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 

Keeler, Henry, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Keesey, William, Co. E, 31st O. V. I. 

Keiler, George, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Keiser, Jacob, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Keiser, Samuel, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Kelchner. Isaac W.. Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Keller. Thomas. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Kellogg, Robert A., sergt-maj. 16th Conn. V. I. 

Kelly, Henry, Co. A. McLaughlin's Squadron. 

Kelly, Henry C. Co. I, 82nd O., V. I. 

Kelly, Samuel Lloyd, Co. I. 82nd O. V. I. 

Kelsey, Asa B., corp. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Kelsey, Grover C, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Kelsev. Philander. q6th O. V. I. 

Keltner, Daniel, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Kempton, Benjamin. Co. H, 174th O. V. I: died in 
service. 

Kempton, Charles, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Kempton. John F., Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Kennedy, James, Co. H, 174th O. V. I, 

Kepler, William, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Kester. Joseph, served in an Ohio regt. 

Kibbv, John, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Kiger, David K. Co. K, 31st O. V. I. 

Kiler, George, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Killar, John, 2nd O. V. H. A. 

Kilpatrick, William, Co. K. 121st O. V. I. 

Kimball, Joseph, C. C, 4th O. V. 1. 

Kimball, Joseph Henry, capt. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Kincaid, Benjamin F., Co. E, 102nd O. V. I. 

Kincaid, Daniel, 122nd 111. V. I. 

Kincaid, William, 120th O. V. I. 

Kinnan, Charles C, Co. I, 23d Ky. V. I. 

Kinikin, David H., Co. C, 76th O. V. I. 

Kinney, John, Co. B, 61st O. V. I.; died in hospital 
during war. 

Kinsell, Harvey, Co. C, 2nd Batn. 18th U. S. I. 

Kirbv. Francis, Co. C, inth O. V. I. 

Kirbv, James F., Co. B, 46th O. V. I. 

Kirchner, John, Co. A, 2nd Batn. 18th U. S. I. 

Kirkpatrick, James W., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Kirkpatrick, John, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Kirns, Peter, Co. C I2ist O. V. I. 

Klee, Mathias, Co. D. 82nd O. V. I. 

Kline, Daniel, musician 63d O. V. I. 

Kline, Jacob L., Co. F, 96th <> V. I. 

Knapp, Wilson S., sergt. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Knight, Gabriel W.. 1451b X. V. V. I. and 5th A. C. 

Knight, Abner. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Knight, John W., 145111 N. V. V. I. 5th A. C. 



Knight, William G, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Kohler, Charles, Co. D. 121st 6. V. I. 

Kohler. Peter, served in Pa. Inf. 

Koeppel. Gabriel, Co. D, 71st O. V. I. 

Krauskopf, A. C, Co. L, 7th Pa. Cav. 

Kring, David, Co. F, 18th U. S. I.; killed at Stone' 

River. 
Kruck, Jacob, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Kvger. James, 16th U. S. I. 
Kyle, Elias, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Kyle. Hugh, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Kvle, John A., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Kyle, William T., Co. A, 145th O. V. I.' 
Lacourse, William, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Lacourse, Alonzo, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Ladd, Job D., Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 
Laird, Samuel D., Co. F. 66th O. V. I. 
Lake, Willis, Co. I, 32nd O. V. I. 
Lamb, Howard S., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Landon, Thomas, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
Laiulon, Thomas, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Lane, Austin, Co. F, 1st Va. V. I. 
Lane, George, Co. I, 82nd O. V. I. 
Lane. John, Co. F, 43d O. V. I. 
Lane. John, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Lane, Thomas N., Co. C, T7th O. V. I. 
Larcum, Levi, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Larrimore, Robert A., Co. G. 20th O. V. I. 
Larison, Sylvester, Co. F, 43d O. V. I. 
Lasher, John J., Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 
Lavender, Jesse, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Law, Edward, 121st O. V. I.; died in service. 
Lawrence, John W., Co. F, 31st O. V. I. 
Lawrence, Josephus, Co. F, 31st O. V. I. 
Lawrence. Lee. Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Lawson, Henry, Co. A, 3d O. V. I. 
Lawson, Jacob, 133d O. V. I. 
Lawson. Orris, col. G>. A. 3d O. V. I. 
Lawson, S. H., Co. F, 43d O. V. I. 
Lawson, William J., Co. H. 133d O. V. I. 
Layman, Henry, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Layton, William, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Layton, William S.. Co. A, 90th O. V. I. 
Ledlie, John, 15th U. S. I. 
Leech, James A., Co. B, 196th O. V. I. 
Leady.. John D., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Leacly, Joseph, Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 
Leander, Carr, Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 
Lear, Edward F., musician, 127th O. V. I. 
Lear. William A., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Ledlie. Joshua F.. Co. D, and Co. H, 20th O. V. I. 
Lee, A. E„ capt Co. E, 82nd O. V. I., Co. I, 82nd 

O. V. I. 
Lee, Daniel S.. Co. I, 4th O. V. I 
Lee, William H, Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Leeper, W. B.. Co. D, 49th O. V. I. 
Leggett, Washington, Co. D, I2tst O. V. I. 
Lemley, Wesley, Co. F, 10th Md. V. C. 
Leonard. Leroy, Co. C. 26th O. V. I. 
Lepard, George, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Lepart. Preston, Co. D. 121st O. V. 1. 
Lewis, Charles F., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Lewis, Jerome, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Lewis; John W., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Lewis, Jonathan, Co. D, 65th O. V. I.: killed at Nash 

ville. 
Lewis, Joseph. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 



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399 



Lewis Milo H., Co. K, I2ist O. V. I. 

Lewis, Orson, Co. D, 65th 0. V. I. 

Lewis Samuel, Co. A, i-i^th O. V. I. 

Lewis, Samuel T., Co. B, 78th O. V. I. 

Louis Thomas C, Co. K. utst O. V. I. 

Leibenderfer, John, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. and Brig. band. 

Lincoln, Lyman W., Co. F. [13th O. V. I. 

Lincoln, Spencer D.. Co. B. 4th O. V. I. 

Lincoln, William H., 76th O. V. I. 

Lindsey, Joseph, co i, 48th reg. O. V. I. 

Lindsey, Joseph W.. Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 

Lindsev, Thomas, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Link, William, Co. B, 96th O. V. I. 

Linn, Hiram, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

1. 11111. John, Co. I, 4th O. V. I.; died in service. 

Linn, Joshua R.. Co. B. 48th O. V. I. 

Linn, W. T., Co. A. 5th Ind. 

Linnaberry, George, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Linnaberry, Howard, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Linnaberry, Joseph, H., Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Linnaberry, Ranson. Co. G. 45th O. V. I. 

Littick, Henry \\\, Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 

Little, Charles Otis, Co. H, 95th O. V. I. 

Little, George W. Qm. 60th O. V. I. 

Little. Lewis W., adjt. 2nd Ky V. C. 

Livingston, Alfred R., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
•Lloyd. Benjamin, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Llyod, Joel, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Lock-wood, Hiram, Co. H, 174th O. V. 1 

Lombard, F. C, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Lombard, James, Co. A, 18th U. S. 1. 

Lombard. Wesley, Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 

Long. David, Co. E, 7.3d O. V. I. 

Long, David D., 61 st O. V. I. 

Long, Fowler H., Co. K, 66th O. V. I. and Co. C, 121st 

O. V. I. 
Long, John P.. 121st O. V. I. and Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Long. Richard, Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 
Long, Theodore, Co. C. 174th O. V. I. 
Longshore, Jasper, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Longwell, Albert G, ass't snrg. 4th O. V. I. ; died at 

Camp Chase. 
Longwell, Benjamin, fiter, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Longwell. Norton, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Loop, James P., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Lott, Dewitt, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Lott, John C, Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Lott, Wilbur, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Loud, George H.. Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Louden. James P., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Love, Charles, Co. H, 18th O. V. L 
Loveless, Daniel, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Lovell, Charles B., Co. I, 135th O. V. I. 
Lowery. James C, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Lowrey, Andrew J., Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 
Lovthrey, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. : died in service. 
Lugenbeel, D. W. C, corp. Co. C, 86th O. V. I. 
Lumbard, Freyling C., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Lumbard, Silas. Co. E. 145 O. V. I. 
Lumbard, Wesley, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Lumbard, William. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Lumbert, Robert F., Co. G. 2nd Mo. V. C. 
Lybrand, Archibald, Co. I. 4th; capt. Co. E, 73d O. 

V. I. 
Lvbrand, James C, Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 

Lvbrand. R. G, capt. Co. D. 192nd O. V. I. 

Lyman, David, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 



Lyman, Oliver. 18th U. S. L; died at Andersonville. 

Lyman, Philip, 18th U. S. I. 

Lyons, Peter, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Lytle, James R., Co. I, 159th O. V. I. 

Lytle, William F„ Co. I. 90th O. V. I. 

Macomber, Walter, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 

Macomber, William, 30th O. V. 1. 

Maddox, A. H., Co. D, 60th O. V. I. 

Mafritt, Benjamin C, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Mahoney, Michael. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Main, Henry B.. Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Main. Lemuel, Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 

Main, Madison, sergt. Co. C, 145th O V. I. 

Main, Marion, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Main, Martin, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. ; missing at Chancel- 

lorville. 
Main, Samuel, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Maize. Aaron A.. Batn. C, 2nd O. V. H. A. 
Maize, Wilson, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Maloney, Michael, Co. t. 196th O. V. I. 
Maloney, Patrick, Co. F, 196th O. V. I. 
Manley, Marcellus, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Mann.' Austin D., lieut. 5th Art. 
Mann, Jasper, Co. G. 45th O. V. I. 
Mann Joseph T., Co. H, I2ist O. V. I. 
Mann, Silas J., Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Mansfield, William. Co. F, 06th O. V. I. 
Mantler. Daniel F., C. E, 31st O. V. I. 
Manville. Edwin B., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Marble, Nathan, Co. F, 1st U. S. V. V. 
Markle, Jacob, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Marks, Erastus B.. C. K. 145th O. V. I. 
Marquet, Werner, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Marriott. William H.. Co. B, 32nd O. V. I. 
Marsh, Cornelius, Co. C, 88th O. V. I. 
Marsh, David, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Marsh, Monroe, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Marshall, Isaac, Co. I, 63d O V. I. and 112th O. V. I. 
Martin. B. F., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Martin, Eleazer, served in a western regt. 
Martin, James H., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Martin, James W„ Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Martin. John F., Co. C. 4th O. V. 1. 
Martin, Nehemiah, Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Martin, Theodore, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Martin, Sabeers, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Martin. Valentine, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Martindale, James, Co. H. 3d O. V. I. and Co. F, 33d 

O. V. I. 
Martus, Theodore, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Mason, John, Co. G. 168th O. V. I. 
M..>s, Thomas J., Co. K, 121st O. V. I.: killed at Per- 

r\ sville. 
Mateer, Samuel, 96th O. V. I. 
Matheny, Robert F., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Matheny, W., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Mathews. George W.. Co. E, 43d O. V. I. 
Matin, Samuel, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Matlock, Thomas, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Mattoon, Francis M., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Maugans, Samuel. Co. K, 145th O V. I. 
Maxwell, Robert H., Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Maxwell, William H.. Co. A, iSth U. S. I. 
May, Obed R., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
May. Gabriel G., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Mavfield, Abram, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Mayfield, Andrew, Co. C, 86th O. V. I. and Union 

Light Guards. 
Mayfield, Columbus P.. Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Mayfield, James W., Union Light Guards. 
Mayfield, John C, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. ; died in service. 
Mayfield, Pritchard, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Mayfield, William, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
McAtlee, William H., Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
McCarter, Robert, sergt. 40th O. V. I. 
McCarty, Henry A., Co. B and Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
McCarty, Joseph, Co. A, McLaughlin's Squadron. 
McCay, Alexander. Co. F, 96th O. V. I.; killed at 

Grand Coteau. 
McCay, George W., Co. F, 06th O. V. I. 
McCay, Hugh B., Co. C, 12th 111., V. I. 
McCay, James R. P., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
McCav, Jesse B., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
McCay. John S., Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
McCay, Josephus, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
McCay, Marion, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
McClain, James A., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
McClain, James, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
McClain, John, Co. G. 137th O. V. I. 
McClary, David. Co. E, 2nd O. V. H. A. 
McCleod, Daniel, Co. M, 3d O. V. C. 
McCollin, Andrew J., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
McComiber, Zeno, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. : died at Wil- 
kin's Bend. 
McCrary. James, Co. G. ioSth O. V. I. 
McCreary, Oscar, 4th O. V. I. 
McCullough, Harvey J., Co. E, 84th O. V. I. 
McCullough, James H., Co. D, 20th O. V. I. ; qm. 

sergt. 145th O. V. I. 
McCullough, John E., Co. A, 174th O. V. I. 
McCullough, John F., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
McCullough. Josiah L., Co. D, 20th O. V. I.; died at 

Shiloh. 
McCullough, Watson, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
McCullough, William, Co. E, 14:5th O. V. I. 
McDonald, Morgan, Co. H.. 121st O. V. I. 
McDonald, William, Co. I, 32nd O. V. I. 
M. Donald, William, Co. G.. 06th O. V. I.; killed in 

Custer's massacre. 
McDowell Patrick, Co. A, 2nd Batn. U. S. A. 
McElroy, A. C, 2nd Va. V. I. 
McElrov. A. H„ Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
McElroy, Charles H.. Co. D, 20th; maj. 96th O. V. I. 
McElroy, Ervin B.. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
McElrov, James N., maj. 20th O. V. I.; col. 60th 

O. V. I. 
McElroy, Newton J., maj. 20th O. V. I.; capt. in U. 

S. C. 
McFarland, A. W., Co. G. 06th O. V. I. 
McGonigle, Chauncey, Co. D, 65th O. V. I. 
McFarlin, John A., sergt. Co. K. 04th 111. V. I. 
Mcllvaine. Robert, Co. D, 45th O. V. I. 
Mcllvaine, S., 18th U. S. I. 
Mclntire, George, Co. I, 46th O. V. I. 
Mclntire, James, Co. C, 4th and Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Mclntyre, James W., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
McKinney, William, Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 
McKinnie, James R., Co. A, l45ih O. V. I.' 
McKinnie, Josiah, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
McLead, Fred P., Co. A, 17th U. S. I. 
McLead. Miles, Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 
McManus, Daniel, Co. C, 2d U. S. C. 
McMaster, Benjamin S., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 



McMillan, James, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
McMillan, George C, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
vMcPherson, Benjamin. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
McRanv. Hiram, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
McWiliiams, Chancey, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
McWilliams, Marshall S., Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 
McWiliiams, Smith, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
McWilliams. William H., Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Meeker, Andrew, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Meeker, Stephen N., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Meinhen, Marcus O., Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Meinhen, Mason, Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Mercer, Alfred, Co. A, 2d O. H. A. 
Mercer, Isaiah, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Mercer, Washington Z., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Merrihew, Mason J. C, sergt. Co. H., 145th O. V. I. 
Merrill, Albert H., Co. I. 82d O. V. I. 
Merryman, James H., Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Messenger, William H., Co. F, 1st M. M. B. U. S. V. 
Michael, G. W., Co. I, nth Minn. V. I. 
Michelbach, Henry. Co. B, 46th O. V. I. 
Mickle, Alexander, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Mickle, Robert, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Miller, Adolphus, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Miller, Alpheus, Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Miller, Andrew J., Co. M, 3d O. V. C. 
Miller, Charles A., Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 
Miller, Daniel, Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 
Miller, Frank. Co. I, 117th O. V. I. 
Miller, George D., Co. H. 88th O. V. I. 
Miller, Henry, sergt. Co. K. 59th O. V. I. 
Miller, I., Co. F, 06th O. V. I. 
Miller, Isaac, Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Miller, Isaac, Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Miller, Jacob S., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Miller, Jerrv, Co. H, 18th O. V. V. I. 
Miller, John. Co. A, 176th O. V. I. 
Miller, John A., corp. Co. A. 3d O. V. I. 
Miller, John J., Batn. E, 2d O. V. H. A. 
Miller, William, Co. D, 114th O. V. I. 
Miller. William C, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
Miller, William H, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Mills, Francis, 18th U. S. I. 
Mills, George P., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Mills, George, 18th U. S. I. 
Mills, James W.. Co. V, Gov't Guards. 
Mills, V. W., Capt. Co. B, 20th O. V. I. 
Mills, William, Co. L, 114th O. V. I. 
Milton, N. P., Coo. I, 54th O. V. I. 
Minter, Ralph, Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Minter, V., Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Mitchell, Daniel C, Co. C, 82d O. V. I. 
Mitchell, George W., Co. I, nth Minn. V. I. 
Mitchell, James, chaplain, 133d O. V. I. 
Mitchell, Raven R., corp. Co. G, 124th O. V. I. 
Mitchell, Thomas, Co. B, 54th O. V. I. 
Mock, Taylor, 2d Batn. 13th U. S. I. 
Modi, Martin, Co. G, 121st O. V. I. 
Moist. William, Co. A, 93d O. V. I.; lost right arm; 16 

years old. 
Monahan, John, Co. I, 82d O. V. I. ; died of wounds. 
Montgomery, George W., Co. D, 1st O. V. C. 
Montgomery, H. D., Co. D, 1st O. V. C. 
Montgomery. R. B., Co. D, 1st O. V. C. 
Moore, Allen. Co. B, I42d O. V. I. 
Moore, Charles, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Moore, Frank, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 



AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



401 



Moore, George, Co. G, 98th O. V. I. 
Moore. James H., Co. G, 123d N. Y. V. I. 
Moore, James W., Co. C. 25th O. V. I. 
Moore, John, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. : died in Lynch- 
burg prison. 
Moore, Lucius, Co. H, 18th U. S. I. 
Moore, Samuel A., Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Moore, Sylvester, Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Moore, William E., adjt. 145th O. V. I. 
Moore, William, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Morehead, Alexander, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Morehouse, Caleb N, 121st O. V. I. 
Morehouse, Alfred, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Morehouse, Daniel W., corp. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Morehouse, Stanley S., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Morehouse, Stephen B., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Morehouse, Timothy. Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Morey. Cyrus W., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Morey, Hiram, Batn. E, 2d V. H. A. 
Mi rey, Sylvester, Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Morgan,. George W.. Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 
Morgan, James W., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Morgan, Lewis, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. ; killed before 

Petersburg. 
Morgan, Loomis, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Morris, Meshac, waiter for Col. A. E. Norton. 
Morris. William, chaplain 149th O. V. I. 
Morris. William H.. Co. B, 10th O. V. I. 
Morris, Elija, Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 
Morrison, Francis W., surg. Coo. I, 4th O. V. I., and 

174th O. V. I. 
Morrison, Ginn, Concord Twp. 
Morrison, Guy, Bat. 

Morrow. Arthur, Co. D. 44th Mo. V. C. 
Morton. Edward, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Moses, Albert I., Co. E, 7th 111 V. I., or Co. K, 28th 

111. 
Moses, Isaiah, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Moses. John F., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. ; trans, to 4th U. 

S. Art. 
Moses. Perrv, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Mosher. Charles H„ Co. G, 17th O. V. I. 
Mosher, Edmund B., steward 15th O. V. I. ; ass't surg. 

i72d O. V. I. 
Moss, Samuel. Co. C. 36th O. V. I. 
M( yer, Thomas, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Mounts, Amos C, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Mouser, Homer S., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Mullen. Alexander, Co. G, 46th O. V. I. 
Mullen, Elijah. Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 
Mummy, Daniel, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Munsell, Tohn T., Co. C, 4th. and 2d lieut. Co. D, 145th 

O. V. I. 
Munson, Elisha, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Murfield. William. Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 
Murphv, James F., Co. F, iSth O. V. V. I. 
Murphy. William A., Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Mussard, Joseph, Co. K, 6th W. Va. 
Mutchler, Jasper. Co. H. 5th U. S. A. 
Myers, Henrv, Co. D. 40tfi O. V. I. 
Myers, L. A.', Co. D, 15th U. S. I. 
Nafus, Co. E, 145th O. V. I., musician. 
Nafus, Silas G, Co. E, 145th O. V. T. 
Nafus, William C, Co. D. 96th O. V. I. 
Nagle. Daniel H., Co. A, Md. Cav. 
Nash, Oscar F., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Xeal, Robert D„ Co. B, 91st O. V. I. 
Xeebles, Elijah. Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 



Needles, Alfred P., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Neel, Dr. J. W., 3d Ass't surg. 12th W. Va. 
Neer. Amos, 8th O. V. C. 
Neer, James, Co. G, 94th O. V. I. 
Neer, John, 95th O. V. I. 

Neer, Joseph, one of four brothers, in an Ohio regi- 
ment. 
Neer, Josiah, 44th O. V. I., and 8th O. V. I. 
Neirling, William. Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Nelson. Edward T., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Nelson, George, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Nelson, Samuel, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Nelson, Samuel, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Nelson, William, Co. H, 88th O. V. I. 
Netelson, Albert, Co. G. 32d O. V. I. 
Nettleton, Baron B., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Nettleton, Judson, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Nevis, William, Inland Navy. 
Nevis, John D., Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 
Newell, Harris W.. Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Newell, Joseph W., Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Newhouse, Adam, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Newhouse, Alexander, Co. C, 121st O. V. I., and Co. 

K, 145th O. V. I. 
Newhouse, James H, Co. F. 66th O. V. I. 
Newhouse, John, Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 
Newhouse, John. Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 
Newhouse, Joseph, 45th O. V. I. 
Newhouse, Samuel, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Newhouse, Wesley. Co. G, O. V. I. 
Newhouse, William, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Newkirk, Cvrus. Co. G, o6tlTo. V. I. 
Nichols, Ludwell W„ Co. I, 3d O. V. I., and Co. I, 

85th; capt. Co. B. 88th O. V. I. 
Nicholson, M. A.. Co. F. 133d O. V. I. 
Nixon, John, Co. D, 2d W. Va. Cav. 
Noah, Daniel M., Co. C, 46th O. V. I. 
Noah, David T., Co. C, 46th O. V. I. 
Norris. George, Co. G, 17th O. V. I.: Co. K, 54th O. 

V. I. 
Norris. Isaac, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Null, Jacob, Co. G, 187th O. V. I. 
Null, John, Co. H, 120th O. V. I. 
Nutt, John E., Co. H, 133d O. V I. 
Oldham, Joshua G., Co. F. 96th O. V I.: 2d Batn. V. 

R. C. 
Oldham. Thomas, Co. A. 71st O. V I. 
Olds, H. C, maj. 145th O. V. I. 
Olds, Sanford, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Olds. Lester, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Olmstead, Charles F., Co. F, 96th O. V I. 
Olmstead. Sanford A.. Co. C, 26th O. V. I., and Co. 

C. 145th O. V I. 
Olney, Joel, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Olnev, John A.. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Olney, Levi. Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 
Orem, Benjamin F., Co. K, 13th Md. V. I.; wounded 

at Gettysburg. 
Orndoff. Jonathan. Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
Orton. Smith H. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. ; killed at Spottsyl- 

vania C. H. 
Osborn, David, Bat. H. 5th U. S. A. 
Osborn. Josiah, Bat. H, 5th U. S. A. 
Osborn. Judson. Co. K, 121st O V. I. 
Osborn, Samuel, Co. G, 96th O. V. I., and 17th Ind. 

Bat. 
Osborn. William H.. Co. H, 4th O. V. I.; Co. A, 45th; 

corp. Co. G, 187th O. V. I. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Ostrander, Jacob, Co. D, 20th; Co. C, 121st; Co. I, 
69th O. V. I. 

Ott, George, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 

Ousey, Edward. Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Ousey, James, Batn. K. 2d V. H. A. 

Overturf, Wesley, Co. F. ofith O. V. I. 

Oviatt, David W., Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 

Owens, Thomas, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Owston, Charles V.. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Owston, Henry H., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Owston. William H., Co. C. 4th 6. V. I. 

Pace. Isaac. Co. G. 06th O. V. I. 

Pace. James, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Pace. Nathan. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Paddock. Selvin, Co. H. SSth O. V. I. 

Page, Charles, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Page, Henrv D., Co. H, 187th O. V. I. 

Page, Robert S., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Page. W. R.. Co. F, 2d Batn. U. S. I. 

Palmer, David L., Co. F, U. S. V. V. 

Palmer. Charles, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. ; died in ser- 
vice. 

Palmer, O. H., Co. B, 16th Conn. V. I. 

Palmer, Roderick, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Parker, Ward L.. Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Parks, Cornelius, Co. C, 40th O. V. I. 

Parks, Henrv P., Co. B, 125th 111 V. I. 

Parks. Hoker E., Co. I. 46th O. V. I. 

Parks, John. Co. C, 40th O V. I. 

Parks, Rose J., Co. M, 3d O V. C. ; Co. G, 144th O. 
V. I. 

Parks, Sanford, Co. A, SSth O. V. I. 

Parnell, W. P., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Parry. Thomas L., Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 

Patrick, George. Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 

Patrick, John, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 

Patrick. Nathan E., Co. G, 96th O. V. I.; Co. H, 174th 
O. V. I. 

Patterson, Charles B., 43d O. V. I. 

Patterson, John, Co. B. 113th O. V. I. 

Patterson, Milo, corp. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Patterson, Morrel, corp. Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 

Patterson, Hosea, regt. band, 63d O. V. I. 

Patton, William B., "Co. B, 121st O. V. I. 

Patton, William C. Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Patrick, Charles M., snrg. Co. I, 2d O. V. I. 

Peak. Benjamin. Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 

Peak, Charles, Co. D, I2tst O. V. I. 

Peak, George, Co. D, t2tst O. V. I. 

Pearson, Frank W., Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Peaslev, John, Co. C, 5th Rat'n. 

Peaslev, O., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Peek, Irwin B., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Pendleton, George E., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Pendleton. James A.. Co. I, ath O. V. I. 

Pendleton, John W.. Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 

Pendleton, Rawley C, iS6th O. V. I. 

Pendleton, Samuel L., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Pendleton, Van M., Co. E, 66th O. V. I.; in Libby 
prismi. 

Penell, William P.. Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Penry. John P., Co. D, 20th 6. V. I. 

Perm, Joseph, Co. H, 174th O. V. I.; died of -mall 

1" IX. 

Perfect, Edwin, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Perfect, Henry, Co. H, 121 -t O. V. I. 
Perfect, Leroy, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 



Perfect, Waymon, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 

Perrv George, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. ; and Co. K, 179th 

O. V. I. 
Perry, George W., Co. C, 133d O. V. I. 
Perrv, Hugh, 1st lieut. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Perry. Robert, Co. A. 145th 6. V. I. 
Persons, Elvero, Co. C, 18th Mich. 
Pettibone. Channing L.. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Pettibone, Thomas L., Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 
Pettit. lacob, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Philbrick. Orlando, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Philips, Jenkins, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Philips, Joseph, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Phillipni, Philip, Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 
Phinnev, Tames F., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Phinnev, Russell C. Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 
Piatt, George A., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Pickett, Henry, Co. I, 170th O. V. I. 
Pierce, David M., Co. I. 46th O. V. I. 
Pierce, George, Co. C, 4th. and Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Pierce, James, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Pierce, Milton, Co. F, 66th O. V. I. 
Pierce, Richard, sergt. Co. G, 1st Md. V. I. 
Pierce, Webster. Co. D. 15th U. S. I. 
Pierson. Frank W., Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 
Pinnev. Perrv, corp. Co. D. 88th O. V. I. 
Piper, David, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Piper, William. Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 
Pittman. Samuel. Co. C, 121 st O. V. I. 
Pixley, James, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Place. Joseph K., Co. C, 2d Batn. iSth U. S. I. 
Plank. John J.. Co. F, 163d O. V. I. 
Plotner, Ambrose A., Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 
Plumb, N.. Co. I. SSth O. V. I. 
Plunket, Amos E., Co. I, 82c! O. V. I. 
Plunket. Isaac, Co. F, 06th O. V. I. 
Plunket, Richard. Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Pollock, James. 1st lieut. Co. G, 163d O. V. I. 
Poole. William H.. Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Pope, Robert, Co. G, 2d O. V. I. 
Porter. James A., Co. K. 121st O. V. I.: capt. Co. H; 

killed at Chickamauga. 
Porter, William P. Co. A, 06th O. V. I. 
Porterfield, William J., Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Ports, Israel A.. Co. D, 27th O. V. I. 
Ports, John T., Co. B. 1st Batn. 15th U. S. I. 
Post. T. I., 1st lieut. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Post, Martin W., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Postle, Ezra I., Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 
Potter, Allen, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Potter. Gilbert. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Potter, Levi. Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Poulton, Edward, Co. G, 45th O V. I. 
Powell, Clarence, 127th O. V. I. 
Powell, David, Co. G. 45th O. V. I. 
Powell. Eugene, Co. I. 4th and 66th O. V. I., Col. 

193d O. V. I. 
Powell. Toseph. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Powell, Llewellyn A.. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. ; 1st lieut. Co. 

E, 66th O. V. I. 
Powell, Thomas E., Co. C, 86th; sergt. Co. E, 145th 

O. V. I. 
Powell, William, corn. Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Powers. Henry V., Co. E, 84th 6. V. I. 
Powers, Jasper, in Ohio regt. : died 1863. 
Power-. John, 18th I'. S. I. : killed at Stone River. 
Powers, Martin A., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 



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403 



Powers, Orrin, Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Preston, George W . Co. M. 3d O. V. C. 

Preston, rhomas, Co. E, 21st O. V. I. 

Preston, T. H., Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 

Prichard, William E., Co. I, 2d O. H. A. 

Primmus, Tames B., Co. F. 96th O. V. I. 

Prosser, William, Co. G. 88th O. V. I. 

Push, James C. Co. C. 26th O. V. I. 

Push, John H . Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 

Pugh, Richard, Co. D, 133d O. V. I. 

Purdv. George, capt. Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 

Pycroft, Frank G., Batn. E, 2d O. V. H. A. 

Pycroft. Gaylord, Batn. E, 2d O. V. H. A. 

Quackenhush, J. W., Co. C, 1st Mich. 

Quick, George W., Co. A. goth O. V. I. 

Quinn, Tames, Co. H, 48th O. V. I. 

Rader, John, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Rader. Nicholas, sergt. Co. I. 32d O. V. I. 

Rains, James, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Rains. Lawrence, Co. B. 2d O. H. A. 

Rairic, Joseph. Co. B, 78th O. V. I. 

Ralston, William, Co. A, McLaughlin's Squadron. 

Ramage. John J.. Co. A, I2tst O. V. L; lieut. Co. K, 

[21 St O. V. I. 

Ramsev, James S., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Randall, Elmer, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Randall, Elwood, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Randolph, Alfred, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Randolph, Clarkson F., Co. E, 87th O. V. I., and Co. E, 

125th O. V. I. 
Randolph, Joseph F., Co. E, 87th O. V. I., and musician 

Co. E, 125th O. V. I. 
Rapp. Charles, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Rawn. Abel M„ Co. B, 10th O. V. C. 
Reed, Rees M.. Co. F, 121st: Co. G, 60th O. V. V. I. 
Reed, William P., col. I2ist O. V. I. 
Reese, William H.. Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Reid. Edgar J., Co. B, 145th O. V. I. 
Reisher. Abram D., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Reynolds, Horatio, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Reynolds, Richard W., capt. Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 
Reynolds, William. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Rhoades, John J., Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 
Rhoades, Levi, Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 
Rhodes, .Alva M„ Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 
Rhodes, Toseph B., Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 
Rhodes, Charles D.. Co. L, 6th U. S. A. 
Rhodes, Chester B., 2d O. H. A. 
Rhodes, Robert, Co. G, 4^th O. V. I. 
Rhodes. William, Co. I. 82d O. V. I. 
Rice, Christian, Co. G, iSth O. V. I. 
Rice. E., Co. B. 13th Mo. V. I., and 185th O. V. I. 
Rice, George, Co. I, 43d O. V. I. 
Rice. William, Co. A, 2d Batn. U. S. I. 
Richards, Albert. Co. A. 179th O. V. I. 
Richards, Amos T., Co. D, 17th O. V. I. 
Richards. Everett, Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 
Richards. Ezra, 52d O. V. I. 
Richards, John, corn. Co. E, 31st O. V. I. 
Richards, Samuel, Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 
Richert, Everett B., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Richey. James M.. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Richey, William, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Riddle, Christian, Co. C. 86th O. V. I., and Co. D, 

t45th, and Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 
Rider. Edward A., Co. C. 3d Md. 
Rider, James A., Co. A, 6"th W. Va. V. I. 



Rieble. August, Co. C, 191st O. V. I. 

Riley, Joseph. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Riley. Lewis K.. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Rinehart, Samuel, Co. H, 113th O. V. I. 

Ringer, Melancthon, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Risher, Menasseh, corp, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Rittenhouse, James, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Rittenhouse, Joseph, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Robbins, Williams, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 

Roberts. Benjamin C, musician Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Roberts, Daniel, Co. B, 20th O. V. I. 

Roberts, Edward H., Co. D, 30th O. V. I. 

Roberts, Giles H., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Roberts, John, Co. D, 64th O. V. I. 

Roberts. John C, Co. D, 64th O. V. I. 

Roberts, Jonah, Co. L, 4th Pa. Cav. 

Roberts, Luserne, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Roberts Robert. Co. D. 64th O. V. I. ; died in hosp., 
Bowling Green, Ky. 

Roberts, William, 06th O. V. I. 

Robertson, George C, Co. K. 121st O. V. I. 

Robertson, William, Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 

Robins, William, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 

Robinson, Albert R., Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 

Robinson, Charles H.. from Delaware county; died in 
service. 

Robinson, Coffman. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Robinson. Lorin L., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Robinson. William, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Rodes, Horatio J., Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 

Rodes, Mack J.. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Rodgers, Ezekiel. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Rodgers, James, Co. A, 2d Barn. 18th U. S. I. 

Rodgers, Jonathan. Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Rodman. A. J., 2d O. H. A. 

Rodman, James I., Co. E. 2d O. H. A. 

Roe. George, Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 

Rofifey, George W., Co. I. 129th O. V. I. 

Rogers, Commodore P., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Rogers. Jonathan, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Rogers, James, Co. F. 31st O. V. I. 

Rogers, Samuel, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Rolison, Lemuel, Co. G, 96th O. V. I.; fell dead at 
Columbus. 

Rolison. Simon, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Rolison, Utlev, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Rolison, William. Co. H, 145th O. V. T. 

Roloson, Benjamin. Co. I. 4th O. V. I. 

Roloson, Daniel. Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 

Roloson, DeWitt. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Roloson, G. S.. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Roloson. M.. seret. Co. E. 60th O. V. I. 

Roloson. O. H., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Roloson. W. H.. Co. G. 4th O. V. I. 
Romig, William R.. Co. F, 160th O. V. I. 

Ronev. Eugene, Co. H., 121st O. V. I. 

Rooney, George, corp. Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 

Rooney, Thomas, Co. F. 37th N. Y. V. I. ; died at sol- 
diers' home. 

Root, George, Co. C. 86th O. V. I. 

Root, George, sergt. Co. B, 10th O. V. C. 

Ropp, George D.. Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 

Ropp, John M., Co. M, 3d O. V. C. 

Ropp. William T., ass't surg. 33d O. V. I. 

Rose, Alonzo, Co. B, 5th O. I. C; Co. B. 13th O. 

V. I. 
Rose. Alonzo J., 13th O. V. I. ; age 13 years. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Rose, C. J., Co. G. 136th O. V. I. 

Rose, E. N„ Co. F, 125th O. V. I. 

Rose, Thomas E., Co. I. 33d O. V. I. 

Rosecrans, Peter J., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Rosevelt, George W., capt. Co. K, 22d N. Y. State 
Guards. 

Rosevelt, Daniel S., Co. I, 57th O. V. I. 

Rosevelt. Stephen L., Co. G. 187th O. V. I. 

Ross, Daniel S., Co. I, 57th O. V. I. 

Ross, E. N., Co. F, 125th O. V. I. 

Ross, James, Co. B, 114th Tenn. Inf. 

Ross, John, 2d O. V. H. A. 

Ross, John M.. Co. E, 2d O. H. A. 

Ross John P.. 81st O. V. I.; died at Corinth, aged 17. 

Ross. Robert L.. Co. C, 10th O. V. C. 

Roush, Joseph, Co. G. O. V. I., and 18th Ind. Bat. 

Roush, Martin. U. S. N. Miss. Squadron. 

Roush, Peter, Co. E, 4th Va. V. I., and Co. I, 
197th O. V. I. 

Row, Richmond W., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Rowland, William R., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Rowlands, John T., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Rowlands, T. W., Co. I. 4th O. V. I. 

Rowley, Francis, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Rowlings, William J., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Ruggles, Almond, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Ruggles, John, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Russell. Evan, Co. H. 88th O. V. I. 

Russell. George W.. Co. K, 54th O. V. I. 

Rust, Henrv S., Co. H, 145th, and Co. I, 179th O. 
V. I. 

Rudder. G. B., Co. G, 201st Pa. V. I. 

Rvan, John, Co. K, 10th N. Y. V. I., and Co. D, 145th 
O. V. I., and Co. D, 4th U. S. L. A. 

Ryant, Florence L., Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 

Rvder, Edward' A., Co. C, 3d Dd. V. I. 

Rvder, Granville, Co. B, 14th W. Va. I. 

Sabey. Martin. Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Sackett, George L., corp. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Sackett, James F., Co. H, 1,15th O. V. I. 

Sackrider, Solomon, Co. F, 2d N. Y. C. 

Saeman, Christopher. Co. G, 07th O. V. I. 

Said, Abner, Co. C 121st O. V. I. 

Said, James. Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 

Said. Simpson, Co. H, 88th O. V. I. 

Sales, Aaron, Co. E, 48th O. V. I. 

Sales, Isaac, Co. E, 195th O. V. I. ; died at Charles- 
ton. W. Va., 1865. 

Sales, Simeon, Co. B, 48th O. V. I.' 

Salisbury, James A., 96th O. V. I., and Co. C, 145th 
O. V. I. 

Salisbury, Lafavette, Co. C, I45tb O. V. I. 

Salisbury, L. T., Co. E, 66th G\ V. I. 

Salmon, John C, 3 years in Ohio regt. ; e. at 16 years 
of age. 

Sanborn, B. F.. Co. F 145th O. V. I. 

Sanders, Cyrus. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Sauer. Joseph, Co. A. 159th O. V. I. 

Saunders, Edward, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Saunders, Edwin P., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Saunders. Edward, Co. H, 20th O. V. I. 

Sauter, Fred, no record, also in Mexican war. 

Savidge, William. Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Sawyer, Samuel. Co. B. 2d O. H. A. 

Schaaf, Jacob A., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Schanck, Ephraim L., Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 



Schaub, Philip, Co. F, 43d O. V. I. 

Scheble, Joseph A., 1st lieut. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Schrock, Henry M., Co. H. 95th O. V. I. 

Schrock, Homer, Co. C, 133d O. V. I. 

Schrock. Joseph, Co. C, 133d O. V. I. 

Schrock, Vence, Co. C, 133d O. V. I. 

Schrock, William H., Co. A, 95th O. V. I. 

Schultz, George P., Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 

Schultz. William H.. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Schwartz. Nicholas, Co. G. 3d O. V. I. 

Scobv. Alfred, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Scott. Albert M., Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 

Scott, Albert S., 4th O. V. I.: Co. E, 31st O. V. I. 

Scott. Henry G, Co. B. 31st O. V. I. 

Scott. Tames, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Scott, John, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Scott, Orlando M., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Scott. Thorns W., Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Scoville, John D., Co. E, 31st O. V. I. 

Scoville, James L., Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 

Searles. Barnev, Co. K, 121st O. V I. 

Searles, Theodore P., Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 

Seattle, John, Co. A. 6th U. S. C. 

Seelev. Horace, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Seelev. Joseph. Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Seeley, Luther. 86th O. V. I., and 145th O. V I. 

Seelev, Robert, Co. H, 32d O. V. I. 

Seigfried, Jeremiah, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Seigfried. Levi, lieut. Co. F, o6th O. V. I. 

Seigfried, P. F., Co. E 66th O. V. I. 

Selanders, Samuel R., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Selanders, Thaddeus F„ Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 

Selbv. Manford. Co. E. 15 U. S. I., and Co. H, 74th 

O. V. I. 
Sell, Henry W., Co. H, 209th Pa. V. I. 
Sells. Abraham H., Co. F, 9Sth O. V. I. 
Sevmour, Albert M., Co. F. 3d O. V. I. 
Shade. Elijah. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Shaffer, Edwin P., Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 
Shelter, George F., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Shaffer. Henry P., Co. D, 145th O. V I. 
Shaffer. John, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
Shaffer, John H., Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 
Shaffer. Joseph, Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 
Shahan, Alfred. 61st O. V. I. 
Shaner, Adam J., served in Ohio regt. from Delaware 

County. 
Sharer, George W.. Co. C. 4th O. V. I. 
Sharer, John, Co. I. 145th O. V. I. 
Sharer. Tohn, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Sharer, William Co. B, 35th O. V. I. 
Sharp, Clinton E., Co. A, 60th O. V. I. 
Sharp, Tohn. lieut. Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Sharp, Joseph. Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Sharp. Samuel, capt. Co. D. t2ist O. V. I. 
Shaub, Henrv A., scrgt. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Shaub. Samuel J., Co. I, 4th O. V. I. ; lieut. 
Shaw, Daniel M., capt. Co. F, <;8th O. V. I. 
Shaw, David, Co. H. 2d O. V. H. A. 
Shaw, F. B„ Co. I, 3d O. V. I. 
Shaw, George. Co. F. 43d O. V. I 
Shaw, William, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Shearer. Barber. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Sheets. Ezra. Co. F. 06th O. V. T. 
Sheets, Daniel, Co. D, 145th O. V I. 
Sheets, Jonathan. Co. B, 13th O. V. C. 



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405 



Sheets, William H., Co. F, 96th 0. V. I. 

Sheldon, Henrv G., Co. C, 7th O. V. I. ; capt. Co. D, 

101st O. V. I. 
Sheldon, Horace, Co. A, 1st O. L. A. 
Sherman, Andrew J., Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Sherman, David, Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 
Sherman, David, capt. Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Sherman, Edward A., 51st Ind. V. I. 
Sherman, Frank, Co. F, gth O. V. C. 
Sherman. Henry, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Sherman, James, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Sherman, John R., 51st Ind. V. I. 
Sherman. William S., Co. E, 178th O. V. I. 
Sherry, James P., Co. D, 121st O. V. I.; e. at age 

of 17 vears. 
Sherry, John H., 15th U. S. I. 

Sherwood. Tames I., musician Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Shindollar, David, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Shindollar, John, Co.'B, 83d 111. V. I. 
Shively, David. Co. E, 2d O. H. A. 
Shivelv, Jchn, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Shoemaker, Adam S.. Co. G. 88th O. V. I. 
Shoemaker, David, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Shoemaker, Frank, Co. C, 88th O. V. I. 
Shoemaker, Francis, Gov't Guards. 
Shoemaker, Jacob, Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 
Shoemaker, John A.. Co. B, 74th O. V. I. 
Shoemaker, John W., Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Shoemaker, Sidney, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Shoemaker, William H., Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Shoop, James N. Rev., Co. C, 64th O. V. I. 
Shoup, Joseph. Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
Showalter, James H., Co. C, 46th O. V. I. 
Shults, Emanuel. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Shults, George W., Co. B, 121st O. V. I. 
Shults, William H., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Shumway, C, sergt. Co. C, i02d O. V. I. 
Sinister, 'George A.. Bat. C, 2d O. V. H. A. 
Sibel, Henry T., Co. G, 6th U. S. C. 
' Silverwood, Horace A., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

■ Silverwood, Isaac N., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

■ Silverwood, William F„ Co. I, 5th O. V. I. 
Simmons, Isaac. Co. A, 185th 6. V. I. 
Simpson, James R., Co. C, 170th O. V. I. 
Simpson, John A., Co. G, 10th Conn. 
Simpson, Leslie, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Skates, William M., Co. G, 46th O. V. I. 
Skinner, Charles A., in an Ohio regt. 
Skinner, Cooper A., 45th O. V. I. 
Skinner, Sidney M.. Co. I, 8jd O. V. I. 
Slack, Albert L.. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Slack, Charles, Co. G, 6th U. S. C. 

Slack, Elijah H., Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 
Slack. Ezekiel D., Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Slack, George, Co. C. 26th O. V. I. 
Slack, John B., Co. K, r2ist O. V. I. 
Slack, Lerov P.. Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Slack. Lewis. Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 
Slack, Pearson P., Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 
Slack, William, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Slagle, Austin. Co. A, inth O. V. I. 
Slagle, C. K„ 113th O. V. I. 
Slagle, Edwin, Co. A, 113th O. V. I. 
Slagle. Oliver; 4 mos. in Ohio regt. 
Slain, Jacob, Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Slane, Elias. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Slatterv, Michael, Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 



Slit'e, Philip, Cav. Licking Rangers. 

Sloop, Eli, Co. I. 32d O. V. I. 

Sloop, Harrison, in an Ohio regt. ; private sec'y to Gen. 

Banks. 
Sloop, Isaiah, 3 months in an Ohio regt. 
Slough, Charles J., Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 
Slough, J. A., Co. E, 134th O. V. I. 
Slough, James S., 4th O. V. I., and uSth Pa. V. I. 
Slough, John W., Co. K, 17th O. V. I. 
Slough, William, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Smiley, Edwin M., Co. D, 27th O. V. I.; killed. 
Smart, Joseph W. Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 
Smith. Abraham, Co. C, 10th Va. V. I. 
Smith, Adelbert, Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Smith, Albert, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Smith, Albert R., Co. K, 121st O. V. I., and Co. H, 

145th O. V. I. 
Smith, Charles, Co. G. 96th O. V. I. 
Smith, Charles E., Co. I, 3^d O. V. I. 
Smith, Charles W., lieut. Co. K, 5th O. V. I. 
Smith, Chauncev W., Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Smith, David. Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Smith, George. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Smith. George B, Co. K, 16th Pa. V. I., and Co. K, 

84th Pa. V. I. 
Smith, George W., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Smith. George W., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Smith. Herman C, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Smith, Horace F., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Smith, Jacob B., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Smith. Jacob H., Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 
Smith, J. W., surg. 13th O. V. I. 
Smith. John, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Smith. John L., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Smith, John M., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Smith, John O., Co. E, 33rd O. V. I. 
Smith, Lorenzo, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Smith. Lucius, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Smith, Lyman, in Mich regt. ; died in hospital. 
Smith. Milton, served in Indiana regt. 
Smith, Newton, Co. A, 14th 111 V. C. 
Smith Oliver D., Co. I, 189th O. V. I. 
Smith. Orville D.. Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Smith, Reuben P., in an Ohio regt. 
Smith. Robert W„ Co. I, 3d O. V. I. 
Smith, William H., Co. D. 26th O. V. I. 
Smith. William, Co. G, 06th O. V. I. 
Smith. William H. H., Co. D, 65th O. V. I. 
Smith, William N., Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Smothers, Daniel., Co. F, 3d Batn. iSth U. S. A. 
Smothers, Martin, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Smothers, Milton L.. Co. G, t4Sth O. V. I. 
Smothers. William, Co. G. 45th O. V. I. 
Smithers, Milton L, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Smothers. William L, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 
Smythe, James, Co. D. 76th O. V. I. 
Snedeker, William H., Co. D, 9th O. V. C. 
Snider, Leonard, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Snodgrass, James, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Snodgrass, Samuel K.. Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 
Snoke, Amos. Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Snyder. G. W.. Co. H, 4th O. V. I. 
Snvder, James, Co. D, 167th O. V. I. 
Snyder. John, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Snvder. Lewis, died in service. 
Sopher. Moses, Co. H, 174th O. V. I., Co. H, 145th 

O. V. I. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



South, James, Co. B. 46th O. V. I. 

South, William, Co. C, 121st 0. V. I. 

Southvvick, Rufus E., Co. H. 136th 0. V. I. 

Spain, William D, Co. K, 96th O. V. I. 

Spaulding, John, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Spear, Anthony M., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Spear, George T., Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 

Spear, James H., Co. D, 31st O. V. I. 

Spear, Leonidas, Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Spearmian, John, Co. F, 43d O. V. I. 

Sponsler, Adam, Co. A. 10th O. V. C. 

Sprague, F. B., in an Oregon regt. 

Springer, James. Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 

Staggers, Joseph, Co. H, 1st Iowa V. C. 

Staflman, Henry, Co. H, 45th O. V. I. 

Standish. Brvan N., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Standish, John M.. Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Stanforth, George B„ Corp. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Stanforth, Osborn, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Stanley, Milligan, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Stanley, William. Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Stanley. William, Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 

Stark, Dayid A., 2d lieut. Co. C. 96th O. V. I. 

Stark, Henry, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Stark. Selah, Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 

Stark. Thomas E., Co. I, 4th 0. V. I. 

Starr, M. L.. ass't surg. 145th O. V. I. 

Staytnan, Frederick, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Steele, John M., Co. A, ,145th O. V. I. 

Steinmetz, Henry, Co. A, 178th O. V. I. 

Stelzer, Adam, Co. F, 133d O. V. I. 

Stephens. Andrew, Co. C, I2tst O. V. I. 

Stephens, Ariel L., Co. G, 140th O. V. I. 

Stephens, Ephraim, nth Iowa V. I. 

Stephens, James A., Co. B, 10th O. C. 

Stephens, John, Co. H, 82d O. V. I. 

Stephens, Thomas, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Stephens, William, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Stephens, William, Co. K, [2is1 O. V. I. 

Sterner, A. H, Co. C, 106th Pa. V. I., and Co. K, 

104th Pa. V. I. 
Sterritt, Mathew D., Co. D, 121st 0. V. I. 
Stevens, Edward, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Steyens. George. Co. F. 76th O. V. I. 
Steward, Abram, Co. B, 76th O. V. I. 
Steward, George F., 1st sergt. Co. A, 1st Pa, V. I. 
Steward, Wesley C. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Steward, William H, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Stewart, William* Co. C, T2ist O. V. I. 
Stickney, Joshua, Co. B. 86th O. V. I., and Co. B, 47th 

O. V. V. I. 
Stiers, John, Trenton Twp. 
Stids, Thomas. Co. G, 46th O. V. I. 
Stiles. A. W., Co. E, 6th O. V. I. 
Stiles. Edward J.. Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Stiles, George P., e. at Cincinnati in an Ohio regt. 
Stiles, Edward J., Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Stiles, Seymour A., Co. C. 186th O. V. I. 
Stilley, Benjamin F., Co. G, 20th O. V. I. 
Stilley, Robert T., Co. B, 06th O. V. I. 
Stimmel, Charles F„ Co. I), i 4 ,th O. V. I. 
. Stimmel, John A., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Stitier. Abraham. Co. F, 06th O. V. I. 
Stockard, H. L., Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 
Stockard, William R.. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Stockman, E. G., Co. K. 66th O. V. I. 
Stockwell, Emerson. 15th U. S. I.; died in service. 



Stokes, Benjamin F., Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 

Stokes, George, Co. B, Col. Brownlow's regt. 

Stone. Alvin. Co. K, 96th O. V. I. 

Stoner, Robert S., Co. B, 76th Pa. 

Stottlemyer, Daniel, Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 

Stoughton, Alvin, Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 

Straight. Henry J., Co. A, 31st O. V. I. 

Stratton, Alexander. Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Stratton, C. B., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Stratton, William W., Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 

Strauser, George. Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Strawser, George, 96th O. V. I. 

Strickler, Abraham, 47th Ind. V. I. 

Strickler. George W., 163d O. V. I. 

Strickler, John, Co. I, 1st O. V. I.; died in ser- 
vice. 

Strickler, Jonas, served in Calif, regt. 

Strickler, William, musician. 63d O. V. I. 

Strimple, Francis L„ Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 

Strine, Jacob, Co. E, 38th O. V. I. 

Strohm. John H, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Strong. Daniel G., chaplain 4th O. V. I. 

Strong, Lewis, Inland Navy. 

Stultz, Christopher, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Stults, Harrison, Co. C, 181st. O. V. I. 

Stump, Jacob A.. Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Stver, George. Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Sullivan Daniel. Co. A, 50th O. V. I. 

Suits, Peter, Co. F, 96th O. \ r . I. 

Sunderland. James D., Co. B. 48th O. V. I. 

Sutler, John, Co. H, 6th U. S. C. 

Sutton, Henrv S., Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 

Sutton, William G.. Co. C, 82d O. V. I. 

Swarts, Abraham, Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 

Swarts. Joseph, Co. I. 82d O. V. I. 

Swartz, David, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Swartz. Eli, Co. F, 46th O. V. I. 

Swartz, Jacob. Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Swearingin, John. Co. G, 18th O. V. I. 

Sweetland, Abiiah W., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 

Sweetland. Hannah P., Co. K. 66th O. V. I. 

Sweigheimer, John J., Co. I. 54th O. V. I. 

Swick. David F.. Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 

Swick, Henry M., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Swick. Jacob. Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Swope, Henry M., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Tailor, Martin B., Co. G, 14th Va. V. I. 

Tallman, William H. H, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Taylor, Adam. Co. E, 30 O. V. I. 

Taylor, Adam H, 4th O. V. I. 

Taylor, Elam, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Ta'vlor, George A., Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 

Taylor. Henrv W., Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 

Taylt r. Joel B., Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 

Taylor, M. C, Co. B, 37th Bat. 

Taylor, R. S.. Co. A. 5th U. S. C. 

Taylor, W. T., Co. G, 14th O. V. I. 

Terrell, Samuel. Co. A. 179th O. V. I. 

Terrill Dayton M., Co. C. 186th O. V. I. 

Tharp, Job. Co. H, 71st O. V. 1. 

Thoman, Henrv K., Co. K, 17th O. V. I. 

Thomas. David, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Thomas; David C. 1st lieut. Co. D, 14th Ky.. and Co. 
A. 14th Ky. 

Thomas, David H. capt. Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Thomas, Jonathan, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Thomas. John H, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 



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407 



Thomas, John H.. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Thomas, |ohn \\ . Co. E, 66th 0. V. I. 
Thomas, Joseph E., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Thomas. Nasal, Co. K. [45th O. V. I. 

Thomas, Philo, O . K, 145th O. V. I. 
Thomas, Stephen Co. A, [45th 0. V. I. 
Thomas, Ural, Co. K, [45th 0. V. I. 
Thomas, Wesley, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Thomas, William J.. Co. A, 145th 0. V. I. 
Thornburg, Nathan, J3d O. V. I. 
rhompson, II. V. B.. Co. C. 26th O. V. I. 
Thompson, John, Co. G. S8th O. V. I. 
Thompsi ti. Milton S.. Co. H. 145th O. V. I. 

Thompson, Solomon \Y., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Thompson, Stephen, Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 
Thompson, William. Co. K, 121st O. V. I.; died in 
hosp. Jan., 1863. 

Thompson, William. Co. K, 121st O. V. I.; died since 
war. 

Thrall, Azra, Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Thrall, Irwin, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Thrall. Lewis L.. Co. B, 143d O. V. I. 

Thrall. Stephen P., Co. B, 20th O. V. I. 

Thurston. Charles G., Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Thurston, George A., Co. C, 2d O. V. I. 

Tiebout, William H., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Tipton, David, musician, Co. F, 63d O. V. I. 

Tipton, George W.. Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Tipton, Samuel. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Toatler. George, Co. H., 48th O. V. I. 

Tone, Lafayette, Co. K. [45th O. V. I. 

Topliff, Charles W., musician. Co. K. 145th O. V. I. 

Torrence, George B.. Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Torrence, Samuel W., sergt. Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Townley. Hart, Co. I, 32d O. V. I. ; died in service. 

Townley, William W., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 

Tracy, Jona. LI. S. Gunboat, "U. S. Grant." 

Traxler, Elias, Co. C, 4th O. V. I 

Traxler, John W„ Co. F, 06th O. V. I 

Traxler, William. Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 

Trickey, Christopher, Co. F, 06th O. V. I. 

Trout, Isaac H.. Co. L, 7th Pa. Cal. 

Troutman, Daniel, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Troutman, John, regt. band, 63d O. V. I. 

Trumbull, Henry. Co. D, 15th U. S. I. 

Trumbull, Leonard. Co. D, 15th U. S. I.; died in ser- 
vice. 

Trumbull, Oliver. Co. H, 178th Ky. V. I. 

Trumbull, Oliver P., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Tuller, Darwin, Co. D. 20th O V. I 

Tuller. Edgar P., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

Tuller, Erwin. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Turner. N. E.. Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 

Turtle, Albert. Co. E, 82d O. V. I. 

Tyler. James L.. Co. I. 32d O. V. I. 

Ufferman, Peter, Co. C, 145th O V I 

Ulrey, Charles M„ 7th U. 'S. C. 

Underwood, Amos W., Co. F. 3d Pa. V C 

Utley, J, 75th 111. V. I. 

Utter. Andrew. Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

L T tter Joseph E., Co. G, 171st Pa. V. I. 

Utz, Alexander R.. Co. A. [45th O. V. I 

Utz, John F., Co. A, 145th 6. V. I. 

Vanata, George W., Co. E, 96th O. V. I. 

VanBrimmer. William. Co. C, usth O. V. I. 

Van Brimmer. J. hn. Co. K. 66th O. V. I. 

Vance, Edward J.. Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 



Vance, James X.. Co. 1 >, 20th O. V. I. 

Van Deman, John D., 2d lieut. Co. E, 145th O V I 

YanDruff, David A., Co. A, 6th O. V. I.; died in 

service. 
Van Fleet, Marritt, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Van Horn, Girard. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Van Horn. James J., col. 8th U. S. I. 
Van Houton, C. W., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Van Wormer, Abraham, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Van Wormer, Frank, Co. I. ?2d O. V. I. 
Veal, Robert, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
Veer, Andrew A., Co. C, 4th O. V I 
Veley, John, Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Veley, Milo, Co. A, 48th 111. V. I. 
Vining, Benjamin, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Vining. Charles, Co. C, 4th Q. V. I. 
Vining, Charles C, Co. C, 4th O. V I 
Vining, E. C, Co. C, 86th O. V. I., 1st lieut. 
Vining, Reuben, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Vining, Reuben, 3d 111. V. I. 
Vining, Rufus, Co. E. 145th O. V. I. 
Vining, Thomas P., Batn. C, 2d O. V. H. A. 
Vought, Isaac H., Co. B. 48th O. V. I., and Co. B 

83d O. V. I. 
Vought, Isaac, Corp. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Vought, John F.. Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Waggy, William, Co. C. 121st O. V. I. 
Wagner, David, Co. G, 14th 111. C. 
Wait, Addison, Co. D, i4Sth O. V. I. 
Walbert, Benevel, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Walbert. Isaac, e. in Ohio regt. 
Walbert, William. 47th Pa. V. I. 
Waldo. Marvin H., e. in Ohio inf. regt. 
Waldron, Cornelius, Co. F, 96th O. V. L 
Walker, Alexander, Co. D, 119th Ky. V. I. 
Walker, Augustus P., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Walker, Charles, in an Ohio regt. ; killed at Dumfries. 

Virginia. 
Walker. John W., Co. H, I2rst O. V. I. 
Wallace, James, Co. D, 20th O. V. I., Co. C, r45th O 

V. I. 
Wallace, John, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Wallace, John. Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Wallam, Andrew, corp. to. E, 30th O. V. I. : killed at 

Kenesaw Mt. 
Wallin, John, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Wander. Joseph, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Ward, H. L., Co. C, 176th O. V. I. 
Ward, I. H.. Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Ward. Philimon, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Ward, Samuel, Co. D, 121st' O A" I 
Ward, Uriah H., Co. F, 1st U. S. A. 
Ward, William J., Co. C. 4th O. V I. 
Warner, Elijah, capt. Co. E, 30th O. V. I. 
Warner. Thames C, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Warner, Joseph, Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Warner, Josiah, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Warner. Martin, Co. D, 197th O. V. I. 
Warner, Milton. Co. C. 170th O. V. 1 
Warner. William H., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. ; capt Co. B 

48th O. V. I. 
Wasson, J. W. Co. R, 48th O. V. I 
Waterfield, George, iSth U. S. I. 
Waterhouse, J. P.. 138th O. V. I. 
Waterman. William. Co. B. 95th O. V. I. 
Waters. Benjamin F., Co. K. 121st O. V I. 
Watkins, Edward J., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 



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Watkins, Izastus, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Watkins, John H., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Watkins. John W., capt. Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Watkins, John W., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Watkins, Nathaniel D., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 

Watson, George B, sergt. Co. I, 3d O. V. C. ; pro. 
lieut. 

Watson, Robert A., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Watson, Thomas C. Co. E- 66th O. V. I. 

Watters, James, in Ind. regt. ; killed at Stone River. 

Watters, Lvman J., Co. G, 18th O. V. I. 

Watters, W'esley, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Weaver, Alfred, Co. H, nth V. R. C. 

Weaver, Andrew P.. sergt. 7th O. Ind. Bat. 

Weaver, Benjamin, Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Weaver, John H., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 

Webb, Joseph P., sergt. maj. /th O. V. I.; killed at 
Manchester, Va. 

Webb, Martin, Co. K, 66th O. V. I. 

Webster, Charles W.„ Co. F, 121st O. V. I. 

Webster, George P., Co. E. 66th O. V. I. 

Webster, Joseph P., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Webster William B.. G> K. '><>tli O. V. V. I. 

Webster, William H., Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Weeks, James H... Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 

Weeks, O. F., Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 

Weeks, Seth, 2d Batn. 18th U. S. I.; died in ser- 
vice. 

Weiser, Albert, 63d O. V. I.; Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Weiser, Charles, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Weiser, Christian, Co. I. &d O. V. I. 

Weiser, 'John, Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 

Weiser, Noah, Co. C, 67th O. V. I. 

Weiser. Philip, Co. E, 32d O. V. I. 

Weiser, Solomon B., capt. Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

Welch, Bvron L., Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

\\ 1 Kli, Girard, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Welch, George, Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 

Welch, Henry A., Co. E, 84th O. V. I. 

Welch, L. Byron, corp. Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Welch, Peter, Co. H. 174th O. V. I. 

Welch, William, Co. F, 96th O. V. T. 

Welch, William. Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Welch William. Co. A, 179th O. V. I. 

Welch, W. O., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Welchhanns. Henry, Co. I. 8jd O. V. I. 

Welker, Charles, Co. G, 88th O. V. I. 

Welkins, Elmas F„ Co. C. 26th O. V. I. 

Weller, Elias H., 63d regt. band. 

Wells, Edwin R., Co. G, 45th O. V. I. 

Wells, Griffin, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 

Wells. Milton A., Co. F, 43d O. V. I. 

Wells Milton IX, [2ist O. V. I. 

Wells, Robert A., Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 

Wells, Samuel, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

Wi 51 William H., Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 

Westbrook, Albert E., surg. 106th O. V. I. 

Westenhaver, S. B.. Co. D. 20th O. V. I. 

Westlake, Samuel R., Co. K, 96th O. V. I. 

Wetson, Hugh S., Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Welt, Jona, Co. E, 2d O. H. A. 

Wharton, John. Co. C, 154th O. V. I. 

Wheeler, G. L.. Co. K, 3d O. V. C. 

Wheeler, Herman J., Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Wherry, fann, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 

Whipple, Lewis, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 

Whitcraft, John H., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 



White, Albert. Bat. E. 2d O. V. H. A. 

White, Armidon, Co. A, 18th U. S. I. 

White, George, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 

White, George W., Co. C, 186th O. V. I. 

White, Isaac K., Co. K. 96th O. V. I. 

White. James, Co. I, 32d O. V. I. 

Whitehead, William W., sergt. Co. H, 7th 111. V. C 

Whiting, Johnson, Co. I, 5th U. S. C. 

Whitlock, E. D., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 

Whitman, George, Co. K, 121st O. V. I., and Co. H. 

145th O. V. I. 
Whitney, R. W., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Whitney. William H., 113th O. V. I. 
Whittens, Charles W., Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Whittens, William, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Wickham, J. W., Co. E, 31st O. V. I. 
Wigdon, Perry, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Wiggins, John, sergt. Co. A, 50th O. V. I. 
Wigton, Thomas F., Co. K, 121st O. V. I. 
Wilcox. Barnum, Co. A, 2d Batn.. iSth U. S. I. 
Wilcox, Benjamin F., Co. B, nsth O. V. I. 
Wilcox, B. W., Co. A, 2d Batn., 18th U. S. I. 
Wilcox, Hiram, Co. C, 113th O. V. I.; killed at 

Kenesaw Mt. 
Wilcox, James C, Co. E, 15th U. S. I. 
Wilcox. James H., Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Wilcox, Joseph E., Co. F, 06th O. V. I. 
Wilcox, John, Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Wilcox, Lawrence, in an Ohio regt. 
Wilcox, Marolus, mth O. V. I. 
Wilcox, Robert, Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Wilcox. Samuel, Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Wilcox, Simon, 96th O. V. I. 
Wilcox. William H., Co. B, 135th O. V. I. 
Wiles, C. W„ Co. L, 10th N. V. C. 
Wilkins, Elmus, Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 
Willev Ethan, Co. G„ 96th O. V. I. 
Willev. George W., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Willey, John, Co. C. 145th O. V. I. 
Williams, Abraham, Co. A, 2d O. H. A. 
Williams, Amos, Co. D. 121st O. V. I. 
Williams, Barney, Co. F, 174th O. V. I. 
Williams, B. F, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Williams, D. L., Co. A, 2d O. H. A. 
Williams, Daniel J., Co. E. 66th O. V. I. 
Williams, David, Co. E, 66th O. V. I. 
Williams, David W.. Co. B. 143d O. V. I. 
Williams, Eli, Co. B, 46th O. V. I. 
Williams, Evan D., Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Williams, Fergus F., 2d O. V. H. A. 
Williams, Frank, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Williams, George M., Co. G, 96th O. V. I. 
Williams, George W., capt. Co. A, 2d O. H. A. 
Williams. George W., sergt. Co. E, 77th O. V. I. 
Williams, G. W., I52d O. V. I. 
Williams. Henrv A., Co. C, 86th O. V. I., and Co. C, 

26th O. V. V. I. 
Williams, Jackson, Co. F, 121st O. V. I. 
Williams, Jeremiah E., Co. I, 159th O. V. I. 
Williams, John P.. Co. K, 20th O. V. I., and Co. B, 

46th O. V. I. 
Williams, Morris, Co. E, 66th O. V. I., and Co. H, 

174th O. V. I. 
Williams. Peter, 18th U. S. I. _ 
Williams, Sylvester G., in Ohio regt. inf. 
Williams, T. B., surg. 121st O. V. I. 
Williams, T. J., Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 



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lliams, Thomas, Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 

lliams, Thomas ]., Co. II, 129th O. V. I., and Co. G, 

iS;th O. V. I. 
lliams, Virgil, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
lliams, Washington, Co. K, 152CI Ind. V. I. 
lliams, William D., sergt. Co. G, 2d Calif. V. I. 
lliams, William G, chaplain 145th O. V. I. 
lliams, William M., in an Ohio regt. inf. 
lliamson, Alonzo, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
lliamson, George S., Co. B, 76th O. V. I. 
lliamson. John. Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
lliamson, Madison, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
lliamson, Marquis, Co. B, 24th O. V. I., and Co. A, 

178th O. V. I. 
lliamson, Michael, Co. C, 2d batn. 18th U. S. I. 
lliamson, Solomon, Co. H. 121st O. V. I. 
lliamson. S. Madison, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
His, Henry B., Co. F, 20th Iowa V. I. 
His, T. B., Co. B, 48th O. V. I. 
His, Plvn A., surg, 48th O. V. I. 
His. R. K., Co. K, 48th O. V. V. I., and Co. K, 145th 

O. V. I. 
lis, George M., Co. C, 121st O. V. I. 
lis, Milton, 43d O. V. I. 
lmuth, Philip, Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Ison, Henry, 20th O. V. I. ; died in hosp. during 



Wilson, James, lieut. Co. D, 1st Ya. V. I. 

Wilson, John, Co. I, 82d O. V. I., and Co. H. 174th 

O. V. I. 
Wilson, Lyman, Co. S, 145th O. V. I. 
Wilson, March, 4th Md. V. I.; killed at Norfolk. Va. 
Wilson, Peter D., Co. C, 96th O. V. I. 
Wilson, Thomas O.. Co. H, 145th O. V. I. 
Wilson, Z. B., 8th Mo. V. I. 
Winbare, Emanuel, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 
Windship, David, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Winston, Thomas J., Co. D, and Co. E, t6th Wis. 

V. I. 
Wintermute. Ezra D., Co. M. 1st N. J. V. C. 
Wintermute, H. O., sergt. Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Wintermute, T. P., ord. sergt. Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Wise. Cyrus C, Co. F, 96th O. V. I. 
Wise, Duncan, Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 
Wise. John H.. Co. F, 141st O. V. I. 
Wise, Jacob, Co. D. 145th O. V. I. 
Witheringham, John W., Co. I, 3d O. C. 
Withrow, William H., Co. D. 88th O. V. V. I. 
Wixstead, John, Co. I, 4th O. V. I. 
Wolff. Fred J., Co. B. 26th O. V. I. 
Wolfley, Eban, Co. C, 2d O. H. A. 
Wolfley, Gei rge T., corp. Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Wolfley, T. A.. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Wolfley, J. M.. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Wolfley, Lewis, [st sergt. Co. A. 145th O. V. I. 
Wolfley, Oscar A., Co. E, 145th O. V. I. 
Wolfley, Robert. Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 
Wolfley, Silas D., Co. D, 145th O. V. I. 
Wollam, John, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 
Wood. Albert A.. Gov*t Guards. 
Wood, Isaac, Co. C, 66th O. V. I. 
Wood, L. P., Co. H, 174th O. V. I. 
Who,!. Perry, Co. C, 86th O. V. I. 
Wood Theodore P., Co. D, ui-t O. V. I. 

W 1. William H. Co. F, 31st O. V. I. 

Works, F. P., Co. I, 24th Mass. V. I. 
Worline, Albert. Co. C. 46th O. V. I. 
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Worline, David, musician, 63d 0. V. I. 

Worline, David, Co. D, 20th O. V. I. 

Worline, Henry, Co. A, 145th O. V. I. 

Worline, Hugh, Co. D, 121st O. V. I. 

Worline, William, Co. C, 26th O. V. I. 

Worthing, William, Bat. I, 1st O. V. H. A., and Bat 

I, 2d O. V. H. A. 
Worthington, Amos E., Co. E, 31st O. "V. I. 
Wright, David, Co. H, 121st O. V. I. 
Wright, Jerry, Co. D, 75th Ind. V. I. 
Wvatt, James B., Co. C, 145th O. V. I. 
Yancey, Charles, Co. I, 82d O. V. I. 
Young, Charles, Co. I, 82d O. V. 1. 
Young, Jacob, 2d N. J. C. 
Yost, Clement, Co. P., nth Pa. C. 
Zeigler, Charles, Inland Navy. 
Zimmer, Nicholas, Co. M, 1st U. S. C. 
Zi miner, Casper, Co. B, 64th O. V. I. 
Zimmerman, Charles H., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 
Zimmerman, Volney B., Co. K, 145th O. V. I. 

The following is a list of soldiers who went fn 111 
Delaware County, but whose record could not be 
obtained : 



Beach, Newton. 
Benton, Henry. 
Biglow, Henry C. 
Bolton, Thomas. 
Carney, Darwin. 
( li;iM>, Ebenezer. 
Chase, McLean. 
Converse. John. 
Flavial, G. 
Fi irsyth, John. 
Freese, Isaac. 
Gaily, John. 
Gates, L. S. 



Granstaff, Alexander. 
Halm. Julius. 
Harrod, M 
James, B. 
Mi irgan, Da\ id, 
Morgan, John. 
Morn-, Richard. 
Pensuton, Coltson. 
Pfeifer, Andrew. 
Shaw, Robert. 
Stiers, John. 
Watters, P. H. 



DELAWARE COUNTY G. A. R. POSTS, DEPART- 
MENT OF OHIO. 

There are five posts of the G. A. R. in 
Delaware County, of which the following is a 
brief history : 

The first post organized in the county was 
Slack Post No. 59, which was chartered Janu- 
ary 25, [884, and located at Galena. Its name 
perpetuates that of Comrade Charles A. Slack. 
He was born in Galena. October 19, 1841, his 
parents being natives of Delaware County. 
After receiving the school training afforded by 
his native town, he engaged in farming. He 
enlisted at Galena, in August. 1861, in Com- 
pany G, Sixth United States Cavalry. In 1863, 
he was for some time in a Xew York hospital, 
but rejoined his regiment before it was called 
into Pennsylvania, on Lee's invasion of that 
state. He fell in an engagement of that cam- 



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paign, was killed in action at Fairfield, Penn- 
sylvania, July 3. 1863, and was buried on the 
battlefield, aged 22 years, 8 months. 

The officers of the organization were as 
follows: P. C, G. W. Hughes; S. V. C, M. 
C. Ingham: J. V. C, T. H. Preston; Chaplain, 
R. B. Bennett; Surg., S. J. Mann: O. M., J. 
H. Dustin; O. D., J. J. Adams: O. C, Chas. 
Vanhouten; Adjt., D. C. Curtis. 

The second organization was Torrence 
Post, No. 60, located at Delaware, and char- 
tered in 1881. The Post was named in honor 
of one of Delaware County's heroes, Geo. B. 
Torrence. The scenes amid which this brave 
soldier perished, December 13. icS62. at Fred- 
ericksburg, Va., are thus described in the 
Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regimental 
history: "Wounded men fell upon wounded; 
the dead on the mangled; the baptism of fire 
adds more wounds and firings death to help- 
less ones; as we look back the field seems cov- 
ered with mortals in agony; some motionless, 
Others are dragging themselves toward the 
rear; occasionally the shell or cannon-ball that 
ci mes into their midst sends arms, hands, 
legs and clothing into the air; our colors for 
a moment are down, for our noble color- 
bearer. Ceo. B. Torrence, falls, having his 
head blown from his bod}-, leaving his blood 
and brains upon comrades and the flag." 
George Bennett Torrence was born near Sun- 
bury, Ohio, January 4. 1839, a son of Moses 
Torrence and Eliza (Smith) Torrence, natives 
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was em- 
ployed for a number of years at the Buckly 
House. Columbus, then fired for "Old Pap 
Loomis" on the C: C. C. & I. R. R., and was 
on his engine at Columbus ready to start for 
Cleveland when approached by two neighbor- 
hood boys who wished him to enlist. He im- 
mediately climbed down and enrolled in Com- 
pany C, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He 
was promoted to color-sergeant, A finely ex- 
ecuted portrait of Torrence by J. F. Ledlie 
adi u'ns the I'i 1st room. 

The officers at the organization of the post 
were as follows: 1'. V, |. S. Cones; S. V C, 
F. B. Sprague; J. V. ('..' I >. A. Stark; Q. M., 



Jacob Kruck; Adjt., J. W. Watkins; Surg., 
R. G. Lybrand; Chaplain, B. W. Brown; O. 
D., R. R. Henderson; O. G., Aaron Frantz. 

Myers Post, No. 252, was organized at 
Sunbury, August 28, 1882. Lawrence A. Myers, 
for whom it was named, was born in Sunbury, 
December 11, 1843. His parents, Thomas P. 
Myers and Amy L. (Armstrong) Myers, were 
also natives of the same town. For two years 
prior to his enlistment, they resided on a farm 
one mile south of Sunbury, and when Law- 
rence was not at school he assisted his father in 
the hauling of stock and general farming 
work. He was not yet eighteen when he en- 
tered the service. His parents and friends 
used every argument to prevent his enlistment 
at so early an age, but finding him firm in his 
resolution to be one to defend his country, they 
induced him to enter a regiment of regulars, 
believing he would be better cared for than 
in the volunteer service. He enlisted for three 
years in Company D, Fifteenth United States 
Infantry, and was in all marches and engage- 
ments from the time it entered the field in 
November, 1861, till he was disabled by sick- 
ness. He passed safely through the battles of 
Shiloh, Perrysville and Stone River. When 
the regiment crossed the Elk River, he con- 
tracted chronic rheumatism, from which death 
resulted, February 2-. 1864, at his home in 
Sunbury, where he had been brought by his 
father a few days previous. His remains rest 
in the cemetery at Sunbury. At the organiza- 
tion of Post No. 252, the name of L. A. Myers 
was adopted by acclamation by the comrades. 

The officers at the organization of the post 
were as follows: P. C, F. B. Sprague; S. V. 
C, A. W. Hall; J. V. C, R. B. Conant ; Surg., 
E. B. Mosher; Chaplain, M. Harrold; O. D„ 
Orris A. Lawson; O. V. S. D. Lincoln; O. 
M., J. H. Kimball; Adjt.. T. O. Freeman. 

Coomer Post. No. 281, chartered December 
1 j. [882, located at Ashley, is named for Cap- 
tain Jerry E. Coomer. For a sketch of his ser- 
vices we are indebted to his father. Dr. H. X. 
( 1 k uner. Jerrie E. Coomer, son of Dr. H. N. 
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Perrysville, Indiana, September 24, 1843; 
died of phthisis pulmonalis, at Ashley, October 
27, 1878, aged 35 years. He enlisted in Com- 
pany C, Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infan- 
try, May i. 1861, and was mustered in as a 
private, at Camp Chase, June 15, 1861. From 
Camp Chase the regiment was ordered to West 
Virginia, where he served through the 
memorable campaign of West Virginia. 
The regiment was then ordered into 
Kentucky, and while on the march to Nash- 
ville he was attacked with pneumonia, near 
Silver Springs, Tennessee. He was cared for 
in field hospital (ambulance) for a few days, 
and then sent to general hospital No. 4, Nash- 
ville, Tennessee. He was discharged from this 
hospital shortly after the battle of Shiloh, and 
rejoined his regiment at Florence, Alabama, 
Some time in the fall of 1862 he was sent to 
li'>-pital No. 16. Nashville, Tennessee, on ac- 
count of disability. After his recovery he was 
detailed as a clerk in said hospital, where be 
remained until all the able bodied men in the 
hospitals were ordered to the front for active 
service. He participated in the charge on Mis- 
sionary Ridge, and the Atlanta campaign. About 
this time he was appointed hospital steward of 
the Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
and served in that capacity till after the battle 
of Nashville, December, 1864. Shortly after 
that he was commissioned captain of Company 
D. Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
and so served until June, 1865, when he con- 
sidered war ended and be resigned, "for the 
purpose of completing his education," which, 
during the preceding vears, had been totally 
neglected. 

The officers at the organization of the post 
were as follows: P. C, W. W. Holmes; S. V. 
C, S. R. Harris; }. V. C, David Shoemaker; 
Adjt, C. Shumway, Jr. ; O. M., Geo. W. Rose- 
velt ; Surg., Dr. A. E. Westbrook; Chaplain. 
John W. Shoemaker; O. D., R. E. Southwick ; 
O. G., S. G. Davis. 



Jose pit Tannet Post, No. 531, located at 
Ostrander, was chartered July 24, 1885, at 
Zanesville, Ohio. Joseph Tanner, for whom 



this Post is named, was born in Dover Town- 
ship, Union County, Ohio. When about 
twenty-one years of age, he enlisted in Com- 
pany C, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for 
three months, and re-enlisted in the same com- 
pany and regiment for three years. He was 
killed in a charge near Spottsylvania C. H., 
Virginia, about May 11, 1864. Owing to the 
enemy's heavy fire, his body could not be 
brought off, although comrades made several 
attempts to reach it. and it was burned by fire 
catching in the leaves. 

The officers of the post at its organization 
were as follows : P. C, D. G. Cratty ; S. V. 
C, Abner Said; f. V. C, fames Rittenhouse ; 
Q. M., H. B. Cullens; Surg., Jerry Miller; 
Chaplain, T. E. Davids; O. D., J. H. Ritten- 
house; O. G, Jacob Ayers; Adjt., T. J. Win- 
ston. 

COLORED TROOPS FROM DELAWARE COUNTY. 

Delaware County has a population of be- 
tween four and five hundred colored inhabit- 
ants. These citizens proved themselves 1( yal 
to the Union cause. They were not permitted 
to join the army until 1863. Before the time 
that any colored regiments had been recruited 
in Ohio, a number of these colored people 
joined the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment. 
The only semblance of law which gave author- 
ity for enlisting colored troops was that known 
as the "contraband law" which gave a colored 
laborer in the service of the Unuited States, 
seven dollars a month and three additional for 
clothing. Finally there came a call from the 
war department for colored troops to serve in 
the army of the United States and the promise 
given that Congress would place them on equal 
footing with other troops. Under this call 
the Fifth Colored Infantry was organized at 
(amp Delaware and contained a large number 
of men from this county. In June, [863, a 
camp for colored soldiers was opened on the 
farm of Josiah Bullen, about one mile south of 
the city and nearly opposite "old Camp 1 >■ 
ware." This was the first complete colored 
regiment raised in the state of Ohio. These 



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soldiers proved themselves brave and loyal 
in many battles during the closing years of 
the war. 

The following roster contains the name of 
all the colored troops from Delaware county 
with the regiment in which they served, as far 
as can be ascertained. 

Fifth United States Colored Volunteer 
Infantry. 

Austin, Jeremiah, Co. C. 

Brown. Manuel, Co. G. 

Currv, George W., Co. I. 

Day," John W, Co. B. 

Fry, Joel I., Co. C. 

Hamilton, John F., Co. I. 

Highwarden, Shadrick, Co. G. 

Joel, James, Co. H. 

Jones, Benjamin, Co. A. 

Lewis. John, Co. F. 

Mayo, George W., Co. E. 

Meriday, Isaac, Co. E. 

Scurry, William, Co. A. 

Taborn, John E. H., Co. E. 

Thomas, William H., Co. I. 

Whiting, Johnson, Co. I. 

Wilson, Abel, Co. A. 

Warrick, Adoniram, Co. H ; enlisted at i_' years of age. 

Twenty-seventh United States Colored 
I 'olunteer Infantry. 

Bass, John, Co. G. 
Clay, H. C, Co. D. 
Carvin, Henry, Co. D. 
Goode, George H., Co. H. 
Goode, William E.. Co. IX 
Highwarden, Abram, Co. H. 
Holly, William, Co. D. 
Horton, John, Co. C. 
Johnson, Robert, Co. G and E. 
Leggins, David, Co. E. 
Seldou. Charles. Co. I. 
Thomas, William, Co. C. 
Thornton, Isaac, Co. K. 

SOLDIERS IN VARIOUS COLORED REGIMENTS. 

Alston, David. 9th U. S. H. V 
Anderson, Ni lson, < E, 55th Ma 
Vndi i - n, 1 harles, 1 I >. - '< Mass. 
Andi 1 51 m, * leorge W. 

Booker, Stephen, Co. E, 100th U. S. C. V. I. 
Brown, Janus P., 55th Ma 
Brown, Lyon, 55th Mas' 
Depp, Aurelius. 55th M 
Depp, John, 121I1 U. S. C. V. I 
Gross, Charles, Co. D, 55th Ma 
Harris, William. Co. K. 4-'<l U. S. C V I 
rson, Elijah, 9th U. S. II. A. 



Herrell. Richard, 14th R. Is. H. A., and Co. M, nth 

U. S. H. A. 
Highwarden, John W., 55th Mass. 
Highwarden, E. A., S5th Mass. 
Holey, Madison, 12th U. S. C. V. I. 
Keys, Robert, Co. C, 15th U. S. C. V. I. 
Keyser, James, U. S. C. V. I. 
Lewis. Austin, Co. D, 55th Mass. 
Lewis, George, s=ith Mass. 
Mitchell, Nathan, Co. G, 1st U. S. C. 
Shorter, John F., Co. D, 55th Mass. 
Townsend, Joseph, U. S. H. A. 
Walker, Alexander, Co. D, 119th U. S. C. V. I. 
White. John W., 55th Mass. 

COLORED SOLDIERS OF DELAWARE COUNTY IN 
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 

Ninth Battalion. 

Alston, F. B., Co. A, 9th Bat. 48th band, U. S. V. I, 

Philippine Islands. 
Brown, Samuel G, Co. C. 
Chancellor, Alfred, Co. C. 
Coleman, Ozie, Co. B. 
Coleman. William, Co. B. 
Cousins, William, Co. C. 
Dudley, Thomas, Co. B. 
Franklin, J. W., Co. C. 
Highwarden, Harry D., Co. C. 
Jackson, W. A., Co. A. 
Johnson, Robert L., Co. C. 
Madison, John, Co. C. 
Mitchell. Charles E„ Cn. B. 
Morris, Charles B„ corp. Co. B and Co. E, 48th U. S. 

V. I., Philippine Islands. 
Taylor, John, Co. B. 
Teal, Henry, Co. B. 
Thomas, Walter S., Jr., Co. B. 
Utter, Leo, Co. B. 
White, James M. Co. A. 
Wilson, Frank, Ox C. 
Win trey. Harmon, Co. C. 



FOURTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY, O. N. G. 



In War With Spain— Fourth 0. V. L 

The Fourth Regiment of Infantry, for- 
merly the Fourteenth, was organized by 
Special Orders. No. 216, dated Oct. 20, [877. 
Seven companies of infantry were designated 
in this order as constituting the regiment. 
They were as follows: Co. A. Columbus. Cap 
tain Charles S. Ammel ; Co. B. Thurman 
Light Guards, Columbus, Captain Henry Sei- 
bert; Co. C, Westerville, Captain Isaac X. 
Custer; Co. D, Darby Videttes, West Jeffer- 



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son. Captain Jacob Martin; Co. E, Maryville, 
Captain William L. Curry; Co. F. Converse 
Guards, Columbus, Captain John W. Cbapin ; 
Co. G, Grosvenor Rifles, Richwood, Captain 
John P. Slemmons. 

The movement looking towards the organi- 
zation of a regiment with headquarters in 
the capital city of the state was inaugurated 
in the winter of 1876. Captain Charles S. 
Ammel took the initiative in the organization 
of Company A, the company being admitted 
to the state service in February, 1877. The 
other six companies designated were organized 
during the same year, and upon the date of the 
order noted above the Fourteenth Regiment 
was formally launched upon its military 
career. 

The Fourth or Fourteenth Regiment (or 
companies detailed from same) has seen active 
service in the state in the maintenance of the 
peace and in the preservation of life and prop- 
erty upon the following occasions: 

Railway riots. Columbus and Newark. 
1877. 

Incendiary fire troubles, Columbus, 1879. 

Perry County, labor troubles. 1880. 

Ashland, aid of civil authorities, 1884. 

Cincinnati riots. 1884. 

Hocking Valley, miners' riot, 1884. 

Carthage rendezvous, 1886. 

G. A. R. Encampment, police duty at Co- 
lumbus. 8 days. 1888. 

Mount Sterling, "Hobo War," 1S94. 

Columbus West Side flood. 1894. 

Wheeling Creek, 181)4. 

Washington C. H., aid of civil authorities, 
1894. 

Cleveland Street Railway riot, 1899. 

Akron riot. 1900. 

The regiment was also on duty at the fun- 
eral of President Garfield in 1881 ; acted as 
escort to the Governor of Ohio at Gettysburg 
and Philadelphia in 18K7: in attendance at 
General Sherman's funeral in St. Louis in 
1891 : attended the dedication of the World's 
Fair buildings in 1892 and accompanied the 
Ohio troops which officially represented the 
state at the World's Fair in 1893; acted as 
escort to the Governor of Ohio at Chicka- 



mauga in 1894 and at Nashville in 1897. For 
mure specific information concerning all of the 
preceding calls to duty, see the general history 
of the regiment. 

Other Ohio regiments took an active part 
in the operations at the scene of greatest ac- 
tivity in Cuba and performed valuable service 
after actual hostilities had ceased, but it was the 
Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry that stained 
the soil of Porto Rico with the first and only 
blood shed for the Cuban cause by a body of 
Buckeye troops. 

The four Columbus companies assembled 
at the Auditorium at Columbus on Monday, 
April 24. and the following day the outside 
companies reported for duty. Bullit Park was 
chosen as the rendezvous for the mobilization 
of Ohio troops and the signal corps of the 
Fourteenth was detailed to lay out the camp. 
The regiment moved into quarters at Camp 
Bushnell, April 28, and were the first troops 
to take up quarters at that historic camp. 

On the 9th day of May the regiment was 
mustered into the United States service as the 
Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
Six days later Colonel Coit received orders to 
report with his regiment at Camp George H. 
Thomas, Chickamauga Park. Ga. Pursuant 
to orders the Fourth Ohio took its departure 
from Columbus. May 15. arriving at Camp 
Thomas on the following day, when they were 
immediately assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 1st 
Division. 1st Army Corps. The second bri- 
gade consisted of the Fourth Ohio, Third Illi- 
nois and Fourth Pennsylvania. These regi- 
ments passed through the volunteer service 
together, the brigade formation remaining 
intact until the close of the war. 

The Fourth Ohio made its home at Chicka- 
mauga Park for a period of sixty-seven days, 
when the entire brigade was ordered to join 
the expeditionary forces then concentrating n >r 
the conquest and occupation of Porto Rico. 
For further details of the part of this regi- 
ment took in the history of the Cuban war. 
the reader is referred to the various w< irks 1 in 
that subject. 

Company K was organized at Delaware. 
February 13. 1879. ami assigned to the 14th 



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regiment as Co. K ; local designation — Joy 
Guards : and was assigned to the 4th regiment, 
July 14, 1899. ^ was organized for the volun- 
teer service at Delaware, April 25, 1898; 
mustered in at Columbus as Co. K, 4th O. V. 
I., May 9, 1898; in action before Guayama, 
P. R., August 5, 1898; in action north of 
Guayama, August 8, 1898, one man, Corporal 
Thomson, wounded; Aibonita, October 6, 
1898; detachment of ten men sent to Barrios, 
October 8, 1898; detachment returned, Oc- 
tober 20, 1898; marched to San Juan and re- 
joined regiment on U. S. Chester, October 29, 
1898; mustered out at Columbus, Jan. 20, 
1899. 

The following includes all of the soldiers 
in Delaware County, who served in the Cuban 
war excepting the colored troops, which will 
be found in another place. 

Adams, Cyrus B., lieut. col. 4th O. V. I. 

Ahearn, Patrick, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Anderson, William, Co. C, 3d O. V. I. 

Auman, John. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Baker, Fred, U. S. Hospital corps, Philippine service. 

Beitler. Claude M., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Bell, Joseph M., U. S. Hospital corps. 

Bennett, Frank W., Co. A, 4th O. V. I. 

Bennett, John T., Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 

Billig, Clinton E., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Browning, Sherman W., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Brownmiller, Charles R., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Brunn, Harrry C, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Burke. James H, Co. G, 4th O. V. I. 

Butt, Andrew M., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Campbell, Herman R., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Corbin, Richard R., Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 

Cosier, Harrv A., sergt. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Crattv, Carl F., sergt 4th O. V. I. 

Cruik'shank. Alwood, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Dall, Clive K., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Davis, H. W., Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 

Doke, Charles H, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Donavin. George B., am. 4th O. V. I. 

Dore, Clark T., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Dovle. John P., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Driscol, Timothy I.. Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 

Dunham, Sturgis, cOrp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Enright. Francis C, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Ferris, Will M., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Finley, , sergt-maj. ^d Bat. jth O. V. I. ■ 

Foley, Wm. J.. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Ford, Wm. P., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
France, Clyde O., Co. K, 4th O. V T. 
Frantz, Walter R., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Gerber, Maxmillian, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Glaze, Thos.. corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Greible, George A., sergt. qm. Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 
Greiner, Bert H, capt. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 



Greiner, John, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Grove, Thos. S., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Harmount, Alexander K. corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Harmount, Wm. H. Co. K, 4 th O. V. I. 

Harp, Lewis, U. S. hospital corps, Philippine service. 

Hills, Louis C, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Hodges, Stanley, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Housley, Edwin L.. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Howison, Winfield S., Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 

Hunt, Harry E., Co. K, 4 th O. V. I. 

Ingle, Walter W., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Inscho, Albert C, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Jacobus, Harry, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Jamison, Frank B., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Jones, Clarence L., Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 

Kelley, James L., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Keopple, Oscar A., 2nd lieut. Co. K., 4th O. V. I. 

Lawson, Charles E., Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 

Lenhardt, Lewis A., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Longwell, John W., musician Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Longwell, Ray H., corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Lybrand, Robert H, corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Lynch, John, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Lyons, James, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Mahoney, Michael C, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Main. Ernest A., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Maloney, Charles M„ Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Maloney, James, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Martin, Walter, U. S. hospital corps. 

McCloud. William B., 1st lieut. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

MeDonald, J. J., musician, sergt. 6th U. S. I. Porto 

Rico service. 
McFarlin, Fred A., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
McNaughton, Tom, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Miller, Charles C, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Miller, Harry A., Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 
Mohr, R. D., musician, Co. D, 2nd O. V. I. 
Montane, Edward B., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Nelson, Elbert J., corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Norton, W. L., 1st sergt Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 
Obrien, Patrick, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
O'Connor, James, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Osborn, Brice, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Patrick, Orsain W., corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Platz. George, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Porterfield, C. E., musician 6th U. S. V. I. 
Powell, Alexander B., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Powell, John W., det. reserve U. S. ambulance corps, 

Co. C, 4th O. V. I. 
Randolph, Davton T., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Read, Robert W., Co. K. 4th O. V. I. 
Reed, William, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Riddle, Charles W., sergt. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Riddle, Lester C. corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Riddle, Roy R., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Rider. Walter R., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Robinson, Frank K., Co. C, 3d O. V. I. 
Rodenfels, Ed L., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Rose, Henry E., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Ross, Thomas, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Said, Frank M.. sergt. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Said, Presley H, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Sanger, Ulvsses G., corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Schneider, Bernhardt J., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Seamans, Edward M., maj. surg. 4th O. V. I. 
Seigfried, John J.. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 



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Sheldon, Henry E., corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Shoemaker, J. R., musician 6th U. S. V. I. Porto Rico 
service. 

Shoemaker, W. C, musician 6th U. S. V. I. Porto Rico 
service. 

Shultz, jfoshua, musician Co. K, 4th O. V. 1. 

Smith, George V., Co. B. 4th O. V. I. 

Smith, William L., Co. K, 4 th O. V. I. 

Starr, Martin S., corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
pine service. 

Starr, X. P.. Bat. D, 1st Calif, heavy artillery, Philip- 
pine service. 

Strobg, George P., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 

Thompson, Ed O., corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 



Thrall, Charles E., corp. Co. K, 4th O. V. 1. 
Thrall, George W., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Vertner, Avery L., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. (buried at 

sea ) . 
Watkins, Frank S., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Webster, Oliver P., Co. K, 4th O. V. 1. 
Wells, Rex W., Co. K, 4 th O. V. I. 
Whitman, Howard, Co. A, 4th O. V. I. 
Whitlinger. Henry, Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Windham, Rov R., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Wohlheater, Elmer T., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Wohlheater, William Z., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 
Zeigler, Frank I., Co. K, 4th O. V. I. 



CHAPTER. XVII. 



FRATERNAL AND BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS 

Masons — Knights of Pythias — Independent Order of Odd Fellotvs — Benevolent and Pro- 
tective Order of Elks — Ancient Order of Hibernians — Improved Order of Red Men — 
Other Societies. 



FREE MASONS. 

The introduction of Free Masonry was co- 
incident with the coming of the pioneer set- 
tlers to the county. About the middle of the 
Nineteenth century, the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows was introduced, and still later, 
the Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order of 
Hibernians, and kindred organizations. All 
of these societies are founded upon the belief 
in God. hope in immortality, and charity to 
all mankind. 

The most ancient of all the secret organi- 
zations is Free Masonry. That there has been, 
is now, and always will be much discussion 
and continual speculation among the brethren 
as to the origin of this ancient order, none will 
question. The most learned in ancient litera- 
ture fail to agree on many points as to its 
origin. That it originated about the time of 
the building of King Solomon'^ Temple, if 
not lie fore, among the" craftsmen at old Tyre; 
or earlier still, among the ancient Phoenicians, 
the latest archaeological discoveries seem to 
substantiate. It should be the duty of the his- 
torian to record all that can be found in tradi- 
tion in the life of King Solomon. While the 
Holy Bible gives us much valuable history re- 
garding the ancient craftsmen, critics have 
furnished much that is purely mythical. The 
reader may assign to historical tradition all 
that is valuable and true; and to the mythical 
what is equally as valuable — symbolism. The 



great object of King Solomon's life, the one 
which intimately connects him with the his- 
tory of all Masonic institutions, was the build- 
ing of the Temple at Jerusalem to Jehovah, 
according to the instructions of his father 
David, which had been revealed by the Su- 
preme Architect of the universe. 

It is believed by those unearthing many hid- 
den valuable treasures in Palestine, that the Ty- 
rians and Sidonians, descendants of the ancient 
Phcenicians, belonged to mystic organizations 
and operative societies. That these ancient 
workmen were men of the most comprehensive 
minds, imbued with great zeal, fervency and 
fidelity, is clearly proven in the Holy Bible. 
The lowest enter-apprentice was filled with 
enthusiasm and zeal by a promise of promotion 
and reward in his labor. The origin of Free 
Masonry, as we have it, has given rise to great 
discussion among the most learned Masonic 
thinkers, and will for all time. We say, "What 
lodge are you of?" "The lodge of the Holy 
St. John of Jerusalem." Whether this lodge 
room was in the room underneath the Temple 
where the working tools of the operative 
masons are engraved upon the walls; or in the 
rooms of the old Mediterranean Hotel, where 
tlie work was conducted, we leave for a 
future writer to tell. Masons are to be 
found in all lands. Among the unlettered 
tribes of the desert, where barbaric com- 
mercialism is only known, and commerce and 
modern civilization have made little or no im- 
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form is to be found. This wonderful circum- 
stance has been accounted for in various ways 
by many writers. 

The ancient Phoenicians, or their descend- 
ants, the Tynans, had workmen skilled in 
brass, gold, silver, wood and stone in different 
degrees, from the entered apprentice (burden 
bearers), the fellow craft or master overseers, 
to the three grand masters, all divided and 
winking in their respective spheres. Here at 
the building of the Temple to Jehovah, by 
King Solomon, masonry took on something 
like a definite form. It will be remembered 
after the completion of the Temple these 
skilled workmen returned home to Tyre, some 
150 miles distant. Their descendants were 
called to rebuild the House of the Lord under 
Zerubbabel. That many of Solomon's people 
returned to Phoenicia or Tyre with the crafts- 
men seems probable. The ancient writers tell 
of the awful oppression of the Jewish people 
in after years, and how they sought protection 
under the Tyrians. Subjugation and enslave- 
ment staring them continually in the face, they 
were told much of the foreign lands discovered 
by the Tyrian mariners. The historian says 
they builded ships, and with the assistance of 
their Tyrian friends, filled the vessels with the 
necessaries of life and protection for a long 
voyage to foreign lands. They settled in the 
countries bordering on the southern and west- 
ern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Invested 
with secrets of the workmen of the Temple, 
unknown to others, and skilled in the many 
branches of architecture, they were well ad- 
vanced for life's work. Their knowledge of 
the craftsmen they preserved most carefully, 
and carried it to their future homes. Another 
historian states that a few years after the com- 
pletion of the Temple, a colony of Jewish 
workmen migrated to the western coast of Af- 
rica, and into Egypt, where, through their 
great learning and ancient secret order they 
became a power. From these various settle- 
ments Masonry began to spread until it 
reached all parts of the world. In every land 
settled by emigrants Masonry is found, her 
sighs nearly the same, and her mystic words 
the same in all parts of the world. The time 



will come, if not here already, that through the 
work of the archaeologist, all will be convinced 
that the order has existed in some form ever 
since the building of King Solomon's Temple, 
if not from the time of the early Phoenicians. 
In the latter part of the Seventeenth century, 
the Grand Lodge of England was established. 
From that time the history is more familiar 
to the student of the order. 

Prior to 1808. the following lodges of 
Master Masons had been established in Ohio : 
American Union, No. 1, Marietta, Ohio; 
Cincinnati No. 13. Cincinnati, Ohio; No. 2 at 
Chillicothe, Ohio; Erie, No. 47. Warren, Ohio; 
Amity. No. 105, Zanesville. Ohio; New Eng- 
land, No. 48. Worthington, Ohio; Harmony. 
No. 9, Spring-field and Urbana, Ohio; Nova 
Cascera, No. 13. Cincinnati. Ohio. Several of 
these were working under the jurisdiction of 
the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and New 
Jersey, while others were under Connecticut. 
For reasons unexplained. New England Lodge 
of Worthington. O'lio, to which many of the 
pioneers of this country belonged, was refused 
admission to the grand lodge held at Chilli- 
cothe in 1808: hut were admitted to member- 
ship in 1809. Franklin County, February 10, 
1808. was divided on the north, forming 
Delaware County, and Delaware was made the 
county seat. This was done through the in- 
fluence of Henry Baldwin of Pittsburg. Penn- 
sylvania, who owned a large tract of land in 
this section. His friend, Moses Byxbe, who 
lived in the little village called Berkshire, the 
first town in the county, laid out a town in 
the early part of the year on the east bank of 
Alum Creek, and called it Olentangy. These 
two Masonic brethren were made Master 
Masosn in the east before coming to the new- 
lands in the wilderness in the west. To attend 
!i dge meetings, they were compelled to travel 
through the trackless forests to Worthington, 
a distance of some fifteen miles. One of the 
most ardent members was Moses Byxbe, Jr. 

At the first meeting of the Grand Lodj 
Ohio, January, [809, about the time of the 
founding of Delaware County, a number of 
Masons — Nathaniel W. Little. William Little, 
Moses Byxbe and Dr. Reuben Lamb — made 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



an effort to form a lodge in Delaware, the new 
town laid out on the Olentangy River, seven 
miles west of the town on Alum Creek. For 
good reasons the charter was delayed. De- 
cember 31, 1810, Azariah Root. Stephen Har- 
rington, John Carpenter. Jonathan Catlin, 
Sturdavant, and others, petitioned the grand 
master of the State for a dispensation to or- 
ganize at Delaware, Ohio, a lodge of Master 
Masons, which was granted, and the lodge 
was organized January 15, 181 1, A. L. 5811, 
Hiram Lodge No. 18, F. A. & M„ and is the 
constitutional authority under which Hiram 
Lodge exists and exercises its functions as an 
organized body of the State. 

Moses Byxbe, Jr.. was appointed by the 
grand master as worshipful master. Stephen 
Harrington as senior warden; John Carpenter 
as junior warden. On Friday, February 1, 
181 1, the first meeting was held. Ten were 
present, and the lodge was opened in the En- 
tered Apprentice Degree. The three officers 
were appointed under the authority of the 
Grand Lodge of Ohio by dispensation. They 
elected from their number Nathan W. Little, 
secretary; Reuben Lamb, treasurer; William 
Little, senior deacon ; and Azariah Root, 
junior deacon and steward. 

At the meeting a committee of three was 
appointed to select a suitable room for the 
lodge, and to frame a constitution and by- 
laws, arrange for the installation of the offi- 
cers, and procure furniture for the lodge room. 
All members were appointed on some com- 
mittee to work for the advancement of the 
organization. The master's record shows that 
the lodge was closed with peace and harmony 
prevailing, which similar record continues to 
this day. 

The second meeting was held February 8, 
181 1, to hear the report of the committees. 
Committee reported room secured in the house 
of Brother Reuben Lamb, on the southwest 
corner of Union and Williams Streets,, which 
building had been erected in 1809. February 
28th, Brother Henry Brush rode through the 
forests from Chillicothe to install the officers 
elected by Hiram Lodge, No. 18. Azariah 
Lebar was elected teller of the lodge. Brother 



Henry Brush was a prominent lawyer of Chilli- 
cothe, and a member of the Grand Lodge of 
Ohio, and followed General Lewis Cass as 
grand master, which position he held until 
1817. 

At this first meeting the Fellow-craft and 
Master Mason Degrees were conferred upon 
Solomon Smith. It was then the habit of the 
candidate to return thanks to the Almighty, 
after completing the work. This custom was 
adopted by Brother Smith. Smith came from 
Chillicothe, where he had been a prominent 
school teacher. He filled various offices in the 
country. He served as worshipful master in 
1812-13-14-16-24-25-27. He died in 1845. 
The by-laws of this first lodge have never been 
found. The custom of these early officers was 
to open the lodge with the Entered Apprentice 
Degree, whether there was any work or busi- 
ness in the degree or not. The minutes show 
that the lodge was opened in due and ancient 
form and according to ancient usages. No 
business appearing, the same was closed and 
the Fellow-craft Degree was opened ana 
closed. The same took place in the Master 
Mason Degree. 

The first Masonic funeral in Delaware was 
that of Brother John Carpenter, the second son 
of Brother Captain Nathan Carpenter, who 
came to Liberty Township in 1801. We are 
highly indebted to the pioneer brethren for the 
preservation of Hiram Lodge through all the 
early vicissitudes. We shall ask some future 
historian to make diligent search in the records 
of other lodges of the State that they may 
bring to light data that will give more know- 
ledge of the early history of the lodges. 

Moses Byxbe. Jr., who came to Berkshire 
with his father in 1804, removed to Delaware 
with the family in 1808. It was he who 
joined with the others in asking for a dispensa- 
tion in the county seat of Delaware. He was a 
member of Scioto Lodge, No. 2, Chillicothe, 
Ohio. He died in 1871. In 18 10. the Ohio 
lodges occasionally conferred in the lodges the 
higher degrees — Master-Mason; Past Master; 
M. E. W., and the Royal Arch Degrees. In 
1 8 10 the Grand Lodge recommended them to 
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419 



the degree of past master on those who were 
regularly elected to till the chair. 

William Little and Nathaniel W. Little, two 
prominent Masons came from Worthington 
in 1808. They soon became prominent busi- 
ness men in the town as well as earnest work- 
ers in Hiram Lodge. Nathaniel was Hiram's 
first secretary, March 4, 1812. He was 
killed by the Indians the following year. 

Dr. Reuben Lamb, the first physician of the 
town, was born in New York in 1774, and 
joined the Byxbe colony about 1808. He was 
an ardent worker in Hiram Lodge until his 
death in 1850. His name figures in several 
parts of the history of the county and of the 
physicians. The charter of the lodge was dated 
January 15th, A. L., 5812, or 1812, and signed 
by Lewis Cass, grand master; and by other 
Grand Lodge members. When trying to read 
the old charter in 1887, it was found to be 
nearly illegible on account of the chemical 
action of the ink, and time on the organic 
matter, which had nearly destroyed it ; but by 
the aid of a microscope it was read. The 
stains and indentations were made plain. After 
tracing the letters with India ink, the ancient 
document has been made indestructible. 

The good work and square work done until 
1826-27 was torn asunder "when the great 
anti-masonic storm burst upon the country 
with a violence for a time that threatened to 
sweep Masonry into the valley of Jehosophat." 
Political enemies preached that Free Masonry 
was opposed to all laws, human and divine. 
"The cunning sought to snatch away her 
richest jewel — secresy, that they might expose 
her to the scorn and contempt of the world." 
Jehovah was over her and round about her. 
She put her trust in God and feared no danger. 
The weak were made strong, and the strong 
stronger; the faithful remained at the 
post of duty and kept the fires burn- 
ing upon the altar. During this ter- 
rible excitement, the charter of Hiram 
Lodge was lost or stolen. It was entrusted to 
one of the faithful members of Millville, who 
lost it. "For several years it lay as securely 
hidden as the Book of the Law and Testimony 
lay hidden in the Ninth Arch from the destruc- 



tion of the first to the building of the second 
temple" — Zerubbabel's temple. After the 
anti-Masonic crusade wave passed over, the 
charter was picked up on the streets of Mill-, 
ville, and given to Judge Griswold of Dela- 
ware, a zealous Mason, who reported to the 
Grand Lodge the finding of the charter, and 
succeeded in having the original number re- 
issued to Hiram Lodge. The charter bears the 
inscription "Returned to the (hand Lodge, 
October 20th, Anno Lucis 5846 (1846), re- 
issued Oct. 24th A. L. 5846. B. F. Smith, 
grand secretary." 

On the 15th of January, 181 2, Hiram 
Lodge, No. 18, F. & A. M., entered into the 
sisterhood of the lodges, and became a co- 
ordinate member of the Grand Lodge. Up to 
this session of the Grand Lodge, Hiram and 
other subordinate lodges, had not been offi- 
cially numbered, yet the old lodges kept the 
numbers they had borne when under the juris- 
diction of the Grand Lodge which had char- 
tered them. At the first regular session, the 
grand secretary was directed to issue charters 
to all lodges beginning with No. 2, Hiram 
becoming No. 18. "No. r" was kept for the 
"American Union" at Marietta, Ohio. 

On January 18, 181 2, war was declared 
with Great Britain. This national disturbance 
interrupted the regular order of work in the 
lodge. The members of Hiram Lodge were 
ever patriotic to their country, as they were 
faithful to their Masonic order. On June 18, 
1812, when the President of the United States 
called for volunteers to defend the land from 
British invasion, the members of Hiram 
Lodge, like other patriotic citizens, responded 
to the call, and under General Lewis Cass, the 
grand master of the Grand Lodge, they joined 
General Meigs, the commander. They bi- 
vouaced at Dayton, and started on their duty. 
Governor William Hull of Michigan had com- 
mand. Brother Elias Murray of Hiram Lodge 
was given his commission or diploma, and be- 
came chaplain of the regiment. All were 
under the command of General William Henry 
Harrison of the Territory of Indiana, Illinois 
and the Northwest. Through the dense forests, 
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streams, they assembled on the Maumee and 
Sandusky Rivers near Lake Erie, ready for 
action. 

The patriotism of the members of old 
Hiram Lodge reflected glory and honor upon 
their order, from June. 1812, to April, [813. 
Some returned to begin their life labor again; 
while others laid down their lives in the track- 
less forests, defending their country. 

The first mention of Brother Sidney Moore, 
Sr., as a Mason was in 181 7. He had been 
made a Mason in Wyndenham, Vermont, and 
affiliated with this lodge in 1818. He was the 
father of Sidney Moore, Jr., of whom we 
shall speak later. 

In the early history of our country, indeed, 
much less than a hundred years ago, it was not 
thought a sin or disgrace to indulge freely in 
spirituous liquors. Whisky and other liquid 
refreshment were served in the parlor; over 
the counter; at public meetings and social 
gatherings such as lug-rollings, barn raisings,' 
corn-huskings. etc. Liquors were freely used 
by ministers, doctors and lawyers. They were 
served at the lodges. Drunkenness was com- 
mon. A man was not called an habitual 
drunkard unless he was drunk one half the 
time. Be it to the honor and glory of Hiram 
Lodge that it was one of the first to take the 
stand for temperance. As early as 1820, the 
Grand Chapter resolved that in the future, no 
liquid refreshments of an intoxicating nature 
be made use of in this chapter, and that sub- 
ordinate chapters be earnestly requested to 
adopt similar resolutions. 

In July. 1822. a chapter of the Royal Arch 
Masons, and a commandery df Knights 
Templar were formed at Worthington, Ohio, 
where many of the early pioneers were affil- 
iated. Hiram Lodge always took an active 
part in the work at that place. 

Y before referred to, Hiram Lodge in 1826 
was partially paralyzed over the publications 
and illustrations of Masonry by one William 
Morgan, who lived in Batavia, New York. 
Hiram Lodge felt the shock and little business 
was done in the lodge for a long time; but it 
survived the shock and was not one of the 
forty-six that succumbed to the excitement. 



During this depression. West Alexandria, of 
Preble County, thought it would adopt the 
name of "Hiram Lodge," believing that 
Hiram Lodge No. 18, had gone down under 
the public wave. Finding this untrue, it 
adopted the name "King Hiram Lodge, No. 
88," and Hiram Lodge No. 18 held its own. 
The members of the lodge were connected with 
all of the interests of the town and county. 
There were blacksmiths, dyers, merchants, 
printers, and papermakers, etc. One particu- 
larly, Norman D. Perry, who was born in 
Hartford, Connecticut, in 181 3, a paper-maker, 
came to Delaware and made paper by hand. He 
was made a Mason in Norwalk. Ohio, in 1839 
and the same year came to Delaware to super- 
intend the erection and operation of the first 
paper mill in the county, projected by Williams 
& Howard at Stratford, Ohio, after which he 
became a partner and continued thus for many 
years'. He died in Columbus in 1899. 

Another prominent member of Hiram 
Lodge was George W. Sharp, who was born 
in York, Pennsylvania, in 1800. In 1821, be 
edited a paper in his native town. lie came 
to Delaware in 1834. and bought the printing 
interests of Brother E. Griswold, and named 
the paper The Olentangy Gazette. At this 
time, one of the most learned and highly re- 
spected practical editors and printers, 
Hon. Abram Thompson, a relative of Sharp, 
was induced to come to Delaware and engage 
in the publication of the paper, which he after- 
ward owned, and re-named The Delaware 
Gazette, and edited until the time of his death. 
Brother Sharp was prominent in politics, and 
was a member of the Constitutional Conven- 
tion in 1850. He removed to Alt. Cilead. and 
died in 1854. His youngest son was educated 
at West Point, and is now a colonel in the 
U. S. Army. 

In 1840, in some manner, the old Masonic 
carpet was lost: and the son of Brother E. 
Griswold painted one for the lodge. The lodge 
room at that time was fitted up over Brother 
Latimer's store, on the northwest corner of 
Sandusky and William Streets. Victor (iris- 
wold again painted a new carpet for the 
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The Griswold home was on the southwest 
corner of Sandusky and North Streets, now- 
Central Avenue, where the Reid Block and the 
home of the late Dr. T. B. Williams now 
stands. 

Hiram, together with the Grand Lodge, 
in 1849, discussed the question of establishing 
a school for orphans and indigent children of 
Masons. The trustees of the Worthington 
Female College made an offer of their build- 
ings to the Masons. 

From 1827 to 1847, Hiram had many ups 
and downs. Its dormancy was deplorable and 
lamentable. In 1847. new nte Nvas injected 
into the members, and until 1850, all went 
well. About this time the attendance began 
growing small and irregular, and for a yeai 
or more, quarterly meetings were held, in- 
stead of monthly, in their rooms over Lati- 
mer's store, which were not entirely suited for 
lodge work. Owing to this fact, they held 
their meetings in the Court House. In 1851- 
5_\ the lodge had much trouble with some of 
the members on account of their drinking hab- 
its and unmasonic conduct. Frequent admoni- 
tions and threatenings failed to change their 
habits, which led to the suspension of some, 
and the expulsion of others. Owing to the 
confused condition of the minutes during 
1851-53, little can be given of the work of the 
lodge; but it was about this time that a com- 
mittee of Brothers Willey, Dr. E. H. Hyatt, 
Rhodes, Fry and Aigen, who were enthu- 
siastic temperance workers, was appointed to 
remonstrate with those who were addicted to 
drinking, and who were in the liquor business. 
Their work made an immediate and lasting 
impression for the cause of temperance. Some 
quit the liquor business and others reformed. 
Through this, the Grand Lodge issued its edict 
against intemperance and the liquor business. 

It was about this time that Dr. Elisha H. 
Hyatt was a leader in a petition to establish a 
lodge at Bellepoint. It was called Equality 
Lodge. No. 242. Dr. Hyatt was a prominent 
physician, Mason, and master of the lodge at 
Bellepoint. Soon after, he left the medical 
profession, and became a Presbyterian minis- 
ter, and preached at Mt. Gilead. Subse- 



quently he abandoned the ministerial, and re- 
turned to the medical profession. In 1853, 
the by-laws were amended to prohibit the 
using of profane language, as they said "the 
habit was grossly unmasonic and highly in- 
jurious to the individual and to the commun- 
ity." This action led to much discussion and 
bitter feeling, many taking the ground that 
it was not within the jurisdiction of the lodge 
to sustain this by-law. The by-law stood, not- 
withstanding, and the records of 1867 show 
that the Grand Lodge did adopt and sustain 
the by-law of old Hiram, the pioneer of sobri- 
ety and right living. 

In 1853 the dispensation was given from 
the Grand Lodge to form a lodge at Belle- 
point. In five years it (Equality Lodge) sur- 
rendered its charter, and became affiliated with 
Hiram. 

In 1852, the lodge room was changed to 
Templar hall on Sandusky Street, midway be- 
tween Winter and William Streets, on the 
West Side. The building is now owned by 
M. Miller. The room was occupied by the 
Si ms of Temperance. 

The Standing Committee of the lodge to 
look for suitable rooms, was always on the 
outlook, and now it became necessary to make 
preparation for the chapter of the Royal Arch 
Masons. The Delaware Chapter, No-. 54, 
Royal Arch Masons, was chartered October 
15. 1855. In 1853, Brother Thomas Evans 
erected a large brick building on Sanduskv 
Street, near the Delaware Run. The commit- 
tee from the chapter and from the lodge, to- 
gether with the Sons of Temperance, secured 
rooms in this large, new building of Brother 
Evans. Here the Masons remained for sev- 
eral years. During this year, Ezekial Dut- 
ton, a paper-maker, came to Delaware from 
Batavia. New York, where he had passed 
through the Morgan excitement with all of its 
horrible details. Dutton was one of the vic- 
tims of the anti-Masonic element. Many 
stories were given credence, and persecutions 
indulged in by the Morgan faction against 
1 lutton from the time he left his home in New 
York, until he reached Delaware, where he 
found again many supporters of the Morgan 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



element. Notwithstanding all the excitement 
which soon died out, the lodge prospered, and 
Dutton became a prominent Mason and an in- 
fluential citizen. 

After the election of officers in 1854, the 
worshipful master. E. Griswold, and the 
senior warden. Hon. H. M. Carper, with the 
members of the lodge, became dissatisfied with 
the quarters the lodge occupied, and looked 
out for a new room. Mr. Benjamin Powers, 
in 1855, erected a three-story brick building, 
midway between Winter and William Streets, 
on the east side of Sandusky Street, known as 
Oak Hall. They secured rooms here in the 
third story for the lodge and the chapter work 
on account of the pood ventilation. In June. 
[855, the lodge moved into its new quarters. 
For fifteen years the lodge occupied these 
rooms, when they moved into the rooms of the 
Reynolds and Frank block, in 1870, which 
had been specially fitted up for lodge and 
chapter work. Oak Hall was afterwards oc- 
cupied by the new order, Knights of Pythias. 
In 1855, the lodge began to celebrate the fes- 
tival of St. John the Baptist, other lodges par- 
ticipating. In 1857, owing to causes unknown. 
Equality Lodge at Bellepoint, was permitted 
to locate at Millville, now Warrensburg; but 
alter more or less dissatisfaction, it was 
moved back to Bellepoint in a short time. As 
before stated, in -1853 it surrendered its char- 
ter, jewels, books and furniture to Hiram 
Lodge, and went out of existence. 

After thirteen years' occupancy of this 
home, many of the older members failed to at- 
tend meetings, owing to the two long stair- 
ways to the lodge room. A committee was ap- 
pointed to meet the directors of the hirst Na- 
tional Bank, who had made a proposition to 
fit up lodge rooms over die bank on the second 
floor. The moms were satisfactory, and the 
lodge moved in 1883. and remained there un- 
til 1892, when it moved into the beautiful and 
commodious $30,000 Temple built and pre- 
sented by Mr. Sidney Mo,, re. 

One of the best known, most energitic, 
well posted and beloved Masons was Prof. W. 
O. Semans, who was secretary of the lodge, 
chapter and council continuously for ten yi 



He was born in Defiance, Ohio, August 23, 
1835, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan 
University in 1857. He was made a master 
Mason in 1858. In 1862 he was elected pro- 
fessor of chemistry in his alma mater. He 
affiliated with Hiram Lodge, August 11, 1864, 
joined the chapter in i860 at Leavenworth, 
Kansas, and the council in 1869, and was 
made a Knight Templar in Mt. Vernon Com-. 
mandery No. 1, Columbus, in 1S68, and acted 
as secretary for Hiram lodge, chapter and 
council from 1882 until 1892. when he was 
succeeded by his son. William M. Semans. 
who has filled this important position to the 
present time. 

Hiram Lodge has had many distinguished 
members — Bishop Harris, and Bishop W. F. 
McDowell of the Methodist Church, Hon. 
William R. Warnock, and others. The last 
member to be spoken of whose name will go 
down through all generations, whose memory 
will be cherished, not only by the present gen- 
eration, but by those following after who will 
enjoy the beautiful Masonic home and Tem- 
ple so generously and wisely provided for the 
Masonic fraternity', is Mr. Sidney Moore. Jr. 
This quiet, unassuming and unostentatious, 
yet powerful brother, was born in Delaware, 
Ohio, December 16, 182 1. He was the eldest 
son of Sidney and Phoeba Mann Moore. He 
attended the select school of his aunt, Sophia 
Moore Gaston, in the upper story of the Welch 
Building, on the west side of Franklin Street, 
between William and Winter, immediately 
south of the Hospital grounds ; and the school 
of Mrs. Murray on the west side of Sanduskj 
Street, between William and Winter Streets, 
after which he was sent to the academy on 
Hill Street, now University Avenue, which 
has long since passed away. This bright and 
exemplar)- son worked in his father's office, 
that of county auditor, for several years. Oc- 
tober 12. 1845. he entered the Delaware County 
Bank as bookkeeper and clerk. To perfect 
himself for the labors before him. he took a 
special course in banking in Columbus, Ohio. 
In 1851, he was elected cashier of the bank in 
Marion, Ohio. In 1852. alter his marriage he 
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position of cashier of the Central Bank of that 
city. In 1854. lie was elected, and accepted 
the cashiership of the Delaware County Bank, 
where he had opened the hooks in 1845. 

Mr. Moore's first wife died in 1855, and in 
[865, he was married to Mrs. Sarah Ann Cun- 
ningham Bierce. In June. 1883.. he became 
president of the Delaware Countly X'ational 
Bank, which position he held until the re-or- 
ganization of the bank into the Delaware Na- 
tional Bank in January, 1905, when he was 
elected president, and served in that capacity 
until the time of his death in May. 1907. He 
was often called upon to fill many important 
positions, such as member of the School 
Board, etc. Mr. Moore became a member of 
the Delaware chapter in 1856 and the council 
at Columbus, Ohio, in [867, and Commander}' 
of Knights Templar at Marion, Ohio, in 1857. 
On October 12. 1867. he received the degrees 
from the fourth to the thirty-second of the 
Scottish Rite, at Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1886, 
he became S. G. and I. C. and a number of 
times served as presiding officer of the lodge, 
chapter, council and commandery ; and the 
grand junior warden of the Grand Lodge of 
Ohio. In 1886 he received the remarkable dis- 
tinction of having conferred upon him the 
last degree of Masonry, the thirty-third de- 
gree. 

In A. L. 5892 (1892) Brother Sidney 
Moore built and presented to the Mason- of 
Hiram Lodge the elegant and commodious 
Masonic Temple, his extreme modesty forbid- 
ing the use of his name in connection with the 
Temple ( which now should be added ) . He 
died in May. 1907, leaving his aged wife. 
Sarah Cunningham Moure, and stepson, Ar- 
thur Bierce, and one brother, William E. 
Moore, who with his brother enjoyed all the 
privileges of Masonry to the thirty-second de- 
gree. t< > mourn his loss. His funeral was o in- 
ducted by all 01 the Masonic bodies. Knights 
Templar, and several thirty-third Degree Ma- 
sons who officiated. 

Hiram Lodge has (1908) 340 members. 
There are fifty Knights Templar, twenty-six 
members of the Delaware Club Nbbles of the 
Mystic Shrine, and eleven living member- 1 1 



the thirty-second Degree Ancient and Ac- 
cepted Scottish Rite. Northern Masonic juris- 
diction of the United States — \Y. C. Denni- 
son, W. F. Dodge. S. \V. Fowler, E. F. 
Gwinn, J. W. Heimberger, \Y. E. Moore. I. 
W. Rosenthal, D. F. Rust, William M. Se- 
mans, J. Leo Sperling. George H. Watkins. 

CAPITULAR MASONRY. 

Delaware Chapter. Xo. 54, R. A. M., was 
chartered October 15, 1855. Its stated con- 
ventions are held in Moore's Masonic Hall on 
Thursday evenings on or before the full of the 
moon. The present officers ( 1908) are: Com- 
panion William A. Greiner. M. E. H. 1'. ; 
Companion W. F. Dodge. E. king; Compan- 
ion Paul R. Hickok, E. scribe; Companion W. 
E. Moore. C. of H. ; Companion Orrie S. 
Smith, Prin. Soj.; Companion Harry L. 
Clark. R. A. C. ; Companion Dewitt H. Leas, 
G. M. 3rd V. ; Companion J. W. Heimberger, 
( .. M. 2nd. V.; Companion Charles Justice, G. 
M. 1st. V.; Companion Rhea T. Graff, treas. ; 
Companion William M. Semans. secretary ; 
Companion Louis Thorman, guard: Compan- 
ii 111 Edward Y. Mason, organist ; Companions 
C. W. Wiles, C. H. Watkins. C. W. Dennison, 
Finance Committee. 

CRYPTIC MASONRY. 

Delaware Council. Xo. 54, Royal ami Se- 
lect Masters, was chartered first October 12. 
1867, and held regular meetings for many 
years. But in 1887, through indifference, lack 
of attendance and other causes, the charter 
was surrendered. In October, 1890. through 
the influence of Brother Sidney Moore, new- 
life and new blood were infused into the coun- 
cil, and it was reorganized (29th) as No. 84. 
Y. D. 2900. The petitioners for the reorgani- 
zation were Sidney Moore. W. A. Greiner. VV. 

E. Moore, J. Leo Sperling. W. M. Semans. 
Geo. W. Simpson. \Y. ( >. Semans. S. W. Fow- 
ler, W. II. Hague; E. E. Hyatt. J. B. Tag- 
gert, R. G. Lybrand, lames M. Crawford. 1'.. 

F. Frank, W." M. Morrison, C. H. McElroy, 
A. J. Coomer, J. G. Rosenthal. R. M. Reed. 



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F. T. Evans, W. F. Dodge, Charles Cronkel- 
ton. 

Delaware Council, No. 84, Royal and Se- 
lect Masters, chartered October 9, 1900. Offi- 
cers for 1908 are: Companion John W. 
Heimberger, T. I. M.; Companion W. F. 
Dodge, D. I. M. ; Companion Henry T. Main. 
Prin, C. of W. ; Companion N. Percy Starr, 
treas. ; Companion William M. Semans, re- 
corder; Companion Dewitt H. Leas, Capt. of 
G; Companion George H. Watkins, Con. of 
C. ; Companion Albert F. Elkins, steward ; 
Companion Louis Thorman, sentinel. Finance 
Committee — Companions R. J. Cox, R. R. 
Heikes, G. J. G. Rosenthal. Stated assemblies 
are held in Moore's Masonic Temple on the 
third Monday of every month. There are 
about 120 members. 

Hiram Lodge has a membership of 340; 
Delaware Chapter Royal Arch Masons, 141 ; 
Delaware Council, 120. 

The Grand Chapter of Royal and Select 
Masters of the State of Ohio, was organized 
at Worthington. J U ne 6, Y. D. 2850. A. D., 
1830. 

OSTRANDER LODGE, NO, 594, F. & A. M. 

On November j s ], 1905, a dispensation was 
granted to thirteen members who petitioned to 
work. J. A. Swinehart was worshipful mas- 
ter, and the other petitioners were B. 11. Rit- 
tenhouse, William Harris, V. B. Weller, M. 
D., H. H. Liggett, W. F. Evans, < ). P. Bird, 
C. H. Blymer, W. A. Shepard, A. I). Wells, 
K. EC. Kalb, Milton Leggett and H. W. Rit- 
tenhouse. During the year, thirteen new 
members were initiated, and on November 5,, 
mi hi. the lodge was instituted in due form by 
H. S. Kissell. with the Following officers: 
Charles Bynner, W. M. ; O. P. Bird, S. W. ; 
K. K. Kail), |. W. The present officers are: 
O. I'. Bird, W. M; K. K. Kalb, S. W. ; Dr. 
V. I!. Weller, J. W. At present the lodge has 
thirty-five members. 

SUNBURY LODGE. 

In November, 1S17, a number of Masons 
from Berkshire and the eastern part of the 



county, asked permission of Hiram Lodge for 
recommendation to the grand master of the 
Grand Lodge of Ohio for a dispensation to 
form a new lodge at Sunbury. It was granted, 
and the new lodge became Charity Lodge, No. 
53. It was taken to Zoar, now Galena, in 
1826. Just when they surrendered their 
charter is not known. It continued until the 
anti-Masonic agitation during the Morgan ex- 
citement, when it was compelled to surrender 
its charter to the Grand Lodge. The fires were 
kept burning on the altars by a few of the 
faithful members of the order. On October 
21,1 868, the Grand Lodge granted a new dis- 
pensation and gave them a new charter for 
Sparrow Lodge, No. 400. F. & A. M. The 
charter members were E. R. Hempstead. A. 
J. Qtley, C. Patrick, James P. Decker, Amos 
Utley, Elijah Carnev. I. P. Crawford, I. W. 
Foot, C. Wilcox, Almon Stark, J. P. "Bard- 
well, James Lampman, Nathan Dustan and 
Nathan Wells. Sparrow Lodge of Sunbury 
has enjoyed a useful and brilliant career from 
the beginning, and its membership extends 
over all of the eastern part of the county. The 
present officers are: E. M. Perfect, W. M.; 
J. W. Furry. S. W. ; A. D. Strasnider, J. W. ; 
I. W. Longwell, treasurer: J. H. Gerhardt, 
secretary; O. F. Elling. S. D. ; Maselot Wil- 
cox, J. D. ; C. M. Shicker, chaplain; C. O. 
Armstrong, S. S. : H. H. Loar, J. S. ; C. H. 
Wilson, pianist: James Cockrell. tyler. The 
trustees are C. O. Armstrong, C. D. Wan 
Houten, C. F. Beaver. 

ORDER OF EASTERN STAR, F. & A. M., SUNBURY. 

The lodge of the Order of Eastern Star, 
F. & A. M., Sunbury, Ohio, was instituted 
October 11, 1894, with the following mem- 
bers: Emma Gerhardt, Dr. I. II. Gerhardt, 
Anna Blakely, T. F. Blakely." Abbie A. Kim- 
ball. Otis Fl. Kimball. Annabel! Ramsey. N. 
Ramsey, Amy Burrer, A. J. Burrer, Mattie L. 
Crego, Charles F. Crego, Alida Roferts, W. 
P. Roferts, ^Iedora Longwell. J. P. Long- 
well. Anna Price. I. M. Price, Delila Perfect. 
Leroy Perfect, Daisy Wheaton, < '. M. Whea- 
ton, Elrisa Smith. Marshall Smith, Mary S. 
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order of the Eastern Star in the county. It 

is a s 
work. 



is a strong; organization, and is doing good 



WHITE SULPHUR LODGE, F. & A. M. 

White Sulphur Lodge. F. & A. M., No. 10 
(colored), of Delaware, Ohio, was instituted 
June 24, 1867, at the session of the Grand 
Lodge held at Xenia. Ohio. The warrant 
was issued at this meeting, June 20-22. in- 
clusive. The lodge first met in the Springer 
Block, corner of Sandusky and University 
Avenue, now known as the Albert Block. Of- 
ficers were elected and installed by Brother 
William T. Boyd, grand master (proxy) who 
is now in the employ of the C. C. C. & I. R. 
R. Co., as train baggagemaster. The lodge 
now meets in old Templar Hall, now known as 
the Miller Block. The following were offi- 
cers and charter members: J. J. William- 
son, W. M. (dead); Thomas Mendenhall, S. 
W. (dead); B. Alston; J. W. (dead); F. D. 
Merrit, treasurer (dead); B. F. Thomas, sec- 
retary; R. Stewart, S. D. ; G. B. Lewis, tyler, 
(dead). Thomas A. Jackson, William Al- 
ford. M. A. Taylor, G. Grenere. G. B. Cox- 
som, all dead, were charter members. The 
present officers and members are: Horace 
Wheeler, W. M. : W. A. Jackson, S. W. ; Gus 
Tyson. J. W. ; Thomas Kemper, treasurer; B. 
F. Thomas, secretary; William Wheeler. S. 
D. ; Walter B. Moore, J. D. ; James Fields. S. 
S. ; Joseph North, J. S. ; Henry Fleming, tyler. 
Members — William W. Wilson. H. C. Clay. 
Harry Clay, J. W. Jones, Herbert H. Cha- 
bious, Allen C. Alford, Oscar B. White. Sandy 
Merchant, Harrison Judy, [. T. Hurley, John 
W. Boyer. J. W. Balden' 

ASHLEY LODGE, I'. ,\ A. M . 

Ashley Lodge, No. 407. F. & A. M.. was 
instituted February 17. 1808, through the in- 
fluence of Brother Sidney Moore, of Dela- 
ware, who was made worshipful master. J. F. 
Doty was made senior warden; I*". 1!. Morri- 
son, J. W. The following were charter mem- 
bers:" James P. Clark, John W. Hoff, W. E. 
Palmer, W. W. Stratton, S. A. Coomer, J. 

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B. Richardson, E. M. Conklin, John Gield, J. 
I.. May and Henry Sutton. The charter was 
granted October 19, 1808. The order has 
been very popular in the community and has 
121 active members. In 1904 the lodge erect- 
ed a temple on the corner of High and Frank- 
lin Streets at a cost of $5,000. The lower 
floor is used by the Farmer's Saving Bank 
Company, the upper floor by the Masons. The 
following are the present officers ( 1908) : W. 
M. Shoemaker, W. M. ; John A. Conner, S. 
W. ; Burton Olds. J. W. ; F. E. Whipple, treas- 
urer; Frank W. Sharp, secretary; Ray Hick- 
son. S. D. ; T. C. McGonnigle.'j. D.': R. P. 
Welch, tyler. 

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. 

This order was founded during the war of 
the Rebellion, 1861-65, at which time the les- 
son of love and friendship was well nigh for- 
gotten. Like the ancient story of the friends, 
Damon and Pythias at Syracuse. Sicily, the 
soldiers and citizens came together as one in 
the close tie of brotherhood. Many will ask 
the question "Who founded the order?" In 
1886, the Supreme Lodge was held in the city 
of Philadelphia. At this meeting the supreme 
representative, Foxwell, of the District oi Co- 
lumbia, presented a memorial picture of Justus 
H. Rathbone to the order, declaring the origi- 
nal of the picture to be the true founder. 

It was in 1857, while engaged in clerking 
and teaching at Eagle Harbor, on the Eagle 
River on Lake Superior, that Rathbone be- 
came greatly impressed with the remarkable 
and wonderful story of Damon and Pythias, 
and their infinite love and friendship for each 
other; the influence of this friendship upon 
the tyrant Dionysius, and the willing sacrifice 
of the brave Sicilian who would die for his 
friend, which so impressed Dionysius that he 
spared his life. Rathbone determined to in- 
duce men to follow the example so pure, gun 
erous and holy, set by these true. de\ ■ 
friends, and immediately organized this or- 
der. 

As a charitable order, few organizations 
have labored and done more good, and grown 
more rapidly than the Knights of Pythias. It 



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was organized during the heat and turmoil of 
battle during the war, when all was strife, 
discord and disruption, and has steadily ad- 
vanced and flourished until it has spread 
throughout the country and has become a 
power for much good. 

To complete the history of the Knights of 
Pythias is fitting to speak of the Pythian Sis- 
terhood, and the Rathbone Sisters. The for- 
mer were granted permission to organize a se- 
cret society of female relatives of the Knights 
of Pythias in 1888. by the Supreme Lodge. 
They were to use their titles of officers and re- 
port the financial and numerical condition to 
the Supreme Keeper of Records and Seals pre- 
vious to the Supreme Session. This branch of 
the organization has had a great and marvel- 
ous growth, and a widespread influence. Their 
fundamental' teaching is truth and purity. 
They recognize that in Unity there is Strength, 
and proclaim Friendship. Charity. Love, and 
Benevolence as their cardinal principles. To 
hold the trust of a sister is a sacred charge, and 
to impress upon the younger women the value 
of honor, purity and virtue is their chief aim. 
The order was founded through the efforts of 
Mrs. Alva A. Young, of Hopkinton, N. H. 
Her husband and three brothers served 
through the war of the Rebellion. 

Unlike the Pythian Sisterhood, the Rath- 
bone Sisters admit to membership both men 
and women. This branch was organized in 
1888. and was approved by the Supreme 
Lodge and the Ritual. The members desire 
to promote the moral, mental, social and physi- 
cal elevation of its members, always following 
the Golden Rule. Their growth has been 
steadv and they exert power and influence. 
The first temple of the Rathbone Sisterhood 
was instituted at Warsaw, Indiana, October 
23, 1888. They have steadily grown in mem- 
bership and influence, as well as widened 
their sphere of usefulness throughout the land. 
The colored race has similar organizations of 
their own. both of Knights of Pythias and the 
sisterhoods. 

LENAPE LODGE, K. OF V. 

The parent lodge of the county was char- 
tered February 11, 1871. with the following 



officers and members : P. H. McGuire, worthy 
prelate; C. V. Owston, worthy chancellor; 
Jacob Kruck, vice chancellor; Robert Bell, 
financial scribe; H. E. Buck. Rec. scribe; 
Jacob Heller, banker ; G. J. Brown, guard ; M. 
M. Miller, inside sentinel; H. Fleckner, out- 
side sentinel ; A. Frant, G. E. Breyfogle, C. 
Riddle, W. A. Lear, T. P. Vining, E. Shally, 
G. W. Stimmel, D. Sheridan, D. M. Howe, 
W. S. Sherman, W. C. Clippinger, E. M. Hel- 
ler, J. Sealy, R. G. Lybrand, G. B. Smith, Ed 
F. Lear, J. K. Praul, F. Burroughs, P. Praul, 
C. W. White. C. Hughes. 

The present officers are : L. A. Critch- 
field. C. C. ; J. R. Selover, vice C. ; John 
White, prelate; R. McKinnie. M. of W. ; 
Charles A. Bolinger, M. at A. ; E. F. Young, 
K. of R. and S. ; E. S. Owen, M. of F. ; Ed S. 
Metier, M. of E. ; C. S. Freshwater, I. G. ; 
W. S. Sherman. O. G. ; H. H. Beecher, M. A. 
Brandon, representatives to Grand Lodge ; al- 
ternates. E. F. Young, H. H. Pierce, 

The Lenape Lodge is one of the largest 
and most flourishing in the State. The other 
lodges of the county are Sunbury, No. 231 ; 
Ostrander, No. 348 ; Good Hope, No. 457 ; 
Bellepoint. No. 525 ; Williams, No. 556; Chesh- 
ire. No. 613; Lewis Center, No. 636; Porter, 
No. 640; Centre Village. No. 645; Powell, 
No. 684. 

CASTLE HALL, K. OF P. 

Castle Hall Lodge, No. 231, K. of P., at 
Sunbury, was chartered May 25, 1887, with 
the following charter members : J. H. Kimble 
1 .lead) ; D. R. Robinson (dead) ;" O. H. Kim- 
ble (dead); E. E. Wilson (dead); J. M. 
Price (dead) ; T. W. Ginn (dead) ; Joe Fuller, 
B. Shofrer, C. J. Rose, B. E. Perfect, C. D. 
Palmer,- N. Patrick. A. Lynn, H. C. Perfect, 
H. S. Cook, H. E. Smith, E. L. Gill. A. C. 
Williams, W. A. Wilson. C. P. Sprague, 
Frank Burrer, F. L. Gage, W. P. Roberts. 
Kimball Sedgewick, B. W. Gorsuch, C. A. 
McAllister, John Burrer. The present officers 
are: Elwood Miles. C. C. ; E. Debolt, V. C. ; 
Henrv Stelzer, prelate; C. L. Boyd, M. of W. ; 
H. H. Loar, K. of R. and S., and M. of F. ; 
J. S. Furey, M. of Ex.; E. G. Kempton, M. 



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of A.; D. B. Rosencrans, I. G. ; W. B. Dwin- 

nel. O. G. The members at the present time 
1 [908) number 132. The Pythian and Rath- 
bone Sisterhoods are a part of this organiza- 
tion. 

EUREKA LODGE, K. OF P. 

Eureka Lodge, No. 3, K. of P. (colored), 
of Delaware, was organized October 10, 1894. 
Officers and charter members were the follow- 
ing : E. W. B. Curry, C. C. ; William Clark, 
vice C. : A. P. Warrick, prelate ; W. A. Jack- 
son, M. of F.; J. Jackson, M. of E. ; A. W. 
Day. K. of R. and S.; A. Boyd, M. of A.; H. 
T. Ragans, I. G. ; A. Wilson, O. G. 

GOOD HOPE LODGE, NO. 457. ASHLEY, OHIO, 

Was instituted November 3, 1890, with 
the following charter members : W. Slack, D. 
H. Wolfe. H. C. Hershev, S. R. Eckles, E. C. 
Sipe, Walter Hershev. T. W. Lea, B. A. Clay- 
pool. Marrow Berry, Sperry Bartholomew. 
The present officers: F. T. Glen, C. C. ; J. 
D. Monroe, V. C. : William Gale, prelate; 
Tom Barber. M. of A. ; L. B. Richmond, I. 
G; W. M. Curren. O. G. ; H. L. Lea, M. of 
E.; D. H. Wolf, M. of F. ; F. J. Riley, K. of 
R. and S.; F. H. Bisel, Dan Chadrich. C. 
Smith, trustees. 

PORTER LODGE, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, NO. 64O, 

Of East Liberty, Porter Township, was 
chartered August 24, 1893. Charter mem- 
bers: Milton Heaslett, M. W. ; George T- 
Meises, C. C. ; W. F. Waldron. V. C. ; E. B. 
Dustin. prelate; D. A. Beard, M. of E. ; J. C. 
Van Sickle. M. of F. ; J. T. Harbottle. K. of 
R. and S. ; C. I. Bacom, M. at A. ; D. W. Mc- 
Kav. T. Cubbage. Munroe Vance. J. C. Wood, 

F. O. White, O. G. ; H. D. Blackledge. I. G ; 
C. D. Rogers. W. G Bacom. Fisher White, 

G. W. Carpenter. A. Hunt. W. D. Blaney. G 
B. Spangler. P. F. Page, W. O. Clauson. Clin- 
ton Bacom. W. T. Harrison. E. Carnes. T. B. 
Bradfield. H. Riley, C. Waldron. J. G. Glea- 
son, C. H. Hicks, Joseph Patrick. Levi Black- 



ledge. J. T. Lane. Present officers are : E. B. 
Dustin, C. C. ; David Chase, V. C. ; J. C. Van 
Sickle, prelate; W. Lane, M. of W., B. T. 
Hirst, K. of R. and S. ; William Harbottle, M, 
of F. ; E. Carnes, M. of Ex. ; J. Fry, M. at A. ; 
H. Vermillion, I. G. ; E. Owens, O. G. 

CHESHIRE LODGE, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, 
NO. 613, 

Was instituted February 16, 1893. Char- 
ter members : S. P. Thrall, P. C. ; George 
Cleveland, C. C. ; F. I. Ryant, V. C. ; W. P. 
Whittier, prelate; C. W. Dickerman, M. of 
F. ; George Whitman, M. of E. ; W. F. Ben- 
nett, K. of R. and S. ; C. J. Slough, M. at A.; 
E. L. Ryant, I. G ; A. Hichew, O. G Trus- 
tees : J. Rouch, F. H. Andrews, L. A. Jay- 
cox. Charter members : C. E. Asher, G C. 
Bennett, G. W. Buckingham. E. Bowers, B. A. 
Casswell, D. C. Curtis, G. D. Colflesh, James 
Cockrell, L. L. Davenport, H. A. Davis, S. T. 
Dickerman, A. L. Elliott, H. E. Elliot J. E. 
Finch, E. L. Ferson, A. R. Freshwater, W. S. 
Glaze, J. Hewitt. W. S. Harriss, G B: Hub- 
bard, George Holly, B. F. Hagerman, J. H. 
and H. C. Hopkins, G W. Hughes. J. Irwin, 
H. H. Johnson, E. K. and W. Jacobus, 
M. D. Kring, H. and C. Kunzev. W. J. Long- 
worth. G W. Lahmon, E. A.' May, W. H. 
McWilliams. E. Miller, D. S. Potter, A. Rush, 
E. H. Smith, G C. Stephens, W. M. P. Sims, 
G W. Sherman, W. F. Sackett. I. W. Sher- 
wood, W. Townsley, C. A. Yeamans. The 
present officers are: Joseph Irwin. M. of F. ; 
Homer Gregory, C. C. ; George Cleveland, M. 
of Ex. ; Florence Whitman, V. C. ; Herbert 
Irwin, prelate; Homer Dutche, M. at A.; lohn 
Irwin, M. of W. ; E. R. Durfy. I. G. ; W. F. 
Ryant, K. of R. and S. ; George Hass, O. G. 
Trustees: F. Ryant, D. S. Potter, I. C. Mc- 
Carty. 

LEWIS CENTRE LODGE. NO. 636, K. OF P. 

This lodge was instituted August 10. [893. 
The original officers were: P. C, R. K. Wil- 
lis; C. C, W. M. T. S. Sims; V. C, 11. V. 
Schanck; prelate, H. P. Knapp; M. of I*".. W. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



B. Gooding"; M. of P., A. Stone; K. R. S., 
G. D. Colflesh; M. at A.. A. C. Barrows; M. 
of W\, R. C. Elsbue; I. G., A. Ferguson; O. 

G., A. N. Crumb. Present membership, twen- 
ty-five. 

POWELL LODGE, NO. 684, K. OF P, 

Was chartered April 18, 1895, with forty- 
three members. Its first officers were : E. P. 
Hover, C. C. ; F. B. Mason. V. C. ; I. E, Sharp, 
P. ; T. N. Neds, M. of E. ; Charles E. Watts, 
M. of F. ; W. E. Zinn, K. of R. and S. ; Charles 
Stanbery, M. of A.; V. F. ToplifL.I. G. , 
Frank Bayles, O. G. The lodge now has six- 
ty-nine members, with the following officers : 
George Kibby, C. C. ; Frank Richards, V. C. ; 
J. N. Gardner, P.; Harry Davidson, M. of 
W.; J. C. Drumheller. K. of R. and S. ; C. O. 
Hawes, M. of F. ; O. T. Case, M. of E. ; R. J. 
Duffy, M. at A.; Calvin Corbin, I. G.; Wil- 
liam Pounds, O. G. The lodge erected a line. 
two-story frame building, the first story of 
which is used for store purposes, and the upper 
for a lodge room. The building is 26x60 feet, 
and was dedicated August 30, 1906. The 
building c>st nearly $3,300. To begin with, 
the lodge had only $43 in the exchequer. 

POWELL TEMPLE, NO. 299, PYTHIAN SISTERS, 

Was instituted July 19, 1900. with sixty 
charter members. First officers : Hattie Pix- 
ley, M. E. C.; Mabel Richard... M. of F. ; 
Weltha Sharp, E. S. ; Alice Kirkpatrick. pro- 
tector; Mary Bayles, E. J.; Anna Topliff, 
guard; < lara Corbin, manager; Olive Case. P. 
C. ; .Minerva Case, M. of R. and C. The pres- 
ent officers are: Clara Corbin. M. E. C. ; Ida 
Colvin, M. of I'.; Minerva Case, P. S. ; Emma 
Case, protector; Mabel Richards, E. J.; Mary 
Drumheller, guard; Bertha Colvin, manager, 
Mary Bayles, I'. C. ; Weltha Sharp, M. of R. 
and ( . 

( )f the following lodges, 1\. of P., from 
the failure of officials to give any data, we are 
unable to give any history: ( )strander, Belle- 
point, Williams and Centre Village. 



BELLEPOINT LODGE, K. OF P. 

No. of Charter, 525 — Date of Charter, De- 
cember 8, 1 89 1. 

Charter Members. 

T. A. Wells F. N. Penn 

Harvey Miller W. A. Black 

I. W. Wood John Watkins 

R. B. Hagans W. B. Fry 

W. R. Cox Lewis Hecker 

G. F. Miller W. B. Sperow 

O. E. Hutchisson M. H. H inkle 

H. E. Tiebout E. J. Healv 

G. O. Oiler E. B. Hinkle 

W. G. Jones R. A. Dunlap 

J. P. Stewart C. W. Kelly 

S. F. Smith F. L. Liggett 

W. H. Oiler T. C. Stone 

F. R. Fry L. T. Oiler 

F. L. Sailsburv Eugene Vienot 
E. M. Coe C. H. Watson 

W. T. Warson William Chambers 

G. E. Watson Samuel Smith 
G. T. Ferryman J. W. Owen 

[. W. Kuhns Hosea Moon 

E. M. Wickham W. A. Jones 

G. W. Daily 

Officers of the First Year— P. C. T. A. 
Wells; C. C. Harvey Miller; Y. C, ,. W. 
Wood; prelate, B. R. Hagans; M. E, W. R. 
Coe; M. of 11., G. F. Miller; K. of R. and S.. 

0. C. Hutchisson; M. of A.. H. E. Tiebout; 

1. G., George Oiler; O. (i., W. (i. Jones. 

• The lodge now has 101 members. The of- 
ficers for the present year are as follows: C. 
C, F. B. McMillen; V. C. W. 11. Colhoun; 
prelate, Lawson Jones; M. of W.. G. L. Ru- 
mer ; K. of R. and S.. O. C. Hutchisson; M. 
-1 F.. W. C. McCloud; M. of F.. W. R. Cox; 
M. of A., Elmer Zimmerman; 1. <i.. ( ). H. 
Case ; O. G., B. E. Jones. 

PYTHIAN SISTERS OF BELLEPOINT, 

Instituted under the name of the Rath- 
bone Sisters, April 2j, 1898. Changed to 
Pythian Sisters in 1906. 



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Charter Members. 
Jane Oiler O. C. Hutchisson 

Florence Bovey Lewis Hecker 

Cora B. Hutchisson W. A. Black 
Emma Hecker C. L. V. Bovey 

Ollie Coe H. O. Moore 

Estelle K. Healv Edward Jones 

Rebecca Ropp E. M. Coe 

Cora Watson H. E. Tiebout 

Sarah Watkins W. A. Felkner 

Louisa Hinkle Jacob Blain 

Hannah Miller Charles Thomas 

Alice Moore Fred Jones 

Lizzie Hunt Frank Smith 

Daisv Lowe G. F. Miller 

Mary Lindner M. H. Hinkle 

Ida Freese C. T. Oiler 

Frances Zimmer W. M. Hunt 

Lizzie Oiler Hiram Jones 

Elnora Black E. J. Healv 

Frankie Daily G. W. Thomas 

Edith Moore Charles Zimmer 

Ella E. Felkner Lewis Freese 

Adeline Jones W. R. Cox ■ 

Ora Freshwater W. T. Ropp 

lane Cox. T. A. Wells 

Sarah Wells • W. T. Watson 

Frances Freshwater H. D. Lindner 
Hattie Smith 

Present number of members — 39 sisters ; 
;i knights; total, 90. 

Officers of First Year— M. E. C. Jane Oi- 
ler: E. S.. Cora B. Hutchisson; E. J., Emma 
Hecker; M. of T.. Ollie Coe; M. of R. and C. 
Estelle K. Healv; M. of F., Rebecca Ropp; P. 
of T., Cora Watson; G. of O. T.. Sarah Wat- 
kins ; P. C. of F., Florence Bovey. 

Present Officers — P. C, Minnie McCloud; 
M. E. C, Lizzie Oiler; E. S.. Minnie Tones; 
E. J.. Kittie Dix; M. of T.. Anna Case; M. 
of R. and C. Emily D. Case; M. of F.. Eliza- 
beth Zimmer: P. of T., Pearl Coe: ( !. of O. T.. 
Belle Dunlap. 

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD 
FELLOWS. 

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is 
strictly a fraternal and benevolent society, 



whose members are associated together to al- 
leviate the suffering, attend to those in sick- 
ness and distress, to administer the last sad 
rites to the dead, to educate the orphan, to 
lighten the wants of the old and decrepit mem- 
bers, and to bind the members together in 
friendship, love and truth. Next to Masonry, 
it is the largest secret organization of all or- 
ders in America. The principles upon which 
this order is founded may date back to the 
days of the Gch id Samaritan, who helped a 
fellowman in distress at the inn on the moun- 
tain in Palestine on the way to Jericho. Other 
writers date its origin back to the Roman sol- 
diers in 55 A. D. ; others, that it was suggested 
by the Caesars who called the brethren "Odd 
Fellows," because they knew each other by 
night as well as by day; while others again 
go back to the fifth century in Spain; or the 
sixth century in Portugal; or the twelfth cen- 
tury in France. It was 111 the eighteenth cen- 
turv that a union was formed and from this 
several organizations have been founded, such 
as the Loyal Ancient Odd Fellows, the Union 
Odd Fellows, and afterwards the Manchester 
Unity Odd Fellows. Each claim of these or- 
ganizations has been disputed in regard to the 
origin of this grand order. But the Manches- 
ter Unity Odd Fellows - was introduced into 
Manchester, England, in about 1800, and 
from this came the American Odd Fellowship 
in 1806, which now exists as the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows under the jurisdiction 
of the Grand Lodge of the United States of 
America. The first lodge was opened in the 
old Shakespearean House or Tavern in Ful- 
ton Street, New York City, by W. E. and J. 
C. Chambers, John R. Thomas. William Du- 
ll"!-. George P. Morris, and others. In [818 
it declined into dormancy, but in 1822, through 
Thomas Wildey. it was revived, and he be- 
came the real founder of the order as it ex- 
ists today in the United States. 

In the house of William Lupton. in Balti- 
more, at about the same time under a dispen- 
sation of the proper authorities in England, 
the order was placed upon a more substantial 
basis. Since 1822 the Grand Lodge of the 
United States has been the head of the ordei 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



in this country. A charter was granted about 
this time to the Grand Lodge of the United 
States by the Grand Annual Moving Commit- 
tee to conduct the business of Odd Fellowship 
in America independent of other lands. 

The order consists of two branches — 
lodges and encampments. With the degree of 
Rebekah, the lodges comprise seven branches, 
and the encampment three degrees. The Roval 
Purple Degree of the encampment is the high- 
est and last degree of the order. The lodges, 
encampments and all. are under the jurisdic- 
tion of the Grand Lodge of the United States. 
This order, more modern than the ancient or- 
der of Free Masonry, is somewhat like it in 
many essentials. It was introduced into Ohio 
at Cincinnati, and it was established in Dela- 
ware. November 15, 1845, as Olentangy 
Lodge. No. 53, I. O. O. F, with the follow- 
ing charter members : Henrv Patten, Adam 
Wolf, J. W. Place. Charles A. Drake. Cyrus 
Piatt. Bishop William L. Harris. George Brey- 
fogle. The first officers were : Bishop Har- 
ris, N. G. ; C. S. Drake. V. G. : C. Piatt, secre- 
tary ; George Breyfogle. treasurer. The lodge 
has a membership of 229. The present officers 
are : Eugene Troutman, N. G. ; Charley P. 
Wallace, V. G. : H. H. Beecber. F. S. ; C. W. 
Riddle, Rec. secretary. 

Chauncy Bradley was the first initiate. He 
was a prominent business man and was con- 
nected with many business enterprises for 
many years. Afterwards failing in business, 
and of extreme age, he ended his days in the 
Odd Fellows' Home at Springfield. Ohio. The 
first meeting place of the order was in Tem- 
plar Hall. They moved from there to Thomas 
Evans Block on the west side of Sandusky 
Street, near Delaware Run. some time in the 
sixties. They moved from there to the Charles 
Cochran Block on the north side of Whiter 
Street between Sandusky and Franklin, a few 
years ago and are now located there. The 
Olentangy Encampment, No. 52, I. O. O. F., 
was chartered May 5, 1851. and has a mem- 
bership of 118. The charter members were 
James A. Barnes, S. A. Cherry, William P. 
Jones, Chauncy T. Bradley, John Converse, 
Henrv W. Chamberlain, Cvrus Masters. The 



present officers are : D. Rowland, C. P. ; A. 
Swartz, S. W. ; A. J. Ryan, scribe ; E. R. 
Ryan, treasurer. Trustees are H. L. Clark, 
C. W. Riddle, C. L. Shoemaker. 

Patriarch Militant has a membership of 
thirty-six. It was chartered December 31, 
1885. The present officers are: Capt. H. L. 
Clark, C. W. Riddle, C. L. Shoemaker, en- 
sign ; A. J. Ryan, accountant. 

The Daughters of Rebekah. No. 198, was 
chartered May 20, 1887. The following were 
the charter members : C. Coomer, L. E. 
Young, Aaron Evans, J. C. Swickheimer, C. 
W. Owston, Bessie Carpenter, E. R. Ryan. C. 
Stimmel, Anne Berger, E. P. Gillett, W. O. 
Lupton, W. H. Smith, R. Carpenter, S. A. 
Coomer, W. Z. Evans, A. C. Gillet, I. Riddle, 

F. W. Wells, Mary C. Riddle, C. E. Graff. I. 

G. Finley, G. W. Young, Rose M. Owston. F. 
R. Baldwin, B. Minturn. The present mem- 
bership is 160. The present officers (1908) 
are : Mrs. L. Simpson, Miss Frances Klee, 
Miss Ethel Richey, Mrs. O. Kingman. 

MOUNT MORIAH LODGE. 

Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 1 5 1 1 , Grand 
United Order of Odd Fellows in America 
(colored), was chartered December 12, 1872, 
under the authority from the Grand Lodge of 
England. Among the chartered members and 
first officers were H. Garvin, B. J. Johnson, 
J. W. Highwarden, A. Crawford, N. G. ; A. 
Highwarden, vice B. ; J. W. Highwarden, P. 
and F. ; J. C. Lyons, P. and G. ; R. Lindsey. 
P. S. ; D. Austin, W. T. From some cause 
the lodge went into a sleep of Rip Van Win- 
kle. They are now endeavoring to reorganize 
and to get started again. This was the only 
lodge of colored Odd Fellows in the county. 

GALENA LODGE, I. 0. 0. F. 

The Galena Lodge, I. O. O. F.. No. 404. 
was chartered July 22, 1S68, by James Sem- 
ple. G. M. After renting a hall for several 
years, the lodge purchased a permanent home 
in which the lodge work is conducted. This 
home was dedicated July 23. 1893, by W. W. 



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43 1 



Bowen and P. G. Master. The charter mem- 
bers were : Prof. G. A. Frambes, W. E. 
Copeland, D. L. Ferson, W. E. Maxfield, 
Thomas Van Fleet, R. Cook, William Brown, 
J. P. Maynard, E. O. Nutt, J. C. Farrer, C. 
Closson, G. W. Harrisi in and Thomas Cline. 

WARRENSBURG, I. O. O. F. 

Ruffner Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 330, at 
Warrensburg was instituted October 21, 1857, 
at Millville, Ohio, now Warrensburg, by Wil- 
liam Chidsev, G M., with the following mem- 
bers, William P. Crawford, N. G. ; William 
McFarland, V. G ; Thomas Silverthorne. 
treasurer ; John Frankenfield, secretary ; 
Charles Wilkins, James T. Shoup. I. W. Jones, 
John McAllister. Samuel Cooper was initi- 
ated at the first meeting. The lodge has a 
membership of eighty-seven. Officers in 1908 
are: O. D. Cutler. N. G ; A. N. Decker, V. 
G ; George Fawcett, Rec. secretary ; E. C. 
Crawford, financial secretary. 

The Daughters of Ruffner Rebekah Lodge, 
No. 248, was instituted by F. B. Zay, G M., 
on November 14, 1888, with the following 
charter members : E. J. Rogers, Carrie Rodg- 
ers, ]. M. Richev, Ella S. Richev, C. Dugan, 
R. C. Richev. J. W. Jones, R. 'Price, F. A. 
Tvler, Jessie Howison, W. H. Armstrong, J. 
G Strickler, R. W. Warren. W. A. Wheeler, 
A. Bean, A. C. McFarland, Rena Price, Fran- 
kie Decker, Nancy Warren, Elizabeth Jones, 
Cora Richey, May Wheeler, Martha, Flora, 
and July Dugan, Emma and Sadie McFar- 
land, Amanda and T. Shoup, A. J. and S. R. 
Decker, Jennie Bean, L. L. and Martha De 
Good, Ophelia Armstrong, W. M. Jones, E. 
M. Williams. There are thirty-eight mem- 
bers of whom twenty-eight are still living. 
The officers when instituted were, Rena Price, 
X. ( I. ; M. McFarland, V. G ; Frankie Decker, 
rec. sect*y. ; Nancy Warren, treas. ; Amanda 
Shoup, financial sect'y. ; Mary Tyler, sect'y. ; 
The present officers are Julia Hous, N. G ; 
Carrie Decker, V. G ; Stella Phillin. rec. sec; 
Carrie Stults, F. S. : Anna Howison, treas. 
The present membership is 102. 



BELLEPOINT LODGE, I. O. 0. F. 

Bellepoint Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 822, 
was chartered October 30, 1895, with the 
following officers in the chair for the fust 
year: O. P. Bird, N. G. ; H. O. Freshwater, 
V. G. ; T. P. Harris, sect'y. ; George Seum, 
P. sect'y. ; G. R. Hughes, treas. The present 
officers (1908) are: G E. Robinson, N. G ; 
J. R. Selover, V. G ; C. T. Oiler, R. S. : W. R. 
Cox, F. C. ; W. S. McFarland, treas. The or- 
der of the Daughters of Rebekah is connected 
with the lodge. 

OSTRANDER I. 0. O. F. 

Edinburg Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 467, at 
Ostrander was instituted November 2, 
1 87 1, by H. J. Beebe, G M. The charter 
members were Daniel Dorwart, treas. ; Isaac 
Anderson, R. S. ; D. G Crafty, V. G ; 
D. C. Fay, N. G ; Robert McMillan. The 
present officers are ( 1908) E. Wollam, N. 
G ; C. Drake, V. G ; William Harris, R. S. ; 
W. H. Can, F. S. ; Charles Eckleberry, treas. 
Daughters of Rebekah are connected with this 
lodge. 

RADNOR LODGE, I. O. 0. F. 

Radnor Lodge. I. O. O. F., No. 250. is 
the mother of the Richwood and Prospect 
Lodges. It was instituted May 17, 1854. with 
the following officers and charter members : 
Thomas Morton, Jr., N. G : B. Williams, V. 
G ; J. Baker, P. S. ; D. J. Cox, chaplain ; T. 
Silverthorne, secretary. 

ASHLEY LODGE, I. O. O. F. 

Ashley Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 421. was 
instituted June 2, 1869, with the following 
charter members and officers: Washington 
Granger, N. G, who is one of the oldest Odd 
Fellows in the State, and one of the most in- 
fluential men in Oxford Township ; C. C. 
Smith, V. G ; T. M. Seeds, F. S. : D. H. Clif- 
ton, Rec. sect'y.; Isaac Barton, treas.; J. L. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Wray, conductor; A. A. Wood, R. S. to V. 
G. ; W. B. Goodrich, L. S. S. ; A. P. Olliver. 
warden; L. P. Slack, R. S. S. ; Gilbert Car- 
penter, I. G. ; T. M. Barton, L.»S. to N. G. ; 
H. L. Cross, L. S. to V. G. ; Herod Baxter; 
W. J. Porterfield, O. G. ; William Evart, R. 
S. to V. G. The present officers are Vaughn 
McClean, N. G. ; Fred. Gale, V. G. ; D. C. 
Frick, R. S. ; E. C. Sipe, F. S. ; J. T. Wilcox, 
treas. The present membership is 103. The 
lodge meets every Thursday night. Wash- 
ington Granger has been a member for fifty- 
three years, and O. E. Richardson for fifty- 
two years. This long term of service has en- 
deared these two gentlemen to the lodge, and 
they are also highly esteemed by the com- 
munity. The order of the Daughters of Re- 
bekah is a strong organization connected with 
this lodge. 

POWELL LODGE, NO. 465, I. O. O. F., 

Was chartered September 29, 1870, with 
the following charter members: B. B. Nafz- 
ger, J. T. Gardner, Ralph Case, William P. 
Fuller, M. S. Case, J. N. Kidwell. M. G. Stag- 
ers, Arthur Doughty, G. M. Warner, A. S. 
Goodrich, Simon P. Andrews. The present 
officers of the lodge are : Frank Stagers, N. 
G. ; Frank Griffith, V. G. ; Allen Rutherford, 
sect'y. ; Dr. Charles Talley, treas. They have 
about sixty members. In 1890, the lodge 
erected a two-story frame building 28x55 
feet in dimensions, costing $1,700 besides the 
lot. In 1 goo, an addition 18x32 feet, two 
stories high was built. The present value of 
the property is $2,600. The first floor is used 
for business purposes, and the lodge meets in 
the upper story. 

POWELL LODGE, DAUGHTERS OF REBEKAH, 
NO. 247. 

Was chartered May 18, 1888. It now has 
forty-four members, and the following offi- 
cers: Mrs. Sarah Moran, N. G: Mrs. May 
Croak, V. G. ; Mrs. Nettie Seekins. cor. and 
fin. sec'}'. ; Mrs. Sarah Richards, treas. 



THE BENEVOLENT AND PROTEC- 
TIVE ORDER OF ELKS. 

The Order of Elks is a child of America 
strictly. It has no rank or title, and is no re- 
specter of persons. All are equal, differing 
only as one may excel another in loving the 
good and the beautiful, as well as performing 
noble deeds of silence. Their object is to help 
the sick in distress, and the unfortunate. The 
founders of the order had no conception of 
the scope and possibilities of the present or- 
ganization. 

The first organization was instituted May 
21, 1868, in a two-story frame building, 29 
Delancy Street, New York City. The order, 
at that time, was composed of a few gentle- 
men of the theatrical profession who met to- 
gether in a social way. Now it has developed 
into a wide-spread, powerful order of benev- 
olence and charity, with ledges in all parts of 
the country. At first it was the idea and pur- 
pose that none but members of the theatrical 
profession were eligible to membership in the 
order, and some have that impression today. 
This is erroneous, as nearly all male members 
of the theatrical profession and citizens are 
eligible to membership, as we find today, upon 
the roll of membership, prominent officials 
from the Presidency down. Merchants, bank- 
ers, journalists, members of the legal and 
medical professions, as well as artists, musi- 
cians, and literary people. In 1867, Charles 
Algernon Sidney Vivian, a son of an English 
clergyman of the English Episcopal Church, 
came to New York City as a ballad singer, 
and was the means of founding the organiza- 
tion. The first constitution of the Benevolent 
and Protective Order of Elks, was founded 
February io, 1868, with Sir Charles as pre- 
siding officer. 

It was on February 10, 1888, that the 
institution of the Elks lodge was established in 
Delaware. There was a special program, and 
a banquet was served. Many prominent cit- 
izens were charter members of the order, 
many of whom have since passed away. 



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The petitioners for the lodge were Robert 
G. Lybrand, E. L. K. ; W. C. Jaynes, E. L. 
K. ; Lou J. Mitchel. E. L. K. ; G. B. Dona- 
\ in. sect'y. ; E. T. Butler, treas. ; John W. Don- 
vin. chaplain; J. H. Smith, esquire; Robert 
C. Wintermute, inner guard ; Van Dyke Stay- 
man. Harvey J. McCullough, Henry L. Baker, 
L. K. Donavin. trustees. Charter members 
were C. F. Gruner, \V. E. O'Kane. I. R. Els- 
ton, H. N. P. Dole, H. E. Buck. W. B. Jones, 
Charles E. Dole, E. P. Sampsell, H. L. Hy- 
att, John P. Thompson, S. K. Donavin, M. 
P. Hunt, T. C. Jones, Jr., H. D. Myers. R. 
C. Thompson, R. E. Johnson. P. W. Merritt, 
W. L. Bennington, R. A. Jaynes, William 
Heseltine, L. L. Welch. R. S. Evans, E. G. 
Lvbrand. Of this number only nine are now 
in the city. 

ANCIENT ORDER OF HIBERNIANS. 

i 

The aims and objects of this order are of 
the highest character. It is composed of prac- 
tical Catholics; Irishmen of Irish descent, hav- 
ing for their motto, "Friendship, Unity, and 
True Christian Character." Practical Catho- 
licity means that members should comply with 
their religious duties according to the decrees 
of the Catholic Church. Friendship : which 
shall consist in helping one another, and in as- 
sisting one another to the best of their ability. 
Unity : in combining together for mutual sup- 
port in sickness and distress. Christian: in 
loving one another, and doing to all men as 
we would wish that they should do to us. The 
Ancient Order of Hibernians is also an insur- 
ance society. It helps in sickness, paying a 
sick member $5 weekly. It helps in time of 
death, paying not less than $60. 

In f88o, the order was organized in this 
county with a membership of fifty-two. and 
with the following officers: James McDon- 
ald, county delegate; John Donehue. presi- 
dent; Michael Neville, vice pres. ; Frank Ma- 
in my. fin. sect'y.; M. J. Hanley, rec. sect'y.; 
Stephen Potter, treas.; Charles McGuirk and 
Stephen Barnes, trustees. Patrick S. English, 
chairman; Stephen Barrow, Ed. Hanley. John 
O'Conner, Thomas F. Maloney, Patrick Grif- 



fith, standing committee. John P. Griffin, 
chairman; James Welch. Michael Jeffcot, vis- 
iting committee. 

Up to the present time, the order has paid 
for sickness, death., and other charitable pur- 
poses, over $3,000. There is now a member- 
ship of forty-eight, with the following offi- 
cers: County president, J. F. Gaynor; city 
president, Martin P. Handrahan ; vice pics., 
John Parker; finan. sect'y., Dennis T. Griffin: 
recording secretary. William T. Egan : treas- 
urer, John Maloney; sergeant-at-arms, D. W. 
Lynch ; sentinel, P. Butt ; trustees : Jerry 
Gerow, chairman ; Robert Nelson, Thomas 
Ross, William Enright, Ed. Welch, Raymond 
Zinker, W. T. Egan, Frank B. Carl. 

ST. mary's total abstinence society. 

One of the greatest orders, and most bene- 
ficial to the community, is the St. Mary's To- 
tal Abstinence Society, which was organized 
in 1885. It has a working membership of 
no, including men and women. Their power 
exerted for sobriety and temperance is so 
great, no earthly power can estimate the good 
resulting from this organization. Their pres- 
ident is W. G. Gannon ; secretary, Robert Par- 
ker. Jr.; treasurer, Robert Parker. Sr. ; Rev. 
Ph. Steyle, spiritual director. The object of 
this Society is to advance the cause of tem- 
perance. 

IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN. 

The Improved Order of Red Men. Dela- 
wana Tribe. No. 4-'. hold their regular Pow 
Wow at their Wigwam every Thursday of 
snow moon, and trail their hunting ground- 
regularly. This lodge was chartered May 5 
1904. It is strictly a patriotic and fraternal 
organization; and like the previously men- 
tioned orders, it is a temperance organization, 
and none can join it only under certain condi- 
tions, as follows: The candidate must be a 
white person; a citizen of the United St; 
must be able to speak and understand the Eng- 
lish language; of goo,) moral character: and 
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Spirit ; must be of sound body and mind ; must 
reside within the reservation six moons next 
preceding the application ; is not engaged, and 
must not engage, directly or indirectly in the 
manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors to 
be used as a beverage. 

In this order, an officer of the tribe is 
raised to the clneftancy of the Great Sachem 
of the Tribe, and the Past Chief Deputy to the 
Grand Sachem. Thev keep the great fire burn- 
ing brightly to keep a clear understanding of 
the remarkable secret principles of their order. 
They alone appreciate and know the great Sun 
Session which goes down in history. There 
is a membership throughout the United States 
of about 500,000. True to the legends of the 
Red Man, their place of meeting is the Wig- 
wam, and the highest office is the Great Sun 
Sagamore. Following the ancient tribesmen 
of the original inhabitants of this country, 
they have a prophet, a medicine man, a sa- 
chem, senior and junior, a sagamore, who is 
the chief of records and keeper of wampum. 
The tribe in Delaware, No. 42, is named "Del- 
awana." We add a few of the names of the 
tribes throughout the country : Ioka, Chicko- 
pee, Kill Eagle, Chimney Rock, etc. 

The charter members of the Delawana 
Tribe are R. Garlinghouse, William McFar- 
land, B. Radcliff, W. E. Demorest, Nathan 
Jones, J. McCarty, Ally Vining, J. F. Den- 
nis, Clyde Coonfare, C. C. Long, F. Uffer- 
man, C. Shover, John Dent, David Shaffer, 
O. E. McFarland, W. W. & G. B. Collins, R. 
S. Sherwood (sagamore), Joe. Feaster, Frank 
Grove, Henry Freece, J. W. Stietz, J. Fagley, 
H. C. Smith, Frank Gardner, Frank Rogers, 
C. C. Emerson, Henry and W. L. Smith, J. 
M. Syckes, L. M. Poppleton, G. C. Vining. 
They have a membership of about one hun- 
dred. 

The Elk lodge of Red Men at Hyattsville 
was organized some seventeen years ago, or 
1 89 1. No further data has been furnished 
in regard to the history of their organization. 

THE POCAHONTAS TRIBE 

Is an order for the squaw members of the 
tribe. The members meet in their tepee reg- 



ularly, and are enthusiastic workers for the 
order. At their annual Council Fire, they, 
like their brother lodge, make a report of their 
transactions, and of those who have taken the 
trail to the Happy Hunting Ground in the 
Spirit Land, from which no hunter ever re- 
turns. The orders look after the orphans of 
the tribes, and have an annual assessment to 
apply for the benefits of their wards until 
they are fourteen years of age. 

At one of their great Sun Sessions, they 
disqualified for membership all saloon keep- 
ers, bar tenders, and retail liquor dealers. The 
Red Men have under advisement the building 
of a home for indigent members. The Dela- 
wana and Pocahontas tribes are making a 
strong effort to have the home located in Del- 
aware. 

Present officers: George Wilson, 

prophet ; Frank Crumb, sachem ; Ben Rad- 
cliff, senior sagamore; Ezra Beekman, Jr., sag- 
amore; W. J. Temple, chief of records; G. K. 
Zimmerman, collector of wampum ; Richard 
Sherwood, keeper of wampum. 

GEORGE B. TORRENCE POST, G. A. 
R.. No. 60, 

Was chartered April 20, 1881, with the 
following- members: D. A. Stark, J. W. 
Watkins, B. W. Brown, R. G. Lybrand,*H. J. 
McCullough, John Chapman, John S. Gill, R. 
J. Cox, R. R. Henderson, J. F. Curren, F. M. 
Joy, J. Kruck, George Root, C. D. Crawford, 
J. S. Jones, John D. VanDeman, F. B. 
Sprague, C. Riddle, Aaron Frantz. 

SONS OF VETERANS. 

Sons of Veterans,, Delaware Camp. No. 
311. organized July 18, 1888, with the fol- 
lowing members : H. E. Anderson, F. Smith, 
H. B. Abbott, H. Sackett, T. W. Blue, Charles 
T. Watkins, J. L. Anderson, C. W. Knight, 
J. Leeper, George H. Watkins, James O. Cut- 
ler, C. S. Cochran, C. C. Reed, L. E. Shrock, 
G. C. Vining, E. J. Pollock, J. A. Edwards, 
C. D. Burroughs, W. H. Armstrong, F. H. 
Watkins. W. G. Neilson, George C. Hippie, 
S. M. Waterhouse, G. A. Warren, H. H. Hip- 
pie, H. J. Clark, W. I. Brown, M. C. Reid. 



CHAPTER. XVIII. 



TOWNSHIPS AND TOWNS. 

Settlement and Organization of the Townships — Settlement ami Founding of the Towns — 
Sketches of Ashley, Galena, Sunbury, O steamier, Lewis Center, Powell, Radnor, and 
other Towns. 



Note — In order to avoid the excessive duplication 
of data, a considerable amount of matter coming natur- 
ally under special headings, as Churches, Military His- 
tory. History of the professions of Law and Medicine, 
Public Institutions, Banks, the Press, etc., have been 
omitted from this chapter and will lie found in the 
special chapters devoted to the respective subjects 
mentioned, or elsewhere in the general history. 

BERKSHIRE TOWNSHIP 

Was third among the townships now con- 
stituting Delaware county, inhabited by a 
white man. Col. Moses Byxbe and his small 
company settling there in the fall of 1804. 
It was formed of United States Military land, 
known in the United States Military survey 
as Township 4, Range 17, and is now five 
miles square, but during the early existence of 
Berkshire Township its boundary lines and 
area were frequently changed. Prior to 1806, 
it was a part of Sharon Township, in Frank- 
lin County, but in that year, through the ef- 
forts of Major Thomas Brown, on petition, 
was organized as a separate township to in- 
clude the fourth section of what is now Brown, 
the third section of Kingston, the east half 
of Berlin and Orange Townships, and the 
west half of Genoa and the present Berkshire 
Townships. This township was given the 
name, Berkshire, in honor of Berkshire 
County. Massachusetts, from whence had 
come Major Brown, Colonel Byxbe and other 
of the prominent early settlers of the com- 
munity. As new townships were organized 
from time to time, section after section of 



Berkshire was set off until, of the land origi- 
nally embodied in the township, but the west- 
ern half of the present Berkshire Township 
remained and was joined to the eastern half, 
which had been set off from Sunbury Town- 
ship. Sunbury Township had been estab- 
lished at the first session of Commissioners' 
Court after Delaware County had been sep- 
arated from Franklin in 1808, and included, 
originally, the present townships of Harlem, 
Trenton and Porter, with the east half of the 
townships of Kingston, Berkshire and Genoa, 
besides the townships of Bennington. Har- 
mony. Peru and Lincoln, now in Morrow 
County. The surface of Berkshire County is 
rolling, lies high, and is admirably adapted to 
farming. It was covered with a heavy growth 
of timber, excepting a small prairie northeast 
of Berkshire Corners which in the early days 
was noted as a deer lick and the resort of im- 
mense flocks of wild pigeons. The land lying 
between the Little and Big Walnut Creeks, 
which afford excellent drainage for the town- 
ship, was covered almost exclusively with oak, 
while in other parts was a variety, including 
maple, walnut, hickory, butternut and elm. 
The soil is a light clay, with the exception of 
the elm swamps and prairie land, which are 
of a rich, black loam. 

The first settlers in Berkshire Township 
came from Berkshire County, Massachusetts. 
Colonel Moses Byxbe, a man of wealth and 
standing, kept hotel and conducted a general 
store in the town of Lenox, in that county, 



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and in the course of business came into pos- 
session of a large number of soldiers' land 
warrants, which he located in section 2 of 
what is now Berkshire and section i of the pres- 
ent township of Berlin, 8,000 acres in all. 1 [e 
afterward acquired other land in Brown and 
Genoa Townships and was the largest land- 
owner ever resident of Delaware County. In 
June, 1804, he fitted out a four-horse team 
with Orlando Barker as driver, a three-horse 
team with Witter Stewart as driver, a single- 
horse wagon in charge of Solomon Smith, 
and, after loading with his store stock and 
household goods, started for his new pos- 
sessions in the West, leading the way with 
his family in a carriage drawn by two horses. 
He was also accompanied by Azariah Root, 
a surveyor from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and 
Edwin Potter, a nephew of Colonel Byxbe, 
thirteen years of age. After an adventurous 
journey, he arrived at Worthington in Au- 
gust, and. this being the nearest point to his 
destination, built a two-story frame house, in 
which he and his family lived for three 
months. During this time he went to his land 
in Berkshire, and erected cabins for his home 
and stables on the prairie, on the bank of the 
Little Walnut. He also erected a cabin for 
Mr. Root on the Berkshire Road, a half mile 
south of Berkshire Corners. In November, 
1804, he moved with his household goods and 
his family into the new home. Berkshire 
Street was surveyed through his land, and 
farms laid out abutting it, plans being rapidly 
advanced to bring in new settlers. The next 
to join the settlement was a Mr. Curtis, a shoe- 
maker, who came in January, 1805. followed 
closely by John Kilbourn, Ralph Slack, Elam 
Vining, Sr.. James Harper, who was a black- 
smith. Adonijah Rice, and two colored wo- 
men, Sarah Brandy and Polly Noko. Major 
Thomas Brown, who had visited the- settle- 
ment in 1805, returned to take up his residence 
in 1S00. being accompanied by David Prince 
and John Patterson. Nathaniel Hall. James 
Gregory, Solomon Jones. Joseph Patrick. 
John B. Grist. David Armstrong, Samuel and 
David Landon, Gideon and William Oster- 
haus, a Mr. Helt, George Fisher and Joseph 



Prince also appear on the roster of names for 
that period. In 1807, came Ichabod Plumb 
and Dr. Reuben Lamb, with their families, 
from Worthington, and in 1808, Hon. Eze- 
kiel Brown. The first white child born in the 
township was Albert Root, born in 1807, fol- 
lowed shortly by the birth of Ralph Slack. 
The first death recorded was that of the wife 
of Elam Vining, Sr., in 1806. Major Brown, 
in 181 1, erected the first brick house, which is 
still standing, in the township, made of brick 
manufactured near where the house stood, and 
in 1 816 David and Joseph Price built the first 
frame dwelling'. Thus it is seen brick ante- 
dates lumber as a building material in Berk- 
shire Township, an anomalous situation due 
to the fact that the settlement numbered 
among its citizens a brickmaker and mason. 
The first mill in the community was that of 
Nathaniel Hall, built in 1808, on Alum Creek 
in what is now Berlin Township. Asa Scott 
was the first township treasurer, and David 
Prince, one of the first trustees, but the other 
officers of the township at its inception are un- 
known. Major Brown conducted the first 
store in the township, and probably the first 
in the county. Adonijah Rice conducted the 
first tavern in the township at Berkshire Cor- 
ners, and was also first post master there. 
The early industrial enterprises of Berkshire 
are treated of in the chapter on manufactur- 
ing. 

. Berkshire Township lays claim to two 
healthy, vigorous villages in Snnbury and Ga- 
lena, and two settlements, Berkshire Corners 
and Rome, the two latter not fulfilling the 
promises of future greatness made by their 
founders. Colonel Byxbe displayed great 
ability in interesting a good class of citizens 
in Berkshire Corners, pointing out its desir- 
able location and its prospects of becoming 
a county seat, possibly a state capital, but with 
the disposition of his property there, the deith 
knell of the settlement's pretentions was 
sounded. It was without its leader, he having 
diverted his zeal and energy to the develop- 
ment of Delaware, where he had acquired 
large interests. Although it was never plat- 
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nol without its prestige in the early days. Ma- 
jor Brown conducted his store there until his 
death in 1816, then was succeeded by Flavius 
Fuller, whose business ceased to be a paying 
enterprise and was discontinued when Sun- 
bury began to boom as a business center. Mr. 
S. S. Bennett was an extensive stock dealer at 
this point, and did much to keep it alive as 
a center of trade for some years. 

Sunbury, located in the east central part 
of the township, on the Cleveland, Akron & 
Columbus Railroad, was laid out by William 
and Lawrence Meyers on land formerly 
owned by a Mr. Alden, the plat bearing the 
date of November 9, 1816. It was well chosen 
as a townsite, being located on the Columbus 
and Mt. Vernon Road and contiguous to a 
large area of country without a trading point 
at hand. The first merchant was a Mr. Whit- 
more, who had established a store a year he- 
fore the town was started, but after a short 
time he was succeeded by Benjamin Webb. 
A third store was built and conducted by 
Steven R. Bennett. In 1816, the first hotel 
was started by a Mr. Rogers, who continued 
until 1820, when the stage began running 
through the town. Increase in hotel trade 
brought a competitor, in the person of Law- 
rence Meyers, who by erecting a suitable 
building was able to command the patronage, 
and Mr. Rogers retired from the field. B. H. 
Taylor and B. Chase built a fulling-mill, 
equipped for carding and pressing, which was 
conducted with success for many years, draw- 
ing patronage from many miles distant, as it 
was without competition in that vicinity. 

The following is a list of the mayors of 
Sunbury since its incorporation in 1882: I. 
A. Torts, 1882; R. D. Robinson, [883; John 
Roberts, 1880; I. A. Ports, 1887; P. D. Rob- 
inson, 1888; C. C. Brooks. [890; I. A. Ports, 
[894; C. C. Brooks, [896; \V. F. Whittier, 
1898; C. C. Brooks', 1902; Miles Gregory. 
[906, and Samuel Hopkins [908. The names 
are given in the order of succession, the dates 
being those when the duties of the office were 
assumed. The present members of the Coun- 
cil are Dr. T. J. Williams, president ; O. F. 
Etling, J. A. Loar, C. L. Boyd, James Furry 



and J. W. Longwell. The following gentle- 
men are members of the Board of Educatii m : 
D. H. Davis, George Axline, Robert II. Lar- 
rimore, James Cockrell and Clayton W. Bar- 
ton. The Board of Health is composed of the 
■following gentlemen: Dr. J. H. Gerhardt, 
health officer; Dr. H. B. Kistler, secretary; 
Dr. T. J. Williams, T. F. Blakely, James 
Cockrell and H. H. Herlocker. 

Other township officals whose terms be- 
gan in 1907, are: I. S. Sperry, justice of the 
peace; Leon Hough, and C. W. Barton, trus- 
tees ; W. E. Loar, clerk ; O. A. Kimball, treas- 
urer; J. W. H. Webster, assessor Sunbury 
Village; E. H. Furniss, assessor Galena Pre- 
cinct; John P. Hupp, Sunbury Precinct; An- 
sel Stanforth, Berkshire Precinct; C. E. Budd, 
constable. 

Among the principal industrial and busi- 
ness enterprises of Sunbury we may mention 
The Sunbury Co-( )perative Creamery, The Far- 
mers' Bank, Burrer's Flouring mill, a saw mill, 
a poke factory and a factory where hay-balers 
are made. Blakely & Williams and C. B. 
Morris & Co.. are general merchants; 
Wheaton & Cummins and Benoy & Benoy, 
hardware dealers; W. O. Buckingham & Sons. 
warehouse and dealers in lumber and farm im- 
plements ; E. E. Root, bakery and fruit dealer, 
and Harry Fleckner, fruit ; John P. Skeels, 
grocer; R. P. Anderson, druggist; Mr. Stro- 
snider, undertaker; H. S. Cook, harness-shop; 
The Delaware County News Item, a live 
newspaper published by W. F. Whittier; hotel 
conducted by the present mayor, Samuel Hop- 
kins; two livery stables kept by Hopkins 
Brothers and Frank Alberry, respectively. 

Located between the Big and Little Wal- 
nut Creeks, near the point of junction, is the 
village of Galena, through the northwest cor- 
ner of which passes the Cleveland, Akron and 
Columbus Railroad. It was platted by Wil- 
liam Carpenter. April ,}, 181 6. and recorded 
on the 2T,d day of the same month. The first 
building erected was the little log house which 
served as school and church prior to the incep- 
tion of Galena. Gilbert Carpenter, Sr., built 
a saw mill in 1809. the power being furnished 
by water in a race constructed by him, joining 



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the Walnut Creek. About 1818 Benjamin 
Carpenter, Jr., constructed a second race, just 
south of the first one, and established a grist 
mill, which in later years was operated by 
George Vanfleet. The first store, started in 
1810, by a man named Manter, was in a log 
cabin near the bridge. Soon after, Elias Mur- 
ray established a store on the southwest cor- 
ner of the square. The village was known by 
the name of Zoar until a postoifice was ac- 
quired, and was then named Galena, at the 
suggestion of Nathan Dustin. as there existed 
another town of Zoar in Ohio. The growth 
of the village was steady, but at no time rapid, 
as no effort was ever made to create a b » mi. 
The citizens, however, were men of enterprise, 
and by subscription the sum of $13,000 was 
raised to get the old Columbus & Alt. Vernon 
Railroad to pass through the town, in addi- 
tion to which they donated three acres for de- 
pot purposes. 

Rome was the only village of Berkshire 
Township incorporated, but this honor added 
little to its development or welfare. It was 
incorporated in 1838, by Almon Price, who 
had laid off his farm into lots, but as there was 
nothing to stimulate its growth, the act of in- 
corporation was annulled on petition of the lot 
holders. 

BERLIN TOWNSHIP. 

Some of the earliest settlements in this 
county were made in Berlin Township. At 
that time, however, its metes and bounds were 
not those now shown on the map. From 1806 
to 1820, Township 4, Range 18 of the United 
States Military lands, was divided between the 
townships of Liberty, Delaware and Berk- 
shire. In 1806, Sections 1 and 4, together 
with what was then the rest of Berkshire 
Township, were set off as a township. This 
was the shape of Berlin when the first settlers 
came here. The peculiar division of town- 
ships when Berkshire was laid off is probably 
accounted for by the fact that Col. Moses 
Byxbe owned Section 1 of the fourth township 
in Range 18. Berlin Township as now consti- 
tuted was set up January cS, 1820. At that 



time the 1st and 4th sections were taken from 
Berkshire, the 2nd section from Delaware and 
the 3rd section was taken from Liberty. The 
township as thus formed is bounded on the 
North by Brown, on the South by Orange, on 
the East by Berkshire and on the West by 
Delaware and Liberty Townships. Asa Scott 
started the petition for the new township and 
suggested its present name. At that time 
Scott was treasurer of Berkshire Township, 
which included Berlin, and in going over the 
figures, discovered that the population was 
large enough to justify a separate organiza- 
tn m. and so he headed the petition to the Com- 
missioners. Dr. Loofbourrow was made town- 
ship clerk; Joseph Eaton was made justice of 
the peace, and Scott was continued in his po- 
sition as treasurer at the first election. 

Alum Creek is the principal stream. It 
flows in a southerly direction in a winding 
course through about the middle of the east- 
ern half of the township. It drains a wider 
area on the east than it does on the west. 
The eastern bank of the stream is marked by 
many bluffs, and back of the bluffs the land 
is more or less broken. In the southeastern 
part of the township, the land is less broken 
and rich bottom lands. East of the creek the 
soil in the eastern part is the usual mixture of 
clays, well adapted to grass and corn. The 
lower lands west of the creek are rich, but an 
immense amount of ditching and tiling has 
been necessary to make them tillable. This 
region was originally covered with vast for- 
ests, the hard woods common to this section 
growing on the high lands, with burr oak, elm, 
basswood, buckeye, etc., with an underbrush 
of paw-paw and spice bush, in the swampy 
portions. Ever since markets have been fairly 
accessible, stock-raising and stock-feeding 
have received considerable attention. 

Joseph Constant, of Peekskill, New York, 
was the first purchaser of land in this town- 
ship. He bought Section 4 from the Govern- 
ment, paying $2 per acre and receiving a deed 
signed by President John Adams. He was 
popularly known as Judge Constant, but 
whether he ever held any judicial position is 
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a Colonel in the army during the Seminole 
War in Florida, and that it was there that he 
contracted the disease from which he died. 
Some time before he died, he gave fifty acres 
of land tn David Lewis. Sr.. on condition that 
he would settle upon it. However, George 
Cowgill, who in November, 1805, located 
about a mile north of the Delaware and Sun- 
bury Pike, was the first permanent settler. He 
was closely followed by David Lewis, Sr., who 
was accompanied by his daughter. Hannah, 
and suns John and David, Jr. The latter was 
married, and on September 29, 1806, had a 
son born,, whom he named Joseph Constant 
Lewis, for Judge Constant. This was the first 
white child born in the township. Their land 
was on the west side of Alum Creek, on the 
hill about opposite the cemetery south of 
Cheshire. In the spring of 1806, Joseph Eaton, 
Sr., and John Johnston brought their families 
from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and settled 
on Olive Creek or Big Run about two miles 
north of Cheshire. Others who came into the 
settlement in that year were David Isaac, 
Philander Hoadley. and Chester Lewis, with 
their families from Waterbury. Connecticut. 
They settled on Section 4. In 1807, Philo 
Hoadley, with his wife, three sons, and Lovell 
and Lucy Calkins, and Asa Scott came from 
Connecticut. ■ Lovell Caulkins began at once 
to clear land whereon to raise sustenance for 
his father's family, who were to follow him 
into the wilderness, and while he was thus en- 
gaged, his sister began to teach school. In 
1808. Lovell Caulkins returned to Connecticut 
and made up a company of emigrants, com- 
posed of the families of Roswell Caulkins. 
Samuel Adams, Jonathan Thompson and 
John Lewis, forty persons in all, and on Sep- 
tember 20, 1809, the little company started for 
the West. Capt. John Lewis, of this party, 
was the first permanent settler in the south- 
east quarter of the township. After this, there 
was a slow but steady increase in the popula- 
tion of the township. 

When the earlv settlers reached this region 
they found Indians "as thick as blackbirds," 
as one of the pioneers expressed it. For the 
most part, they were treated fairly and kindly 



by the settlers, and the Indians, as a rule, re- 
sponded with similar treatment. They did nol 
dispute the settler's right to hunt and fish, and 
they were slow to learn that they were not 
equally entitled to help themselves to the corn 
and vegetables which they found in the gar- 
dens of the settlement. During the period 
covered by the years 1811-T3, this community 
shared the feeling of fear and anxiety that 
pervaded the entire Northwest. The feeling 
of tranquility awakened by Harrison's bril- 
liant victory over Tecumseh was soon dissi- 
pated by the opening of the second war with 
England. The settlers knew as well as the 
British how unprotected they were, and how 
easy it would be for the enemy to stir the In- 
dians to a fever heat and send them against 
these almost defenseless frontiers like a devas- 
tating cyclone leaving death and destruction 
in their trail. It is not strange, therefore, that 
the settlers were constantly on the "qui vive," 
and it is easy to understand how Drake's 
stampede, the story of which is still familiar 
to everyone in the county, could have hap- 
pened. This experience taught the pioneers a 
well-needed lesson, and they immediately be- 
gan to make the necessary preparations for de- 
fense. Valuables were buried deep in the 
ground, care being taken to leave no surface 
indications that would lead to their discovery. 
It was decided to build a block house at once. 
The site selected was on the road running 
along the west bank of Alum Creek, on the 
rise of ground south of the cross-roads near 
Cheshire. A two-story structure, forty feet 
square was erected. The upper story projected 
over the lower one about two feet, affording 
opportunities for defense against close attacks 
or attempts to fire the structure. It was built 
of hewed logs, a foot square, the ends securely 
joined so as not to leave the smallest crevice 
between the logs. There was no opening in 
the lower story, except the door, which was 
made of a double thickness of three-inch 
planks, barred and cross-barred. The upper 
story was furnished with rifle embrazures in 
the side, and convenient holes in the floor of 
the projection for purposes of defense in a 
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stocked with provisions and ammunition, so 
as to be ready at a moment's warning, and 
signals were arranged that the remoter settle- 
ments might learn of their danger. 

It was about this time that a party of set- 
tlers were out in the woods, some distance 
from the "improvements," clearing up a spot 
to build a cabin for some new arrival. Among 
the party were Chester and John Lewis, David 
Lewis, Sr., and Asa Scott, besides some boys 
who were there to look on or pile brush. As 
w as the custom, each man had his gun. with 
him, leaning against a tree, and David Lewis, 
Sr., was on duty as scout to note the approach 
of Indians. It was arranged that if he saw 
any he was to return and report "bears" in 
the woods. Some time after noon, he was 
observed coming rapidly toward the party, 
and as soon as he got within hearing, he said, 
"There are bear-tracks in the woods, so fresh 
that the water has not yet settled in them." 
The men quietly ceased their work, took up 
their guns, and prepared to put things in a 
state of defense. The boys were sent home, 
and, not to alarm the settlement, all but Ches- 
ter and John Lewis slowly sauntered toward 
the settlement. Then the state of the case 
was explained, and those families which were 
situated near at hand were escorted by the old 
men into the block-house. Blankets were hung 
up to divide off the space for families, guns 
were carefully examined, and by nightfall, 
everything at the fort was in readiness for at- 
tack. But the cabins of some of the party 
of choppers were too far off to make it wise 
to try to reach the fort in the dark. Scott's 
cabin was some distance to the north of the 
load crossing, and the cabin of Jacob Aye was 
still further to the north and east of Scott's. 
There was a large family of the Aye boys and 
girls, and they felt reasonably secure, or had 
not learned of the discovery. Late that night. 
after the boys had gone to bed. one of the sis- 
ters, delayed by some household cares, heard 
the dogs making a disturbance, as though the 
cattle or hogs were prowling about. Soon she 
heard some one trying to quiet the dogs, and 
she at once concluded it was Indians. She 
made every preparation against being taken 
by surprise, hut did not summon the boys, lest 



in their foolhardiness they might rush out and 
be killed. The dogs finally became quiet, and 
the Indians, going towards the blockhouse, 
came upon Scott's cabin. Here the dogs, who 
had an instinctive hatred of the savages, com- 
menced rushing out into a cornfield near by 
and then back again against the cabin, growl- 
ing, and manifesting symptoms of rage and 
fear. Old Mr. Scott knew what such conduct 
on the part of the dogs meant, and, calling 
up his two boys, prepared for defense. The 
windows were only closed by greased paper, 
and, stationing one with an axe at each of the 
two windows, he gave them instructions to 
split the first head that came through. Put- 
ting out the glowing embers oil the hearth, he 
barricaded the door with what movable furni- 
ture he could reach, and took a position with 
his rifle commanding all points of entrance. 
Here the Indians endeaverod to pacify the 
dogs in wain, and finally passed along. Soon 
after, the Scott family heard a rifle-shot, fol- 
lowed by a rapid succession of lighter guns, 
and then came. one. two, three in measured 
succession — the warning guns from the block- 
house. Meanwhile at the fort another scene 
was enacting. The little band cooped up in 
their narrow quarters momentarily expected 
an attack. After waiting for some time in 
such suspense, David Lewis, Sr., accompanied 
bv Philo Hoadley, started cautiously out to 
reconnoiter. The night was described as 
admirable for this purpose. Clouds heavily 
veiled the moon, so that an object standing out 
clear could readily be discerned, while one 
groping in the shadows and along the ground 
could be discovered only by close scrutiny. 
The land sinks from all points at the road 
crossing, forming there a sort of basin. South 
of the east and west road, a tree bad been 
felled parallel with the road, and, falling down 
hill, had left some space between the butt of 
the tree and stump. Across this road was 
Hoadley's cornfield, divided from other land 
by a brush fence. Coming down to the cross- 
ing, a suspicious noise was heard in 
the cornfield, and Lewis remarked to 
Hoadley that there were either hogs, cattle, or 
Indians in his field. Listening attentively for 
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ear; Hoadley, it's Indians!" Lewis, who was 
an excellent shot, and an intrepid man. told 
Hoadley to remain at the crossing, and taking- 
shelter behind the trunk and top of the fallen 
tree, he would gain the rise of ground by the 
stump, and scan the cornfield situated across 
the road and on a little lower ground. Lewis 
succeeded in reaching the stump, and ensconc- 
ing himself among the shadows between the 
tree and stump, awaited the issue of events. 
Soon he saw a dark body jump upon the brush 
fence and over, and then another, but his prac- 
ticed eye had seen the second one over the 
sights of his gun, the report of which was fol- 
lowed by the heavy falling of the body. Lewis 
immediately made for the fort as fast as his 
feet could carry him, with Hoadley just in ad- 
vance. There was a discharge of several guns 
in rapid succession from the cornfield, and 
Lewis, striking his knee against the stump 
of some sapling that had been cut off. went 
sprawling to the ground. He imagined him- 
self shot, but, regaining his feet, made for the 
fort. Within the fort everybody was on the 
alert, and Roswell Caulkins stood sentinel at 
the door. As Lewis and Hoadley came rush- 
ing up to gain entrance, Caulkins hesitated to 
unbar the door. David Lewis, Jr., who was 
celebrated as a keen hunter and woodsman, 
recognized the steps of his father and Philo 
and cried to the sentinel, "Roswell, unbar the 
door! Those are shoes that are coming. It's 
father and Philo!" And, before the sentinel 
comprehended the force of what young Lewis 
was saying, the bars had been taken down by 
others, and the two men. half out of breath, 
admitted. The feelings of those in the f( irt 
can better be described by one who was there, 
and we add from a manuscript by Mrs. Rip- 
ley : "An attack was every mi iment expected. 
The alarm guns were fired. The horrid work 
of the scalping-knife and uplifted tomahawk 
was, in imagination, ready to be executed. 
There was neither shrieking nor fainting, but 
the women stood at their posts in the upper 
story, prepared for defense." Happily their 
expectations were not realized. The next 
morning broke on their anxious hearts calm 
and bright, and. as no traces of Indians could 
be discovered from the block-house, a party 

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went out to see if the settlers in isolated cabins 
had been massacred. They wen- found, as we 
have related, frightened but not harmed. In 
the cornfield were found moccasin tracks with 
considerable traces of blood. The trail led -11 
to the northwest, and indicated that one ol 
their number had been carried. Who they 
were or what was the reason for their visit, 
was the subject of considerable conjecture, 
but it never reached a satisfactory explanation. 
While the settlers were kept in a chronic 
state of fear and dread during the war of 
1812, they were not without some compensat- 
ing benefits. The necessities of the armv cre- 
ated a market where there had been none be- 
fore for farm produce. Prior to 181 2, the set- 
tler's chief ambition was to provide a comfort 
able home and as good a living as was possi- 
ble with the conditions under which they 
lived; but during the war production was 
stimulated, and the income thus secured was 
devoted to obtaining some of the commoner 
comforts which had been theirs before they had 
turned their backs on civilization. The' cl- 
ing of the war deprived them of their mar- 
kets, money again became scarce and a period 
of hard times set in which added greatly to 
the hardships they otherwise were called upon 
to bear. It was not until about 1S30 that 
business began to revive, and a market worth 
mentioning was found for the products of the 
farm. 

At the end of the first ten years there were 
only about forty families in the township. 
Half of these had come from Waterbury, Con- 
necticut, and had located on Judge Constant's 
land in the southeastern part of the township. 
Among these people there had been eight mar- 
riages. The first of these, which was also the 
first in the township was performed by Rev. 
Joseph Hughes, Elias Adams and Harriet 
Lewis being the contracting parties. Ten 
families had located on Colonel Byxbe's land. 
and there were about eight families in the 
northwest corner of the township. The first 
death in the township was that of Elanson 
Lewis, which occurred in 1807. He was bur- 
ied in the first cemetery in the township, which 
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had once stood. The next adult who died was 
Emma Lewis, who passed away in 1811, and 
besides these two, four children made up the 
total number of deaths during the first decade. 
One of the early cemeteries was located on the 
road to Berlin station, near the town hall. The 
Nettleton Grove Bank Cemetery Association 
was organized October 10, 1853. The first 
officers were Joel Cleveland, president ; Lewis 
Thompson, clerk ; and Vinal Stewart, treas- 
urer. They laid out a fine cemetery just south 
of Cheshire. Roswell Caulkins, who was a 
carpenter and joiner, was the first mechanic in 
the township, and worked at his trade while 
he was clearing up his farm. He superin- 
tended the construction of the block-house 
and did most of the hewing. One of his 
first pieces of work was a hand-loom for Airs. 
Chloe Scott. In 1820, James Eaton and Dan- 
iel Xettleby erected the first frame residences. 
Both were east of the creek and near Cheshire. 
Nathan Sherwood kept the first store in his 
cabin. The early mills, schools, churches, etc., 
aic treated in the chapters devoted to those 
subjects. 

Cheshire, the principal settlement in the 
township, is located on a barren clay knoll. 
Because of this fact, Jesse Hultz gave it the 
name of "I'eth," "for," as he explained, "what 
don't run away will starve to death." Samuel 
Adams owned the farm where the village 
stands, and it was he who laid it off into lots. 
L. R. Ryant kept the first store here in a little 
room seven feet by nine. A few years later he 
added another room, where he sold ready 
made shoes and made shoes to order. He was 
the first postmaster, his commission bearing 
date of August 10, 185 1. The "Underground 
Railway" passed through Cheshire. From 
the earliest times there was a strong sentiment 
in the township in symapthy with the slave- 
owners, and it was only under cover of the 
night that the negro seeking liberty could be 
conducted from Orange along Alum Creek to 
the Quaker settlement, and then on to Oberlin 
or some other outlet. . 

Berlin township officials were: Clayton A. 
Breece, justice of the peace; O. B. Furniss and 
\Y. 11. I Inlts, trustees; Harry Jaynes, clerk; 



E. R. Durfey, treasurer; S. P. Dunham, as- 
sessor; Charles Evarts and Willard Shank, 
constables; Willard A. Young and J. T. 
Sweeney, board of education. The above be- 
gan their terms in 1908, according to report 
to county auditor. 

BROWN TOWNSHIP. 

For the facts and for a large part of the 
language used in the following sketch of this 
township, we are indebted to an article pre- 
pared by Dr. S. W. Fowler, many years ago, 
whose permission we have to use it. At the 
time he wrote, Dr. Fowler had access to 
sources of information no longer available, 
and it would be impossible, therefore, for us 
now to secure more data than he had, while 
he, representing as he does one of the oldest 
families in Delaware County, speaks with au- 
thority. 

The history attaching to this subdivision 
of Delaware County really begins about 1804 
or 1805, with the discovery of salt in the vicin- 
ity, although the first permanent settlement 
within the present boundaries of the township 
extends no farther hack than 1817. The lapse 
of sixty-three years ( 1S17 to 1880), imper- 
ceptible in the estimate of an eternity, is a long- 
time in human life. It removes two genera- 
tions into darkness and dust, and places an- 
other in their seats who have nearly run their 
course. 

Brown Township originally occupied the 
central portion of the county, and, later, the 
north-central portion, lying in Range 18, and, 
by the United States Military Survey, is 
Township 5. It is bounded on the north by 
Oxford, on the east by Kingston, on the south 
by Berlin, and on the west by Delaware and 
Troy. The record book of the county com- 
missioners containing the date when Brown 
Township was erected into a separate town- 
ship is lost, but it was probably about 1826. 

The township has but one large stream of 
water — Alum Creek. It passes through the 
eastern part, entering near the north-east cor- 
ner, and flowing south, passes out near the 
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are several small streams that flow into Alum 
Creek. Some of these are noted for having 
been the sites of Indian encampments, at a 
time when the Scioto Valley formed a part of 
the hunting-grounds of the Delawares and 
Mingoes. Among these tributaries we may 
mention Leatherwood Run, which derived its 
name from a peculiar shrub found growing 
upon its banks, the wood and bark of which 
\\a> highly valued by the early settlers for a 
variety of uses. Big Run, Sugar Creek, Long- 
well's, Dutton's and Matthews's Runs are some 
of the principal streams. Sugar Creek, which 
rises in the western part of Berlin and flows 
into the Olentangy at Delaware, was made use 
of by Mr. F. P. Vergon when he constructed 
Greenwood Lake. The land east of Alum 
Creek is particuarly adapted to grazing. Near 
the creek it is broken and the soil is rather 
thin, while at a greater distance it is gently 
undulating, and not only good grazing land, 
but well adapted to farming, there being less 
clay and more rich black loam than nearer the 
creek. Along the west side of the Alum, the 
land is also undulating, and was the first to 
be brought under cultivation by the early set- 
tler. The land farther west was low and wet, 
defying horseback or wagon travel through its 
swamps, and even barring roadways for years. 
Owing to the tile and open drainage systems, 
however, this wet, swampy land once consid- 
ered worthless, has become the most produc- 
tive in the township. 

Among the attractions that brought the 
early settlers to this region was the "Salt 
Lick." as it was called. When the United 
States Government sent its agents to survey 
the country, a salt lick was discovered in wdiat 
is now the north-east corner of Brown town- 
ship. The Government reserved 4,000 acres 
of this and deeded it to the State for educa- 
tional purposes. This was called the "Salt 
Reservation." About 1804 or 1805, Dr. John 
Loofbourrow moved into what is now Berk- 
shire Township from Virginia, and located 
on what afterward became the Eckelberry 
farm, but after a short time sold out and 
moved to what was called the Durham farm, 
lying just east of Alum Creek on the Dela- 



ware and Sunbury Pike. He had with him his 
old faithful man "Friday,'' Oko Richey (col- 
ored). When the Doctor learned from some 
friendly Indians where they obtained their 
salt, he and Oko procured large iron kettles, 
built a large furnace and commenced the man- 
ufacture of salt. Their process was very slow, 
but they produced the article in sufficient quan- 
tities to partially supply the inhabitants, and 
very soon became noted as salt merchants. 
After some twelve years the salt business was 
investigated by other parties, who thought they 
saw in it a means of acquiring untold wealth. 
In 1817 they leased from the State 1,000 acres 
of land adjacent to. and 300 around, the 
salt lick and on the salt reservation. The con- 
tractors agreed to bore to the depth of at least 
200 feet, unless salt water in paying quantities 
was sooner reached. They were to leave the 
well tubed with good copper tubing at the ex- 
piration of the lease. Loofbourrow now with- 
drew from the business and soon after re- 
moved to Wisconsin. After boring to a depth 
of 480 feet without finding salt water in pay- 
ing quantities, the contractors notified the 
State authorities, who in turn reported to Con- 
gress, and the latter body ordered the salt reser- 
vation to be surveyed and sold. Accordingly, a 
Air. Carpenter, of Lancaster, Ohio, was au- 
thorized to survey it, which he did into 100- 
acre lots. In November, 1826. these lots were 
sold to the highest bidder, the early settlers 
and contractors being allowed the refusal of 
the lands which they had been for some time 
improving, a business they had foun'd more 
profitable than boring for salt. 

The first permanent white settler in Brown 
Ti iwnship was Daniel G. Thurston, in the 
spring of 181 7. But as far back as 1809, a 
settlement was made in the extreme southwest 
o irner, by a man named Erastus Bowe, from 
Vermont. He built a cabin and called the 
place Bowetown, though it was never, we be- 
lieve, laid out as a town, or populated, except 
by Bowe and his family, consisting of wife 
and two children. After a short time he moved 
to Delaware, and in 1817. he removed from 
there to Tiffin. Mr. Thurston moved into the 
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which at that time was the central part of 
Berkshire Township. He located on the sum- 
mit of the first little hill west of the creek. 
on what is now the Delaware and Sunbury 
Pike. A cabin was built and into this he 
moved with his family and his brother Isaac, 
who had accompanied him to the West. The 
latter went to work in a distillery not far 
away, while Daniel worked in a saw and grist 
mill near by. In 1817, he sold out to Ebe- 
nezer Loofbourrow, who had just come from 
Virginia. After Mr. Thurston sold out to 
Loofbourrow-, he moved into the present town- 
ship of Brown, where he had to begin his pio- 
neer life over again, as it were. When his 
cabin was completed and his family located, 
Mr. Thurston entered into a co-partnership 
with James Eaton, and a man named Stephen 
Gorham. These gentlemen were the contrac- 
tors in the famous salt speculation and the les- 
sees of the "salt reservation." His new home 
was on this reservation, or on the "salt sec- 
tion." Isaac Eaton erected a cabin a little 
north of Thurston's. Mr. Thurston died in 
1843. at the age of seventy-two years. His 
wife died in 1804, at the age of eighty-two 
years. They had a family of thirteen chil- 
dren, nf whom we have only the names of 
twelve — Harrie, Mary. Joseph, Elizabeth, 
Samuel, Sarah, Phoebe, Norton, Vinal. Eu- 
nice, Fannie and Barbara. Harriet first mar- 
ried Dr. Monroe, and. after his death, became 
the wife of Dr. John Loofbourrow. She had 
two children when she moved to Wisconsin. 
Mary married Israel Wood, a Quaker, who 
lived in Peru Township (then in this, but 
later in Morrow Count) I. She left twelve 
children. Joseph married in 1826, a daughter 
of B. F. Loofbourrow, who at the time was 
living on the Thurston farm. There were 
born tn him ten children. Elizabeth married 
Ralph Longwell, a soldier of iSu, and who 
died in 1N74. His widow drew a pension. 
She wa> the mother of thirteen children. Sa- 
rah first married Lyman Thrall, and. after his 
death. Andrew Thrall, his brother, Phoebe 
married William K. Thrall. Norton married 
a Miss Junes, and died in 1817. lie was the 
father of six children. Vinal married a Miss 



Plant, and they had eight children. Eunice 
married Norton Harden, and they had eight 
children. Fannie married H. Walker and be- 
came the mother of six children. Samuel mar- 
ried, and was the father of eight children. 
Barbara married William Livingston, and 
was the mother of ten children. These were 
the children and grandchildren of Daniel 
Thurston, numbering in all 122. 

The early settlers of this section were not 
without their Indian experiences. Although 
the Indians were supposed to be friendly, yet 
they were looked on with some suspicion by 
their white neighbors. The Thurstons, being 
one of the first families to locate in this re- 
gion, and that some time prior to the removal 
of the Indians to reservations farther west, en- 
joyed a more extensive acquaintance with 
them than settlers who came at a later date. 
The Indians used to bring their game and furs 
to trade for corn, and as a general thing be- 
haved well. The elder Thurston, who had a 
little mill, would grind their corn for them, 
and was on the most intimate terms with them, 
and was known far and wide among the 
neighboring tribes. When Joseph was a small 
boy, lint nine years old, he was one day sent 
out for the horses, which, when not in use, 
were allowed to run at large in the forests. 
He wandered through the woods for hours, 
but after a long and fruitless search, he gave 
up finding them and started to return home. 
After traveling for Mime time, he became lost 
in the forest, but finally struck an old Indian 
trail, which he followed some distance, when. 
much to his surprise and consternation, he 
came upon an Indian encampment, where he 
encountered an army of dogs, and was forced to 
take refuge in the nearest tree. The commo- 
tion produced by these ferocious beasts 
brought an old Indian from his wigwam to 
investigate the cause of so much disturbance. 
To the astonishment of the lad he found in 
him an old friend of his father, while the In- 
dian, quite as much astonished as the ho), 
found the "game" treed by the dogs to be 
none other than the son of his old friend 
Thurston. The dogs were called off, and the 
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perch. After he had related his adventure, a 
young Indian was ordered to catch a couple of 
well trained ponies, upon one of which he was 
placed, while the Indian boy mounted the 
other, and. acting as a guide, led him through 
the forests, and after several hours' ride he 
was restored to his already over-anxious par- 
ents. 

Isaac Eaton, to whom we have already re- 
ferred, was a son of Joseph Eaton, who was 
among the early settlers of Berkshire. He 
married a Miss Root of Peru township. Wil- 
liam Williams, who bought out Isaac Eaton, 
came from Fairfield County to this township. 
Three years after he located he was chosen 
justice of the peace, an office he filled for many 
years. He also served the county as treasurer 
from 1846 to 1852, and as an infirmary direc- 
tor three years. He served the township in 
the capacity of clerk and treasurer, and was 
often chosen as administrator of estates and 
guardian of minor heirs. 

Immigrants came in rapidly, and soon the 
entire salt reservation was settled up. One of 
the first families to move in after those already 
mentioned, was that of Benjamin McMaster, 
who came in about 1826. This pioneer was 
bom in New York. His father died when he 
was quite young, and his mother moved with 
her family to Ohio in 1813, and located on the 
Scioto River, in Franklin County. In the lat- 
ter part of 1814, Benjamin McMaster came to 
Delaware County. In 181 7 he went to Cham- 
paign County, and the next year married a 
daughter of Lemuel G. Humphrey, of Liberty 
Township. His wife lived but a few years. 
After her death he came back to this county, 
where in a year or two he married again. At 
the sale of the salt reservation in 1826, he 
purchased 100 acres of land, where he built 
a cabin of the pioneer pattern. Here he lived 
until 1 85 1, when he started a warehouse and 
formed a business partnership in Ashley. In 
the spring of 1852. he sold his place to his son 
Horace. For many years, the latter devoted 
much attention to fruit culture. 

The same years that brought to Brown 
Township the pioneers we have already men- 
tioned, witnessed the arrival of others, who, at 



the same land sales, purchased homes, among 
them, we may mention Andrew Finley, J. 
Fleming, Zenas Leonard ; James, George, 
Ralph and E. Longwell, S. Harlow, Charles 
Cowgill, John Kensill and others. With such 
an influx of immigration the township rapidly 
settled up. Among those that came at a later 
date were John Walker and William Finley. 
Walker came from Virginia in 1832, hut was 
a native of Ireland. Finley was a son-in-law 
of Walker, and settled first in Kingston Town- 
ship, but after a few years moved into Brown. 
The same year of Walker's settlement, a 
young man named Charles Neil, later known as 
"Uncle Charlie Neil," came in. He was 
also from Virginia, and also married a daugh- 
ter of Mr. Walker. Mr. Neil carried on an 
ashery, and taught school for some ten years, 
when he was elected county surveyor. This 
office was given to him by the people of Dela- 
ware County from 1842 to 18(14 without any 
solicitation on his part. In the latter year, 
unknown to him. he was nominated, and 
afterward, elected to the office of county audi- 
tor, which office he held for two terms. Dur- 
ing his second term as auditor he was elected 
mayor of the city of Delaware by an oxer- 
whelming majority. A short time after the 
settlement of the Thurstons, Eatons and others 
already mentioned, Hugh Cunningham came 
from Pennsylvania and located on what was 
later known as the Hann farm. In 1827 
Hugh Lee located in Brown Township, on 
what was then called the Peter Baker farm." 
He was a branch of the illustrious Lee family. 
His son John Calvin Lee was born on this 
place, rose to the rank of brigadier-general 
during the civil war, and after its close, was 
twice elevated to the position of lieutenant 
governor of the State, on the same ticket that 
made Rutherford B. Hayes governor. Dr. 
Lyman Potter, a native of New York, settled 
in Peru Township in 1821. and in 1844 moved 
into Brown. When somewhat advanced in 
life, he began the study of medicine with old 
Dr. Carney, of Berkshire, one of the early 
practitioners of the county. After practicing 
some years, Dr. Potter attended lectures at 
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graduated in 1850. He then returned to his 
old location, the village of Eden, and contin- 
ued practice some years, later retiring to a 
farm, and giving up his practice except in the 
immediate neighborhood. Israel Potter, a 
brother of the Doctor, settled in the same 
neighborhood and at the same time. 

The first marriage in this pioneer settle- 
ment occurred in 1818, when a daughter of 
Daniel Thurston was united to Israel Wood. 
He had emigrated from the old home of the 
Thurstons in New York. The first death was 
that of the infant child of James Longwell 
in 1828, and was the first burial in the old 
graveyard just north of Eden village. The 
law had its first representative in Daniel 
Thurston, who was elected Justice of the Peace 
in 1821, an office he held three years. Old Dr. 
Carney, of Berkshire, was the first practicing 
physician. From 181 7 to 1842. he and Dr. 
Loofbourrow were the doctors for this section. 
The County Infirmary is located in this town- 
ship. Its history will be found in the chapter 
devoted to the institutions of the county. The 
first railroad built through Delaware County 
passed through the western part of this town- 
ship. It is now a part of the "Big Four" sys- 
tem. Leonardsburg, or Eden station, is the 
principal shipping point, and is located near 
the north line, six miles from Delaware. It 
was laid out by S. G. Caulkins in 1852, and 
was called Leonardsburg for A. Leonard, the 
first merchant. 

The village of Eden was surveyed and laid 
out by Isaac Eaton, for the proprietors, Daniel 
G. Thurston and Isaac Leonard, who owned 
the land. The location chosen at the crossing 
of the road running east and west, and the one 
running north and south along the Creek, as 
an eligible site for a prosperous village. The 
first house in the village was a log cabin built 
by John Finley; the first frame dwelling was 
put up by William Williams soon after his 
removal to the neighborhood. Joseph Leonard 
was the first merchant. He had the trade all 
to himself until 1838. when Williams & Loof- 
bnurrow opened a store, and thus created com- 
petition. About 1829 or 1830, a blacksmith- 
shop was opened by C. Thrall. In 1838, the 



Government commissioned C. M. Thrall the 
first postmaster at the village of Eden, and 
called the office Kilbourn. A little later a 
tavern was opened by Seymour Scott, the first 
in the place. The town hall was built by sub- 
scription, and is used for all public meetings. 

The public officials for Brown Township 
for the year 1908, as reported to the county 
auditor, are as follows : 

Henry R. Smith and John Reed, justices 
of the peace; Henry Kunze, S. T. Sheets, and 
J. A. Waldron, trustees; Charles Leonard, 
clerk; F. A. Stickney, treasurer: Frank Hein- 
len, assessor; F. E. Mayfield and Harry 
Haney, constables. 

CONCORD TOWNSHIP. 

Lying in the southwest corner of Delaware 
County, Concord is one of the county's most 
interesting townships in point of historical 
heppenings and incidents of pioneer life. The 
derivation of its name is unknown, but the 
popular belief exists that it was named from 
the town of Concord, Massachusetts, of Revo- 
lutionary fame. Delaware was set off from 
Franklin County in 1808, and three townships 
established in the new county, of which Lib- 
erty was made to include what is now 
Concord. When Union Township was created 
June 16, 1809, it included that part of Concord 
lying west of the Scioto River. April 20, 
1819, Concord Township came into being, its 
boundaries being fixed in the following man- 
ner : "Beginning at the county line between 
Franklin and Delaware Counties, on the east 
bank of the Scioto River, and running up the 
river to where the range line between 19 and 
20 strikes the river ; thence north on said range 
line to the southeast corner of fourth quarter, 
fifth township, and twentieth range ; thence 
west to the Scioto River, thence up said river 
to where the State Road from Delaware to 
Derby crosses the same ; thence westward 
along the south line of said road until it strikes 
the westerly line of survey, and extra No. 
2,994; thence southwardly on said line and mi 
the west line of survey Nos. 2.993. 2.989, 
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County line; thence east to the place of be- 
ginning'." Very irregular in outline, it was 
taken from and added to so frequently in early 
days, it became a matter of jest as to whether 
those who resided near the border, would 
awaken in the morning in the same township 
in which they had sough repose the night be- 
fore. About 1852. Scioto Township was al- 
lowed one school district from that portion of 
Concord lying east of Scioto River, extending 
north, between the river and Delaware Town- 
ship, to the south line of Radnor. A few years 
later, on petition of the voters affected a 
school district was added from the southwest 
part of Delaware Township, for political 
reasons, it is thought; and still later a small 
triangular part of the southwestern part of 
Liberty Township was added, but in a few- 
years restored to that township. A school 
district lying in the bend of Mill Creek, in 
the northwest part of Concord, was segre- 
gated and annexed to Scioto. This was the 
last of the many changes. That part of the 
township lying west of the Scioto River, or- 
iginally formed a part of the old Virginia 
Military Lands, anil the farms were laid out 
by the claimants' surveyors to suit them, being 
extended one direction to include a desirable 
building spot, another direction to take in a 
valuable spring, and so on as their fancy led 
them, without regard to sections or section 
lines. This land was heavily timbered with 
oak, walnut, hickory, sycamore and maple, and 
east of the river, between Bellepoint and Dela- 
ware Township, there was a vast swamp, con- 
sidered valueless in the early days. It was 
many years before there was a road to Dela- 
ware through this swamp, the settlers going to 
that city, either by the old pack-horse trail 
two miles south, or by Rigger's Ford, where 
the covered bridge on the Marvsville Pike 
en ^sed the Scioto, and the State Road. After 
the surrounding forest had been cleared away 
and an effective system of drainage instituted, 
the swamp land was reclaimed and became 
very valuable as it was exceedingly fertile. 
Scioto River. Mill Creek, Big Run and Deer 
Lick Run are the streams of Concord Town- 
ship, and the first named, affording excellent 



rafting in the days before the construction of 
many dams, drew many of the early residents 
who were thus placed within easy reach of 
Columbus and other river towns. The busi- 
ness of rafting was carried on extensively, 
trips down the river being made, sometimes, 
as far as the Ohio River. Mill Creek excelled 
in its water power, not showing the effect of 
the dry seasons as early as did the Scioto. 

The first white settler of Concord was 
George Hill, an old Revolutionary soldier, 
who, in 181 1, made his way from Westmore- 
land County, Pennsylvania, on pack horses, 
and settled two miles south of Bellpoint on the 
banks of the river. He built a log cabin on 
the site of the old Hill home, which he built 
of stone in 1823. and there with his family 
lived among the Indians, who were his only 
neighbors for a short time. His brother-in- 
law, Christopher Freshwater, followed him 
shortly to Delaware County, making the jour- 
ney from Pennsylvania, afoot, being handi- 
capped in his travel by a gun and broad-ax 
which he carried on his shoulder. He bought 
fifty acres adjoining Mr. Hill's, and for many 
years followed his trade of carpentering. Many 
of his descendants still reside in the county. 
Joel Marsh, the third settler in point of time, 
located near Hill and Freshwater, and his 
marriage to a daughter of the former, was the 
first in the township. George Freshwater, son 
of Christopher, was the first white child born 
there, and Mrs. Hill, mother of George Hill, 
was the first who died in the township, as well 
as the first buried in Hill Cemetery. She was 
eighty years old when the journey was made 
from Pennsylvania, and died in 182 1, aged 
ninety years. John Day. Sr., a negro slave. 
the property of George Hill, was brought here 
in 181 1 and immediately upon arrival was 
granted his freedom. After living there some 
years he moved to Delaware. Among others 
of the name linked with Concord's early his- 
tory, may be mentioned those of William Car- 
son, who came in 1821 ; George Oiler, who 
located on the east bank of the Scioto ; James 
Kooken, the original proprietor of Bellepoint, 
win 1 had l>een a man of prominence prior to 
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step-son of James Kooken ; John Robinson ; 
William Jackson, who was a child when his 
father brought him to the vicinity (if White 
Sulphur Springs; D. W. C. Lugenbeel, who 
for more than half a century taught school with- 
out missing a term ; John Cutler, first township 
treasurer and owner of 800 acres of land ; 
Daniel Creamer ; Francis Marley. the pioneer 
blacksmith; Joel Liggitt ; Gilbert Smith; Jacob 
Wolford; John Black; Daniel Gardner: Wil- 
liam Stone; John Jones; Aaron Gillett; John 
Artz ; Thomas Bryson ; and A. Depp, a colored 
resilient whose coming dates back to [834, 
when he purchased a tract of 400 acres. The 
last named was the organizer of the old col- 
ored Baptist Church, long since abandoned 
and torn down, which stood on bis property 
and was known as "Depp's Church." Dr. 
Samuel White, another colored citizen, came 
in 1836 and for many years was a practicing 
physician near the Industrial Home. Among 
the first to locate in the Mill Creek Settlement 
was Colonel Sebum Hinton, who bought and 
settled upon 1,000 acres of land. There he 
built the first saw and grist mill of the town- 
ship, which afterward was enlarged and for 
many years did a flourishing business. In 
connection, he conducted a store at his mill. 
Others of Mill Creek settlers were William 
Smart, who came from Pennsylvania; Presley 
The first bridge in the township was built over 
Said; Daniel Robbins; and Randall Murphy. 
Mill Creek by the people of the neighborhood 
and was located on the line of the old San- 
dusky Millitary Road. 

The White Sulphur Springs, or Fountain, 
as it is sometimes called, is the home of one of 
the State's most important institutions. The 
Girl's Industrial Home, one in which the 
county and state take a just pride. The history 
of the Springs date back to the time the firm 
of Davis & Richards made borings for salt, 
but instead of that article struck a great flow 
of sulphur water at a depth of (.60 feet. They 
left off operations in discouragement, and the 
well remained in an unfinished state until 
1X42, when Nathaniel Hart conceived the idea 
of establishing a watering place for pleasure 
and health seekers. Purchasing the property 



of its owner, Christopher Freshwater, he erec- 
ted a large building and several cottages for 
the accommodation of guests. His success was 
not such as anticipated and in time Mr. Hart 
sold to' Andrew Wilson, Jr.. who continued the 
place as a resort until 1865. At that date a 
transfer of the property was made to John 
Ferry, who remodeled, enlarged and refurn- 
ished the house at a considerable expense. He 
carried on the business with but little success 
until 1869, then sold the property to the State 
of Ohio, which established thereon the State 
Reform School for Girls, which project was 
the result of a petition to the Legislature by 
some of the benevolently inclined citizens of 
Delaware county. The name of the institution 
was changed in 1872 by special enactment of 
the Legislature to "The Girls Industrial 
Home." 

The village of Bellepoint, situated in the 
angle formed at the junction of Mill Creek 
and Scioto River, was laid out by James 
Kooken in 1835, and wild speculation followed 
for a time, the value of lots going steadilv up- 
ward on the strength of a plan to slack the 
Scioto River and fit it for steamboat naviga- 
tion. It was soon demonstrated that slack 
water navigation was impracticable, owing to 
the fall of the river between Bellepoint and 
Columbus, and choice lots in the new town be- 
came, suddenly, almost worthless. Its founder 
and a few others still strove to build up the 
town, but their efforts met with failure. A post 
office was established there in 1836-37, with 
Walter Borgan as postmaster. A tavern, con- 
ducted by Josiah Reece, the blacksmith shop 
of Francis Marley, a church and school house, 
together with a few dwellings, was the extent 
of Bellepoint' s claim to classification as a vil- 
lage. 

Concord Township, peopled with an intel- 
ligent, refined and law-abiding class of citi- 
zens, was rudely awakened from its peaceful 
pursuits on September 8, 1838. when the news 
spread that a cold-blooded murder had been 
committed on the camp-meeting grounds, near 
Rigger's Ford. An Irishman, a stranger in 
tin- community, had been killed by Levi 
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money matters. The Irishman had engaged 
the Bowersmith brothers, Isaac and Levi, to 
haul some goods from Columbus to the camp- 
meeting grounds, and the job completed, it is 
said the latter demanded a larger sum of money 
than that agreed upon. Hot words were passed 
and the two brothers left the cabin in a rage, 
but Levi soon returned and with a club struck 
the Irishman on the back of the head, crushing 
his skull. The victim of this assault died soon 
after in the cabin of Protus Lyman. In the 
trial which followed, Isaac Bowersmith was ac- 
quitted, and Levi was found guilty, being sen- 
tenced to one year of imprisonment. 

The officers of Concord Township for the 
year 1908, as reported to the county auditor, 
are : 

A. Bean and N. Chambers, justices of the 
peace : J. N. Ropp, F. V. Staley and G. D. 
Freshwater, trustees; O. C. Hutchisson, clerk; 
H. O. Moore, treasurer; O. Robinson, as- 
sessor ; S. W. Clover and J. J. Chambers, con- 
stables; L. Jones, A. Avers, and W. W. Sands, 
cemetery trustees. 

DELAWARE TOWNSHIP. 

Delaware was originally set off as one of 
the divisions of the newly formed county of 
Delaware, on June 16, 1808. and included the 
whole of Township 5 and the northern halt 
of Township 4 of the United States Militan 
Survey ; Station 3 of Brown, and Section 2 of 
Berlin. In 1816 Troy was formed, taking 
off the northern half of Township 5, and on 
January 8, 1820, the Berlin Section was 
taken off. Brown was organized in 1826, 
leaving Delaware in regular sha.pe and five 
miles square, though composed of parts of 
two Congressional Townships. In 1852 a 
piece of territory a mile square was taken 
from the southwest corner of the township and 
annexed to Concord in compensation for the 
surrender of certain territory to Scioto, leaving 
Delaware in its present shape. It is bounded 
on the north by Troy, on the east by Brown 
and Berlin, on the south by Liberty and Con- 
cord, and on the west by Concord, Scioto and 
Radnor. 



The township is watered by the Olentangy 
River and its tributaries, which stream enters 
near the center of its northern boundry and 
runs in a general southerly direction, with a 
slight eastern trend. The principal tribu- 
taries are Delaware, Rocky, and Slate Runs, 
which, together with the main stream, affords 
ample drainage for the greater part of the 
township. 

In former days, according to fairly re- 
liable tradition, the Delaware Indians had a 



village on the west side 



of the Olentangy, 



on the north side of the run, about where 
Monnett Hall of the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity now stands. The land along this western 
bank is high rolling ground, extending toward 
the northwest. Along the east bank are the 
rich lands known as "second bottoms." which 
consist of a fine gravelly loam, admirably 
suited to agricultural purposes. This changes 
to clay as the high lands farther back are 
reached. 

Most of this district was formerly well 
timbered, especially along the banks of the 
Olentangy. which was fringed with a heavy 
growth of oak and maple, save for occasional 
clearings made by the Indians. South of 
Delaware Run there were also a number of 
elm swamps, while the black-ash and the burr- 
oak abounded and. indeed, may still be 
found. "The site of Delaware City was cov- 
ered with a tall growth of prairie grass, with 
a fringe of plum trees along the run. with 
here and there a scrub oak or thorn apple." 

Some years after Wayne's great victory 
over the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Tim- 
ber, or about 1802, the Delawares reluct- 
antly tore themselves away from the land of 
their forefathers, never to tread its soil again 
as lords and owners. The vanguard of white 
settlers followed close upon the heels of the 
retreating redskins ; the sound of the axe was 
soon heard in the forests, and the log cabin 
of the hardy pioneer, surrounded by the usual 
clearing, here and there gave evidence of the 
new era of civilization and progress that ar- 
rived, and that the long centuries of primitive 
savagery — of barbarism in war and idleness 
in peace — had passed away forever. 



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The site of the present city of Delaware 
was early recognized as an admirable loca- 
tion for settlement. The main title of emi- 
gration in the comity, as has been pointed out 
by a previous historian, had made its way up 
the valley of Alum Creek, following the main 
Indian trail, "along the fertile hanks of the 
Scioto, and by the old Granville Road, forming 
settlements in Radnor, on the forks of the 
Whetstone, in Berkshire, and in Berlin. The 
first colony did, indeed, follow the Olentangy, 
but it stopped at Liberty, leaving Delaware 
an- 'undiscovered country.' Thus, while the 
forests all about were ringing with the blows 
of the pioneer's axe. the township of the great- 
est future political importance stood desolate 
amid the ruins of her early habitations." 

In their excursions through the woods the 
first settlers here found growing in a tangled 
mass of tall grass and thickets an abundance 
of wild cherries, plums and grapes, and the 
neighborhood soon became the scene of many 
a frolic and pleasure excursion. In more re- 
cent years stock-raising has proved a profit- 
able industry, and some of the finest specimens 
(if blooded horses, cattle and sheep to be found 
in the State may be seen here. While the 
progenitors of much of this stock were im- 
ported from England and other countries, 
many specimens, the result of local breeding, 
have been exported and have brought fancy 
prices abroad. More detailed information con- 
cerning this important industry may be found 
in other parts of this work. 

The story of the rise and growth of Dela- 
ware City will be found given in a special 
chapter devoted to that subject, while an ac- 
count of its leading industries, its churches, 
banks, public institutions, etc., pertaining to 
the city proper may be found in separate chap- 
ters devoted to those special subjects, and 
therefore need not be enlarged upon here. 

From an early period the settlement of 
Delaware evinced so sturdy a growth as pre- 
cluded the probability' of anything like rival 
villages within the limits of the township. 

Still, notwithstanding, two places were' 
platted and achieved a healthy though moder- 
ate growth. Prospect Hill, situated on the 



high land east of the river and just north of 
Sugar Creek, was laid out as a town, in 1852, 
by Dr. Ralph Hills, and has since become a part 
of the city. Stratford on the Olentangy was 
laid out in 1850 by Hon. Hosea Williams and 
H. G. Andrews, and consisted of seventeen lots 
on the west bank of the river fronting on 
Sandusky Street. The chief object of this set- 
tlement was to furnish homes for the hands 
employed in the mills at this point, a number 
of which have at different times been estab- 
lished here. The first mill was built as early 
as 1808 and afterwards became the property 
of Colonel Meeker, who rebuilt and enlarged 
it. in 1829 adding facilities for carding and 
fulling. 

In 1838 the old flouring mill, with the 
privileges and property, were bought by Judge 
Hosea Williams and Caleb Howard for the 
purpose of establishing - a paper-mill. A new- 
dam was erected and the mill commenced op- 
erations, October 1. 1839. It was John Hoyt, 
the first superintendent, who gave the classi- 
cal name of Stratford to the place. In Oc- 
tober, 1840, the building was damaged by fire, 
but the damage was shortly repaired and the 
building improved, and in the fall of 1844, 
Mr. Howard sold his interest to H. G. An- 
drews. In 1849 the old flouring-mill was 
fitted up for the manufacture of wrapping- 
paper and turned out about half a ton per 
day. In February, 1857, the mills were to- 
tally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $25,- 
000, with an insurance of about $10,000. In 
the following November a two-story stone 
building, 50x80 feet, with several additions 
was built at a cost of about $30,000. Among 
those who have been associated in this busi- 
ness are J. H. Mendenhall, who became a 
partner in 1871, and V. T. and C. Hills. An 
artesian well was sunk 210 feet through solid 
limestone rock to furnish the water for puri- 
fying purposes. 

The first purchase of land in Delaware 
Township was made by Abraham Baldwin and 
consisted of 8,000 acres, including the third 
section of Brown and the northeast section of 
Delaware. The patents were dated December 
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President of the United States of America. 
Mr. Baldwin came from a well known Con- 
necticut family numbering main- distinguished 
men among its members. He was horn in New 
Haven and was graduated at Yale College in 
1 77-. He served in the Revolutionary army, 
and alter the war, having studied law, set- 
tled in Savannah, Georgia, being soon after 
chosen a member of the Legislature of that 
State. He was the originator, and for some 
time president, of the University of Georgia. 
Fie was a member of the Connecticut Congress 
from 1785 to 1788. and a member of the con- 
vention that framed the constitution of the 
United States. From 1789 to 1799 he was 
a representative in Congress, and from 1799 
to 1807 he was a member of the United States 
Senate, of which lor a part of the time he 
was president pro tern. He was a man of 
large wealth and owned considerable land in 
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Iowa. In Ohio he 
bad 16,000 acres in Licking County. March 
1, 1801. he sold 500 acres of the original pur- 
chase to William Wells, one-half to be lo- 
cated on the northeast corner of Delaware 
Township, and the other on the northeast cor- 
ner of Section 3. in Brown. 

Mr. Baldwin never married and at his 
death, which occurred March 4, 1807. it was 
found that he had devised the remainder of this 
property to his three half-brothers and two half- 
sisters. The heirs being widely separated in 
point of residence, the property soon passed by 
power of attorney or purchase into the control 
of one of them — Henry Baldwin, a lawyer of 
Pittsburg. Henry Baldwin was subsequently 
approached by Colonel Byxbe and between 
them some arrangement was made which re- 
sulted in the founding of the city of Delaware. 
The further history of the platting of the town 
will be found elsewhere in this work. 

Though the first purchase of land in Dela- 
ware Township was made by Abraham Bald- 
win as above stated, the first actual settler 
within the township's limits was John Beard, 
who took up land in the southern part of the 
township. December 2, 1807, be purchased of 
Benjamin Ives Gilman, of Marietta, Ohio, 
624 acres in a square piece situated on the 



west bank of the Olentangy River, its south- 
ern line forming a part of the boundary line 
of the township. After erecting a cabin on 
the bank of the river he brought his family 
there, and in the following spring commenced 
the erection of a log grist-mill, being as- 
sisted by Ira Carpenter of Liberty. He seems 
not to have been very successful as a pioneer 
settler, however, and in February, 181 1, he sold 
his property to Colonel Forest Meeker, a na- 
tive of Rutland, Vermont, who had emigrated 
to Pennsylvania in 170,7, and who had subse- 
quently resided for a time in Chillicothe, Ohio, 
and in Bourbon County. Kentucky. Colonel 
Meeker soon had plenty of neighbors, as later, 
in 181 1, quite a colony came from Virginia 
and another from Pennsylvania, settling in his 
vicinity. Among the Virginians were Robert 
Jamison, John Shaw and Matthew Anderson, 
while the leading Pennsylvanians were Fred- 
erick Weiser, Robert McCoy, Joseph Cunning- 
bam, John Wilson and Andrew Harter. In 
the following year came Samuel Hughs from 
Virginia, in 181 3 Elias Scribner, and in 1814 
Reuben Ruby came from Kentucky. 

This settlement being within easy reach 
of saw and grist-mills, furnished with prac- 
ticable roads, and with a regular mail ser- 
vice, grew and prospered. The best farming 
lands being found along the river were 
soon taken up by r the settlers. About 1812 
John and Henry Worline bought land on the 
east side of the river, but sold out in three or 
four years and moved to a more northerly 
part of the county. Albreight Worline came 
in 181 4 with his family of four boys and two 
girls, the boys being each old enough to render 
assistance in clearing a farm. William Sweet- 
zer settled north of the Worlines on the same 
side of the river, coming from Dummerston, 
Vermont, in 181 5, after a journey of forty days 
through the wilderness. He bought the prop- 
erty of John and Henry Worline. His family 
consisted of his wife, five boys and three girls, 
the youngest child being only six months old 
at the time of their settlement here. With 
them came Hosea Miller and family and two 
young men — Solomon and Wilder Joy. Ru- 
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and bought land in the neighborhood but took 
up his residence in town. 

After the War of 1812 settlements began 
to increase west of the river and along Dela- 
ware Run, the good fanning lands being speed- 
ily taken up. The following names are 
taken from the Delaware poll-book of the first 
election held October 11, 1808, and are given 
in the order of their voting: Thomas Van- 
horn, Asahel Hart, John Aye. Pennsylvania, 
Jacob Filgey. George Soop, Moses Byxbe, 
Massachusetts, Peter Ealy, Silas Dunham, 
Rhode Island, Appleton Byxbe, Massachu- 
setts. Timothy Squire. Solomon Smith, Mas- 
sachusetts, Ira Carpenter, Pennsylvania, Solo- 
mon Finch, Roderick Crosbey, Moses Byxbe, 
Jr.. Massachusetts, William Little. Connecti- 
cut, Noah Sturdevant, Jacob Drake, Pennsyl- 
vania, Nathaniel Little, Connecticut, Thomas 
Butler. Massachusetts, Salmon Agard, Penn- 
sylvania, Jeremiah Osborn, Azariah Root, 
Massachusetts. Nathaniel Disbury, Alford 
Carpenter, Clark Beebe, Charles Robbins, 
Alexander Enos, Noah Spaulding, Vermont, 
Daniel Munsey, Josiah Grant, and Reuben 
Lamb. 

The rest of the history of Delaware Town- 
ship is closely bound up with that of the city 
and will be found as already intimated in the 
various chapters devoted to special subjects to 
be found in this work, and to some extent in 
the lives of prominent citizens herein given. 
The following are the township officers for 
the year 1908. as reported to the county audi- 
tor :' 

J. T. Hutchisson and William G. Gannon, 
justices of the peace: P. E. Davis and H. S. 
Breyfogle and F. E. McKinnie, trustees; 
George J. Young, clerk: Edwin F. Young, 
treasurer: H. H. Sharadin, assessor; E. I). 
Rugg and W. D. Vest, constables; and W. 
H. Johnson, ditch supervisor. 

GENOA TOWNSHIP. 

Genoa Township is bounded on the north 
by Berkshire Township: on the east by Har- 
lem; on the south by Franklin County and on 
the west by Orange Township. It is five miles 



square, and is in the territory known as United 
States Military Lands. The western half of 
the township was included in the original 
township of Berkshire, and the eastern half 
was in the township of Sunbury. When Har- 
lem Township was cut out of Sunbury, it in- 
cluded all of what is now Genoa Township. 
The present bounds of Genoa Township were 
established June 4, 181 6. Its name was sug- 
gested by an early settler who wished to do 
honor to the birth-place of Christopher Co- 
lumbus. Running through the western half 
of the township from north to south, on the 
line traversed by the Cleveland, Akron and 
Columbus railroad, is a ridge which forms the 
water-shed between Big Walnut Creek on the 
east and Alum Creek in Orange Township. 
On either side of the ridge, the land is com- 
paratively level, although the surface is broken 
up considerably along the banks of the Big 
Walnut, and east of 'the creek is more or less 
rolling. The highest shale cliffs in the county 
are to be found in the northern part of the 
township, on what is known as "Yankee 
Street," about two miles south of Galena. 
Here as elsewhere along the banks of Big Wal- 
nut, are to be found outcroppings of fine Wa- 
verlv sandstone. Here and there in the beds 
of shale a thin layer of an inferior limestone 
is to be found. Some of the early builders 
were tempted to use this because of the ease 
with which it can be quarried, but they soon 
had their labor for their pains, as this stone 
disintegrates when exposed to the air. The 
Big Walnut Creek, to which reference has al- 
reay been made, is the principal stream. It 
Hows in a sinuous course from north to south 
through the eastern half of the township. 
Originally its banks and the lands adjacent 
were heavily timbered with black walnut trees. ■ 
The bottom lands along the creek are especially 
fertile, but these places are frequently over- 
flowed in seasons of freshet, causing the loss 
of a crop occasionally. All the older men now 
living here remember the freshet in Septem- 
ber. 1866, when cattle, sheep and hogs were 
drowned, and haystacks and small sheds and 
buildings were floated and carried down the 
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Jeremiah Curtis, a native of Hartford, 
Cmnecticut, was the first settler in this town- 
ship. He arrived in Berkshire in 1805. but 
soon after he purchased a section of land on 
Yankee Street from Colonel I'.yxbe, upon 
which he located in 1806. I lis land was on the 
Big Walnut near the oxbow head of the creek. 
At that time Chillicothe was the nearest milling 
point, so Curtis built a mill, and still-house, 
which was a great convenience to the settlers. 
In 181 1 he moved to Marietta, tor the protec- 
tion of his family during the war which was 
impending, and which he believed was sure 
to come. He died June 21. 18 13. Later his 
son. who became the Hon. John Curtis, came 
hack with the family to the farm in this town- 
ship. He was ten years old when the family 
first came to Ohio, and became a prominent 
and influential man who was sought for po- 
sitions of responsibility. John Williams, who 
was a local preacher in the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, came here and erected a cabin on 
the hill where the covered bridge crosses the 
Big Walnut, and the following summer 
brought his wife and ten children to their new 
home. He was a devout man. and like the 
apostle Paul, worked with his hands while 
he preached. His first sermon in this neigh- 
borhood was preached in Joseph Latshaw's 
cabin. He died five years after coming here 
his son William joined a part of the army, in 
1812. that was on its way to Fort Meigs, and 
fought the British and Indians there under 
Harrison. When the war was over he re- 
turned to the township and settled near his 
father's farm. Thomas, another son. had .1 
farm nearby on the Creek. His oldesl son, 
James, was the first white child born in Genoa 
Township. A Xew Englander by the name of 
Joseph Latshaw came here in 1807 from Berk- 
shire Township. His farm was in the north- 
ern part of the township, southwest of Galena 
In the latter part of the same year, David 
Weeks emigrated from Saratoga County, Xew 
York, and located in the northern part of 
the township. William Cox. a Pennsylvanian, 
also came into the township that year. He lo- 
cated in the oxbow bend of the Big Walnut. 
where he resided until his death. The next 



year, 1808, Marcus Curtis, a brother of Jere- 
miah Curtis, and Elisha Newell came with 
their families from Connecticut. Curtis bought 
681 acres of land in the northeastern part of 
the township, on Yankee Street. He soon be- 
gan to make brick from the clay which he 
found on his farm, and erected the first brick 
structure in the township. He also introduced 
short-horn cattle into the township. He 
bought his brother's saw- and grist-mill and 
operated them both for a time, but as this ven- 
ture was not successful he disposed of the 
mill to Hezekiah Roberts. The same year. 
Alexander Smith came from Pennsylvania and 
settled in the central part of the township. 
He became a prominent citizen. He was a 
successful farmer, held township offices and 
was an elder in the Presbvterian Church. 

In 1809 Elisha Bennett came here from 
Pennsylvania. When it was decided to set 
off and organize the present township of 
Genoa, it was he who suggested the name 
which was adopted. His farm was near Max- 
well Corners. One of the early settlers was 
Jonas Carter, but it is not known just when 
he came from Xew England. He settled on 
the Big Walnut, hut after clearing a small 
part of his farm, he sold it to Jonathan Dyer 
and went to Indiana. 

In the spring of 1810 Hezekiah Roberts 
came to this township from Pennsylvania and 
bought Joseph Latshaw's farm. He was a 
blacksmith, and he set up the first shop for 
that kind of work in this region. He was one 
of the first farmers to raise flax. He bought 
the old Copeland mill and moved it to the 
west side of the creek, where he ran it for a 
number of years. His son, later familiarly 
known as "Long John" Roberts, was the sec- 
ond white child horn in the township. When 
his father was no lunger able to follow his 
trade. John succeeded to the business, which 
he carried on for forty years. Fulrad See- 
bring also came to tin- township in 1810. His 
farm was located on the Big Walnut, about 
midway of the township from north to south. 
The same year Ary Hendricks located on a 
farm southwest of Galena, and Thomas Harris 
and his son-in-law Henry Bennett came here. 



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They came here from Hocking County, to 
which they had emigrated from Pennsylvania 
in 1805. Three years later they settled in 
what is now Harlem Township, and in 1810 
came over into this township, and located on 
Yankee Street. Thomas Harris lived to be 
one hundred years and six months old. His 
son Samuel was frozen to death in his wagon 
on his return from hauling provisions to the 
soldiers at the north. Byxbe Rogers, who had 
served during the entire, seven years of trie 
Revolution, came here in 1810, from Knox 
County, to which he had emigrated the pre- 
vious year from Pennsylvania. He was largely 
influential in bringing about the establishment 
of the township of Genoa. His death oc- 
curred in 1825. The first shoemaker in the 
township was Jacob Clauson, who came from 
the Keystone State in 1810. He found that 
there was not enough work here to keep him 
busy at his trade, and so after a short time he 
closed up his shop and went to Franklin- 
ton. While looking lor work there, he as- 
sisted in raising the first log cabin upon the 
site where the city of Columbus now stands. 
He found work as hard to get in Franklinton 
as in Genoa, so he came back here, cleared a 
piece of ground and followed farming as long 
as he lived. 

Johnson Pelton and Sylvester Hough came 
into this township in 1812, and settled just 
south of Galena. Another of the early fami- 
lies to come in here was the Mitchum family 
from Xew England. The husband and father 
died at Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, while 
enroute, but the family continued the journey 
until they reached Genoa. An interesting story 
is told of Hines Mitchum, one of the family. 
He was a very religious man, and used to 
journey to great distances, for the purpose of 
participating in the church exercises. More- 
over, he was an excellent singer, and his pres- 
ence was often sought, and always appreciated. 
There was a quarterly meeting (it will be seen 
by this that he was a good Methodist) to be 
held at the little town of Westerville, on a 
certain evening, and as the meeting was to 
close with singing and other appropriate exer- 
cises, he was cordially invited to attend, and 
on the afternoon preceding the evening of the I 



clay on which it was to be held, he started for 
Westerville. At that time, a dense woods 
stretched away for miles in every direction, 
and there was not even an Indian trail lead- 
ing- from the settlement on the Big Walnut, 
in Genoa Township, to the town of Wester- 
ville. But Mitchum, trusting in his knowledge 
of the woods, started in the direction of the 
town. Dusk found him quite a distance from 
his destination, and he was plodding along, 
unmindful of the shadows that were creeping 
down upon him, when he was startled by a 
long howl, which set the blood curdling to his 
very heart. He knew that sound too well to be 
mistaken. It was the hungry famished cry 
of the gray wolf. Soon he heard the same 
cry at the north, then at the south and from 
every direction. He knew that he was sur- 
rounded, that he had not a moment to lose, so, 
selecting a tree that stood near, he was soon 
hidden among its branches, and none too soon, 
for scarcely had he seated himself on one of the 
limbs, than, with a mighty bound, a huge wolf 
sprang upon the spot he had just vacated. In 
a short time, the entire pack assembled at the 
bottom of the tree, and expressed their disap- 
pointment in howls of baffled rage. Mitchum 
appreciated the fact that he was in rather an 
uncomfortable position. Night was last ap- 
proaching, and the idea of remaining in that 
tree until the next morning was anything but 
pleasant. Suddenly the thought struck him 
that he would sing. The idea was certainly 
a novel one. but worth the attempt, so striking 
up one of his familiar airs, he poured forth 
the notes in his most melodious strains. He 
had sung but a short time, when he was sur- 
prised to find that the wolves had ceased howl- 
ing, and thus encouraged, he continued sing- 
ing, while they all sneaked off. Whether they 
left in disgust, or felt the overpowering influ- 
ence of his voice, he never said, but it is related 
that when he arrived at Westerville, just alter 
the meeting closed, he gave an account of his 
experience by saying that he had just come 
from a praise meeting, where the voices were 
naturally strong, but needed cultivation. 

About 1 81 2 Lanson Gooding and Com- 
fort Penny located on the ridge. The former 
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the East. Penny was one of the first teach- 
ers in the township. John Roberts settled on 
Yankee Street before the War of t8i2. He 
served under Harrison at the siege of Fort 
Meigs, and returned to his farm on the Big 
Walnut at the close of the war. The first 
physician in the township was a Dr. Duell, 
who came at an early date. Dr. Skeels was 
another early settler. William Hall, a na- 
tive of the Green Mountain State, came to 
Ohio at an early date. He served in the War 
of [812, and after his discharge, he married 
Polly Curtis, in 1815, and settled on the Curtis 
farm, where he spent the remainder of his life. 
Other earlv settlers were Joseph Linnabury. 
win 1 emigrated from Pennsylvania and settled 
in the south central part of the township. 
From 1816 to 1819 a number of families came 
into the township, among whom we can men- 
tion Dr. Eleazer Copeland and George Cope- 
land. Diadatus Keeler, who introduced fine- 
wooled sheep and the China and Berkshire 
breeds of hogs into the township. Jacob Hart- 
burn, Abraham Wells, E. Washburn, Roswell 
Cooke and the Dusenbury family were among 
those who came about the period mentioned. 
Rev. E. Washburn, a Presbyterian minister, 
became universally beloved. The people 
of this township have continued up to the 
present time to keep abreast of the progress 
of the age, making Genoa Township the peer 
of any other township in the County. 

Present Township Officials ( 1908). — H. C. 
Young and D. M. Nedds, justices of the 
peace; G. A. Brehm and C. F. Freeman, 
trustees; G. M. Plumb, assessor; P. P. Ingals, 
treasurer; Asa E. Ulrey, clerk; A. E. McLeod 
and M. A. Fichtelman, constables; S. Bevel- 
hymer. ditch supervisor. 

HARLEM TOWNSHIP. 

(Ill preparing this sketch we have made free us*e of 
an article written many years ago by the late Hon. 
J. R. Hubbell.) 

This township was named for that portion 
of New York City known as Harlem, which 
was given that name by the earlv Dutch set- 



tlers of that region in honor of a prosperous 
city of that name in their native land. This 
township contains even 16,000 acres of land, 
and is known and designated on the map of 
the United States Military Lands as Town- 
ship No. 3 and Range 16. 

The origin of these Military Lands is ex- 
plained in the chapter devoted to the settlement 
and organization of the county. It is bounded 
on the north by Trenton Township ; on the 
east by Monroe Township, Licking County ; 
on the south by Plain Township, Franklin 
County, and on the west by Genoa Township. 
Of the larger streams running southward 
through Delaware County not one touches 
Harlem Township, but notwithstanding this 
fact, this township is well watered. Large 
runs and brooks, supplied by springs and 
spring runs. How from the east line of the 
township, in a south-westerly direction, to Big 
Walnut Creek. Among these we may men- 
tion Spruce Run and Duncan Run. A few- 
rods distant from the north line and about a 
mile and a half from the northwest corner 
of the township, is located a sulphur spring, 
on a farm that was long known as the "Dustin 
Farm." The character and water of this spring 
have been declared by competent chemists to 
be strongly impregnated with sulphur and 
magnesia, and other minerals, and is very simi- 
lar in quality to the water of the White Sul- 
phur Springs of the Scioto, and the Sulphur 
Springs at Delaware. The land in this town- 
ship is almost uniformly level. Near the 
mouth of Duncan Run and the mouth of the 
Spruce, there is some rolling land; but of the 
eighteen townships of Delaware County, this 
in the character of the soil is most uniform. 
The soil is a deep black loam, and very pro- 
ductive; the general yield of all cereal and 
vegetable products in this township is much 
above the average, compared with other town- 
ships of the county. There is no waste land 
in the township. The timber in its native for- 
est was luxuriant. Upon the high and rolling 
land was white oak. ash, sugar maple, hicl 
and beech, but the level lands were covered 
with burr-oak, white elm and black ash. 
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tion here. Almost the entire population is 
engaged in fanning. There is little if any 
manufacturing. There are no mines, no 
canals, navigable streams or railroads nor any 
important town. Along and near the lower 
part of Duncan Run there are extensive stone 
quarries, which produce Waverly stone of the 
very best quality, but on account of the lack of 
transportation facilities, they have been worked 
but little. 

There seems to be more certainty regard- 
ing the early settlers in this township than of 
the settlers in most of the other townships 
in the county. In 1803 a man named Duncan 
purchased Section 3 from the patentee, but 
failed to pay the purchase money, and in 1807, 
the sheriff of Franklin County sold the entire 
4,000 acres at public auction to Benjamin 
Cook, Esq., for forty-two cents per acre. An 
amusing incident, illustrating the shrewdness 
and caution of this early pioneer, is quite ap- 
propriate in this connection. Among the New 
England families who emigrated to Ohio in 
1805-06, was Mr. Cook, who came to Gran- 
ville from Connecticut. While living there, 
he learned that this tract of land was to be 
sold to the highest bidder by the sheriff. He 
immediately prepared himself with the neces- 
sary funds, as lie supposed, to make the pur- 
chase. The terms of sale were cash in hand. 
He was compelled to keep his money upon ins 
person, to be read)- to make the purchase, in 
case he became the lucky bidder; and then 
again, he was going among strangers and was 
liable to be robbed. He dressed himself, foi 
In- own protection, in old clothes covered with 
patches and rags, permitted his beard to grow 
long, and put on a dirtier shirt than usual; 
in short, he presented an appearance of 
wretchedness and poverty. Beneath his rags 
ami patche- lie concealed his treasure. No 
one suspected that he had any money or was 
other than a beggar, and when lie commenced 
tii bid. the rival bidders ceased their compe- 
tition. They supposed his bidding was a farce. 
and that he could not pay for the land if it 
was struck- off to him. In this shrewd trans- 
act ion, he illustrated the true Yankee char- 
acter, to the amusement of those he outwitted. 



He paid the sheriff the purchase money, ob- 
tained his deed, and immediately moved by 
way of Berkshire onto his new purchase. He 
kept five hundred acres of this tract, selling 
the balance to Colonel Moses Byxbe. He was 
the first settler in the township, and when he 
moved upon his claim, there was not even a 
cabin upon it, and until one was built, his 
family occupied an Indian shanty. Mr. Cook 
died in 1839. He was the first justice of the 
peace of the township, and held other official 
positions with honor and credit. Calvin Tracy 
Cook was the first white child born in 1 larlem 
Township. His birth occurred in 1808, and he 
died in 1831. The oldest child of Benjamin 
Cook was Benajah S. Cook, who was born in 
Connecticut in 1794, and was brought by his 
father to Harlem, where he married and set- 
tled on a large farm near his father's home- 
stead. He was a great hunter in his day. 

Stephen Thompson, who was a squatter, 
was the next settler in the township. He 
came here in 1808. He came with his parents 
when quite young, and before the American 
Revolution, from Ireland. The family settled 
in Pennsylvania. Me was a drum-major in the 
Revolution. At about the same time, a num- 
ber of families came to this count}- from the 
same part of Pennsylvania — the Wyoming 
Valley. In 1S09, Rev. Daniel Bennett and 
family settled in 1 larlem on a farm near the 
center of the township. He was a local 
preacher and led an exemplary lite. His wife 
was a Miss Adams, the sister of Elijah Adams, 
w In 1 for many years was a squire. Rev. 
Adams's oldest daughter married B. Roberts, 
who settled in Centerville, probably nearly 
eighty years ago. Their oldest daughter be- 
came the wife of the late C. B. Paul, of Dela- 
ware. Mr. Paul filled several of the Harlem 
Township and county offices. He was the 
largest landholder in the township at one time. 
Before the Civil war, he served as count)- com- 
missioner, and the first year of the war he was 
elected county treasurer, and held this office 
four years. 

Two brothers, Elijah and John Adams, 
came to Harlem in 1809. Fie bought a cabin 
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farm. He married Desire Cook, the daughter 

of Benajah Cook, and raised a large family. 
His oldest son, Abraham Adams, was admitted 
to the Bar, but died soon after at his residence 
in Columbus. Another son, Elijah B. Adams, 
was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity, just previous to the war. He enlisted as 
a private but soon rose to the rank of captain. 
Early in the war he had all the fingers on his 
right hand cut off by a sabre in the hands of a 
rebel officer. Unable longer to perform active 
service, he entered the invalid corps, where he 
remained until the close of the war. In [872 
he was elected county recorder and re-elected 
in 1S75. -^e gave the people of the county 
a satisfactory administration of the office, ana 
upon his retirement in 1879. he removed to 
Columbus. Another brother, John Adams, 
was a justice of the peace in Harlem, but re- 
moved to Colorado. 

William Fancher, with his wife and a large 
famly. emigrated from Luzerne County, Penn- 
sylvania, in 1810. They bought about 1,000 
acres of land in the southern part of the town- 
ship. He was a veteran of the Revolution, 
and a number of his sons served in the second 
war with England. The family was promi- 
nent and highly esteemed among the early 
settlers. About the same time, and from the 
same part of Pennsylvania, X. B. Waters and 
family came to Harlem Township. After re- 
siding here for several years, the}- removed 
to Fairfield County, where they resided for 
about eighteen years. They then returned to 
this county, settling in the northern part of 
Radnor Township. Here Mr. Waters die 1 
in 1858. His wife was a Miss Cary, a sister 
of the wife of Squire Adams. 1 lis son. Benja- 
min C. Waters, married a daughter of Colonel 
William Budd. about 1846. He was a black- 
smith for several years in the village of Har- 
lem. He served as justice of the pe ice, and in 
i860 he was elected sheriff, and was re-elected 
in 1862. In the latter part of the Civil war 
he was provost marshal for the count}-, and 
for several years United States mail agent on 
the route from Cincinnati to Cleveland. He 
was elected probate judge in [872. Though 
not a trained lawyer, he had acquired consider- 

28 



able knowledge of the law, and his native g 

sense and judgment enabled him to perform 
the duties of the office in a manner satisfactory 
to all. 

Among the early and most numerous of 
the pioneer families, is that of John Budd, 
who emigrated from the Wyoming Valley in 
1810, and settled upon a large tract of several 
hundred acres, situated in the west part of 
the township, on Duncan Run. This family 
by marriage was connected with all the earlj 
families of this township. When Mr. Budd 
came to Ohio, he was well advanced in years, 
ami all his sons were young men grown 
Their names were Benjamin, Eli. John and 
William. We may not give their names in 
chronological order of birth. Benjamin Budd 
settled east of his father, cleared up a farm, 
but in a few years afterward he sold his farm 
and moved to Indiana with his famly. His 
brother, Eli, settled on a farm farther east, 
cleared it up, and about the same time sold out 
and moved to Indiana. The elder Mr. Budd 
died on the old homestead he helped to im 
prove in the early days, and his son, William. 
by purchase and inheritance, became the owner 
of the old homestead property. His son. 
John, or Dr. John Budd, the cognomen 1>\ 
which he was known,' purchased from his fa- 
ther for $250, 100 acres of land situated north 
of the village of Buddtown, as it is called, 
where he settled and lived until his death 
in 1872. Soon after his father settled in 
Harlem, he married. Mary Adams, sister of 
Elijah and John Adams. They had several 
children. He was a botanical physician. 
While he never went to college, he had prac- 
tical common sense, and never undertook to 
do in his profession anything beyond his skill. 
He was amiable, kind-hearted and a good citi- 
zen. William, who was better known as 
Colonel Budd, was something of a character, 
he had dash and enterprise, owned and ran a 
mill, kept store, carried on farming on a large 
scale, dealt in stock, and had a taste for mili- 
tary and political life. He was colonel of a 
regiment in the peace establishment, and had 
a great taste for litigation, lie sometimes en- 
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His wife was a sister of Elijah Adams. They 
reared a large family. Colonel Budd left a 
large estate. Upon his death, his eldest son. 
James Budd, became the .owner of the old 
homestead, consisting of several hundred acres, 
to which he made additions until he became 
the largest land owner in the township, and 
one of the largest in the county. James Budd 
was very much like his father, generous and 
kind-hearted. For many years he was exten- 
sively engaged in the stock business, and at 
the close of the Civil war, met with heavy 
pecuniary losses, sold his farm and moved 
West. The oldest daughter married Major 
Jesse C. Tull. He was a native of New York, 
and when a young man, came to Ohio and was 
employed as a school teacher in Harlem. Alter 
his marriage, he was an active business man. 
dividing his time between agricultural and 
mercantile pursuits. He later moved to Co- 
lumbus and engaged in the hotel business. 
Am ther daughter became the wife of Judge 
B. C. Waters 

Another early settler in this township was 
Benamin M. Fairchild, who emigrated from 
Bennington, Vermont, in 1808 or 1809. For 
many years he was employed by Benajah 
Cook to work on the farm. He was a mill- 
wright and mechanic, but being a natural 
genius, he was successful at any work he 
undertook. About the beginning of the War 
of 1812, he was married, and at this time sent 
for his brother Shuman and family to come 
from Vermont. He was able by industry and 
economy to purchase a 150-acre farm. He 
built several grist and saw-mills, and opened 
up several stone quarries on Duncan Run, 
which he had purchased from Coloned Byxbe. 
He gave the stone for the Central College. 
In 1878 he died at an advanced age. Shuman 
settled on a farm adjoining his brother's farm 
on the south. He died without heirs, and left 
his estate to his wife and relatives, except 
$1,500, which he donated to the church 

George Fix was an early settler coming 
into the township a number of years later than 
those we have mentioned. About [812 Con- 
rad Wickizer came from Berks County, Penn- 
sylvania, and settled in the southeastern part 



of the township. The Mann family — Thomas, 
Eleazer, Abijah and Gordon Mann — were 
among the early settlers. Daniel Hunt was 
another. He came from Washington County, 
Pennsylvania, and settled on a farm about a 
mile east of Centerville, about 1835. He was 
an industrious and successful man, but his 
kindness in such matters as bail debts led him 
into financial straits. He was justice of the 
peace for several years and a member oi the 
Disciples' Church. 

About eighty years ago John Hanover and 
family came into the township from Ohio 
County, West Virginia. And about the same 
time Elam Blain, a Pennsylvanian, settled on 
a new farm on Spruce Run. He was an in- 
telligent but unassuming man. He was jus- 
tice of the peace for fifteen years, and held 
other township offices. He raised a large 
family. Another settler of this period and in 
this neighborhood was John Miller. He was 
one of the pioneers who helped to clear up 
the township. He died in 1880 past eighty 
years of age, leaving numerous descendants. 
Jonathan Bateson, a brother-in-law of Daniel 
Hunt, came here about the same time as Hunt. 
He also for several years was a justice of 
the peace. He and Hunt married sisters by 
the name of McClelland. In 1839 Nathan 
Paul settled on a farm of about 400 acres 
about half a mile east of Centerville. He was 
intelligent, enterprising and thrifty. He mar- 
ried a Miss Bell and had two sous and a daugh- 
ter. He died in 1850 at the age of forty-one. 
leaving a large estate. Among other promi- 
nent settlers who have many descendants in 
the township at the present time were Thomas, 
Joseph, David and John Gorsuch, and a 
glance at the list of township officers will show 
that this is a prominent name. We Have 
given all the data regarding the early set- 
tlement of the township that we have been able 
to secure at this late date, and of course, it is 
beyond the scope of a work of this kind to at- 
tempt to go into details of the present popula- 
tion, which alone would make a large volume. 

The township contains two villages. Cen- 
terville. situated at the center of the township, 
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Roberts in 1848. The following year Harlem 
Village was laid out by Amos Washburn and 
James Budd. 

The Township officials for 1908, as re- 
ported to the county auditor, are : Samuel 
Gorsuch and J. W. Pace, justice of the peace; 
W. F. Hill, Seth Gorsuch and Ross Gorsuch, 
trustees; H. M. Cockrell. clerk; Dr. N. Gor- 
such, treasurer; I. D. Williams, assessor; A. 
A. Grove and G. E. Gorsuch, constables. 

KINGSTON TOWNSHIP. 

This township was set off June 8, 181 3, 
and is designated as No. 5 in the original 
survey. It is five miles square, and contains 
16.000 acres of land. It is bounded on the 
north by Morrow County; mi the east by Por- 
ter Township ; on the south by Berkshire 
Township, and on the west by Brown. The 
surface of the land is generally quite level, 
though in the southern and eastern portions it 
is more undulating. As in other parts of the 
county, the most fertile lands are those which 
border the streams. While the grain crops do 
well in this township, the general character of 
the soil makes it better adapted for grass and 
grazing than for growing crops. Originally 
the land was heavily wooded with all the varie- 
ties of hardwoods that grow in this part of the 
State. The rich bottom lands were covered 
with spice bush, black haws and paw-paw 
underbrush ; wild plums, grapes and crab ap- 
ples also grew spontaneously and in great 
abundance. These constituted all the luxuries 
of the early pioneers and in most cases were 
all he desired. These fruits, besides being used 
fresh in various ways, were also dried for 
use in the winter season, or preserved in maple 
sugar, this and wild honey being the only 
sweetening they had. Young horses and cattle 
were often wintered in these swails. and man- 
aged somehow to come through without grain 
or dry feed. The hogs were allowed to run 
at large, at first without brands or ear-marks, 
and these fed and fattened on acorn and 
beech-nut mast. In a few years these animals 
had increased so rapidly that they came to be 
regarded as public property, and anyone feel- 



ing in need of pork was at liberty to help him- 
self. 

Kingston is amply supplied with springs 
and streams of pure water, sufficient for home 
use and tor stock. Alum Creek is the largest 
stream and runs across the northwestern cor- 
ner of the township. Little Walnut Creek is 
the next stream in size. It enters the township 
on the north about a mile and a half west of 
the north-east corner. It runs in a southerly 
direction, dividing the township into two 
nearly equal parts. It has numerous small 
tributaries, which are helpful in draining the 
township. Other streams are Butler Run, 
west of and nearly parallel with Little Walnut , 
Indigo Run is in the northeastern part of the 
township, and Taylor Run flows in the south- 
eastern portion. Butler Swamp, the source of 
the run of that name, took its name from a 
man named Butler, who settled near it in 
1807. It was supposed that this land would 
never be fit for farming, but clearing up and 
drainage has demonstrated the fact that it is 
not only tillable, but very fertile. 

John Phipps was the first settler in this 
township. He came about 1807. and located 
in the southeastern part of the township, on 
or near Little Walnut. Little is known of him 
because he remained here only a short time 
before he returned East with his family. The 
same year, two brothers, Abraham and James 
Anway. came from Pennsylvania and set- 
tled in the same part of the township where 
Phipps had been. They raised large families. 
Soon after these men came George Hess from 
the same State, and located in the same neigh- 
borhood. He lived on the farm which he 
cleared until his death in 1835. He was mar- 
ried but had no children. The property after- 
wards was owned by Ceptor Stark. In 1809 
came James Stark, Ji ihn Rosecrans and his 
four sons. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and John; 
Dr. Daniel Rosecrans and his four sons. Na- 
thaniel. Jacob, Purlemas and Crandall, and Jo- 
seph Patrick ami wife. James Stark selected 
a farm of about 200 acres in the eastern part 
of the township. For many years he enter- 
tained travelers at bis house, which was the 
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ship. The Sunbury and Mansfield roads 
crossed on his farm, and the locality came to 
have the name of Stark's Corners. He mar- 
ried a Miss Wilcox before coming here, whose 
family connection was very numerous, and he, 
having the confidence of a very wide acquaint- 
ance, was able to induce many settlers to come 
into the county. By a former marriage he had 
three daughters. One married a Mr. Perfect, 
of Trenton Township; one married Dr. Bige- 
Iow, of Galena, and the third married Benja- 
min Carpenter of the same town. They all 
had large families. By his second marriage he 
had one son, James N. Stark, who at one 
time owned two thousand acres of farm lands 
in Kingston and Porter Townships. Joseph 
Patrick was a remarkable man, having unusual 
intellectual ability, but he was afflicted with 
an impediment in his speech. He was well 
versed in history, and was successful as a busi- 
ness man. He accummulated a large fortune 
for his day, and by honest methods. Among 
the positions of trust with which he was hon- 
ored was that of county treasurer. He re- 
moved to Berkshire Township at an early day. 
He married Sarah Taylor, daughter of Daniel 
Taylor, who emigrated from the Wyoming 
Valley in Pennsylvania, and settled in the 
southeastern part of the township on the run 
which later was railed by his name. 

Dr. Daniel Rosecrans first located on Lit- 
tle Walnut Creek'. Later he sold this and 
bought a farm on Taylor's Run. lie was the 
firsl justice of the peace in the township. His 
son Crandall married Jemima Hopkins, who 
was related to Stephen Hopkins, one of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence. 
They had three sons, the eldesl of whom was 
Major- General William Stark- Rosecrans. who 
won fame as a general in the war for the 
Union. A sketch of him will be found in the 
chapter devoted to the military history of the 
county. Sylvester, another of the sons, also 
became distinguished, but in a different sphere. 
After graduating from Wesl Point, lie joined 
the Roman Catholic Church, went to Rome 
for his theological training, became a bishop 
and was placed in charge of the Diocese of 
Columbus, lie was noted Ei r hi- great execu- 



tive ability, his scholarship and his eloquence 
in the pulpit. 

Previous to our second struggle with 
England, Solomon Steward, who had served 
in the Revolution, came here from the Green 
Mountain State. In 181 5 he married Xancy 
White, a sister of Mrs. Benjamin Benedict, 
ami soon alter settled in Porter Township. 
In 1812 Peter Van Sickle came with his young 
family from New Jersey. He located on land 
in the southernmost part of the township west 
of Little Walnut. He had two sons, William 
G. and Asa, and four daughters. The oldest 
daughter married Hon. Almon Stark, who for 
years was an associate judge of our Common 
Pleas Court. The youngest daughter became 
the wife of R. J. Lott. At his death Peter 
Van Sickle left quite an estate, besides giving 
his children much financial help as they started 
out in life. In 1814 two brothers, Richard 
and Charles Hodgden, emigrated from Con- 
necticut and settled in this township. They 
"bached" it for a while together. Finally 
Richard married a Miss Place and Charles 
married a Miss Blackman. and after she died 
he married a Miss Brockover and moved to 
Union County. John White, from West Vir- 
ginia, also came here in J 814. He purchased 
1,000 acres of land, the northeast quarter of 
Section 1. He had a large family, some of 
whom had reached maturity, and these soon 
married and settled in the neighborhood. Mr. 
White immediately became prominent and in- 
fluential in the township. John Van Sickle 
a cousin <if Peter Van Sickle came into t\v 
township about 1815. Both these men brought 
sufficient means with them to enable them to 
have such comforts and conveniences as were 
possible under pioneer conditions. John Van 
Sickle married Susannah Wicker, who was a 
native of the same county in New Jersey. 
They bad eight children, all of whom were 
married and reared families. David was a 
farmer in Kingston; Peter had a farm in Por- 
ter Township; William W. resided in Dela- 
ware; Elizabeth married George Blaney, of 
Porter Township; Mary married Charles Wil 
cox. of Porter; Esther married a Mr. Knox, 
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silla married Dr. H. Bessee, and Jane married 
Lewis Buck, of Morrow County. John Van 
Sickle carried on farming on a large scale. 
Upon arriving at age, each of the children re- 
ceived from him 100 acres of land. He built 
a (lam and a grist- and saw-mill near Sunbury, 
and carried this on along with his farming. 
He was a consistent and active member of the 
Presbyterian Church, and with Dr. Fowler'; 
father was one of the founders and main-stays 
of the Old Blue Church at East Liberty. He 
spent his declining years in that village. Ben- 
jamin Benedict settled on a 150-acre farm 
about one mile below the center of the town, 
on Little Walnut in 1S15. He married a 
daughter of John White. They had two sons. 
Nelson and Sturgis. Benjamin Benedict died 
in 1877, at the advanced age of eighty-eight 
years. He was highly esteemed by his neigh- 
bors for his industrious and honorable life. 
In 181G a man named Waldron also came into 
the township. He was from Xew York. His 
four sons were George, who lived in Brown 
Township ; Richard, William and Jonas. The 
next year Joseph Lott came from Luzerne 
countv. Pennsylvania, and settled on the East 
Branch of Little Walnut Creek. He reared 
two sons and two daughters. Riley T. and 
Josiah were farmers in Kingston. His oldest 
daughter became Mrs. William G. Van Sickle, 
and Eliza, the youngest daughter, married 
Ezekiel Longwell. In 1817, also, John Hall 
h cated on a wild tract of 100 acres on the 
Little Walnut. He married one of the daugh- 
ters of John White, from whom he had pur- 
chased his farm. They had four children. 
Mrs. John J. Wilcox was their only daughter. 
William, their oldest son, went to Iowa where 
he practiced law. George W. also went West, 
where he engaged in farming, and John W. 
made his home in Delaware. Hiram Cuyken- 
dall, a veteran of both wars with England, 
settled on a farm in this township in [820. 
He died nearly seventy years ago at a great 
age. Tin imas and James Carney, two broth- 
ers, came from Luzerne County. Pennsylvania, 
Thomas in 1820 and James in 1823. They 
were both hard workers and set about clear- 
ing farms. Thomas married one of the Lott 



girls, and James brought his wife, who was 
Jane Ostrander beforeJier marriage, with him 
to the township. Both brothers raised fami- 
lies. Moses Decker came from New Jersey to 
Kingston in 1820. He settled in the eastern 
part of the township, near his brother-in-law, 
Isaac Einch, who had preceded him from the 
same State. Mr. Decker was a soldier in the 
War of 1 812, was the first postmaster of 
Kingston, a justice of the peace for a number 
of years, and prominent and well known 
throughout the county. He married a daugh- 
ter of Hiram Cuvkendall. Moses Decker was 
a carpenter and millwright, and built many of 
the early mills in the county. The first frame 
barn in the township was built by Elder Wig- 
ton on his farm. It was framed, raised and 
completed by Mr. Decker. It was a never- 
failing custom in those days to serve liquor of 
some kind, usually whiskey, at all raisings. 
On this occasion Mr. Decker forbade that any 
liquor be brought on the ground. It was 
thought that failure to provide this energizer 
would result in the people staying away, but 
help enough came, and the first attempt at 
raising the barn was successful. This was in 
1827, and while the structure that was erected 
on that occasion has long since crumbled into 
dust, Mr. Decker"s influence for temperance is 
still at work, and Kingston still holds the 
reputation it long ago earned for the temper- 
ance and sobriety of its inhabitants. Mr. 
Decker lived to be upwards of ninety, and left 
numerous descendants in the county. Oliver 
Stark came from Pennsylvania to Kingston in 
1825, being then twenty-four years of age. 
Four years later he married the first white 
child born in Kingston Township. Eliza Pat- 
rick, the daughter of Joseph Patrick. Oliver 
Stark was successful and prominent in his 
day. He was justice of the peace for twenty- 
one years, and served as county commissioner 
for three years from 1846-49. He left a 
large estate when he died, which was shared by 
a number of descendants. 

Other early settlers were Gilbert I '■ 
and family who came from West Virginia in 
1817, and purchased John Hall's first farm 
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ton, his brother-in-law, came from the same 
county and settled near by. He was followed 
within a few years by his brother John Gaston. 
The district where they settled came to be 
known as the "Virginia District." Daniel 
Maxwell, who by his first marriage with one 
of the Earns sisters, was a brother-in-law of 
the Gastons and Potter, settled on a farm near 
the center of the township. He married for 
his second wife, a Miss Haslett. He was a 
typical Virginia gentleman, intelligent, a con- 
sistent member of the Presbyterian Church, 
who was held in high esteem. For twenty 
years before his death he filled the office of 
justice of the peace, in which office he was 
succeeded by his son, William H. Maxwell. 
James Gaston, a native of the Emerald Isle 
and a relative of the Gastons we have men- 
tioned, also settled in the "Virginia District." 
Elder Thomas Wigton came here from Penn- 
sylvania in 1814, and settled on a hundred 
acres near the center of the township. He was 
a local preacher in the Baptist Church, but 
being broad-minded and tolerant of the views 
of others, he was popular with members of 
other churches than his own, for whom he 
often preached. In 1834 John Haslett came to 
Kingston from Augusta County, Virginia. He 
purchased 150 acres from Isaac Rosecrans in 
the east part of the township. He was a local 
preacher in the Methodist Church. Of good 
mental ability, kindly disposition, noted foi 
his southern hospitality, he was an enthusias- 
tic and effective preacher. In 1834 Henry 
Sheets with his large and grown-up family 
settled in the woods in the northwestern part 
of the township. He had seven sons, the 
youngest of whom, Jacob Sheets, was for 
many years a justice of the peace. In 1824 
Daniel Terrill immigrated to Kingston Town- 
ship and settled on a farm in the southwest 
quarter-section. He was from Essex County, 
Xew Jersey. 

Representatives of nearly all the nationali- 
ties that helped to establish the original thir- 
teen colonies were to be found among the pio- 
neers of Kingston Township: Puritans from 
New England, Dutch from Pennsylvania and 
Xew Jersev, English from the latter State and 



from Virginia, and Scotch-Irish from Pennsyl- 
vania and West Virginia. Their common dan- 
gers and common necessities tended to sup- 
press the controversies that would naturally 
arise among people so radically different in 
racial characteristics, religion, temperament, 
habits of thought, manners and customs. They 
dwelt in harmony, their children intermarried, 
and today we have in the citizenship of Kings- 
ton Township, a race of men and women that 
for physical, mental or moral excellence are 
the peers of any other community. 

The present (1908) township officials are: 
J. J. Stark and Bert White, justices of the 
peace: E. C. Owen, F. P. McVey, and R. M. 
Van Sickle, trustees; L. S. Owen, treasurer; 
S. T. Hutchisson, assessor ; Harry Benedict 
and O. S. Wilcox, constables. 

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP. 

Liberty is one of the three townships into 
which Delaware County was originally di- 
vided when it was set off from Franklin 
County. At that time it composed about half 
of what are now Orange, Berlin, Delaware 
and Scioto Townships, and the territory now 
embraced in Concord Township. Delaware 
Township was set off from Liberty at the first 
meeting of the county commissioners. Not- 
withstanding the loss of territory sustained 
when the townships above named were formed, 
Liberty Township is still from four to five 
miles wide and about eight miles from in nth 
to south. It is bounded on the north by Dela- 
ware Township ; on the east, by Berlin and 
Orange ; on the south by Franklin County, 
and on the west by Concord Township. The 
Olentangy River enters the township at a point 
a little east of the center of the northern 
boundary, and courses a little east of south to 
the Franklin County line, where it is the 
boundary between Liberty and Orange Town- 
ships. The township is drained by a num- 
ber of small tributaries of the Olentangy, 
among which we may mention McKinnie's, 
Wild Cat, Big Wolf and Lick Runs. There 
are many fine springs of pure and mineral 
waters here as elsewhere in the county. F< >r 




BAPTIST CHURCH. SUNBURY 



PUBLIC SQUARE. LOOKING NORTH. SUNBURY 




PUBLIC SCH< ii IL BUILDING, SUNBURY 



SUNBURY CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY 




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a distance of two or three miles, the Scioto 
River forms the southwestern boundary of 
Liberty Township. In early times this portion 
of the township was a favorite camping 
ground for the Indians, a tine spring of very 
cold and pure water on the Stanberry farm be- 
ing, perhaps, not the least' among the attrac- 
tions of the spot. The land is rolling, and for 
fertility is not surpassed by that in any other 
part of the county. Originally it was heavily 
timbered with the varieties of trees common 
to this section. The land in the river bottoms 
is especially rich and yields large grain crops. 
Who were the original inhabitants of this 
part of the county will never be known. The 
evidence of their presence and their labor is 
here, but they faded into the mysteries of the 
past leaving no record of their advent, civili- 
zation or exit. The subject of the Mound 
Builders is treated in another chapter, so we 
shall not dwell upon it here. 

The claim has been made that the first 
white settlers in Delaware County located 
here, and this is douhtless true as regards 
permanent settlement. In an old issue of the 
Delaware Gazette we find an excellent histori- 
cal sketch of the settlement by Captain Nathan 
Carpenter, which was written by one of his 
descendants, A. E. Goodrich, from which we 
quote the following paragraphs : 

"Captain Nathan Carpenter was born at 
Rehoboth. Massachusetts, in 1757. and grew 
to manhood amid the excitement preparatory 
to the Revolution, a zealous patriot. He was 
among the first to respond to the call of his 
country when the great colonial struggle came 
on, though scarcely more than a boy in age. 
He fought bravely at the battle of Bunker Hill, 
at which place his brother was killed and 
himself wounded. Afterward he participated 
in several battles, among them, the pursuit 
and capture of Burgoyne at Saratoga. After 
the close of the war. Mr. Carpenter lived in 
Connecticut until 1795. when he removed to 
New York and purchased a large estate on 
the Unadilla River. It was while residing 
here that the excitement over the Ohio terri- 
tory rose to a height exceeded only by that 
perhaps over California in later years. Pub- 



lic meetings were held, at which were discussed 
the stories of its delightful climate and inex- 
haustible wealth. Never having become at- 
tached to the country which he had adopted 
as his home, he was inclined to share in the 
enthusiasm. He disposed of his estate and 
other effects which he would not need, and 
having procured everything required for his 
future home, started for the new El Dorado 
on the 12th of February, 1801. About twenty 
other young men ( Powerses, Smiths, and 
others) accompanied him. He traveled on 
wagons and sleds as far as Pittsburg, where 
he loaded his effects and passengers into a 
boat and continued his journey by floating 
down the Ohio River. When they reached the 
mouth of the Scioto River, the cargo and pas- 
sengers were transferred to keel-boats, in 
which they were moved up to Franklinton. a 
place consisting of three or four log houses, 
and situated across the river from where Co- 
lumbus now stands. Here a large canoe was 
procured, and the goods transported up the 
Olentangy to the place now owned by Captain 
V. T. Hills, about two miles south of the 
northern boundary, on the east side of the 
river, and where he arrived on the 1st of May. 
1 801, having been two months and eighteen 
days on the voyage. The first business in 
order was the erection of a cabin for a shelter, 
which was built on the bank of the river just 
above highwater mark. It was rudely chinked 
with split sticks and covered with bark, but 
without floor or chimney. Flat stones were 
set up against the logs to make a safe place to 
build a fire. The cabin was scarcely finished 
when it commenced to rain, and continued for 
eight clavs in succession. After the flood had 
abated, the land was surveyed, and according 
to previous arrangement, Capt. Carpenter re- 
ceived choice of land in the section. He now 
began prospecting for a site on which to build 
a permanent home, which must be erected and 
finished before winter. His assistants were 
equally engaged in clearing, planting and hunt- 
ing, and the result was they harvested 500 
bushels of corn, besides superabundantly sup- 
plying the party with the choicest meats. Game 
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turkeys were frequently shot from the cabin 
door, and the creeks were full of fish. 

"During the summer a substantial hewed- 
log house was erected on the site of the pres- 
ent residence of Squire Carpenter. The 
family were moved into it and provided with 
improved furniture and other adjuncts of 
civilization. In the spring following Capt. 
Carpenter's settlement, his party was joined 
by two other pioneer adventurers, Thomas 
Cellar and Josiah McKinnie, who were also 
men of wealth and influence, having their land 
paid for, and bringing with them surplus 
money. Mr. Cellar had purchased an entire 
section (4,000 acres) of land, and upon his 
arrival built a house on the Taggart farm. 
McKinnie located on the opposite side of the 
river from Carpenter. The colon}- now con- 
sisted of the families of Carpenter, Powers 
(who came with Carpenter), Cellar and Mc- 
Kinnie. Cellar was a gunsmith, and had 
manufactured guns for the war of Independ- 
ence, while the others had used them to that 
end. They were now associated together, not 
in war. but in subduing the wilderness and 
building up homes in the new land of promise. 

"The children of Captain Carpenter, ten 
in number, were now young men and women, 
and, being of congenial disposition, were suf- 
ficient company for each other to render their 
forest home cheerful and pleasant, instead of 
suffering it to become lonely and irksome. 
They often had exciting stories to relate con- 
cerning their adventures with wild animals 
and the Indians. With the latter they were 
usually on pretty good terms. As main- or 
these pioneer stories have been handed down 
to the present, we will give one or two by 
way of embellishment to dry facts. There 
were those among the Indians, who sometimes 
become intolerable in their conduct, especialh 
in their demands for whiskey, and the whites 
in such cases, did not hesitate to enter into a 
skirmish with them, knowing that they were 
in bad repute, even with their own people. 
An old Indian, whose name was Sevans. came 
to Carpenter's one day and asked for 'Whisk.' 
Ira. the eldest son, who chanced to be pres- 
ent, knowing too well what the result would 



be. informed Mr. Sevans that he could not be 
accommodated. The old Indian urged his de- 
mand with so much importunity, that it be- 
came necessary to use other kinds of per- 
suasion than argument. He first drew his 
knife, but Ira wrested that from him with 
little difficulty, which rendered the red man 
furious, and he began drawing his tomahawk 
from his belt, when a kick from his pale- 
faced adversary, sent him sprawling out of 
doors. As soon as he recovered himself, he 
threw his tomahawk at young Carpenter with 
all the force he could muster, but the door 
was brought together in time to intercept the 
blow. The weapon passed through the door, 
however, and was now in possessii >n of the 
white man, who chastised Mr. Sevans quite 
severely. He then gave him back his knife 
and tomahawk, with the injunction never to 
be seen there again — an injunction the old 
rascal faithfully obeyed. 

"There being a surplus of help at home, 
John Carpenter, the second son, concluded that 
he would hire out his services, and obtain em- 
ployment of a Mr. Patterson, who had a trad- 
ing-post at Sandusky. He set out for that 
place on foot and alone, following the Indian 
trails, which were the only roads that were 
at that time through the wilderness. He trav- 
eled in the daytime, guided by these trails and 
a pocket-compass, and at night he slept by the 
side of a log. His first night's rest was quiet 
and undisturbed, but late in the second night, 
he was awakened by shrieks or howls, the 
source of which was evidently approaching 
nearer every moment. Being thoroughly 
awakened and conscious of his impending 
danger, he remained perfectly still by the side 
1 if his log. The shrieks were soon changed 
ti 1 snuffings, and then the beast sprang upon 
the log directly over bis head; walking down 
the log smelling of its intended victim, it 
again alighted upon the ground, and, after 
smelling of him from head to foot, began to 
cover him up with leaves that were within 
reach. After having accomplished this feat 
to its satisfaction, it retired some distance and 
began to shriek most hideously, and soon Car- 
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convinced him that he was the subject of a 
grand supper talk. Not wishing to become the 
food of a panther and her cubs, he quietly 
crawled out of the pile of leaves which had 
been heaped upon him, and climbed up the 
nearest tree. The answering sounds which he 
had heard grew nearer, and soon the young 
family made its appearance. They tore open 
the bed of leaves, but their anticipated supper 
had disappeared. Uttering hideous shrieks, 
the old one struck the track and followed it 
to the tree, and, rearing up against the trunk 
with her fore feet, stared indignantly at the 
subject of her disappointment. When the 
in. irning dawned, the huge panther withdrew 
her interesting family, and young Carpenter, 
happy in his escape, went on his journey. 
Many other incidents of interest pertaining to 
this pioneer settlement might be narrated, but 
our space will not permit; so we will return to 
facts. 

Capt. Carpenter died in 1X14. On the 
evening of the 9th of September, a little more 
than thirteen years after his settlement in the 
township, he was returning from the town of 
Delaware on horseback. The animal on which 
he was mounted was a very vicious one, and, 
having left town late, night overtook him be- 
fore he reached home. He could not see the 
road, and his horse had no disposition to fol- 
low it. Winding along the river, it passed be- 
tween the bank and a tree that stood very near 
to it. An overhanging limb swept the rider 
from his seat, and, being so near the brink, he 
fell down the precipice upon the rocks below. 
He raised up his hands and uttered a solitary 
cry for help. The familiar voice attracted the 
attention of a neighbor near by. who hastened 
to his assistance. He immediately asked for 
water, which the man. with his hat for a cup, 
procured for him from the river. Dr. Lamb 
was soon at the scene of the accident, but his 
injuries were fatal, and he soon expired, thus 
ending, at the age of fifty-six, bis eventful 
life. His death cast a cloud over the entire 
community; all were conscious that they had 
lost a friend. His family were devoutedly at- 
tached to him; his physician and many friends 
wept at his grave, as they laid him by the side 



of his wife, who bad died ten years before." 
Among those who came here with Capt. 
Carpenter were Thomas and Avery Powders, 
who settled on farms adjoining Carpenter's. 
Avery Powers was one of the first county com- 
missioners, and performed the duties of his of- 
fice with credit to himself and with the ap- 
proval of the community. His death occurred 
some years prior to that of Capt. Carpenter's. 
His son, Benjamin Powers, was president of 
the First National Bank of Delaware, and his 
grandson, George W. Powers, is now cashier 
of the same institution. Thomas Powers was 
killed at the battle of the Thames in the War 
of 181 2. Josiah McKinnie, to whom we have 
already referred was one of the first associate 
judges of Delaware County. He and Thomas 
Cellar, who came with him, are buried in the 
old Liberty church cemetery. James Gillies 
and Ralph Watson and George Case came into 
the township not many years after the settlers 
whom we have named. In 1804, John, Eben- 
ezer and Aaron Welch, with their brother-in- 
law, Leonard Monroe, came here from Una- 
dilla County, New York. John Welch came 
here as agent of the Glover lands, but the coun- 
try pleased him, so he made his home in this 
township. Aaron died in Delaware in 1816; 
Ebenezer died in 1823. and John Welch died 
in Marlborough Township in 1832. \bijah and 
Dr. David Welch were sons of John Welch. 
Abijah was one of the first of the settlers to 
die. The mother of John Welch, who came 
here with him, died at an early date. John 
Welch was a justice of the peace, probably the 
first one in the county to bold that office. Isaac 
Welch, a nephew, settled near the mouth of 
Welch's Run at an early date. 

Ebenezer Goodrich settled in the extreme 
southeastern corner of the township about 
1806. He purchased his land before he left 
Connecticut. He was unmarried and for many 
years had only his faithful dog as a companion. 
He was a soldier in the War of [812, and after 
his return he held the office of justice of the 
peace for a number of years. I lis death oc- 
curred on October 15, [846. He was success- 
ful in acquiring a considerable property. John 
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the some time as Goodrich. In 1815. Timothy 
Andrews and his son, Capt. Timothy, came 
from Connecticut and settled on what is known 
as Middlebury Street. The senior Andrews 
died in 1840. Other settlers in the neighbor- 
hood were Solomon Moses, Joseph M. Gard- 
ner, Lemuel Humphreys. Abner Pinney and 
Eben C. Payne. All were natives of Connec- 
ticut except Gardner, who came from New 
Hampshire. Middlebury was named in honor 
of their native town. Humphrey became a 
justice of the peace. Gardner was the first 
person buried in the Powell cemetery. David 
Buell and David Thomas came here from the 
same state as most of the other early settlers, 
the latter in 1810. He settled one mile below 
the old Presbyterian Church, where he kept a 
tavern, also the stage stand, which was on the 
route between Franklinton and Sandusky. 

What is known as the Stanbery section 
was originally purchased by Dr. Jonas Stan- 
bery from some old Revolutionary general 
prior to the War of 1812. He never occupied 
the land, though later his son Charles Stan- 
bery took up his residence here. As we have 
already said, this was a favorite hunting 
ground for the Indians, and later the whites. 
Squatters also occupied it at an early day. One 
of these was a millwright named Pasco. He 
erected a mill on the Scioto River at an early 
day. Lint his venture was not a success. A col- 
ored man, whose only known name was Peter, 
was another of these squatters. For a num- 
ber of years his cabin was known as a station 
of the "underground railway," his door being 
always open to fugitive slaves. 

About 1809, Isaac Patton settled in the 
northern part of the township. He was a cap- 
tain in the War of 1812. Benjamin Bartholo- 
mew settled in the southern part of the town- 
ship sometime soon after 1814. Mrs. Bar- 
tholomew's father, Caleb Hall, who was a na- 
tive of Massachusetts, settled here. 

The article by Mr. Goodrich, from which 
we have quoted so freely in the earlier part of 
this sketch, gives such an excellent picture of 
the wilderness life of the early pioneers, that 
we will make further use of it here. "The 
encroachment of the white man — as. it nat- 



urally would — irritated some of the Indian 
tribes until they became hostile, ami were 
readily induced to become allies to the British 
in the War of 181 2. Although too infirm to 
join the army himself, Capt. Carpenter was 
represented in the ranks by his five sons — Ira, 
John. Alfred, Nathan and James — as well as by 
many of his neighbors. No one but the father 
was left at home (at Carpenter's) to provide 
for the family, or defend it against the hostile 
Indians, who sometimes made incursions in 
their vicinity. Nathan Carpenter, Jr., in go- 
ing to the war. had left at home a wife and 
babe. Thev lived about half a mile from the 
old home. Laura, the youngest daughter, 
then sixteen years of age, went to stay with 
her in her solitude. She had looked after the 
various little charges around the house one 
evening, and had gone inside to attend to the 
housework, when, looking out of the window 
into the moonlight, she saw two savages ap- 
proaching the house. Having just heard of 
the murder of an entire family but a short 
distance from their neighborhood, she was 
considerably startled, and exclaimed, 'My God, 
Electa!' (which was the name of the young 
wife who sat in the middle of the room with 
the child in her arms) 'what do you suppose 
these critters want ?' Electa understood too 
well her meaning, and was unable to utter a 
word. In order that they should not surprise 
her. Laura advanced, opened the door, and 
propped it open, then, seizing the axe, she re- 
tired behind her sister's chair that she might 
better conceal her motions and the axe. with 
which she had determined to defend them to 
the last. The savages, armed to the teeth, 
walked up to the door, came in, and began 
their parley by making pretenses, during which 
time Laura remarked that they" could obtain 
what they wanted at her father's house upon 
the hill. ' 'Oh. vour father live near here?' 
'Yes,' she answered ; 'only a short distance,' 
After a few more words, they shouldered their 
guns and started, as they said, for the 'big 
house.' Thus the young girl had saved their 
lives by artfully insinuating that help was 
near. After they were gone, she received the 
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during this time, had sat speechless and as 
white as death, which each moment she ex- 
peeted to suffer. After barricading the house. 
Laura, expecting their return, stood guard 
with the axe until morning, when they re- 
turned to the manor-house. The savages had 
not gone there, as they pretended they would, 
but, on the contrary, as soon as they were out 
of sight, they went into the woods and were 
never seen afterward. * * * Unlike the 
Ohio, the shores of the Olentangy were 
swarming with Indians, by whom our party 
was received with many tokens of friendship, 
notwithstanding the stories they had been told 
of their hostile and. savage nature. The Wy- 
andots predominated in numbers and enlight- 
enment, followed in their order by the Senecas, 
Delawares, Shawnees, Choctaws and the Ta- 
ways. who were noted for their uncleanliness.' 1 
But there were other dangers that beset the 
pioneer. Ferocious wild beasts roamed the 
woods — wolves, bears, panthers and wild cats. 
Then there was the danger of starving to 
death. There was no Delaware or Columbus 
to which to go for supplies of food, but this 
lack was not felt because there was no money 
with which to purchase provisions. The prices 
of sugar and coffee ranged from 25 cents to 
75 cents per pound, while the price received by 
the settlers for what he sold was correspond- 
ingly low, so it was difficult lor men to rake 
and scrape enough money together to pay 
taxes. 

There has always been a dispute as to who 
was the first white child born in the township, 
that honor having been claimed by both Ben- 
jamin Powers and Jeremiah Gillies, the date of 
the latter's birth being August 7, 1803, and it 
is said that Mrs. Carpenter claimed that he 
was born before Powers. 

Ebenezer Goodrich and Betsey D|ixon 
were married at Middlebury, now the village 
of Powell, in June, 1813, by Aaron Strong, a 
justice of the peace. About this time also, 
Nathan Carpenter and Electa Case were mar- 
ried. George Dean was the first merchant. 
About 1829 or '30 he opened a store on the 
Goodrich farm, which he sold a few years later 
to Edmund Goodrich and Henry Chapman. 



After a few years they discontinued. Then 
there followed a period when there was no 
store. Joseph M. Cellar was the next store- 
keeper. His place of business was located at 
Liberty Church, and here, about sixty years 
ago, a postoffice was established under the 
name of Union. This business died out after 
a few years. The next attempt at merchan- 
dising was made by Thomas R. Hall at Mid- 
dlebury. This store at the corners led to an 
application for a postoffice. This was secured 
through the influence of Judge Powell of 
Delaware, and the office was called Powell in 
appreciation of his efforts. Joshua Pennel 
was the first postmaster and also kept a store. 
The place was surveyed and laid out as a vil- 
lage early in 1876, and the plat was recorded 
on March 29 of that year. A. G. Hall was the 
owner of the land on which the village was lo- 
cated, and he built the first house in that place, 
Since that time the village has grown consid- 
erably in population and as a business center. 
The village cemetery is one of the oldest in the 
county, the remains of many of the early set- 
tlers of this portion of the township having 
been buried here. 

The village of Hyattsville was laid out 
February 6, 1876, by Henry A. Hyatt. Ed 
Nalz was the first merchant. He sold out to 
Henry Cook and opened another store in the 
depot building, and in 1877, when the post- 
office was established, Hyatt became the first 
postmaster. Later his business was almost ex- 
clusively that of a grain warehouseman and 
shipper. This village undoubtedly owes its 
existence to the building of the railroad 
through the township, and to some extent this 
is also true of Powell. P. Banner is the pres- 
ent village blacksmith, while W. B. McCloud 
& Co. keep a general store and H. W. Mc- 
Clary caters to the public in the line of gro- 
ceries. 

In Powell the leading merchants and busi- 
ness men are: Sellers, Roy and M. E. 
Weaver, blacksmiths; C. B. Dobyns, C. O. 
Hawes and Peter Sharp, general stores ; H. E. 
Sharp, hardware; J. C. Campbell and C. F. 
Tally, physicians, and George Kibby. hotel 
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The township officials (1908) are: John 
Thomas and I. N. Gardner, trustees; V. P. 
Rutherford, clerk ; John Taylor, treasurer, and 
W. G. Chambers and S. C. Blaney, assessors. 

MARLBOROUGH TOWNSHIP. 

This township was organized June 15, 
1808, as a result of a petition to the commis- 
sioners of Delaware County, and was given 
its name in honor of Marlborough Township, 
Ulster County, New York, the native place of 
many of the petitioners. It is now but a 
shadow of its former size, originally including 
a part of Waldo Township, in Marion County, 
Westfield Township, in Morrow County, the 
township of Oxford and the northern half of 
Troy, in Delaware County. It lost that part 
now Oxford Township, March 6, 1815, the 
northern half of Troy Township, December 
23, 1816, and February 24. 1X4X, that part 
which is now in Westfield Township and in 
Waldo Township was set off, leaving Marl- 
borough but half the size of an ordinary town- 
ship. 

That part of Waldo Township set off from 
Marlborough was the first of the township 
settled, Nathaniel Brundige and Nathaniel 
Wyatt, Sr., locating about a mile north of Nor- 
ton in 1806. These two pioneers, originally 
fnun Marlborough Township, Ulster county, 
New York, had moved to Washington County, 
Virginia, Wyatt in 1797, and Brundige in 
1798, and in 1803 with their families joined 
the tide of emigration into Ohio. For two 
years they were located at Piqua, Ohio, where 
they erected a cabin and made a clearing. At 
the end of that time Wyatt traded his property 
for a tract of wild land a short distance south 
of the old Greeneville Treaty line, and with his 
brother-in-law, Brundige, set out to locate it. 
Alter cutting their way through the untangi- 
ble underbrush which obstructed their path- 
way along the banks of the Olentangy, thev 
arrived at their destination. Immediately, they 
set about erecting a cabin to which thev 
brought their families in the spring of the same 
year. The following year witnessed the com- 
ing of Jacob Foust, who located within the 



present limits of the township, squatting on 
land at the forks of the Whetstone. Eldei 
William Brundige, father of Nathaniel, came 
in 1808, accompanied by his family, and in 
1810 Capt. William Drake and family arrived 
from Marlborough Township, in Ulster 
County, New York. William Reed, the first 
settler in Norton, came in 1807. and after- 
ward participated in the War of 18 12. Capt. 
John Wilcox, who had served with honor in 
the Revolutionary War, participating in the 
battles of Saratoga Springs and Stillwater, 
and being present at the surrender of General 
Burgoyne to Washington, located in Marl- 
borough Township some time prior to the 
War of 1812. Thomas Brown arrived at Nor- 
ton in 1808, and was the first blacksmith in 
the township. Faron Case came in 18 10, and 
James Trindle in 1811. Ariel Strong settled 
along the Olentangy River in 1808, followed 
shortly by James Livingston, who saw service 
in the War of 1812, and in 1809 William 
Sharp became established at Norton and 
gained prominence as the greatest hunter of 
this section, speaking the language of the In- 
dians, among whom he lived for weeks at a 
time during his younger days. William Han- 
neman came from Kentucky in 1810, and Isaac 
Bush, Silas Davis and Joseph Curran became 
settlers in the township before the War of 
181 2. Peter and Fred Duncklebarger located 
east of Norton in 181 5, and other settlers of 
the same period were- Elisha Bishop, Adin 
Winsor, Joseph Bishop. Isaac Stratton, Henry 
Coldren, Elisha Williams, George Jeffries, 
Thomas Rogers and L. H. Hall. Joseph Gil- 
lett. a Revolutionary soldier, settled just west 
of Norton in 1818, and was followed in 1819 
by his brother James. 

In 181 1. Nathaniel Wyatt, Sr., erected the 
first brick building in the township from brick 
made on his place. It was a two-story struc- 
ture, 20 by 36 feet in dimensions, and became 
famed throughout the State as Wyatt's Tav- 
ern, the first conducted in the township. It 
was situated on the old State Road, and 
formed a part of the celebrated Fort Morrow, 
now in Waldo Township, Marion County. 
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built by the settlers of round lugs and the 
other bj the < rovernment, of hewed logs. The 
latter bore the painted inscription. "Fort Mor- 
row. Built by Captain Taylor." The upper 
story of these block houses projected out about 
four feet all around over a basement six feet 
high. Where the second story projected over 
the basement, there were port holes in the 
floor, enabling the defenders to better guard 
against a close attack. The tavern lay between 
the two block houses. It was from this fort. 
Captain Drake and his company of soldiers 
went forth to the relief of Fort Meigs. 

The first white child born in Marlborough 
Township was William Brundige, son of Na- 
thaniel, born December 3. 1808, and the first 
burial was that of Ruth Wyatt. John Brun- 
dige, son of Elder William, was married in 
181 1. to Phoebe Drake, a daughter of Captain 
Drake, and this proved to be the first marriage. 
The first minister was Elder William Brun- 
dige, and the first school master, Robert 
Louther. A man named Case brought a stock 
of goods to Norton and remained until he 
closed them out, thus being the first store 
keeper, but it was several years later before a 
regular store building was built. The first 
road was the old Military Road, running along 
the west bank of the Olentangy River an I 
passing through the town of Norton. This 
road was abandoned when the Columbus and 
Sandusky Pike was constructed, the latter 
running a little west of the old road. The 
first mill in operation was the saw mill, built as 
early as 1820 by Robert Campbell of Phila- 
delphia, on the Whetstone River, in the south- 
east part of the township. Just north of this 
mill, a woolen mill was built in [846 b) J. W. 
( one ami operated successfully for a number 
of years, then was converted into a grist mill 
by "Mr. Kline. 

The village of Norton was laid out by 
Colonel Kilbourn and the plat filed in [806 1 r 
1807 and is situated just south of the boun- 
dary line between .Marion and Delaware Coun- 
ties. The old Military Road passed directly 
through the town, forming the main street, 
and at the present time the Marion Pike cuts 
diagonally through. The first building en 
was the cabin of William Reed, the pioneer 



settler of the village. Thomas Jefferies was 
the first postmaster of Norton, as well as of 
the township. Hie first schoolhouse of the 
township was located in Norton and was a log- 
structure of the most primitive type. 

The old Baptist Church of Troy Township 
was the first organized in Marlborough Town- 
ship, and of this Elder William Brundige was 
pastor. The first church organized within the 
present limits of the township was the Luth- 
eran Church, on the east side of the Olentangv 
and a mile east of Norton. The congregation 
first held services in the log school in that vi- 
cinity at a very early date, and Henry Cline 
was the first preacher. In 1852, a revolt in the 
church led to the organization of a new con- 
gregation formed partly from the old church, 
the new church being the German Reformed. 
The Lutherans immediately erected a new 
church, and in a spirit of rivalry the new con- 
gregation built an edifice adjoining, in 1855. 
Both churches use the old cemetery, which 
stands in the same lot as do the church edifices. 
Rev. J. G. Rubl was first pastor of the German 
Reformed Church. The Baptist Church of 
Norton is an off-bout of the old .Marlborough 
Baptist Church of Troy, and in 1859 the build- 
ing it now occupies was built at a cost of $1,- 
200. It was dedicated in i860, by James Har- 
vey, its first pastor. The Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Norton was built in 1855, although 
for a few years previous to that time the con- 
gregation bad existed, services being held in 
school rooms and houses, led by Rev. I'lumer. 
The church cost $1,200 in its construction and 
was dedicated by Rev. Pilcher. The Wyatt 
Cemetery is the historic burying ground of this 
section of the State, and for more than forty 
years was part of Marlborough Township. It 
is now just across the line in Marion County. 
The earliest settlers of the community, in- 
cluding the Wyatts, Brundiges and Drakes. 
found there a final resting place, and it is a 
fact worthy of mention that the defendet 
the United States in all the wars in which this 
country ha- engaged, have representation in 
this little cemetery. 

The officials of Marlborough Township for 
1908 are as follows: J. K. Camp, justice of 
the peace; S. H. Cleveland. W. I. Sutton, and 



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Henry Ashbrook," trustees ; Charles Sutton, 
clerk ; S. J. Downing, treasurer ; Frank Strat- 
ton, assessor; Jacob Freese, constable. 

ORANGE TOWNSHIP. 

Scarcely any record exists of the early set- 
tlers of this township, and even after availing 
ourselves of the labors of those who have 
preceded us in the field of historical research, 
there is a paucity of material which is deplor- 
able. The early settlers who came out here to 
make for themselves homes in the wilderness 
were too busy doing with their might what 
their hands found to do — and there was plenty 
to be done — to realize that a record of them- 
selves and what they accomplished would be 
of interest to those vet unborn ; to them, suf- 
ficient unto the day was the evil thereof. This 
township is bounded on the north by Berlin 
Township; on the south by Franklin County; 
on the east by Genoa and on the west by Lib- 
erty Township. Originally it was known as 
Township 3, Range 18 of the United States 
Military Lands, and when the first settlers 
came here, they found Sections 2 anil 3 to be a 
part of Liberty Township, and Sections 1 and 
4 were a part of Berkshire Township. On 
September 3, 1816, the county commissioners 
granted a petition to set off the original survey 
of Township 3, Range 18, as a separate town- 
ship. The prime mover in this matter was 
Alpha Frisbey. The township was to be called 
by the classic name of Virgil, but this was too 
much for the simple-minded folk of those days, 
and a petition was presented to the commis- 
sioners to change the name to Orange. This 
was granted on September 9th, just six days 
later. A glance at the ma]) will show that 
what would naturally be the southwestern cor- 
ner of the township, on the west side of the 
Olentangy River, is really in Liberty Town- 
ship. As a matter of fact, this was originally 
a part of Orange, and its annexation to Lib- 
ert}- Township was brought about in the fol- 
lowing-manner: Ebenezer Goodrich, who lived 
on this corner, was elected justice of the peace 
by the people of Liberty Township, about 
[824. It did not occur to him, or to anyone 



else, that he was not a citizen of Liberty, and 
therefore, not eligible to the office. This fact 
finally was brought to light, and it became 
apparent to all that all the official business 
transacted up to that time was, consequently, 
void. How to remedy this state of aft'ahs 
was a perplexing problem, until it was sug- 
gested that the General Assembly be petitioned 
to make this tract of land a part of Liberty 
Township; so in 1826. the Olentangy River 
was made the boundary of the township across 
that corner. 

The ridge along which run the tracks of 
the "Big Four" and Pennsylvania Railroads 
forms the water-shed between the Olentangy 
River and Alum Creek. The river bottoms 
ate rich, and the ridges, which rise immedi- 
ately back of these bottoms were originally 
covered with beech trees, indicating a clayey 
formation. The same is to a large extent true 
of the southern central part of the township. 
Extensive elm swamps were originally found 
in the northern portions of the township, 
but these have been redeemed by clearing and 
tilling, the rich black soil producing fine 
crops. 

In 1807, Joab Norton, for whom the town 
of Norton, in Marlborough Township was 
named, was the first settler in Orange Town- 
ship. He built his cabin in Section 2, then a 
part of Liberty Township. He was influenced 
in coming here by his wife, who wanted to be 
near her father, John Goodrich, who purposed 
coming to Worthington, Franklin County, 
where many of his former neighbors in Berlin, 
Connecticut, had already settled. They 
reached Worthington in November, having 
been on the road since September. Norton 
was a tanner and currier by trade, and, not 
content to be idle, he sunk vats and prepared to 
engage in the business, which the promises 
and prospects held out to him before he left 
the East led him to believe was waiting only 
to be claimed. Skins and hides were not to be 
had, and so he started north, and purchased 
tlic 150 acres of land where he settled in this 
township. After he had provided a home for 
his family, Mr. Norton sunk vats, so as to be 
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tervals in his work of clearing the land. He 
could not content himself with the Frontier life, 
and so, in 1808, he took a trip East on horse- 
hack. Upon his return in the fall, he was at- 
tracted by the prospects of business in the new 
town of Delaware, which Colonel Byxbe was 
developing, and so he purchased a house on the 
hill-side just north of where the Edward's 
gymnasium of Ohio Wesleyan University now 
stands. The details of his experience in this 
venture are covered in the chapter devoted to 
the manufacturing industries of the county. 

Joab Norton and others made application 
as early as 1809 for permission to form a 
rifle company. This was granted on June 24th 
of that year, and Norton became third ser- 
geant of the company, which was composed of 
about forty officers and privates, mostly from 
Liberty Township. Apparently, Norton had 
a taste and talent for military affairs, and was 
popular with the members of the company, as 
well, for his promotions were rapid. We 
find that on September 12th of the same year 
he was commissioned sergeant major, and two 
years later, on September 6th, he became lieu- 
tenant. It was not long before he was macTt 
captain of the company. 

The company was called out in June, 1S12. 
by Gov. Meigs, to defend the frontier settle- 
ments against any hostile incursions. Capt. 
Norton afterward proceeded with his com- 
mand to Sandusky, where he was engaged in 
building a block-house, of which he expected 
to be given command. He was here when 
Hull surrendered Detroit. For some reason 
the Captain was not placed in command of 
the block-house, and he returned home with 
his company. While at Sandusky, the germs 
of the malarial disease, which finally caused his 
untimely death on July 17, [813, were un- 
doubtedly implanted in his system. He was a 
man of large executive ability, a devout Chris- 
tian, and of cheerful disposition. He was 
buried with Masonic honors in the first ceme- 
tery laid out in the city of Delaware. He had 
been commissioned a justice of the peace "ii 
January 28, 1812. Besides a widow, he lett 
four children — Desdemona, who afterwards 
became Mrs. Col flesh ; Edward; Matilda, who 



married C. 1'. Elsbre, and Minerva, who 
mi ived to Wisconsin. 

In 1808. Eliphalet Ludington came from 
Connecticut, and purchased land adjoining 
Norton's. Others who came that year were 
William and Joseph Higgins, with their fami- 
lies, and their mother, who brought the 
younger members of her family, viz. : Josiah, 
Elisha, Irving, David and two daughters. The 
older boys had enjoyed unusual educational 
advantages for their day. Joseph had excep- 
tional skill as a penman, and he was so clever 
in imitating the hand-writing of other people, 
that he was suspected of having signed the 
counterfeit bills which were issued for the 
South. Apparently, there was no just ground 
for the suspicion, and the family continued to 
retain the respect of the community. Later, 
however, the family left the community under 
a cloud. Before the family left Vermont, the 
father of the boys ran off to Canada with a 
younger, if not a handsomer, woman than his 
wife. He came to Orange about 181 2, with 
the intention of "making up." However, he 
brought his paramour with him as far as 
Berkshire, so that in case his overtures were 
not favorably received, he would not be left 
alone. He knew his wife's weak points, and 
sent a messenger with his pocket-book to his 
wife, with the simple instruction, to "hand it 
to the old woman." The result was a recon- 
ciliation which brought disaster to the family. 
Changes in the habits and actions of the fam- 
ily soon aroused the suspicion of the commun- 
ity, and finally, the father and the three 
younger sons, Josiah, Elisha and Irving, were 
arrested for counterfeiting. A large amount 
of counterfeit coin, some paper money, to- 
gether with dies and metal were captured. The 
boys escaped by means of some technicality, 
and later, the old man. too, escaped much 
merited punishment. The family left the 
township at once, and have never since been 
heard of. 

In 1810. the wife of Eliphalet Ludington 
died, leaving an infant boy a few weeks' old. 
This was the first birth and death in the settle- 
ment. Soon after Mr. Ludington took the 
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lies of Nahum King and Louis Eaton came 
into the township that year. The next year 
lames McCumber with his third wife and two 
sons by his former marriages came into the 
township. Collins P. Elsbre, who was then a 
boy of eleven years of age, accompanied his 
mother and step-father. Their first actual resi- 
dence was in the cabin which had been aban- 
doned by Mr. Ludington. They purchased 
150 acres of land adoining Norton from James 
Kilbourn and immediately began to make a 
clearing. A log cabin 12 by 18 feet was erect- 
ed and occupied in the fall. In 18255, young 
Elsbre married Matilda, the third child of 
Captain Norton. Elsbre lived until February 
16, 1880, when he was gored to death by .1 
bull. Other early settlers who came into the 
township prior to the War of 1812, were the 
Arnolds, Stewarts and Asa and John Gard- 
ner. With the exception of the Gardners, 
these people remained in the township but a 
short time. Soon after the war. Lee Hurl- 
burt settled on the west bank of Alum Creek. 
Hurlburt went to the War of 1812 as a sub- 
situte for his father, who came into the town- 
ship with him. bringing his family of twenty- 
three children. The first settler on Alum 
Creek' was probably Samuel Ferson, who came 
from Pennsylvania and settled here about 1819. 
His brothers, James. Paul and John, his sister 
Sallie, and Margaret Patterson, whom John 
afterwards married, came with him. In [824, 
David Patterson. Cyrus Chambers, Thomas 
McCloud and Nelson Skeels settled on the 
wesl bank of the creek. The following year 
Samuel Patterson, with his father and mother 
and two sisters, located on the east side of the 
creek. 

At different times, there has been consid- 
erable competition between the different vil- 
lage^ in tin' township, each seeking In become 
the leading village, in which would be cen- 
tered the chief interests of the township. These 
were Williamsville, on the Columbus and San 
dusky Pike, being located at tin- four corners 
just wesl of the present village of < )range; the 
latter place was the second aspirant for dis- 
tinction, and Lewis ('enter, which is today the 
recognized metropolis of the township. Af- 



rica is a settlement that has not been without 
its influence upon the community. It was 
given this name by Leo Hurlburt, who was 
strongly in favor of slavery, though he took no 
action to oppose the operations of his neigh- 
bors, the Pattersons, who were prominently 
active in the service of the "Underground 
Railway." Much quiet assistance was given to 
fugitive slaves, but no pursuers ever came to 
this part of the township. In 1854, about 
thirty negroes, having been freed by the will 
of their deceased mistress, were sent from 
North Carolina to the Patterson neighbor- 
hood to find homes. Upon their arrival, the 
friends of the anti-slavery movement pro- 
vided them with homes. The negroes remained 
in this neighborhood, some of them for many- 
years, though the negro settlement has in the 
course of time disappeared. One of the Elsbre 
family in the west part of the township had 
an interesting' experience in connection with a 
hunt for some runaway slaves. About Christ- 
mas time in the year 1834. a negro boy calling 
himself John Quincv Adams, came to his 
cabin, and remained until the following sum- 
mer. One day wdiile he was working on the 
pike, he was recognized by two negroes who 
had run away from the same neighborhood 
he came from. Realizing that they would be 
pursued, and fearing that he too would be re- 
captured, he fled that night and was never 
heard from again. The pursuers were put on 
the trail of the boys by a neighbor, Mark 
Coles, who had previously known their master, 
and one bright, September night, as Mr. Els- 
bre sat with his little family enjoying a social 
chat with a neighbor, the door of his cabin 
was rudely opened, and a burly six-footer 
strode in. carrying a club big enough to use in 
killing an ox. Without saying a word, he pro- 
ceeded to examine the trundle-bed in which 
the younger children lay, and. with a glance 
toward the bed where Mrs. Elsbre lay with a 
two-weeks-old baby, he started up the ladder 
toward the loft. This was too much for Mr. 
Elsbre's equanimity. He had repeatedly asked 
the meaning of the demonstration, hut got no 
answer, and, seizing his gun from its place, 
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would 'put him on the coon-board in a min- 
ute.' The rifle was unloaded, but the tres- 
passer saw the frightful hole in the end. and 
deciding that discretion was the hetter part of 
valor, he came down. Still threatening: with 
his gun. Mr. Elsbre drove the ruffian out of 
the cabin and the enclosure where his com- 
panions were waiting. Of course the negro 
boys who were sleeping upstairs were aw ak- 
ened. and made their escape through a back 
window. When Air. Elsbre was satisfied that 
the boys had gone, he satisfied the pursuers 
that the slaves they were seeking were not 
there, and he was not disturbed again. 

In 1835, Anson Williams bought 1.000 
acres of land in Section No. 3. At first he set- 
tled in the southeastern part oi the tract, but 
the following year he moved to the site of 
Williamsville, and in December, 1836, he laid 
out what he expected would soon develop into 
a thriving village. There were alreadv two 
settlers here besides Mr. Williams — William 
Dutcher, and Mr. William's son-in-law. Isaac 
Bovee. Williams built a large frame house to 
be used as a hotel, in one part of which he 
opened a place of business, for the sale of gen- 
eral merchandise and liquor. That Mr. Wil- 
liams' plans were visionary is plain, from the 
fact that there was already a good hotel far- 
ther north, where the stage changed horses, 
and which continued to do the bulk of the 
tavern business. This was a brick structure 
that had been erected in 1827 by George Good- 
ing. It is said that a Mr. Saulsburv, who 
lived nearby, and who was a carpenter by 
trade, having an eye to business, to say the 
least, did nothing to discourage Mr. Williams 
in his ambition. Mr. Saulsburv served as jus- 
tice of the peace, and established the first 
manufactory in the township. He formed a 
partnership with Squire Truman Case, and 
secured permission from the State Penitentiary 
authorities, who had a monopoly of the busi- 
ness, to manufacture grain cradles. They 
made a snath with an artificial bend, which at 
that time was quite a novelty, and it is said 
their product was of a high grade. 

Lewis Center dates its birth from the com- 
pletion of the railroad through that point in 
1850. John Johnson, who built his cabin here 

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in 1823, was the first settler at this point. The 
spot is marked by a well he sank. At that time 
the locality was a swamp. The name was 
given to the place by William L. Lewis. VL 

Coy Sellers kept the first store, which st i 

near the railroad track when it was put 
through. The building of the C, D. & M. 
Railway placed the people of this township 
within easy reach of Delaware or Co- 
lumbus, but considerable business is still 
transacted here. The leading business men of 
Lewis Center at the present day are : Bert 
Slack, blacksmith; C. A. DeWitt and A. C. 
Barrows, geenral store proprietors ; John O. 
Gooding, grain and implements; E. R. Case, 
hardware and groceries; Frank Slack, glove 
manufacturer; P. W. Willey, physician. 

Orange station probably would never have 
had any existence, had not Mr. Lewis for a 
time objected to the location of the railroad 
station, so that the companv abandoned the 
site. Mr. Lewis was afterward influenced by 
friends to withdraw- his objection, but in the 
meantime, the senior George Gooding had of- 
fered the company the use of ten acres of land 
so long as they would keep a station on the 
tract. The company accepted the proposition 
and kept a station there as well as at Lewis 
Center, until 1879. F° r a time a postoffice 
was maintained here. 

The question of locating the Town-house 
caused a good deal of discussion, there being 
many conflicting interests. Some wanted to 
have it located at the center of the township ; 
the citizens of Lewis Center wanted it built 
in their village. Finally, it was built of brick, 
in its present location at the center of the 
township, in the year 1871. at a cost of $825. 
The Orange township officials for 1908, as 
reported to the county auditor, are : Andrew 
Bagley and J. S. Gooding, justices of the 
peace; C. C. Ballenger, C. D. Lehman and F. 
E. Smith, trustees ; Frank B. Ferson. clerk : 
E. L. Grove, treasurer; W. B. Crumb, as- 
sessor. 

OXFORD TOWNSHIP. 

It was not until 1847 that the present 
boundaries of Oxford Township were fixed. 



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It is bounded on the north by Westfield Town- 
ship, Morrow County; on the east by Peru 
Township, in the same county; on the smith 
by Brown Township, Delaware County and 
on the west by Troy and Marlborough Town- 
ships. Originally, Oxford was a part of Marl- 
borough Township, which exercised domin- 
ion clear to the shore of the lake. Seven years 
later, on March 6, 1815. a petition was granted 
by the county commissioners, erecting Oxford 
into a separate township. John Shaw is cred- 
ited with being the chief promoter of this 
movement. At that time the boundaries were 
fixed as follows: "Beginning at the south- 
east corner of the sixth township, Range 18, 
United States Military Lands, and running 
thence north on the east line of Range 18 to 
the Indian boundary line ; thence westerly 1 m 
said line to the east line of Range 19; thence 
south on said Range line to the s< nth line of 
the sixth township; thence east on said line to 
the place of beginning." In 1818, all thav 
part of Radnor Township which was due north 
1 f Oxford, and north of the Indian boundary 
line, was annexed to Oxford Township. When 
Westfield Township was formed in 1822, the 
territory was taken from Oxford and in 1847, 
when Morrow County was established, a strip 
one mile wide and five miles long was taken 
from the north side of Oxford and added to 
Westfield. 

The east branch of the Olentangy River 
tuns across the northwest corner of the town- 
ship, and in this region the surface of the 



grot 1 is more or less broken. 



Along the 



west branch of Alum Creek, which flows from 
north to south through the eastern quarter of 
the township, the surface is similarly broken; 
otherwise, the surface of the township is gen- 
erally level. In the rolling lands, the soil is 
clayey, but most of the land in the township 
is a rich black loam. In the early days this 
was so wet and swampy that the settlers al- 
most despaired of ever using it. Much of this 
land had been reclaimed by ditching and tiling 
and has proven very productive. Grains are 
all raised profitably, and much attention has 
been given and si ill is given to stock-raising. 

On May 3, [900, President Adams signed 
a patent for 4,000 acres of land in Section 3, 



the southwest quarter of the township, which 
was issued to John Rathbone, of New York. 
It was nearly half a century, however, before 
this land was placed on the market. The first 
settlers in the township were Ezra Olds and 
his wife, Comfort. In 18 10, they located in 
the northwest corner of the township, at what 
was afterwards called Windsor's Corners. In 
the same year a settlement was started in the 
southeastern part of the township, which later 
became known as the .Mum Creek District. 
The first pioneer here was, Andrew Murphy 
who, in a short time, was joined by James Me- 
WJlliams, Hugh Waters, Henry Riley and 
Henry Wolf. In the fall of 1810 or spring of 
the next year, Henry Foust settled on a farm a 
short distance east of the Olds farm. He mar- 
ried Mary Olds in 1812. A couple of years 
later, William T. Sharp, who came as far as 
Norton with Harrison's army, decided to make 
his home here, and for some time lived in the 
family of Henry Foust. David Kyrk came 
into this part of the township soon after the 
war of 181 2. Elijah Smith and Calvin Cole 
came into the township about 181 5. About 
two years after that Robert Brown settled in 
that part of the township where Ashley is now 
located. A year later. Ralph Slack came up 
from Berkshire, and settled where the south- 
eastern part of the village is built. His brother 
John Slack settled on the next farm to the 
east, across the creek. Adam Shoemaker set- 
tled a little north of the present village of Ash- 
lev in 1 8 10, but a few years later moved to a 
farm just east of the village. He had a large 
family of boys, and has numerous descendants 
still living in Ashley. In 1823, Amos Spur- 
geon settled on the farm now occupied by the 
northwestern quarter of Ashley, and in 1826. 
Thomas Barton settled on the farm next north- 
west. In 1842, the land purchased by John 
Rathbone was placed on the market by his 
grandson. Hiram G. Andrews, of Delaware. It 
was divided up into sections of 100 acres each. 
( irirfith Thomas was the first purchaser in 
[843. Others who bought lots soon after were 
Evan McCreary, Isaac Clark. George House- 
worth and X. E. Gale. They paid from three 
to eight dollars per acre. This territory was 
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woods," because it was so heavily timbered. 

The land was so wet that it took many years of 
hard work ditching and tiling before it was in 
condition to till, but today there is no better 
farming land in the county than this. Seth 
Slack built the first brick house in this section. 

The first justice of the peace was Andrew 
Murphy. He was succeeded by Ezra Olds, 
who filled the office for thirty years. The first 
brick house in the township was built by Aden 
Windsor in 1832. He also built the first frame 
barn a few years later. The first frame dwell- 
ing was built in 1840 by a carpenter by the 
name of Harkness. for Henry Foust. The first 
death in the township was that of a child of 
Comfort Olds, in 1812. Interment was made 
in the cemetery at Norton. Job Foust was the 
first white child born in the township. The 
mills, schools, religious development and mili- 
tary history of the township are treated in 
other chapters of the work. 

The village of Ashley is the most popu- 
lous municipality outside of the city of Dela- 
ware in the county. Its original name was 
Oxford, but was changed to Ashley in honor 
of L. W. Ashley, one of the proprietors of the 
ground upon which the village was built. The 
other owner was J. C. Avery. County Sur- 
veyor Charles Neil platted the village on June 
15, 1849, laying it off in 69 lots. On August 
6th of the same year an addition of 83 inlots 
was made and on June 18, 1850, J. C. Avery, 
S. Finch and Henrv Lamb made an addition 
of 15 in-lots. In 1852, Lamb and Finch plat- 
ted ten out-lots, and in i860. L. W. Ashley 
added three more lots. In 1877. Hugh Cole 
and John Doty made a small addition, bring- 
ing the total number of lots up to 183. In 
May. 1850. a small grocery and dry goods 
store was started by Lewis Purmort on the 
Shoemaker farm east of the village. Later in 
the same year Aloy Patee built the Ashley ho- 
tel, and Purmort moved his stock of merchan- 
dise into one of the rooms of the hotel. In 
1850 or 1 85 1. the first postoffice was estah- 
lished. and J. H. Miller, of the dry goods firm 
of Miller & Mulford served as the first post- 
master. Among the earliest firms were Rob- 
ert Morehouse. Tr.. who erected a frame build- 



ingp on in-lot No. 4 and started in the dry 
goods business. Two years later they sold out 
to J. S. Brumback. A vear or two after the vil- 
lage was laid out. Benjamin McMaster, Jo- 
seph Riley and Israel Potter erected a grain 
warehouse, of which Mr. McMaster became 
sole proprietor in 1853. He engaged in the 
grain business a few years longer and then 
sold out to the firm of Breeden & Place. About 
the time this grain warehouse was first erected, 
Jesse Meredith built another on the railroad 
grounds, and combined the grain business with 
the duties of station agent. Among other 
early merchants we may mention Adam Sher- 
man and a Mr. Clark. The village of Ashley 
was incorporated August 30, 1855, and the fol- 
lowing were the first city officials : James Cul- 
bertson, mayor; A. Patee. recorder; Jesse 
Meredith. S. Joy, Levi Shisler and Samuel 
Shisler, councilmen. Thev served until the 
regular election the following spring, when L. 
D. Benton was elected mayor; J. M. Coomer, 
recorder, and Solomon Joy, Samuel Shisler, S. 
I'.. Morehouse. A. G. Hall and George Mc- 
Master, councilmen. Benjamin Fry was the 
first marshal, and Solomon Joy the first treas- 
urer. The first ordinance passed by the Coun- 
cil was for the suppression of intemperance. 
In the spring of 1857, B. F. Fry was elected 
mayor. Ashley is now one of the most pros- 
perous municipalities of its size in the State. 

Its financial interests are taken care of by 
the Ashley Bank and the Farmers' Savings 
Bank. The Ashley Milling Company and the 
firm of Lin & Shoemaker conduct prosperous 
flouring mills, while Frank Goodrich and Gra- 
ham Company are elevator proprietors and 
dealers in grain. The hardware buisness is 
represented by B. Bartholomew and John 
Olds; Fisk & Wilcox deal in agricultural and 
other implements ; A. B. Claypool. Lee & Fisk. 
Frank Sharp and Ray Waters are gr< icers ; 
James Dugan deals in clothing; A. Aldrich, 
Charles Malony, William Robinson, and E. 
Wilkerson are blacksmiths; Miller Bros, are 
proprietors of a furniture and undertaking es- 
tablishment ; while the dry goods interests are 
looked after by E. C. Sipes (proprietor of 
"The Bazaar"), Westbrook & James, and Jo- 



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seph Wilt. There are two hotels — the Cot- 
tage and the Franklin, presided over respec- 
tively by William Ashbrook and E. Stalkbar- 
ger. and other business interests are repre- 
sented by John Brehm, baker and confec- 
tioner; Frank Barto, William Osborn, bar- 
bers; M. Powell, dentist; O. M. Gilbert, dis- 
tillery; Jesse Achelson and Ray White, dray- 
men ; Aldrich & Stratton and Ed Keltner, em- 
blem manufacturers ; James Durkey, harness 
and shoes; D. Davis and Frank Pierce, jew- 
elry; Clyde Sherman, livery; Welch & Wind- 
sor and A. M. Myers, meat; Mrs. Clara Wil- 
kerson, millinery; A. P. Oliver and A. E. 
Thomas, real estate and insurance; Ray Slack 
and J. G. Redman, restaurants ; Doctors Bur- 
ke}-, A. E. Westbrook, Elda Welch and M. 
McGough, physicians. The Ashley Star has 
W. S. Shoemaker for editor and manager, 
while Charles Longwell is engaged in the 
manufacture of monuments. 

Oxford Township Officials (1908): Jer- 
ome Harroun and Seebers Martin, justices of 
the peace ; Stanley Beel, J. B. Glenn, and E. 
A. Martin, trustees; Ralph Davis, clerk; Le- 
roy Watters. treasurer; J. L. Porterfield. as- 
sessor; John R. Compton and B. L. Martin, 
constables. 

PORTER TOWNSHIP. 

This township, which was the last one to 
be organized in Delaware County, and was 
named after the Hon. Robert Porter, of Phila- 
delphia, who received from President John 
Adams a patent dated March 21, 1800, for 4, 
000 acres in Section 3, Township i and Range 
16 of the United States Military Lands. So 
far as is known, this was the first patent for 
lands in Porter Township that was issued by 
the Government. The proprietor of this land 
was a prominent attorney in Pennsylvania, 
where he was a circuit judge for many vears. 
The present township of Porter was created at 
the June session of the county commissioners 
in 1826. It is hounded on the north by Mor- 
row County; on the east 1>\ Knox County; on 
the south by Trenton Township and on the 
west by Kingston. There are quarries of fine 



Waverly sandstone in the township, and these 
are its only mineral resources. The soil of the 
township is rich, and all the grain crops do 
well here. Farming and grazing have always 
been the principal occupations of the citizens. 
Before the axe of the white man was brought 
into this region, it was heavily wooded with all 
the varieties of timber common to this section 
of the State. There are a large number of 
streams in the township, and this makes the 
problem of drainage a comparatively easy one 
to solve. Big Walnut Creek is the principal 
stream of w r ater. It enters the township about 
a mile and a half east of the northwest cor- 
ner of the township, and flows through the 
center of the west half of the township into 
Trenton. Among the principal tributaries of 
the creek we will mention Long Run, whicn 
comes into the township from Morrow county 
and runs in a westerly and southwesterly di- 
rection until it empties into Big Walnut a 
short distance southeast of Olive Green. Sugar 
Creek runs through the township from north- 
east to southwest, joining Big Walnut about a 
mile north of the southern boundary of the 
township. Wilcox Run is the principal tribu- 
tary of Sugar Creek. 

Prior to 181 2, a number of white squat- 
ters, commonly called "Taways," but not re- 
lated in any way to the Indian tribe of that 
name, settled in this township. They were 
indolent and without ambition or enterprise. 
Their nearest approach to labor was in hunt- 
ing, trapping or fishing. Wild game and wild 
hogs with wild fruits were their principal sub- 
sistence, though occasionally they broke over 
and raised a little grain. Among the earliest 
real pioneers of the township were Daniel 
Pint. Timothy Meeker and Timothy Murphy. 
Though they reared large families as was the 
custom in those days, few if any of their de- 
scendants are now to be found in the county. 
In 1810, Peter and Isaac Plan, two brothers, 
settled in the southern part of the township. 
In 1817, two brothers, Fbenezer and Christo- 
pher Lindenberger, settled where the village of 
Olive Green was later located. They were 
from Rhode Island and owned several hun- 
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other Rhode Islanders. Festus Sprague and 
Edward Mason, settled nearby and married 
two of the Lindenberger girls, sisters of the 
men we have mentioned. Ebenezer Linderber- 
ger was a graduate of an eastern college, and 
his brother had a better education than was 
the common lot of men in those days. Mason 
was also well educated, and possessed a men- 
tal endowment that qualified him for any 
township, county or State office within the 
gift of the people. He seemed, however, to 
lack energy and ambition. From the time he 
settled in Porter until his death which occur- 
red near the beginning of the second war with 
England, he was justice of the peace and held 
other township offices. His lazy habits re- 
sulted in his becoming very stout, and the 
slowness of movement, coupled with his pon- 
derosity, gave him an air of importance which 
led people to call him "Pompey" Mason. Like 
most large people, he was good-natured, and 
easy-going, and the radiance of his sunny dis- 
position was shed alike on family, neighbors 
and friends — he had no enemies. His court 
was one of conciliation. Before the trial of a 
cause, he tried by every possible means to ef- 
fect a settlement between the litigants, thus 
saving' them money and winning their friend- 
ship. Festus Sprague married a sister of 
Squire Mason. By application and industry 
Mason succeeded in educating himself suffi- 
ciently to meet the requirements for a teacher 
in those days, and to fill various offices with 
ability. For many years he served as justice 
of the peace, and while he possessed no legal 
training was regarded by those in the profes- 
sion who knew him as having naturally a legal 
mind, and his counsel was often sought in im- 
]>< rtant cases. He was a man of temperate 
habits and of the utmost moral rectitude. His 
neighbors could never understand what it was 
that influenced him to adopt the polygamous 
doctrines of the Mormons, which led him, 
about i S57. to sell his property and move with 
his family to Utah, where he died not long 
after. Christopher Lindenberger and part oi 
his family also moved to Utah for similar rea- 
sons. Ebenezer Lindenberger and family 
moved to the West. John Lindenberger, a son 



of Christopher, served as a justice of the peace 
and in other township offices. 

Section 4 came to be known as the "Irish 
Section," by reason of the fact that the patent 
for these lands was issued by President Mon- 
roe, on November 28, 1817, to the heirs-at- 
law of Hugh Holmes and Robert Rainey, who 
at that time were residents of Ireland. On 
April 10, 1837, these parties, by their attor- 
ney, conveyed his section to George C. Bum- 
ford, who in turn deeded it to John W. Wor- 
den. Not long alter that Mr. Worden sold 
one-half of the section to Benjamin S. Brown. 
of Mt. Vernon, and this land was not placed 
upon the market until after Mr. Brown's death 
in the fall of 1838. 

On May [9, 1800, Judge Robert Porter 
deeded 300 acres of land, situated on Big Wal- 
nut Creek about three-quarters of a mile 
south of the present village of Olive Green, to 
Thomas Mendenhall. a merchant of Wilming- 
ton, Delaware. Mendenhall gave this land to 
his son Joel Z., who brought his family here 
and erected a cabin in 18 19. He was a prac- 
tical farmer and surveyor, which occupatii ins 
he followed for many years. He was county 
surveyor for a number of terms. He married 
his second cousin, Eliza M"endenhall, in Phila- 
delphia before coming to Ohio. Mr. Menden- 
hall had a good education. He was a justice 
of the peace and held other township offices. 
From 1835 to 1853 he resided in the City of 
Delaware, where he also filled the office of jus- 
tice of the peace. But city life did not ap- 
peal to him, so in the latter year he returned to 
his farm in this township. The increasing in- 
firmities of age finally compelled him to give 
up farming, and he moved to Olive Green, 
where he died about 1872. 

Another settler who came into the town- 
ship in 1817 was Samuel Page, who came fn im 
Broome County, New York. His farm was 
on the Sunbury and Mt. Gilead State Road 
near the Kingston Township line. About two 
years later he sold this farm to his brother 
William, who had immigrated to the township. 
Samuel Page moved onto another farm in 
Bennington Township, Morrow County, where 
the village of Pagetown is now located. Wil- 



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Ham Page was upright and industrious, giving 
a practical demonstration of the principles of 
Christianity in his daily life which won for 
him the high esteem of his neighbors. He was 
justice of the peace, and filled other offices 
with credit. He married Miss Sarah Ed- 
wards. They had five sons — William A.. 
Roswell, Samuel, Washington and Ranson, 
and one daughter, who married a man named 
Wells. In 1840, William Page laid out the 
village of East Liberty on his farm. It was 
laid off into four regular squares. The lots 
were readily sold and the purchasers erected 
homes, but the failure at this time to build 
the projected railroad arrested the develop- 
ment of the place. Dr. H. Bessee, who located 
here in 1847, Nvas tne nrst physician, and he 
remained here until the beginning of the Civil 
War. The first hotel was kept by George 
Blainey. who was also the first postmaster. 

Olive Green was the first town laid out in 
Porter. It was surveyed and platted in 1835 
by Joel Z. Mendenhall for Christopher Lindeh- 
berger and Festus Sprague, who were the 
owners. The village was laid out in eight 
regular squares, and is located on the State 
Road between Mt. Vernon and Columbus at 
the intersection of the road between Sunbury 
and Alt. Gilead. The first store was kept by 
Christopher Lindenberger. A post office was 
established in i860. James N. Stark being the 
first postmaster. The first frame hi luse was 
erected by a Mr. Baird. About 1830, Andrew 
Hemminger, who was of German descent, 
moved into the township from Tuscarawas 
County. For many years he was the only set- 
tler on the road between East Liberty and the 
old Vail tavern, and so his home came to be 
a -lopping place for travelers, lie put up a 
double log house, and as many as fifty teams 
were sometimes put up here over night. Aaron 
R. Harrison located in the western part of the 
township in 1833. He had a farm of several 
hundred acres on the road running from Sun- 
bury to .Mt. Gilead. He was born in New 
Jersey in 1778, and married Mary Condit in 
1803. They brought five sons and four 
daughters with them from New Jersey. He 
built the first frame barn erected in the town- 
ship, which was 30 x 50 feet in dimensions. 



His son Zenas served as county commissioner, 
besides filling different township offices to the 
satisfaction of the people. 

About 1820, a man named Sturdevant, the 
father of James and Chauncey H. Sturdevant, 
settled in the township. A. G. Kennev emi- 
grated from Maryland in 1828, and settled on 
a farm on a branch of Long Run about half a 
mile from the northern boundary of the town- 
ship. They erected the first brick house in the 
township. Two years after they came here. Sam- 
uel Dowell settled at the head of Sugar Creek. 
Rev. Henry Davey, a Dunkard preacher, set- 
tled on Sugar Creek, near the center of Sec- 
tion 1, about 1832. He enjoyed vigorous 
health, and was capable of great mental and 
physical labor. He built a saw-mill on his 
farm and soon had the farm well improved 
and good buildings erected. He was a recog- 
nized leader of his sect, and for many years he 
was away from home the greater part of the 
time attending to his ministerial duties. He 
was well-to-do in this world's goods, but lived 
simply and without display. In 1856 he sold 
the farm just described, and purchased an- 
other on Big Walnut Creek ; here he lived for 
several years, finally selling the property and 
removing to the western part of the State. In 
1830, Charles Patrick, a son of Squire Joseph 
Patrick of Berkshire, settled on the Porter 
section. He cleared up and improved a farm 
of 300 acres. The same year William Her 
and the Gray family came from Tuscarawas 
County and settled in Seption 1 near the Mor- 
row County line. Her was a local preacher in 
the Methodist Church, but was broad-minded 
and tolerant of the beliefs of others, often 
uniting with members of other denominations 
in religious work. Other early settlers were 
11. Blackledge, who gained the reputation of 
keeping some of the best stock in the township. 
Harvey Leach settled in the township in 1834, 
and married a daughter of Mr. Dunham, 
whose farm was on the State Road near the 
Morrow County line. He was a soldier in the 
War of 1 812. During the later years of his 
life he was blind. 

In 1837. Mr. Charles M. Fowler located in 
the north-eastern portion of this township. 
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home in the Catskil] Mountains to engage in 
the manufacture of oilcloth, having Messrs. 
Snyder ami I 'ran for his partners. The enter- 
prise did not prove successful from a financial 
standpoint, and Mr. Fowler came to Ohio. 
In 1840. he married Miss Catharine Ann Gray 
of New Philadelphia, and brought her to the 
farm in Porter Township on which he had set- 
tled three years before. They came overland 
in a spring-wagon — the first one in the neigh- 
borhood. Having taken the most important 
step in a man's lifetime, Mr. Fowler row set 
to work with all his energy to clear up his 200- 
acre farm. The forest was so dense that they 
could not see forty rods from the cabin, and 
t nly reached this neighborhood by following a 
path that was indicated by blazed trees. After 
remaining - here for four years with his young 
wife, who had never been away from home, 
Mr. Fowler returned with his family to his old 
home in New York State, driving in a wagon 
to New Philadelphia, and making the rest of 
the journey by canal and wagon. He remained 
away fi >ur years, during which time his farm 
was cultivated by a tenant, McCreary by name. 
While he was away, Mr. Fowler was again 
engaged in business as a manufacturer, but 
sold out his interests when he decided to re- 
turn to his farm. He began to make 
improvements, and soon had his farm well 
fenced and under a good state of cultivation. 
He erected a large frame house and two frame 
barns, set out an orchard, and soon had every- 
thing about him for his comfort and conven- 
ience that was possible in that day. He and 
his wife were Presbyterians, and for many 
years they were regular attendants of the Old 
Blue Church in Kingston, a distance of seven 
miles from their home, and great as was the 
distance, they were seldom late either for Sab- 
bath school or preaching services. When the 
New School Presbyterians built their church 
in East Liberty, he went there, the distance 
being three miles shorter. In this new church 
Mr. Fowler and Mr. John Wan Sickle, of 
Kingston, were the main pillars. Mr. Fowler 
was a man of true piety and practical religion. 
He made several trips to his old home in the 
Catskill Mountains, and was frequently visited 



by his father and mother. Mr. Fowler died 
in Delaware, where he had resided but a short 
time, on June 12, [872, and was buried in the 
old cemetery he had helped to lay out, near the 
old church in Porter, with which he had been 
so long identified. He was well versed in the 
Scriptures and in ancient and modern history. 
His oldest son, Dr. S. W. Fowler, of Dela- 
ware, is the oldest physician in the county, and 
an able contributor to this work. 

In 1839, David Babcock emigrated from 
Rhode Island to Porter Township and settled 
on the east side of the Big Walnut, near the 
northern boundary or the township. He 
cleared up the farm and resided here until his 
death, which occurred in 1871, when he was 
seventy-two years old. About 1844, S. A. 
Ramsey purchased a farm of about 200 acres 
near the center of the "Irish Section." This he 
developed into a profitable farm. He reared 
a large family, and won the respect of all his 
neighbors by his uprightness of character. He 
served as justice of the peace and in other 
township offices. We have endeavored to give 
all that we could learn regarding the early 
settlers, who left homes of comparative com- 
fort and braved the perils and endured the 
hardships of the wilderness to pave the way 
for the civilization that we enjoy today. It 
would be impossible to go into such detail re- 
garding the thousands of worthy citizens who 
now compose the population of Delaware 
County. So far as we know, no record ex- 
ists to show the date of the first marriage, but 
as nearly as we can learn, the contracting 
parties were Reuben Place and Rachel Meeker. 
Tradition also says that Eliza Allen Menden- 
hall Pint was the first white child born of the 
permanent settlers, and Polly Place was the 
first to die. This has always been a farming 
community, and one of the last places in the 
world for a speculative enterprise to gain a 
foothold; yet. in 1865, when the oil specula- 
tion in Ohio was at its height, the Delaware 
& Hocking Oil Company was organized by 
Judge Isaac Ramsey, David Coban, Dr. H. 
Bessee, Mr. Huston and others, with Charles 
McElroy as secretary. The necessary appar- 
atus was purchased, and the Company started 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



to bore for oil on the Big Walnut. The ex- 
citement grew greater from day to day, the 
stock of the company increased in price and 
sold rapidly to those whom, it is easy now to 
say, were more hopeful than wise. It was 
decided that the work was impracticable after 
the well had been driven 900 feet through the 
sandstone, blue clay and clay shale, and the 
enterprise was abandoned. Had they been 
successful, the promoters of the venture would 
have been credited with unusual foresight and 
business acumen. The citizens of Porter 
Township are the peers of the citizens of any 
similar neighborhood in the State in intelli- 
gence, industry, enterprise and morality. 

The present officers of the township (for 
1908) are as follows : 

C. H. Forsley and L. E. Smith, justices 
of the peace: F. O. White and C. W. Sherman, 
trustees ; W. H. Fredericks, clerk ; C. X. Metz- 
ger, treasurer; E. R. Chadwick, assessor; 
Ernest Garvin and Elmer Vining, constables. 

RADNOR TOWNSHIP. 

Radnor, one of the three original townships 
of Delaware County, rich and fertile in its soil, 
substantial and progressive in its citizenship, 
takes second rank to no farming community in 
this section of the State. Peopled from its in- 
fancy, largely by men of the sturdy Welsh 
race, the development and improvement of the 
land and the establishment of schools and 
churches was accomplished with greater 
rapidity than is recorded in the experience of 
most virgin territories. Henry Perry, of Angel- 
sey, South Wales, accompanied by his young 
sons, Ebenezer and Levi, was the first white 
settler, coming in the fall of 1803, hut it was 
not until July of the following year that he 
became a property owner. He purchased 100 
acres of land fur $150 of David Pugh, an ex- 
tensive land owner, at whose solicitation he 
had come west from Philadelphia to make set- 
tlement. 

David Pugh, leaving his native country, 
Radnorshire, South Wales, crossed the ocean 
in 1 801, and took up his residence in Balti- 
more, Maryland. The following year he went 
to Philadelphia, where he met Dr. Samuel 



Jones, who had a warrant for 4,000 acres of 
United States Military land, in Town- 
ship 6, Range 20, as designated by the 
United States Survey. The result of the ac- 
quaintance was the employment of young 
Pugh as an emissary to go west and learn 
something of the character and value of the 
land owned by the doctor. Early in 1802 he 
left Philadelphia and after an adventurous trip 
on •horseback, lasting two months, arrived at 
Franklinton, Franklin County, the settlement 
nearest the land he sought. With an exper- 
ienced backwoodsman as guide, he made his 
way northward through an unbroken wilder- 
ness to the land, located in the township to 
which he subsequently gave the name of Rad- 
nor, in honor of his native country. The name 
however is of English origin, the Welsh name 
of that country being "Maesyfed." After a 
thorough examination, David Pugh returned 
to Philadelphia and made a favorable report to 
Dr. Jones. In the city of Philadelphia, March 
2, 1803, for a consideration of $2,650, a trans- 
fer was made to David Pugh, of the 
tract of 4,000 acres, excepting 50 acres 
given to David Lodwig, and 50 acres 
donated as a "glebe" for a Baptist or a Presby- 
terian minister who would locate in the pro- 
posed settlement. 

Henry Perry, who had but recently arrived 
in this country, was persuaded by Mr. Pugh to 
make settlement in this wild country, which he 
and his two sons did in the fall of 1803, as 
before mentioned, leaving his wife and two 
small children in Baltimore. The journey was 
made on foot, and after many trials and hard- 
ships they arrived on the Pugh land. A small 
clearing was made, a cabin erected and the 
following spring crops planted on land which 
they had cleared during the winter. Leaving 
his young sons (Ebenezer being fifteen and 
Levi thirteen years old at the time of their ar- 
rival) in possession of the cabin, Henry Perry 
returned to Baltimore for the remainder of his 
family, which in the early summer he brought 
West, making the journey in a cart. In 1804, 
David Pugh returned and had his land sur- 
veyed into 100 acre tracts, except 150 acres in 
the center, which were laid out in town lots, 
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Others who came in 1804 and purchased of 
Mr. Pugh, were Richard Tibbott, John Wat- 
kins. John Jones, Hugh Kyle, and David 
Marks. The year of 1805 witnessed the com- 
ing" of the following families: Evan Jenkins, 
David Davids, Richard Hoskins, David 
Davies, and John M inter. David Pugh went 
to his native land in 1806, and in 1807 re- 
turned with his sisters, Mary and Hannah, 
wives of David Perry and John Philips, re- 
spectively. The same year, came Mrs. Eleanor 
Lodwig with her children. Thomas, John and 
Letitia ; and in 1808. Benjamin Kepler. Elijah 
Adams. Thomas Warren, and John Foos, 
came to Radnor with their families. 

Radnor Township was created at the time 
the county was organized, but remained as 
then constituted only until the meeting of the 
rirst Commissioners Court, when on June 15, 
1808. the township of Marlborough was 
created out of Radnor territory. Thompson 
and Troy were later segregated from Radnor 
and established as separate townships, leaving 
the latter, in its dimensions, about ten miles 
north and south and from three to five miles in 
width. 

During the War of 1812, the settlers were 
kept in turmoil, being in constant fear of at- 
tack from the Indians. A block house was 
erected on the farm of Benjamin Kepler as a 
retreat for the people, but when an attack be- 
came most threatening, many fled to the fort 
near Franklinton. However, the expected at- 
tack never materialized. After the war had 
closed and peace and safety assured, there 
was a great influx of new settlers, among 
them being Mrs. Wasson and her sons; Joseph 
Dunlap; Samuel Cooper; Robert and John 
McKinney; Obed Taylor; James and Matthew 
Fleming; John Jones; Walter Perry. Si"., with 
his sons, Walter, William, Edward, and 
Roger ; then Thomas Jones and sons — John 
A. and Thomas ; Ellis Jones, David E. Jones. 
Edward Evans. John Owen. Roger Watkins, 
W'atkin Watkins, William Watkins, John and 
Humphrey Humphreys, Benjamin Herbert. 
Morgan D. Morgans, the pioneer blacksmith 
of the settlement: J. R. Jones, a weaver by 
trade: J. Jones, a mason; John Cadwalader, 
Rev. David Calwalader, David Lloyd, John 



Davies, a cooper; Mrs. Mary Chidlaw, with 
her family ; and Robert and Stephen Thomas. 
Most of these were of Welsh birth. By the 
time the early thirties were reached, practically 
all of the lands of the township was owned by 
actual settlers, and it is a notable fact that few 
farms of the township have ever been sub- 
jected to tax sales. 

The first white child born in the county 
was David Perry, Jr., followed closely by 
Mary Jones, afterward Mrs. Warner, in 1807. 
The first death was that of the mother of 
Hugh Kyle, but there is no record of the date; 
she was buried in the old cemetery at Radnor. 
The first marked grave in that cemetery was 
that of David Davids, who died September 10. 
1 8 10. Elijah Adams was the first justice of 
the peace in Radnor, and Thomas Warren 
conducted the first tavern, starting in 181 1 in 
a two story log building. 

The village of Delhi, which has been 
known as Radnor since the advent of the Co- 
lumbus & Toledo ( Hocking Valley) Railroad, 
was laid out in August, 1833, for Edward 
Evans on his farm, near what has been the 
town site of New Baltimore, before Thomas 
Warren converted it into a farm. The first 
house on the town site of Radnor was built in 
1805 where the Welsh Methodist Church now 
stands, and was occupied by Morgan Morgan, 
the blacksmith. The first store was kept by 
Obed Taylor. Thomas Taylor was the first 
postmaster as well as the first tavern keeper. 
Delhi Lodge No. 250, I. O. O. F., was installed 
there May 17, 1854, with five charter mem- 
bers, and grew rapidly. 

The time the first school was started or 
by whom it was taught is not known, but it 
was during the early days of the settlement. 
In 1821 there were three log school houses in 
the township, one on the farm of John Philips 
in the southern part, another on the farm of 
John Dildine. centrally located, ami the third 
near the old block house. There are at present 
eight school districts, with substantial school 
buildings, and a competent corps of instruc- 
tors employed. 

The first organized religious society in 
Radnor Township, was the Baptist, which had 
its beginning May 4, 1816, in a log school- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



house. Elder Drake was the first regular pas- 
tor, preaching in both Welsh and English. 
They erected first a log church near the bury- 
ing ground, and regardless of denomination 
or religious belief, the settlers assisted in the 
building, each bringing a hewed log and as- 
sisting in the raising. In 1833. near the site 
of the log church, a stone building was built, 
and in 1867 a fine edifice was constructed of 
brick, representing an outlay of $4,500. 

The Methodist Episcopal Church had rep- 
resentation there from the first, and in 1808 
an itinerant minister preached the first sermon 
in the township, in the house of Henry Perry. 
Several years later a few of the families met 
regularly at the house of Elijah Adams and 
services were held. It was not until 1838 that 
a frame house of worship was built and the 
congregation supplied with regular preaching. 
In 1855 a brick meeting house was erected. 

The Radnor Welsh Congregational Church 
had its beginning about 1818. when meetings 
were held in the cabins of the settlers, the 
language spoken being invariably Welsh. In 
1820, Rev. James Davies organized a church 
in the home of John Jones, and thereafter was 
not without a pastor for more than a brief 
period. In 1841 a frame church building was 
erected and in 1842 was dedicated. In the 
middle sixties a brick meeting house was erec- 
ted at a cost of $3,000. 

The Radnor Presbyterian Church dates its 
organization back to 1819, when the Rev. Jo- 
seph Hughes of Delaware accepted it as one 
of his charges. A hewed log meeting-house 
was built in a sugar grove on the farm of Jo- 
seph Dunlap. The erection of a stone church 
building was begun in 1840 but not completed 
until 1849. I n tne interim, the log church 
was abandoned and there was no pastor for 
several years. Through the efforts of Rev. 
S. R. Hughes, the church resumed its proper 
place in the world. 

The Protestant Episcopal Church was or- 
ganized in 1836 by Rev. Abram Edwards, and 
a house of worship was erected but its exist- 
ence was limited to a very few years. 

The Presbyterian Church was organized 
in 1848, largely through the untiring efforts 
of Rev. Henry Shedd and in 1854 a brick 



church building was constructed. It thrived 
ami prospered from its inception. 

The Welsh Presbyterian Church was or- 
ganized in 1850 by the Welsh settlers who 
were of the Calvinistic Methodist faith before 
leaving their native land. Their church creed 
being almost identical with the Presbyterian 
in America, the church was given the latter 
name. The first pastor was Rev. Hugh Rob- 
erts, and the Welsh language has always been 
used in preaching in that church. A church 
edifice was erected in 1877. 

The Radnor Sunday School Union, the 
first Sunday school in Radnor Township, was 
established April 18, 1829. and continued most 
actively for many years, but finally was dis- 
banded because Sunday Schools had been es- 
tablished in the respective Churches. Primers, 
spellers and the Bible were the text books used 
and the good accomplished by this organiza- 
tion in improving the minds of the young, 
morally and educationally, can scarcely tie es- 
timated or imagined. Of the members of this 
union, six became ministers of the Gospel. 

The Radnor Township officials in 1908 
were: James P. Osborne, justice of the 
peace; Charles S. Gallant and Edgar Jones, 
trustees; Charles E. Davis, clerk; Perry J. 
Griffith, treasurer; Charles R. Watkins. as- 
sessor; M. Mays, constable. 

The following are the business houses of 
Radnor: E. I. Jones, general store; I. W. 
Holmes, general store; Benjamin Pritchard, 
blacksmith ; G. T. Wolfley, pastmaster ; Rad- 
nor Elevator Company, dealers in grain, hay, 
seed, hardware, farm implements and coal ; 
Perry J. Griffith, livery ; W. T. Roberts, hotel 
and livery; T. K. Jones, M. D. ; H. Edwards, 
M. D. ; T. W. Disbennett, tile-mill and saw- 
mill. 

SCIOTO TOWNSHIP. 

This township was included in the Old 
Virginia Military Land, and originally in- 
cluded territory only west of the Scioto River. 
On December 7, 1814, the county commission- 
ers granted a petition to establish this town- 
ship. At that time the new township included 
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Radnor, and extended south to the mouth ol 
Mill Creek. Concord Township was estab- 
lished in 1819, and two years later, the boun- 
daries of Sci< Ho Township were definitely 
fixed, as follows: Beginning on the west bank 
of the Scioto River at Dilsaver's Ford, the 
line ran west to Union County; thence south 
with said line to the middle of Mill Creek; 
thence eastwardly with the north line of Con- 
cord Township to the Scioto River; thence up 
the said river, with the meander thereof to the 
place of beginning. In 1852. land embracing 
two school districts in the northern part of 
G ncord Township, on the east side of the 
Scioto was annexed to Scioto Township. A 
few years after that, a part of Concord Town- 
ship situated directly west of the Mill Creek 
settlement, occupying the bend of Mill Creek 
south of it. was attached to Scioto Township, 
so that the people living on it might have the 
benefit of the Ostrander schools and the near- 
by \oting place. Scioto Township is now 
bounded on the north by Thompson and Rad- 
nor Townships; on the east by Radnor, Dela- 
ware and Concord Townships; on the south 
by Concord Township and Union County, and 
on the west by Union County. The township 
takes its name from the Scioto River. This is 
a corruption of the Indian name Scionto, which 
was applied to the river by the Wyandots. Ar- 
thur's Run and Boke*s Creek are the tribu- 
taries of the river in the northern half of the 
township. The latter, which is a good-si/cd 
stream, was named for a Wyandot chief. It is 
feci by Smith's Run. Mill Creek, the principal 
tributary of the Scioto River in Delaware 
County, runs through the southern part of the 
township. 

Near the river the land is rolling, and in 
some places the banks of the river are quite 
steep. The land along the river is rich. Far- 
ther back it is more level, and is well adapted 
for grains and grazing. Here and there 
through the townships clay knobs are to be 
found containing excellent material for the 
manufacture of brick and tile. In the western 
part of the township, about where the farms 
of John W. Eddleblute and Acel Larcum and 
others in that neighborhood are located, there 



was at one time a pond of considerable size 
and much swamp Land. This was drained, and 
in order to get rid of the vegetation with 
which the land was covered, it was set on 
fire. It burned for a long time before the fire 
could be put out. From this fact the road 
which runs north and south through this sec- 
tion became known as the Burned Pond Pike. 
The lands proved to be- some of the richest in 
the township. 

The Indians, which the first settlers found 
here were friendly, and imparted to them 
much valuable information regarding the salt 
licks, the fords in the river and the haunts of 
wild game. 

It is now generally conceded that the first 
settler in the township was Richard Hoskins, 
who came from Wales bringing a famih of 
four sons and three daughters. Thev reached 
Franklinton in December. 1805. and in May 
of the following year started north on the 1 'Id 
Sandusky Military Road. He settled at the 
mouth ol Boke's Creek. About the same time, 
probably in June of that year, Zachariah Ste- 
phens settled near Hoskins, and as he was the 
first to complete his cabin, he has the honor of 
building the first white man's cabin in the 
township. In the latter part of November, 
1807, an Irish family, of which James Mc- 
Cune was the head cast in their lot with the 
little settlement. In August of the next year, 
another Irishman, Stewart Smith, settled here. 
In 1809, Jacob North came from the East and 
settled near the creek; Zachariah Williams and 
his family settled near by ; and Joseph Shoub, 
a Pennsylvanian. settled near the mouth of 
Smith's Run. The same year Philip Horshaw 
came and built a grist mill where the mill at 
Warrensburg now stands. In 181 1 Richard 
and Evans Carr arrived in the township. The 
latter settled near the present site of the town 
of Ostrander. In [814, John Sherman came 
from Kentucky. He was a soldier in the War 
of 1 812. His son. Vincent Sherman, settled 
near the Union County line. John Lawrence 
settled on a farm in 1814. where the villagi 
Edinburg was later located. The same year, 
John Cratty came through the woods and set- 
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trander. Andrew Dodds and his family came 
here March 15, 181 5, from the Derby Plain. 
They were natives of Pennsylvania. They 
settled in the Edinburg neighborhood. Polly 

Dodds, the wife of Andrew, died soon after 
they reached here. She was the second one to 
be interred in the graveyard at Edinburg. Her 
husband died in 1820. 

James Liggett came from Virginia in 
1817, and settled in the woods, on land which 
is now included in the village of Ostrander. 
He was energetic, intelligent and a public- 
spirited citizen, who did all in his power to de- 
velop the town. In 181 5, Asa Robinson set- 
tled near the mouth of Big Mill Creek, and 
the following year a Kentuckian named Wil- 
liam Ramsey settled on Mill Creek. That 
year, H. G. Smith, a native of Massachusetts, 
also settled in the township, and Solomon 
Carr came from Virginia and settled on land 
that is now a part of the village of Ostrander. 
George Bean came from Hardy County. Vir- 
ginia, four years later and joined this little 
settlement. He was one of the first justices 
of the peace in the township. The Deans 
came from Pennsylvania into Ohio before it 
became a State, and in 1829, they came to 
the neighborhood of Ostrander, and in the 
late 'Go's moved into the village. Other set- 
tlers who came into the township at a later 
date were William Loveless, in 1828 from 
.Maryland, and in [837, \V. G. McFarlin, both 
of whom settled near White Sulphur Station.' 
In 1834 a Welshman by the name of J. P. 
Owen, settled in the township. 

Robert Perry and Sarah Hoskins were the 
first couple married in the township. This 
important event occurred in 1808. Later in 
that year Isaac Smart married Margaret 
Smith. Hugh Stephens, a son of Zachariah 
Stephens, was the first white child born in 
Scioto, and James McCune was the second. 
The first death was that of Zachariah Wil* 
Hams, who died in [809, ami was the first 
one buried in the old cemeter) on Boke's Creek. 
The first postmaster was Harry Riggers, who 
kept a tavern at what was then known as 
Riggers Ford, where the covered bridge now 
crosses the Scioto on the Marvsville Pike. 



This was a famous tavern and the second one 
opened in the township. The first tavern was 
opened by James Flannigan. John Cratty 
and David Shoup were the first justices of the 
peace. 

The first village in the township was Fair- 
view, later called Edinburg. and now recog- 
nized only by a few- houses in the neighbor- 
hood where the Gabriels live, north of Ostran- 
der. It is supposed that this village was laid 
out and platted soon after Cratty and the 
Dodds and John Lawrence came into the 
township, but the record does not show who 
made the plat or the date when it was recorded. 
There were twenty-seven lots shown on the 
plat. Harrison Street, running east and west 
was to be the principal street ; others running 
in the same direction were Columbus. Frank- 
lin and East Streets. Its beautiful location 
suggested the first name of the settlement. It 
was expected that the place would develop 
into one of importance, ami for a time it had 
a slow but steady growth. When, however, 
the railroad was put through the present vil- 
lage of Ostrander, the hopes of the citizens of 
Edinburg were blasted. The village of Os- 
trander owes its existence to the building of 
the railroad through that part of the township. 
and what was once a bare clay knob now sup- 
parts one of the flourishing villages of the 
county. It is named for the engineer who 
surveyed the line for the railroad. The town 
w^as laid out in 1S52 by I. C. Buck, and as 
originally platted contained 104 lots. The 
town was incorporated May 18, 1875-. The 
first Council meeting was held April 5, 1876, 
at which were present. D. G. Cratty. mayor : 
W. C. Winget, treasurer; Dr. D. C. Fay, 
clerk. The members of the Council were T. . 
Maugans, I. 11. Fields, Samuel Stricklin. G. 
S. Carr. F. W. Brown and J. B. Roberts. M. 
C. Bean was the first postn aster. ■ VV. C. Win- 
get was the first merchant. Dr. Erastus Field 
was the first physician. He came here in [849. 
William Fry was the first blacksmith, and 
Samuel Stricklin was the first tavern-keeper. 

( (strander's present-day business men are 
enterprising and up-to-date. They are com- 
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487 



Physicians — D. C. Fay, G. E. Cowles, V. 
B. Weller. 

Ostrander Business Houses — R. B. Shaw. 
restaurant and meat market; H. T. Kyle, drug- 
gist; C. Hannawalt, dry goods and groceries; 
E. B. Bean, dry good:- and groceries: Robin- 
son Bros., furniture, carpets and undertaking; 
A. .M. Jacobs, monuments; Shoaf & Anderson, 
dry goods and groceries; The Ostrander Bank- 
ing Company; \V. C. Bovey. blacksmith and 
carriage manufacturer; Fegley Bros., black- 
smiths and repair shop ; Albert Huntley, ce- 
ment blocks and fence posts; Palace Hotel. W. 
E. Honneter, proprietor; J. C. Maugans, ele- 
vator and lumber yard; Manville & Winston, 
hardware; C. L. V. Liggett, hardware; also 
two livery barns. 

Ostrander officials for 1908 — E. B. Bean, 
mayor; M. M. McBride, clerk; \Y. A. Ander- 
son, treasurer. 

Councilmen — Charles Ekelberry. president ; 
R. T. Gates, John Fegley. Eli Maugans. D. 
W. Felkner, Charles Shoaf. George P. Lig- 
gett, marshal. 

School Board — S. T. Carr, president ; 
William Harris. C. V. Liggett, Dr. G. E. 
Cowles, S. M. Schoppert. 

M. M. Mcbride, health officer. 

M. L. Kalb, postmaster. 

The history of the lodges, schools, churches 
and manufacturing plants will be found in the 
chapters devoted to those special subjects. 

Warrensburg is a small village located on 
the Sandusky Military Road over which Hos- 
kins and the other pioneer settlers on Boke's 
Creek passed when they came up the river. 
It is located two miles north of White Sul- 
phur Station, and was originally and for many 
years called Millville. It received its present 
name of Warrensburg when a postoffice was 



established there, August 26, 1! 



o- 



Owing 



to the establishment of the rural free delivery. 
the postoffice was discontinued a few years ago. 
At one time Millville was the largest village 
in the township, but the building of the rail- 
road so far to the south blighted its pros- 
pects of any large development in the fu- 
ture. 



The public officials of Scioto Township 
for the year 1908 are: S. B. Myers, justice 
of the peace; Charles Cryder and ( leorge Culp, 
trustees; G. E. Cowles, treasurer; Stanley Mc- 
Kittrick, clerk; John Stover and Fred Faucett, 
assessors, and William Harter, constable. 

TRENTON TOWNSHIP. 

The name of this township was originally 
Sunbury. The present township is but a small 
portion of the original township of Sunbury, 
which was the third township to be created 
after the organization of Delaware County. 
It dates back to June 16. 1808. and was origin- 
ally bounded as follows : Beginning at the 
northeast corner of Section 2, Township 5 and 
Range 17, of the United States Military Sur- 
vey, thence south with said line to the south 
line of the count)-, thence east with said county 
line to the east line of said county, thence north 
with said county line to the Indian boundary 
line, thence west by said bundary line, to the 
east line of Marlborough Township, thence 
south with said line to the southeast corner of 
said township, thence west to the place of be- 
ginning. This immense township included 
the present townships of Harlem. Trenton. 
Porter, and half of Berkshire and Genoa in 
Delaware County, and the following town- 
ships in Morrow County : Peru, Bennington, 
Lincoln and Harmony. On September 1 1 . 
1 8 10, Harlem was set oft" from Sunbury, and 
Kingston followed on June 8, 1813. Three 
years later Genoa was set oft* from Harlem, 
and one half of the new township was taken 
from the original Sunbury. One slice after 
another was cut off this territory until the 
present dimensipns of Trenton Township 
we,e reached, its present name having been 
given to it sometime in the early *3o's. We 
quote the following account of the way in which 
the change of name was brought about: 
"Messrs. Van Dorn, Leak and Condit, all 
early settlers and prominent men of the town- 
ship, were sitting on a log one day talking 
over general business matters. Finally, the 
conversation turned upon the question of the 



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village of Sunbury being in Berkshire Town- 
ship, while their own township bore the name 
of Sunbury. It was suggested that the name 
of the latter be changed in order to avoid con- 
fusion, a suggestion that was unanimousl) 
agreed to. Mr. Leak proposed the name 01 
Chester — his native town; Mr. Condit wanted 
it called Orange, but there was an Orange 
Township in the county already; so Mr. Van 
Dorn suggested Trenton, for the capitol of his 
native State — New Jersey. The name was 
agreed to among themselves and sent to the 
county commissioners, by whom it was adopted. 
Thus Sunbury Township became a thing of 
the past, while its place was filled on the map 
of Delaware County by Trenton." This town- 
ship is now bounded on the north by Porter 
Township; on the east by Licking County; on 
the south by Harlem and on the west by Berk- 
shire. It is five miles square and contains 
16,000 acres of land. The surface of this 
township, while it is not wholly level, can 
scarcely be called hilly or broken. Along the 
water-courses it is a little rough and uneven, 
while back from the streams it is somewhat 
rolling, until striking the table-land, when it 
becomes rather level. Van's Valley, as it is 
called, is somewhat low. as well as the west 
central part, while the western and northern 
portions rise to quite an elevation, and incline 
to an almost rolling surface. The township 
is well drained by natural streams. Big Wal- 
nut Creek, which is the principal stream, en- 
ters the township near the northwest corner, 
and runs a little west of south to the township 
line, where it passes out southeast of Sun- 
burv. Rattlesnake Run is the next largest 
stream. The large number of rattlesnakes that 
were found in the cliffs and rocks bordering 
this stream led the early settlers to give it 
its name. The North Fork enters the town- 
ship near the center of the east line, and unites 
with the South Fork in the south central part 
of the township, thence it flows in a westerly 
direction and empties into the Big Walnut 
near the center of the west line of the town- 
ship. < )ther streams of minor importance are 
Culver's Run and Perfect's Creek, named for 
early settlers in the township. These streams 



empty into the Big Walnut. Dry Run empties 
into Perfect's Creek and Mink Run flows into 
Rattlesnake near its mouth. There are many 
quarries of fine building stone in this township, 
some of which were opened at an early day. 
The township was well timbered with the 
various hardwoods indigenous to this region. 
William Perfect and Mordecai Thomas 
were the first settlers in Trenton Township of 
whom we have any record. They with their 
families came here in the spring of 1807 from 
Kentucky. Each purchased a hundred acres 
of military land from Pearson Spinning, who 
had a tract of 1,000 acres. At this late date 
comparatively little that is new can be learned 
concerning the earliest pioneers of the county, 
and we have to depend largely upon the re- 
searches of earlier historians ; for this reason, 
we will make use of some of the material con- 
tributed by Middleton Perfect to the County 
Atlas published in 1875. Perfect and Thomas 
settled near the mouth of the creek that later 
was named for Mr. Perfect. His death in 
1812 was the first in the township. In 1810 
another Kentuckian, Bartholomew Anderson, 
settled on a tract of land east of Perfect's. 
"Trenton is justly proud of its pioneers. New 
Jersey furnished skilled tavern-keepers ; the 
northern part of the township was settled by 
industrious people from the little Blue State. 
A colony from Ithaca, New York, settled in 
the south part, and another from Pennsyl- 
vania in the west part. One of the early 
settlers kept two 'asheries,' and supplied Dela- 
ware with salt and window-glass for twelve 
years." The two latter articles of merchan- 
dise were wagoned from Zanesville. Michael 
Ely and John Culver settled north of what is 
now Culver's Creek in 1809, and soon after 
them a single man named John Williamson 
came into the settlement and purchased land 
from Ely, whose daughter Rosanna he mar- 
ried in 1810. It is claimed that their son, 
Madison Williamson, was the first white child 
born in the township. A man named Pressing, 
John Ginn and William Kidgway came to the 
township in 181 1 from the State of Delaware. 
Other early settlers were James and Owen 
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When Gilbert Van Dora came here from New 
|ersey in 1 S 1 7 , there were only two families 
living on the road between the Licking County 
line and the village of Sunbury. He pur- 
chased 1,000 acres of land in a beautiful val- 
ley, which has ever since been known as "Van's 
Valley." It is claimed that the tavern which 
he opened here the next year was the first in 
the township. He had a gilt sun painted on 
his sign and underneath it the words, "Center 
Inn." At first this pioneer tavern was a rude 
log structure, but as travel increased and his 
reputation as a Boniface grew, a second cabin 
was added to the first, and then another and 
another, until he had lour log cabins con- 
nected together for the accommodation of the 
traveling public. At the end of eleven years 
he put up a brick "hotel," in front of which 
he hung the same old sign that had cheered the 
weary traveled with the prospect of entertain- 
ment for so many years. This structure, built 
in 1829, was the first brick building erected 
in the township. It would appear that Van 
Dora was a man of some business ability, for 
we find that he also kept a kind of grocery 
store at his tavern, and continued it until 
1854. John Leak, who also came from New 
Jersey, bought land from Van Dora and set- 
tled east of the Inn. In 1820 Silas Ogden 
settled on what was known as the State Road 
and opened the first tannery in the town- 
ship. 

In 1823 Oliver Gratrax settled in the town- 
ship. Air. Perfect said, "He wore leather 
breeches full of stitches, a fawnskin vest ana 
a coonskin cap." About 1832 or 1833 Jona- 
than. Alvin P. and Smith Condit came from 
New Jersey. Jonathan settled on Big Wal- 
nut Creek. Alvin settled near him and Smith 
died about a month after his arrival. Ly- 
man Hendricks came from Rutland, Vermont, 
and settled in Berkshire in 181 2. but later 
moved into Trenton. His brother William 
was a soldier in the War of 1812. The first 
permanent settler on Rattlesnake Run was a 
man named Roberts. 

Settlers came into this part of the count) 
rapidly after the War of 1812. The building 
of the railroad through the township did much 



to help on its prosperity, making the shipment 
of timber, stone and livestock an easy matter. 
As we have already said. Van Dorn kept a 
kind of store at his tavern, but the first mer- 
chant of importance, so far as we can learn, 
was George Akerson, who established himself 
in business a little north of Condit. The story 
of the early mills, schools, and churches will 
be found in the chapters devoted especially to 
those subjects. 

Township Officials ( 1908) — E. W. Debolt, 
justice of the peace; S. R. Walke and John T. 
Geddes. trustees; E. ( i. Condit, clerk; J. W. 
Condit, treasurer: E. M. Linnabary, assessor; 
E. B. Fi irwood and Frank Spangler, o m- 
stables. 

THOMPSON TOWNSHIP. 

The history of this subdivision of Dela- 
ware Count}- is a township dates back to June 
5, 1820. when, on petition of the citizens 
within its boundaries, it was created by act 
of the County Commissioners' Court, deriving 
its name from that of an early United States 
Government surveyor. It was originally a part 
of the Virginia Military Lands, and when first 
constituted included a part of what is now 
Prospect Township, in Marion County, which 
was set off by act of Legislature when Morrow- 
County was organized, February 24, 1848. 
Scioto River forms the eastern boundary line 
of the township, in which it is fed by two 
streams from the west ; Taway Run and Ful- 
ton's Creek, both of which take their rise in 
Union County. The first named takes its 
name from the Taway Tribe of Indians of the 
Wyandot Nation, which in early years in- 
habited its banks. Fulton's Creek was named 
after a famous hunter of the pioneer days, 
whose mysterious disappearance and probable 
violent death was mourned by the settlers, 
among whom he was very popular, and they 
united in paying him this tribute. 

The first white settler of Thompson Town- 
ship was Thomas Weaver, who came from 
Virginia. Leaving his native State in 1808, 
he arrived at Chillicothe, Ohio, and there fall- 
ing in with a surveyor who gave glowing 
accounts of the country in this section, made 



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his way hither in the spring of 1809. He lo- 
cated land on the banks of the Scioto and im- 
mediately set abont erecting a cabin and clear- 
ing his land. He was followed shortly by 
Michael Dilsaver, who located in the south- 
eastern part of the township, and from him 
Dilsaver s Corners and Dilsaver' s Ford took 
their names. There was then a lapse of 'i 
number of years before the coming of the 
next settlers. James Cochran arrived from 
Pennsylvania in 181 7, and settled on Fulton's 
Creek, where in 1827 he erected the first grist- 
mill of the township. In 1818 John Swartz 
and four sons came from Pennsylvania and 
were the first settlers at what aiterward be- 
came known as Pickrell's Mills. The same 
year witnessed the arrival of Simeon Lindsley 
and John Hurd, who came from Vermont and 
settled along the river to the south of John 
Swartz's cabin. Roswell Fields, a Canadian 
by birth and a most desirable citizen, arrived 
at about the same time and built a cabin near 
Dilsaver's Ford. He had the distinction of 
building the first frame house in the town- 
ship and was the first justice of the peace after 
the organization of Thompson Township. 
Next came Samuel Broderick and Joseph Rus- 
sell, the latter arriving late in 1819, from 
Connecticut; he pushed his way up the Scioto, 
three miles above Pickrell's. Mills, where he 
purchased 318 acres of land and built a cabin. 
All these pioneers were located along the river 
bank, the interior development being exceed- 
ingly backward. It was not until after 1828 
that settlers came in any great numbers, and 
even then the inclination was to locate close 
to the river. 

As before mentioned the first mill was that 
of Cochran, built in 1827, on Fulton Creek, 
about a half mile distant from the Scioto. 
This was followed in 1830 by a saw-mill, 
erected by Jacob Swartz a short distance below 
his cabin on the west bank of the Scioto. 
Roswell Fields soon after acquired the old 
Cochran grist-mill, which he enlarged and re- 
built, and also erected a saw-mill, both of 
which were in operation many years. In 
1844 J. \V. Cone built a woolen mill which 
thrived and was in constant operation for 



thirty years. It was the first mill operated 
by the power of steam, this modern innova- 
tion transpiring in 1868. Sparks from the 
engine set fire to the plant in 1874. and re- 
sulted in its destruction. It was not rebuilt 
by Mr. Cone, but in 1877 Mr. H. P. Pickrell 
erected a large modern grist-mill on that site, 
and it was from him the settlement thereabouts 
derived its name. Clark Decker, in 1863, 
erected a small saw-mill in the extreme north- 
eastern part of the township. This was the 
extent of the early day industrial enterprises 
of Thompson Township, which has never had 
what may be termed a village within its limits. 
Pickrell's Mills, known in early days, succes- 
sively, as Eagletown and Cone's Mills, was the 
nearest approach to urban classification, but at 
best it had but a postoffice, one store and a 
few homes surrounding the mills. It suc- 
ceeded Patterson Post Office as a postal station, 
the latter being a title which lent dignity to an 
old frame house on the Military Road, north 
of Fulton Creek, for several years. 

The mill now owned and operated by 
Bruce Charles and generally known as the 
Simon Charles Mill, was built in 1834 by 
Roswell Fields, the millwright being Henry 
Waits, a well known local character in those 
days, being somewhat unbalanced in mind. By 
Mr. Fields it passed into the possession of his 
son, Samuel Fields, who sold it to Simon 
Charles, from whom, on the latter's death, it 
passed into the hands of his son Bruce, who 
has greatly improved the property, fitting it 
up with modern machinery. Mr. Charles also 
runs a powerful hydraulic cider-press. 

Susanna Cochran, born in 1817, was the 
first native white child of the township, and 
the death of Michael Dilsaver was the first 
death recorded. The marriage of William 
Travers and Catherine Swartz in 1822 was the 
first marriage, and with the dance and feast 
which followed was an occasion long to be re- 
membered by the settlers who had congregated 
from many miles around. James Crawford 
taught the first school in the cabin on Fulton 
Creek. The first brick house was erected by 
a man named Hoskins, and Thomas Lavender, 
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491 



kiln of brick, also erected one of the first brick 
buildings. Dr. Mathlaj Gcrehard was the 
first practicing physician resident in Thomp- 
son. The earliest store was that conducted by 
Joseph Cox in a house near the Mills. John 
Detwiler, pioneer tavern keeper, was also a 
dealer in liquors. It was not until 1869 that 
a bridge was erected in the township, this be- 
ing a wooden structure across the Scioto, join- 
ing Thompson and Radnor. In 1875 a small 
covered bridge was constructed across Fulton's 
Creek. Prior to this time it was necessary for 
the settlers to lord the stream, the most favor- 
able spot being at what was known as Broad 
Ford, on the southern boundary line. Jacob 
Swartz had a large flat boat and a canoe which 
he used in transporting people across the river, 
farther up stream. 

Thompson Township has the following 
officials for the year 1908: T. A. Fryman and 
A. A. Maize, justices of the peace; John 
Howison and P. H. Perry, trustees; George 
E. Avers, clerk ; E. M. Decker, treasurer ; J. 
G. Hill, assessor; Jacob Dilsaver and Fred 
Kirk, constables; John Davis, ditch super- 
visor. 

TROY TOWNSHIP. 

Without village, postofnee, store or mill 
within its limits, has, nevertheless, taken a 
front rank among the townships of Delaware 
County, excelling in the standard of its citi- 
zenship and the richness of its soil. It was 
created by an act of the Commissioners' Court, 
on petition, December 24, 1816, the northern 
half being set off from Marlborough ami the 
southern half from Delaware Township. Its 
geographical lines have remained unchanged 
since that date. 

The Olentangy River, sometimes refered 
to as the Blue Whetstone, takes a winding 
course through the length of the township, in 
which it has as tributaries, from the west. 
Wild Cat Creek, Norris Creek and Clear Run. 
and from the east, Horseshoe Branch, thus 
affording ample natural drainage. The land, 
where broken by streams, is rolling, but the 
west part of the township is level. In the 
early days it was heavily timbered with oak, 

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elm, ash, walnut, hickory and sugar maple, 
and the banks of the river were so dense with 
trees and underbrush as to he almost impene- 
trable. Wheat and other small grains have 
been the principal production, whilst stock- 
raising has always been carried on to a great 
extent. 

Joseph Cole, one of the earliest settler^ of 
the township, arrived near Norton, in De- 
cember. 1808, and shortly after purchased 640 
acres of land in the northeast part of what is 
now Troy Township. He erected thereon a 
cabin and during the early days of his resi- 
lience encountered trials almost insurmount- 
able. Leaving his wife and children in the 
little cabin in the woods, without protection 
or safeguards of any kind, he frequently made 
trips to Zanesville for provisions, or to Frank- 
linton to have his corn ground. He was a man 
of that vigorous type so essential to the de- 
velopment of any community, and left an im- 
print on the affairs of the township in his 
day, which time has not effaced. He was the 
first justice of the peace, elected in 181 5, and 
for a period of twenty-one years discharged 
the duties of that office in a manner to bring 
peace to litigants, although frequently at his 
own expense. He erected the first brick In mse 
of brick burned on his farm. At his cabin the 
first meetings of the old Marlborough Baptist 
Church were held in 18 10. He erected a saw- 
mill about the year 1820, and three years later 
added a grist-mill, both of which were in 
operation many years. Many of his descend- 
ants are today living in the township. His 
son. Hugh Cole, at the age of sixteen years, 
began carrying the mail on horseback between 
Delaware and Mansfield, and continued for 
four years. It was a task to shake the nerves 
of an older man. but he acquitted himself with 
bravery in many stirring adventures, pai- 
ticularly in an encounter with two highway- 
men in the thick of the forest. David Dix, 
Sr., came to Troy in 1807, selected a location, 
and the same fall returned to Pennsylvania to 
be married. The following spring he returned 
with bis wife to Delaware County, locating 
temporarily in Liberty Township. In the fall 
of that year he hired two men to accompany 



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him to the place he had located and there 
erected a cabin, into which he moved with his 
family in the spring of 1809. At that time 
his (_mly neighbor was Joseph Cole. Among 
the next arrivals were Levi Hinton and his 
step-brother, William, the latter being a full 
brother of Col. Seburn Hinton. the pioneer 
mill owner of the Mill Creek Settlement i.i 
Concord Township. They located near the 
center of Troy Township, as did also their 
relatives, the Duvals. John Duncan came in 
1810 from North Carolina, and Comfort Olds 
came some time prior to that year but con- 
tinued his way north to the forks of the Whet- 
stone. Nathan Loath arrived in 1810 and set- 
tled "ii land near that of David Dix, Sr., and 
at about the same time came Fierce Alain, who 
located in the northeast part of the township. 
Joseph Curren came from Virginia in 1812, 
and two years later sold his cabin and farm 
to James Norris, Sr. The latter had come 
fr«nn Portsmouth, Ohio, to Worthington, in 
[81 1, and when Harrison's army marched 
north to the relief of Fort Meigs, his patriotism 
led him to join it. Upon leaving the army he 
rejoined his family at Worthington and in 
[814 made his way to Troy Township. Among 
his children was a son William, then eleven 
rears old, who afterward became associate 
judge of Common Pleas Court and a man of 
considerable prominence in the county. An- 
other son, James Norris, Jr., a small child at 
the time of arrival, in later years improvised a 
small grist-mill, the grinding stones being 
made of "nigger heads," and the power being 
furnished by a team of horses hitched to a 
lexer which was attached to the upper stone. 
It was a unique affair, but in the absence of 
mills near at hand, served its purpose very 
well. Eleazar Main, early in [813, came to 
Delaware, where he joined Harrison's Army 
111 the relief of Fort Meigs, after which he 
returned and lived at the home of Joseph Cole 
for a time. He then purchased a farm of his 
own and built a cabin, which he replaced in 
1 S_'4 with a brick house, made from brick 
manufactured on the farm of his father-in- 
law, Mr. Cole. lie was the first of seven 
brothers to take up his resilience in the town- 



ship, being followed August 10, 181 5, by Sa- 
beers and Timothy. Lyman and Thomas Main 
came next, less than a year later, being ac- 
companied by mother and sisters, and some 
time afterward. Jonas and John Main moved 
in. This has been a family long prominent in 
the township, and its representatives are more 
numerous now than in the early days. Ben- 
jamin Martin, the second minister of the old 
Marlborough Baptist Church and the first resi- 
dent minister, came to Troy Township in 1815. 
settling on the farm now occupied by a grand- 
son, Nehemiab Martin. He was a soldier of 
the War of 1812, having been drafted into 
the service immediately after his arrival at 
Deer Creek, Ross County, Ohio, from Vir- 
ginia. He had no opportunity to prepare a 
home for his family, and his household goods 
were still in the wagon in which they had made 
the journey. Fortunately, he had an uncle 
at Deer Creek who looked after Mrs. Martin, 
and upon his return from the front' he found 
them comfortably ensconced in a log cabin, 
which had previously done service as a barn. 
He was the father of fifteen children, and at 
the present time a number of his descendants 
reside in Troy and adjoining townships. 
Samuel Wells, also a soldier of the War of 
181 J. came in 181 1, Henry Cline in 1815. 
Thomas Gill in 1816, and Henry Worlin=, 
Jeremiah Williams and George Hunt were 
among others who arrived prior to the or- 
ganization of Troy Township. Samuel Gil- 
pin settled on the Horseshoe at this time, 
David Carter, a stonemason by trade, came in 
181 7, and thereafter rapid strides were made 
in the settlement of the township, among the 
notable arrivals being the families of Craw- 
fords, Eagons, Moses, Bushes, Darsts, Jack- 
sons, Cozarts, Willeys and Bishops. 

Miss Electa Wilcox taught the first school 
in Troy Township in 1814, in a log cabin on 
the farm of Joseph Cole, and several years 
later the first school house, of the log pattern, 
was erected. The first mill, as before men- 
tioned, was that of Joseph Cole. In 1832 Ly- 
man Main built .1 saw mill on Plorseshoe 
Creek, and several years later his brother. 
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493 



the boundary line of Oxford Township. A 
small Still was operated in the early days by 
David Bush, but its life was of short duration. 
Robert Cole, horn February 8, iNio, was the 
first white child born in the township, and 
the first death recorded was that of Rebecca 
Roath, wife of Nathan, who died in 1810. 
The only postofnee was in the home of Joseph 
, and that but a short time. 



The officials of Troy Township for 1908, 
as reported to the county auditor, are as fol- 
lows : Levi Bishop and James E. Carter, 
justices of the peace; F. A. Willis, William 
Ziegler and James M. Worline, trustees: A. 
D. Alain, clerk; John H. Schaffner, treasurer; 
H. J. Strait, assessor; H. B. Alain and L. E. 
Freshwater, constables; Ben Roberts, ditch 
supervisor. 




SIDNEY MOORE 



Representative Citizens. 




IDXEY MOORE, who was for nearly 
sixty years connected with the hank- 
ing interests of Delaware County, 
fi ir the last twenty-four years of that 
time up to his death in 1907 being 
president of the Delaware County National 
Bank, was born in what is now the city of 
Delaware, December 16, 1821. His parents 
were Sidney and Phoebe (Mann) Moore, both 
natives of Vermont, who came to Delaware 
County from the vicinity of Brattleboro, that 
State, in pioneer fashion, but previous to their 
marriage. Sidney Moore being the first ar- 
rival. He was born March 16, 1788, and was 
a yi mng man when he thiis set out to better his 
fortunes in what was then the far west. In 
his native State he had been closely identified 
with military affairs, having served as ensign, 
lieutenant, and captain in the First Regiment 
of Vermont militia. In Ohio he was subse- 
quently commissioned as lieutenant-colonel 
and as brigadier-general, in later life being 
usually known as General Moore. In Dela- 
ware County he held civil office as sheriff, 
recorder and auditor successively, always per- 
forming his public duties to the satisfaction of 
his fellow citizens. 

His wife Phoebe, who was born near 
Brattleboro. Vermont, January 3, 171)5. an( l 
who was therefore nearly seven years his 
junior, came to Delaware County with her 
parents, they settling in the vicinitv of West- 
field. By her marriage with Mr. Moore she 
became the mother of three children, namely : 
Emily, Sidney, and William. Emily, who was 



born in Delaware. February 8, 1819, became 
the wife of Stephen Stone and accompanied 
her husband to Nebraska, where she died. 
William, born May 2, 1835, in Delaware, i> 
still a resident of this place, having always 
made his home here. Sidney Moore, the el- 
der, father of the above mentioned children, died 
at the age of about seventy-eight years. His 
wife long survived him. passing away in De- 
cember, 1887, when lacking but fifteen days of 
being ninety-three years old. They were 
worthy and much respected people, who well 
performed their part in life, and whose chil- 
dren were living testimonials to a careful up- 
bringing. 

Sidney Moore, Jr.. the direct subject of 
this sketch, was born in the family residence 
on the northeast corner of Sandusky and Win- 
ter Streets, the site of the house being now- 
occupied by Smith's Clothing store. He be- 
gan his education in the local schools and 
continued it in the Academy until he had mas- 
tered the essentials of a sound English train- 
ing. Even at this early day he had a keen 
appreciation of the value of time, and ap- 
plied himself closely to his studies, as he did 
later throughout his life, to his business duties. 
He early felt attracted towards hanking as a 
congenial sphere of activity, and having ac- 
quired a knowledge of bookkeeping, he sought 
and found employment with banking institu- 
tions, in addition to his local connections, be- 
ing employed for some three years in hanks 
in Marion. Ohio, and Indianapolis. Indiana. 
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ever, was spent in his native city. He be- 
came teller and bookkeeper for the Delaware 
County branch of the State Bank of Ohio, 
which began business in 1845, a °d later be- 
came its cashier. He was made cashier of the 
Delaware County National Bank, January 13, 
1865, and continued in that capacity until 
January 8. 1883, at which time he was elected 
president of the bank, a position that he held 
for the rest of his life. 

Air. Moore began his business career on a 
salary of $200 per year. In" those days busi- 
ness was conducted upon very conservative 
lines, and promotion was slow ; but he pos- 
sessed in large measure the qualities that com- 
pel success, and having chosen fur his goal 
an honorable position in the business world, 
he pressed forward with determination and 
never looked back until he had attained it, 
and was recognized by his fellow townsmen 
as one of the leading factors in the business 
life and prosperity of Delaware. He was for 
sixty-two years identified with the Delaware 
County Bank, with the exception of the three 
years in .Marion and Indianapolis above re- 
ferred to, and after he had demonstrated his 
capacity, and had been elected president of 
the institution, his advice was eagerly sought 
by many of the men who had then or have since 
attained prominence in the business life of 
the community. Not a few of them today at- 
tribute their success to his wise counsel or 
ready help, which was never withheld from 
those worthy of it. He seldom mistook his 
man. being a quick reader of character, and to 
have obtained his assistance was in itself al- 
most a certificate of capacity and integrity. 
In matters aside from business, hut connected 
with the moral and material development of 
his native city, his name was for main- years 
a synonym for charily, philanthropy and benev- 
olence. Among his many charitable deeds 
may he mentioned his donation of the Home 
Yued People, located on East William 
Street. Delaware. 

Mr. Moore was a prominent Free Mason, 
belonging to Hiram Lodge, No. iN. of Dela- 
ware, and having attained the Thirty-third de- 
gree in the < >rder. As a token of his hiefh re- 



gard for the Order he donated to it the splen- 
did Temple on West William Street, which 
is as well an ornament to the city as an evi- 
dence of the liberal spirit and devotion of the 
donor. In politics he was a Republican, but 
never sought public office. It was Mr. Moore's 
character to be thorough and concentrated. He 
held that it was better to do one thing thor- 
oughly and well than to dissipate one's ener- 
gies in seeking to attain too many different 
objects, and the wisdom of this policy was 
exemplified in his own life. 

Mr. Moore was twice married: First, 
about 1 85 1 , to Miss Millie Stark, who lived 
but a few years. His second marriage was 
to Mrs. Sarah A. Bierce. widow of Alonzo 
Bierce. and daughter of John and Margery 
(Chain) Cunningham. Mrs. Moore was horn 
in Columbiana County. Ohio, in 1828, and 
when an infant about a year old, came with 
her parents to Delaware Count}-, they settling 
in Brown Township, where Mr. Cunningham 
purchased and improved a farm, and where 
he and his wife resided until reaching an ad- 
vanced age, when they removed to Delaware. 
Mr. Cunningham was born in Columbiana 
County in 1801. and died in the city of Dela- 
ware in 1858. His wife Margery, Mi's. 
Moore's mother, was born in Columbiana 
County in 1802. and died October 3. [854. 
They were the parents of four children: Mar- 
gery, who became the wife of James Harriott : 
Eliza, wife of John Hill: Sarah, who married 
Sidney Moore, subject of this sketch: and 
Jackson, who is now a resident of Delaware. 
The two last mentioned are the only members 
of the family now living. Mrs. Moore's 
grandfathers, Hugh Cunningham and Hugh 
Chain, were pioneer settlers in Columbiana 
County. By her marriage with Mr. Moore 
she had no children hut by her first husband 
she was the mother of two sons, namely : John 
Bierce. who died at the age of eighteen years, 
and Arthur \Y. Bierce. who is now a resident 
of Delaware. 

Mr. Moore died May 27. 1907, in his resi- 
dence on North Sandusky Street, which he 
hail erected in [868. His funeral service- 
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the Masonic Order, of which he was so devoted 
a member, and his remains were laid to rest 
in Oak Grove Cemetery. His departure was 
not only a severe blow to his devoted wife, 
who had sustained his hopes and shared his 
triumphs through so many years, hut was also 
felt as a sad loss to the community at large, 
who realized that a strong man in character 
and achievement, and a sterling citizen, had 
gone from among them. 




LIVER PERRY BIRD, of the firm of 
Bird, Richey & Christian, proprie- 
tors of the White Sulphur Stone 
Company, of Scioto Township, is 
one of the enterprising and success- 
ful men of this section. He was born in Lees- 
burg Township, Union County, Ohio, Aug. 
jo, 1867, and is a son of Abner Johnson and 
Catherine ( Newhouse) Bird. 

The Birds came to Ohio from Pennsyl- 
vania, where John Bird, the grandfather was 
born January 10, 1801. When the latter had 
reached manhood he accompanied his father, 
Sylvester Bird, to Knox County, Ohio. He 
married Keziah Johnson, who was born No- 
vember 23, 1 80 1, and who was a daughter of 
Abner and Alary (Lee) Johnson, the latter 
of whom was a member of the distinguished 
Lee family of Virginia. To John Bird and 
wife were horn eight children, Abner John- 
son being the second in order of birth. 

Abner Johnson Bird was born in Knox 
County, Ohio. March 9, 1827, and resided 
there until shortly before his marriage, on 
January 5. 1855. t< 1 Catherine Newhouse, who 
was a daughter of William Xew-house. She 
died January 5. 1885. Mr. Bird moved from 
I 'elaware Count)-, where Mrs. Bird was born, 
to Iowa, and while there one daughter was 
born, Mary, who is now the wife of J. W. 
Jacks, in. During the Civil war, Mr. Bird's 
family lived in Morrow County, Ohio, he be- 
ing absent for three years, serving- as a soldier 
in the Eighty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry. After the war the family moved to 
Union Count}-, where Oliver Perry was born, 



and in 1868 Mr. Bird moved to Scioto T n 
ship, Delaware County. For a number of 
years he was a deacon in the old stone Pres- 
byterian Church of South Radnor. 

Oliver Perry Bird was educated in the 
schools of Scioto Township and the Delaware 
Business College. He then spent a year in 
Texas, after which he was employed for three 
years with the Northern Pacific Railroad at 
Jamestown, North Dakota. In 1892, he re- 
turned to Delaware County and was engaged 
in farming in Concord Township until 1902, 
when he came into possession of the old home- 
stead, a well-improved farm of sixty-three 
acres, where he carries on general farming 
and stock raising. In 1904, Mr. Bird formed 
a partnership with James Richey. under the 
firm name of Bird & Richey, for the business 
of operating two stone quarries in Concord 
Township, and in 1906, with the admission of 
Mr. Christian, the firm acquired eighty acres 
of quarry land where a large business is done 
in crushed stone. The firm gives employment 
to twenty-five men and has the contract for 
filling- twenty miles of county turnpikes. 

September 23, 1886, Mr. Bird married 
Harriet J. Hughs, who is a daughter of Jo- 
seph E. Hughs, a resident of Concord Town- 
ship, and they have four children, namely : 
Catherine, who married John Richey, of War- 
rensburg, and has two children — Naomi and 
Jo K.; and Marie. Mary Marsena and Lucy 
Trove. The family belong to the old stone 
Presbyterian Church of South Radnor. 

Up to 1896 Mr. Bird was identified with 
the Republican party, but has since been an in- 
dependent voter. He has been frequently elec- 
ted to office by his fellow-citizens. For four 
years he served as township clerk, in Concord 
Township, for three years has been clerk 1 1 i 
the School Board of Scioto Township, has 
been a delegate to many conventions, and has 
always taken an active part and done useful 
work in public emergencies. In 1900 he com- 
piled a very complete map of Delaware 
County. Formerly a member of Hiram Lodge, 
F. & A. M.. at Delaware he was demitte 
Ostrander, and has never lost his interest in 
Free Masonry. He belongs to Bellpoint 



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Lodge, Odd Fellows, of which he is past grand, 
and he is a member of the Encampment at 
Jamestown, North Dakota. 




PERRY WINTERMUTE, who, for 
a quarter of a century was a success- 
ful business man and valued citizen 
of Delaware, was born near Zanes- 
ville. Ohio, December 15. 1832, and 
died at Delaware, January 31, 1008. Mr. 
Wintermute came to Delaware in [882 
and embarked in a hardware business and 
from that date until within a few years of his 
death was an active business man of this city. 
He was a loyal and patriotic citizen and during 
the Civil war he served in the Federal army 
as a member of the One Hundred and Forty- 
fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 
Fi r fourteen years he was adjutant of the 
George B. Torrence Post, Grand Army of the 
Republic, at Delaware. 

In 1858, Mr. Wintermute was married at 
Zanesville, Ohio, to Ettie A. Buckmaster, who 
survives him. They had four children, 
namely: Nina W., now Mrs. J. T. Skidmore, 
res ling at Chillicothe, Missouri; Pearl W., 
now Mrs. Rae D. Henkle, residing at Cleve- 
land; Dr. R. C. and Willie E., both of whom 
arc now deceased. 

From boyhood, Mr. Wintermute had been 
a member of the Baptist Communion, and for 
a space of twenty years he was a deacon in the 
First Baptist Church at Delaware. He was 
ever liberal with his means in behalf of charit- 
able and benevolent purposes, both in and out- 
the church, and the poor and needy al- 
ways found in him a friend. Mr. Wintermute 
was one of the oldest Free Masons in Ohio, 
the date of his admission to the fraternity be- 
ing 1857. He loyally kept his pledges and 
was widely known in the organization and 
when he died lie was laid to rest with Masonic 
rs. Me was a man of strong convictions 
never feared to follow a path he deemed 
it, sometimes in the face of opposition. 
This was particularly so when he assisted in 
the organization of the strong anti-saloon so- 
known as The Sons of Temperance. 




1ORGE P. MILLS, who makes a 
speciality of stock-raising on his farm 
^ I of 280 acres, which is situated in 
Scioto Township, was born in Genoa 
Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
April 15, 1838, that being Easter Sunday. 
His parents, Pierson and Elizabeth (Cramp- 
ton) Mills, came to Ohio in 1836, from the 
vicinity of Patterson, Putnam County, New- 
York, bringing with them their older children. 
The father was a blacksmith by trade and also 
engaged in farming. In 1838 he settled on a 
farm in Radnor Township, Delaware Count}', 
on which he lived until 1846, when he moved 
to Thompson Township, where he engaged in 
work at his trade until 1853. He then re- 
tired to Radnor Village, where he died in Au- 
gust, 1874. He married Elizabeth Crampton, 
and the}- were the parents of thirteen children, 
the survivors of the family being as follows: 
Esther, who resides at Delaware; George P.; 
Nancy, who married Levi Bechtel, resides at 
Bellefontaine, Ohio ; Rosanna, who is the 
widow of Hugh Stevens, and lives at Troy, 
Ohio. Of those now deceased : Hannah was 
the wife of John J. Flemming, of Prospect. 
Ohio: William lived at Glenwood, Iowa; Sa- 
rah was the wife of Edward Covill ; and Ma- 
ria Theresa was the wife of Alfred Rodman. 
Both parents were exemplary members of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. The father was 
a local preacher during his residence in Rad- 
nor Township, and he was accustomed to 
cover the Delphi Circuit on horseback. 

George P. Mills went to school through 
boyhood in a log structure in the neighbor- 
hood of his home, and afterward taught 
school for several winters, rirst in Marion 
Ci lunty, Ohio, and later in Jones County, 
Iowa, lie remained in Iowa from i860 until 
1863, when he went to Montana, where he 
worked in the gold mines more or less con- 
tinuously until 1866, when he returned to 
Radnor 'Township, Delaware County, Ohio. 
There he followed farming for ten years, after 
which he came to Scioto Township. In 1883, 
he bought the Freshwater farm which contains 
280 acres, and on this large extent of land he 
is engaged in farming and stock-raising. His 
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hay, and to stock-raising. At the present 
writing he has in his fields and pastures, thirty 
polled Durham cattle, 220 Delaine sheep, and 
many head of hogs. 

On August 17, 1868, Mr. Mills was mar- 
ried to Isadore E. Hammond, who is a daugh- 
ter of Noah and Jane Hammond. Mrs. Mills 
was born in Licking County, Ohio, August 
14. 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Mills have seven 
children, as follows : Maude, who is a teacher 
in the public schools of Ostrander ; Mary, 
wb resides at Delaware, engaged in the prac- 
tice of dentistry; Mark P.; George P.. Jr.. 
who resides in MiH Creek Township, Union 
County, Ohio; Hattie. who' married Harlan 
Gordon, resides at Marion, Ohio: and Ed- 
ward, who lives at Lamoure, North Dakota. 

Mr. Mills is not identified with either of 
the great political parties. His father was a 
Democrat, but for a number of years he has 
cast his vote for all candidates according as 
they appealed to his sense of fitness for office. 
He has frequently served his fellow-citizens in 
responsible township positions, having always 
taken an active interest in promoting the best 
interests of his community. For seven years 
he assumed the responsibilities and duties of 
township trustee and for some twenty years 
has served on . the School Board. He is one 
of the township's substantial citizens and rep- 
resentative men. The family residence, which 
was erected in 1870, is constructed of bricks, 
and is finished in its interim' entirely with 
black walnut, from trees grown on the place. 



HERMAN REIT), a prominent repre- 
sentative of the business interests of 
Delaware, until recently engaged in 
the wholesale and retail grocery line. 
"ii North Sandusky Street, was born 
in 1 867. in Union County, Ohio, where he was 
reared, and educated, ami first entered into 
business as a grocery clerk. 

Mr. Reid came to Delaware when about 
twenty years of age, and for two years was a 
clerk in a grocery store. He then embarked 
in the same line, in partnership with ex- Post- 



master L. Potter, the firm name being Potter 
& Reid, which continued for fourteen years. 
After Mr. Potter retired from business in or- 
der to enter the political field, Mr. Reid con- 
tinued the business alone, handling a large 
trade both retail and wholesale, and having 
traveling representatives. He has recently re- 
tired from the grocery business, having sold 
his interests to the Kirchner Brothers, and is 
about to engage in other business. He is in- 
terested also in real estate at Delaware, Co- 
lumbus, Marion, and other points, and in ad- 
dition to these interests, he is a director of the 
Standard Novelty Company, the Mahoning 
Oil Company, and other enterprises. 

In 1888, Mr. Reid was married to Emma 
Burns, of Union County, and they have five 
children, namely: Lelia Pauline. George Clif- 
ford, Percival B., Frederick Sherman, and 
Richard Everett. Mr. Reid and family be- 
long to the Methodist Episcopal Church and 
he is a member of its Board of Trustees. His 
fraternal relations are with the Knights of 
Pythias and the Sons of Veterans. Mr. Reid 
takes a good citizen's interest in civic matters 
and has served on the City Council. 




CLASON REID, who is engaged 
in farming and stock-raising on 
his valuable estate of fifty-two 
acres, in Troy Township, makes a 
specialty of the fancy poultry in- 
dustry, conducting, in partnership with his 
brother, Charles C. Reid, the Olentangy Poul- 
try Yards. He was born in Delaware,, Ohio, 
October 13, 1869. and is a son of Hon. Wil- 
liam P. and Emmaletta (Chamberlain) Reid. 
The late Hon. William P. Reid was a na- 
tive of Ashley. Ohio. Fur many years he was 
a prominent citizen of Delaware County, serv- 
ing in the State Legislature and gaining great 
reputation at home as a criminal lawyer. His 
death took place in 1X79. The surviving mem- 
bers of his family are: M. Clason, whose 
name appear- at the head of this article; Wil- 
liam ['.. residing at Toledo; Charles C, resid- 
ing at Delaware; and Isabel, who married 
Prof. Edwin C. Woolley. The latter fills the 



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chair of English Literature, in the University 
of Wisconsin, at Madison. 

M. Clason Reid was educated in the com- 
mon and high schools at Delaware, where he 
continued to live until the fall of 1906, when 
he came to his present farm in Troy Town- 
ship. He made a scientific study of the busi- 
ness in which he is engaged and has proved 
the practical value of the modern methods he 
employs. His farm has been stocked with 
only registered cattle, hogs and poultry, the 
value of which could be expressed only in 
large figures. The Reid Brothers are raising 
Red Polled cattle, Duroc Red hogs, Bourbon 
Red turkeys and Rhode Island Red chickens, 
finding a good and ready market for all they 
can produce. The industry is a growing one 
and the prospects of the firm are very bright. 

( )n October 29, 1903, Mr. Reid was mar- 
ried t<> Mary Kraus, who was born in Dela- 
ware, and who is a daughter of George and 
Helena Kraus. Mr. Reid is a member of St. 
Peter's Episcopal Church at Delaware, while 
his wife belongs to St. Mary's Catholic 
Church. Following in the footsteps of his 
late father. Mr. Reid is a stanch Democrat, 
and like him, he is also a man of public spirit, 
lie belongs to the order of Eagles, at Dela- 
ware, and tn the Olentangy Lodge, of Odd 
Fellows, No. 53. in which he has passed all 
the chairs, lie is one of Troy Township's 
most enterprising and progressive citizens. 




OBERT J. COX. formerly post- 
master liir five years at Delaware, 
where he lias lived somewhat retired 
fur a number of years, was born in 
1837, in a house on the city lol that 
is now the -ite 'if his present dwelling, it then 
being a pari of his father's farm. He is the 
only child horn to his parents, Thomas W. and 
Ann I'. (Jones) Cox, the latter of whom was 
a sister of Judge Jones. The father of Mr. 
Cox was burn in Warwickshire, England, and 
came t" Delaware County, Ohio, and engaged 
in farming. Both he and wife died at Dela- 
ware, where he had followed his trade of 
In nisi.- painting, fur some years. 



Robert J. Cox was reared in Delaware 
Count}-, and assisted in the management of the 
home farm, also learning the painter's trade. 
In 1862, he enlisted in Company C. Eighty- 
sixth Regiment O. Y. I. He was mustered 
into the service at Columbus, served eighteen 
monts in Virginia, and in 1864 was mustered 
out, returning to Delaware and resuming 
work as a painter. For five years, during 
the administration of President McKinley, he 
served as postmaster of this city and has held 
other public offices. He has been a very ac- 
tive member of the Republican party, and for 
ten years was chairman of the Republican 
County committee, of which he was a member 
for eighteen years. He is a director in the 
Fidelity Building and Loan Association and 
has other business interests. As commander 
of George B. Torrence Post, No. 60, Grand 
Army of the Republic, at Delaware, Mr. Cox 
is widely known in Grand Army circles 
through the State. He is also prominent in 
Masonry, being a member of the Blue Lodge. 
Chapter and Council at Delaware, of the Com- 
mandery at Marion, and of Aladdin Temple, 
Mvstic Shrine, at Columbus. 



llu.\l AS S. JONES, general farmer, 
of Scioto Township, owns a highly 
cultivated farm of fifty acres anil is 
one of the representative citizens of 
this section. He was horn in Con- 
cord Township, Delaware County, Ohio. Oc- 
tober 30, 1875, and is a sun of Perry j. and 
Ellen Jane (Murfield) Jones. 

Perry J. Jones, father of Thomas S.. was 
also a native of Scioto Township, where he 
died September 13. 1900, aged fifty-one 
years. He continued to farm the old home- 
stead until 1880. when he moved to the farm 
now owned by his son, Thomas S. He was 
a Democrat, but took no very active part in 
politics. He married a daughter of George 
Murfield, who was a substantial farmer of 
Concord Township. Of their eight children, 
seven reached maturity, namely: Thomas S. ; 
Harrison W., residing at Ostrander; Susan, 
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Township; William, residing in Scioto Town- 
ship; Ernest, residing at Ostrander; Lena, 
who married Eram Hall, of Liberty Town- 
ship; and Myrtle M., who married Henry 
Stawser, of Concord Township. Some years 
after the death of her first husband. .Mrs. 
Jones married Thomas Harris and they re- 
side in Paulding County, Ohio. She is a 
member of the United Brethren Church. The 
Jones family is of Welsh extraction and the 
grandfather of Thomas S. Jones came to Del- 
aware County from Pennsylvania. In his 
early years he followed shoemaking, but he 
was a man of such excellent business qualifi- 
cations that he soon enlarged his interests and 
in the course of time became one of the most 
extensive buyers of stock in this section. He 
married Laand Stottlemyer, and he died at 
Bellpoint about 1884. 

Thomas S. Jones was educated in the 
schools at Bellpoint and White Sulphur, and 
remained on the home farm until his mar- 
riage. He then engaged in farming in Craw- 
ford County, and so continued until 1905, 
when he purchased the home farm anil has 
continued its cultivation ever since. He raises 
all the leading cereals but makes corn his main 
crop, and he keeps about fort}' head of hogs, 
twenty of sheep and five of cattle, doing a 
safe and satisfactory business. On October 
4, 1 goo. Air. Jones was married to Lottie Haz- 
lett, who was reared in Crawford County, and 
who is a daughter of Mason Hazlett, of Sci- 
oto Township. They have had four children, 
the survivors bearing the names respectively 
of Ardice Marie, and Mary Florence. The 
two deceased were Bertha Elizabeth and Ruth 
Arline. Air. and Mrs. Jones are members of 
the United Brethren Church at Ostrander, and 
the former is a stanch Republican in politics. 




ULREV, proprietor 



II XKI.F.S M. 
of the only 

Delaware County, located at No. 17 

W. William Street, is a native of 

Bethel. Clermont County. Ohio, and 

son of William W. and Martha (Harris) Ul- 

rev. On the paternal side he is of German an- 



cestry. When a young man he learned the 
carpenter's trade under his father, and worked 
at it with him for several years. In 1882 he 
came to Delaware, where his brother William 
was established in business as a photographer. 
This business he learned under his brother's 
direction and remained with his brother until 
1885. at which time he gave up photograph} 
on account of his health. 

He then went to work in a box fact' m\ 
and in 1895 purchased his present business, 
which had been established in the early 8o's 
by John Bradbeer. His factory turns out 
about 500 boxes per day, and he supplies 
nearly all the cigar factories in Delaware, his 
trade also extending to other parts of the 
State. He keeps from six to seven hands con- 
stantly employed. 

Mr. Ulrey has attained his present posi- 
tion as a prosperous manufacturer by his own 
energy and thrift and by an intelligent grasp 
of his opportunities. The elements of success 
or of failure are inherent in every man's char- 
acter, and Mr. Ulrey has shown unmistake- 
ably that he is not to be counted among the 
failures. He is a prominent member of the 
Knights of Pythias, serving three years as 
captain of the Uniformed Rank, and has been 
recently elected for another year. He also be- 
longs to the Independent Order of Foresters, 
of the local lodge <>f which he is a charter 
member. 

Mr. Ulrey married Josephine, daughter of 
Jacob Koch, of Adelphi, Ohio, and has one 
son — Howard Stanley. The family are prom- 
inent members of St. Paul's Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. Mr. Ulrey being librarian of the 
Sunday school and leader of the orchestra. 
He possesses considerable musical ability, es- 
pecially as an executant upon various brass 
instruments. He served nine months as cor- 
net player in the Seventh United States Cav- 
alry, enlisting in the spring of 1882. and be- 
ing discharged at the end of the time men- 
tioned on account of ill health. Air. Ulrey's 
industrial achievements are an integral factor 
in the business life of Delaware, and as such 
are worthy of prominent mention by the local 
historian. 



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ILLIAM C. BOVEY, notary pub- 
lic at Ostrander and a leading citi- 
zen, engaged in the carriage and 
wagon manufacturing industry, 
was born at Plain City, Ohio, May 
2, 1859. and is a son of Emanual and Annie 
( Winget) Bovey. 

The father of Air. Bovey was horn in 
Maryland and died in Alabama in 1899. He 
learned the trade of carriage-maker in his own 
State and followed it there and for a short 
time at Newark, Ohio, to which city he came 
prior to his marriage, which later took place 
at Ostrander. He then moved to Delaware 
and a few years later to Plain City, and in 
[889 to Athens, Alabama. He owned 160 
acres of land in that vicinity and followed 
farming together with work at his trade un- 
til his death. He was a Democrat in his po- 
litical views. He married Annie, a daughter 
of Ezra W'inget, of Ostrander, Ohio, and five 
of their children reached mature age, namely : 
Mary, now deceased, who married Walter 
Morrison, also now deceased; William C, 
\\ hi ise name appears at the head of this article; 
C. L. V. Bovey. who resides at Warrensburg, 
Ohio; Emma, who married James W. McKit- 
trick. of Ostrander; and Martin, who is de- 
ceased. The parents of the above mentioned 
family were worthy Christian people, the 
father being a member of the German Baptist 
Church and the mother the Presbyterian 
Church. 

William C. Bovey was educated in the 
public schools of Ostrander. He learned the 
trade of carriage and wagon-making with his 
father, and also learned blacksmithing, later 
acquiring a practical knowledge of carriage 
painting. Thus he is competent to do any 
kind of work required in his manufactory, be- 
ing able to construct, himself, every part of a 
vehicle and turn out a finished product. He 
probably has no equal in the county in this re- 
spect. When his father left < Istrander in 
r88o, he embarked in a general store business, 
which he continued for two years and then 
opened his present establishment, a commodi- 
ous, well-arranged business house, which Mr. 
I'.. vej has occupied ever since. I lis ground 



floor is mainly taken up with stock and his 
paint shop is on the second floor. He builds 
wagons and carriages to order and does repair 
work, having the larger part of the custom 
from the surrounding territory. 

Mr. Bovey was married first to Nellie 
Rowland, a daughter of John Rowland, of 
Radnor Township, and they had three chil- 
dren — Annie, who married Lewis Howison, 
of Bellpoint ; Ernest, who resides at Plain 
City ; and Ethel, who married Raleigh Willis, 
residing in Liberty Township. Mr. Bovey 
was married secondly to Clementine Carrier, a 
daughter of Joseph Carrier, of Ridgeville, In- 
diana, and they have the following children : 
Chloie, Frances C, Hazel Eldora, Dale, Car- 
lyle, and Mary Ivadel. Mr. and Mrs. Bovey are 
members of the Presbyterian Church, of which 
he has been a trustee for nine years. He is 
very active in Sunday-school and philan- 
thropic work. 

Mr. Bovey is a leading Democrat of Del- 
aware County, and a very influential factor 
in the public affairs of Scioto Township. He 
served as township clerk for eight years, for 
four years was clerk of the corporation of Os- 
trander, and for four years has been a notary 
public. Fraternally, he belongs to Ostrander 
Lodge, No. 348 Knights of Pythias, and both 
he and wife belong to the auxiliary order of 
Pythian Sisters, in which Mrs. Bovey has held 
the office of mistress of finance. 



ffl FTER J. SCHAAF. proprietor of the 
«pjj Brookside Farm, a successful breeder 
of Percheron horses and a leading 
agriculturist of Troy Township, re- 
sides on his valuable farm of almost 
1 01 1 acres, which was the scene of his birth. 
July jo, 1854. 

Ilis parents, Peter J. and Jacbbina D. 
(Wagner) Schaaf, were both born in < ier- 
many. The father was brought to America 
by bis parents when he was seven years of 
age. and was reared in Marion County, Ohio. 
Following his marriage be came to Troy 
Township and settled on the farm which his 




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son and namesake, Peter J., now owns, and 
here he died in December. 1880. His wife, 
Jacobina, was eleven years old when her par- 
ents came to America, they settling on the 
farm in Delaware County on which she and 
her husband resided after their marriage. 
Her father, John Wagner, was a well-known 
pioneer. The surviving children of Peter J. 
and Jacobina D. Schaaf are: Anna, 
who married Peter Weisman, residing in 
Paulding County; Peter J., subject of 
this sketch, residing in Troy Town- 
ship ; Rev. John C, pastor of the Reformed 
Church at Canfield, Ohio; Flora E., who mar- 
ried C. X. Cole, residing at Providence, Rhode 
Island; Edward YV., a resident of Denver, 
Colorado ; Ella F., who married A. P. Rode- 
fer, residing in Troy Township; and Annetta 
L., who married George Romoser, and resides 
at Cardington, Ohio. The mother of the 
above mentioned family died in June, 1904. 
The father was a man of prominence in the 
Reformed > Church and also in the public af- 
fairs of the township. Of him it could be truly 
said that his word was as good as his bond. 

Peter J. Schaaf, Jr.. was reared in Troy 
Township, which has always been his home. 
Many members of the family have established 
themselves in far-away sections, but he has 
found sufficiently favorable opportunities in 
the section in which he was born. For a quar- 
ter of a century he has been engaged in breed- 
ing registered Percheron horses, and the ani- 
nals turned out from Brookside Farm, have 
been noted for their good form and fine points, 
according to established standards. 

Mr. Schaaf was first married to Rosa Mar- 
tin, who was a daughter or Rev. Benjamin 
Martin, of Ashley, Ohio. She died leaving 
one daughter, Carrie R., who was educated in 
the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, 
and is a popular and successful teacher in the 
public schools. Mr. Schaaf married secondly 
Mrs. Helen Strawhacker, who was the widow 
of George Strawhacker, formerly of Medina 
County, and a daughter of Michael Grunin- 
ger. Mr. Schaaf is a member of the Re- 
formed Church and a liberal contributor to 
its support, attending services at Waldo, Ohio. 
In politics he is a Democrat. 




*ED PALMER HILLS, cashier of the 
Delaware Savings Bank Company, 
and president of the First National 
Bank of Cardington, Ohio, was born 
October 4, 1851. He comes of old 
colonial stock, being a descendant in the eighth 
generation of William Hills, who arrived in 
Boston, Massachusetts, on the ship "Lyon" 
from England, in September, 1632. He prob- 
ably died at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1683. 
He was married three times. His first wife, 
from whom the subject of this sketch is de- 
scended, was Phillis, daughter of Richard and 
Sarah (Osborne) Lyman, who emigrated 
from High Onger, Essex County, England, in 
1631. 

The next in the present line of descent was 
William, second, who was born in Hartford, 
Connecticut, about 1646, and who was buried 
at Hartford, August 15, 1693. 

The third generation in the line to the sub- 
ject of this sketch, was represented by Joseph, 
who was born in East Hartford, Connecticut, 
in 1683, and who died at Farmington, Con- 
necticut. April 29, 1 75 1. He married Abigail 
Noyes, who died September 2^, 175 1. 

Joseph and Abigail were the parents of 
David (fourth generation), who was born in 
Farmington, September 15, 1716. He mar- 
ried a widow, Mrs. Anna Hart, who was ,1 
daughter of Zebulon Deming, the date of the 
marriage being August 28, 17 — . She died 
October 30, 1804. He died after June, 1790. 

Amos, son of David and Anna Hills, is the 
fifth link in our genealogical chain. He was 
born in 1745, and died at Farmington, Con- 
necticut, April 9, 1813. He married, in 1773. 
Rachel Lewis of Middletown, who was born 
in August, 1750. and died October 4. 1818. 

Descending another generation, we come 
to James Harvey (son of Amos), and grand- 
father of Fred P. Hills, who was born i.i 
Farmington. Connecticut, March 8, 1782. He 
was educated at Yale College, and was a 
graduate in medicine, which he made his pro- 
fession. He removed to Darby Plains, Ohio, 
and thence to Worthington, coming to Dela- 
ware in 1822. At one time he was part owner 
of what is now the Ohio State Journal. In 
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Fort Defiance. Here he was taken sick, and 
his wife rode ioo miles through the trackless 
forests to care for him, an instance of courage 
and endurance by no means uncommon among 
the women of pioneer days. Dr. Hills resided 
in Delaware from 1822 until his death, which 
occurred from milk fever, November 30, 1830. 
An estimate of his ability as a medical prac- 
titioner may be found in the chapter on the 
"Medical Profession," in this volume. He 
was a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 18, F. 
& A. M., of Delaware. He married, in Sep- 
tember, 1801. Beulah Andrews, who was born 
April (>. [784, and died June 22, [866. They 
were the parents of eleven children. 

Chauncey Hills, eighth son and child of 
Dr. James H. and Beulah Hills, and father 
of the subject of this sketch, was born at 
Worthington, Ohio, October 7, 1816. He was 
quite young when the family came to 
Delaware, and he was but fourteen when his 
father died. He began at once, not only to 
be self-supporting, but also to help his mother, 
in spite of his youth, finding employment in 
teaching school. At the close of the session 
he found work in a printing office in Marion. 
Afterwards he endeavored to apprentice him- 
self to a saddler in Delaware, but a conflict 
arose at to who was to select the suit of 
clothes to be included in the compensation, 
and the engagement was not made. Mr. Hills 
diil not propose, boy though he was, that any- 
one but himself should select his clothes. The 
positive tastes and views of the boy were ap- 
parent in the man. and were a potent factor in 
his long and successful career. He was 
modest, unassuming, and courteous, and Dela- 
ware never had a more highly esteemed citi- 
zen. A period of work in a store was fol- 
lowed by study for the bar. but being offered 
a position in the leading general store of Dela- 
ware, be accepted, and his share of profits 
for the first year was $3,000. the beginning 
of his business success, and for more than 
forty years his name was identified with the 
dry-goods trade of Delaware. 

In 18,^4 he purchased a small farm, which 
he augmented to 400 acres, and called "Crystal 
Spring Farm," from the beautiful spring of 



clear crystal water located upon it. An inci- 
dent published in the atlas of the county, in 
1875. and which was given by Elam Vining, 
who lived to be upward of ninety, and who 
was told the story by one of the rescuing 
party, lends interest to this spot. 

"The Delaware and other tribes sent war 
parties into Pennsylvania to depredate, destroy 
and to take prisoners. One party was fol- 
lowed by a band of rescuers. They separated, 
and the Delawares came to their river camps. 
This party had a young white girl in captivity, 
and was traced by the pursuing party, among 
whom were two brothers of the prisoner, 
through Bowtown, and through the villages. 
all of which were deserted. The light of a 
fire glimmering to the north, directed their 
steps to an assembly of the Indians engaged 
in a war-dance. The maiden was seen fastened 
to a stake near a fire. It was early evening, 
and instant assault was ordered. A volley 
from the whites killed one savage, wounded 
others, and put the rest to instant flight. The 
girl was released and the party returned home 
in triumph. The spot which is of interest for 
this rescue, is known as the Crystal Spring 
Farm, on Clear Run, Troy Township." The 
exact spot was at the spring. 

The diversion which the farm afforded un- 
doubtedly added health and strength and years 
to Mr. Hills' life. In 1862 he moved from the 
city to the farm, and remained there 12 years, 
one of the happiest periods of bis life. The 
land is limestone, situated in a fine gentle, roll- 
ing country, with magnificent groves of oaks 
and maples and other native trees, and pastures 
of rich blue grass. 

Here, in 1854, was laid the foundation of 
his shorthorn herd, when the fine young bull, 
Master Miller 693. and the beautiful young 
Rose of Sharon heifer. Fanny Fern, by Prince 
Charles the Second 32113, were purchased of 
the Messrs. Renick. At this time and for 
six years thereafter, the late T. C. Jones, his 
brother-in-law, was associated with Mr. Hills, 
the firm being Hills & Jones. In 1862 the 
herd was divided. Mr. Hills also experi- 
mented with various breeds of sheep, but the 
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tions, were his favorites. His success as a 
breeder of shorthorns was well attested many 
years ago by the choice of numbers of his herd 
for export to Great Britain, where they graced 
the pastures of Lord Dunmore, at Stirling-, and 
produced descendants that were most success- 
ful in the show -ring. Two animals wnich 
Mr. Hills bred, were shipped to England and 
sold for 1,500 guineas, about $7,500. He also 
bred thoroughbred Yorkshire hogs. In 1872. 
with his wife, ami his son. Fred Palmer, he 
traveled extensively through Europe, and 
visited many of the leading flocks and herds of 
England. 

In 1847 Mr. Hills married Margaret Copp 
Williams, a nieee of E. D. Morgan, who was 
at one time Governor of Xew York. They hail 
a family of five sons and one daughter, namely : 
Frank A., born August 21. 1849; Fred Pal- 
mer, born October 4. 1851; Hosea \\\. born 
July 30. 1853: Harry X.. born March 20. 
1855: John W., born November 24. 1856; 
James M., born December 10. 1858; and 
Katherine M.. born June 22. 1861. who mar- 
ried Dr. Ferris, of Brooklyn. Xew York, and 
died May 5. 1907. John \Y. Hill- is one of 
the best known live-stock artists in the coun- 
try. 

Chauncy Hills, in addition to his farming 
and live-stock interests, was a director in sev- 
eral Delaware banks, and president of the Gas 
Company. All his business dealings were 
characterized by probity and honor, and he 
was personally a generous and helpful man. 
He was a fine horseman, and excelled in 
whatever he undertook, being always alert to 
take advantage of opportunities, and keeping 
ever before him the highest possible standard 
as a goal. He selected always the best things 
whenever he had a choice to make. He wrote 
numerous articles on the breeding of cattle and 
sheep for the Country Gentleman and other 
stock and agricultural papers. Mr. Hills died 
February 9. 1901. when past his eighty-fourth 
year, having accomplished much work of per- 
manent value to the community in which he 
had spent the greater part of his life. 

Fred Palmer Hills, the direct subject of 
this sketch, in his early youth attended the 



school ot .Mrs. Murray, a well known educator 
of that day. and so continued his studies un- 
til his parents removed to their farm in Troy 
Township. He then passed under the care of 
a private tutor. Miss Elizabeth Williams, com- 
ing later under the tuition of Rev. James S. 
Campbell, who was at that time and for many 
years afterwards, superintendent of schools in 
Delaware. In 1870. in company with J. D. 
Wolfley, he went to Europe to master German 
and French, and to secure the culture that 
comes only from a residence abroad. They 
spent a year in Hanover. Germany, and an- 
other in Geneva. Switzerland, after which Mr. 
Hills devoted six months more to travel. The 
Franco-Prussian war broke out the first week 
after they landed in Germany, and they had 
an opportunity to witness a review of the Ger- 
man troops, as they marched up "Unter den 
Linden," by the statute of Frederick the Great, 
in Berlin. This was a rare opportunity, as the 
soldiers of all the various German states were 
clad in the uniforms of their respective states, 
or principalities, and presented a sight such as 
will probably never be seen again. 

Upon his return to Delaware Mr. Hills 
engaged in the dry-goods business with his 
father, under the name of C. Hills & Company. 
He was already familiar with the business, 
as he had had experience in the store before 
going abroad, during his spare time. Later, 
with his brothers, John and Harry X.. under 
the firm name of Hills Bros., he bought the 
business and continued it until 1882, when the 
three brothers sold out to John W. Hills and 
George Thirkield, the style of the firm be- 
coming Hills & Thirkield. In 1877 Chauncv 
Hills, V. T. Hills, Frank A., and the subject 
of this sketch, formed the Hills Paper Com- 
pany, and bought the mill at Stratford from 
the estate of Mr. Hills' grandfather. Judge 
Hosea Williams. In 1882 they sold 'out to 
Edsall. Mills & Randall. Mr. Fred P. Hills 
then went to Europe and visited about twenty- 
five of the finest stock farms in Great Britain 
and on the continent. He purchased $6,000 
worth of thoroughbred shorthorns, registered 
in the English herd books, among them being- 
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Oxford, Grand Duke Barrington 2d, and 100 
Shropshire sheep. The Shropshire flock, 
which was started at Crystal Spring Farm, in 
1876, and is now kept at Oakland Farm, is 
the oldest one in Ohio. The foundation stock 
was imported from several of the most dis- 
tinguished breeders in Great Britain. The 
sheep from this flock have had a strong influ- 
ence in improving the grade of sheep kept by 
the farmers throughout this section of the 
State. 

After his return from Europe Mr. Hills 
gave his entire time to stuck breeding on the 
home farm — Crystal Spring Farm, in Troy 
Township. In 1888 he became president of 
the First National Bank of Cardington, and 
since that time has spent one or two days 
there every week. He also has charge of 
Oakland Farm, in Peru Township, Morrow 
County, which is the property of his wife — 
her old home. Here they have about 60 head 
of thoroughbred shorthorn and polled Durham 
cattle. They have also about 20 horses, sev- 
eral of them thoroughbred Percherons. For 
10 years Mr. Hills also bred thoroughbred 
Welsh ponies, and for a time, Angora goats. 

In 1891 he helped to organize the Dela- 
ware Savings Bank Company, of Delaware, 
of which he has been cashier since 1892. He 
is also a director of the Delaware Gas Com- 
pany, and of the Delaware Ice and Coal Com- 
pany, and is treasurer of the Citizens' Tele- 
phone Company. He is interested in the 
Mineral Springs and Sanitarium Company, 
which is likely to be developed before long 
into a splendid property, and also in the Ode- 
vene Company, which controls a water equal 
to the springs at West Baden, Indiana. He 
also owns Greenwood Lake, which is a beauti- 
ful spot and a favorite resort for picnics. 

Air. Hills was married, October 16, 1884, 
to Mary, daughter of Isaac H. and Caroline 
(Clark) Pennock. Of this union there have 
been tour children, of whom Beatrice, the 
first-born, died in infancy. The survivors are: 
Dorothy, Robert Pennock, and Mary Caroline. 
Dorothy, a bright and scholarly young lady, is 
attending private school in New York State. 
She is an accomplished musician, being an 



able executant upon the violin, piano, mando- 
lin, and guitar. Robert also possesses musical 
ability, being a good ameteur performer on the 
flute. A taste for music is a family char- 
acteristic, as Mrs. Hills is an accomplished 
pianist, and Mr. Hills sang in the choir of 
St. Peter's Episcopal Church, of which all 
the family are members, from 1869 to 1907. 
He has also been treasurer of the church for 
five or six years. Personally Mr. Hills in- 
herits all of his father's best characteristics. 
Thorough in his business methods of unim- 
peached honor and probity, he is also in his 
manners all that is implied by the word gen- 
tleman, when used in its best and most com- 
prehensive sense. He and his family are 
among the most respected residents of Dela- 
ware County. 




RIFFITH C. OWEN, general farmer 

and representative citizen, residing 

M I mi his valuable property in Scioto 

Township, which comprises 193 acres 

of well-cultivated land, was born on 

this farm, October 11, 1847. His parents 

were John P. and Sarah (Warren) Owen. 

John P. Owen was born in Wales. In 
1826 he came to America and resided in 
Oneida County, New York, until about 1834, 
when he came to Delaware County, Ohio. He 
was a carpenter and worked at his trade in 
different sections of the country, passing ten 
years in Louisiana. After he returned to Ohio 
he married and then settled on the farm which 
is now the property of his son, Griffith C. 
Only three acres had been cleared, and his 
first home was in a little log cabin which had 
been left by the former owner. This was re- 
placed in 1870, by the handsome brick resi- 
dence now standing. On this place, John P. 
Owen and wife spent the remainder of their 
lives, which were years of industry, peace and 
good will toward all who came to their hos- 
pitable hearth. Mrs. Owen, whose maiden 
name was Sarah Warren, was born in Ross 
County, Ohio, and died May 8, 1877. She 
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death having taken place December 1. 1874. 

Griffith C. Owen was reared on the home- 
stead farm, which he assisted his father in 
clearing- and developing, and he has followed 
agriculture as an occupation from his youth 
up. The cultivating of his broad fields, and 
adding to his flocks and herds, have engaged 
his chief attention, but he has also given some 
time to public business. Politically a Demo- 
crat, he was elected on that ticket trustee of 
Scioto Township and also justice of the 
peace, serving in the latter capacity for two 
years. 

.Mr. Owen was married first, January 27. 
1870, to Melissa McFarlin, who was horn 
March 4, 1847. m Delaware County, Ohio, 
and died November 10, 1899, leaving nine 
children — John \Y., Charles L.. Frank R., 
James \\\. Arnold G., George S., Roy A.. 
Gertrude E., and Ollie M. Air. Owen was 
married secondly to Clara Ciller, who is a 
daughter of Augustus Giller, of Lima, Ohio. 
Mr. Owen has been identified with the Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows for many 
years. He belongs to the Encampment and 
is past grand of Olentangy Lodge, at Dela- 
ware. 




OHN FRANCIS GAYNOR, a lead- 
ing citizen of Delaware, a member of 
the City Council representing the 
Fourth Ward, was born at Delaware, 
Delaware County. Ohio, and is a son 
of John and Anna (Ferris) Cay nor. 

The father of Mr. Gaynor was hum in 
County Kerry, Ireland, in 1834. and came in 
1756 to Delaware, where he died October 17. 
1864, at the age of thirty years. He married 
Anna Ferris, also torn in Ireland, who still 
survives, aged seventy-one years. They had 
two children — Elizabeth and John Francis. 
John Francis Gaynor was a student in St. 
Mary's parochial school from early childhood 
until he was ten years old. The death of his 
father made it necessary that he should be- 
come self-supporting even at that tender age 
and he accordingly went to work in the chair 

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factory at Delaware, where he remained until 
1894. He had started at the bottom of the 
ladder but through industry and capacity 
moved upward step by step until he became 
foreman of the large factory, which posit' n 
he held for about fourteen years. He then 
went into the wholesale beer business with 
which he has been connected ever since, rep- 
resenting the Springfield Brewery, of Spring- 
field. For the past seven years he has also 
been engaged in a live stock business, mainly 
the buying and selling of horses. Mr. Gay- 
nor has accumulated considerable property, 
including a comfortable home in Delaware. 
He also owns stock in the Electric Rolling- 
Milling Company of Delaware. 

In 1893, Mr. Gaynor was married to Mar- 
tha A. Nelson, who is a daughter of Michael 
and Mary Nelson, residents of Delaware. 
They have one daughter, Anna Marie, who is 
a bright student in St. Mary's parochial sch' 10I 
at Delaware. Mr. Gaynor is a member of Di- 
vision No. 1, Ancient Order of Hibernians, at 
Delaware, of which he has been treasurer, and 
he has been county president for several years. 
He belongs also to the order of Eagles, Aerie 
No. 370, of Delaware, of which he has been 
both president and treasurer. Politically. Mr. 
Gaynor is identified with the Democratic 
party, and since early manhood he has taken 
an interest in public affairs. He wields a 
large amount of local influence and his election 
to the City Council in 1907, shows the estima- 
tion in which he is held by the people. 



HAL'LES F. TURNER, superin- 
tendent of motive power for the Co- 
lumbus, Delaware and Marion Rail- 
»™S?=!J way Company, with office and resi- 
dence at Stratford, Delaware Town- 
ship, was born in Van Wert, Van 
Wert County. Ohio, March 2j. 1866. 
smi of Ephraim and Frances V. (Sho- 
w alter) Turner. His paternal grandfather 
was a farmer who removed from Penn- 
sylvania to Licking County. Ohio. Ephraim 
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marriage removed with his wife and eldest 
child — a daughter — to Van Wert, and subse- 
quently — about 1870 — to Berrien County. 
Michigan. Here he died when the subject 
of this sketch was about rive years old. Dur- 
ing the Civil war he enlisted, but was dis- 
charged from the service on account of ill 
health. His wife Frances was a native of 
Fairfield, Ohio. 

Charles F. Turner acquired his early ed- 
ucation in the schools of Berrien. County. 
Michigan. At quite an early age he became 
interested in the subject of electricity, which 
he first studied at home, after working hours. 
In order to obtain a sound theoretical knowl- 
edge of the science, he entered, in 1894, the 
Ohio State University at Columbus, where he 
took a special course in electrical engineering. 
He then came into practical touch with the 
business, being employed successively by sev- 
eral large electric roads in different parts of 
( Ihio and .Michigan, and during the past eight 
or nine years he has been chief engineer for 
several such roads, having full charge of 
power and equipment. He entered upon the 
duties of his present position on January 1st, 
[908, but for five and a half years previously 
had been chief steam and electric engineer for 
the company. 

The plant of which he has charge is one 
of the most modern and best equipped to be 
found anywhere, and gives employment to 
about fifty men. all of whom are under Mr. 
Turner's direction. The power plant contains 
one steam turbine of 2.000 kilowatt capacity, 
the latest type manufactured by the General 
Electric Company; also an 800 kilowatt aux- 
iliary turbine of the same type. The plant 
runs twenty-four hours a day. and the latter 
engine is used for night work. Both are con- 
nected direct to the generators, which have a 
power ^i -'.300 volts. There is a steam-driven 
exciter of 2$ K. W. and a motor-driven ex- 
citer of J; K. W. There are fourteen pumps 
for various purposes; a battery of seven boil- 
ers of a total horsepower of 2,000, the fur- 
naces consuming forty-eight tons ol coal per 
day. In addition to the car barns and power 
plant, in the car-barn building is a fully 



equipped machine shop, blacksmith shop, car- 
penter shop and paint shop. 

Mr. Turner married Ella Ford, a daughter 
of Matthias Ford, of Columbus, Ohio. He 
and his wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Stratford, and number 
many friends among the prominent residents 
of the township. 




LOYD K. WORNSTAFF, prominent 
among Ashley's younger generation 
oi business men and citizens, is super- 
intendent of the village schools. He 
is a native of Oxford Township, hav- 
ing been born on the old home place Septem- 
ber 19, 1881, and is a son of Sperry and Mary 
E. ( Weiser) Wornstaff. 

Upon the completion of his early educa- 
tional training in the public schools of Ash- 
ley. Mr. Wornstaff matriculated at Ohio Wes- 
leyan University at Delaware, and in 1905 re- 
ceived the degree of A. B. The following au- 
tumn his professional career as an instructor 
began with the position as superintendent of 
the schools at Shauck, Ohio, in which capacity 
he served two years. So successful was he in 
his work that in 1907 he was called to fill a 
similar position in the schools of his home 
town of which he is a graduate. He is as- 
sisted in his work by a corps of five teachers 
and it is a curious fact that every one of them 
is a resident of Ashley and a graduate of the 
school in which he now teaches. 

June 12. 1907, Mr. Wornstaff was united 
in marriage with Elizabeth Wilt, who was 
born in Ashley and is a daughter of J. F. and 
Emma (Clifton) Wilt. After completing the 
prescribed course in the public schools of her 
home town, she attended Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity and was graduated in 1903 in vocal 
and instrumental music. This was suppled 
merited by a course of study in the Chicago 
Conservatory of Music, after which she en- 
gaged in teaching and concert work in Chi- 
cago for two years. Endowed with a voice 
of quality and having received the most care- 
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ccs>. Fraternally Mr. Wornstaff is a member 
of the college order Phi Delta Theta. He also 
belongs to the Ashley Lodge of Free Masons. 



HOMAS J. WINSTON, junior mem- 
ber of the firm of Manville & \Yinst< m, 
leading business men of Ostrander, 
and a grain and stock farmer of 
Scioto Township, was born in New- 
ark, Ohio, September 15, 1844. an d is a son 
of Timothy and Elizabeth (Jones) Winston, 
The parents of Mr. Winston were born in 
Wales. 

Timothy Winston was a pattern-maker by 
trade but when he came first to America and 
settled near Newark, Ohio, he followed farm- 
ing. After his marriage he established him- 
self in the furniture business at Covington, 
Kentucky, where he prospered for some five 
years, subsequently losing his stock through 
the explosion of a boiler and the fire which 
followed. He next engaged in the wash-board 
manufacture, at Cincinnati, but was again 
burned out. For a third time he lost all he 
had when his saw-mill burned, several years 
later, at Fulton, then a suburb of Cincinnati. 
These many disasters proved too much for 
even a man of his energy and courage and a 
mortal sickness came on him and he died in 
1854. aged forty-three years. He died in the 
belief that his widow and children would not 
be left entirely unprovided for, in spite of his 
many losses, as he had a farm in Illinois on 
which coal had been found. Again misfor- 
tune visited the family, as the administrator 
of the estate only remained in charge long 
enough to realize on every asset and then left 
the country for Australia, having no concern 
about Mrs. Winston's almost penniless condi- 
tion. She remained at Cincinnati until [858 
and then took her two surviving children and 
went to Columbia County. Wisconsin, where 
she died in i860, aged 39 years. 

Timothy Winston was married twice, his 
second wife being the mother of Thomas J. 
Winston, of Scioto County. Of his family 
born to his first marriage, the following 
reached maturity: Samuel and Gwen, both 



now deceased; Mary, who is the widow of 
James Hackett, of Cincinnati., and Sarah, 
now deceased, who married Joseph Mur- 
ray, of Cincinnati. There were four 
children born of the second marriage, two of 
whom reached maturity, Thomas J., and Ed- 
ward, the latter of whom is deceased. Tim- 
othy Winston was a man of more than usual 
parts. Combined with moral and physical 
courage, he was energetic and far-seeing, 
quick to grasp opportunities and able to mould 
them to his purpose. He was a member of 
the Town Council at Newark, Ohio, and took 
an active interest in public matters in every 
place in which he lived. For thirty years he 
was identified with the Odd Fellows. 

Thomas J. Winston resided from 1858 
until he enlisted for service in the Civil war, 
in Columbia County. Wisconsin. He was a 
mere youth when he entered Company D, Six- 
teenth Regiment. Wisconsin Volunteer In- 
fantry, and during this term of enlistment of 
three months duration, he was never called on 
to leave the State. When the call came for 
three-year men. he re-enlisted and the regi- 
ment was then accepted as a part of the Fed- 
eral Army. From the mustering camp at 
Madison, Mr. Winston, with his regiment, 
went to Cairo, Illinois, then down the river to 
Pittsburg Landing, then on to Corinth, par- 
ticipating in the siege and battles there. From 
Corinth the regiment was ordered to Holly 
Springs, thence to Louisville and on to Vicks- 
burg. The brigade to which Mr. Winston 
was connected was sent to Lake Providence, 
Louisiana, and engaged in opening the famous 
canal that was to connect the Mississippi river 
with Lake Providence. Mr. Winston relates 
that when the levee was tapped and the water 
was admitted, it spread so rapidly, on account 
of the high water in the lake at that time, that 
for a distance of fifty miles the entire low- 
lands were submerged and the men of the reg- 
iment were obliged to climb trees in order to 
avoid being drowned. For some three weeks, 
only the upper stories of houses in this region 
could be used. Sickness, during this time, 
sadly decimated the ranks and at one time 
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were fit for duty. Mr. Winston being one of 
this number. After the regiment had per- 
formed its part in the siege of Vicksburg, it 
was sent into winter quarters at Red Bone, 
Mississippi, passing much of the winter of 
1863-64 in fighting guerrillas. 

At this time, Mr. Winston, with many of 
his comrades, re-enlisted as veterans and all 
such re-enlisted soldiers were given a furlough 
of 30 days. During Mr. Winston's absence 
his brother died. Later, at Clifton, Tennes- 
see, the Seventeenth Army Corps was reor- 
ganized, and it marched through Tennessee 
and Alabama and overtook Sherman's army at 
Big Shanty, Georgia. The members of Mr. 
Winston's company were thrown out as skir- 
mishers. The company took part in the bat- 
tle of Kenesaw Mountain and in all the en- 
gagements around Atlanta until the fall of 
that city. When the army left Atlanta, only 
five days' rations were issued, in fact they 
were only half rations, dependence being 
placed on the foragers for supplies. Mr. 
Winston being one of these, he had many ad- 
ventures and a number of narrow escapes 
from capture and death. He relates one inter- 
esting adventure as typical of others. Being 
sent out as a non-commissioned officer in 
charge of a squad of three foragers, he found 
provisions scarce and told his men to scatter 
and ordered that each one should work by 
himself. All were well mounted and Mr. 
Winston rode some seven miles through the 
enemy's country, naturally on the outlook con- 
tinually in some fear of attack. He finally 
reached a place where he saw provisions in 
plenty and there he ordered a servant to hitch 
up a wagon, load it full of meat, corn and 
poultry and a lot of tobacco, and congratulated 
himself that he was going to get back to camp 
with something worth while. When about a 
half mile distant he was attacked by a band of 
guerrillas, probably themselves out foraging, 
and barely escaped with his life, losing his 
load. Mr. Winston says he has not yet got- 
ten entirely over his disappointment at losing 
that really first-class load of provisions. War 
in an enemy's country overturns all previously 
established ideas of rightful possession, and 



Mr. Winston recalls another incident, when, 
on finding an open buggy standing in front 
of a house, he took possession of it, quietly 
loaded into it the full contents of a near-by 
smoke-house and then peeped into the kitchen 
to see if he was observed. There he saw three 
loaded guns, which he proceeded to break and 
then went back to drive off his buggy load of 
eatables, but only to be confronted by three 
very determined looking men, who demanded 
by what right he was carrying off their goods. 
He represented that he was transferring them 
to a large body of Union soldiers in the near- 
by wood, and as he had taken their guns and 
was very frank about what he would do with 
his own, if they followed, he managed to get 
away. After some very diplomatic maneu- 
vers and many adventures, he did really come 
up with a regiment of Union troops and was 
able to deliver his goods. When he reached 
camp about midnight, all the soldiers were 
roused and a great cooking went on, and Mr. 
Winston asserts that eating continued until 
morning. Want of space alone prevents the 
recital of many other interesting adventures. 
At Peach Tree Creek the regiment to 
which Mr. Winston was attached, was at- 
tacked seven times on July 22nd and had to 
jump over their little works to fight on both 
sides. On July 21st they were drawn upon 



the extreme left wing of the army. 



Mr. 



Winston's company, being the color company, 
was given the tools to work with, and they 
threw up breastworks, but by the time the 
latter were complete they had to fall back and 
straighten the line, leaving their breastworks 
fifteen feet in advance. In their last charge 
the Confederates came in behind their breast- 
works and planted their colors there. They 
were shot down time and time again, until 
not another man was left to put them up and 
the next morning Mr. Winston's company 
found ninety dead men in that little enclosure 
barely twenty feet long, they having piled 
their dead up to defend their living, making a 
useless sacrifice. Many incidents of that time, 
some grotesque but the larger number pitiful, 
are engraved on Mr. Winston's memory. He 
was slightly wounded. He participated in the 




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grand review at Washington and was mus- 
tered out of the service at Louisville. Ken- 
tucky. July 12. 1865. He is an honored mem- 
ber and past commander of Joseph Tanner 
Post. No. 531, Grand Army of the Republic, 
at Ostrander. For a number of years he has 
been a member of the Soldiers' Relief and 
Burial Commission. 

After the close of his military service. Mr. 
Winston returned to Wisconsin, and in 1866 
he came back to Ohio and settled down to 
fanning- in Scioto Township. Delaware 
County. He has resided on several different 
farms, but in 1887 he bought his present farm 
of 125 acres. This he devotes to grain and 
hogs ; raising Poland China and Duroc varie- 
ties, keeping about seventy-five head. He has 
business interests at Ostrander. in 1903 enter- 
ing into partnership with A. M. Manville, in 
a hardware enterprise, under the firm name of 
Manville & Winston. 

On August 9, 1868, Mr. Winston was 
married to Sarah Jones, who is a daughter of 
Thomas Jones of Scioto Township, and they 
had three children, namely : Edward, residing 
in Scioto Township; Nora, who married A. 
M. Manville; and Charles D. 




REDERICK P. VERGOX. proprietor 

of Greenwood Farm, near Delaware, 

is one of the best known orchardists 

in the United States. He was born 

in the Department de Dieu, France, 

n< it far from the boundary line of Switzerland, 

December 16. 1829, and is a son of John G. 

and Elizabeth (Berlett) Vergon. 

John G. Vergon was a native of the same 
French Canton, where he owned ii acres of 
land, divided into 16 pieces. In 1834 he sold 
his little property and came to America, reach- 
in- Columbus from the Fa-t by the way of 
river and canal, and settled in Delaware 
County, Ohio, on the place now known as 
Greenwood Farm. Although the property 
was then wild and neglected. it> purchase in- 
volved Mr. Vergon in debt, and he was further 
handicapped by bis ignorance of the English 



language. Thus it was remarkable that 111 
a short time he had so bent circumstance^ 10 
his will, through his native wit and ingenuity, 
that he was able to invest in 115 acres of land. 
a yoke of oxen, an old horse and a few cows. 
From that beginning he prospered continuous!;, 
until his death. His fields became fertile and 
productive and his cattle and stock each year 
largelv increased. Although several years be- 
fore his death he was afflicted with partial 
blindness, as long as he lived be retained his 
active mind and quick intelligence. Of his 
six children, two survive, namely: Margaret, 
who is the widow of Frederick Berlett. and re- 
sides in Troy Township ; and Frederick P. 

Frederick P. Vergon had few educational 
advantages in his boyhood but he made the 
most of those he had and he became very pro- 
ficient in penmanship. This has been particu- 
larly noticed in the numerous contributions 
that he has made to horticultural publications 
during a period that covers many years. He 
was 26 years old when he took charge of the 
home farm and in 1852 he built the present 
brick residence. In partnership with his 
father, he bought 100 acres, then in the woods. 
and he has personally assisted in clearing 150 
acres from the native forest. During his 
earlier years he drove an ox-team and did 
hauling, winter after winter. In 1873 he made 
Greenwood Lake, which is a body of water 
covering 25 acres, surrounded by a grove of 
18 acres. It was a great undertaking, to con- 
vert this wild ravine into a lake and to sur- 
round the latter with 900 evergreen, besides 
the many deciduous trees. 

With the assistance of his son. Mr. Ver- 
gon turned tln^ favored spot into a pleasure 
ground, which they conducted together for 
many years, and he has always been proud 
of the fact that it was a resort that prospered 
without the sale of beer. During his long and 
busy life he has been interested in numerous 
enterprises, all of which have been sua 
ful. this being due to his excellent judgment 
and deliberate consideration of every business 
principle. He built an ice In use on his grounds 
and there were two seasons when there was 
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in his warehouses. In 1854 lie built his large 
barn. At that time he was a breeder of Short- 
horn cattle and had to compete with Judge 
Jones and Chauncy Hills, who were two of 
the oldest breeders in Ohio, but he produced 
cattle that captured the prizes at the county 
fairs, despite their competition. In 1888 he 
disposed of his cattle and in the same year 
he set out the bulk of his apple orchards, which 
now cover more than fifty acres. At first he 
followed the usual methods of fruit culture. 
but he subsequently evolved the idea of a cold 
storage plant, and in the first year he made 
enough profit off his stored apples to pay for 
the buliding of the plant. He has made him- 
self thoroughly acquainted with the apple 
business, and has been called upon to read 
scientific papers on the subject before the Ohio 
W'esleyan University at Delaware, the Ohio 
State University at Columbus, at the State 
Experimental Station and elsewhere. 

Mr. Vergon married Kate A. Jones, who 
was born in Virginia, but who has resided at 
Delaware since she was 13 years of age. She 
is a second cousin to "Stonewall" Jackson, the 
renowned Confederate general. Of the seven 
children born, to Mr. and Mrs. Vergon, six 
reached maturity, namely : Frederick L. ; 
Elizabeth; 1 [attic, who married Dr. A. E. 
Smith, president of the Northwestern Univer- 
sity at Ada; \nnie. who married George E. 
Warner, residing at Warren, Ohio; John G.. 
residing in Troy Township; and James C, 
wlin is his father's partner, in politics Mr. 
Vergon is a Republican ami attends his party's 
primaries, but he has always declined to ac- 
cept nomination to office. 




\MF.S M. RICH KY. one of Dela- 
ware's representative citizens, a mem- 
ber of the firm of Bird, Richey & 
Christian, proprietors of the White 
Sulphur Stone Company, was born in 
Scioto Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
June 23, [854. lie is .1 son of [saac Newton 
and Eliza I McClure) Richey. 



The Richey family is one of those whose 
members have been of sufficient importance to 
leave an impression on their day and genera- 
tion, and thus make it an easy task to trace 
the line for quite a distance back. William 
Richey, the great-grandfather of James M.. 
was born December 7, 1759, in Cumberland 
County, Pennsylvania. He was reared a 
farmer, but became better educated than many 
of his companions and was a successful schi » >1 
teacher for a number of years. He married 
Catherine Hale, in 1780, she being his first 
wife. She died in 1788, leaving four chil- 
dren, and he then removed to Westmoreland 
County, where he engaged in teaching. In 
1792 he married Mary Kane, and three chil- 
dren were born to them in Westmoreland 
County. In 1796 they moved to Beaver 
County, Pennsylvania, and while they resided 
there six more children were added to the 
family. In 1 81 3 he came to Ohio and settled 
in Madison County, but February 2. 1819, he 
removed to Union Count}', where he lived for 
thirty years, his death taking place there Au- 
gust 17, 1847. He belonged to the Reformed 
Presbyterian Church. 

James Richey. son of William and grand- 
father of James M., was born in Beaver 
County, Pennsylvania, March 26, 1798. In 
[823 he married Sarah Newhouse, and came 
to Delaware County in 1830, where he died 
December 14, 1885. She was born in Picka- 
way County, Ohio, May 26. 1801, and died in 
Delaware County, December 2j. 1880. 

Isaac Newton Richey. son of James and 
father of James M. Richey. was born in Scioto 
I "wnship. Delaware County. Ohio. July 24, 
1826. His main occupation through life was 
farming. On September 10, 1850, he married 
Eliza McClure. who was a daughter of James 
and Olive (Skinner) McClure, and they had 
five children, namely: William, who was 
born September 11. 1851, and who is now a 
physician of Beggs, Oklahoma; lames M.. 
whose name begins this article; Calvin, born 
November 4. 185(1, who is a practicing physi- 
cian at Jerome, Ohio; Isaac Newton, born 
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of California; and Sidney M.. born March 10. 
1866, who is a practicing- physician of Francis. 
Oklahoma, and president of a hank. 

Mr. Richey's maternal grandfather. James 
McClure, was horn near Greensburg, Penn- 
sylvania, and died in Delaware County. Ohio. 
in 1851). His parents. William McClure and 
wife, were natives of Scotland. The family 
came to Ohio when James was a young man. 
and after a short stay in Perry County, came 
on to Delaware. They settled on a wild tract 
of land which was subsequently developed into 
one of Scioto's most productive farms and is 
now the property of John McClure. James 
McClnre and wife were consistent members of 
the Presbyterian Church and were connected 
at the time of their death with the old stone 
church at South Radnor. 

James M. Richey was educated in the pub- 
lic schools, and his industrial training was con- 
fined to agriculture. About the time of his 
marriage he bought his own farm, which is 
situated south of Warrensburg, where he con- 
tinued to carry on general farming, making 
it his home until April, 1907. when he took 
up his residence in Delaware. For a long time 
prior to this, probably ten years, Mr. Richey 
had a tenant established on the farm, devoting 
much of his own time to building gravel roads 
on township contracts. When the time came 
that the public demanded stone roads, be 
equipped a plant and quarried stone on his 
own farm. This he continued as an individ- 
ual enterprise until 1904, when he formed a 
partnership with Oliver Perry Bird, under the 
firm name of Bird & Richey, and the}- began 
operating two cpiarries in Concord Township. 
In August. 1906. they purchased the quarry 
they are now operating, Mr. George B. Chris- 
tian, of Marion. Ohio, becoming a partner at 
this time, when the firm name became Bird. 
Richey & Christian. Their source of supply 
covers 100 acres, and thev manufacture 
crushed stone for county turnpike roads, em- 
ploving about fortv men. The company does 
over twenty miles a year of turnpike-making 
f< ir Delaware County. 

On August 3. [873, Mr. Richey married 
Ella Berlett, who is a daughter of John and 



Amy (Davis) Berlett. of Scioto Township, 
and they have had four children — Frank H.. 
Ethel. John, and Raymond. Frank H. mar- 
ried Rosa Synder. and is a prominent farmer 
of Scioto Township. Me and his wife are the 
parents of three children — Eliza. Kilbourne, 
and lola. John married Catherine Bird, a 
daughter of O. 1'. Bird, and they have two 
children — Naomi and Jo K. Raymond, the 
youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Richey. died 
at the age of live years. Miss Ethel Richey. 
who is a young lady of good business ability, 
holds the position of deputy county clerk of 
Delaware County, and is auditor of the Mag- 
netic Springs Railroad. She has taken a good 
deal of interest in the order of the Rebecca>. 
being a member of Delaware lodge, of which 
she is also past grand, and is past president of 
the Ohio Rebecca Assembly, a notable honor 
for a young woman. Mr. and Mrs. Richey 
both belong to the Reheccas at Ruffner, of 
which Mrs. Richey is past grand. From [897 
to 1898 Mrs. Richey was superintendent and 
matron of the Odd Fellows' Home. Mr. 
Richey is past grand of the Ruffner Odd Fel- 
lows' Lodge, and he has been a representative 
ti 1 the grand lodge. He belongs also to Os- 
trander Lodge. F. & A. M. The family he- 
long to the Presbyterian Church. 




ORACE (.ABRIEL, representative 

citizen and successful general farmer, 

residing en his carefully cultivated 

farm of 110 acres, situated in Scioto 

Township, was horn December 28, 

1849, in Scioto Township. Delaware County, 

Ohio, and is a son of Luther and Maria B. 

i Lawrence) Gabriel. 

The father of Mr. Gabriel was born in 
Union County, Ohio, March 14. 1823. and 
was reared at Milford Center. After bis mar- 
riage. December 4. 1845, he came to Scioto 
Township and bought a part of the Lawrence 
farm, on which he lived during the remainder 
of his life. He erected a log house, cleared his 
land and raised cattle, sheep, hogs and horses. 
He married Maria 1!. Lawrence, who was 



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born in Scioto Township, June 3, 1826. Her 
ancestors, in the persons of John and Mary 
(Townly) Lawrence, came to America during 
the reign of George III. They settled near 
Bi iston, Massachusetts, removing thence in 
1770 to Adams County, Pennsylvania. Their 
sun. Joseph Lawrence, was born in 1733 and 
died in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 
1705. He married Sarah Moffit, who was 
born in 1743 and died September 12, 1839. 
He probably served in the Revolutionary War. 
Their eldest son bore the name of John, lie 
became a distinguished man and was serving 
his second term in the Pennsylvania Legisla- 
ture when he resigned political honors in or- 
der to take part in the War of 181 2. In 1796 
he married Jeanette Cochran who was born in 
Erie County, Pennsylvania, December 10, 
1777, and died October 18, 1818. He moved 
tu Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and from 
there, in 1814. to Scioto Township, Delaware 
County, where he died June 4, 1815. His 
was the first burial in the cemetery north of 
Ostrander. He was an intellectual and enter- 
prising man, and hoped to be able to give his 
children a good education. When he died his 
widow was left in the wilderness home, with 
but a little patch of cleared land around her 
humble dwelling. His sons continued the 
clearing of the farm and never had the chance 
to become as well educated as their father. 

Joseph Lawrence, a son of John and Jan- 
ette Lawrence and the maternal grandfather 

[orace Gabriel, was born in Pennsylvania, 
.V ember 4. 17M7. came to Scioto Township 
in [814, ami died .March 14, 1859. He mar- 
ried his cousin, .Mary Cochran, who was born 
Jul_\- i), [799. Of their nine children, eight 
grew tu maturity, namely: Milo II.. Maria 
Butler, Elanor Jam', John William and James 
Smith, twins, Susan Emily, Roxanna Caroline 
and Joseph Samuel. The mother of this fam- 
ily died September 13. i860. Joseph Law- 
rence was a fine singer; for many years he led 
the church choir, and when an old man still 
enjoyed attending singing school. All the 

bers of the Lawrence family were reared 
in the faith of the Presbyterian Church. 



The children of Luther Gabriel and wife 
were: Henrietta, born September 24, 1846, 
who married Adam Newhouse ; Horace ; John 
W., born May 26, 1852, residing in Scioto 
Township; Joseph, born June II, 1854, re- 
siding in Scioto Township; Edward S., born 
July 6, 1857, residing in Scioto Township: 
Rosalia, born July 2, 1858, residing at Os- 
trander; and Otis C, born September 6, i860, 
residing in Scioto Township. The Gabriel 
family was reared in the faith of the Presby- 
terian Church. 

Horace Gabriel spent his boyhood attend- 
ing the district school and in performing the 
usual duties of the farm. When he was 
twenty-tthree years old he bought 30 acres 
of land, which he subsequently cleared and 
disposed of very advantageously. He then 
bought 50 acres and has since added to it 
until at present he has 1 10 acres. He raises 
cattle, sheep, horses and hogs, together with 
corn, oats, wheat and hay. His farm is a busy 
place during the summer harvests. 

On March 13, 1873. Mr. Gabriel was mar- 
ried to Susan Frey of Scioto Township, whose 
father was killed on the western plains while 
en route for California. They have two chil- 
dren, Luther and Clarence. The elder son 
assists his father on the farm. The younger 
son, who resides at Van Wert, Ohio, married 
Nellie Bevo. Mrs. Gabriel was reared in the 
German Reformed Church at Delaware, but 
attends the Presbyterian Church with her hus- 
band, at Ostrander. Mr. Gabriel has been a 
trustee of the latter for eighteen years. In 
politics he votes with the Democratic party. 
He is a member of the Maccabees organiz?- 
tion at Delaware. 




)S( )\ B. COLE, general manager of 
the Galena Clay Products Company, 
of Galena, is a well-known citizen 
and general farmer of Berkshire 
Township, residing on his valuable 

f 42 acres, which is situated one- 
Mr. Cole was 



farm 

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born March 6, 1864, in Trenton Township, 

Delaware County. Ohio, and is a son of 
Thomas and Harriet (Leak) Cole. 

The parents of Mr. Cole were both natives 
of Trenton Township, where their respective 
fathers. Merreen Cole and Cooper Leak, 
were early settlers. Thomas Cole was reared 
and educated in his native township and en- 
gaged in farming there until 1870, when he 
sold out and removed with his family to War- 
ren. Huntington County. Indiana. Five months 
later he returned to Ohio and bought a farm 
in Harlan Township, Delaware County, on 
which he remained until his death. May 15, 
[882, when he was aged fifty years, one month 
and five days. His widow, who was born De- 
cember 14, 1 <S^ 5 . still resides on the farm in 
Harlan Township. Of the family of nine chil- 
dren, four survive, as follows: Ervin, who is 
engaged in farming in Harlan Township ; 
Ella, who married William Crabill, residing at 
Centerville, Delaware County; William, re- 
siding in Genoa Township, Delaware County ; 
Edson B., whose name begins this sketch. 

Edson B. Cole obtained a common school 
education and remained on the home farm un- 
til the age of twenty-one years, when he hired 
out to neighboring farmers and after the 
death of his father, worked his mother*s farm 
for two years. For the twelve succeeding 
years he rented land in Harlem Township, and 
in iqoj, he purchased his present property in 
Berkshire Township. Here he carries on gen- 
eral agriculture. His property is favorably- 
located for increasing value, being so close to 
the growing city of Galena, and Sunbury ana 
he has already seen the wisdom of his invest- 
ment. In the spring of 1907 the enterprise 
known as the Galena Clay Products Company, 
was organized for the manufacture of tile and 
brick. The officers are: William Roberts, 
president; James Rose, vice-president: Joseph 
J. Adams, secretary; F. C. Bennett, treasurer, 
and Edson 1'.. Cole, general manager. The 
prospects of the company are bright. 

1 hi March 0. 1889, Mr. Cole was married 
to F>tella Van Fleet, who was born in Galena, 
Ohio. April 4. 1867, and who is a daughter of 
Hiram and Thirza (Bancroft) Van Fleet. 



They have one daughter, Velmah E., wdio 
was born March 30, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. 
Cole and daughter are members of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church, in which he has been 
a steward since 1905. For a number of years 
he has been very active in church work, has 
served as chairman of the Board of Trustees, 
been a class leader and superintendent of the 
Sunday school. In his political opinions Mr. 
Cole is a Democrat and since 1903, he has 
been clerk of the Galena Special School Dis- 
trict. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow, be- 
longing to Galena Lodge, No. 404. 




LLIAM C. NYE, one of Dela- 
ware's leading business men, is 
engaged in a real estate, insur- 
ance and loan business, with ol- 
fices at No. .48 North Sandusky 
Street, was born July 20. 1847. in Tarlton, 
Pickaw-ay County, Ohio. He was reared and 
educated in his native place until he entered the 
Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was 
graduated in 1871. For the following twenty- 
years he was extensively interested in the 
buying and selling of stock, both he and his 
father having large business connections in 
that line. On December 1, 1891, Mr. Nye 
came to Delaware and formed a partnership 
with Judge Carpenter in a loan, real estate 
ami insurance business. The firm was very 
successful and continued until 1900, when Mr. 
Nye purchased his partner's interest and since 
then has managed his large business alone, 
meeting with gratifying success. He handles 
valuable property all over the county, does an 
extensive loan and investment business, and 
represents the leading fire, life and accident 
insurance companies ••i the country. 

In 1873, Mr. Nye was married to Ella V. 
Lee, who was born at Urbana, Ohio, and who 
is a daughter of Hiram and Caroline ( Mc- 
Gruder) Lee. Mrs. Xye's ancestry on both 
sides represents distinguished families of ..Id 
Virginia. The late Gen. Robert E. Lee, com- 
mander of the Confederate forces during the 
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of the Lee family from which she came. The 
mother of Mrs. Nye at one time in her child- 
hood attended a school which was taught by 
John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame. Mr. 
and Mrs. Nye have three children, namely : 
Mary Lee, who married Francis Pattison. an 
attorney, who is a nephew of the late Governor 
Pattison of Ohio; Carrie V., who married 
Stanley Pettit. residing at Huntington, New 
York, where he is engaged in a wholesale 
grain business; and W. Stanley, who is a 
student in the senior class of the Delaware 
High School. 

Mr. Nye and his family belong to St. 
Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, of which 
he is a steward, and for the past seventeen 
years he has been superintendent of the Sun- 
day school. He retains his Greek fraternity 
connection, being a member of the Phi Gamma 
Delta, of the Ohio Wesleyan University. 




LBERT C. MILLER, one of the lead- 
ing lumbermen of Delaware County, 
who operates a large saw-mill on 
West Lincoln Street, Delaware, was 
born in this city in 1872, and is a 
son of Nathan and Mary (Fry) Miller. The 
father of Mr. Miller was born in 1835, and 
until he retired from active industrial life, was 
engaged in fanning. He married Mary Fry 
and they had three sons, namely: Raymond 
N., residing at home; F. Ernest, who is en- 
gaged in fanning; and Albert C. Nathan 
Miller died August 14, 1907. Mrs. Miller 
resides in 1 Jelaware. 

Albert C. Miller secured a good common 
school education and then turned his attention 
to fanning for a few years, after which he 
became interested in lumbering. It is his prac- 
tice to purchase desirable timber tracts and 
manufacture the timber into lumber, and in 
1904 he established his present mill at Dela- 
ware, lie does a large and constantly increas- 
ing business. In [897, Mr. Miller was mar- 
ried to Anna Bryson and they have a pleasant 
home at Delaware. Mr. Miller is a member 
of the Odd Fellows. 




OSEPH E. HUGHS, who was for 
many years an esteemed member of 
the agricultural community in Con- 
cord Township, was born in i8jj. in 
Delaware, on the site of the present 
Court House, and was a son of Rev. Joseph 
S. Hughs, who came to Delaware County 
from Pennsylvania in 1810, but was originally 
from Ireland. The latter was a Presbyterian 
minister and organized the first Presbyterian 
Church in Delaware, and also the first churches 
of that denomination in Liberty and Radnor 
Townships. During the War of 1812 he had 
an army appointment and was with General 
Hull when he surrendered Detroit to the Brit- 
ish. He was a man of unusual oratorical 
ability, and was a Free Mason of high stand- 
ing, being chaplain of the grand Lodge of 
Masons of the State of Ohio. 

The subject of this sketch was educated 
in the public schools of Delaware. On com- 
ing of age he began farming in Concord Town- 
ship, being the owner of 163 acres. On this 
farm he spent all the years of his life subse- 
quent to his marriage, dying in 1890 at the 
age of sixty-eight years. His wife, whose 
name in maidenhood was Harriett Amelia 
Day. to whom he was united in 1850. died 
also on the old homestead, July 11, 1900, 
aged seventy-four years. The} - were the par- 
ents of nine children, of whom the following is 
a brief record: Girard R. is a resident of 
Columbus. James II.. who was a physician in 
Delaware, died in California, to which State 
he had gone in the hope of recovering his 
health. Dorence E. is a physician of Dela- 
ware. William L. resides in Jamestown, North 
Dakota. Sarah E., who is now deceased, was 
the wife of Frederick Smith of Delaware. 
Amanda Ann is the wife of Martin Freese of 
Jamestown, North Dakota. Amy Catherine 
is the wife of John Kuhns of Scioto Township. 
Charles died at the age of four years. Harriet 
J. is the wife of O. P. Bird, of Scioto Town- 
ship. 

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Hughs were mem- 
bers of the United Brethren Church, as were 
all the children, and Mr. Hughs was an or- 
dained preacher in that denomination. In poli- 




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tics lie was a Republican, and he served accept- 
ably as clerk of the township for a number of 
years. He was a man the quality of whose 
citizenship was never in doubt, and who stood 
for what was highest and best in all that con- 
cerned either public duty or the private re- 
lations of life. His wife was a worthy help- 
meet, and their home life was such that their 
children are now all prosperous and esteemed 
members of the community in which they re- 
spectively reside. 




EV. AARON J. LYON, 1). I)., who 
since 1854. has been a member of the 
North Ohio Conference of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, is one 
of the leading citizens of Delaware, 
where he is identified with large and import- 
ant interests. Mr. Lyon was born on bis 
father's farm in Knox County, Ohio. June 
<>. 1828, and is one of a family of five chil- 
dren born to his parents, who were Daniel and 
Hannah ( Dalrymple) Lyon. 

Mr. Lyon secured his elementary education 
in the local schools and was later — in 1854 — 
graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity. Of this institution he is now the oldest 
trustee, anil is the treasurer of the institution. 
For many years he was in the active ministry 
of the church. In 1905 he became president 
of the Delaware Savings Bank Company, the 
other officers being: C. B. Austin, vice-presi- 
dent; F. P. Hills, cashier, and W. H. Bodur- 
tha. assistant cashier. The board oi directors 
include these well-known capitalists: A. J. 
Lyon, C. B. Austin. B. E. Freshwater. Charles 
Brundige. W. Shawaker, F. P. Hills. Colonel 
J. M. Crawford, J. E. McCullough and T. C. 
Jones. The institution was chartered under 
the laws of Ohio and does a general banking 
business, buying and selling foreign exchange 
and acting as agent for ocean steamship 
lines. Mr. Lyon is also president of the Elec- 
tric Light and Power Company of Delaware. 
Mr. Lyon was first married to Olive 
Weatherby, who died in [876, and who was a 
daughter of Edmond Weatherby. The tour 



children of this marriage were: Lena, now- 
deceased, who married William P. Sturges; 
Clotilda, who married Rev. W. F. McDowell, 
now a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church: Edmund 1)., who was graduated in 
1882 from the Ohio Wesleyan University, and 
who is now principal of the Woodward High 
School at Cincinnati ; and Orrel, deceased, 
who married Frank B. Gibson, residing at 
Denver, Colorado. All of Mr. Lyon*s chil- 
dren were graduates of the Ohio Wesleyan 
University. Mr. Lyon was married, secondly, 
in 1878, to Rachel Hoy. Politically he is 
identified with the Republican party. Fra- 
ternally he is a Knight Templar Mason. Mr. 
Lyon is hale and hearty at the age of 80 years, 
and looks after his business interests with the 
same caution and ability that he did when 25 
years younger. 




HARLLS K. WATKINS, a promi- 
nent agriculturist of Radnor Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio, was 
born in this township in 1863. son 
of Edward and Sarah ( Evans) 
Watkins. His paternal grandparents, Evan 
and Margaret ( Davis ) Watkins, were natives 
of Wales, in which country the grandfather 
died, his widow subsequently coming to 
America with her children and settling in 
Radnor, Delaware County, Ohio. One of her 
sons. William, hail come to America pre- 
\ iously and was already settled here. He 
married Mary Jones, and among their chil- 
dren was Sarah Jane, who is now the widow 
of John Powell and resides in Radnor Village. 
On her arrival, Mrs. Margaret Davis Wat- 
kins built a small house in which she and her 
family took up their residence, and her sons 
soon acquired and set to work to clear a tract 
of land. 

Edward Watkins, father of Charles K.. 
was but seven years of age when he accom- 
panied his widowed mother to America. He 
resided in Radnor Township for the rest of his 
life, and at the time of his death, after eighteen 
years of retirement, he owned 195 acres oi 



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land. He passed the years of his retirement on 
a tract of ten acres in Radnor Village. As 
already noted, he married Sarah Evans. 

Charles R. Watkins was reared in Radnor 
Township, of which he is now one of the lead- 
ing men. He served on the School Board 
frequently, has been assessor for eight years, 
and supervisor for fifteen years. He is the 
owner of the ten-acre tract in Radnor Vil- 
lage already mentioned, on which his father 
spent his last years. He married Grace 
Maugans of Ostrander, and thev have three 
children — Edward J., Wallace, and Elizabeth. 
Mr. Watkins is a member of the Congrega- 
te mal Church. 




R. BENTON, proprietor of the Benton 
Brothers Tile factory and owner of a 
saw-mill, is one of the leading busi- 
ness men of Scioto Township, and he 
is a representative of two of the oldest 
and most substantial pioneer families of this 
section. Mr. Benton was born in Scioto Town- 
ship. Delaware County. Ohio. November 5, 
[855, and is a son of Benjamin Thomas and 
Mary K. (Newhouse) Benton. 

Benjamin Thomas Bent< m was born at 
Pbillipsburg. Pennsylvania, November 22, 
[824, and was nine years old when he accom- 
panied his parents to Mt. Vernon, Knox 
County, Ohio. There his father, Edward Wil- 
liam Benton, remained until [829, when he 
came to Scioto Township, Delaware County, 
purchasing the farm on which the subject of 
this sketch was born. 

The Benton family originated in England, 
and was transplanted to America by four 
brothers, of whom Thomas II., the youngest, 
became a distinguished American statesman 
and the lather of the brilliant woman who be- 
came the wife of Gen. John C. Fre- 
mont. One of these brothers. Edward, 
was the great-grandfather of J. R. lien- 
ton. He bad three sons, one of whom went 
to California and was lost sight of; another is 
called to memory by the city of Benton Har- 
bor, Michigan, which he founded; and the 



third was Edward William, the grandfather of 
J. R. Benton. 

Edward William Benton was born April 
4, 1782, in Maryland, where he subsequently 
owned a plantation. This he abandoned on ac- 
ci >unt of the slave laws, of which he did not ap- 
prove. He moved to Pennsylvania and from 
that State to Knox County, and subsequently 
to Delaware County, Ohio. In 1806 he was 
married, first, to H. Duvall, and secondly, in 
1820, to Matilda Phillips. His children were: 
Benjamin Thomas, Eli, Katherine, Anna, 
Erasmus and Nancy. 

Benjamin Thomas Benton resided until 
bis death, which •occurred August 26, 1906, on 
the farm in Scioto Township, purchased by 
his father. He assisted in clearing this prop- 
erty, which, in the memory of his son. was still 
partly covered with native timber, and resided 
in the log house bis father had constructed. 
In his early political life he was a Whig and 
later embraced the Republican party principles, 
becoming a man of influence in his community 
in public affairs. He was a Free Mason, be- 
longing- to the fraternity at Delaware. He 
was married August 13, 1846, to Mary K. 
Newhouse, who was born January 2, 1825, 
and who died January 9, 1901. She was a 
daughter of William ,and Annie (Richey) 
Newhouse. both members of the leading pio- 
neer families. William Newhouse was born 
in Pickaway County, Ohio, March 11, 1800, 
and came with his parents, Anthony and Nancy 
(Coons) Newhouse, to Delaware County, in 
May. 1 814. On January 6, 1823, he married 
Annie Richey, who was a daughter of William 
Richey. After their marriage they settled 
near Bellpoint but later removed to Union 
County, whence they returned still later to 
Delaware County, settling on the farm in 
Scioto Township which is now owned by John 
R. Newhouse. They had eleven children, 
namely: Mary K., David Emery, Will 
Lafayette. Isaiah, Belinda, John R., Catherine. 
Nancy Jane. Adam, Joseph, and James II. 
William Newhouse died December 6. 1842. 

Benjamin Thomas Benton and wife had 
six children, five of whom grew to maturity, 
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April H). 1847, wno ' s engaged in the prac- 
tice of medicine in Wyandot County, Ohio; 
Thomas Byron, born November 29, 1851, who 
died in November, [895; J. R., whose name 
begins this sketch; and Xarcissa M. G., horn 
May 14, 1858. married Hon. Brodrick, judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas at Marysvihe, 
Ohio, and Charles B., who resides on the home 
farm. Mr. Benton was a very active member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving as 
a trustee, steward and class leader. He was a 
liberal contributor toward the building of the 
W. C. T. U. hall. When the sturdy manhood 
of the country was called on to rally to the 
defense of Washington, in 18O4, Mr. Benton 
became a member of the One Hundred and 
Forty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, and served as long as his services were 
needed. He subsequently united with Tanner 
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of which 
he was past commander. After reaching the 
age of sixteen years, with the exception of 
two years spent in Iowa and the time covering 
his army experience, Mr. Benton always lived 
in Scioto Township. In 1856 he purchased 
his farm from his father and contentedly 
passed his life raising grain and livestock. 

J. R. Benton, the direct subject of this 
article, was reared in Scioto Township and 
was educated at the Delaware Union schools. 
After leaving school he learned the carpenter's 
trade. In the fall of 1884. he entered into the 
tile business on the home farm, and since 1895, 
has been also in the sawmill business. In the 
year above mentioned he moved to his present 
place, where he has facilities for shipping his 
entire product over the Big Four Railroad. 
Since 1906 he has done a large amount of 
building. His factory turns out 25,000 rods ot 
tile a year and his tile business is a prosperous 
industry. For twenty years Mr. Benton has 
been also a large producer of honey. 

Mr. Benton married Eva L. Brodrick, who 
is a daughter of Isaac and Sarah P. (Hoff) 
Brodrick. who reside near Lewisburg, Union 
County. Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Benton have had 
four children, the three survivors being: Wy- 
ville E., who married Florence James of Xew 
Dover, O.. residing at Columbus; Dwight 



Omar, who is a builder and contractor; and 
Mary 1\., who married Lorenzo Dow Poling, 
of Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Benton and family 
are members of the Presbyterian Church. 

Fraternally, Mr. Benton is past grand of 
Edinburg Lodge of Odd Fellows and has 
served as deputy to the Grand Lodge. Both 
he and wife are members of Prosperity Lodge 
of Rebeccas, of which Mrs. Benton is a past 
noble grand, having been also a representative 
to the superior bodies. She belongs also to the 
Pythian Sisters, Xo. 261, of Ostrander. In 
politics, Mr. Benton is a Republican. 




OHX HIEL MILLER, M. D., a lead- 
ing physician of Delaware, was born 
October 6, 1858, in Greene County, 
Pennsylvania, and is a son of Hiel 
and Mary (Warrick) Miller. 
The paternal grandfather was Jacob Miller, 
who went to Greene County, Pennsylvania, 
from Fayette County, settling there at an 
early date ami acquiring more than one thou- 
sand acres of land. Jacob Miller married 
Sarah McConnell, who belonged to a promi- 
nent and unmerous family for whom Connells- 
ville, Pennsylvania, was named. On the ma- 
ternal side, Dr. Miller is connected with Pat- 
rick Henry, the orator and statesman, whose 
services in Revolutionary times will never be 
forgotten by patriotic Americans. Hiel Mil- 
ler, father of Dr. Miller, was born in Greene 
County, Pennsylvania, and died there at the 
age of twenty-seven years, in 1863. Of his 
four children two died in infancy. John Hiel 
and Esther survive, the latter being the wife 
1 if James Clouston, residing at Cameron, West 
Virginia. Mrs. Miller was married, secondly, 
to John Hinerman, and had one son, Ellsworth 
Hinerman, who resides at Beaver, Pennsyl- 
vania. After the death of Mr. Hinerman his 
widow was married to Jesse Wells and one 
son was born of the third marriage, James B. 
Wells, who is a dentist engaged in practice at 
McMechen, West Virginia. Mrs. Wells still 
survives and is now aged seventy years. 

Dr. Miller was a child of five years when 



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his father died. He attended the common 
schi H ( ls. and in order to fit himself for the 
pedagogic profession, spent two terms in a 
private school, receiving a teacher's certificate 
when but fifteen years of age. He was sub- 
sequently engaged in teaching during eight 
winter terms. By a course of home study lie 
prepared for entrance into the college of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, in 1885, 
and after studying there, entered the Western 
Pennsylvania Medical College, where he was 
graduated in the class of [886-7, ut which he 
hail the distinction of being president. He 
obtained second honors in his class, and was 
always a very popular member both with his 
associates and the faculty. Dr. Miller immed- 
iately entered upon the practice of his profes- 
sion, locating first at Bristoria, Greene County, 
Pennsylvania. He later practiced for one year 
at Washington, Pennsylvania, and then came 
to Delaware, where he has since been estab- 
lished. During President Cleveland's first ad- 
ministration, he was appointed a member of 
the Board of Pension Examiners of Greene 
County, Pennsylvania. In December, 1903. 
he took the examination required by the Ohio 
State Medical Examining Board, and became 
a member of the Delaware County Medical 
Society. He enjoys a large and lucrative 
practice and occupies a prominent place among 
the medical men of the county. 

( )n November 21, 1878, Dr. Miller was mar- 
ried tn Charlotte A. Nuss, who is a daughter 
1 if Joseph and Elizabeth (Geary) Xib>, of 
Greene County. Pennsylvania. Their surviv- 
ing children are: Floyd V., who is a student 
at Starling Medical College, a member of the 
class of 1909; Ethel, who is a student in the 
Delaware High School; Ray, who is a clerk 
in a dry goods store; and John and Earl, both 
of whom are pupils in the public schools. 
Three of their children died in infancy. The 
eldest son, Leon, died of dyptheria, in 1896, 
aged almost seventeen years. Furman, a 
bright youth of thirteen years, was accident- 
ally killed in the fall of [895, at Jacksonville, 
Pennsylvania. Dr. Miller has long been an 
active member of the Democratic party. Since 
locating at Delaware he has been urged to ac- 



cept party favors, and in 1907 was elected 

f Delaware. 



councilman-at-Iarge of the city 




EV1 BISHOP, justice of the peace and 
representative citizen of Troy Town- 
ship, was born in Delaware County, 
Ohio, October 22, 1830, and is a son 
of James and Sarah (Cole) Bishop. 
The maternal grandparents of Mr. Bishop, 
Joseph and Mary Cole, came to Troy Town- 
ship from Virginia, among the early settlers, 
in 1808, locating in the dense woods that then 
covered all this section, the mother of Mr. 
Bishop being then eight years of age. The 
father of Mr. Bishop came also from Smyth 
County, Virginia, and settled in Troy Town- 
ship in 1827. He was engaged all his life in 
agricultural pursuits and was a cabinet-maker. 
Upon the organization of the Republican party 
he became identified with it and continued a 
supporter of its policies until his death, in 
1 884. He at one time served as clerk of Troy 
Township. 

Levi Bishop grew to manhood on the home 
farm, assisting in its development, and in the 
meanwhile securing a district school education. 
He devoted himself to farming and stock- 
raising. On December 25, 185 r, he was mar- 
ried to Lydia Main, who was a daughter of 
Lyman and Hannah Main. She died March 5, 
1893. leaving one son, Wesley. 

Wesley Bishop was born September 22. 
1 !S 5 2 . and has always resided with his father 
on the home place of 164 acres, which is 
known as Pleasant Hill Farm. Since 1880 
he has been engaged in the Merino sheep in- 
dustry, and is now serving as secretary and 
treasurer of the Ohio Merino Sheep Breeders' 
Association, having served in this capacity 
since 1897. This body was organized in [882 
and Mr. Bishop was one of the charter mem- 
bers of the association. He owns the largest 
flock of pure-bred Merino sheep in Delaware 
County and has done a great deal toward 
raising the quality of the stock in this section. 
He married Addie Rosella Jacoby, who was 
born in Marion County, Ohio, and who is a 



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daughter of the late Jacob Jacoby, of Dela- 
ware County. Wesley Bishop and wife have 
had four children, namely: 0. Hartley, now- 
deceased: Josie L., Archie J. and Violet R. 
Mr. Bishop is a Republican. He belongs to 
the order of Woodmen of the World. 

For a number of years Levi Bishop has 
served in the office of justice of the peace and 
in this capacity is known and esteemed all 
through Troy Township. Politically he is a 
Republican. During the Civil war he served 
with the 100-day men, called out in 1864, as 
a member of Company C. One Hundred and 
Forty-fifth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infan- 
try, 1 icing stationed at Arlington Heights. 
Washington, D. C. Mr. Bishop is one of the 
older residents of Troy Township and he and 
his son have been identified with a large part 
of its material development, both being men 
of excellent judgement and foresight and of 
the best type of citizenship. 



is large and the company .also do an extensive 
business shipping to the eastern and southern 
States. 




E. KENDRICK, general manager of 
the Scioto Lime and Stone Company, 
at Delaware, which owns and oper- 
ates the extensive plant on North 
Sandusky Street, and the only hy- 
drating lime machine in this part of Ohio, has 
been identified with the interests of this city 
since August, 1902. He was born in Michi- 
gan, where he was also reared and educated, 
and immediately prior to coming to Delaware, 
he resided at Kalamazoo. In 1897 M r - Kend- 
rick was married to Edith Belle McCartney, 
who is also a native of Michigan. Mr. Kend- 
rick is a member of the Masonic fraternity. 
I lie Scioto Lime and Stone Company of 
Delaware, owned by James Reamy. Jr., of 
Baltimore. Md., is one of the city's large and 
flourishing industries. Employment is af- 
forded to from forty to fifty men in the busy 
season, and the plant has a capacity of 1.000 
barrels of lime per day. It is thoroughly 
equipped with all manner of modern machin- 
ery required in the business and stands alone 
in this section in possessing the hydrating 
machine mentioned above. The local trade 




Ohic 



IONATHAN KELLEY JAMES. M. 
D., one of the leading physicians and 
surgeons of Delaware County, who 
has been a resident of Delaware since 
[888, was born in Brown County, 
. 'une 25, 1868, and is a son of Rev. 
Evan Phillip and Lucy T. Kelley James. 

Rev. Evan P. James, who was a minister 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born 
in Wales. February 28, [828, and came to 
America when nineteen years of age. For 
forty years he was a member of the Cincinnati 
M. E. Conference. He is now living retired 
in Delaware. 

Dr. J. K. James was educated in the best 
schools available in the places where his father's 
ministerial duties respectively located the fam- 
ily, and in 1887 he was graduated from the 
Bethel High School in Clermont County. He 
then came to Delaware and spent four years 
in the Ohio Wesleyan University. April 7. 
1897. he was graduated from the Ohio Medi- 
cal University, now the Starling Medical Uni- 
versity of Columbus, Oho, and immediately- 
settled down to the practice of his profession 
m Delaware. He has been received with public 
favor, and is in the enjoyment of a large and 
lucrative practice both in the city and county. 
He is a member of the Delaware County, the 
Ohio State and the American Medical Asso- 
ciations. At Delaware he has served as city 
health officer and is at present a member of 
the Board of Health. He enjoys the friend- 
ship of all his fellow practitioners. 

On April 20. 1897, Dr. James was married 
to Maude Stanton, of Delaware. They have 
one sun, Dorrance Stanton, who was born 
February 24. 1900. Dr. and Mrs. James are 
members of the William Street Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Fraternally, he is a Mason. 
He is physician and surgeon for a number of 
the leading insurance organizations, including. 
the Bankers' Life, the Hartford Life, the Co- 



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lunibia Life, the Aetna Life and Accident and 
the Connecticut Mutual, and is health ex- 
aminer also for the Knights of Columbus. He 
is a Republican in politics. 




OSEPH H. RITTENHOUSE, of the 

firm of J. C. Mangans & Company, 

proprietors of the elevator at Os- 

trander, and dealers in all kinds of 

building material, also grain, flour, 

hay, feed and coal, was born in Ross County, 

Ohio, May 31, 1844, and is a son of Henry G. 

and Margaret (Latta) Rittenhouse. 

Samuel Rittenhouse, the paternal grand- 
father, was born in Albemarle County, Vir- 
ginia, and came to Ross County, Ohio, at an 
early day. He settled within seven miles of 
Chillicothe when a forest covered the whole 
distance. He died in October. 1872, when 
within a few months of being 100 years old. 

Henry G. Rittenhouse, father of Joseph R., 
was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 
[812, and died in 1882. He was two years 
old when his parents moved to Ross County. 
He had but meager school advantages, his 
whole term of school attendance not exceed- 
ing three months,, but he was gifted with a 
good intellect and became a well-informed 
man. He followed the trade of tanner until 
1850, and engaged in farming until 1854, 
when he moved to Dover Township, Union 
County, where he followed farming until 
1N72. I lis last removal was to Henry 
County, Iowa, where he continued agricultural 
pursuits until his death. During the Mexican 
War he took part in militia drill, but his regi- 
ment was never called into action, lie mar- 
ried a daughter of Moses Latta, of Ohio, and 
they had nine children, seven of whom reached 
maturity, namely : Thomas C, residing at 
Wintield. Iowa; Joseph H. ; David, residing at 
Muscatine, Iowa; Clara, now deceased, was 
the wife of Frederick Swick, who is also de- 
ceased: Sarah, who is deceased; Emma, who 
married Samuel Connors, residing in Colo- 
rado; and John, residing at Muscatine, Iowa. 
The mother of the above mentioned family 



died in 1897, aged seventy-two years. Both 
parents were members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. 

Joseph H. Rittenhouse was reared in 
Dover Township, Union County, where he en- 
joyed excellent school advantages. He was 
but eighteen years of age when he became a 
soldier in defence of the Union, enlisting Au- 
gust 8, 1862, in Company F, Ninety-sixth 
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was 
later transferred to Company C, One Hundred 
and Twenty-first Regiment, being one of nine 
extra men in the former regiment. He con- 
tinued with this regiment without losing a 
day, participating in all its dangers until June 
2j, 1864, when he was wounded in the hip at 
the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, the injury 
being of so serious a nature that he was dis- 
abled for further service and he received his 
honorable discharge on May 30, 1865, the day 
preceding his twenty-first birthday. 

Mr. Rittenhouse then returned to Union 
County, and when he had sufficiently recuper- 
ated, he engaged in farming which he followed 
there until 1872, when he came to Ostrander. 
Here he has since resided, being closely identi- 
fied with some of the most important interests 
of the place. For many years after coming 
here he was engaged in shipping stock and he 
then became a member of the present firm. In 
1892, poor health caused his temporary retire- 
ment from business, but in 1906, with return- 
ing health came renewed interests in business 
affairs and since then he has been very active. 

Mr. Rittenhouse married Amanda Carr, 
who died December 6, 1906, at the age of 
fifty-nine years. She was a daughter of Evan 
and Phcebe Carr, residents of Scioto Town- 
ship. Seven children were born to Mr. Ritten- 
house and wife, five of whom reached ma- 
turity, namely: Hugh C, a resident of Co- 
lumbus; Henry E., who resides in Virginia; 
Iva Lou, who married I. N. Gardner, residing 
at Columbus ; Kerr, residing at New Streets- 
vine. Ohio; and Bertha, who is a resident of 
Crestline. In politics, Mr. Rittenhouse is a 
Republican. He is a member and past com- 
mander of Tanner Post, No. 531, Grand 
Army of the Republic. 



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HOMAS F. DYE, the efficienl super- 
intendent of the State (iirls' Indus- 
trial Home, at Delaware, was born 
February 14. [860, in Meigs County, 
Ohio, and is a son of Martin and 
Martha ( Berkely ) Dye. 

The parental grandfather, Martin Dye, 
was born in Pennsylvania and removed from 
that State to Meigs County, Ohio, where he 
was one of the early settlers. His father, 
Thomas Dye. was probably born in England. 
Idie father of Thomas F. Dye followed 
agriculture in Meigs County all his life. He 
was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. 

Thomas F. Dye was educated in the schools 
of Meigs County, and remained until he was 
seventeen years old on his father's farm, when 
he engaged in farming for himself. From 
early manhod he has been identified with poli- 
tics and almost from that time has held pub- 
lic and responsible offices. His first township 
election was to membership on the Hoard of 
Education, his second to membership on the 
Board of Trustees, and at the general elec- 
tion in 1893, he was made county commis- 
sioner and served seven years as a member of 
the Board of Commissioners of Meigs County. 
On April 27, 1901. he was appointed by Gov- 
ernor Nash a member of the Board of Man- 
agers of the Ohio State Reformatory for 
Boys at Mansfield, and served on that board 
for over three years. On April 1. 11104. he 
was elected superintendent of the Board of 
Trustees of the (iirls' Industrial Home at 
Delaware. 

Mr. Dye is a man of striking personality. 
Few men have a more accurate knowledge of 
the industrial institutions of Ohio than he — 
knowledge that has been gained from years oi 
experience. He has been active in advocating 
and securing appropriations for a half dozen of 
the large buildings which have been added to 
the Girls' Home, in the past three years. 
Mainly through his efforts, what is known as 
the "cottage plan" has been adopted, and a 
building recommended and designed by him, 
for the accommodation of seventy members of 
the class designated Merit, has recently been 
completed. It is a fine building, equipped 

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with all modern conveniences, with spacious 
halls, reading" and reception parlors, well fur- 
nished sleeping rooms, with the floors covered 
with attractive rugs. It is the idea to develop 
in the gir}s, by such attractive surroundings. 
a proper pride, that may act as a healthy stimu- 
lus to them after leaving the institution and 
inspire them to worthy and successful effi ri 
in the carrying out of their subsequent careers. 
While this building will accommodate no more 
than twenty per cent of the inmates, it stands 
as a reward for excellency in studies and meri- 
torious deportment. It cannot but have a 
healthy influence on the life of all those who 
become its inmates, and the bread thus scat- 
tered on the waters may come back to Superin- 
tendent Dye increased a thousand fold. 

On September 29, 1879, Mr. Dye was mar- 
ried to Addie C. Douglas, who is a daughter 
of John and Fmeline Douglas, of Downing- 
ton, Ohio. They have had four children, one 
daughter and three sons, namely: Mattie 
Blanche. John Martin, Douglas Franklin and 
Charles Herman. In political sentiment. Mr. 
Dye is a stanch Republican. He is a member 
of Harrisonville Lodge. Xo. 411, F. & A. M., 
of the Knights of Pythias and of the Modern 
Woodmen of the World. Since he was six- 
teen years of age he has been a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. 




HOMAS J. GRIFFIN, who is engaged 
in a grocery business in Delaware, 
with commodious quarters at Xo. 177 
East Central Avenue, is interested in 
a number of the other successful busi- 
ness enterprises of this city. He was born in 
1857. in Delaware, in the same city ward in 
which he still resides, and is a son of James 
Griffin, who was born in Ireland and who 
came to Delaware in 1835. 

Thomas J. (iriffin spent his early life as a 
school-boy and as an employe of several of 
the city's industrial plants. He then took up 
railroading, working for four years as a fire- 
man and nine years as a freight engineer, and 
subsequently spending four years in the pas- 



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senger service. For six years lie served in 
the office of chairman of the Locomotive En- 
gineers' organization anil for two years was 
chairman of the Adjustment Board of that 
body. Since leaving the railroad, in 1895, 
Mr. Griffin has been engaged in a grocery 
business and in looking after his investments 
in other concerns. He owns a one-fourth in- 
terest in the Electric Rolling Mill Company, 
and is a director in the Delaware National 
Bank, in the People's Building and Loan Com- 
pany, and in the Electric Light, Heat and 
Power Company. For six years he served in 
the City Council. 

In Kj02, Mr. Griffin was married to Bessie 
Agnes Quilter, who is a daughter of Daniel 
Ouilter of Fremont. Ohio. He is a member 
of St. Mary's Catholic Church. His fraternal 
connections are with the Knights of Colum- 
bus, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the 
Elks and the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- 
gineers. As a thoughtful citizen he has ever 
taken more or less interest in politics, hut is 
in no sense a politician. His business inter- 
ests are comprehensive and he possesses the 
capacity to look carefully after them. 




HOMAS B. NEWHOUSE, a leading 
citizen and prominent agriculturist of 
Scioto Township, residing on his 
finely-improved farm of 180 acres. 
was born in this township, on the 
farm of his grandfather. Samuel Newhouse, 
January 30. 1806. Mis parents were Alexan- 
der and Hannah (Bryson) Newhouse. 

The Newhouse family originated in Eng- 
land and the first of the name known in Amer- 
ica settled in London County, Virginia, in 
[740. \nthony Newhouse, the great-grandfa- 
ther of Thomas B. Newhouse, was born in 
Loudon County, Virginia, February 10. 1772. 
When he was about four years of age his fa- 
ther left lb .me to serve in the Patriot army in 
tlie Revolutionary War. and he was eight 
years old when his father died in the service. 
\ntli"m assisted his widowed mother to rear 
the younger children, lie was connected with 



several military movements, first in 1794. 
when he enlisted to assist in supressing what 
was known as the Whiskey Rebellion, and 
again, in 181 2. when he was a member oi 
John Boggs' Company that went as tar as Fort 
Defiance, in the Indian troubles on the border. 
In 1798 he spent six months at Wheeling and 
from there went to Fayette County, Pennsyl- 
vania, where he was married March 28. 1799, 
to Nancy Coons. 

In the early part of 1800, with his father- 
in-law. John Coons, and Henry Moore, he 
moved to Pickaway County. Ohio, the women 
of the part going down the Ohio River on an 
old-fashioned keel boat, the only one running 
at that period, while the men took what was 
called the Zanes trail. The pioneers settled 
on a partly cleared tract of Government land, 
where the Indians had made some attempts at 
cultivation, on Scipio Creek, in Salt Creek 
Township. Pickaway Count)'. At that time 
the nearest settlements were Chillicothe and 
Lancaster, the former thirteen and the latter 
eighteen miles distant. They subsisted on 
corn which was brought on horseback from 
Marietta and was reduced to meal by home- 
made utensils, and on game which was abund- 
ant all through the forests. For many years 
their life was primitive, and while they had 
no luxuries and few of the comforts of life, 
they probably had as much contentment as 
many of the present generation who are able 
to make lavish expenditures. In January, 
1814. Anthony Newhouse sold his farm of 
iC)0 acres in Pickaway County and bought 
200 acres in Scioto Township. Delaware 
Count v. bringing his family, his household lie- 
longings and some of his stock to the new 
home in May of that year. 

Samuel Newhouse, the grandfather oi 
Thomas 11.. was born in Scioto Township, 
Vugusl 21). [817. In [838, he married Sarah 
McGee, who was born in 1816. Of their 
eight children, five survived infancy, namely: 
Nancy, Alexander. William, Nathan ami Mar- 
tha. Samuel Newhouse followed agricultural 
pursuits all hi-- life and when he could not 
work his land he made barrels, having learned 
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ders of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
this section, and lie was one of the promoters 
of the organization known as the Sons ol 
Temperance. 

Alexander Newhouse, son of Samuel and 
father of Thomas B., was horn September 27, 
1840. in Scioto Township, Delaware County, 
Ohio. He attended the district schools of the 
township and grew to manhood on his father's 
farm. After his marriage he moved to Adams 
County. Illinois, where he was engaged in 
farming for nine years, lie then returned to 
Scioto Township and settled on his present 
farm of 115 acres. For some twelve years he 
lived retired, but during his active period he 
raised a large amount of stock and also much 
grain and hay. In August, 1864. he enlisted 
for service in the Civil War, entering Com- 
pany C, One Hundred and Twenty-first Regi- 
ment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was 
ordered to Kentucky and later to Tennessee, 
where Mr. Newhouse became so ill that he was 
returned to Camp Dennison. Later, when the 
call was made for 100-day men, he enlisted in 
Company K. One Hundred and Forty-fifth 
Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was 
stationed near Washington, D. C. During the 
term of his first enlistment he participate! 1 in 
the battle of Perryville. 

Alexander Newhouse has three children by 
his first marriage, namely : Thomas B., Wil- 
liam, and Edgar. The mother of these chil- 
dren. Mrs. Hannah Bryson Newhouse, died 
while the family were residing in Illinois. Mr. 
Newhouse subsequently married Lydia Hill, 
of which union there is one child, Marie, who 
is now the wife of Earl Dunlap, of Scioto 
Township. Mr. Newhouse is a member of 
the old stone Presbyterian Church of South 
Radnor, in which he is an elder. He is a Dem- 
1 icrat in his political views. 

Thomas B. Newhouse was about one year 
old when his parents moved to Vlam- County, 
Illinois, and he was ten when the family re- 
turned to Scioto Township, where he com- 
pleted his education. He continued to live on 
the home farm until his marriage, ami in [896 
he settled on his present place, thirty acres ,,\ 
which belonged to the farm which his great- 



grandfather, Anthony Newhouse, secured for 
two dollars an acre almost 100 years ago. Mr. 
Newhouse cultivates about 120 acres of his 
land, devoting from forty to fifty to haw forty 
to corn, and twenty to oats, and having a large 
amount of hay to sell. He keeps twenty-five 
head of cattle, thirty of hogs, forty of pigs. 
and twenty-five Delaine ewes, from which he 
breeds. Mi". Newhouse's surroundings are 
those of an enterprising and progressive far- 
mer; his land is so thoroughly tilled, his stock 
is in such excellent condition, and all of his 
buildings are substantial in character, and 
attractive to the eye. His fine two-story frame 
residence, of twelve rooms, stands on the State 
Road, and since he completed the improve- 
ments on it in 1906, it is probably as fine a 
home as can be found in this section. 

On Thanksgiving eve, 1891, Mr. New- 
house was united in marriage with Miss Lulu 
Rittenhouse, who is a daughter of Hamilton 
W. Rittenhouse, of Scioto Township. His 
family now includes two children. Alexander 
Hamilton and Pauline Estella. All the mem- 
bers of the family belong to the Presbyterian 
Church at Ostrander, Mr. Newhouse being one 
of the elders. 




ILLIAM BEVAN, a representative 
citizen of Delaware County, Ohio, 
and an honored survivor of the 
great Civil War. who is exten- 
sively engaged in agricultural 
pursuits in Scioto Township, was born June 
26. 1835, in Breconshire, South Wales, and is 
a son of David and Margaret (Lewis) Bevan. 
David Bevan. Si"., who was also a native 
of Breconshire, South Wales, came from that 
country to America in [842 with his wife and 
six children, ami located in Delaware Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio, where his wife's 
sister and her four children lived. Mr. Bevan 
settled in a little loo- cabin on a fifty-acre tract 
on the Warrensburg pike, just north of where 
his son David now lives, and here com- 
menced clearing the heavily timbered land. In 
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farm, and Air. Bevan prospered to such an ex- 
tent that at the time of his death, May 23, 
1879, lie was the owner of 400 acres of land. 
He was a man of great energy and ambition, 
was prudent and economical, and was esteemed 
by all with whom he had dealings. For many 
years he was engaged in dealing in and rais- 
ing cattle and sheep, and in this line was as 
successful as in his other operations, lie was 
married to Margaret Lewis, who died in [863, 
having been the mother of six children, name- 
ly : Margaret, who died single; David, who 
is one of the most prosperous farmers of I )ela- 
ware Township, and who married Eliza Da- 
vis: William: James and Charles, who are 
now deceased; and Dinah, who keeps house 
for her brother William. The parents of these 
children were faithful members of the Congre- 
gational Church. 

William Bevan received a limited educa- 
tion in the schools of Scioto Township, and in 
his youth learned the trade of carpenter in 
Delaware Township, an occupation which he 
followed until the outbreak of the Civil War. 
He enlisted September 26, iSo_>, in Company 

C, One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment, 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and continued in 
Ins country's service until April. [865, when 
he was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky. 
He continued with his company during the 
first seven months of his enlistment, and dur- 
ing his first winter in the army suffered many 
privations, the cold at one time being so in- 
tense that Mr. Bevan's cheek froze to the 
ground while he was sleeping. After leaving 
his regiment he served for ten or fifteen months 
with the Pioneer Corps, and the balance of 
his term of enlistment was spent in Company 

D. L'nited States Engineer Corps. A cour- 
ageous and ready soldier. Mr. Bevan gained 
the respect of comrades and officers, and his 
war record is one of which any man might 
well be proud. 

For some years after In- return from the 
service, Mr. Bevan was engaged in working 
at his trade, but in [888 be located on the old 
home farm, which he has continued to operate 
with much success to the present time, raising 
large crops of grain ami hay and giving much 



attention to stock dealing. The fine old resi- 
dence on the property has been standing for 
mam- years, and Mr. Bevan well remembers 
helping the builder make the brick therefor 
when he was nine or ten years old. While Mr. 
Bevan did not have such educational advan- 
tages as are extended to the youth of the 
present day. he has been a great reader of good 
literature, converses equally well in both Eng- 
lish and Welsh, is familiar with the leading 
topics of the times, and is one of the best 
versed men in the Scriptures to be found in 
this section. He is a great Bible student, and 
is one of the leading members of the Welsh 
Congregational Church. located at Radnor. 
Formerly a Republican, Mr. Bevan has for 
several years been identified with the Prohi- 
bition party, but he has never aspired to pub- 
lic office. He is unmarried and his sister 
Dinah resides with him and manages the 
In >useh< 'Id. 



\RRY LEONARD was born Decem- 
ber 17. 1865, in Brown Township, 
Delaware County, Ohio, being the 
sou of Jonathan and Elizabeth Leon- 
ard, who were among the early 
settlers of Delaware County. Jonathan Leon- 
ard was born February 5, i8_>o. and came to 
this count}' from Washington County, Penn- 
sylvania, in [826. He was engaged in the oc- 
cupation of merchant tailoring for eighteen 
years. In [855 he engaged in farming and 
for nearly one-half of a century lived on the 
well-known farm in Brown Township, Dela- 
ware County. Ohio. In [890, on account of 
advanced age. he retired from the farm and 
has since lived in the city of Delaware. Ohio, 
retiring from active business. 

Elizabeth Leonard is a daughter of .me of 
the well known and pronounced advocates of 
the abolition of slavery, and the sister of three 
brothers who engaged in the war for the set- 
tlement of the difficulties between the north 
and the south. Both parents have been deeply 
interested in public affairs and the welfare of 
their children. 




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Thus the early year- of Harry Leonard 
wer spent under the kind and parental care 
of his parents on the farm. His education lie- 
in the district school of his neighborhood, 
subsequently he attended the Normal school 
at Ada. Ohio, and spent several terms at the 
Ohio Wesleyan University. He read law in 
the offices of Judge McEIroy and F. A. Owen 
and was admitted to the bar in June. 1899, 

-mil; with a grade above the average, and 
after receiving his diploma at once engaged in 
the practice of law at his present location. 
No. ^,2' j North Sandusky Street, Dela- 
ware. Ohio. In 1906 Mr. Leonard was ad- 
mitted on examination to practice law in the 
United States Courts as solicitor attorney and 
counselor-at-la\v and proctor and advocate in 
admiralty. Mr. Leonard is an ardent Republi- 
can in politics, having served six years as jus- 
tice of the peace in the City of Delaware. Ohio, 
is a careful and accurate thinker, a student of 
public and private affairs, a man of the strict- 
est integrity and one whose moral character is 
without reproach. Ever since Mr. Leonard 
was seventeen year- of age he has been a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, and has been 
actively engaged in Sabbath school work, act- 
ing as president of Brown Township Sabbath 
School Convention for several years and 
cunty secretary of Sabbath school work. 

On June 15, 1905. Mr. Leonard was mar- 
ried to Ruth I. Baker, who for many years 
was a teacher in the public schools 01 Dela- 
ware. Ohio. They have a happy and beautiful 
home at 444 West William Street in the city 
of Delaware. Ohio, and are the parents of one 
child — Georgia E. 



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[LAS W. FOWLER, M. 1).. of Dela- 
ware, was born in 1X47. in Pratts- 
ville. Green County, New York, the 
fourth child of Charles M. and Cath- 
erine Ann Fowler. His father was 
- a native of Prattsville. while his mother 
was horn in New Philadelphia. Tu-carawas 
County. Ohio. The parents settled on a 200- 
acre farm in Porter Township, Delaware 



County, in 1 N47. when the subject 1 if tin- -ketch 
was in In- infancy. 

Silas W. Fowler received his primary edu- 
cation in the common schools of the township. 
In 1862-63 ne was sent to Central College 
Academy. During the winters, at the age of 
[5 and i(>. he taught school in the northern 
part of Franklin County. His ordinary occu- 
pations were interrupted by the Civil War, 
and in the spring of 1864 he enlisted in the 
One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment. O. 
V. 1. After returning from the army, he 
entered Oherlin College, where he remained 
until the fall of 1868. He then began reading 
medicine under the celebrated Dr. J. W. Rus- 
sell, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. In 1869-70 he at- 
tended the University of Michigan at Ann 
Arbor, and in 1871 he was graduated from 
Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia 
Pennsylvania. 

His father, having rented the farm, moved 
to Delaware in 1869. and the son. in the year 
of his graduation, settled in Delaware, where 
he has been steadily engaged in the practice 
of hi- profession, having for 32 years occupied 
the same office. 

Dr. Fowler has been engaged continu- 
ously, more or less, in literary work, besides 
establishing a large and lucrative practice. 1 le 
has written articles for various medical jour- 
nals. In 1880 he was a member of the corps 
that wrote the Delaware County History, 
writing the history of several townships and 
of the medical profession ; and he has a >n- 
tributed the history of the medical profession, 
and of various schools of medicine from 1808 
to the present time, as well as the history of 
the secret orders of the county, for the present 
history. 

Dr. Fowler has been a frequent delegate 
from the various medical societies to which he 
belongs to the State Medical Association, the 
American Medical Association, and to the 
International Medical Congress. He has I 
an extensive traveler, and while traveling has 
been a close investigator of professional work 
and schools. While visiting on the Pacific 
slope one year, he had the good fortune 1 
meet the celebrated Dr. Lorenz. and to study 



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his methods on the bloodless reduction and 
treatment of the hip joint disease. While in 
California he investigated the history of the 
old Spanish missions, and wrote many letters 
concerning' them which were published. He 
made an extensive trip to Mexico and Cuba, 
as well as through the southern and eastern 
States of this country. Two years ago he 
made a trip to the Orient, visiting the Azores; 
Spain, northern Africa, Egypt, Palestine, 
Asia Minor, Turkey, Greece, Italy, and other 
European countries. While in the Orient he 
made a special study of leprosy in its various 
farms, and saw hundreds suffering from this 
dread disease. He has prepared an article on 
this ancient disease for the medical fraternity. 

Dr. Fowler is a Free Mason, belonging to 
the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Delaware Council, 
the Commandery of Knight Templars at 
Marion, Ohio, the Ancient and Accepted Scot- 
tish Rite at Columbus, Ohio, and the Scioto 
Consistory, being a Master and 32d degree 
Mason. He is a member (if Asbury M. E. 
Church, having been thus connected with it 
since his early youth. His great-grandpar- 
ents, grandparents, and parents were strict 
Presbyterians. 

The Doctor has always been interested in 
the welfare of the town, and has written and 
published several articles on the hygienic con- 
dition of the city and its water supply, and 
has also been interested in perfecting and ex- 
tending the use of the valuable mineral w aters 
in and around the city. 

Dr. Fowler married Miss Iza Vail, a 
graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, 
and only daughter of the late Judge Isaac C. 
and Clara B. Vail, formerly of Cleveland, 
Ohio. 



j|ON. JOHN D. VAN DEMAN. In 

writing this history, it would lie a 

serious omission if we failed to give 

due prominence and attention to the 

name of Van Neman. Since 1X24, 

when the family first came to Delaware Coun- 

tl, this name has been mounting constantly 




higher and higher in public esteem, through 
the conspicuous and honorable positions 
held by father and son in the professions 
of the ministry and the law. and by their right 
attitude toward all questions affecting the pub- 
lic weal, and their unselfish and untiring ef- 
forts in forwarding every movement for the 
common -good. 

The family ancestry traces back to Rev. 
John Van Deman, the great-grandfather of 
the subject of this notice. He was a Presby- 
terian clergyman, who. with his family, emi- 
grated from Holland, and settled in Browns- 
ville, Pennsylvania, at an early day. His son 
John married a lady whose maiden name was 
Hester. In 1804 the family, including their 
son Henry, the father of Hon. John D. Van 
Deman, moved to Ross County, Ohio, and set- 
tled on a beautiful farm nine or ten miles from 
Chillicothe. John Van Deman was a very suc- 
cessful farmer, and a man of strong character, 
serving fi ir years as an elder in the Presbyter- 
ian Church. After his- ordination to the min- 
istry, Rev. Henry Van Deman, in 1824, came 
to Delaware County, and for nearly forty 
years before his death, which occurred in 1872. 
he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in 
Delaware. His wife, the mother of the sub- 
ject of this sketch, died on January 26. 1888. 
aged eighty-six years. She was a native of 
Kentucky, and her maiden name was Sarah 
Darlinton. Her father. Gen. Joseph Darlin- 
ton, was a member of the territorial legislature 
of Ohio, and also a member of the convention 
held in 1801, to frame the first constitution of 
the State of Ohio. He was also a member of 
the first Senate of Ohio. 

Hon. John D. Van Deman was born in 
Delaware, Ohio, February 12, 1832. When a 
child, Mr. Van Deman received his primary 
lessons from Mrs. Murray, in the basement of 
the building located on the Court House lot, 
on the second floor of which he completed his 
legal studies preparatory to his admission to 
tlie liar. President Hayes was also an alum- 
nus of tlie same school. Young Van Deman 
took the full classical course in the Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, from which he was grad- 
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tered the law office of Powell & Buck, where 
his legal studies were pursued for two years. 
He was admitted to the Bar in [853, before the 
District Court presided over by Hon. Allen G. 
Thurman, then chief justice of the Supreme 
Court of the State of Ohio, and began prac- 
tice in Delaware, soon achieving a success 
that was very gratifying. His first partner- 
ship was with Judge T. W. Powell, which 
continued until 1862. He then formed a part- 
nership with the late H. M. Carper, which was 
maintained without interruption until [889, 
when Mr. Van Deman retired from general 
practice. Theirs was the oldest law firm in the 
State at the time of its dissolution. It is a 
pleasing commentary on the carefulness and 
the mutual confidence reposed the one in the 
other, that when their final settlement was 
made, covering the whole period of thirty-six 
years of a partnership business, the final bal- 
ance showed that one had received only one 
cent more than the other. There had been no 
comparison or settling up of personal accounts 
of either with the firm from the beginning of 
the partnership until its close. During all this 
period, their relations were not only friendly 
and cordial, but of the closest intimacy. 

Mr. Van Deman's first case, was one which 
became famous afterwards, from the principal 
established in it when it reached the Supreme 
Court. It was a question affecting the grade 
of streets, and it became a leading authority 
everywhere on that subject. Judge Powell 
was associated with Mr. Van Deman in the 
case. Colonel Crawford, an old lawyer, had 
brought suit for damages against the city of 
Delaware, for cutting down the street in front 
of his residence. On a hearing in the District 
Court. Judge Powell was trying to call to mind 
a Latin maxim, which he thought was appli- 
cable to the case, but which eluded his grasp. 
Finally Judge Finch, a fine Latin scholar, said : 
"Mr. Powell, you refer to the maxim, 'Dam- 
num absque injuria.' " "Yes, yes," said Judge 
Powell, "that is it." The Colonel, who was 
not a Latin scholar, at once spoke up: "I'll 
'■how you whether it is a damn tight squeeze 
before I get through with you." There were 
very few important cases tried in the courts 



of Delaware Count) during the time of Mr. 
Van Deman's active relations with the Bar in 
which he was not engaged. One of the most 
celebrated cases he managed was that of Lou 
Honk, a manipulator oi Three Card Monte, 
who killed a man on a Hocking Valle) train. 
Of his argument in that trial, the Ohio State 
Journal said: "His address was admired bj 
all who were present: it was clear and sound 
in argument, and his rhetoric was unusually 
fine. The speech was pronounced one of the 
best ever delivered at the Bar of Delaware 
County. Another celebrated case was one 
growing out of the failure of a bank at Lo- 
gansport, Indiana, which was tried in the 
Federal courts at Toledo. An attempt was 
made on the part of the Indiana bank man- 
agement to hold Mr. Thompson, a non-resi- 
dent, as a stockholder in the bank. There was 
a verdict against Mr. Thompson on the first 
trial. The case was taken to the Supreme 
Court of the United States, and the judgment 
reversed. After a delay of eight years, the 
case was again tried, and a verdict was hail in 
favor of Mr. Thompson's estate, Mr. Thomp- 
son having gone long before to his final ac- 
count. 

Mr. Van Deman always prepared his 
pleadings with exceptional care and tried his 
cases in court with great skill. He sometimes 
perplexed a witness by his sharp cross-exami- 
nation. An amusing incident illustrative of 
this occurred during the trial of one of his 
causes. The question related to the genuine- 
ness of a signature. The defendant had veri- 
fied his answer, and on the witness stand, as 
an expert, had given his opinion against the 
genuineness of the signature to the note. On 
cross-examination. Mr. Van Deman required 
the witness to state with positiveness his con- 
clusions; then wrote something at the trial 
table on a paper, which he folded up in view of 
the witness ; then folded the paper on which the 
defendant's answer was written, in such a way 
as to expose the signature only. He handed 
this paper to the defendant, asking him to ex- 
amine the name and see if it was his signature. 
The witness promptly denied it. at the same 
time pointing out with particularity the let- 



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ters which showed it was not genuine. The 
witness was then requested to unfold the pa- 
per and tell the jury what it was. With com- 
plete astonishment and some embarrassment, 
he exclaimed: "Why, my God, it is my an- 
swer in the case, and my signature to the 
verification." His suspicion of a trap had led 
him into error. The incident also shows the 
weakness of that kind of expert testimony. 

Mr. Van Deman has always been a Repub- 
lican, but has rarely aspired to political hon- 
ors, lie was satisfied with the emoluments, 
as well as the fame which a lawyer who at- 
tends strictly to the profession, may secure. He 
was just entering his professional career when 
the Republican party was burn. The condi- 
tion of affairs and the issues which caused the 
formation of that party were of deep interest 
to him. and in [856 he took the stump in fa- 
vor of Fremont and the new political platform, 
which opposed the further extension of slav- 
er; Frequent visits to the South had con- 
vinced him that slavery was not such an in- 
stitution that its wider spread over the virgin 
territories of the nation was desirable, or for 
the best prosperity of the country, lie he- 
came acquainted with Abraham Lincoln in 
[859, when the latter made his great speech 
in Columbus against Stephen A. Douglas, 
from the east side of the State House. He 
was so charmed with the great simplicity, can- 
dor, true nobility, and strong common sense of 
the .Martyr I 'resident, that he became one of 
his most zealous adherents, lie continued in 
campaign work until after the campaign of 
[884, when he retired from the political field. 
leaving the more arduous service to younger 
But in [896, when the national honor 
was at stake, and when the question of giving 
to the people a currency worth it- face value, 
or one that could not be received in the mar- 
kets of the world, was the burning one in 
p tics, he again entered the field, and made 
many speeches in Ohio; and under "the ap- 
tmenl of the National Committee, spent 
four weeks on the stump in Kansas, most of 
the time in "Sockless" Jerry Sipson's Populis- 
tic district. Prior to the organization of the 



Republican party, Mr. Van Deman was a 
Henry Clay Whig, and served as a delegate to 
the last Whig convention in Ohio, when Nel- 
son Barrier was nominated for Governor. He 
was for four years prosecuting attorney of 
Delaware County; four years mayor of the 
city of Delaware; once a candidate for judge 
of the Court of Common Pleas of his subdiv- 
ision, and later a candidate for Circuit Judge 
of the Sixth Circuit of Ohio; but in both cases 
the Democratic party had an overwhelming 
majority, and though unsuccessful, he made a 
satisfactory race, cutting down the majority 
of his Democratic opponents over one thou- 
sand votes. He was for several terms a 
member of the City Council and its presiding 
officer. The following resolution presented by 
the late Gen. J. S. Jones, upon his retirement, 
and passed unanimously, shows the opinion of 
his fellow-councilmen : "We desire to express 
our thanks and appreciation of our president. 
Under his administration the business of the 
Council has been transacted with accuracy and 
dispatch. The expenses of the city govern- 
ment have been largely curtailed, and. stimu- 
lated by his example, other city officers have 
been imbued with his commendable spirit of 
economy and reform. Our Council meetings 
have been exceptionally free from discord. No 
ruling of the Chair has been questioned, be- 
cause all have been fair and impartial. We 
regret exceedingly that with the close of this 
term, the city loses his experience and ability 
in the direction of its government.*' 

Mr. Van Deman's disposition is to be con- 
servative, believing that permanent success for 
the country will be found in guarding carefully 
the public expenditures and discountenancing 
appropriation of the people's money for ques- 
tionable objects, rather than in hunting up new 
forms of taxation, whereby the people become 
oppressed and all kinds of modern official 
graft flourishes, lie would reduce the taxes 
to a minimum, and exact of all officials a faith- 
ful performance ol duty and an honest execu- 
tion of their several trusts. 

Mr. Van Deman was a lieutenant of Com- 
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ment U. S. I., in the Civil War. and a charter 
member of George B. Torrence Post, G. A. R., 
of which he is past commander. He served 
as aide on the staff of General Alger, when 
the latter was grand commander of the (i. A. 
R. for the United States. 

Mr. Van Deman has a talent for business 
affairs which has been employed in various cor- 
porations and private companies. He assisted 
in organizing the Columbus & Toledo Rail- 
road Company, and served as a director until 
the sale of the road to the Cleveland syndicate. 
For thirty-five years he was its counsel, and 
he served the "Big Four" in the same capacity 
for a period of nearly equal length. For about 
thirty years he has been a director of the First 
National Bank of Delaware, and is now its 
president. 

He has been a member of the Episcopal 
Church for forty-two years, and is now its 
senior warden. He has served for many years 
;;s president of the Board of Trustees for the 
Diocese of Southern Ohio, a board having 
the management of the church property of the 
diocese, and the investment of its benevolent 
and charitable funds. He organized and was 
president of the first building association es- 
tablished in Delaware, and has been connected 
as director with one or more such associations 
ever since. 

In 1861 Mr. Van Deman married Lydia, 
daughter of Judge R. E. Runkle, of Logan 
County, Ohio, and they have three children — 
Ralph H.. a captain of the general staff of the 
United States Army, now detailed in the Mili- 
tary Information Bureau, at Washington, D. 
C. ; and two daughters, F.nnalla. and Mildred, 
living at home with their parents. 

In 1903 Mr. Van Deman. having rounded 
.nit fifty years of work at the Bar, retired from 
the profession. Success came to him as the 
result of the determined application of his 
abilities and powers along the rigidly defined 
lines or labor, and the respect of the commun- 
ity was given him in a free acknowledgment of 
liis sterling worth, for he is a man of strong 
individuality, great mental force, and utmost 
rectitude in thought, word and deed. 




'EPHEN POTTER, one of Dela- 
ware's prominent citizens who is serv- 
ing in his second term as count)- com- 
missioner of Delaware County, was 
born in Ireland, in 1844. His par- 
ents brought him to America in 1845. settling 
at Whitesboro, New York, where Stephen was 
reared and attended school. 

During early manhood, Mr. Potter worked 
on a farm and then learned the cooper's trade 
at which he was employed until 1871, when he 
came to Delaware. Here he became connected 
with the Big Four Railroad and for eighteen 
years served as division master. He has al- 
ways been popular with his associates, and. 
without any self-seeking, he was appointed 
!>' stmaster at Delaware, by President Cleve- 
land during his first administration. Mr. Pot- 
ter subsequently engaged in a grocery business 
which he continued until he was first elected to 
the office of county commissioner, on the Dem- 
ocratic ticket, although the county is normally 
Republican. The office came to Mr. Potter 
unsought but his administration of it was so 
satisfactory to all parties, that he was reelected 
in the fall of 1905. For ten years he served 
as a member of the City Council of Delaware, 
where his business discernment and public 
spirit made him a very valuable official. 

In 1 S77. Mr. Potter was married to Ellen 
A. Hanlin. who was born in Canada, and they 
have one son, Mark S., who is chief clerk in 
the engineering department of the Iron Moun- 
tain Railroad^ with quarters at Van Buren, 
Arkansas. Mr. Potter is a member of St. 
Mary's Catholic Church, of which he is trus- 
tee. He is identified with the order of Knights 
of Columbus. 



Il.( ) D. GRAHAM, who for many 
years was engaged in general 
farming in Delaware Township, 
was mie of the best known men of 
his community, and in his death, 
winch occurred in [902, Delaware Count) lust 
'iiic 1 E lis representative citizens. Mr. Gra 




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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



ham was born in 1836, one mile north of Dela- 
ware, in Delaware County, Ohio, and was a 
son of John and Margaret (Gast) Graham. 

John Graham was horn in New Hamp- 
shire, and was taken to Pennsylvania by his 
father, who there abandoned him. bringing 
the other children, with their mother, to Ohio, 
and settling north of Delaware. John Graham 
was reared by a farmer in Pennsylvania, and 
learned the tailor's trade. He also succeeded 

in securing what was considered as a g 1 

education in those days, being regarded as a 
good scholar. He married in Pennsylvania, 
and on subsequently coming to Delaware, 
Ohio, he had dealings with his father for 
several years before either knew that they were 
related. His death took place in the fall of 
[878, when he had attained the advanced age 
of ninety years, three months, and several 
days. 

Milo Graham located on his father's farm 
in 187(1, the property subsequently coming to 
him by inheritance. He engaged in general 
farming, and kept several head of cattle, a 
number of Chester White hogs and about 100 
chickens, and was very successful in his op- 
erations. Since his death his widow and -sons 
have been cultivating this fine fiftv-nine-acre 
property, devoting five or six acres to garden 
trucking. Mr. Graham was a Democrat in 
politics and a Presbyterian in religious belief, 
while his widow is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at Stratford. 

Milo Graham was married on August 30, 
1877, to Alvesta Kroninger, who is the daugh- 
ter of John Kroninger, and they had eleven 
children, nine of whom grew to maturity, 
namely: Jennie, who married Guy Stickney 
of Delaware: Arthur, also of Delaware; Kath- 
erine, who married Abraham Baker, of Dela- 
ware: George, who operates the home farm; 
Martha, the wife of Charles Nugent, of Colum- 
bus; Ella, wife of (has. Thomas, of Delaware, 
and James Calvin. Daniel and Lydia 
Maybell, all residing at home. 

John Kroninger. father of Mrs. Graham, 
was born in Pennsylvania in 1812, and there 
learned the trade of blacksmith. On attain- 
ing his majority, he came to Delaware Town- 



ship, and engaged in blacksmithing north of 
the city of Delaware. He subsequently re- 
1111 ived to Stratford,, where he continued that 
occupation. His latter years were spent in 
farming on the east side of the river, near 
Stratford, where his death occurred Septem- 
ber 24, 1894. By his first marriage Mr. Kron- 
inger had two sons, Peter and Hosea, and not 
long after his first wife's death he was married 
secondly to Elizabeth Swartz, by whom he had 
seven children, the following six of whom 
grew to maturity : James, a resident of 
Shelby, Ohio ; George, who resides at Shepard ; 
Alvesta, born May 5. 1853; Jacob; Daniel, 
who lives in Shelby County, Illinois; and 
Katherine, the wife of Charles Grojane, of 
Delaware, Ohio. Mr. Kroninger contracted a 
third marriage with Mrs. Hannah Stickney, 
willow of Hugh Stickney of Union County. 
The family were members of the Lutheran 
Church. 




] C. FAY, M. D.. who has been engaged 
in the practice of medicine and sur- 
gery at Ostrander, since 1867. is the 
oldest continuous practitioner in 
Delaware County. He was born in 
Darby Township, Union County, Ohio. August 
10, 1843, all( l ' s a son ot Benjamin A. and 
Hester Ann (Robinson) Fay. 

The paternal grandparents of Dr. Fay 
were David and Electa (Smith) Fay, who 
came to Ohio from Rutland. Vermont, prior 
to 1813. David Fay raised stock and quar- 
ried stone on his farm in Vermont, but after 
settling in Union Count}'. Ohio, he followed 
farming. His son. Benjamin A. Fay. father 
of the Doctor, was horn in Darby Township, 
in 18 1 3. and died at Marysville, Union 
County, in 1885. Mainly self-taught, as in 
his youth educational apportunities in his sec- 
tion were limited, he became a man of more 
than ordinary importance in the communities 
in which he lived. While carrying on, a farm 
of 1 50 acres, he learned civil engineering with- 
out instruction, and so thoroughly that the ac- 
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545 



part of his time for many years. In i8(>o. 
after being elected county surveyor of Union 
County, he moved to Marysville, and contin- 
ued in that office for six years. Prior to this 

he had served as justice of the peace in Darby 
Township, and tilled other offices. lie was 
much interested in improving the stock of 
sheep and horses and devoted time and money 
to this object. His last years were passed in 
honorable retirement. He married Hester 
Ann Robinson, who died in 1888, leaving but 
one child. 

During his early years. Dr. D. C. Fay was 
instructed entirely by his father, who was by 
no means a lax disciplinarian, having regular 
hours for hearing his son's lessons and requir- 
ing that they be properly prepared; hence, 
when opportunity was afforded for academic 
instruction at Marysville and at Haysville, the 
son was advanced far beyond others of his 
age. For a part of the time while attending 
Marysville Academy, he taught school, and 
then entered upon the study of medicine un- 
der Dr. J. M. Southard, of that place. After 
attending one course of lectures at the Star- 
ling Medical College, he entered the Medical 
College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, where he was 
graduated in 1867. In the same year he set- 
tled at Ostrander, which village has since been 
his home, although for many years his practice 
included much adjacent territory, which he 
covered on horseback. Dr. Fay may almost 
be called the father of the medical guild in 
Delaware County. He was a charter member 
of the Delaware Medical Society and belongs 
also to the Ohio State and the American Medi- 
cal Associations. 

Dr. Fay married Mar}- A. Liggett, who 
is a daughter of Joab Liggett, a resident of 
Scioto Township. They have one daughter. 
Mima, who married Eugene C. Gee. Mr. 
Gee is chief electrical engineer for the Bell 
Telephone Company, at Tucson, Arizona. 
Mis. Fay is a member of the Baptist Church 
at Ostrander. Dr. Fay has never taken any 
very active interest in politics. He has been 
closely identified, however, with several of the 
leading fraternal organizations. Since 1808. 
he has been a member of Palestine Lodge, No. 



158, F. & A. M., at Marysville: is past chan- 
cellor of Ostrander Lodge, Knights of Pyth- 
ias, and belongs to Edinburg Lodge, No. y<j. 
( Idd Fellows. He is the only living charter 
member of this lodge and was the first to hold 
the office of noble grand in this body. 




EV. HERBERT WELCH, A. M.. D. 
D., LL. D., president of Ohio Wes- 
leyan University. Some college 
presidents are great executives, 
some excel as educators, while others 
show marked business ability. Seldom, in- 
deed, are these qualifications combined 
in one man, but Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity is unusually fortunate in hav- 
ing such a man for its president. h 
those who know Dr. Welch, the perfect balance, 
the all-roundness of the man. is a constant 
surprise. While an undergraduate he was a 
man of no specialty. The fourteen prizes 
which he won during his course — practically- 
all that were open to him — show how he ex- 
celled in each department of scholarship. This 
characteristic has been notable throughout his 
career. As a preacher of the gospel, he is 
forcelul and effective: in dealing with business 
problems, he shows a business ability uncom- 
mon in professional men; as an executive, he 
conceives big plans, and has a grasp of detail 
that is truly astonishing when one considers 
the many and varied lines of his work. Presi- 
dent Welch is one of the most accessible of 
men. He is never too busy to talk with any 
student who seeks his counsel, whether it be 
in regard to college matters or purely personal 
affairs. 

Dr. Welch was born in New York City. 
November 7. 1X02, son of Peter A. and Mary 
L. ( Loveland ) Welch. His father was a mer- 
chant, as was also his maternal grandfather, 
Oliver Loveland. His elementary education 
was acquired in the New York Grammar 
School No. 35, which he attended from 1N70 
to 1877, being graduated with the Girard 
medal. He then entered Brooklyn College 
and Polytechnic Institute, and was graduated 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



therefrom in 1880, with a diploma tor pro- 
ficiency in the scientific course. From 1880 
to 1882 he was engaged in private and school 
study in the classics, becoming in the year last 
named a student in the Wesleyan Umversit) 
at Middletown, Connecticut, and so continued 
until 1887, being out of college, however, in 
l884-'85. He was graduated from the I'm 
versity with the degree of B. A. He is a mem- 
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Upsilon 
fraternities. 

In 1887 Mr. Welch began his theological 
studies in the Drew Theological Seminar}'. 
from which he was graduated in 1890, with 
the degree of B. D. He obtained his M. A. 
degree from Wesleyan University in 1890, 
alsi that of D. D. in 1902. and that of LL. D. 
in 1906. He was a student in Oxford Uni- 
versity (England) in i902- - 03. 

1 )n his graduation from Drew Seminar}'. 
being equipped for the ministry, he joined the 
Xew York Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, and was appointed to Bedford 
Station, where he served from [890 to [892. 
1 1 i s next held of labor was in Xew York City, 
in 1 Si )_>-'<)_:;. He was then transferred to New 
York Fast Conference and appointed to Sum- 
merheld Church. Brooklyn, which he served in 
iSiy'i).\ IPs next pastorate was that of the 
First Church at Middletown. Connecticut. 
[898-1902, and was followed by a two years 
pastorate at Chester Hill Church, Alt. Vernon, 
Xew York, i9o; r Y)5. Dr. Welch is intensely 
interested in the purely evangelistic side of 
religious work, at the same time being a close 
student of the relation of the church and of 
' Mianuy to public affairs and good citizen- 
ship. In 1905 he accepted and entered upon 
the duties of his present position as president 
of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, 
m which capacity lie has since continued to 
e, with manifest benefit to the University 
and to the unmixed satisfaction of its friends. 
Welch has made some scholarly con- 
tributions to religious literature, which have 
been published in college and church periodi- 
^mong them ma) be mentioned, "Selec- 
tions from the Writings of John Wesley," 
Xew York, [901; and (published in pamphlet 



form) the articles, "Albert S. Hunt. flie 

College Student and the Christian Confes- 
sion." and "The Resurrection the Crowning 
Fact of Christianity." He also performed use- 
ful services as a member of the Board of Man- 
agers of the Sunday School Union, i892- - 96; 
member of the Board of Managers of the Mis- 
sionary Society, 1896-1905; member of the 
Board of Managers of the Board of Education. 
Freeman's Aid and Sunday Schools, 1907 to 
the present time; and trustee of Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, 1 90 1 -'06. 

Dr. Welch, in his vacation intervals, both 
during and since his student days, has spent 
some time in travel, visiting Canada in 1S74 
and 1882; the far west in 1879, i88_l-'85 and 
1889; and Europe in 1897, 1899. and 1902- 
'03. He was married June 3. 1890, to Ade- 
laide F. McGee, of Plainfield, Xew Jersey, 
whose father, James McGee. was a merchant 
of New York City. Mrs. Welch's mother was 
in maidenhood. Elizabeth A. Merklee. Two 
children have come to bless the household of 
Dr. and Mrs. Welch — Dorothy, born June 7, 
1891 ; and Eleanor, born September 3. 1900. 

Dr. Welch is one of the most modest and 
unassuming of men. Generous to a fault,' he 
has often sacrificed personal interests to aid 
his friends, and his is the charity that "knoweth 
no evil." The Doctor has a keen sense of 
honor, and a fund of stories that is apparently 
inexhaustible, in the telling of which he is 
inimitable. Both the Doctor and Mrs. Welch 
are strong in their social instinct, and are 
capital entertainers, as those who have enjoyed 
the free and open hospitality of their home will 
testify. 




AMES OUSEY, proprietor of the lead- 
ing livery, feed and sale stable of 
Delaware, < ihio, located at the corner 

of Winter and North Union Streets. 

and the owner oi a fine grain and fruit 
farm of 100 acres on the Radnor pike, is one of 
Delaware County's representative citizens, and 
a survivor of the Civil War. Mr. Ousey was 
born April 30. 1S47, near Xew ton. Sussex 




MARTIN MILLER 



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549 



County, New Jersey, and is a son of Edward 
and Anna (Washer) Ousey. 

Edward Ouse) was born near Liverpool, 
England, where he resided until sixteen wars 
of age, at which time he came to America and 
found employment in the iron mines of Sus- 
sex County, New Jersey, remaining thus em- 
ployed until 1851. In this year he came to 
Orange Township, Delaware County. Ohio, 
and began farming on his own account, being 
followed here by his wife and family the fol- 
lowing year. He was living at Westerville at 
the time of his death. Mr. Ousey was a stanch 
Republican in politics, and his patrii itism was 
shown by his three years and nine months ser- 
vice in the Union army as a member of Com- 
pany D, Twentieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, during the Civil War. He was mar- 
ried to Anna Washer, whose father was a 
Revolutionary soldier and an old-time mail 
carrier in New Jersey. Of this union there were 
born six children, three of whom grew to ma- 
turity, namely: William H.. who is now de- 
ceased; Susan, also deceased, who was the 
wife of William Lane, of Worthington, Ohio; 
and James, whose name appears at the head of 
this article. 

James Ousey was educated in the common 
schools of Orange Township, and was work- 
ing on the home farm at the time the Civil 
War broke out. In January, 18(4. at the age 
of sixteen years, he enlisted in Company K. 
Second Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Heavy Ar- 
tillery, and joined his regiment at Munfords- 
ville. Kentucky, remaining with it until the 
close of the war. when he received his honor- 
able discharge. He then returned to the farm, 
on which he worked until 1876, and in this 
year became a railroad brakeman. being later 
promoted to conductor. A severe injury to 
his arm. which left it partially crippled, 
caused him to abandon railroading, and in 
May, [884. he established himself in the livery 
business, in which he continued until 1888. 
In this year be sold out and purchased a farm 
in Henry Count}-, still keeping his residence 
in Delaware, however, but this farm he soon 
sold and purchased his present property of 100 
acres on the Radnor pike, just outside of the 



corporation limits of Delaware! This he oper- 
ates as a grain and fruit faim. having [,500 
apple trees, 500 pear trees, 200 peach trees 
and 100 cherry trees. Mr. Ousey's tine two- 
story brick livery stable at Delaware was built 
by him in 1891, and he now keeps fourteen 
horses and boards many more. 

Mr. Ousey was married to Catherine Lien- 
fenderfer, who came from Germany as a child 
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ousey are 
members of Zion Reformed Church of Dela- 
ware. Fraternally he is connected with Olen- 
tangy Lodge, No. 53, I. O. O. F., of Dela- 
ware, and in politics he is a stanch Republi- 
can, although no office-seeker, preferring to 
give his entire time and attention to his busi- 
ness interests. 




\I\TI\ MILLER, vice-president of 
the First National Bank, at Dela- 
ware, is one of the city's astute 
financiers and most substantia] 
citizens. He was born April 1. 
18-7. in Bavaria, Germany, and is one of 
a family of three children born to his parents, 
who were Adam and Cunigunde Miller. At 
the age of seven years he accompanied his 
parents to America. A short stop was made 
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and they then 
moved to Wheeling. West Virginia, where 
they remained only a few months, thence 
going to Columbus, where also a few 
months only were spent, when the family 
moved to Delaware, in either 1834 or [835. 
Here the subject of this sketch took up his 
schooling. When about 1 _> years of age he 
began to learn the baker's trade with his 
brother Adam, who had learned the trade of 
baker and confectioner in Wheeling. For 
several years .Mr. Miller worked at the trade. 
at the same time attending school. When 
Adam Miller went to California, the subject 
of this sketch took a partnership in the baker's 
business, and on Adam's return. Martin Mil- 
ler bought out his interests, and thereafter 
conducted the business alone, though in .1 
different location. He succeeded and made 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



profitable investments, and having accumu- 
lated much property, retired about 1882. 

Mr. Miller was one of the first stockholders 
of the First National Bank, and in 1895 was 
elected its vice-president. He has been treas- 
urer of the Delaware Electric Light, Heat 
and Power Company since its organization, 
and has also other business interests. Mr. 
Miller was first married in 1847 tn -^' lss Lydia 
Worline, by whom he had three children: 
Mary R., who is now the widow of Hon. E. 
1\ I'oppleton. formerly Congressman from 
this district; Frances, wife of James Naugh- 
ton, a merchant of Columbus, Ohio; and Wil- 
liam M. who is single and resides at the- 
parental home. Mrs. Lydia Miller died n 
1875. and Mr. Miller was married second 
in 1880, to Mary E. Moran, a native of Lo- 
rain County, Ohio. The family residence is at 
No. 32 West Winter Street. Mr. .Miller is a 
Democrat in politics, and in religion a Cath- 
olic. 




OEL W. DILL, general farmer, stock- 
raiser, and stock-feeder, of Radnor 
Township, where he owns a farm of 
208 acre--, is a representative citizen 
of this section. He was born in this 
township. March 8, 1853. and is a son of Au- 
gustus 1!. and Elizabeth (Turney) Dill. To 
trace his ancestral line on either side, a back- 
ward glance at history is necessary, and we 
therefore yield the pen to a member of his fam- 
ily who thus briefly sketches his antecedents: 
"1 Vrhap-. the annals of history do not fur- 
nish examples of greater heroism and bravery 
than the narrative of the siege of Boyne, 
Through the reigns of Charles II. and James 
II. the lot of the Protestants was a painful 
lie 111 Ireland, as well as in Scotland. The 
King countenanced the Roman Catholics in 
Ireland, while the Free Kirk people were op 
pressed by both the English prelates and Irish 
papists. In the revolution oi 1689, when 
fames ||. with his French allies, entered Ire- 
land and made a stand against William of 
Orange, the Roman Catholic armv joined his 



army in large numbers; while the Scotch-Irish 
in the North withstood him. They drove the 
Irish from their borders and in Londonderry, 
their chief city, withstood the most determined 
siege in history. After one hundred and Ave 
days the}- were relieved by the arrival of the 
Orange fleet. Then ensued the sanguinary 
conflict between the forces of the two kings, 
known as the Battle of the Boyne. From this 
period dates the feud between the Roman 
Catholic Irish and the Orangemen the world 
over. Some time after this, tired of the per- 
secution of both the Roman Catholic and the 
Established Churches, these more than Cove- 
nanters although well-to-do in their adopted 
country as manufacturers of linen — these 
peace-loving Scotch-Irish — began to emigrate 
tn the American colonies, many of them set- 
tling in Maine, Xew Hampshire, and Massa- 
chusetts, and many in Nova Scotia and New- 
Brunswick. It is related that such a thing as 
a Loyalist was unknown among the Scotch- 
Irish. 

"During the Revolution many of them rose 
to places of distinction both in the army and 
in the Civil government. Of the twenty-four 
major-generals of the war, no less than half 
were Scotch-Irish. The religious fervor of 
these settlers, as well as their moraility, was 
noticeable. Yet a witty humor was also a 
prominent trait in their character. The lively 
and the sedate, the old and the young alike 
indulged in it and enjoyed it, and they took 
care not to miss any proper occasion for sport. 

"It is unfortunate that we are unable to 
trace the ancestry of our family farther back 
than to the grandparents of the older genera- 
tion now living. The family came from the 
county of Londonderry, Ireland, to Nova Sco- 
tia, but the time cannot be definitely stated. 

"John Dill, the paternal grandfather of the 
subject of this sketch, was born in Nova Sco- 
tia about 1780. He married Sophia Beck- 
with, a native of Maine, and they emigrated 
to Baltimore, Maryland, in [819. They had 
four sons born in Nova Scotia — David. John, 
Edward, and Augustus B., and three in Bal- 
timore — George 11.. Joseph, and James. In 
[829 they moved to Columbus, Ohio, and the 



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55i 



following year to Mifflin Township, Franklin 
County, about six miles northeast from Co- 
lumbus to the farm, which they made their 
permanent home. John Dill had a very good 
education lor his time and at once became a 
leading citizen of the community, lie was a 

g 1 business man and prospered, lie was 

one "f the wealth}' men of his neighborhood, 
owning at his death some 000 acres of land 
and money besides. He was very public-spir- 
ited and helped with money and influence 
every worth}' enterprise. He was one of the 
projectors of the Columbus and Sandusky 
Turnpike, built in 1852, and its first treasurer. 
He was often called upon to settle the estates 
of his deceased neighbors, which work he 
performed with good judgment and fidelity, 
lie died in i860, aged eighty years, his wife 
having passed away the year previous. 

"Augustus B. Dill was born on the paren- 
tal farm near Columbus, Ohio, and there re- 
mained until after his marriage to Elizabeth 



Turnev, which occurred March 



1846. 



They immediately removed to the wilds of 
Mercer G unity, where he cleared the trees 
from the spot where he built their cabin. Be- 
coming dissatisfied there he sold his land — 
Mine 500 acres — and came back to Franklin 
County, and in 1848 to Delaware Count}', 
where he lived only a short time, for he died 
in 1855. at the early age of thirty-seven years. 
He was a man of great energy and good bus- 
iness faculties, and for the short time he lived 
he accomplished much. Having been gone so 
long, and those who knew him intimately hav- 
ing also passed away, we are unable to give 
much of his life story. He had a good edu- 
cation, obtained in the schools of the early 
days and by private study, and he had quite 
an extensive library, perhaps one of the largest 
in the township. He was a great reader and 
was well informed upon the topics of the day. 
Mr was an abolitionist and a Whig in poli- 
tics and was violently opposed to ECnownoth- 
ingism, then oik- of the burning questions of 
the day. He was a man highly respected, and 
his earlv passing away was sincerely mourned 
by all who knew him. At the time of his 
death lie owned 100 acres of land, having a 



number of years previously purchased the 
farm now owned by his son Joel in Radnor 
Township, which at the time was heavily tim- 
bered. To this property his widow and sons 
added from time to time until -it reached its 
present proportions. 

"Augustus B. Dill ami his wife Elizabeth 
were the parents of fixe sons — Wil- 
liam Augustus. John Beckwith. David 
Turney, Joel Wesley, and Charles Wal- 
lace — and their history in brief is as fol- 
lows; William Augustus married Alary 
Elinor Farnum, daughter of Dr. and 
Mrs. J. L. Farnum. she of Prospect, died in 
1887 at the age of thirty-two years. They had 
rive children — Mary Elizabeth, Dill Augusta, 
Raymond, William Hoyt, and Walter Page. 
John Beckwith married Jennie Merchant, and 
died in 1889 aged forty years. His wife Jen- 
nie died in 1907. They had four daughters, 
of whom two died when young, the other two 
being Agnes, wife of Leonard Harmon of 
Prospect, and Jessie, wife of Charles Saner, 
of Prospect. David Turney died in infancy 
as did Charles Wallace. Joel Wesley, whose 
name appears at the head of this article, re- 
sides in the old home in Radnor Township. 

"Elizabeth Turney Dill was horn in Mif- 
flin Township, Franklin County, Ohio, No- 
vember 18, 1818. She is a lineal descendant 
of a French Huguenot family, who were 
driven from France in the latter part of the 
Fifteenth Century by papal persecution, a 
short time previous to the revocation of the 
Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. Three broth- 
ers — Daniel, Peter, and Adam Turney — leav- 
ing a considerable property behind them, fled 
their native country and landed in Philadel- 
phia in 1668. Elizabeth Turney is a great 
granddaughter of Daniel Turney, the Hugue- 
not refugee. 

"John Turney, grandfather, son of Daniel, 
removed to Hagerstown, Maryland, where he 
married Mary Grove. The fruit of this union 
was six children — Daniel. Adam, John 
Henry. Joseph. Susan (Robinson), Mary 
1 Hawkins). Daniel married Susan Ridenour, 
daughter of Mathias Ridenour and Catherine 
(Fake) Ridenour, also .if Huguenot family. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



These pioneers came to Ohio from Westmore- 
land County, Pennsylvania, and settled first in 
Ross County, about 1806, and to Franklin 
County in 1810. John Turney and Mathias 
Ridenour had each entered large tracts of land 
in Mifflin Township, Turney on Alum Creek, 
Ridenour on Big Walnut, where the village 
of Gehanna is now situated. 

"Elizabeth Turney was married to Augus- 
tus B. Dill, March 31, 1846. She was the 
mother of five sons — Willam Augustus, John 
Beckwith, David Turney. Joel Wesley and 
Charles Wallace, of whom two died 111 infancy 
— David and Charles — and John B. in the 
prime of life eighteen years since. She leaves 
two sons — William A. and Joel Wesley, seven 
grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. 
In 1848 they came to Delaware Count)', where 
she lived fifty-nine years on the same farm. 
None who came in contact with Elizabeth 
Turney Dill but felt at once the impress of 
the strong character she possessed. No de- 
scendant of the family more fully vindicated 
the purity of descent in her own clearly de- 
fined habits and strong decision of mind, from 
thi ise sturdy French Huguenots who could 
leave home, country, and fortune under the 
bloody persecution of papal despotism, but 
could not surrender their freedom of con- 
science and the liberty to worship God in their 
own way. She was the last of a large family, 
namely : John, Jacob, Daniel. George R.. 
Daniel. Henry, Mary (Dill). Susan (Bell), 
Catherine (Noble), and Phebe ( Xoble). The 
force and positiveness of mind was joined 
with bodily strength which gave her a long 
life — eighty-eight years, nine mouths and 
twenty-eight days. She was a member of the 
church for over seventy years, first of the 
Presbyterian, later of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church for over fifty years. She was a sub- 
scriber and constant reader of the Western 
Christian Advocate, her church paper, for 
over fifty years. She was mother to all. and 
her works of charity and words of comfort 
were always ready for those most in need. 
Her heart was always open to the needy and 
her deeds of kindness are best known bv those 



she helped. She was thorough in religion, 
remarkably even in temperament, generous to 
a fault, always the same faithful friend to all 
who knew her. A trusted friend, valued coun- 
selor, wise and prudent in her advice, con- 
stant in her affections. Her good ancestry 
showed through all her life — a life that makes 
the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom 
in the dust. At life's sunset, in the shadows 
of the day's decline, she stood looking back at 
the graves of her household, where the little 
children were put away with white hands 
folded. How the older ones followed the 
friends we best loved cut down in the prime 
of life, while standing on the brow of the hill 
with bright eyes looking to a happy future. 
But for all this silence is the most expressive 
language. We feel more than words can ex- 
press while writing this brief sketch of the 
mother who had been more to us than all else, 
and whose light shines brighter in the Eternal 
day." 

In their early married life the parents were 
members of the Presbyterian Church, but 'in- 
later years Mrs. Dill united with the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. 

Joel W. Dill acquired his education in the 
district schools and at his mother's hands re- 
ceived a careful and judicious training. His 
whole life has been passed on the home farm. 
and every part of it possesses more than a 
money value to him on this account. He de- 
votes thirty-five acres of his land to corn, from 
thirty to thirty-five to wheat, and thirty-five 
to hay. The remainder is mainly given over 
to pasturage, as he raises and deals largely in 
stock. His comfortable home — a two-story 
brick residence of six rooms — was built by his 
father in 1850, who then possessed the finest 
house in the township. The other farm build- 
ings were erected about the same time. Mr. 
Dill is a' member of the Masonic Lodge at 
Prospect, and of Deurwood Lodge. No. 153. 
K. of P., also of Prospect. He belongs to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Prospect and 
is a member of its official body. He is known 
to all as a public-spirited and conscientious 
citizen. 



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Ili-'.SI.IA WORNSTAFF, a mem- 
ber of the firm of Sperry & Worn- 
staff, proprietors oi the Hank oi 
Ashley, has been a life-long resilient 
of Delaware County and is descended 
on both sides from old established families of 
this county. He was born on a farm west of 
Ashley, in Oxford Township, and is a son of 
Lewis and Sally Ann (Bartholomew) Worn- 
staff. His grandfather, Daniel Wornstaff, was 
the first of the family to locate in this county. 
He was a native of Pennsylvania and at an 
early date removed to Ross County, Ohio, and 
came to Delaware County in [829. He bought a 
farm of about 100 acres on the west branch of 
the Whetstone River, and erected a log cabin. 
Here he lived the life of a hardy farmer ana 
converted his farm from a wilderness into 
tillable land, remaining there until his death. 
Lewis Wornstaff, father of Chesley. was 
born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1822, and was 
seven years of age when brought by his par- 
ents to Delaware County. He grew up on the 
old home place and then purchased a tract of 
about fifty acres of unimproved land in Ox- 
ford Township. He first erected a cabin of 
poles and it was in this the subject of this 
sketch was born. He subsequently built a 
log cabin and finally a frame house which 
stands on the farm now owned by his younger 
son. He remained on the farm until his death 
Jul}- 20, jSijo*, aged sixty-eight years, and at 
that time he owned about 300 acres of land. 
He married Sally Ann Bartholomew-, who 
was born in Liberty Township, in [829, and 
at the present time resides with her son 
Sperry. at Ashley. Her father. Milton Bar- 
tholomew, came from the Xew England States 
to Delaware County at about the same time 
the Wornstaffs came. He moved from Lib- 
erty Township, where he first located, to Ox- 
ford Township, where his death occurred. 
Three children were born to Lewis Wornstaff 
and wife: Chesley; a child that died in in- 
fancy, and Sperry, who owns and resides on 
the old home place. 

Chesley Wornstaff was reared and re- 
mained on the home farm until twenty-five 
years old. in the meantime attending the dis- 
33 



trict schools and also the schools of Ashley. 
He bought a farm of seventy-eight 
acres known as the Eckles farm, one 
and one-fourth miles southeast of Ashley, 
and has always been very successful, ha\ in- 
increased his holdings until he has 260 acres 
in his home farm, and 110 acres in Peru 
Township, Morrow Count}-. In 1884, in part- 
nership with his brother-in-law, C. E. Sherry, 
he established the Bank of Ashley,. with which 
he has since been identified, but did not move 
into town until 1888. He still oversees the 
work on the farm, owns a fine brick In rate 
here and has other property. 

Mr. Wornstaff was married November 9, 
1870, to Mary Ella Sperry. who was born in 
Knox Count}-. Ohio, and is a sister of C. F. 
Sperry. This union resulted in the birth of 
one son. Albertus. who was bookkeeper in the 
Bank of Ashley at the time of his death. 
March 22, 1903, aged twenty-six years. A 
mute from birth, he was of exceptional bright- 
ness and possessed educational attainment-. 
He was a graduate of the State Institution at 
Columbus, and a graduate at Gallaudet Col- 
lege, Washington, D. C. and his earl}' death, 
amid bright prospects, was a sad loss to his 
devoted parents. Albertus Wornstaff married 
Laverna Carr. Mr. Wornstaff is a Republican 
in politics, but has never taken an active part 
in political affairs. 




II. TON LIGGETT, now a highly 

esteemed retired citizen of Scioto 

Township, has long been one of 

its most substantial and progres- 

sive men. He was born on the 

farm on which be lives, in Delaware Count}-, 

Ohio, August 28, 1835. and is a son of Joab 

and .Mar}- I Carr) Liggett. 

Joab Liggett was born in 1806, in Hani} 
County, now West Virginia, and was a child 
when his parents. James and Susan (Carr) 
Liggett, came to Delaware County. Ohio, and 
settled south of the present town of Ostrander. 
James Liggett was born in Virginia in 1770 
and died in 18(14. His wife was born in [782 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



and died in 1856. James Liggett, Solomon 
Carr and George Bean purchased 600 acre- ol 
land when they came to Delaware Count)', and 
a large part of Ostrander stands on land that 
once belonged to the Liggett heirs. James 
Liggett served irl the War of [812. His 
children were: Job, Joab, Aimer. Absolom, 
William. Amelia, Susan, Jarries, Conrad and 
I rideon. The mother of the above family was 
a devoted member of the Christian Church. 

Joab Liggett was a successful farmer and 
representative citizen. At the time of death 
he owned 256 acres. He served as trustee oi 
Concord Township, which then included a 
part of the present territory of Scioto ["own- 
ship, lie married a daughter of Solomon 
( arr, and they had the following children: 
Sarah Jane, now deceased, who married Ham- 
ilton \V. Rittenhouse; Milton, subject of this 
sketch; Henry, Joseph and Priscilla, all now 
deceased; and .Mary, who married Dr. I). C. 
Fay, residing at Ostrander. The maternal 
grandparents of the above family. Solomon 
and Priscilla (Dean) Carr. were natives of 
Virginia. The Cans were members of the 
Baptist Church. 

Milton Liggett attended the district 
schools during boyhood when work on the 
farm did not press too heavily, for at that 
time the present well-cultivated acres belong- 
ing to Mr. Liggett were in man}- parts still 
covered with native timber, and lie assisted in 
clearing and developing the place. He recalls 
when the busy town of Ostrander was a belt 
of w< odland. Mr. Liggett owns 200 acres of 
fine 'and. on which lie formerly raised grain 
and livestock, hut for some years he has rented 
■ mt both of his farms. 

Inly 3, [856, Mr. Liggett was married 
to Ann Carr, who died February 9, 1907, hav- 
ing been horn in Scioto Township April 25, 
1845, a daughter oi Gideon A. (arr. They 
had two children, Maretta A. and William. 
The former, now d< was the wife of 

Milo Howey. She left two children: Wil- 
liam Earl and Clyde 1.. William rents one of 
his lather's farms. He married Anna Mc- 
Kirgin, and they hive two children, Olgy and 
Frank. 



For a period covering thirty-six years Mr. 
Liggett has been a Mason, entering the fra- 
ternity at Marysville and demitting from Pal- 
estine Lodge, X". 1 5<S. to Ostrander Lodge. 
No. 594, of which he is one of the surviving 
charter members. He has been a member of 
the Baptist Church since 1857. his late wife 
having also been connected with this religious 
body, in which she was an active worker. Mr. 
Liggett killed the last deer that was found in 
this section, and can remember when it was no 
rare sight to see a herd of them. 




G. LYBRAND, president of the Del- 
aware Chair Company, at Delaware, 
ranks with the city's able business 
men and is identified with a number 
■ 'I the prospering enterprise- of this 
section. He was born in Pickaway County, 
( )hio, in 1845, and accompanied his parents to 
Delaware in [857, where he attended school 
until abi 'tit hj years of age. 

In 1864, Mr. Lybrand enlisted for service 
in the Civil War, entering Company G, 
Eighty-fourth Regiment. O. V. 1.. and three 
months later was elected captain of Company 
D, One Hundred and Ninety-second Regi- 
ment, O. V. 1.. and served as such 
until the close of the Rebellion. He 
participated in the Shenandoah Valley cam- 
paign, and received an honorable discharge at 
Winchester. Virginia. At this time his father 
was engaged in a stove and hardware busi- 
ness at Delaware, and Mr. Lybrand was asso- 
ciated with him until 1870. when the Dela- 
ware Chair Company was organized, the first 
president of the company being Samuel Ly- 
brand. The present officers are: R. G. Lybrand, 
president and treasurer; A. Lybrand, vice- 
president and secretary. In 1885 the com- 
pany was incorporated with $150,000 capital 
stock. The business is the manufacturing of 
all kinds of chairs and is a very large and im- 
portant industry of Delaware. Other con- 
cerns with which Mr. Lybrand is connected 
are. the Deposil Banking Company, of which 
lie is a direct"!", and the People's Building and 



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555 



Loan Company, of which he is vice-president 
and a member of the directing board. 

In 1870, Mr. Lybrand was married to 
Mary K. Ilurlbutt, of Beaver, Pennsylvania, 
and they have three children: Mary 11., who 
is the widow of Louis Welch; Blanche, who 
is the wife of George N. Bates, of New Lon- 
don, Connecticut; and Robert H., residing at 
In une. The family belong to the Episcopal 
Church. 

Politically, Mr. Lybrand is a Republican, 
and served two years as a member of the City 
Council. Fraternally he belongs to the Blue 
Lodge, \. &. F. M., and to the Chapter and 
Council, at Delaware, and the Commandery at 
Marion. He is a member of the Loyal Legion 
and of G. B. Torrence Post, G. A. R. 




\\AA AM POTTS, a substantial 
farmer and well-known citizen of 
Porter Township, residing 011 his 
farm of <jS acres, was born Au- 
gust 18. 1829. in Northumber- 
land County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of 
Charles and Mary Ann (Updyke) Potts. 

The grandparents of William Potts were 
William and Susan Potts, who moved from 
Connecticut to New Jersey during the boy- 
hood of their son Charles and remained in that 
State during the rest of their lives. Charles 
Potts was born in Connecticut in 1808 and 
lived in New Jersey until he was twenty years 
of age, when he moved to Pennsylvania. In 
1828 he married Mary Ann Updyke. and eight 
years later they removed to Ohio, settling' in 
Licking County, near Utica. They had nine 
children, namely: William, Catherine, Ben- 
jamin. Joseph, John. Daniel. Susan. Marga- 
ret, ami Mary. Five of their children were 
born in Pennsylvania and four in Ohio. The 
survivors are: Benjamin, William. Joseph, 
Daniel, and Susan (Moore). 

William Potts was a boy of eight 
when his parents came to Ohio. The first 
year was -pent with a maternal uncle livn 
Utica, and then the family moved to 



1 farm 

the father bought near Mt. Vernon, in Knox 
County. Five years later this farm was sold 



and the family removed in Delaware County, 

the father purchasing a farm mi which they 
resided for twenty-seven years. Charles Potts 
retired to Sparta after selling his farm and 
died there six months later, aged sixty-five 
years. His widow survived to the age of sev- 
enty-five years. She was born in New 7 Jersey 
in 1809. 

Mr. Potts has been a resident of Delaware 
County for the past thirty-five years and has 
owned his present farm for thirty years. He 
purchased this property from Attorneys Cur- 
tis and Irvin of Mt. Vernon, who disposed of 
it at sheriff's sale. Mr. Potts has made all 
the excellent improvements here and his build- 
ings are tasteful, substantial and attractive as 
he put them up himself, being a skilled car- 
penter. For the past twenty years he has 
given the larger part of his time to general 
farming. 

In 1853, in Knox County, Ohio, Mr. Potts 
married Malinda Spindler, who was born in 
Pennsylvania in 1830, and died in Porter 
Township April 14, 1905. She was a daugh- 
ter of John Spindler. Mr. and Mrs. Potts had 
seven children bom to them, namely: John, 
James. Mary J.. Charles, Lenna. George and 
William. John Potts was born in 1854 and 
is a carpenter by trade, residing at Columbus. 
He married Addie Pierce and they have two 
children, Verna and Coral. James Potts, born 
in Knox County in 1857, resides at Olive 
Green, Ohio. He married « Par.a M r'am.eJl and 
they have five children : Edith, Gertrude, Ad- 
die. Ray, and Hubert. Mary Jane Potts, born 
in Delaware County, in 1859, married Elmer 
Mandrel and they reside near Delaware, Ohio. 
They have two children. Alice and Howard. 
Charles Potts, born in 1861, residing in Mor- 
row County, married Hettie Chambers and 
they have the following children: Elsie, Er- 
nest, William. Belle. Fred and Mary Jane. 
Lenna Putts, burn in 1863 and George Pott-. 
burn in 1S05. both reside at home. William, 
w In 1 was burn in 1N07, died in 1908. Mr. 
Potts is a quiet, industrious, self-respecting 
citizen, one who enjoys the esteem of the com- 
munity in which he has lived for so many 
years. 



556 



HISTORY OK DELAWARE COUNTY 



D1AMES !•:. CARTER, a representative 
■ agriculturist of Troy Township, was 
born December 26, [852, in Delaware 
— I County, Ohio, and is a sun oi Hugh 
and Nancy (Cash) Carter. 

Hugh Carter, father of James E., was horn 
in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and 
was taken to Belmont County, Ohio, by his 
parents, in his childhood. He remained in 
Belmont County until after his marriage and 
the birth of two children, when he came to 
Delaware, probably about 1832. being one of 
the earliest settlers in Troy Township. He 
built a log house in the depth of the woods, 
and with his family, endured many pioneer 
hardships. He died December 25, 1887. His 
wife had passed away nine years previously, 
the date of her death being December 28, 
1878. Of their children the following sur- 
vive: William, residing in Colorado; Keziah, 
who is the widow of John Willey, residing in 
Orange Township; John H.. residing in Marl- 
borough Township; Ellen, who married James 
Armstrong, residing in Belmont County ; 
Helen, who nlarried Murray Francis, and re- 
sides at Lima, Ohio; James E., whose name 
begins this sketch; and Alice, who married 
William Ryan, of Belmont County. 

James E. Carter has devoted the larger 
part of his attention since leaving school, to 
agricultural pursuits and has made a specialty 
of growing sheep, with other stock. He owns 
109 acres of excellent land and is one of the 
township's substantial men. 

On January ,30, [879, Mr. Carter was 
married to Mary Jones, of Franklin County, 
( ►hio, and they have one daughter. Mattie F., 
residing at home. Mr. Carter and family be- 
long to Troy Chapel Methodist Episcopal 
Church, all being actively interested in its 
good work. Politically, Mr. Carter is a Re- 
publican. He has been willing to accept no 
office except that of school director, but was 
tendered the office of justice of the peace. He 
belongs to the order of Knights of Pythias, at 
I )elaware. 

The parents of Mrs. Carter were Francis 
and Mary (Bebb) Jones, both of whom were 
horn in Wales and came to Franklin County 



with the early settlers. Their three surviving 
children are: Mary (Mrs. Carter); Anna. 
who is the widow of James H. Walker, now 
residing in Delaware; and Sarah, who is the 
widow of David Davis, residing in Delaware 
Township. Mr. Carter is the only member of 
his family residing in Troy Township. 




EORGE KIRBY, one of the success- 
ful agriculturists of Delaware Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio, who is 
cultivating his fine farm of more 
than 100 acres, was born April 10. 
i860, at Batesville, Albemarle County, Vir- 
ginia, and is a son of William O. and Mary 
A. (Mayrield) Kirby. 

William O. Kirby. who was also a native 
of Albemarle County. Virginia, received a 
common school education, and being a natu- 
ral mechanic followed carpentering until the 
outbreak of the Civil War. He served four 
years in the Confederate army and after the 
close of the great struggle engaged in farm- 
ing, as the freedom of the slaves had opened 
opportunities for the individual farmer. Mr. 
Kirby was married to Mary A. Mayrield, who 
was born in 1827, and died in 1891, and they 
had a family of children as follows: James 
Henry, a resident of North Garden, Vir- 
ginia; John, who died in infancy; Nancy 
Jane, who married Joseph Mover: William 
J., of Massey*s Mills. Nelson County. Vir- 
ginia; Mary, who died at the age of twenty- 
two years; George, subject of this sketch: 
Hamilton, who lives at Scottsville, Virginia: 
Catherine, the wife of Robert Freeman, of Al- 
berene, Virginia ; and Calvin 0. 

George Kirby received a common sch<">l 
education in his native locality. On May 8. 
[884, he removed to Ostrander, Delaware 
County. Ohio, where he worked as a farmer. 
and he continued thus employed until his mar- 
riage, at which time he went to Watkins, Un- 
ion Count}'. There he farmed on his own ac- 
count until 1904, in the spring of which year 
he purchased what is known as the James K. 
Brittain farm in Delaware Township, a tract 




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AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



559 



of mure than ioo acres, eighty-five acres of 
which are under cultivation. Mr. Kirby raises 
oats, corn, wheat and hay, has a seventy-ton 
sili i. operates a small dairy and keeps from 
fifty to sixty hogs, and is considered one of 
the township's good, practical fanners. In 
political matters he is a Democrat, but he has 
never cared for public office. 

In 1802 Mr. Kirby was married to Mary 
Easton, who is the daughter of Joseph and 
Margaret Easton, and three children have 
heen born to this union — Mary Ruth, Forrest 
Fa-ton. and Paul Mayfield. Mrs. Kirby was 
b -in in Coshocton County, Ohio, to which place 
her father had emigrated at the age of sixteen 
years with an elder brother, from Essex, Eng- 
land. He subsequently followed agriculture 
near Lafayette. Mrs. Kirby is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. 




EV. A. C. CRIST. From the Herald 
inn! Presbyter, a denominational or- 
gan of the Presbyterian Church, we 
quote the following: "Prominent 
among the forces of Presbyterianism 
in Delaware is Rev. A. C Crist, who resides 
here, and who is a sort of pastor-at-large in 
Marion Presbytery. By reason of his long 
and successful pastorates at Iberia and Os- 
trander, he is well, widely, and most favorably 
kii' i\vn. As a teacher he has gained great 
prominence. The lives of hundreds of stu- 
dents have been powerfully impressed by his 
noble individuality." 

The Crist family traces hack through five 
generations in this country to three brothers; 
Johannas, Henricus and Stephanus Christus, 
natives of Alsace. Germany, who were among 
the large number of Huguenol refugees who 
came to America during the latter part of the 
17th century as a result of the revocation of 
the Edict of Nantes. They settled in Orange 
County, New York, and in course of time, the 
name became Anglicized, the "h" and the "us" 
g dropped. Henricus married Anne Bo- 
dine, a full-blooded French woman who came 
America with him. The families led the 



agricultural life of those times, and continued 
in the locality where they settled until Henry 
Crist, the grandfather of A. C, moved to the 
adjoining count)- of Sullivan. In religious 
belief they were German Lutherans. Here our 
subject's father, the third Henry in lineal de- 
scent from the original Henricus, was born 
January. 8, [81 1. He was a carpenter and 
followed his trade most of his life. He moved 
to Hocking Count), Ohio, in 1838, and resided 
there until 1848, when he took up his resi- 
dence in Union County. He cast his first 
vote for Andrew Jackson, but was a stanch 
Abolitionist, and upon the organization of the 
Republican Party he identified himself with it. 

He married Miss Marian Hollister of Sul- 
livan County, New York, whose father was a 
native of England. This union was blessed 
by a family of eleven children. Two sons, 
Abner B. and James Alfred, lost their lives 
in the Union cause during the Rebellion, and 
one son, Alexander, lost a leg and died from 
the results of the injury, a few years after his 
return home. Henry Crist and his wife were 
for many years consistent members of the 
Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Crist died Janu- 
ary 30. 1 89 1, aged seventy-six. He died Jan- 
uary 29, 1902, having only twenty-two days 
previously celebrated his ninety-first birthday. 

Rev. Asahel Clark Crist, the immediate 
subject of this sketch, was born in Hocking 
County, Ohio. April 19, 1845. tne nttn child 
of his parents. He remained at home, helping" 
to clear up the farm, until he was nineteen 
years of age, having only the advantages of 
the district school for three or four months in 
the winter season. 

During the summer of 1864. young Crist 
served in Co. 1).. 130th Keg. ( >. V. 1.. and 
entered the high school at Marysville, in the 
fall of that year. He taught a district school 
for three months during the winter. Our sub- 
ject united with the Presbyterian Church of 
Marysville, in the fall of 1805. and was taken 
under the care of the Marion Presbytery (old 
school) at Cardington, at the spring meeting 
in 1806. That summer he was employed as 
a colporteur for the Presbytery, and canvas 
all that part of the Presbytery west of tin 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Four Railroad. The following winter he 
taught a district school for three months and 
attended the high school at Marysville the re- 
mainder of the time. In July, 1867, he en- 
tered Vermillion Institute at Haysville, Ohio, 
and was graduated there in October, 1870. 
He was tutor of mathematics for two years 
of the time at Vermillion Institute, and by 
that means helped to defray his expenses. Im- 
mediately after graduating, he entered the 
Western Theological Seminar}'. During the 
junior vacation, he taught a select school at 
Worthington, Pennsylvania, for five months. 
Mr. Crist was licensed to preach at Liberty 
Church, Marion Presbytery, at the spring 
meeting, 1872, and supplied Brown, Kingston, 
and Porter churches that summer. 

Mr. Crist was graduated at Western 
Theological Seminary, April, 1873, and im- 
mediately took charge of Brown, Kingston 
and Porter churches, living at Eden. He was 
ordained at Trenton Church, April 23, 1874. 
In 1875 ' le dropped Kingston and Porter, and 
supplied Berlin and Brown until June, 1876. 
During this time the church at Berlin was re- 
built. He also supplied Ashley, in the even- 
ing, for three months in the winter of 1875. 
Me taught a select school much of the time, 
during his residence at Eden, thus supplement- 
ing his salary. 

In the spring of 1876 lie was elected as 
Professor of Languages in the Ohio Central 
College, at Iberia, Ohio, and removed there 
the 13th of August. In the spring of 1877, 
Mr. Crist took charge of the Presbyterian 
Church at Iberia in addition to his work of 
instruction at the college. This pastoral re- 
lation continued for twelve years. For about 
live years of this time, lie supplied the pulpit 
al Caledonia, Ohio, in the afternoons. In 
March. [889, he took charge of the church at 
( (strander, being installed there in the first 
week in March, and in connection with the 
work of tins pastorate supplied Providence 
and Jerome. This relation continued until 
September 13, 1897. when it was dissolved. 

(in August 21, [872, Mr. Prist was mar- 
ried to Lovina II.. daughter of James Pocock. 
While living at Eden, two children were born 



to Mr. and Mrs. Crist — Bessie and Henry 
Mickliff. Bessie, a bright, lovely girl, died 
December 10, 1894, in the twenty-first year 
of her age. Henry Wickliff, born November 
19. 1873, was a graduate from Wooster Uni- 
versity in 1897, after which he studied law 
with James R. Lytle. Esq., of Delaware, and 
was admitted to the bar on December 7, 1900. 
He is one of the able and prominent young 
attorneys of Delaware, and is now ( 1908) 
campleting a term of three years as a member 
of the General Assembly. It may be said' that 
he has done more and better work as a repre- 
sentative than an}- man of this count}" who has 
had the office in recent years. 

The only fraternal order with which the 
subject of this sketch is connected is the 
George B. Torrence Post, No. 60, ( '•. A. R., of 
Delaware. When he was located at ( >s- 
trander, he served as commander of the Jo- 
seph Tanner Post of that town. 

Probably no clergyman of any denomina- 
tion in Delaware has such a wide personal 
acquaintance with the citizens of this count}'. 
To quote again from the Herald and Presby- 
ter, "Every Sabbath finds him actively en- 
gaged in the Master's service, filling some va- 
cancy, encouraging some weak church, or 
starting some new enterprise. Mr. Crist P 
a man of high intellectual attainments, and is 
possessed of rare social qualities." 




DAM SIEGFRIED, agent for the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at 
Delaware, was born in Delaware 
Township, Delaware County; Ohio, 
March 23, 1837, and is a son of Wil- 
liam and Susan ( Swartz ) Siegfried. 

The grandparents of Mr. Siegfried came 
to Ohio from Pennsylvania, in 1827. They 
were Jacob and Elizabeth (Lantz) Siegfried. 
both of whom were members of well-known 
old German families of Berks and Northamp- 
ton Counties. Jacob Siegfried located first 
at Stratford, in Delaware County, but in a 
few years he moved to a point north of the 
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a short time. He died prior to 1848. aged 
fifty-six years. His eight children were: 
Angeline; William; Catherine, who married 
Ephraim Willy; Sallie; Rebecca; Samuel; 
[saac, who was blind from the age of eleven 
years, was a broom-maker by trade and a nat- 
ural musician; and Benjamin, who removed 
from his farm north of Delaware to Colum- 
bus, where he died. He married Harriet 
Willy. Of the above family several never 
married and all have passed away with the ex- 
ception of Angeline, the first-born. She mar- 
ried John Troutman and resides in Troy 
Township, having reached the age of eighty- 
six years. 

William Siegfried, father of Adam, was 
horn in Berks County, Pennsylvania, January 
6, 1822, and was five years old when he ac- 
companied his parents to Ohio. In November, 
[848, he was married to Susan Swartz, who 
was born October 17. 18.29. in Lehigh 
1 1 nut v. Pennsylvania, and died August 31, 
1905. She was a daughter of Daniel and Sa- 
rah 1 Smith 1 Swartz. Daniel Swartz brought 
his family to Ohio in [835, settling first in 
Fairfield County. Conditions there did not alto- 
gether please him and he left his family there 
while he came on a prospecting tour through 
Delaware County, covering the distance on 
horseback. He found two tracts of land lo- 
cated one and one-half miles north of Dela- 
ware, which met his requirements, and these 
he secured, and in 1836 brought his family to 
Delaware Township. At that time the land 
was all heavily timbered. He cleared it and 
made most of the substantial improvements. 
In 1849 he built a stone barn which still 
stands, and which, at the time of its erection, 
was the finest in the county. He also built a 
residence, which his son-in-law, William Sieg- 
fried, replaced, in 1876. with a fine brick 
house. Daniel Swartz died in 1870. aged sev- 
enty-seven years. His widow survived him 
seven years and was seventy-seven years old 
at that time. They had five children, namely : 
Susan M., the mother of Adam Siegfried; 
Daniel, who died in Delaware County; Ellen, 
who married Lewis Graham, and lived ami 
died in Marlborough Township; Caroline, 



who married Daniel Miller, and died at Dela- 
ware; and Elizabeth, who married Thomas 
Slough, and died on the old homestead. Dan- 
iel Swartz had 240 acres of land in his two 
farms, and this was considered the finest piece 
of agricultural property in Delaware Town- 
ship. 

William Siegfried took charge of the old 
tavern on the Marion turnpike, north of Del- 
aware, which he conducted for two and a half 
years and then bought a farm adjoining that 
property, on which he resided from 1852 un- 
til the death of his father-in-law. Daniel 
Swartz. He settled on the Swartz farm in 
1871 and resided there until his death, wl ich 
occurred May 0, 181)9. He and his wife had 
seven children, as follows; Three daughters, 
all of whom died in infancy: Adam, the direct 
subject of this sketch; Samuel, born May 5, 
1861, who married Martha Thomas, and re- 
sides on his fine farm north of Delaware; Wil- 
mer, born in 1804, who married Gwendolyn 
Hudson, and now owns his father's first farm 
and also the farm adjoining the old tavern 
property; Charles, born in [869, who resides 
in Delaware, having sold his farm and in- 
vested in city realty, and who married Mary 
Gross. 

Adam Siegfried attended the district 
school, the sessions of which were held in the 
old stone school-house, north of Delaware. 
He continued to work on the home farm until 
he was twenty-two years of age, when he 
married. He then farmed for several years 
more in Delaware County, but in 1883. he 
moved to Omaha, Nebraska, in which city he 
resided for two years, being employed as a 
shipping clerk in a lumber yard. His next 
move was to Lincoln, in the same State, where 
he remained until the fall of 1885, when he 
returned to Delaware. He now remained on 
his father's farm until 1891. when he em- 
barked in a livery business at Delaware, which 
he conducted for eighteen months. In [893, 
Mr. Siegfried went to work for the Columbus 
& Sandusky Short Line Railroad and contin- 
ued as one of its employes after it became a 
part of the Pennsylvania system, in 1903. He 
has now maintained this connection for lift ten 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



years. He entered the railroad business as a 
freight hand and baggage man and has been 
steadily advanced to his present responsible 
position as passenger and freight agent at Del- 
aware. For fourteen years. Air. Siegfried re- 
mained at his post without a single day of ab- 
sence. His fidelity was recognized by the 
company, which, in the summer of 1907. not 
only gave him a vacation but presented him 
with a pass over all its eastern lines. He thor- 
oughly enjoyed this period of recreation but, 
like the excellent business man that he is, was 
ready to return to his routine work when the 
vacation expired. 

In 1880. Mr. Siegfried was married 
(first) ti> Maria Stimmel, who was a daugh- 
ter 'if John and llettie Ann Stimmel. They 
had one son, John, who was reared mainly in 
1 )elaware County and became a clerk in the 
freight department of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road at Delaware. He was popular with his 
employers and associates and was a valued 
member of Hiram Lodge, No. 18, F. & A. M., 
at Delaware. Ili> death took place February 
1 _'. 1906, when he was aged twenty-four 
years. He was buried with .Masonic honors, 
fr< 111 the Masonic Temple at Delaware. 

Mr. Siegfried was married secondly to Ida 

is, in October, iK<j_\ She was reared west 
of Delaware and is a daughter of David and 
Sarah Davis. Of this union there are two 
children. Paul I', ami Ruth Helen, aged four- 
teen and eleven years, respectively. 

In politics, Mr. Siegfried, like his father, 
always been identified with the Demo- 
cratic party. The elder Mr. Siegfried was a 
stanch supporter of iis policies through the 
greater part of his life and on man\' occasions 

- elected to political office. In [874 he was 

ted county commissioner of Delaware 

County ami served in that capacity for three 

3, In- election taking place when the 

it) had an adverse majority of 600. Adam 

2 fried has been equally successful in 
overcoming the normal Republican plu- 
rality. In [907 he was elected a mem- 
of the City Council of Delaware. 
coming the regular majority ..f 200 
in the city, and in [89] was made 



the Democratic nominee for sheriff and came 
within three votes of being elected to this of- 
fice. He is a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 
18, F. & A. M. He is a man who stands very 
high in the esteem of his fellow-citizens, one 
whose business capacity and personal integ- 
rity are universally recognized. 




;0L. JACOB AYRES, now 

tired on his farm of 58 acres, a 
valuable tract of land which is sit- 
uated in Scioto Township, has many 
valid claims to the respect of his fel- 
low-citizens. Colonel Ayres was born in Pick- 
away County. Ohio, March 1 _\ 1841, and is 
a son of Isaac and Catherine (Freese) Ayres. 
Isaac Ayres was born in 1810, at Harris- 
burg, Pennsylvania, and died in Delaware 
County, Ohio, in 1872. He learned the 
blacksmith's trade in York County, Pennsyl- 
vania, which he followed more or less 
throughout the entire period of his industrial 
life. When he reached the age of twenty-one 
years he started on foot and crossed the moun- 
tains into Ohio, 'settling first in Pickaway 
County, where he married. He remained there 
until after the birth of five children, when he 
came to Delaware County, locating near Bell- 
point, where he acquired a small farm, the op- 
erating of which was largely left to his son-,. 
He was a man of sterling character and fre- 
quently was invited to accept political office 
but consistently refused. He was married 
shortly after coming to Ohio, to Catherine 
Freese, who was born in 1814, and died' in 
1848. She was a daughter of Rev. Isaac 
Freese. a minister of the German United 
Brethren faith. He was born and married in 
Germany and after coming to America settled 
first in Pickaway County, but subsequently 
moved to Bellpoint, where he conducted relig- 
ious services in both the German and English 
languages. The children born to Isaac Ayres 
and his wife were: John, who died in the 
service of his country, following the battle of 
Perryville, Kentucky, as a member of Com- 
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Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Ellen L., now cle- 
ceased, who married Royal Edwards; Andrew, 
who died in early manhood; Martha, who is 
deceased; Catherine, deceased, who married 
David Hamilton; Sarah, also deceased, who 
married Frank Speese; Jacob, subject of this 
article ; Abraham, who resides in Concord 
Township; Hester Flora, who married John 
Fuller, and resides at Roann, Indiana; Isaac, 
and one child unnamed that died in infancy. 
Both parents were very active church workers. 

Jacob Ayres lived at home until his 
mother's death, and attended what was called 
the Haney School at Bellpoint. Until 1858 he 
resided with Green Xeff, at Berlin Station, 
and then, coming to Delaware, learned the 
carpenter's trade with Henry Robinson and 
( 10 irge Perry. He continued to work as a 
carpenter until he enlisted in the Federal 
Army, on February 1, 1862. He became a 
member of Company 1. Eighty-second Regi- 
ment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was 
sent to Grafton. West Virginia, thence to 
Moorefield and later to McDowell, Virginia, 
where the Union forces were defeated May 8, 
1862, and retreated to Moorefield. Here 
they were reinforced by General Fremont and 
then crossed the mountains to Strasburg, 
where they defeated General Jackson's forces 
and drove him up the valley to Uarrisburg. 
< ',( -mpany I then fell back to Middletown, and 
from there went to Culpeper Court House to 
reinforce General Banks, going thence to the 
banks of the Rapidan River under General 
Sickles. At this point, the force with which 
I olonel Ayres was connected, being notified 
of General Lee's advance, began a retreat to 
Culpeper Court House. They subsequently 
fought in the .second battle of Bull Run, un- 
der General Pope, and after the defeat fell 
back to Washington. The corps was left at 
Arlington Heights to recruit, while the re- 
mainder of the army went to lake part in the 
battle of Antietam, as a part of the forces un- 
I leneral McClellan. 

After that battle the Eighty-second Regi- 
ment was united with the Army of tin- Poto 
mac and later took part in the battle of Chan- 
cellorville under General Hooker. After his 



defeat they crossed the Rappahannock River 
and encamped in the Stafford Hills until Gen- 
eral Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania. The 
regiment then broke camp and followed the 
Confederate forces into Maryland, and thence 
to Gettysburg. There, under Generals Rey- 
nolds and Howard, the Eighty-second took 
part in the first day's engagement. In relat- 
ing the subsequent movements at Gettysburg, 
Colonel Ayres' own vivid description may be 
used to give a clear idea to the reader. 

"At four o'clock in the afternoon we re- 
treated to the village of Gettysburg and our 
lines were re-established by General Hancock 
and formed in line of battle around Cemetery 
Hill. The right wing stationed upon Culp's 
Hill was known as the Twelfth Corps and was 
under General Slocum. and the Eleventh 
Corps, under General Howard, joined the left 
of the Twelfth and extended around the horse- 
shoe bend of Cemetery Hill. The First Corps, 
under General Newton, joined the left of the 
Eleventh Corps and extended around the foot 
of Cemetery Hill, to the Second Corps under 
General Hancock and joined the left of the 
First Corps and extended on down Cemetery, 
Ridge and was joined on the left of the Sec- 
ond Corps by General Sickles with the Third 
Corps that extended down to Big and Little 
Round Top. That position was held by each 
corps until the close of the following engage- 
ment. The second day opened upon the ex- 
treme left at three o'clock by General Long- 
street of the Confederates against Generals 
Sickles and Hancock, and at eight o'clock 
Ewell's Corps of the Confederate army moved 
in upon the Union right and took the first 
two lines of the Union works, this closing the 
engagement of the second day. At the coun- 
cil of the generals it was decided to open 
against Ewell's corps as quick as they could 
discern an object in the morning. Slocum be- 
ing re-enforced. The attack opened early in 
the morning upon Culp's Hill, and the Union 
position was re-established, the battle closing 
at eleven o'clock in favor of the Union forces. 
At 1 40 p. m. the artillery duel opened the 
advance of Pickett's charge, which immedi- 
ately followed, and the Federal army was 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



again victorious. The next day the scouts ad- 
vanced and found that Lee was making ar- 
rangements to retire, having withdraw 11 
Ewelfs corps from the front of Culp's Hill, 
and subsequently the Union army followed 
Lee for one day, being then drawn hack to 
Frederick City, and thence to Funkstown, 
where they remained in line of battle until Lee 
crossed the river. The Union army then 
marched across the river again into Virginia 
and hack to Bull Run battle-field, where the 
Eleventh and Twelfth Corps were detached 
from the Army of the Potomac and sent to 
re-enforce Rosecrans of the Army of the Cum- 
berland. On the 27th they started from 
Bridgeport, crossed the Tennessee River, 
struck the Trenton Valley at the foot of Look- 
out Mountain, and at three o'clock in the af- 
ternoon, being the advance scout (having 
been detailed as a regular scout under Gen- 
eral ( ). ( ). Howard in May. [863). 1 was 
wounded at the junction of the railroad where 
it passes around the mountain to Chattanooga 
and remained there until January 23, when I 
was furloughed from the hospital and went 
In ime. 1 returned from there to Camp Chase. 
Columbus, Ohio, and from there was dis- 
charged for a gun-shot wound in my right 
hip." In the limits of the present biography, 
it would be impossible to give any adequate 
account of the dangers, adventures and thrill- 
ing escapes of Colonel Ayres, for, as a scout, 
his was always the post of danger, the one 
where hazard was the greatest, and for this 
dangerous work only men of unflinching cour- 
age were selected. Colonel Ayres has a war 
record that should be preserved entire for it is 
one to which his descendants can refer with 
feelings of pride in years to come. In the heat 
of battle, or in making his way cautiously to 
watch the movements of the enemy in advance 
of the army, or in carrying a message through 
unfriendly territory. Colonel Ayres had sev- 
eral Imrses shot from under him, and on one 
occasion he ran a horse to death in making his 
escape from his captors. On another occasion 
he was taken prisoner in the Shenandoah Val- 
ley, and as rain was falling as it does fall only 
in Virginia, and the roads were such as only 



Virginia can produce after such a rain, the 
officers of the capturing part) - decided that 
they would camp for the night in an old log 
cabin in a lonely spot, picketing their horses 
and taking their saddles and equipments 
within the cabin. There were fifteen Confed- 
erates in the party guarding Colonel Ayres. hut 
that did not prevent the alert Union officer 
from managing to get next to the door when 
the tired part_\- lay down around the room to 
sleep. All were worn out and all fell asleep 
except the prisoner, who managed to slip out 
of the door without arousing them, and catch 
the halter strap on one of the picketed horses; 
and while lightning flashed and thunder 
rolled, a Union officer Was wildly galloping 
bare-hacked in the direction of liberty which 
was fifteen miles distant. Pursuit was con- 
tinued for almost the whole distance to the 
Union lines, the pursuers sometimes being -1 1 
close that bullets whistled by the colonel's ears. 
Fortunately he knew the men on picket duty 
when he reached the Union forces and with 
the cry. "A friend in trouble and the enemy 
coining." he dashed by and fell exhausted in 
the arms of his comrades. This thrilling ex- 
perience was more than once almost duplicated 
by him and its recital enables the reader in 
these peaceful times to appreciate the nerve 
ami valor of those who fought in the great 
struggle of 1861-65. 

Colonel Ayres was married to Mary P. 
Rhoades. who was horn June 30. 1840. a 
daughter of Valentine Rhoades of Scioto 
Township, and who died March 9, 1907. leav- 
ing behind a sweet and gracious memory. She 
was a woman of many Christian virtues, one 
who bore years of suffering with patience and 
fortitude. There were four children born to 
this union, namely: John J., who is an auc- 
tioneer and carpenter; William A., who man- 
ages the home farm: Rosa Mary, who is the 
wife of Oliver Owens, of Radnor ; and George 
E.. who resides in Thompson Township. Col- 
onel Ayres has fourteen grandchildren. 

After his marriage Colonel Ayres settled 
in School District No. 1 1, Scioto Township, 
in which he has lived ever since, and where he 
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In 1870 he settled on his present farm and for 
twelve years followed carpenter work. In 
[875 he began auctioneering', in which occu- 
pation he continued for many years, being the 
oldest living member of that craft in this sec- 
tion. Although reared in a Democratic fam- 
ily, he is a stanch Republican. He has served 
Scioto Township as a trustee on many occa- 
sions and has been elected when the Demo- 
cratic normal majority has been 100. He is 
a member of Edinburg Lodge, No. 467, I. O. 
O. F.. at Ostrander, being past grand of the 
same, and belongs to Tanner Post, Grand 
Army of the Republic, at Ostrander. For a 
considerable period he lectured through Ohio, 
Indiana and Michigan on the subject of a Un- 
ion ScoutV Personal Knowledge of the Battle 
of Gettysburg, and everywhere his vivid story r 
\\a^ listened to with interest and benefit. 




AMES WILLIAM JACKSON, gen- 
eral farmer and well-known citizen ol 
Scioto Township, was born in Fau- 
quier County, Virginia, November 10, 
[853, and is a son of John S. and 
Dorothy Ann (Wilkins) Jackson. 

The father of Air. Jackson was also a 
native of Fauquier County, Virginia. He was 
a cooper by trade but after coming to Ohio in 
1 S 5 7 , he followed general farming and the 
raising of livestock. The first year after com- 
ing to Scioto Township, John S. Jackson re- 
sided at what is now called Eagleville. He 
died at the age of sixty-one years. He mar- 
ried Dorothy Ann Wilkins. who was also a 
native of Virginia. Her death took place when 
she was sixty-two years old. They had the 
following children: George T., now residing 
in Nebraska: John S., a resident of Montana: 
Medora, who married Asa Franklin; Virginia 
1 ; .. now deceased, who was the wife of Perry 
Erwin, of Berlin Township: James William, 
subject of this sketch: and Richard H. L.. re- 
siding in Scioto Township. Both parents died 
in [876. They were held in high esteem in 
their community and were valued members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For over 



twelve years John S. Jackson was a justice of 
the peace. 

James William Jackson remained on the 
home farm until his marriage, and then moved 
to Rush Township, Champaign County, where 
he was engaged in farming" for four sears. 
He then resided in New Dover, Union 
County, for a few years, and later in Jack -on 
Township, Union County, thence going to Lit- 
tle Prairie Township, Marion County, and later 
again to Jackson Township. He then settled on 
the old Bird farm in Scioto Township, which 
he continued to operate for six years. In [900, 
he came to his present farm, which contains 
fifty-five acres, forty of which he has under a 
fine state of cultivation. He raises stock, 
making a specialty of hogs, and grows , m , 
oats, wheat and hay. November 11. [880, 
Mr. Jackson married Mary Bird, who is a 
daughter of Abner Johnson and Catherine 
(Newhouse) Bird. On both sides Mr. Jack- 
son belongs to prominent and substantial old 
families of this section. Her mother. Cath- 
erine Newhouse. born January 22. [831, in 
Scioto Township, was married to Abner John- 
son Bird, August 14, [856, and died January 
5- 1885. 

She (Catherine) was a daughter oi Wil- 
liam Newhouse. who was born in Pickaway 
County, Ohio, March 11, 1800, and came with 
his parents to Delaware County in May. 1814. 
On January 6, 1823. he married Annie 
Richey. who was a daughter of William 
Richey. They settled on the banks of a river 
near Bellpoint, later moved to Union County 
but subsequently returned to Delaware County 
and settled on the farm now owned by John 
R. Newhouse. in Scioto Township. They had 
eleven children: Mary K.. David Emery, 
Belinda. John R., Catherine, Nancy Jane, 
Adam. Joseph, William Lafayette. James H., 
and Isaac. William Newhouse died December 
6, 1842. He served as township trustee. He 
possessed mechanical genius, but followed agri- 
culture as his life occupation. He constructed 
the first wagon ever made in this section and 
made many articles of household furniture. 

Anthony Newhouse. father of William, 
was born in London County, Virginia, Feb- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



ruary 10, 1772. He was about four years old 
when his father enlisted for service in the 
Revolutionary war. When he was eight his 
father died in the army, and Anthony re- 
mained with his widowed mother and assisted 
her in rearing the family. In 1794 he offered 
his services to suppress what is known in his- 
tory as the Whiskey Rebellion, and remained 
in the military service for six months, going 
as far as Fort Pitt, and afterwards returning 
to Loudon County. In [798 be went to 
Wheeling. West Virginia, where be remained 
for six months, thence going to an old red 
stone fort, the locality being now in Fayette 
County. Pennsylvania. There be met Nancy 
1 ms, to whom he was married March 28, 
[799. From there, with bis father-in-law, 
John Coons and family, and Henry More, he 
moved to Pickaway County. Ohio, this being 
in the early part of 1800, and settled on Scipio 
Creek, in Salt Creek Township. The place he 
ch"<e was one which the Indians bad cleared 
and somewhat cultivated, but the surround- 
ings were still wild in a large degree. The 
nearest settlements were Chillicothe and Lan- 
caster, the former thirteen and the latter 



eighteen miles distant. 



The little band of 



settlers constructed cabins close together on 
the banks of Scipio Creek, with an eye to pro 
'ii from the Indians, who were almost 
daily visitors. At this time the country was 
yet unsurveyed, all of it being Government 
land. The settlers subsisted on corn brought 
on horseback from Marietta, together with 
game which was plentiful. As there were no 
mills, native ingenuity bad to fashion do- 
me-tic utensils to take the place of that almost 
necessary concomitant of civilization. What 
was called a mortar was made out of a sawed- 
off piece of log. eighteen inches in diameter 
and two feet long. An iron wedge was 
fastened on a strong stick, sometimes on a 
well-sweep, and the corn was pounded by this 
force in the scooped out end of the log until 
it was fa ivly reduced to meal, which was then 

led with a turkey win- until it was reason- 
ably clear of chaff. It was then converted into 

• \ and was the staff of life on which our 

. er fi irefathers were fed. 



In 1 81 2, Anthony Newhouse enlisted from 
Pickaway County, in John Boggs' company, 
under, command of General Tupper. and they 
proceeded to Fort Defiance, to repulse the In- 
dians. One night, while they were on the 
way. they were surprised by a band of Indians, 
one of whom struck Anthony Newdiouse's 
horse on the thigh, making a deep, bad 
wound. The poor animal made its way back 
to Pickaway County on three legs. Mr. New- 
house was discharged at LJrbana, Ohio. In 
January. 18 14, be sold his farm of 160 acres 
in Pickaway County and bought 200 acres in 
Seioto Township from Henry Massie, of 
Chillicothe, paying two dollars an acre. His 
first journey to this section was made under 
very uncomfortable circumstances, involving 
the fording of Mill Creek in cold weather, and 
the consequent freezing of his clothes on his 
body. In the following May he started back 
ti 1 Scioto Township, accompanied by his fam- 
ily, and bringing with him three cattle and 
three horses. Some of the descendants of these 
transferred live stock are now owned by John 
R. Newhouse. 

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson are 
three in number — Lenna Fay, Strother Bird 
and James Arthur. Mrs. Jackson was reared 
in the Presbyterian Church and she is an active 
member of the old stone church of South Rad- 
nor. Mr. Jackson takes no very active in- 
terest in politics, although he votes as bis 
lather did, with the Democratic party, but he 
is ever ready to perform all the duties of a 




HOMAS OWENS, a well known 
prosperous farmer and a survivor of 
the Civil War, resides on a valuable, 
well improved farm of 100 acres in 
Radnor Township. Delaware County, 

< Ihio. Mr. Owens was born October 1. 1845. 

in South Wales, and is a son of David and 

Elizabeth (Griffiths) Owens, who were natives 

of North Wales. 

Thomas Owens lived in his native country 

until reaching his eighteenth year, at which 




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time he emigrated to America, leaving Wales 
.May 1. [863, and taking passage at Liverpool 
on the ship City of New York, of the Inman 
line, which arrived at New York City in about 
eleven days. He came immediately to Ohio, 
locating for a short time at Marion, whence 
he came to Delaware County, and engaged in 
the lime business at Radnor, where he re- 
mained for several years. He then returned 
to Marion, near which place he carried on the 
same business for a number of years, but sub- 
sequently came again to Radnor Township, 
where he has since made his home. For a 
short time he was engaged in the manufacture 
of lime, but he has mainly followed agricul- 
ture, and his present farm is, through fertilty 
of the soil and advantageous location, admir- 
ably suited for general farming and stock- 
raising. He has been very successful in his 
operations and is classed with the substantial 
men of the township. He enlisted in May, 
1864, in Company A, One Hundred and 
Forty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infan- 
try, for service in the Civil War, and much 
of his time in the service was spent in guard 
duty at Arlington Heights. He received an 
honorable discharge at Camp Chase. August 
24, 1864. 

Mr. Owens was married (first) to Ann 
Williams, who was born in Wales, and of this 
union there was born one son : Oliver Ivor, 
who resides in Radnor Township. He mar- 
red Rosa Avers, and they have four children — 
Lloyd, Clyde, Myrtle' and Mildred. Mr. 
Owens was married secondly to Mrs. Rebecca 
Lewis, who was born in Wales, and she is also 
deceased. On March 8, 1900 Mr. Owens mar- 
ried for his third wife Mrs. Clara Thomas, 
who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and who is 
a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Jester) 
Johnson, who were natives of Butler County, 
Ohio. Samuel Johnson was a well-known 
hotel proprietor in his day, at one time keep- 
ing the Burnett House at Cincinnati, where 
King Edward of England, then the Prince of 
Wales, stayed during his tour of this country. 
Mrs. Owens' first husband was Samuel P. 
Thomas, who was born in Kentucky and died 
August 2, 1899. 



In political matters Mr. Owens is a Re- 
publican, and he has always been interested 
111 public affairs, although he is no office- 
seeker. With his wife he attends the Con- 
gregational Church in the southern part of 
Radnor Township. 




ILLIAM W. JONES. Radnor 
Township can boast of many good 
farms and representative men, 
and both may lie found respectivelv 
in the property and person of Wil- 
liam W. Jones, who owns a finely-cultivated 
estate of 265 acres. Mr. Jones is one of the 
township's native-born older citizens, his birth 
having occurred November 4, 1825. He is 
a son of John P. and Mary (Penry) Jones. 
The parents of Mr. Jones were born in 
Wales and came to America in 18 18, bring- 
ing with them three children. They came as 
far west as Delaware County, Ohio, the father 
purchasing a wild farm in Radnor Township. 
The family had few neighbors at that time, as 
this section was only partially settled. John 
P. Jones was one of the useful and hardy set- 
tlers of pioneer days, and he continued to be 
respected and esteemed until his death, which 
took place in 1864. 

William W. Jones was born and reared 
in Radnor Township and obtained his early 
know ledge of books in the old-time log school- 
house near his father's farm. He grew to 
manhood strong and sturdy, from the hard 
discipline of clearing the land and putting it 
under cultivation, and he has since continued 
to follow agriculture. During the progress of 
the Civil War be took a deep interest in public 
matters and when the call came for ioo-d:u 
men, in May, 1864, he went out with Company 
A, One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment. 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was sent to 
Arlington Heights on guard duty. He was 
in the service 115 days and was mustered 
out in August, 1864. He is a member of the 
Grand Army of the Republic, and is connected 
with the post at Prospect. 

On March 2$. 1852, Mr. Jones was mar- 



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ried to Eleanor Evans, who was born in 
Wales, August 15, 1829. She is a daughter of 
John and Margaret (Jones) Evans, who came 
from Wales when she was in her third year. 
They settled first at Philadelphia, later lived 
at Pittsburg for a short time and then came 
to Delaware County. She was still small 
when they settled in Radnor Township, where 
both parents died. Mrs. Jones has one brother 
and nne sister, namely: John Evans, residing 
in Scioto Township, and Elizabeth, who mar- 
ried lames R. McKinney, late of Delaware. 
Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have six surviving 
children: Margaret A., who married Evan 
Price, residing in Radnor Township, namely. 
John 1'. and Frank C, both residents of Rad- 
nor Township; Mary P.. who married David 

P. Pritchard, residing at Richw 1. Ohio; 

Charles l\. residing in Radnor Township; and 
Ella, who married Perry J. Griffiths, and re- 
side- ai Radnor Station.- Delaware County. 
Mr. Jones is a stanch Republican and takes 
rable interest in public affairs as lie- 
come- an intelligent citizen. For a number 
of years he served as trustee of Radnor Town- 
ship, and has acceptably filled other township 
offices. Mrs. Junes belongs to the Baptist 
Church of Radnor Township. They are well 
known and very highly esteemed residents of 
this section. 




[RISTOPHER POTTER, a repre- 
sentative citizen of Delaware, was 
born in County Meath, Ireland, 
March 27, [831, and is a sun of 
John and Mary 1 Lynch) Potter. In 
Ireland, John Putter was considered a man of 
some little means and il was not with the 
thought of increasing his own wealth that he 
came with lus Family in America, in 1844. hut 
with the hope that in this country his children 
might find easier conditions and better oppor- 
tunities than prevailed in his own land, lie 
disco ered, however, as did many another e 

I that the 1 ipital broughl so c< nfidently 
from the old home soon melted away, in pro- 
viding for a hundred unforseen wants. He 



found after locating at Utica, Xew York, that 
he was nut able to care as thoroughly for his 
family as heretofore, and that his elder sons 
would have to become self-supporting and help 
to provide also for the younger members of 
the family. He bought a small farm in West- 
moreland Township, Oneida County, New 
York, and settling on it devoted the rest of 
his life to its cultivation, lie died in the fall 
of 1 8 5 _» , at the age of sixty-five years. His 
wife died in October, 1849, aged fifty-two. 
Their second son, James, died in Ireland, in 
[843, while serving an apprenticeship to the 
blacksmith trade. The oldest of the family, 
William, learned the carpenter's trade and 
worked in Westmoreland, New York, where 
he died in 1848. He married Bridget Devoe. 

The other children of John Potter and wife 
were: Ann. John, Christopher, Nicholas, 
Mark. Francis and Stephen. Ann Potter mar- 
ried Nicholas Walsh and accompanied him to 
Rome, Xew York, where he had a position as 
foreman on a boat in the service of the State, 
lie probably met an accidental death as his 
lifeless body was found in the sand after he 
had been absent from home for an unusual 
time. He left one child and his widow with 
her babe came to Delaware County with Mrs. 
Walsh's brother John, taking up their resi- 
dence in a house owned by Christopher Potter. 
opposite The Children's Home. John Potter 
subsequently married and then bought prop- 
erty on Central Avenue, Delaware, on which 
he built a residence, and his death occurred in 
March, 1907. Mrs. Walsh, who is now over 
eighty years of age, makes her home with a 
nephew. John Putter is survived by a son, 
Frank Potter, who is employed by the Big 
Four Railroad as baggage master. 

Nicholas Putter resided on the home farm 
until his father died, when he came to Dela- 
ware. Ohio. After ti\-e years of railroad work 
lie bought a farm in Troy Township, Delaware 
County, un which he lived some seven years, 
when he sold out and moved to Columbus. He 
married Rosa Dunn, who died in 1891, and 
they had four daughters and four sons. One 
of his suns went to the EClondyke gold regions. 
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railroad entering Columbus and one is a sta- 
tionary engineer. Mark Potter also secured a 
railroad position, being walking foreman for 
a long period, for the Big Four Railroad, be- 
tween Columbus and Lewis Center, Ohio, He 
never married. He died at Columbus, where 
he was first interred, but in 1907, his brother 
Christopher had his body brought to Dela- 
w are. 

Francis Potter resided with his brother 
Christopher until 1S5N. when he went to Se- 
dalia. Illinois, where he was living when the 
Civil War broke out, being engaged as a con- 
tractor on the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy 
Railroad. He immediately enlisted in the 
Federal Army and served three months and 
then re-enlisted for three year-, but was taken 
ill and refused hospital care, dying in the 
service, in the hrst year of the war. He held 
the rank of corporal. 

Stephen Potter remained at home with his 
father until the latter's death and then joined 
his brother at Dresden, where he learned the 

ier's trade. Later he came to Ohio, where 
hi- brother Christopher extended to him a 
helping hand, securing him a railroad position. 
After frequent promotions, he was made yard- 
master and thus continued until he was ap- 
pointed postmaster of Delaware, by President 
Cleveland, during the latter"s second adminis- 
tration. Since retiring as postmaster, he has 
twice been elected count}' commissioner of 
Delaware County, largely on account of his 
persona] popularity, he being a Democrat and 
the county being normally Republican by a 
majority of 600 votes. Stephen Potter mar- 
ried Ellen Oualey. and they have one son. who 
1- chief clerk at Little Rock. Arkansas, for the 
Iron Mountain Railroad. He married and 
hi- one son is employed in the office of the 
locomotive department, being chief clerk for 
the chief engineer of the Iron Mountain Rail- 
way system. He also secured his position 
through the g 1 office- of Christopher Putter. 

Christopher Potter came to Ohio in the 
spring of 1851, locating first in the city of 

eland. He came to find work and it was 
characteristic of the boy. as it later was of the 
man, to find what he sought. He wa- soon 



lured to check dff pork and beef, for a -alary 
of $14 a month, shortly afterward finding an 
easier position at the same salary with George 
Nichols, near Elyria, and from there he went 
to Detroit, Michigan. In the meantime he had 
married and shortly afterward he secured a 
situation as section foreman on the Lake 
Sin ire Railroad, his first work being on the 
construction of the line. Starting as section 
boss with a salar) of $36 a month, he was soon 
atter made conductor of a construction train. 
From railroad work Mr. Putter turned his 
attention t< > investing in land, this being just 
the time when agents for Nebraska land were 
visiting prosperous communities in the East. 
Air. Potter invested some of his hard-earned 
money in a land claim and traveled many miles 
and lived on deer and corn pone in order to 
reach it. When he finally found it he dis- 
covered that it was occupied by a family of 
squatters. The question of ownership was 
amicably adjusted, however, the squatters pay- 
ing for the claim, and he set out on foot on his 
return journey, meeting on his way with many 
adventures. 

After his return to Ohio he resumed work 
for the Lake Shore Railroad, receiving $60 
a month, and he continued thus occupied for 
some years. In 1857 he purchased a farm in 
Lorain County. Ohio, which he subsequently 
sold, buying other property. In 1858 he went 
to Cleveland and became fireman on the Lake 
Shore road. After his second marrage in the 
following year, he moved with his wife to 
Lewis Center, and in the spring of i860, for a 
short time, resided in Delaware, but in the 
same year he returned to Lewis Center, near 
which he bought a farm of eighty acres, dur- 
ing all this time retaining his position on the 
railroad. At the beginning of the Civil War 
he worked a large force of men, engaged in 
purchasing Land and chopping wood. In 1870 
he returned to Delaware and became road- 
master between flu- city and Cincinnati, a po-' 
sition he filled until [892, later taking in the 
Columbus division from Columbus to Cleve- 
land, and in October of this year tilling the 
office of superintendent of stone quarries. Mr. 
Potter then went to [ndianapolis and accepted 



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tlie position of roadmaster on the Big' Four 
Railroad, from Lafayette to Indianapolis, 
where he continued for eleven months, going 
thence to Desoto, Missouri, where he was 
roadmaster from St. Louis to Poplar Bluff 
and all branches, a position he retained until 
1902. He took charge of the Bontair Rail- 
road in .Missouri, where he remained one year 
and was made roadmaster of the Cotton Belt 
Railmad from Greenway to Pine Bluff. This 
road he left in 1905. His last railroad employ- 
ment was as roadmaster of the Magnetic 
Springs Railroad, from which he retired in 
November, 1907. Few railroad men are bet- 
ter knjown or more kindly remembered by 
their associates than Mr. Potter. 

In 1 85 1. Mr. Potter was married (first) to 
Catherine Burns, who was a daughter of Pat- 
rick and Elizabeth Burns, of Brownhelm, 
Lorain County, Ohio. They had one son. 
George X., who died at the age of five years, 
his death being followed four months later 
by that of his mother. Mr. Potter was mar- 
ried secondly, in 1859, to Emily Moran, who 
is a daughter of Francis and Emily 1 Baldwin) 
Moran. Mr. Moran was born in Ireland and 
his wife iu Cuyahoga County, Ohio, removing 
at the age of nine years to Lorain County. Of 
Mr. I 'otter's second union there have been 
four sons and one daughter, namely: George 
F., Mary E, Francis C, William J. and Ed 
ward S. 

George F. Potter has been supervisor of 
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad between Cin- 
cinnati and Columbus for the past twenty 
years. He married Mary Breen, a daughter 
of Thomas and Ellen Breen, of Marion, Ohio, 
and they have children — Emily N., Helen C, 
Mary. Alice. George I'.. Dorothy and Mar- 
garet. Mary E Potter married Joseph D. 
Teasdale, and they reside at Kansas City. Mis- 
souri, Mr. Teasdale being division superin- 
tendent of the Kansas City Street Railway. 
lie lias one child, William Bernard. Francis 
C. Potter died in [887. lie was chief clerk 
in the roadmaster's office at Delaware. Wil- 
liam J. Potter is an engineer on the P>ig Four 
Railroad running between Delaware and Cin- 
cinnati, lie married Josie Sullivan, who died 



in 1907. She was a daughter of Michael and 
Mary Sullivan, residents of Delaware. Mrs. 
William J. Potter left five children — Marie 
Frances. Christina, Ellen, Edward and 
James. Edward S. Potter died March 4. 
1894, in Missouri, while in his father's employ. 
he being a collector for the Baltimore & Ohio 
and the Big Four Railroads. 

Mr. and Mrs. Potter are members of St. 
Mary's Catholic Church at Delaware. Mrs. 
I 'otter was educated at the LTsuline Convent 
at Cleveland. In 1873 Mr. Potter erected The 
Children's Home, where he resided for thir- 
teen years. He sold this beautiful property in 
1885. In politics he is a Democrat, but when 
he was a candidate for the Board of Public 
Service at Delaware, he had no difficult}- in 
overcoming a normal Republican majority of 
from 400 to 450 votes. His fellow-citizens, 
irrespective of party, hold him in high esteem. 




\COB M. SCHAFFNER, formerly 
sheriff of Delaware County, and a 
public official of recognized worth, re- 
sides on his well-improved farm of 
twenty-seven acres, which is situated 
in Troy Township. Mr. Schaffner was born 
in this township. August 7, 1866, and is a son 
of John and Mary (Bowers) Schaffner. 

The father of Mr. Schaffner was born in 
Switzerland and emigrated to America in 
1854, locating in Troy Township, Delaware 
County, Ohio, in 1850, where his death took 
place in 1905. He was twice married and his 
first wife died in 1871 and his second wife 
in 1904. Seven children of both marriages 
survive, namely: John H., residing in Troy 
rownship; Barbara L., who married S. R. 
Eckels, postmaster at Ashley. Ohio; Ida M., 
who married Isaac W. Kelchner, of Delaware. 
Ohio; Jacob M., subject of this sketch; Carrie 
1)., who married E L. Jolly, residing in Troy 
Township; Clara B.. residing in Troy Town- 
ship and Clarence E., residing at Troyton, 
Ohio, where he is engaged in a mercantile 
business. The late John Schaffner was a well 
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Township, of which he served as trustee for 
a number of years. In politics he was a Dem- 
ocrat, lie belonged to the Reformed Church. 

Jacob M. Schaffner was reared in Troy 
Township and obtained his education in the 
public schools. He assisted in the work on the 
home farm and also taught music for several 
years. From the age of maturity he has taken 
an active interest in politics, being a zealous 
Democrat, and in November. 1898, be was 
elected sheriff of Delaware County, and gave 
so excellent an administration of the office that 
in November. 1900. he was re-elected, being 
the first Democrat in Delaware County, who 
was ever elected to this office for two consecu- 
tive terms. For four succeeding years he per- 
formed the onerous duties of sheriff with the 
courage and impartiality that ensured him the 
support and confidence of all law-abiding citi- 
zens. 

Mr. Schaffner was married March iy. 
1896, to Louie M. Downing, who was born in 
Troy Township, and is a daughter of Oliver 
and Margaret Downing, of Delaware County. 
Mr. Schaffner is a member of Lenape Lodge, 
No. 29, Knights of Pythias. 




A.MUEL B. MYERS, who was elect- 
ed in 1907. for the third time, a jus- 
tice of the peace in Ostrander, was 
born in Mill Creek Township, Union 
County, Ohio, November 30, 1850, 
and is a son of Christian and Hannah (Gra- 
ham) Myers. The grandfather of Mr. Myers 
reared his family in Pennsylvania, and when 
his son Christian was small he left home to 
fight the Indians and never returned. 

Christian Myers was born in 1809, and he 
accompanied his mother when she came to 
Mill Creek Township, Union Count). Ohio, 
where she subsequently married Asa Robin- 
son. Christian remained on his step-father's 
farm until his marriage, when he bought the 
farm which his son Samuel B. still owns but 
does not operate himself. Although entirely 
self-educated. Christian Myers was a man of 
much importance in his community and com- 
manded the respect of his fellow citizens. He 
34 



was a justice of the peace for mail) year- 
was associate judge for some tune. His ac- 
tivities were designed to promote the general 
welfare and to raise his community to a higher 
plane. He was particularly active in the Chris- 
tian Church and often occupied its pulpit, his 
exemplary lite making his appeals listened to 
with a large measure of resultant good. He 
died in March. 1861. his loss being deeplv re- 
gretted throughout the community. His wife, 
Hannah, who was born in the State of New 
York, was a daughter of George Graham, a 
native of England. 

Samuel B. Myers was the youngest of his 
parent's family of twelve children and is now 
the only survivor. He was reared and edu- 
cated in his native township and remained 
on the home farm until the fall of 1887. when 
he came to Ostrander, which thriving town 
has been his home ever since. He has been 
largely interested in lumbering, and at 1 me 
time owned a saw mill. He buys standing 
timber and manufactures lumber, which he 
ships to all sections. He was early enlisted 
into the ranks of the Democratic party, and 
has always taken an interest in public matter-. 
He has served for twelve years as a member 
of the Town Council and has been township 
assessor. 

In 1872, Mr. Myers was married to Mary 
A. Bean, who was born in Scioto Township. 
Delaware County, and is a daughter of Hiram 
Bean, and a granddaughter of George Bean, 
who came to this section with, James Liggett, 
ami Solomon Carr, in 181 7, from Hard}' 
County, Virginia. These three pioneers to- 
gether bought 600 acres of land in Scioto 
Ti twnship, which was later amicably divided. 
George Bean had 200 acres, and he carried on 
farming and stock-raising, becoming a man of 
prominence in his locality, and being foremosl 
in promoting the civilizing agencies of the 
time. He married Susie Carr and they had 
seven children, of whom Hiram was the third 
in order of birth. 

Hiram Bean was born in Scioto Town- 
ship and lived on the home place until i860, 
when be moved to the north of Ostrander and 
bought an interest in the Lawrence place. He 
died in 1864. aged forty-seven year-, lie mar- 



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ried (first) a daughter of Abel Tanner, who 
died in 1N45. leaving three children — George 
H., residing in California, Mrs. Julia Cowles, 
and Jesse. He married (secondly) Eleanor 
Lawrence, a daughter of Joseph and Nancy 
(( chran) Lawrence. Van Emmon, a resi- 
dent of California, and Mrs. Myers are the 
survivors of their three children. 

Mr. and Airs. Myers have had six chil- 
dren, the three who survive being the follow- 
ing: Maw who married Joseph T. Richey, Of 
Dover Township, Union County, Ohio; Flor- 
ence, who married George Lowe, of Leesburg, 
Lnion County: and Dana, residing at home. 
Mrs. Myers is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. 

Mr. Myers' fraternal connections include 
membership in Edinburg Lodge, No. 467, < )dd 
Fellows, of which he is past grand; and Os- 
trander Lodge, No. 348. Knights of Pythias, 
of which he is past chancellor. Mrs. Myers 
is a member of the auxiliary order of Rebek- 
ahs, 'in winch she has held official position. 




OHN POWELL, who for many years 

of his long and useful life occupied 3 
prominent place among Radnor's re- 
liable and substantial citizens, was 
horn in the county of Llanafan. 
Breconshire, Wale-. May 21, 1830, son of Rob- 
ert and Ann ( William- 1 Powell. The father. 
Robert Powell, emigrated with his family to 
America about [845, and spent almost the en- 
tire period of his life, after coming to Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, in Radnor. He married 
in Wales, Ann Williams, and he and his wife 
were the parents of two children — Margaret 
and John, both of whom are now deceased. 

John Powell was fifteen years old when he 
accompanied his father to America. He at- 
tended the Ohio Wesleyan Seminary, after 
which he engaged in a hardware business at 
Newark, where he resided For some years, lie 
then came to Radnor, where he opened a 
general -tore, which he conducted for thirty- 
years thereafter, and also for several 
- of that time carried on an undertaking 



business. He also acquired 300 acres of land 
and engaged extensively in sheep raising, f>oo 
head being no unusual number for him to have 
m his possession at one time. 

In 1 Sj2 he was married to Sarah Jane 
Watkins. who was born in Radnor. July 24, 
[846, and who is a daughter of William and 
Mary (Jones) Watkins, and a granddaughter 
of Evan and Margaret ( Davis) Watkins. The 
grandfather, Evan Watkins, never came to 
America, but his widow and children all set- 
tled in Radnor, Delaware County, the first of 
the family to locate here being William Wat- 
kins. Mrs. Powell's father. The grandmother. 



Mrs. Margaret Davis Watkins, 



tilt a smal 



log house, and her sons acquired and cleared 
land. 

Mr. and Mrs. John Powell had five chil- 
dren, four of whom now survive, namely: 
William Robert, a well known architect, and a 
graduate of Columbia University, who spent 
two years studying in Europe; John Watkins. 
who was educated at Oberlin College and the 
State University at Columbus, and who oper- 
ates the home farm, growing grain and hay : 
David H. and Edwin K., residing at home, the 
former of whom was educated at Culver Mili- 
tary Academy and the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity. 

Mr. Powell died June 15. 1902. He was 
a member of the Masonic Lodge at Delaware, 
and in politics a Republican. For many years 
he was a director of the Delaware Savings 
Bank. He was very strict in religious observ- 
ance and in early life united with the Congre- 
gational Church, his wife being a member of 
the Presbyterian Church. He took an active 
part in church work and for, twenty-five years 
was superintendent of the Sunday school. 



'AMUFL M. CLEAVER, who has 
been more or less identified with the 
sheep industry since boyhood and is 
probably one of the best informed 
men on the subject in the country, is 
also the able secretary of the American and 
Delaine-Merino Sheep Association, and re- 




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575 



side- on a beautiful farm of i 28 acres, known 
as the "Maplewood Stock Farm," which is 
situated on the Columbus, Delaware and Mar- 
ion electric line, just south of the city of Dela- 
ware. Mr. Cleaver was born at East Bethle- 
hem. Washington County. Pennsylvania. April 
[8, 1851, and is a son of Amos C. and Amelia 
(Morris) Cleaver. 

The Cleaver family to which he belongs 
originated in Wales and in religious faith were 
Quakers. John Cleaver, the grandfather, was 
horn near Philadelphia, and later moved to 
Washington Count}', Pennsylvania, where he 
became a wealthy farmer and stock breeder. 
He married Annie Vail and they had the fol- 
lowing children : Amos G., father of Samuel 
M. ; Eli. now deceased, who was formerly a 
member of the Ohio State Legislature; Dr. 
Hiram M., deceased, who was an instructor 
in a medical college at Keokuk. Iowa; Bent- 
ley, also deceased, who resided at Wapello, 
low a: and John Ira. who resides at Center- 
vine, Pennsylvania. 

Amos G. Cleaver was born in Washing- 
ton County, Pennsylvania, and died in 1897, 
aged eighty-four years. As soon as his hoy- 
hood days were over, he began to breed sheep, 
and in 1858 he bought his first fullbred Merino 
sheep in Vermont, although he had been en- 
gaged in the sheep breeding industry for sev- 
eral years previous. He was a man of sterl • 
ing qualities, and public offices were frequently 
tendered him. but he cared little for such 
honors. He belonged to the Society of Friends 
and lived faithful to their precepts. He mar- 
ried Amelia Morris, who died in 11)05. a g e d 
eighty-six years. She was a daughter of Sam- 
uel Morris. They reared seven children, 
namely: Lewis M.. Mrs. Annie Jones, Hiram 
T., William H.. Airs. Elizabeth Linton. Sam- 
uel M. and John, all residing at Centerville, 
except Samuel M. and Lewis M., the last men- 
tioned being a resident of Orlando. Florida. 

Samuel M. Cleaver was a small boy when 
he was first set to the task of tending -beep. 
When he was four years old his father pre- 
sented him with a sheep of his own. and he 
has owned sheep ever since that early date in 
his life. He attended school at Centerville but 



liked better to be a shepherd than a student of 
books. This early and continued interest in 
the subject resulted in his becoming thor- 
oughly posted on everything concerning the 
care, breeding, and raising of sheep. He re- 
mained at home until he was twenty-four 
years of age. and until he was of age lie as- 
sisted his father, after which he had an inter- 
est in the home Hock. In 1876 he started out 
for himself on a farm adjoining the home- 
stead, with a thoroughbred flock made up if 
the best blood to be found in the New Eng- 
land States. He has continued that class of 
breeding ever since. In 1879 he became a 
member of the Vermont Sheep Breeders' As- 
sociation and later he registered a portion of 
his flock in the United States Sheep Breeders' 
Association. 

In 1889, Air. Cleaver assisted to organize 
the Standard Sheep Breeders' Association and 
for 16 years subsequently served as its able 
secretary. He then helped to organize the 
Consolidated Association of Merino^ Breeders, 
which was made up of the several associations 
in the United States, at which time (1905) 
he was elected secretary to this body. In March 
of the above named year, he bought his pres- 
ent farm of 126 acres, all of which he devotes 
to his sheep, keeping an average of 150 head 
at all times. He buys several times as many 
as he can raise but deals only in the offspring 
of sheep which he has raised himself. He 
owns some of the most noted rams in the 
country, Gold Standard, Fortune, Improver 
and Oil King having a great reputation with 
breeds, in all sections. Formerly he exhibited 
extensively both in Pennsylvania and Ohio, 
but no longer goes to that trouble. Then he 
sold to nearly all the exhibitors, while now 
his best trade is only with the owners of the 
finest flocks. He is always looking for un- 
usually finely developed rams and when he 
heard of the phenomenal American Model, he 
purchased him and from his mating with 
equally fine ewes, produced a strain that has 
helped to make Maplewood Stock Farm still 
more favorably known than formerly. Dela- 
ware Count) may be congratulated on having 
so competent a sheep breeder, and so useful a 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



citizen as Mr. Cleaver. For forty years he 
successfully developed the sheep industry in 
his native State, and his efforts have already 
proven of the greatest benefit to sheep farmers 
in Delaware County. 

Mr. Cleaver married Ella Curry, who was 
a daughter of Thomas Curry, of Washington 
County, Pennsylvania, and they had one son. 
Frank W., residing at Centerville. Mrs. Cleav.er 
died in 1895. She was a devoted member of 
the Christian Church. Mr. Cleaver married 
for his second wife. Mrs. Mina Farquhar, 
who is a daughter of William Keenan of 
Monongahela City, Pennsylvania. Of this 
union there is one child, Elizabeth. Mrs. 
Cleaver was the widow of the late Dr. Charles 
Farquhar, who left two children — William 
and Blanche. Mr. and Mrs. Cleaver are mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church. 




LA - ERNEST DILSAVER, promi- 
nent citizen and general farmer, re- 



siding 



on 



Ins v 



alualile farm in 



Thompson Township, was horn n 
Delaware County, Ohio, Ma}- 30, 
[867, and is a son of Simon and Kate ( try- 
ing ) Dilsaver. 

The first members of the Dilsaver family 
to come from Pennsylvania to Delaware 
County were William 11. Dilsaver and his 
brother, the former then in boyhood. He was 
born July 5, 1814, and died May 28, 1901. 
lie was reared in Ohio and married Sarah Dil- 
saver. who was burn February 4. 1X16, and 
died August 30. [896. They had four chil- 
dren: Lavina, who married William Wiles, 
died in Michigan; Jane, who lives in Michi- 
gan, is the widow of Louis Gearhart, formerly 
cf Virginia; Simon, father of Guy Ernest 
Dilsaver; and Martha, who is the wife of 
Benson Smith, residing in Michigan. Simon 
Dilsaver was born in Thompson Township. 
Delaware County. ( (hio, in 1N42, and has been 
a life-long resident oi this township, lie mar- 
ried Kate Irving, who was burn in [841, in 
Liberty Township, near Powell, Ohio, and is 



a daughter of William and Eliza (Rhodes) 
Irving, who lived in Delaware and Union 
Counties. To this union was horn one son. 
Guy Ernest. 

(in}' Ernest Dilsaver was reared on his fa- 
ther's farm of 135 acres, which is a part of the 
old homestead property on which William H. 
Dilsaver settled. Very little change has been 
brought about during the lifetime of Mr. Dil- 
saver, his parents having lived all their mar- 
ried life in the same residence and even the 
cook-stove has not been moved for forty vears. 
Mr. Dilsaver was mainly educated in the 
schools of Thompson Township and his life 
has been devoted to agricultural pursuits. For 
seven years following his marriage be resided 
on his father 's farm and then moved to bis 
present farm which he purchased from Jane 
Pitcher, and here he has engaged in general 
farming. He has an excellent farm and has 
placed it under a fine state of cultivation. 

In December, 1887, Mr. Dilsaver married 
Alice Manuel, who was reared in Union 
County. Ohio, and is a daughter of A. J. and 
Sarah (Franklin) Manuel. The father of 
Mrs. Dilsaver was born in Virginia and her 
mother in Scioto Township, Delaware County. 
Ohio. Both are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Dil- 
saver have three children: Paul Irving, Clif- 
ford and Burr. Paul Irving was born June 
10. 1889, and died August 7. [905, aged six- 
teen years, one month and twenty-eight days. 
Despite his youth he had attained to the stature 
of a full-grown man, at the time of his death 
being six feet, two inches in height. Clifford, 
born May 27, 1895, an ^ Burr, born December 
20, 1 901, are both attending school. 

Mr. Dilsaver has been identified with the 
Republican party ever since the first election 
of the late President McKinley and he has 
taken a very active interest in public matters 
and works loyally for his friends in 'the vari- 
ous campaigns. \ : <>v a period of eighteen 
months he served as a justice of the peace and 
on numerous occasions he has attended county 
and Congressional conventions as a delegate. 
recently being a member of the convention 
that cast 1,501 votes for Delaware County. 




JAMES B. HODGES 




MRS M \RV H. HODGES 



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AMES B. HODGES, who is the owner 
of nearly 400 acres of farming land in 
Radnor Township, Delaware County. 
is a progressive and public-spirited 

citizen, and a veteran of the great 
Civil war, in which he participated for over 
three years. He was horn near Delaware, 
Ohio, Feb. 7. 1844, and ' s a s " u of Nathaniel 
W. and Sallie A. ( Underhill) Hodges. 

Nathaniel W. Hodges was born in Massa- 
chusetts, and came to Delaware County, Ohio, 
at an early day, being one of the pioneer set- 
tlers in the vicinity of Delaware. During the 
gold excitement of 1840. Mr. Hodges went to 
California by the overland mute, and there fol- 
lowed blacksmith ing in the mining district for 
eighteen mouths. On his return he engaged 
in agriculture, which he followed for the rest 
of his active period. His death took place in 
Delaware. He held the office of trustee for 
a number of years in Radnor Township. 

James B. Hodges was reared to manhood 
in Delaware County, and acquired his educa- 
tion in the schools of Radnor Township. On 
November 18, 1861, he enlisted in Company 
E. Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, which was first connected with the 
Eastern Army and was later transferred to 
the Army of the Cumberland. Mr. Hodges 
participated in all the movements of his regi- 
ment until the battle of Port Republic, where 
he was wounded and captured by the Confed- 
erates, by whom he was held prisoner at var- 

points for three months. At the end of 
this time he was duly exchanged and rejoined 
his regiment, becoming brigade orderly, a 
rank in which he served during the rest of his 
term of enlistment. During his long and ac- 
tive service Mr. Hodges won the esteem of his 
comrades, and the respect of his officers, by 
his bravery, cheerfulness, and faithfulness to . 
the cause, and his war record was one of which 
any man might well be proud. On receiving 
his honorable discharge, he returned to Rad- 
nor Township, where he has since carried on 
agricultural pursuits. 

. Mr. Hodges was married to Mary G. 
Howison, who was horn in Radnor Township, 

to them four children were born — Clar- 



ence O., Homer 11.. Orrie J. and Watterman 
M. Clarence O. married Lelia Sullivan, of 
Union County, Ohio, and they have one 
daughter, Avanelle E. He resides in Radnor 
Township on one of his father's farms. Homer 
H. took for his wife Nella V. Rosencrans of 
Kankakee. Illinois. They have one son, Wil- 
bur R. This family resides in Columbus, where 
Homer H. is employed on the Columbus Dis- 
patch, being at the head of the classified de- 
partment of advertising. Mr. Hodges is a 
popular comrade of the Grand Army Post 
and Union Veteran League, both of Delaware. 
He is a Republican in politics. With his wife 
he attends the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
Warrensburg, Ohio, where he is now serving 
in the capacity of trustee. 




ARLES CRYDER. who is now 
serving in his third term as trustee 
of Scioto Township, carries on gen- 
eral farming and stockraising on his 
well-improved property which con- 
sists of 156 acres. Mr. Cryder was born April 
28, 1863. in Scioto Township, Delaware 
County Ohio, and is a son of John M. and 
Mary (McClure) Cryder. 

The Cryder family can be traced back to 
1710. when John Jacob Cryder (or Kreider) 
fled from Switzerland to Wurtemburg, Ger- 
many, on account of religious persecution, and 
subsequently — about 17 16 — sailed from Rot- 
terdam for America, reaching Lancaster 
County as one of the earliest settlers. His 
grandson. Michael Cryder. was born at Lan- 
caster, in July. 1 74J and was a son of John 
Jacob Cryder. Jr. Michael Cryder married 
first Susan Carpenter and they had three sons 
and three daughters, namely: Israel. John. Dan- 
iel. Mary, Susan and Elizabeth. For his second 
w 1 fe he married Salome Carpenter and they 
had five children. In 1771, Michael Cryder 
moved to Huntingdon County. Pennsylvania, 
where he acquired a large tract of land. \\ hen 
the Revolutionary War broke out. he was ap- 
pi nited a commissary officer and for the sup- 
plies he furnished to the s, ildiers. he accepted. 



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Continental notes, which were never re- 
deemed, and this resulted in his having to sell 
his property. He was an old man when he 
came to Ross County. Ohio, in 1797. His son, 
George Sewirt Cryder, the grandfather of 
Charles Cryder, was born in Pennsylvania and 
there married Leah Stattenberg. He settled 
at White Sulphur Station in 1848. He par- 
ticipated in the Mexican War. 

John M. Cryder was a son of George S. 
and Leah (Stattenberg) Cryder, and the 
father of Charles Cryder. He was born at 
Alexandia, Huntingdon County, Pennsyl- 
vania, October 5. 1837, and died in Delaware 
County, Ohio, March 24, 1894. He was five 
years old when he accompanied his parents to 
White Sulphur Station. Delaware County. 
Early in the Civil War he enlisted in Company 
< i. Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 
remained in the service for three years. He 
was taken prisoner and before being ex- 
changed suffered confinement at Belle Isle, 
after which he was very ill and it is probable 
that he never fully regained his former health. 
His record is that of a brave and efficient sol- 
dier. In 1877 he bought a farm situated on 
what is now known as Klondyke Road. He 
followed agricultural pursuits during the re- 
mainder of his life, and was a man who stood 
high in the regard of his fellow citizens. In 
[859 he was married to Mary McClure. She 
was a daughter of James McClure and was 
born in Scioto Township. Delaware Countv, 
Ohio, August 3. 1837. She still survives and 
is a consistent member of the Presbyterian 
Church. 

Mr>. Cryder came of Scotch ancestry. Her 
father, James McClure. was born near Greens- 
bur,^. Pennsylvania, and was a young man 
when he accompanied his parents to Ohio and 
settled on what is now the John McClure farm. 
At that time it was a heavily wooded tract, 
covered with valuable oak, walnut and maple 
trees, and it was necessary to clear a spot be- 
fore a loo- cabin could he erected. The grand- 
parents of Mrs. Cryder, William McClure and 
wife, came originally from Scotland. James 
McClure raised cattle and sheep and became 
a man of considerable substance. In politics 



he was a Democrat and fraternally he was a 
Mason. He married Olive Skinner, who was 
a daughter of Robert Skinner, of Perry 
County, Ohio, where the McClures stopped 
for a short time after reaching Ohio prior to 
settling in Delaware County. To this mar- 
riage the following children were born: Wil- 
liam, now deceased; Eliza, also deceased, who 
was the wife of Isaac Newton Richey, of 
Scioto Township; Jane, who married I. R. 
Xewhouse. of Scioto Township; Robert, now 
deceased; Mary, who is the widow of John 
M. Cryder; Isabella, who married William H. 
Cutler, of Delaware; James, deceased; John 
McClure; and Olive, who is the widow of 
Emory Cutler, and resides at Barnesville, 
Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. McClure joined the "Id 
stone Church at South Radnor, in their later 
years, but he had helped to build the church at 
Delaware. James McClure died in 1851,. aged 
sixty-four years. His widow survived until 
the age of 98 years, dying in January, 
[899. 

The children of John M. Cryder an.' his 
wife were: Charles, born in 1803; George S., 
born in 1867; Robert, born in 1870; John M., 
born in 1872; and Louella. born in 1881, who 
is the wife of Fred Davis, residing at Dela- 
ware. 

Charles Cryder was educated in the local 
schools and when he was eighteen years of age 
he rented the home farm and continued to 
operate it until after his marriage. In 1885 he 
purchased his present farm of his father and 
this be has successfully conducted ever since, 
lie carries on a general agricultural line, 
raises the crops that do best on his land, cul- 
tivating seventy acres, and both raises and 
buys stock, having eighty acres of permanent 
pasture. He keeps about 100 head of sheep, 
thirty hogs, twenty head of cattle, all of ac- 
knowledged superiority of breed. 

October 25, 1891, Mr. Cryder married 
Elizabeth Cryder, who is a daughter of John 
Cryder, a remote relative of his own. Mrs. 
Cryder's paternal grandfather was Emanuel 
Cryder. Her maternal grandfather was Ben- 
jamin Cryder, and the latter was a son of John 
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583 



who was the ancestor of her husband's family 
who founded that line in Ohio. 

John Cryderj the father of Mrs. Charles 
Cryder, was born in Ross County, Ohio, Feb- 
ruary 24, [834. He married Rebecca J. Cry- 
der. February 5, 1 S 5 7 . who died November 
20, 187(1. her birth having taken place June 
17. 1836. She was a daughter of Benjamin 
Cryder, a son of John and a grandson of 
Michael Cryder. The father of Mrs. Charles 
Cryder was a general farmer. In [86] he 
moved to Illinois, for four years previously 
having been a guard in the penitentiary at 
Columbus. In politics, he was a Democrat, 
lie had the following children: Helen Adelle, 
Levi Calaway, .Martha Alice. Elizabeth, Henry 
M., Mary A., James \\\, Amanda Lillie, Min- 
nie M. and John T. The mother of Mrs. 
Cryder was a worth)- member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, to which religious body her 
husband gave liberal support. 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cryder have four 
children, namely: Mildred, John. Annabelle 
and Nellie. In almost every generation of the 
Cryder family the name of John appears, it 
being one that is perpetuated as a token of re- 
spect and affection for those who have pre- 
viously born it. Mrs. Cryder is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church at Warrens- 
burg, of which her husband is an attendant 
and supporter. Like other members of his 
family, the latter is a Democrat. He has 
held township offices and takes an active in- 
terest in public affiairs. He is a member of 
Ruffner Lodge No. 330. I. O. 0. F., at War- 
rensburg and is a past grand of the order. 



VIN X. GARDNER, whose tine dairy 
farm is situated in Libert}' Township, 
has been a life-long resident of the 
portion of Delaware County lying 
within one mile of Powell. He was 
born three-fourths of a mile south of that vil- 
lage. February 9, 1850, and is a son of Jona- 
than and Delia ( Brenton ) Gardner. 

Joseph Gardner, the paternal grandfather, 
was one of the earliest settlers in Delaware 



Count\ and his was the first burial that 
place in the Powell cemetery. The gi 
mother was Nancy Pond, a widow, who had 
formerly lived in Knox Count}-. Jonathan 
Gardner, father of In in X.. was born in Ver- 
mont and accompanied hi-- parents to l v 
County, Ohio. He married Delia Benton, who 
was born on the banks of Alum Creek, near 
Westerville, and they settled on a farm south 
of Powell. They had the following children: 
Nettie, now aged about sixty-six years, mar- 
ried Rev. J. G. Evans, of the Methodist I 
copal Church, and the)- reside near Kank 
Illinois; Lyman, aged sixty-three years, mar- 
ried Lillie Hall, a daughter of Gordon Hall, 
and he is now engaged in a banking business 
at Worthington; Bryon A., residing east of 
Powell, married Florence Lowery, a daughter 
of John Lowery; Isabel is survived by her 
husband. Edward Xeds. residing in Franklin 
County, Ohio, anil one son Robert Franklin 
Xeds; and Franklin and Henry, both of whom 
died young. Jonathan Gardner is dece 
but his venerable widow still survives. SI 
indeed a remarkable lad}-, being in full pos- 
session of all her faculties although she cele- 
brated her ninetieth birthday on April 24. 
1908. More than this, she appeared on this 
happy occasion in a becoming costume made 
by Iter own hands, the dainty stitching on it 
putting machine work to shame. Her hands 
have ever been useful ones and for years were 
busy doing helpful things for others. Since 
there is no longer am- need for her practical 
use of them, she has gratified her love for 
beautiful objects by doing fine bead and • 
fancy work and so accurately and exquisitely 
that her display took first prize at a late 
held at Kankakee, where she has been a resi- 
dent for the past twelve years. 

Irvin X T . Gardner attended the district 
schools in his boyhood but as his eldest brother 
entered the army to serve in the Civil War. he 
was obliged to take up the work on the 
while young. Following his marriage be en- 
gaged in general farming for twenty-five ; 
and during this time also did stock-buying I 
a large extent. In [884 he came to his present 
place, where he has 132 acres, and for the 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



past two years he has followed dairying, milk- 
ing thirty cows and ships from fifty to sixty 
gallons of milk per day to Columbus, lie has 
greatly improved his farm since settling ort it. 
as lie found nothing here but an excellent well. 
He built first what is now the rear of his 
handsome residence, which he later completed, 
subsequently adding fine barns and commo- 
dious sheds. He also cleared a large part of 
the farm. He remembers that in his boyhood, 
an old log house stood on the place. 

In 1872. Mr. Gardner married Mary 
Burss, who died in 1879. She was the only 
child of Amter Burss, of Libert)' Township. 
Mr. Gardner was married (second) in 1881, 
t" Martha Washington Tone, who is a daugh- 
ter "i Lafayette Tone. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner 
have had four children, namely: Lora, who is 
the wife of J. I'. Drumhiller, residing in Lib- 
erty Township; Lillie and Guy, both deceased; 
and Jay T., who manages the home farm for 
his father. He married Amelia Pounds, who 
i~ a daughter of William Pounds, and they 
have one sun. Lesley. 

.Mr. Gardner is a member of Powell Lodge, 
Odd Fellows, No. 465J of Lowell Lodge, 
Knights of Pythias, No. 684; and of the Im- 
proved Order of Red Men, Tribe Xo. 112, at 
Hyattsville. Formerly lie was identified ac- 
tively with the Republican party, but in recent 
years has been independent in his views. He 
1- ;i trustee of Liberty Township, having 

ed frequently in this office, and his official 
act- have been very satisfactory in In- fellow 
citizens. 




EV. JOHN FRANKLIN SHAFFER, 

1 >. 1 ».. \\ In ' for nearly a quarter of a 
century ha- been in charge of the 
Lutheran Church at Delaware, was 
born on hi- father's farm in Fairfield 
nty, ( >hio, March 28, [837, and is a son of 

S. and Sarah I Stuckey I Shaffer. 

The Shaffer famil) has been settled in 

for many years, coming to tlii- State 

from the rich agricultural regions of Pennsyl- 

a, where many still reside to perpetuate 



the honorable old name. Isaac Shaffer, the 
grandfather of Rev. Shaffer, was born in Lan- 
caster County. Pennsylvania, in 1768. coming 
from there to Fairfield County, in 1798.* and 
locating in the wilderness before the county 
lines were drawn and when the larger num- 
ber of inhabitants were Indians. He located 
on a desirable tract of land very near to what 
is now the county seat and he it was who sug- 
gested the naming of the place Lancaster, in 
memory of the old home toward which his 
thoughts so often turned. The town of Lan- 
caster was laid out in the fall of 1800 and Mr. 
Shaffer's farm, a few miles to the southward, 
became doubly valuable. Here he lived until 
he passed away, at the age of eighty-two 
years. He had married Julia Reem. also of 
Lancaster and also of German extraction. At 
the time of death, the Shaffer children each 
received 200 acres of land and as there were 
six in his family, this amounted to a large 
body. 

John S. Shaffer, father of Dr. Shaffer, 
was the youngest son of his parents, and was 
born in Fairfield County. Ohio, June 20, 1807. 
At the age of twenty-one years he married 
(first) Mary Koontz, who subsequently died, 
leaving two sons, who survived to early man- 
hood. He was married (secondly) to Sarah 
Stuckey. and to this union were born ten chil- 
dren. Mr. Shaffer continued his father's ag- 
ricultural activities and through a long ex- 
emplary life remained a leading man in his 
community. He was particularly active in 
Christian work and fellowship, being one of 
the pillars of the Lutheran faith in Fairfield 
County. It was mainly through his efforts 
that a congregation was organized at Ham- 
burg, and in the building of the church he as- 
sumed one-sixth of the expense and also sub- 
sequently provided for a large part of it- 
maintenance. He was one of the trustee-, 
also an elder and for twenty years was super- 
intendent of the Sabbath school. He was a 
man beloved for bis many virtues and admired 
for bis sterling character. He died April 20. 
[875, at Carthage, Missouri, to which place 
he had moved in 1869; he was aged sixty- 
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58; 



Up to the aye of seventeen years, the sub- 
ject of tin's sketch, who was the fifth child of 
his parents, assisted in the management of the 
home farm, attending school as opportunity 
was afforded. The youth of that day had few 
educational advantages, and no matter how 
ambitious and intellectual a boy might he, he 
was fortunate, in that section of Fairfield 
County, if he could obtain three or four 
months' instruction during the winter in the 
country school. Young Shaffer was excep- 
tionally bright, and long before he entered 
Wittenberg College, in 1854, he had mastered 
everything taught in the rural schools. At 
Springfield he entered earnestly into study. 
taking the regular literary and classical course 
as then prescribed, and when he graduated he 
-i' d fifth in a class of ten students, and with 
one exception, was the youngest member o\ 
that brilliant class. 

After graduating at Wittenberg College, 
Mr. Shaffer at once began the study of theol- 
ogy, entering the theological seminary con- 
nected with Wittenberg College, and remained 
until he completed the course. He was li- 
censed to preach in 1861, by the Miami Synod. 
convened at St. Paris, and was ordained a 
minister of the Lutheran Church, at Circle- 
ville, in 1862. His first appointment was to 
the church at Xenia, Ohio, and when Mr. 
Shaffer took charge it was in poor condition 
both as to membership and interest. Under 
his pastorate it was revived and has had a 
continuous, steady growth up to the present 
time. At the time of his resignation of the 
charge, some twenty years later, it had in- 
creased in spirituality, membership and ma- 
terial possessions. 

Dr. Shaffer has been the recipient of many 
honor.- in his church and has effectively tilled 
many very responsible positions. lie was 
thrice elected secretary of the Miami Synod 
and four time- it- president, lie was retained 

■lie directorate of Wittenberg College by 
tlie Miami Synod, for nearh a third of a cen- 
tury, the college hoard twice elected him its 
president, and on numerous occasions lie rep- 

nted his synod in the general synod, lie 
lias served on the Examining Committee to 



examine candidates for the ministry, for more 
than thirty year-. While residing at Xenia, 
Dr. Shaffer took an active interest in civic 
matters pertaining to educational movements 
and for fifteen years served as an examiner of 
teachers for the county schools; for twelve 
years he served in the same capacitv for the 
city schools, and for fifteen years served on the 
Xenia Board of Education. He has never lost 
his deep interest in educational progress and at 
the time of this writing, is serving as clerk of 
the School Board at Delaware. 

In March. 1881, Dr. Shaffer moved to 
Springfield in order to give his children what 
he deemed better educational advantages, plac- 
ing them in his alma mater. Wittenberg Col- 
lege. He continued, however, to supply his 
charge at Xenia until a successor could be 
found, which was done in the following June, 
the old pastor never, in the meantime, having 
disappointed his congregation on a single oc- 
casion. He also supplied the churches at West 
Liberty and Tippecanoe City for some months. 
In addition to his pastoral work. Dr. Shaffer 
has done much literary work, all showing a 
high grade of scholarship. From September, 
1881, to December. 1885. he prepared the 
comments on the Sabbath school lessons for 
the Lutheran Evangelist, and within this pe- 
riod also provided many articles covering a 
wide range of subjects for that and other pa- 
pers. For two years he was associated with 
Dr. Ort as editor of the Evangelist, and with 
Dr. Singley a- corresponding editor. He also 
taught in the theological seminary connected 
with the college the important branches of 
Hebrew. Biblical Archaeology, Sacred Philol- 
ogy. Biblical Evidences, Church History and 
Catechetics. 

However, under this stupendous amount 
of work. Dr. Shaffer began to find his former 
robust health breaking down, and as his soul 
yearned for the regular work of the ministry, 
when the opportunity came to organize a 
church at Delaware, he came to this city. This 
organization was effected in November, [885, 
and in eleven month- the little but enthusiastic 
congregation dedicated a line brick church, 
with a seating capacity of 500. In June. 1887, 



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the board of Wittenberg College, at the rec- 
ommendation of the faculty, conferred upon 
Rev. Shaffer, the degree of D. D. He has re- 
mained in this charge ever since, each year but 
serving to bind pastor and congregation in 
closer bonds. With the exception of Dr. 
Stuckenberg, Dr. Shaffer is given credit of 
having had more to do than any other man in 
bringing into existence the Women's Home 
and Foreign Mission Society of the General 
Synod. 

On September 18, 1862. Dr. Shaffer was 
married to Eliza Jane Puterbaugh, of Xenia, 
who died in .March. 1873. She left five chil- 
dren — Sallie M., Franklin Newton, who died 
at the age of thirty-live years. Walter St. Clair, 
Augusta Vernon, and John Samuel. Dr. 
Shaffer was married (secondly) October 8, 
1N74, to Margaret Ellen Barns, who died May 
23, [882. She left one child. Ella, who died 
at the age of three months. Dr. Shaffer was 
married, for the third time, July 3, [884, to 
Kate M. Boggs, of Zanesville. Of this union 
there have been two children — Ralph Boggs, 
who died at the age of eight months, and Elida 
.Marguerite, who is a member of the class of 
'09, < ). W. U. Miss Boggs had consecrated 
herself to foreign missionary work, and in 
[880 had sailed for India, being the first repre- 
sentative of the Women's Missionary Society 
to that country. On account of the intense 
heat of that land she broke down in health and 
was forced to return. Since then she has been 
verv active in the tield ot home missions. 




OHN RATHBONE STANBERY, a 
progressive farmer of Liberty Town- 
ship, who owns land amounting to 453 
acres, was born in the city of Zanes- 
ville, Muskingum County. Ohio, June 
ig. [836, and is a son of Charles and Mary 
( Smith ) Stanbery. 

Jonas Stanbery. the grandfather of John 
R., was born in New York and he accompanied 
Stephen I!. Munn, to Ohio, both coming as 
land speculators. They located land in Mus- 
kingum, Fairfield, Licking, Delaware. Frank- 



lin, Pickaway, Madison and other counties of 
Ohio east of the Scioto River. Jonas Stan- 
bery held more than a hundred thousand acres 
in his own right. In the disposal of this prop- 
erty he was both just and generous, accepting 
almost any kind of commodity from the set- 
tlers in payment lor land. It was a source of 
satisfaction to him that no pressure had ever 
caused him to sue for a debt. 

Jonas Stanbery married Ann Lucy Sea- 
man and they both lived into advanced age. his 
death occurring at Zanesville, in 1838. at the 
ag-e of seventy-two years. The following 
children were born t<> Jonas and Ann Lucy 
Stanbery: Augustus. George, Henry. Ed- 
ward, Charles and Howard. Henry Stanbery 
was the eldest of the family and he became a 
lawyer and subsequently filled some of the 
highest positions of State and Nation. From 
being attorney-general of Ohio, he was chosen 
by President Andrew Johnson as a member of 
his cabinet and filled the high office of attor- 
ney-general of the United States until such 
time as he resigned in order to take up the de- 
fense of the President in the impeachment 
proceedings. After General Stanbery's efforts 
had been crowned with success, he was re-ap- 
pointed to the office be had so ably tilled pre- 
viously, but the Senate never confirmed this 
second appointment. He later engaged in the 
practice of law in Campbell Count}-, Ken- 
tucky, but the greater part of his time was 
taken up in practice in the Federal Courts. He 
died in New York city. He was married ( first ) 
to a daughter of General Beecher, of Lancas- 
ter, Ohio. His second marriage was to Cecelia 
Bond, who was a daughter of William Key 
Bond, who was a member of Congress from 
Ohio and was a resident of Chillicothe. Of 
the other children of Jonas Stanbery, Edward 
was a physician and he practiced at Newark, 
Ohio, where he died. Charles Stanbery was 
the father of John R. Stanbery. Howard 
Stanbery spent the whole period of his life at 
Zanesville. George Stanbery died while he 
was at school, at Athens, Ohio. Augustus was 
the only member of the family to die in child- 
hood. 

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537 



bone Stanbery, was born in 1809, in the city 
of New York, and in 1814 he accompanied 
his parents to Ohio. They established the 
family home at Zanesville, and young Charles 
was afforded excellent educational advantages 
both in that city and at Athens, Ohio. He be- 
came a member of the Bar and had the pros- 
pect of much professional success, when the 
death of his father called him to take charge 
of the large estate and the management of this 
required the greater part of his subsequent at- 
tention. Soon after his marriage he moved 
to Delaware County, from there to Lancaster 
and later to Columbus, where he lived for a 
number of years. His large interests, how- 
ever, in Delaware County, finally required him 
to give them his personal attention and in 
[856 he returned and settled in Liberty Town- 
ship, on the Scioto River. In the same year 
he erected here a fine mansion and in this 
beautiful home both he and wife lived until 
death. 

Charles Stanbery was married at Zanes- 
ville to Mary Smith, who was a daughter of 
Hon. Theophilus Smith, judge of the Supreme 
Court of Illinois. She died in March. 1883, 
at the age of seventy-two years. She was sur- 
vived by her husband until 1802, when he was 
in his eighty-htird year. They had four chil- 
dren : Clara S.. John R.. Charles and Ed- 
ward. The only daughter of the family, Clara 
S., is the widow of Col. George W. Neff, and 
resides in Liberty Township, Delaware Coun- 
ty, Ohio. Colonel Neff died in 1882. He 
was a native of Ohio and be served as second 
lieutenant in the Second Regiment, Kentucky 
Volunteer Infantry. He was captured in West 
Virginia and was confined for thirteen months 
in prison, during three of which he was under 
sentence of death. After his release from the 
Charleston jail, he was commissioned colonel 
of the Eighty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantry. Two daughters. Laura and 
May, and three sons, Ambrose, George and 
Bond, survive him. Ambrose Neff married 
Jennie Abert, whose father was an officer in 
the Regular Army. They live at Elmwood. 
George Neff married Margaret Wallace and 
thev reside in New York city, where he is a 



large contractor and mechanical engineer. 
Bond resides also in New York, where he is in 
business as a hydraulic engineer. Charles 
Stanbery resides on the old Stanbery farm on 
which his father settled in 1856. He was edu- 
cated in the district schools, at Cincinnati and 
at Zanesville. He acrries on general farming 
on 150 acres. He is a member of the Knights 
of Pythias at Powell. Mr. Stanbery is unmar- 
ried. Edward Stanbery married Emma New- 
ell and they are residents of Chicago. Illinois. 
and have four children. Frank, Edward, 
Emma and Helen. Mr. Stanbery represents 
the Royal Insurance Company of London, 
England. 

John R. Stanbery attended the Columbus 
High School and the Capital University, it 
Columbus, Ohio. He accompanied his parents 
to Liberty Township, when they came here in 
1856, and he has lived here ever since, with 
the exception of five years, during which he 
was an employe of the Cincinnati & Zanesville 
Railroad and lived at Zanesville. Agricultural 
pursuits have afforded him more content than' 
either a mechanical, commercial or profes- 
sional career, although he is well equipped for 
either. His large estate is under a fine state 
of cultivation and he has it stocked with su- 
perior breeds of cattle and other livestock. He 
is undoubtedly one of the county's best and 
most successful farmers. 

John R. Stanbery was married at Zanes- 
ville, Ohio, to Annie Martin, who was a 
daughter of Alfred Martin. Mrs. Stanbery 
died in 1901. Her death removed from both 
family and social circles a lady of beautiful 
presence and lovable personality. She is sur- 
vived by two daughters. Adaline and Mary. 
The former is the wife of Edward S. Menden- 
hall, of Delaware. Ohio, and the latter is the 
wife of Miles T. Watts, of Cincinnati. Mr. 
and Mrs. Mendenhall have one daughter. An- 
nie. Mrs. Watts is a lady of literary talent 
and is an acceptable contributor to various 
publications of the day. including McClure's 
magazine. She belongs to a pleasant lite 
circle at Cincinnati, where her work is much 
appreciated. 

Mr. Stanbery is identified with the Hem- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



ocratic party, the family Eor several genera- 
tions having been connected with that organi- 
zation. He is interested in public and local af- 
fairs tn the extent of faithful citizenship, but 
he has never been willing to accept office. 




K (MAS A. FRYMAN, one of Thomp- 
son Township's representative citi- 
zens, owning a valuable farm of sev- 
enty-three and one-half acres, has re- 
sided here ever since 1850, with the 
exception of three years which he dedicated to 
the service of his country. Mr. Fryman was 
bom in Monroe County, Ohio. January 21, 
1N44. and is a son of George and Margaret 
(Porterfield) Fryman, and a grandson of 
George and Mary Fryman, who lived and died 
in Pennsylvania. 

George Fryman moved from Monroe to 
Belmont County. Ohio, and from there to 
Delaware County, which he reached March I, 
[850. lie was welcomed by his brother. John 
Fryman, who had come to Delaware County in 
1833, from Pennsylvania, subsequently being 
followed b) his brothers and two sisters, Mary 
A. and Margaret. Mary A. was the wife of 
Louis II. Vincent, and Margaret was the wife 
of Robert Craig. All are now deceased. One 
brother. Samuel. mined from Delaware 
County lo Oregon, Holl County, Missouri, 
prior to the Civil War. and two of his sons 
id in the Confederate army, and one son 
and a son-in-law were soldiers in the Union 
army. 

In 1857. George Fryman, father of Thomas 
A., purchased twent) acres of land in the 
\vi ods, in Thompson Township, which he later 
cleared and improved, and he resided on the 
place until the close of his life, September 30, 
[899, wlu-n aged eighty-eight years, five 
months and nineteen days, lie married Mar- 
el I '1 irterfield, who was 1" irn [une 9, 181 3, 
who died in August, [902, aged eighty-eighl 
S, two months and ten days. She was 
burn in America but was ,,f [ r j sn parentage. 
Three Porterfield brothers came from Ireland 
and -ettlcil in Belmonl Countv, Ohio, one of 



these, Alexander Porterfield, being her father. 
There were nine children born to George Fry- 
man and wife, three of whom died in infancy 
and four of whom survive. The record is as 
follows : Mary Jane married Salathail Rose 
and died in June, 1873. Susanna is the widow 
of Dexter Durfey and resides at Marion, Ohio. 
Christiana, who was born December 27, 1841, 
died November 2$, 1843. Thomas A. was 
the fourth born in this family. John, who 
was born December 15. 1846. died November 
24. 1847. Margaret Elizabeth, who was 
born September 13, 1848, married John Agin 
after the close of the Civil War. and died Sep- 
tember 27. 1868. Sarah C. married David 
Williams and they live in Thompson Town- 
ship. Martha E. is the widow of John Wil- 
liams and resides in Thompson Township, 
just west of her brother, Thomas A. Hannah, 
the youngest, was born October 26. 1857, died 
January 7, 1863. 

Thomas A. Fryman attended the district 
schools near his home. He was but seventeen 
years of age when he enlisted for service in 
the Civil War, entering Company F, Ninety- 
sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at 
Camp Delaware, on August 4, [862. On the 
first of the next month the regiment was sent 
to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there to 
Memphis, Tennessee, and then on to Vicks- 
burg, where it was stationed until the sur- 
render of that city. From Vicksburg the regi- 
ment was sent in pursuit of General Johnson, 
first to Jackson and from there to New Or- 
leans, and then to Matagorda Bay. then back 
to Vicksburg. Mr. Fryman participated in the 
Red River campaign and assisted in the cap- 
ture of Fort Morgan, Spanish Fort, Fort 
Gaines and Mobile. After the battle of Mo- 
bile the young soldier was mustered out and 
returned to Cam]) Chase. Ohio, July 29, 1865. 
going from there to his home. Although he 
was prostrated by a sun stroke, at Jackson. 
Mississippi, he returned comparatively tin- 
harmed notwithstanding his post of duty had 
frequently been one of the greatest danger, 
and his record shows that he never evaded any 
service. 

Mr. Fryman then resumed the peaceful 




COL. JAMES M. CRAWFORD 




MRS. SARAH H. CRAWFORD 



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593 



pursuits of agriculture and has given much at- 
tention tn raising hogs, each year having a 
large number to put on the market. He has 
added to the original farm and has improved 
the land by thorough cultivation and has 
erected new buildings and remodeled the old 
ones. A part of his residence was the old 
home of his uncle John and, although con- 
structed or logs, was considered a very fine 
house when it was built, the best one in the 
whole township. In 1903 he erected his pres- 
ent substantial barn. 

Mr. Fryman married Evaline Durfey, who 
is a daughter of James and Jane ( Nafus ) Dur- 
fey. and a granddaughter of Ebenezer and 
Malinda Durfey. James Durfey was a tailor 
by trade, residing in Union Count}', where 
Mrs. Fryman was born. Mr. and Mrs. Fry- 
man have had six children, namely : Ettie 
Elnora, Sarah C, George J., Cora. William 
Oscar and Thomas Ray. Ettie Elnora was 
horn in 1867 and married Archibald Black. 
They reside one-half mile distant from Mag- 
netic Springs, in Union County. They have 
had seven children : Clyde, Claude, Clifford, 
Clinton, Mary Evaline, Thomas Call, Clay- 
ton and Zola, the latter being deceased. Sarah 
C. was born in September. 1870. married John 
Gabriel and they lived in Radnor Township 
near Prospect. They have three daughters 
and two sons: Florence, Carl. Grace, Frances 
and Lester. George J. was born September 
6, 1873, married Bertha Williams of Wyan- 
dot County and they live in Union County. 
They have one child, Dorance. Cora was born 
September 30, 1876, married Nelson C. Fry- 
man and they reside in Thompson Township 
and have two sons and one daughter : Ernest, 
Max and Mildred. William Oscar was born 
September 30, 1879, married Lydia Smart of 
Union County and they have one child. Leah 
Evaline. Thomas Ray was horn in June. 
1 88 1. He married Clara Rider ami they have 
one daughter, Clara Louise. 

In politics, Mr. Fryman is a Democrat. 
For fifteen years he has served as a justice of 
the peace and for thirty years has been a use- 
ful member of the township Board of Educa- 
tion. He has always taken an active interest 



in advancing his community and is identified 
with the various movements which have made 
this one of the most intelligent and progressive 
sections of Delaware County. 




OL. JAMES M. CRAWFORD, an 
honored resident of Delaware, has 
been identified with the interests of 
Delaware County, in public office 
and private business, all his life. He 
was born in Delaware, Delaware County, 
Ohio, June 11, 1834, and is a son of Colonel 
James W. and Nancy (Stephen) Crawford. 
The name of Crawford is a familiar one in 
Ohio history, and has been particularly con- 
spicuous in public and military life. Colonel 
William Crawford, who was burned at the 
stake by hostile Indians, on Sandusky Plain, 
was a kinsman of the present representative 
of the name. This same Col. William Crawford 
served in Braddock's army, and was Colonel 
of the Fifth Virginia Regiment that served 
under General Washington during the war of 
the Revolution. James W. Crawford, father 
of James M., was an officer in the War of 
1812. Two brothers served in the war with 
Mexico, and two brothers and five nephews 
assisted, with Colonel James M. Crawford, in 
suppressing the Rebellion of 1861-5. Of these, 
two were killed in battle and two were mor- 
tally wounded, while another died at the close 
of the war from disease contracted in the 
service. Still another member — one of the 
younger generation — kept up the family pres- 
tige by serving in the Spanish-American War. 
as a member of President Roosevelt's Rough 
Riders. 

James M. Crawford was reared and edu- 
cated in Delaware, where he learned the trade 
of painter, which he followed until 1858. On 
the 1st of February. 1859, he joined with a 
party of nine other men. at Gabon, Ohio, who 
crossed the plains to the Rocky Mountain-. 
where he engaged in mining with various re- 
sults. Returning to Delaware in December, 
1859, he there resumed his trade, which he fol- 
lowed until the opening of the Civil war. Then. 



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not content with offering his own services to 
aid in preserving a united country he exerted 
himself to secure the enlistment of his friends, 
and with such good success that with one 
day's effort he raised a company, which was 
organized April 16, 1861, of which he was 
made captain. This company was immedi- 
ately offered to the governor of Ohio, and 
through Captain Crawford's energetic efforts, 
it became the first accepted military organiza- 
tion of the State for the Civil War service. The 
company, together with another Delaware 
County company, was assigned to the Fourth 
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. These 
Delaware companies were lettered respectively 
C ami I. and the record shows that the officers 
of Company C were the only ones commis- 
sioned as early as April 16, [861. 

Early in May, 1861, this regiment was en- 
listed for the three month' service, and before 
it was disbanded — in fact in June, [86] — it re- 
enlisted for three years. After serving with 
Company C until November 14. [862, Captain 
Crawford reluctantly resigned his commission 
on account of severe and repeated hemorrhages 
of the lungs, and returned to Delaware. As 
soon as his health permitted, he entered ac- 
tively into the recruiting service and so con- 
tinued until he was appointed colonel of the 
Ohio National Guard, and was assigned to the 
duty of instructing and disciplining the troops 
assembled at Columbus, in response to the 
Governor's call, for the defense of the State 
against Morgan's raiders. In this position Col- 
onel Crawford won signal honors and was 
complimented by the Governor as well as by 
the department commander. This did not 
close his military career, for he subsequently 
enlisted for the service of 100 days, in the One 
Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment, O. N. G., 
and commanded a detachment from the regi- 
ment for garrison duty at Forts Tillinghast 
and Craig, winch protected the chain of forti- 
fications south of Washington, D. C. On his 
return from this service he was honored by 
electi n as colonel of the Twenty-first Regi 
ment, ( ). \. G. 

In [866 Colonel Crawford resumed work 
at his trade and continued to be SO occupied 



for a number of years. In the spring of 1866 
he was appointed United States revenue as- 
sessor in Delaware County, and served in that 
office for five years. He then engaged in a 
real estate and insurance business, in which 
he remained interested until 1884. In the year 
last mentioned he and his wife were elected 
superintendent and matron respectively of the 
Girls' Industrial Home, and they continued, 
With slight intermissions, m those positions 
until 1892. The records for those years show 
how admirably the institution was conducted, 
and how thoroughly qualified were both Col- 
onel Crawford and his efficient wife for the 
discharge of the duties they had assumed. 

On his return to Delaware from the Girls' 
Industrial Home, he was offered a lucrative 
position in Chicago, Ills. Mr. J. K. Newcomer 
at that time was making a strenuous effort to 
organize a local company for the purpose of 
building an electric railway within the city 
limits. Thinking the project might prove to 
be a benefit to the city, Colonel Crawford was 
induced to join in the enterprise. He there- 
fore declined the Chicago proposition, and at 
once joined the promoters with his usual zeal, 
to help in carrying out their plans. A com- 
pany was soon organized and incorporated 
under the laws of Ohio. When the company 
advertised for bids for the construction of the 
road, he anticipating the advantages that might 
accrue from the stimulus given to home labor, 
determined to put in a bid. His bid. being 
much lower than that of any other contractor, 
was accepted and the contract given to him. 
The work was immediately commenced and 
was satisfactorily completed within the limits 
of the contract. 

Prior to the extension of the line into the 
grounds at Greenwood Lake. Colonel Craw- 
ford endeavored to secure a lease on the prem- 
ises for the purpose of developing more fully 
the natural beauty of this pleasant resort. Not 
being able to secure sufficiently satisfactory 
terms, according to the value of the property, 
upon which to base a lease, he abandoned 
further effort along this line and turned his 
attention toward the development of the great- 
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595 



To this end he purchased and moved into the 
pleasant home place afterward known as Five 
Oaks, on We^t Central Avenue, this being in 
the fall of i Si)-- The property purchased lies 
in close proximity t'> the well known Indian, 
or Little's Springs, whose healthful waters 
have inspired hint to a continued effort to gel 
hi- neighbors interested with him in the de- 
velopment of these beautiful grounds, whose 
resources seem to he beyond all present calcu- 
lation. At tin- writing there is an organiza- 
tion known as the Mineral Springs and Sani- 
tarium Company, of which he is president, 
with a capitalization of $150,000, ami with 
bright prospects of realizing their plans and 
seeing their efforts for the construction of the 
necessary buildings crowned with success. 

Colonel Crawford entered the political 
arena in 1855. and has been an active worker 
in the ranks of the Democracy ever since, hut 
side-stepped in i860 and [864 to vote for that 
greater Democrat, Abraham Lincoln, holding 
that he violated no tenet of his party in so 
doing. He has been many times called to the 
chairmanship of the County Committee, and 
served as a member of the State Central Com- 
mittee in 1884, when he stood Spartan-like 
against the machinations of the schemers in 
the committee to thwart the will of the people 
by placing another candidate in the field from 
Ohio against Judge Allan G. Thurman. the 
people's choice for the Presidency. He went 
t" Chicago with Judge Thurman and was se- 
lected by him as the custodian of his head- 
quarters during the struggle in the National 
convention. During- the Colonel's long service 
he has been frequently chosen as a delegate to 
Democratic State conventions. He was a 
delegate to the National convention at Cincin- 
nati in 1868. and an alternate at the National 
convention at Chicago in 1890. While Col- 
onel Crawford has displayed much activity in 
business and political affairs, his home life has 
been to him the sphere in which he realized 
the greatest degree of happiness, and in which 
he found the deepest sentiment- of his nature 
capable of their fullest expansion. He mar 
ried in 1864, Sarah M. Henry, a refined and 
accomplished lady, who was a native of Shell i\ 



County, Ohio. When he and hi- good wife 
moved to their suburban home, they felt that 
they had found a real haven beneath the tre 
and among the birds — a situation in which 
ethical culture becomes a pleasure and the fre- 
quent touch of Nature leads to a closer touch 
with the Creator. This quiet retreat became a 
refuge to all who sought its hospitality and 
appreciated the privilege of a free pull at the 
latch string, that ever hung on the outside of 
the door. Many of the recipients of the foster- 
ing care bestowed upon them in earlier years, 
returned, bearing mementos of their apprecia- 
tion of the kindness and consideration ex- 
tended to them in the days of their youth. To 
the Colonel and his wife these visits were like 
bread cast upon the waters, that returns after 
many days. 

This retreat was their happy home until 
August 15, 1903. when the deepest shadows 
that ever fall upon any household, en- 
compassed theirs. It was then that the good 
wife anil co-worker in public and private life, 
who was the light and the joy of their home 
for nearly forty years passed to her reward. 
Her death brought grief to all who had had 
the privilege of knowing her, kind and affec- 
tionate remembrance being shown by main' 
wards of the State upon whom she had lav- 
ished so much sympathizing care. 

Colonel Crawford remained at the old 
homestead until June, 1907, when he sold his 
place and located on North Franklin Street, 
where he now resides. 

Colonel Crawford has been financially in- 
terested in a number of important enterprises 
in this section. His connection with the Dela- 
ware Electric Railroad and its construction, 
and with the Mineral Springs and Sanitarium 
Company, has been already noticed. He is 
also a director in the Citizens Savings Bank. 
He belongs to Hiram Lodge, No. 18. F. & A. 
M.. to the Chapter and Council at Delaware. 
and to the Commandery at Marion. He has 
been a member of the local Grand Army post 
from it- organization. For half a century he 
ha- keen a member of William Street Metho 
di-t Episcopal Church, and also teaches a 
large class in the Sunday school. He has 



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served as justice of the peace for two terms, 
commencing in 1877 and closing in 1883; and 
was a member of the city School Board six 
years, 1894 to 1900. A man of tried integrity 
and public spirit, with a readiness to sacrifice 
himself for the interests of others, yet of- good 
business ability, social in his nature, with a 
cheerful disposition and kind and genial man- 
ners, sucb is Colonel Crawford as his neigh- 
bors see him. The weight of years has made 
little impression on him, nor ever will in any 
essential respect, for he is pre-eminently one 
of those who may wear out but will never rust 
out. 




ELYLY CASS CLICK, one of Con- 
cord Township's leading men. 
owning 300 acres of valuable land. 
was born in Concord Township, 
Delaware County. Ohio. Decem- 
ber 9, 1851. 011 a farm within one-half mile 
from where he now resides, lli-- parents were 
Lyman T. and Ellen Matilda (Dunlap) Glick. 
Lyman T. Glick came to Delaware County 
from Licking County. Ohio, about [840, and 
purchased a farm near Plain City, but later 
sold that land and bought fifty-eight and one- 
third acres in Concord Township. He en- 
gaged in agricultural pursuits through life and 
also acted as agent for various concerns. He 
died at the age of fifty-seven years. About 
1N47 he married Ellen Matilda Dunlap and 
there were six children born to them, namely: 
Lafayette and Esther, both of whom died 
young; Julian Andrew, who lived to the age 
of -'_' years: Melvm ( !ass ; Leroy Addison, 
residing in Liberty Township, married (first) 
[da May Thurston and (second) Mary 
Thompson; and Elisha Murry, who is engaged 
in farming in Franklin County, married Emma 
Hard. 

Melvin Cass Glick grew to nianh 1 in 

Concord Township, where, since lie finished 
going to school, he has carried on agricultural 
activities. He has lived on his present farm 
for the past 26 years. Prior to that he rented 
land for a number of years. When he con- 



tracted to purchase his first farm of 41 and 
three fourths acres, he paid $252.50 to seal the 
bargain, and went into debt for $800. This 
does not seem such a large amount to him 
now, but many years of hard work and pro- 
vident saving followed before Mr. (dick and 
his estimable wife felt themselves entirely free 
of incumbrance and ready to enjoy the fruits 
of their persevering labor. When Mr. Glick 
came here he found the land much run down 
ami requiring a large amount of fertilizing and 
careful managing to make it productive. He 
immediately began to build up the land and also 
to make necessary improvements and in the 
course of a few years built the present sub- 
stantial farm buildings. The little log cabin in 
which Mr. and Mrs. (dick went to housekeep- 
ing, after the}- came to this [dace, still stands. 
Mr. Glick has made a specialty of raising 
horses, mules and ponies. He keeps an aver- 
age of 35 head and has two registered Perch- 
eron stallions. His farm is noted over a large 
territory for the fine mules anil Shetland ponies 
raised here. A recent sale of mules for $475, 
and an offer of $450, for a second pair, indi- 
cate the valuable animals he keeps. He aims 
to sell from five to six head of horses annually. 
His livestock are well cared for, comfortable 
shelter being provided, with an abundance of 
clear water. 

In 1 87 1, Mr. Click married Susan Ann 
Edwards, who is a daughter of James ami 
Margaret Edwards. Her parents are deceased 
and she was born near Rochester, in the State 
of New York. Her parents moved to Frank- 
lin County, Ohio, about 1857 and purchased a 
farm, and sold it in about two years later and 
purchased another in Delaware County, Ohio, 
where she was reared. She has two sisters: 
Margaret, who is the wife of J. P. Seeley. re- 
siding in Seward County, Nebraska ; and Car- 
rie Emmeline, who married Nelson Emmer- 
son, residing at Seattle, Washington. 

Mr. and Mrs. (dick have had four children, 
namely: James Terrell, who died in 1906, 
aged 33 years; Addie, who married R. B. 
Maddox, resides in Liberty Township, and 
they have two daughters. Marjorie and Laura : 
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597 



York; and Turney Edward. The latter is a 
young man of 20 years residing at home. In 
National politics, Mr. Glick votes the Dem- 
ocratic ticket, but is independent in local af- 
fairs. He belongs to Protection Lodge. No. 
219, I. O. O. F., at Jerome. 




HARLES CARLSON, one of Liberty 
jy/g] Township's excellent citizens and 
representative farmers, was born 
November J3, 184J. in Sweden, 
where his father, Charles Carlson, 
lived and died. 

In 1869. when 27 years of age, Mr. Carl- 
son came to America and after a pause in New 
York, proceeded to Burlington, Iowa, remain- 
ing in that State for five years, variously en- 
gaged. Prior to reaching Delaware County, 
September 10. 1875. ' ie had worked at Toledo. 
Ohio, and for a short time he engaged in rail- 
road work in Delaware County, but finally 
w 1 irked at farming on the place on which he 
has resided ever since. 

On September 26, 1876, Mr. Carlson was 
married to Dora Case. The grandparents of 
Mrs. Carlson were Lumis and Lucinda Case 
and Roswell and Nancy Tuller. Both fami- 
lies came to Ohio from Connecticut and the 
maternal grandparents died on the present 
farm, their burial being at Powell. The pa- 
ternal grandparents settled at Beechtown, 

< (hio, and the grandfather died at Marietta, 
and both he and wife were interred in Grove 
Cemetery, Delaware. August Case, father of 
Mrs. Carlson, was born in 1816, and died of 
cholera at Delaware. Ohio, in 1854. He had 
the contract to carry the mail prior to the 
building of the railroad to Delaware. He mar- 
ried Cynthia Tuller. who was born at 1'oweli. 

< »hio, in [819, and died in 1880. aged 61 years. 
They had three -"lis and two daughters, 
namely: Oscar, born April 6, 1S40. residing 
at Powell ; Josephine, horn February 13. 1842, 
married Winfield S. Marks, residing in Liberty 
Township; Cicero, born June 13. 1N44. is en- 
gaged in farming in Liberty Township: Mr-. 
Carlson, horn February [8, 1851 ; and Lumis, 

35 



born August 2, 1854, who is a conductor on 
the Hocking Valley Railroad. 

Mr. and Mrs. Carlson have had five chil- 
dren, as follows: Cicero, born July i 1. [877, 
is a conductor on the Hocking Valley Rail- 
road, married Gertrude Johnston and they re- 
side at Columbus; Fred, born March 1, 1879, 
is in the employ of the Wells-Fargo Express 
Company, at Chicago; Worthy, born April 9, 
1 88 1. is an employe of the Hocking Valley 
Railroad; Victor, born February 18, J884, is 
also with the Hocking Valley system ; and 
Guy, born June 16, 1888, who died September 
28, 1888. 

Mrs. Carlson has resided on the present 
home farm, containing 147 acres, since she was 
eight years old, and Mr. Carlson has resided 
here since 1875. In 1882 the comfortable resi- 
dence was built and many improvements have 
since bee'n made. Mr. Carlson is a member of 
Powell Lodge, No. 4, Odd Fellows, and of 
Powell Lodge of Knights of Pythias. I lis eld- 
est son, Cicero, is a Mason. In politics, Mr. 
Carlson votes independently, doing his own 
thinking and supporting the candidates who, 
in his judgment, will best carry out the law-. 
-The family is one which stands very high in 
general esteem in Liberty Township. 




D. KING who is serving in his fourth 
year as auditor of the city of Dela- 
ware, ranks with the leading- and 
representative citizens of this locality. 
He was born at Springfield. Ohio, 
where he lived until 22 years of age, clerking 
in a drug store after completing his educa- 
te n. 

For three years after leaving Spring 
.Mr. King was connected with the drug h< 
ot ( )rr. Brown & Price, at Columbus, and then 
came to Delaware, where he embarked in a 
drug business for himself. This was si: 
quently developed into the drug firm of Miller 
& King, which continued for one year, and for 
three years afterward. Mr. King was engage 1 
in a cigar business. Me disposed of his cigar 
interests to accept his present office, in which 



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he has proved so efficient and reliable that it is 
doubtful it the city has ever had a more popu- 
lar official. In addition to performing the du- 
ties of city auditor, he is also clerk of the 
Council, has served as clerk of the Board of 
Public Service, is clerk of the Board of Public 
Safety and of the Board of Library Trustees, 
and secretary of the Sinking Bund and Tax 
O immission. 

On September 22, 1892, Mr. King was 
married to Emma C. Eagle, who is a daughter 
of the late Frank Eagle, of Spring-field. He 
and his wife have had five children, namely : 
Helen Marie, Carl Francis, Robert Edward, 
Frank D., Jr., and Paul Anthony. The fourth 
child, Frank D., Jr.. died September 9, 1907, 
at the age of three years ami two months. Mr. 
King is a member of St. Mary's Church. 

Mr. King is very prominent in fraternal 
circles and has frequently been honored with 
official positions in various organizations. He 
belongs to the B. P. O. Elks, No. 76, and for 
three years was secretary of the local bod); 
to F. O. Eagles. No. 376, and for four years 

- its secretary, and one year worthy presi- 
dent, and is a life member of this organization, 
lie belongs also to Council No. 1056, Knights 
of Columbus; Pasl Commander Camp. No. 
50, Suns of Veterans; Court No. 1883, For- 
esters; Branch No. 79. Catholic Knights of 
Ohio; and Tent. No. 246, Maccabees. He is 

tified with the Commercial Club. 




RUCE CHARLES, an enterprising 
citizen of Thompson Township, who 
is doing a prosperous grist- and saw- 
mill business, and also runs a cider- 
press, was born in Harrison Town- 
ship, Licking County, Ohio, August 17. 1X54, 
son of Simon and Amanda (Channel) Charles. 
I IN paternal grandfather was one of the first 
settlers in Licking County, there being but 
live others there when he arrived. Aboul the 
time there arrived in Harrison Towu- 
. Solomon Channel, the maternal grand- 
father 1 m' Mr. Cbai^ 



Simon Charles, father of Bruce, was born 
in the State of New Jersey, and came to Ohio 
with his parents. In 1859 he purchased the 
mill now owned by the subject of this sketch. 
It had been built in 1834 by Roswell Fields, 
from whom it passed into the possession of his 
sun. Samuel Fields, who sold it to Mr. 
Charles, and it is still known as the Simon 
Charles Mill. The millwright was Henry- 
Waits, who became of unbalanced mind and 
one of whose peculiarities it was to imagine 
that all the mills he had built were his own 
personal property. He used frequently to visit 
Mr. Charles, always carrying with his his 
boot-jack, and also a pole with a hook on' the 
end for pulling people out of the water. The 
sash, saw upright, and gearing that are still 
in the mill were put in by Henry Waits 74 
years ago. The framework, hewed sills and 
braces, and the siding of black walnut, is all 
his work, also the machinery, except two 



wooden cog-wheels. 



During the Civil Wat- 



Simon built the residence in which his son 
Bruce now lives, the entire building, including 
24 doors, being all of black walnut. He was 
well qualified for such an undertaking, as he 
was a cabinet-maker bv trade and also a maker 
of caskets for burial purposes. He manu- 
factured the casket in which Waits was buried. 
In the prosperous days of the Pennsylvania 
and Ohio Canal he spent 11 years at Warren, 
Ohio, engaged in building canal boats. He 
was a member of the Grange and in politics a 
Democrat. His death took place about 30 
years ago. By his wife Amanda, daughter of 
Solomon Channel, he had 11 children, nine of 
whom were born in Licking County. Two 
were born in this (Thompson) Township, 
namely : Stephen Charles, who died about 
fifteen years ago and who was a partner of the 
subject of this sketch, and Almeda, who mar- 
ried O. D. Browning, and died March 13. 
[908. Of the others, Caroline was accidentally 
burned to death at the age of 17 years; Griffith 
died from diphtheria in [867; Bruce is a mil- 
let of Thompson Township and the direct sub- 
ject .if this article; Frank died from diphtheria 
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only living full brother of Bruce Charles, re- 
sides in Gallion, Ohio, and is a freight con- 
ductor in the employ of the Erie Railroad. 

The mother of the above mentioned chil- 
dren died in March. [867, and Simon Charles 
subsequently married for his second wife Mrs. 
Armentrout of Licking County. Of this 
union there is one child, William Simon 
Charles, who is a printer residing in Spokane, 
Washington. 

Bruce Charles was five years old when he 
ace mipanied his parents to Thompson Town- 
ship, and he has ever since resided here. Me 
distinctly remembers helping to drive the 
cows from the old home when the family made 
the journey here in wagons. He was early 
initiated into the milling" business, and for 
mam- years was a useful assistant to his father. 
On the latter's death he came into possession 
of the mill property, which he has since ci m- 
ducted and greatly improved, having installed 
modern machinery, including a 25-horse- 
power -team engine and a 14-horsepower gaso- 
line engine. He owns in all about 90 acres 
of land, including the mill property which 
covers 1 1 acres. In addition to the original 
milling plant he has installed a powerful hy- 
draulic cider-press. These enterprises are all 
in flourishing condition, due to Mr. Charles's 
capable business management. In politics he 
is a Democrat and he belongs to the Modern 
Woodmen, having first joined the order at 
Warrensburg but being now a member of the 
Camp at Prospect. 

Mr. Charles was married. December 9, 
[881, to Miss Mary Love, a daughter of 
Leonard Love. Mrs. Charles's father died 
when she was four years old. Her mother 
was in maidenhood a Mis- McVeigh. The 
household of Mr. and Mrs. Charles has heen 
enlarged by the birth of four children 
and one daughter, namely: Blanche, who 
married six years ago William Hansome, of 
Magnetic Springs, a conductor on the Mag- 
netic Spring Electric Road, and has a daugh- 
ter — Lucille: Carl, residing at home; Earl, re- 
siding at home, who is assisting his father in 
the mill: and Melvin, who i< attending school. 

Mrs. Charles died in March. L908, at the 
age of 49 years, five months and _'i days. 



Few women in the community were more 
highly esteemed. She was a faithful member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which she 
joined in Fulton Creek Chapel, subsequently 
becoming a member of Thompson Chapel. In 
the winter of 1907-08 she spent four months 
in Tryon, North Carolina, with the view of 
benefitting her health, which had become im- 
paired, and when she started on her journey 
40 or more of her friends and neighbors ac- 
companied her to the train to bid her farewell. 
While in Tryon. her active, helpful disposition 
prompted her to organize the Aid Society, the 
first of its kind organized in that place. She 
always took an active part in church and mis- 
sionary work, and for two years was superin- 
tendent of the Sunday school. Her loss was 
deeply felt, not only by her husband and chil- 
dren, but also throughout the community ac 
large, the members of which realized that ." 
true Christian woman and a kind and hos- 
pitable neighbor had passed from among them. 
Her memory will long he kept green in the 
hearts of her many friends. 




ILLIAM W. WILLIAMS, who was 
for many years one of the best 
known citizens and most promi- 
nent agriculturalists of Troy 
Township, was born in this town- 
ship August 2 j. 1835. son of William B. and 
Margaret (Davis) Williams. His parents 
were natives of Wales. William B. Williams 
coming from that country when a boy with his 
mother and step-father. They settled in Troy 
Township, Delaware County, Ohio, where he 
spent the industrial period of his life engaged 
in agriculture. 

William W. Williams was reared to man- 
li 1 in Troy Township and secured his edu- 
cation in the public schools. He then engaged 
in fanning and soon became well and favor- 
ably known as an agriculturist and breeder oi 
horses. In 1870, in company with Stephen 
Thomas, he made a trip to France, being inter- 
ested in a company organized for the purchase 
of French drait horses, of which they brought 
hack four head. ■ In r888 he returned to 



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France in his own interest, bringing back three 
head. Through his efforts the quality of draft 
horses in this section was largely improved. 
So- successful was he along these lines that at 
his death he left an ample estate, including a 
farm in Radnor Township and one in Troy 
Township, on the latter of which in a pleas- 
antly situated brick dwelling, Mr. Williams's 
widow and her son, William L., now reside. 
Mr. Williams was always an industrious and 
energetic farmer. Although, as already indi- 
cated, he accumulated in time a large amount 
of property, he aimed less to increase the 
quantity than to improve the quality of that 
which he had. His farm in Troy Township 
has been described as "undoubtedly the best- 
equipped farm in that part of the county, in 
point of farm buildings, tiling, and fruit cul- 
ture." He was a faithful member of the Bap- 
tist Church, which Mrs. Williams also attends. 
On January 6, 1871, he was elected deacon of 
the church and served faithfully as such until 
his death, which occurred February 17. 1907. 
A kind husband and father and an obliging 
neighbor, he was honored and esteemed by his 
fellow citizens, who knew him also as a man 
of much public spirit and many sterling char- 
acteristics. In politics he was a Republican, 
and be took much interest in the educational 
progress of the township. 

< )n June 8. [865, Mr. Williams was mar- 
ried to Eliza R. Lewis, who was born October 
24. [836, in Licking ( bounty, ( >hio, and w ho 1 • 
a daughter of John and Sarah (Hughe-) 
Lewis, natives of Wales and early settlers 
in Licking Count). Ohio. The marriage of 
Mr. and Mrs. Williams was blessed by the 
birth of two children — Lizzie A., who is the 
wile of John Pugh, residing in Radnor 
Township; and William L., residing with his 
mother in To >\ L i\\ nship. 



V. C< iXKI.IX, M. 1)., .-, leading citi- 
oi I 1 oy Township, w here he 
owns a \ aluable farm, ic cres of 
land, well-improved ; ix\ under thor- 
ough cultivation, has been promi- 
nently identified with the Eclectic School of 




Medicine, in Ohio, since he received his de- 
gree in i860. He assisted to organize the 
Ohio State Eclectic Society and was its first 
vice-president, and served also as the president 
of that important medical body. Dr. Conklin 
belongs to an old pioneer family of the State. 
He was born in Morrow County. Ohio. No- 
vember 21, 1 832, and is a son of Jacob and 
Orra (Payne) Conklin. 

The parents of Dr. Conklin were of new 
England birth, his father coming from Ver- 
mont and his mother from Connecticut. Ja- 
cob Conklin was a soldier in the War of 18 12. 
and alter its close, in 1814, he settled first in 
Delaware County, Ohio, and later moved to 
that section which became Morrow County. 
where be died in 1875. 

Dr. Conklin was reared in Morrow 
County and enjoyed educational advantages at 
Mt. Hesper Seminary, following which he 
taught school for some years, in this way pro- 
viding for his own prefessional education. He 
was graduated from the Eclectic Medical In- 
stitute at Cincinnati, in i860, and practiced 
subsequently at Waldo and at South Wood- 
bury, in 1875 coming to Delaware County. 
Lor many years Dr. Conklin was one of the 
leading medical practitioners in this section 
and few men are better known. Public affairs 
and local good government have claimed his 
attention, in the light of good citizenship, and 
he has long been identified with the Republi- 
can party, with strong views in favor of tem- 
perance. 

On November 12, r86i, Dr. Conklin was 
married to Maria Hull, who was born in 
Marion County, Ohio, and is a daughter it 
Nathaniel and Nancy (Wyatt) Hull, both i 
whom died in Marion County. Dr. and Mrs. 
Conklin have two children: Prof. Edwin G., 
Ph. D., a member of the faculty of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, filling the chair of 
Biology; and Eva C, who married Charles 
Page, residing at Columbus, Ohio. 

Dr. and Mrs. Conklin are members of the 
V-bury Methodist Episcopal Church, at Dela- 
ware, lie is identified with several leading 
fraternities and has hern an ( )dd Fellow since 
1856 and a Mason for about 37 years. 




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603 




AMES ROBERT LYTLE, A. M., at- 
torney and counsellor at law, of Dela- 
ware, Ohio, is a man of prominence 
in his profession and is widely known 
throughout this section of the State. 
He was born in Clear Creek Township, Fair- 
field County, Ohio, April 9, [841, and is a 
son of James and Catherine (Freymyer) 
Lytle. 

James Lytle, the father, was horn in Lan- 
caster Count}-, Pennsylvania, and there re- 
ceived an educational training in the public 
schools. He was a remarkably fine penman, 
and became known as a broad and liberal- 
minded man. In 1837, he came west to Ohio, 
and engaged in farming in Wayne Count}' for 
1 me year, then removed to Clear Creek Town- 
ship in Fairfield County, where he purchased a 
farm. He followed general farming. His 
wife died in 1855. aged forty-two years, and 
he followed her to the grave in 1866. She also 
was horn in Lancaster Count}-, Pennsylvania, 
and was a daughter of Jacob Freymyer. Four 
children were the issue of their union, as fol- 
lows: Catherine A., deceased, who first mar- 
ried Dr. C. C. Bryson, ami later John T. 
Evans, who at that time was clerk of the court 
in Delaware County; John, who died at the 
age of twenty-one years: James Robert, whose 
name heads this sketch; and William F., who 
enlisted in Co. 1. Ninetieth Regiment, O. V. I., 
and was captured by guerrillas on Strawberry 
Plains, just after the battle of Chickamauga, 
and was never heard from afterwards. Mr. 
Lytle was of the Episcopal faith, and his wife 
of the Lutheran. He was originally a Whig 
in politics, and later joined the Know-Noth- 
but became a Republican upon the organ- 
ization of that party. A strong Abolitionist, 
he was connected with the Underground Rail- 
road during the war. 

James Robert Lytle was reared in Fair- 
field County and received a rudimentary edu- 
11 in the common schools. He entered 
Ohio Wesleyan University, but after attend- 
ing that institution one year, was obliged to 
return home and take charge of the farm, his 
lu-other having enlisted in the service of the 



Union Army. He continued at home until 
the spring of 1804. when he enlisted in Co. 1, 
One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Regiment, O. 
V. I., and went with his regiment to Baltimore, 
where for one hundred days they guarded rail- 
roads about that city. Immediately after his 
return home from the war, he re-entered Ohio 
Wesleyan University, from which he was 
graduated in June, 1868. During his vaca- 
tions he had read law under the direction of 
Jones & Hippie of Delaware, and in June, 
1869, he was admitted to the bar, just one year 
from the date of his graduation. He went 
to Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio, and en- 
gaged in practice one year, then returned to 
Delaware and formed a partnership with his 
former preceptor, Gen. John S. Jones, under 
the name and style of Jones & Lytle. This 
association of legal talent continued for a pe- 
riod of twenty-five years, during which time 
the firm was identified with much of the im- 
portant litigation in the courts of Delaware 
County. Since April 1, 1895, Mr. Lytle has 
practiced alone and has maintained the pres- 
tige established in earlier years. He has been 
especially active in practice before the Bureau 
of Pensions, having procured the grant of 
more than fifteen hundred pensions. He also 
procured bounty for many of the veterans or 
their families, and his familiarity with the 
bounty records of Delaware County resulted 
in the exposure of the bounty frauds and the 
saving to Delaware County of more than $20,- 
000. Among the important cases with which 
Mr. Lytle has been identified, was the prose- 
cution through the United States Circuit 
Court of two suits for the heirs of Leonard 
Case, a multi-millionaire of Cleveland, in 
which he was opposed by many lawyers, 
among the number being some of the most 
distinguished practitioners before the bar in 
Ohio. The number of defendants in one of 
these cases was 648, and the land involved was 
valued at many millions, including- the sites of 
Case Library and the City Hall in Cleveland, 
about one mile of lake front, some 4,000 lots 
in all. and 1,900 acres of land adjoining Cleve- 
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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Building Association and Loan Company, and 
numbers among his clients many other of the 
important business concerns of Delaware. 

Mr. Lytle cast his first presidential ballot 
for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and has ever 
since been an active participant in political 
affairs. He was identified with the Republi- 
can party until 1894, and during that time 
served two years as chairman of the Republi- 
can County Central Committee. He has since 
that date been a supporter of the Democratic 
party, and has served two years as chairman 
of the Democratic Executive Committee. In 
1894, he was Democratic nominee for Probate 
judge and was honored with a large vote, 
being defeated by 339 votes, while the head of 
the ticket was defeated by McKinley, the Re- 
publican candidate for governor, by 969 votes. 

July 28, 1808, James 1\. Lytle was united 
in marriage with Miss Cornelia Ann Chase, 
whii was born in Porter Township, Delaware 
County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Rev. Ira 
and Jane (Wilcox) Chase, a record of whom 
appears on another page of this work. Her 
paternal grandparents came from England 
and were of noble birth, and Mrs. Lytle has in 
her possession the Chase coat of arms. She is 
descended from Aquilla Chase and one of the 
lines to the noted Chase-Townly estate in Eng- 
land. Her father was a cousin of Salmon P. 
Chase, one of Ohio's greatest governors, and 
also an uncle of Governor Chase of Indiana. 
Mrs. Chase was a native of Rhode Island and 
was a near relative of the two brothers. Gen- 
eral and Bishop Rosecrans, who were former 
residents of Delaware County. She also was 
related to Livingstone, the noted explorer. 
Mrs. Lytle attended Wesleyan University and 
afterward studied art under a private tutor, 
being a great lover of nature and fond of land- 
scape paintings, she has quite a collection of 
her own work. She continued her art work 
for several years after her marriage. She 
has always been very much interested in the 
poor of the city and was for a long time con- 
ference treasurer of the Woman's Home Mis- 
sionary Society of the Ohio Conference of the 
Methodist Kpiscopal Church. Quiet and re- 
tiring in her tastes, she has been found mostly 



in that sphere of comparative seclusion which 
is bounded by the domestic relations in life, 
her greatest interests centering in home and 
family. Mr. and Mrs. Lytle have reared a 
family of three children, one son and two 
daughters, whose honorable and useful lives 
evidence the careful training of a devoted 
mother. The children are as follows : Wil- 
liam James, graduated from the public schools 
of Delaware in 1886, from Ohio Wesleyan 
University in 1890, and then took up the study 
of law. He served as assistant postmaster in 
the city of Delaware for nearly three years, 
discharging eyery duty to the satisfaction of 
his many friends. During this time he con- 
tinued the studies of his chosen profession and 
had almost completed his legal course, when 
he was taken ill. and went to the far west hop- 
ing to regain his health, but all in vain. After 
leaving California, he went to Arizona where 
he died in November, 1898, in the prime of 
life. Mr. Lytle was a young man of superior 
ability, of fine character, and noble ambitii >n. 
He was a member of the I. O. O. F., Knights 
of Pythias, and the Order of Elks. Baroness 
Viola Lytle von Uchtritz was the second child 
born to our subject and his wife; and Countess 
Nelly Lytle Eulenburg was the youngest of the 
family. Mr. and Mrs. Lytle are active members 
of St. Paul's M. E. Church, of which he is 
steward and was treasurer for many years. 
Fraternallv, he is a member of Hiram L dge, 
Xo. 18., F. & A. M.: Delaware Chapter No. 
54, R. A. M. ; Delaware Council, No. 84. R. 
& S. M.; and George B. Torreuce Post. ( i. 
A. R. 




LLIAM F. CRICKARD. M. D.. 

physician and surgeon at Dela- 
ware, has been a resident of this 
city for the past 30 years, hut was 
born in Muskingum County, Ohio, 
lie is a son of James and Eliza Ann (South- 
ard) Crickard. 

The parents of Dr. Crickard settled on 
a farm in Delaware County, during the lat- 
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605 



the Federal army as wagon-master of the 
Eighty-second Regiment, O. V. I., and served 
in the conflict lor four years. He was pro- 
moted tu the rank of second and later to that 
df first lieutenant, subsequently was commis- 
sioned a captain and still later brevet major. 
For two years he faced all the chances of hat- 
tie. When the Twentieth Army Corps was 
organized it was sent to Tennessee, anil the 
regiment with which Major Crickard was con- 
nected participated in all the battles' from 
Chickamauga to Atlanta, was at Jonesboro 
and with Sherman in his march to the sea. At 
Savannah he was placed in charge of 1.000 
men. commissioned to take them to Xew York. 
After this service was performed, he rejoined 
his regiment. Major Crickard had a record of 
being in 36 general engagements, and he did 
not escape injury. He received a serious 
wound in the elbow of his right arm — the bul- 
let which caused it never being extracted, and 
another wound in the temple, where he was 
struck by an exploding shell. His subsequent 
life was spent on his farm. Six of his seven 
children still survive, as follows: James, re- 
siding at Vernon. Jennings County, Indiana; 
John and Dr. William F., both residing at 
Delaware; Malissa; Lydia. who is principal 
of the North Delaware Union School ; and 
Cora Belle, who married Charles Copeland. 
and with her husband is a teacher in the Saiftl- 
wich Islands. 

Dr. Crickard obtained his literary educa- 
tion in the schools of Delaware, and took his 
first course of medical lectures at Cleveland 
and his second at Cincinnati. Subsequently 
he took special courses in Philadelphia and 
Xew York, being under the direct instruction 
of Dr. Hearn, the first assistant of Dr. Gross, 
the eminent specialist, at Philadelphia. In 
.Yew York he went before the arm}' Examining 
Hoard and after satisfactorily standing all 
tests, he returned to Delaware and has been 
engaged in the practice of his profession in 
this city ever since. He has always been a 
close student and in 1874-75 he took a special 
course with the celebrated Dr. Smith, of 
Cleveland, in diseases of the eye. ear, nose and 
throat. Dr. Crickard is a member of the Dela- 



ware County Medical Society and of the Ohio 
State Medical Society, and keeps well posted 
on all the advances made in his science. 

In 1 88 1 Dr. Crickard was married to Mar- 
garet Edwards, then of Delaware Count}, but 
a native of Racine, Wisconsin. They have 
a pleasant home in Delaware and Dr. Crickard 
has well-appointed offices at No. 59 North 
Union Street. He is a member of the Wil- 
liam Street Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Fraternally, he is connected with the Kinghts 
of Pythias and the Eaeles. 




I". HOWALD, the owner of an excel- 
lent farm of 103 acres in Marlborough 
Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
where he has been prominently identi- 
fied with public matters, was born No- 
vember 10. 1849. m Licking- County. < > 
and is a son of Andrew and Fannie (Lantz) 
Howald. 

The parents of Mr. Howald. who were 
natives of Canton Berne, Switzerland, came 
to America in 1848. and settled at once in 
Licking County, Ohio, from whence they re- 
moved in 1850 to the woods of Marlborough 
Township, Delaware County, and here the re- 
mainder of their lives was spent, the father 
dying in 1868 and the mother some time later. 
J. F. How-aid secured his education in the 
district schools of Marlborough Township, 
whence he had been brought as an infant, and 
here he has engaged in agricultural pursuits 
all of his life, being now the owner of 103 
acres of fine property, in a good state of culti- 
vation. Mr. Howald is one of Delaware 
County's progressive citizens, and is a leader 
in any movement calculated to be of benefit 
to his community. For nine years he served as 
trustee of Marlborough Township, which he 
also represented at county conventions he! 
Delaware, and he has been much interested in 
educational matters in his section of the county. 
He is a consistent member of the Reformed 
Church at Prospect, Ohio. 

Mr. Howald was married to Hattie Weiser, 
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Weiser, of Delaware. Ohio, and to this union 
there were born three children, namely: Wil- 
liam A., who is the popular proprietor of the 
well known "Candy Kitchen" restaurant at 
Delaware; Nettie Irene, who is the wife of 
Frank Detwiler of Marion, Ohio: and Maud 
I-... wife of J. O. Wilcox, who is a partner of 
his father in the implement business at Ashley, 
Ohio. 




XDREW J. BAGLEY, a leading citi- 
zen of Orange Township and one 
of her self-made and substantial men, 
engages in farming and stock-raising 
on his property situated here, which 
cn-ists of 218 acres of very valuable land. 
Mr. Bagley was born April 23, 1838, in Mus- 
kingum County, Ohio, and is a son of Samuel 
and Sarah (Lenhart) Bagley. 

The pioneer of the Bagley family in Ohio, 
was the grandfather, Reuben Baglev, who 
started from Loudoun County. Virginia, in i 
two-horse wagon, with his wife, five sons and 
three daughters, the names of his children be- 
ing John, Benjamin. Samuel. Hiram and 
Christopher, and Sarah, Betsey and P. ill v. 
Reuben Bagley settled in Muskingum Count v. 
At this time the son Samuel was a boy of 10 
year- and he grew to manhood on the pioneer 
1 and was subsequently married in Mus- 
eum County to Sarah Lenhart. She was 
born in 1805 and died in June. [861. Her 
parents were John and Eliza ( Morgan) Len- 
hart. Samuel Bagley was married (second) 
in [862, lo l.ovitha Mathews, both deceased. 
In 1851 the parents of Andrew J. Bagley re- 
ed from Muskingum to Vinton Count v. 
1 ! where they lived until death, the mothe\ 
at the age of 56 years and the father aged y~ 
For 55 years he was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church and was conscien- 
ni hi- support of all its uplifting agencies. 
I 1 1 many years he was a subscriber to a re- 
ligious journal and on the day of his death, 
■ I a distance of a mile and a halt in 
er to get it from the pi 1st office, ile was 
lenly stricken, and with apparently no 



suffering passed out of life, leaving behind him 
the record of a good man. His 1 1 children 
were born to his first union and two of these 
died in infancy. James William, the oldest 
survivor, resides at Logan, Hocking County. 
Ohio. Andrew J., of Orange Township, is 
the second in order of birth. Spencer resides 
at Rock Island, Illinois. John L. resides at 
Logan, in Hocking County. Samuel H. and 
Christopher both reside in Worth Count)', 
Missouri. Eliza Amanda died in Athens 
Countw Ohio. Arie Jane and Martha reside 
at Columbus. 

Andrew J. Bagley attended the district 
schools of Vinton County and spent his boy- 
hood on the home farm, after which he worked 
for a time through the neighborhood. When 
the Civil War was precipitated, Mr. Bagley's 
thoughts turned toward a military life, one 
strange enough to a country-bred youth, and 
his mind was. soon made up. On July 14. 
1861, he enlisted in Company C. Thirty-ninth 
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a com- 
pany that was recruited in the neighborhood 
of Nelsonville. For a few days the regiment 
was detained at Cincinnati and at camp at 
Springfield and then was sent on to St. Louis, 
where it embarked for Island No. 10, down 
the Mississippi River. The military annals 
of the time tell how Xew Madrid was cap- 
tured, with 1,600 Confederates evacuating 
Island No. 10. The regiment went on down 
the mighty river to Fort Pillow, and from 
there to Hamburg Landing. There the Thir- 
ty-ninth Regiment formed a part of the left 
wing of the army that participated in the bat- 
tle of Shiloh which followed, and then con- 
tinued to pursue the enemy to Farmington, 
where the latter made a slight stand, and then 
fell back to Corinth. Four regiments, includ- 
ing the Thirty-ninth, with a battery, were then 
detailed to guard the M. & C. Railroad. From 
there nearly the entire brigade went to Mem- 
phis. Tennessee. 

At Memphis, in the winter of [863-64, 
Air. Bagley re-enlisted as a veteran, marched 
with his regiment from that city to Chatta- 
nooga. There General Sherman consolidated, 
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607 



Bagley was with the part of the army that 
pursued General Joseph Johnson, participating 
in that series of great battles reaching from 
Ringgold Station to Resaea. Dallas, Big Shanty 
and Kenesaw Mountain, followed by Mari- 
etta. Bethel Church and Chattahoochee River. 
He was also in the engagement at Decatur 
and in the battle of Peach Tree Creek. I lis 
regiment marched then to Jonesboro and to 
Lovejoy Station and after following" General 
Hood and lighting in the battle at Franklin, 
returned to Atlanta. As a member, succes- 
sively, of the 17th. 14th. 15th and 20th Army 
Corps, he saw extreme military hardship. He 
took part in the march to the sea and assisted 
in the taking of Atlanta and of the opening 
up of communication from there to Beaufort, 
South Carolina. His regiment reached that 

il by steamer, disembarked there and went 
on to Columbia, South Carolina, and from 
there to Goldsboro, North Carolina, and later 
to Raleigh, and at that city Mr. Bagley wit- 
nessed the meeting of those two great com- 
manders, Generals Grant and Sherman. The 
fight at Raleigh. North Carolina, was the last 
one in which Mr. Bagley took part. He was 
promoted several times and during the last 
year's service he was with a four-gun battery. 
He was present at the Grand Review at Wash- 
ington City. He is one of the 250,000 men 
out of the 300,000 first enlistments, who veter- 
anized. He was finally mustered out. after 
four years of faithful service, at De- 
troit. Michigan, and reached his home 
in June. [865. He is a valued mem- 
ber of Price Post, Grand Army of 
the Republic, at Westerville. and prizes those 

sions when he can talk over those old days 

anger and hardship, but yet of great en- 
thusiasm and patriotism, with comrades some 
of whom stood at his side when both faced 
almost certain death on many a southern bat- 
tle-field. 

Mr. Bagley has devoted himself to agri- 
cultural pursuits ever since the close of his 
army life, and he has been a resident of Dela- 
ware Count}- for the past 30 years. His first 
purchase of land was of <)0'_. acres, which he 

sequently traded for his present farm, pay- 



ing a difference of $6,500 in cash. This prop- 
erty .Mr. Bagley acquired through hi-- own per- 
sistent industry, he being entirely a self-mad- 
man. His farm is so situated that it is well 
adapted to both the growing of grains and the 
developing of line stock. He has made many 
substantial improvements and his surroundings 
indicate thrift and good management. 

In the fall of 1865, Mr. Bagley was mar- 
ried (first) to Hannah Allen, who was a 
daughter of David Allen, of Athens County, 
Ohio, and three children were born to this 
union, namely : William Sherman, who re- 
sides at Portland, Oregon; Sarah Agnes, who 
married William Jacox. and they reside in 
Orange Township and have two children, 
Harold and Wilbur; Samuel Fenton, who mar- 
ried Kate Sapp. They have four children — 
Glenn, Paul. Merrill and Edgar. On April 
24. 1SX4. Air. Bagley was married (second) 
to Sarah Frances Irwin, who was born in Ber- 
lin Township, Delaware County. Ohio, and is 
a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Cashner) 
Irwin. They have three children: Leroy, 
Leona and Lodemia. Leona married Arthur 
Freeman, a native of Delaware County, and 
they reside on the home place. They have 
three children. Frances Lucile. Willis and in 
infant. For 21 years Mr. Bagley has been 
a justice of the peace of Orange Township. 




IT'S KING COXE, a leading citi/e.i 
of Thompson Township, was horn 
on the old mill property on which he 
resides, Jul}- 9, 1 846, and is a son 
of John W. and Mary (Williams) 
Cone. 

Cephas Cone, the grandfather, was of New 
England origin. His parents at one time re- 
sided in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from 
which region they came, at an earl}- day, to 
Delaware County. Ohio. They were among 
the earliest settlers in Kingston Township. 
Cephas (one married Almira Munson, a 
daughter of William Munson and a descend- 
ant ot a Captain Munson. who came from 
England t< 1 America in [1 137. 



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John W. Cone, father of Titus King Cine, 
was born in Delaware County, Ohio, January 
6, i (Soy. He learned the trade of a woolen 
mill worker and after following- the same in 
various sections, in 1831, he located at Dela- 
ware ami shortly afterward rented a woolen 
mill which he operated for several years. In 
1838 he purchased the farm which is now the 
property of Titus King Cone, and here he 
built a woolen and a saw -mill. The land was 
heavily timbered when he came to it and in 
clearing and cultivating his farm ami in ac- 
tively pushing his mill and other interests, his 
time was fully occupied into advanced age. He 
died November 24, 1891. In politics he was , 
Democrat and on account of his sterling char- 
acter he was frequently chosen for offices of 
trust and responsibility in the township, by 
his fellow citizens. He married Mary Wil- 
liams, who was born in Cardiganshire, South 
Wales, in 1814, and died in Ohio in [885. 
Of the 13 children of this marriage eight sons 
and four daughters grew to maturity. 

Titus King Cone attended the district 
schools through boyhood and the Radnor 
High School, and spent a short time at the 
Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, in 
the spring of 1867. After he returned home 
he continued working on the farm during the 
summers and in the woolen mill during the 
winters until the mill was burned in 1874. 
after which he gave bis attention exclusively to 
farming. After his marriage he resided on 
a farm in Thompson Township located one 
mile west of his present property. His father 
was a large land owner, having 600 acres in 
Delaware and [60 acres in Wyandot County, 
and when he died, in the division of the estate 
the present farm came to Titus King, on which 
he settled in [902. He has here 1 10 acres, on 
which he carries on mixed farming, raising 
considerable grain and some excellent stock. 
Mr. (one and his brother, F. I'., are the 
only representatives of this old pioneer family 
ot the township now residing within its bor- 
ders. 

On April 2, 1885, Mr. Cone was married 
to Alice Detwiller, who is ;i daughter of fohn 
and Mary (Ely) Detwiller. John Detwillei 



was born in Switzerland and his wife in Penn- 
sylvania. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. 
(one was Benjamin Ely, who, at one time, 
kept a grocery store at Delaware, where he 
died. Mr. and Mrs. Detwiller lived on a farm 
one-half mile from that of Air. Cone. 

In politics, Mr. Cone, like his father, has 
been a supporter of the Democratic party since 
he reached manhood, but has never taken any 
very active part in local campaigns. His main 
interests are centered in his home and farm. 




LINTON 0. HAWES, one of Liberty 
Township's representative citizens, 
was born at Lewis Center, in 



Orange 



Delaware 
i860, and 
( Searles ) 



Township, 
County, Ohio, March 22, 
is a son of Orlando O. and Lucy 
Hawes. 

The paternal grandfather was Benjamin 
A. Hawes. who was born in Fairfield County. 
Connecticut, and when he came to Ohio, set- 
tled first at Euclid, near Cleveland, where he 
married Mary Walton. She was a daughter 
of Davis Walton. Benjamin A. Hawes 
born January 24. 1799. and his wife was born 
August 21, 1804. He died in 1885 at the age 
of 86 years and was survived four years by his 
wife, who died aged 85 years. They had the 
following children: Minerva, who married 
T. T. Wilcox, had her home in Orange Town- 
ship and died at Edison. Ohio; Fannie, who 
resided in Orange Township, married John 
Hall and died young; Orlando O. ; Luva, who 
married James Slane, died in Orange Town- 
ship; Elizabeth, who married John Keller; and 
Mary, who married Philander Searles. All 
are dead except Elizabeth, who is a widow. 

In 1826 Benjamin A. Hawes settled in 
Orange Township, Delaware County, later 
moved to Liberty Township for a short time 
and then returned to Orange Township. By 
trade he was a carpenter and be assisted to put 
up some of the first buildings at Cleveland. 
He worked on the frame jail which took the 
place of the old log calaboose at Cleveland, it 
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of progress, it being a fact that malefactors 
in modern times are much hotter housed than 
were honest man in the days of our grand- 
fathers. 

Orlando Hawes, father of Clinton O., was 
born in Liberty Township, Delaware County, 
Ohio. June 9. 1S31. and died in [862, aged 
31 years. He married Lucy Searles, who was 
born in 1840, and died in 1892, aged 52 years. 
Her father, Lewis Searles. came to Lewis 
Center from Galena, where he engaged in a 
mercantile business until his death. A family 
of five children was born to Orlando O. Hawes 
and wife, namely: Alice. .Minerva and Wil- 
lard, all died young; Lucy Luella, who was 
reared at Akron, married Michael Birming- 
ham, and died at Akron, in September. 1894; 
and Clinton O. Mrs. Hawes remained a 
witlow for some years and then married Demp- 
ster Gifford and became the mother of four 
more children: Horace, Lelland. Minnie and 
Edward. Minnie is deceased. 

Clinton O. Hawes remained in Orange 
Township until he' was 25 years of age. attend- 
ing school at Lewis Center and keeping busy 
at various employments. He worked on farms 
in Orange and Liberty Townships to some ex- 
tent and then learned telegraphy, which he fol- 
lowed for seven years. He was both operator 
and agent at Radnor and later at Powell, 
working as night operator at the latter point 
until lie turned his attention to farming and 
dairying, when he gave up work at the "keys." 
He owns a tidy little farm of 27 acres adjoin- 
ing Powell and its convenient location near the 
town, assists in making his dairy industry a 
profitable one. 

On March 7. [887, Mr. Hawes was mar- 
ried to Emma L. Bennett, who is a daughter or 
E. A. and Mary (Clements) Bennett, of 
Orange Township. Mrs. Hawes was born in 
Champaign County, Ohio, but her father was 
born in Orange Township, Delaware County, 
where both he and wife reside, in comfortable 
circumstances, his age being 70 and that of his 
wife 66 years. 

In political sentiment. Mr. Hawes is in ac- 
cord with the Socialist party. He -is a mem- 
ber of Powell Lodge, Knights of Pythias. \'o. 



684. lie has been clerk oi Liberty Township 
for the past five years and served three years 
as notary public for the township. 




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EUBEN G. DICKERSON, who is a 
leading citizen of Orange Town-hip. 
where he has his valuable and well- 
improved farm of 99^ acres under 
a fine state of cultivation, was born 
1843, m Orange Township, Delaware 
Ohio, and is a son of Lewis and 



County, 

Cynthia (Noble) Dickerson. 

The Dickerson family is of English extrac- 
tion and it was founded in Xew Jersey by 
Lewis Dickerson. the great-grandfather of 
Reuben G. His son. also Lewis, became the 
grandfather, and the third Lewis was the fathei 
of Reuben G. Dickerson. Lewis Dickerson 
(3) was born in Tompkins Count}-. New 
York, November 6, 1810, and in 1832 he 
came to Sandusky, Ohio, and from there, in 
1833, to Orange Township. Delaware County. 
With the exception of one year later spent in 
Xew York, and two years of residence at 
(aldington, Lewis Dickerson lived continu- 
ously to his death on the present home farm 
to which he came in 1856. He died December 
15, 1883. 

On October 9, 1836, Lewis Dickerson was 
married to Cynthia Noble, who died October 
20, 1898. She was born near Powell, in 
Liberty Township, Delaware County. Ohio. 
June 20. 1822, and was a daughter of James 
and Salomy (Graves) Noble. The Graves 
family came to Licking County from Connecti- 
cut among the pioneer settlers. There were 
two sons born to Lewis Dickerson and wife: 
James H. and Reuben G. Both sons proved 
themselves brave men and loyal soldiers. 
James H. Dickerson enlisted in the Federal 
army from the State of Xew York, in [861, 
becoming a member of Company 1), Seventy- 
fifth Regiment. New York Volunteer Infantry, 
lie accompanied his comrades to Santa Rosa 
Island, Florida, where he remained for a time 
at the navy yard and was then sent to Louisi- 
ana and after the capture of Xew Orleans, by 



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Admiral Farragut, he was under the com- 
mand of General Benjamin Butler until ( ien- 
eral Banks assumed command. Later he took 
part in the Red River campaign and was ai 
Alexandria. Pleasant Hill and the siege of 
Port Hudson. After the fall of this strong- 
hold his corps joined Franklin's Corps of the 
Army of the Potomac, and they fought the 
battle of Cedar Creek, where he also served 
under General Sheridan. When he finally re- 
ceived his honorable discharge, he had alread) 
served fifty-eight days over his term of enlist- 
ment. Although he escaped serious injury, he 
had had two horses shot from under him. 
After the close of his military service he went 
to New York, where he was married to Laura 
Fuller, after which he returned to Delaware- 
County and took up his residence at Lewis 
Center, where he died May 4. [903. 

Reuben < '•. Dickerson obtained his edu- 
cation in the district schools. He remained on 
his father's farm until 18 years of age. when 
he offered his patriotic services in defense of 
his country. On August 2, 1861. he enlisted 
at Delaware, Ohio, in Company A, Second 
Battery, United States Infantry, under Cap 
tain Eystier, and was mustered in at Camp 
Thomas, then went to Lebanon, Kentucky, and 
from there, on February 14. 1862, the First 
and Second Battalions started on a march to 
Mill Springs, where they engaged in battle. 
after which they returned to Bawlstown, 
where Mr. Dickerson was left in a hospital. 
where he remained for six weeks. He re- 
joined Ins regiment April 12. [862, at Pitts 
burg Landing, then went on to the approacn- 
ing battle of Corinth, and after the siege and 
evacuation of that city, and his regiment was 
detailed to guard the line of the M. & C. Rail- 
road, he was discharged, on account of physi- 
cal disability, August [3, [862. Mr. Dicker- 
son gave himself a few months in which to re- 
cuperate, and then re-enlisted, on fune 20. 
1863, entering ( ompanv M. first Regiment. 
Heavy Artillery. lie was stationed at 
Fort Whittlesley, opposite Cincinnati, until 
February, [864, when the battery was sent to 
Nicholasville, Kentucky, marched from there 
to Point Burnside near Somerset, and then 
crossed the mountains to Knoxville, Tennes- 



see, conveying the baggage on the hacks of 
pack mules. Air. Dickerson. with his com- 
rades, did guard and garrison duty along the 
line of the East Tennessee & Virginia Rail- 
road, until November, 1864, when they en- 
tered the northeastern part of Tennessee in 
order to cut off General Lee's retreat through 
Tennessee Gap. The First Artillery took 
part in numerous skirmishes with General Jo- 
seph Wheeler. On July 25, 1865, Mr. Dick- 
erson was a second time honorably discharged 
from his country's military bonds, at Knox- 
ville, Tennessee, when the regiment was mus- 
tered out. 

Mr. Dickerson returned to Ohio and for 
one year followed farming on the homestead 
and continued to be variously engaged until 
1872. when he began railroad work on what 
was then the C, C, C. & 1. line, but is now the 
Big Four Railroad. He worked seven years 
as foreman and fireman on a construction train 
and for 12 years he was employed by the 
line as an engineer. He continued railroading 
until Jul\-. [890, when he settled down to 
farming. He has greatly improved his prop- 
erty since settling on it. erecting a handsome 
residence and adding to the appearance and 
convenience of the other buildings. He carries 
011 a general agricultural line. For about six 
years he has been engaged quite extensively 
also in contracting and has built a number 
of the excellent turnpike roads in this sec- 
tion. 

On December 9, 1868, Mr. Dickerson was 
married to Amelia W. Lewis, who is a mem- 
ber of a very prominent family of Delaware 
County. Her father, the late William T. 
Lewis, was horn in Xew Jersev. in February, 
1811, and died at Lewis Center. Delaware 
County, in 187(1. He married Sarah Fowler, 
who was horn also in Xew Jersev. January 
3, 1822. and died in Ohio, April 20, [900 
They came to Delaware County in [843 
settled on farming land which later became 
the site of the village of Lewis Center, which 
was named in honor of William T. Lewis, 
lie was the first postmaster and the leading 
man id affairs in the town for many years, and 
donated a number of the puhlic buildings to 
the place, including the public school and the 




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Methodist Episcopal Church and parsonage. 
In 1849 he went to California, hy the overland 
route, and returned by way of the Isthmus 
of Panama, remaining in the far West until 
1851 and while there was engaged in mining. 
The children of William T. Lewis ami wife 
were: Eliza J., who married George Hender- 
son, of Springfield; Mary P., who married 
Alexander S. Hempstead, residing in Colum- 
bus; Amelia; Sarah E., who married Lewis 
Carter, residing at Columbus; Augusta X., 
who married E. I. Prentice of Mississippi, 
died in Paulding County. Ohio; Anna C, who 
married Dr. R. C. Alexander, residing at 
Springfield; Katherine X., who died unmar- 
ried; and Josie R.. who married W. H. Taft, 
residing at Columbus. 

Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson have had four 
children, two sons and two daughters, namely : 
Lewis H., who died aged one year and ten 
months; Charles, who died aged eleven years 
and ten months; Sarah Elizabeth, who mar- 
ried A. L. Grove, anil they have three chil- 
dren, Ruby, Okey and Robert ; and Ruby 
Catherine, who married Edwin Joslin. They 
have three children. Ruth. Charles and Rich- 
ard. 

In politics, Mr. Dickerson is a Republican 
and he has served as justice of the peace, as 1 
member of the School Board and in othei 
offices and is his party's candidate in the com- 
ing campaign for the office of count v com- 
missioner. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow 
and a Mason, a member of Hiram Lodge, 
Chapter and Council at Delaware. Formerly 
he was a member of the Brotherhood of Loco- 
motive Engineers. He is a valued comrade 
of George 1'. Torrance Post. Grand Army oi 
the Republic, at Delaware. 



R. ALBERT ERXEST WEST- 
BROOK, who has been engaged in 
medical practice in Ashley for a pe- 
riod of forty-two years, is also the 
proprietor of a drug store at this 
place. He was horn December 17. 1841 1. in 
the hotel conducted by his parents at Wood- 




bury, which at that time was quite a town in 
Peru Township, then in Delaware Count v. but 
now in Morrow County. He is a son of 
Solomon Westbrook, and a grandson of |bhn 
Westbrook, who settled in Cananda"igua 
County, Xew York. The Westbrook family 
originally came from Germany, two brothers, 
John and Leonard, coming to this country at 
an early date. 

Solomon Westbrook, the Doctor's father, 
was born in 1798 in Canandaigua Count}-, 
Xew York, and in 1816 moved to Johnstown, 
Licking County, Ohio. He married Mrs. 
Mathena Crawford, nee Edmunds, it being the 
second marriage for both. He had one son 
by his first marriage, and she had six children 
hy her first marriage to William Crawford. 
She was a daughter of Samuel Edmunds, who 
also came from Canandaigua County, Xew 
York to Johnstown, Ohio. Of the children of 
their several unions, but one aside from Dr. 
Westbrook is living— the latter's full sister. 
Jane, who is the widow of Robert Gardner, 
and lives one mile north of South Woodbury. 

Solomon Westbrook followed farming un- 
til after his marriage, at Johnstown, and then 
conducted a hotel until 1836. He then went on 
horseback to New Orleans, where he practiced 
medicine for one year, after which he returned 
to his old home, and then shortly afterward 
journeyed in the same manner to Canada and 
hack. In 1849 lle went to Missouri, and from 
St. Joseph crossed the plains to San Francisco 
with a company from Delaware, Ohio. He 
drove three yoke of oxen and walked even- 
step of the way. .Many were the hardships 
endured by the party, and their condition upon 
their arrival in San Francisco was pitiable. 
Mr. Westbrook had nothing to eat Inn one 
cracker per day for twenty-six days and one 
of tlic party, Dr. Mann of Delaware, died oi 
scurvy after his arrival. Mr. Westbrook re- 
mained two years in the West, working in the 
gold mines, and upon his return to Ohio had 
$500. in gold, being no richer and no poorer 
than when he left home. 

Dr. Albert E. Westbrook was reared in 
Woodbury and attended Mi. Hesper Semi- 
nary, a well known institution of learning of 



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that day located little more than a mile south 
of tlie village. He attended Ohio Wesleyan 
University at Delaware one year, in 1857, and 
afterward read medicine under the preceptor- 
ship of Dr. I. H. Pennock, preparatory to 
entering Cincinnati College of Medicine and 
Surgery, from which institution he was grad- 
uate' 1 with the degree of M. D. on February 
22. 1863. In August of that year he entered 
the 106th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf., as as- 
sistant surgeon, and served until the war 
closed. He was on detached duty at Gallitan, 
Tennessee, where he had charge of the Post 
1 [ospital ; and was medical director on the staff 
of Brig.-Gen. E. A. Payne. He had charge 
of Fts. Negley, Huston and Morton, at Nash- 
ville, and was on duty also at Stevenson, Ala- 
bama. For a time he served as surgeon in the 
68th Regiment, X. Y. Vol. Inf., at Bridgeport, 
Alabama. He was mustered out June 29, 
[865, at Nashville. The Doctor has preserved 
ever) order received while in the service and 
has the bridle, saddle and spurs which he 
used. At present he is the only physician 
living in Delaware County who served as such 
in the army. 

' >n .August 10, [865, Dr. Westbrook came 
to Ashley and engaged in the practice of medi- 
cine, in which he has since continued — a period 
of forty-two years. For the past twenty-five 
years he has also conducted the only drug 
store in Ashley. He is a prominent citizen 
and a successful man. He is a member of the 
American Medical Association; the Ohio State 
Medical Society, and the Delaware County 
Medical Society, having served one term as 
president and also as vice president of the 
latter. 

In [866 Dr. Westbrook married Amanda 

E. Cunard, a daughter of Judge S. T. Cunard, 

who wa^ a prominent jurist of Mt. Gilead, 

She died April 17. [885, leaving three 

. as follows: Edward Cunard West- 

, w ho is engaged in farming in < K fi ml 

Township, and who married Britta Cline, by 

win m he has one son — Cline Edmunds; Blanch 

Alberta, wife of John T. Olds, a hard- 

merchant of Ashley, who has one son— Neil 

Albert : and ( ,1 ai e Sumni r, ■■•. hi 1 married 



Wesley McCurdy, a clothing merchant of Ash- 
ley, and has children — Lois, Amanda, 
Lawton \\ '., Lloyd, and Rose Cunard. Dr. 
Westbrook was married a second time, in 
1886, to Rose M. Cunard, a daughter of Cap- 
tain L. M. Cunard of Mt. Gilead, Ohio. 

• Dr. Westbrook is a Republican in politics 
and has held numerous local offices. He was 
instrumental in establishing a graded school 
here, but it was only after a determined fight 
on his part and that of a few other enterpris- 
ing and public spirited men who stood with 
lum. He was elected on the first Board of 
Education and served nine years, and was 
three times a member of the Town Council. 
Fraternally, Dr. Westbrook is a member of 
Ashley Lodge, No. 404, F. & A. M., and was 
formerly a member of the Chapter at Dela- 
ware. 




ICERO T. CARSON was born on the 
farm 011 which he now resides, in 
Concord Township. Delaware 
County, Ohio, February 23, 1837. 
He is a son of William and Eliza 
(Thompson) Carson, and a grandson of 
Samuel and Abigail (Black) Carson. 

The Carsons came to Delaware County 
among the pioneers and Samuel Carson ac- 
quired a large body of land in Ohio, amount- 
ing to about 1.200 acres. He was a soldier in 
the War of 181 2. He died December 2^, 
1834. in his sixty-second year. He married 
Abigail Black, who died March 22. 1838. in 
her fifty-sixth year. William Carson, the father 
of Cicero T.. was born in March. 1S02, before 
the family left Pennsylvania, and he died in 
Delaware County, Ohio, May 9. 1873, in his 
seventy-second year. I te was the eldest born 
of a family of five sons and two daughters, the 
others being: Mar)-, who remained unmar- 
ried; Samuel, who went to California in 1849, 
was killed in Oregon, b) the Indians; John B., 
who married Jane Carson, of Chillicothe, 
moved to McLean County. Illinois, where he 
died; James, who married [sabella Johnson, 
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where he died; Joseph M.. who married Anna 
Mary [senberg, died in Delaware Count) : and 
Nancy Jane, who never married. All mem- 
bers of the above family have passed out oi 
life. 

William Carson was a small boy when his 

its came to < mio and settled first at Chilli- 
cothe, in Ross County, lie was to. years oi 

vhen his father settled on the east hank 
he Scioto River, opposite to the present 
State institution, the Girls Industrial School. 
When William Carson married he brought his 
bride to the house in which they thereafter 
and where their children were all hum. 
They were six in number, two of whom died 
in infancy. Cicero T. was the second born 
in the family and the others who survived 
were: Joan Vbigail, Mary E. and William 
W. Juan Abigail was married (first) to 
Thomas 1'.. Johnson and accompanied him to 
the South, where he died prior to the Civil 
War. She returned to Delaware county and 
was married (second) to John II. Shearer, 
who was then the editor of the Marysville 
Tribune, to which his son. John Shearer suc- 
ceeded. Mary E. Carson was married (first) 
to Edward Goddard, of Lexington, McLean 
County, Illinois, and (second) to Dr. James 
Southard, of Marysville, and is the widow of 
the latter. She resides on Oak Street. Co- 
lumbus, Ohio. William W. Carson married 
Rel ecca Chenoweth, and he is survived by hi.-, 
widow and one son and three daughters. The 
niducts the Hocking grocery store at 
Delaware. 

Cicero T. Larson attended school at Dela- 
ware. Ohio, until he was 14 years of age, 
and when 17. he went to Memphis. Tennes- 
see, and subsequently took a business course 
at the Male High School, in Germantown, 
Shelby County. Tennessee. He remained in 
that State for two years and then returned to 
the North and became bookkeeper in the 
Marysville Bank. After a business experience 
years he spent one year in the imi 

; at Delaware. In 1 Son he went as far 
in; Kansas, w here he was en- 

1 in teaching school when the Civil War 
broke out. lie remained there for two vears, 



during this period having enjoyed the privilege 

of casting his vote in favor of the admission of 
Kansas as a State of the Union, and voted for 
Abraham Lincoln, which was his first vote, 
and then returned to Ohio and took up his 
residence on the farm where he now lives. 
After his return he entered the Federal Army, 
enlisting in Company K. One Hundred and 
Forty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, with the rank of sergeant. This regi- 
ment was stationed at Fort Tillinghast and 
witnessed the first work done on Arlington 
Heights, in preparing the beautiful grounds 
for a sacred resting-place for the Nation's 
slain. He remained in the service until the 
close of the war and was honorably discharged 
at Camp Chase, at Columbus. 

On December 24, 1S74, Mr. Larson was 
married to Carrie Yeend, who died March _\ 
kjoo. She was a most estimable lady, one 
whose many personal attributes endeared her to 
all who knew her. She was horn at Chelten- 
ham. England, and was a daughter of John 
R. and Mary (Swain) Yeend. When she 
w as seven years of age, her parents came to 
America and settled in Geauga County. Ohio, 
where she was reared and educated. She was 
appointed the first matron of the Girls' In- 
dustrial Home, and she continued in that po- 
sition for five years. Having no children of 
their own. Mr. and Mrs. Carson adopted an 
orphan babe. Minnie C. when she was but 
three days old, whom they reared to happy 
womanhood. She subsequently married Elijan 
Howard and they have one daughter. Carrie 
Lillian. 

Mr. Carson has heen engaged in agricul- 
tural pursuits ever since his marriage. 
Shortly after that event he purchased a farm 
of almost 300 acres, in Delaware County, on 
which he resided for over 20 years, hut sold 
thai property in 1903, and then moved hack 
to the old homestead, where he still continues 
to farm, in association with his son-in-law, 
Elijah I low ard. 

The Springview Methodist Episcopal 
Church, in Concord Township, was named by 
Mr. and Mr-. Carson, it being chosea on ac- 

til of its proximity to the White Sulphur 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Springs. During the years following its 
founding Mrs. Carson was a very active mem- 
ber and she and Mr. Carson started the Sun- 
day school which was the real beginning of 
the church which was later erected. Mr. Lar- 
son remains one of the church trustees. Both 
he and his wife were interested in the Liberty 
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and assisted 
its early efforts very materially. Mr. Carson 
takes no active part in political campaigns. 



0~OWARD CLIFTON CRANE, M. I)., 
who has heen continuously engaged 
in the practice of medicine at Eden, 
for the past 14 years, was horn in 
Porter Township, Delaware Count}', 
Ohio, September 29, 1864. He is a son of 
Elbert and Ellen (Her) Crane. 

The paternal grandparents of Dr. Crane, 
Amza and Ardilla 1 Hopkins) Crane, came to 
Ohio and settled in Morrow County, in 1834. 
They had four sons and six daughters, 
namely: Alson, Zebulon, Elbert, Washing- 
ton, Mary Ann, Sarah. Alba Cincla, Sarah 
(2), Elizabeth and Jane. The maternal 
grandparents of Dr. Crane were Captain Wil- 
liam and Jane G. (Grej I Her. They came to 
Delaware County about [833, and so wild was 
all this territory that they had to cut a path 
through the foresl in order to reach their land 
in Porter Township. Captain I lei- operated a 
canal boal between Cleveland and Portsmouth, 
in [834. There were two daughters in the 
Her family. Ellen B. and Elizabeth. The lat- 
ter was married ( first 1 to Samuel Marshall. 
who died at Mansfield, Ohio, and (second) 
to Christopher Chase, of Marion. 

Elbert Crane, father of Dr. Crane, was 
horn in New York, his parents at that time be- 
ing residents of Putnam County, and he accom- 
panied them to Morrow County, Ohio, where 
they died, lie still resides in Porter Town- 
ship. Delaware ( bunty, his age hem- 77 years. 
lie married Ellen Her, who was born in 
Delaware County, and died January 22, 1908. 
They had the following children: Alwyn M., 
who has heen engaged in the practice of medi- 



cine at Marion for _»o years, and is a gradu- 
ate of the Columbus Medical College, married 
(first) Mary Crouch, and (second) Susan 
Johnson; Florence May, who is deceased; 
Thurston, who manages the home farm in 
Porter Township ; Howard C. : William I . 
whose home is at Minneapolis, Minnesota, is 
a traveling salesman, and married lone Oliver; 
Jennie C, who was educated at the Ohio S. U. 
at Columbus and the O. W. U. at Delaware, 
is a successful teacher in the public schools of 
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; and Nellie M., who 
was also educated as was her sister, is engaged 
in teaching at Troy, Ohio. 

Dr. Crane was primarily educated in the 
public schools and completed his medical train- 
ing at Starling Medical College, and was grad- 
uated in the class of 1894. After a short resi- 
dence with his brother at Marion, Dr. Crane se- 
lected Eden as a promising field for himself 
professionally, and here he has remained to the 
present day. He has built up a large ami 
satisfactory practice, to which he gives his 
entire attention. He is a member of the Dela- 
ware Count)- Medical Society and of the Ohio 
State Medical Society. Fraternally he is a 
Knight of Pythias, and is connected with Wil- 
liams Lodge, No. 53d. In political sentiment 
he is a Democrat. 

In [903 Dr. Crane was married to Mar- 
garet Ross, who is a daughter of Melancthon 
J. and Ada (Matthews) Ross. She was born 
in Virginia. Her father was born at Sara- 
toga, New York, and her mother at Eden. 
Ohio. They reside in Delaware County. 



HON. WILLIAM E. HA \S. mayor ot 
Delaware. Ohio, was born December 
17. 1874. at Bucyrus, Craw 
1 ounty, Ohio, and is a son of J. L. 
and Mary ( Frank ) I laas. 
The parents of Mayor Haas were born and 
reared on farms in Crawford County. Ohio. 
In 1X7(1 l ' H A came to Delaware, and J. E. 
Haas has been employed in the blacksmith de- 
partment of the shops belonging to the Big 
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617 



years. His family consists of four sons and 
three daughters, namely: Anna, who married 
Frank \ ining, who is a member of the police 
force at Delaware; William E. ; Charles 0-, 
who is in business at Delaware; Matilda, who 
married Edward Schweitzer, at Delaware; 
Vincent, residing at Moxahala, Ohio, where he 
is serving as secretary of the Chapman Coal 
.Mining Company; Joseph, who died aged four 
months; and Frances, who is the possessor of 
rare musical talents, which have been well 
cultivated. 

During his boyhood, William E. Haas at- 
tended the parochial schools at Delaware, and 
when it became a family law that he should 
become self-supporting, he went to work in -i 
chair factory and continued his studies at 
night, in the public schools. Very much as 
many other ambitious youths, he tried one po- 
sition after another in the endeavor to make 
the most of his time and opportunities, going 
from the chair factory to a grocery store and 
from there to a cigar factor)-, and later reach- 
ing the firm of Downheimer & Grasser, with 
which he learned the trade of cigar-making. 
On January 1, 1898, he entered into partner- 
ship with J. P. Grasser. in the manufacture oi 
cigars, under the firm style of Grasser & 1 laas. 
Mr. Haas attends to all the outside work of the 
firm and writes all the advertising matter, 
which, on account of the extent of the business, 
is very heavy. Employment is given to from 
eight to 14 expert cigar-makers, and the firm 
has several exclusive brands which have 
proved to be favorites with the public. 

On June jo. [896, Mr. Haas was married 
to Catherine Hoch, who is a daughter of Jo 
seph Hoch. who resides at Lancaster. Ohio. 
Mr. and Mrs. Haas have two children. Alary 
Catherine and Anna Josephine, both of whom 
attend school. The family belong to the Cath- 
olic Church. 

For the past two years. Mayor Haas has 
been the only Democratic member of the Dela- 
ware City Council. He has been a leading and 
influential member of his party for some - 
and his nomination to the highest civic office, 
September 27. [907, was a token of harmony 
in the Democratic ranks. He was elected \o- 

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vember 6, 1907. receiving a majority of [2 
electoral votes. Personally, .Mr. Haas is very 
popular in Delaware, where he has been for so 
long a sterling and public-spirited citizen, and 
hence the satisfaction on his election was wide 
spread. He is a member of the Commercial 
(luh. in the deliberations of which he takes 
an active and interested part, and he belongs 
to the fraternal orders of the Knights of Co- 
lumbus, the Eagles, and the United Com- 
mercial Travelers. 




Tl ARLES FRANCIS TALLEY, M. 

D.. physician and surgeon at Powell. 

and physician for the State Indus- 

&5^U trial Home for Girls at this point. 

was born in Concord Township, 

Delaware County, Ohio, September 15, 1864, 

and is a son of Nelson E. and Eliza ( Edel- 

man ) Talley. 

The father of Dr. Talley was born in Penn- 
sylvania and came to Ohio when he was a 
voting man, settling first at Prospect, in 
Marion County. He was of French extraction. 
He married while he lived at Prospect and 
afterward moved to Concord Township, in 
Delaware County. His family included 10 
children, namely: Sarah, residing in Concord 
Township; Mar}-, who is the widow of Charles 
Vienot, residing in Scioto Township; William, 
residing in Texas; Annie, deceased, was the 
wife of William Spero, of Concord Town- 
ship; John Frederick, residing at Delaware, 
who married Flora Oiler, a daughter of George 
W. Oiler; Andrew Jackson, residing in Con- 
cord Township, who married Maggie 0. Con- 
nor, of Evarisville, Indiana; Nelson R.. re- 
siding at Evansville; and Charles Francis, 
Twi 1 children died in infancy. 

Dr. Talley was educated in the common 
and high schools of Concord Township, grow 
ing to manhood on his father's farm. In 
1884, he entered the Miami Medical Coll 
at Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 
[886. In the same year he located at Hyatts- 
ville. where he engaged in practice until the 
spring of [896, when he came to Powell. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



where, for full 11 years he has been faithfully 
a Lged in the practice of medicine and sur- 
gery, in the meanwhile building up a reputation 
which has carried his name over all this section 
uf the State. He is a valued member of both 
the Delaware County and the ( )hio State Medi- 
cal Associations. He has business interests 
in this section and owns a one-third interest 
in The Powell Flour and Feed Milling Com- 
pany. 

Dr. Taller was married to Lucy B. Mar- 
quett, who is a daughter of Warner Marquett, 
of Liberty Township. He is a Republican in 
his political sentiment- and fraternally he be- 
rs to the Elks, the Knight- of Pythias and 
tin Odd Fellows, and to Hiram Lodge. No. 
[8, F. & A. M., at Delaware. Dr. Talley 
stands high professionally and equally so per- 
Si 'lially. 



h 



ENJAMIN POWERS, the son of 
Avery Lowers and Prudence Benja- 
|gj min. was horn at Franklinton, Ohio 
(now Columbus), on October 7, 
[800. Ill- father. Avery Lowers. 
Jr., who came of good old New England stock, 
was horn in Old Norwich, Connecticut, Janu- 
ary 22. 1772. and was married to Prudence 
Benjamin on January 12. 1797. in the old 
Griswold Church of that place. They re- 
moved to Norwich. New York, being the first 
white settlers there and giving the name to 
the settlemenl after the old Connecticut home. 
They afterwards moved to Franklinton, Ohio, 
where the subject of this sketch was horn. 

Pari of his boyhood was spent in Frank- 
linton, where he often hunted squirrels on the 
sighl of the present capital grounds, which was 
then a thickly winded tract of land. After 
some ears the family removed to a farm be- 
low Delaware about six miles, situated on 
tlu e -1 bank ol the Olentangy River, neat 
what was then known as the Carpenter farm. 
From there in a short time the) moved to the 
village of Delaware. 

Early in life he was left without a father. 
for \ver3 Powers. Jr.. was killed by the In 

- (ul_\- 26, [812, while serving his country 



as a soldier near Sandusky. Ohio, during the 
War of 1X1 j. lie received the usual scanty- 
educational advantages of the times, and as a 
young man learned the trade of a printer. 
He entered the employ of William Little, a 
pioneer merchant, whose place of business was 
the southwest corner of Sandusky and Winter 
Streets. He dealt 'in general merchandise, 
and bought and sold hides, furs, pelts and 
tallow. 

In the year 1828 he entered into partner- 
ship with William Little in the conduct of the 
same business, a partnership which lasted for 
a number of years. The firm was later 
changed to Powers & Bennett. For a num- 
ber ot years, in partnership with Chaunce\ 
Hills, he conducted a dry goods business in the 
city. 

Benjamin Powers was always active in the 
business life of Delaware, and in 1857, with a 
few other citizens, he organized the Bank of 
Delaware, which in 1864 transferred its busi- 
ness to the First National Bank of Delaware, 
at present one of the solid financial institutions 
of our city. He succeeded P. D. Hillyer as 
president of the Bank of Delaware and con- 
tinued to serve the two institutions as presi- 
dent until he was forced to resign on account of 
failing health in 1880. 

Benjamin Powers was married to Eliza- 
beth Storm, September 16, 1829, and this 
happy union continued for over 55 years. Six 
children were born in this family — Maria E., 
Charles A., Henry Y.. William L., George 
\Y. and Louis E. Powers. Most of this large 
family grew to mature years, and two of them 
are now living in Delaware — Henry V. and 
George W. Powers. 

He was one of the first members and for 
many years an officer and staunch supporter 
of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. A gentle, 
kindly, dignified. Christian gentleman, who 
tited to do his duty in all things, fie never 
sought for public office, yet he was the kind 
of man in whom people always placed implicit 
trust and confidence. He served his city as a 
member of the Common Council. He died 
January 6, [884, aged 84 years, his wife liv- 
ing about one vear after his death. 



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AMES \V. HARSH, a prominent agri- 
culturist oi Delaware County, Ohio, 
who owns and operates a magnificent 
tract of 600 acres in Radnor Town- 
ship, was born December 22, 1851, in 
Marion County, Ohio, and is a son of Caleb 
and Catherine (Gracley) Harsh, and a grand- 
son of Jacob Harsh, a native of Wurtemberg, 
Germany. 

larsh was born in Wurtemberg, 
Germany, and in 1830. as a boy, came to 
America with bis parents, and settled in the 
- 1" Marion County. Ohio. Here he fol- 
lowed the trade of tanner until 1852. in which 
year he removed to Delaware County, settling 
on a farm on the Scioto River in Radnor 
Township, where the remainder of his life was 
spent. He was an industrious farmer and 
aide business man. and in his death Delaware 
County lost one of its progressive, public- 
spirited citizens. During the latter part of 
his life he was a Republican in politics, and his 
religious belief was that of the Presbyterian 
Church. Of the children of Caleb and Cath- 
erine (Gracley) • Harsh, seven grew to ma- 
turity, namely : James W. ; Martha, who is 
the wife of Titus Jones of Radnor Town-hip; 
Alary E., who is the widow of Finley Tyler, 
late of Scioto Township, where Mrs. Tyler 
uo\\ resides: Sarah S.. wife of Bertrand 
Smith, of near Stratford. Delaware County : 
Emma L.. who married Dr. T. lv. Jones, of 
Radnor, Ohio; Ella V., who is the wife of 
Foster Evans of Scioto Township: and 
Charles F., who lives in Radnor Township. 

James YV. Harsh was brought by his par- 
ent- from Marion County to Delaware Count} 
as a boy. and since that time he has always 
resided in Radnor Township. He received his 
education in the public schools, after leaving 
which he engaged in farming and stock-rais- 
ing, and his well-cultivated tract of 600 acres 
is one of the finest farms in Radnor Town- 
ship. Mr. Harsh is a Democrat in politics, 
and he has always taken an active interest in 
public matter-, serving a number of years 
as a member of the Board of Education of 
Radnor Township. 



In March. t88o, Mr. Harsh was married 
to Mary Criglar, who was born in Delaware 
Township, Delaware County, Ohio, and 
daughter of the late James Criglar. who was 
a well-known citizen of Delaware Town-hip. 
There were six children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Harsh, two of whom died in infancy, the sur- 
vivors being: James \\\. Jr., Charles C, 
Margie and Nellie, all residents of Radnor 
Ti iwnship. 




APT. CLIFTON W. WILES, super- 
intendent and general manager for 
the Delaware Water Company, a 
Civil War veteran, and one of the 
leading citizens of Delaware County, 
was born at Freetown, Cortland County, New 
York, March 26, 1843, son OI Peter and Nancy 
( Hall ) Wiles. His paternal grandfather was 
a native of Germany who came to this coun- 
try about the year 1800, settling in Onondaga 
C< iunty, New York. 

Peter Wiles was born in Onondaga 
County, New York, May 17. 1814, and spent 
his industrial years in farming and dairying, 
giving particular attention to the latter in- 
dustry. During the greater part of his life 
he was a resident of Cortland County, and 
he died June 6. 1862, at the age of 48 years. 
He was a man of considerable musical ability, 
being leader of a choir and a good performer 
on the piano, organ, and violin. His wife 
Nancy was a daughter of Caleb Hall, of Her- 
kimer County. New York, and was born in 
1N17, and died April 10. 1878. They were 
the parents of three children, namely: Clif- 
ton W.. whose name appears at the head of 
this article ; Emma, who married John Len- 
non, and is now deceased with her husband: 
and Ella, also deceased, who was the wifi 
William D. Tuttle, an attorney of Cortlan ', 
County. New York. Airs. Peter Wiles, mother 
of the above mentioned children, died :i ! 
[876 o,- 1877. aged 03 year-. 

The early life of Clifton W. Wiles was that 
of a farmer's boy, with the Old Red School 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



House to direct his steps in the path oi knowl- 
edge. The Civil War interrupted for a time 
his progress in the ordinal')- activities of life, 
and he enlisted, September 20, 1862, in Com- 
pany L, Tenth New York Cavalry, and was 
made trumpeter of his company. The first 
battle in which he participated was that of 
Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 12-13, 
[862, he was detailed as private orderly foi 
General David H. Russell, who commanded 
a brigade in the Fifth Corps, and who was 
killed in the battle of Winchester; and re- 
mained with him during the battle and for 
some time after. 

In January, 1863, his regiment was as- 
signed to the brigade commanded by General 
Kilpatrick in the division commanded by Gen- 
eral D. McM. Gregg of the Cavalry Corps. 
This command was actively engaged in the 
Stoneman raid and the battle of Chancellors- 
ville, followed by the cavalry hattles of Brandy 
Station, Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville. 
At the battle of Gettysburg, that soon fol- 
lowed, his regiment was engaged on July 2d 
with Johnson's Confederate division on the 
Hanover Road, and again on the 3d with 
Smart's cavalry on the Kummell farm. The 
men of his regiment were the first Union 
troops to enter the citv after the battle, driv- 
ing out the rear guard of the enemy. 

Following was the battle of Mine Run and 
several minor engagements. 

In the spring of [864 the cavalry under 
Sheridan accompanied ami co-operated with 
Grant in the battles of the Wilderness and 



subsequent engagements, 



including 



the raid 



and battle of Trevillion Station, and the Rich- 
mond raid and the battle of Haws Shops, fin- 
ally arriving, July 2d. with Grant's army in 
front of Petersburg. 

I rom this time to April 9, [865, the regi- 
ment was constantly engaged in picket duty, 
and raids in the enemy's country. 

On the opening of die spring campaign, 
March 28, [865, Mr. Wiles was assigned to 
duty as aide-de-camp to General Henry !•'.. 
Davies, commanding the First Brigade, Sec- 
ond Division of the Cavalry Corps, and par 
ticipated in the battles oi Dinwiddie Court 



House, Five Forks, Jettersville, Sailor's Creek, 
l'armville, and Appomattox, and at the sur- 
render of Lee's army. He lost two horses 
killed under him — one at Sulphur Springs. 
Virginia, October 12, 1863, and one at Tre- 
villion Station, June 1 1, 1864; and was injured 
by a shell at Middleburg. June 19. 1863. His 
regiment was finally discharged in August. 
[865. During his entire service of nearly 
three years, he was never in a hospital, away 
from his regiment, nor absent a single day 
from duty, except to obtain horses. On ac- 
count of services rendered he was recom- 
mended for a commission, but not mustered on 
account of the close of the war. 

After his discharge from the army Mr. 
Wiles took up and completed his school work 
at the New York Central College. After serv- 
ing for several years in construction and engi- 
neering work pertaining to waterworks supply, 
he came to Delaware, Ohio, in April, 1892. as 
superintendent and general manager of the 
Delaware Water Company, and has been con- 
stantly engaged in this work to the present 
time. He has for many years been a mem- 
ber of the American Water Works Associa- 
tion, and is a past president of the Central 
States Water Works Association. He has 
been called upon on several occasions to in- 
spect and report upon the conditions and value 
of water works plants in other cities. 

In 1902 he was commissioned as honorary 
aide on the staff of Governor Aaron T. Bliss 
of .Michigan (who was a comrade in his regi- 
ment), with the rank of Colonel. He has 011 
several occasions served as aide-de-camp on 
the staff of the commander-in-chief of the 
( band Army of the Republic, with the rank 
of Colonel. He is now an officer and past 
commander of the local Grand Army post, and 
colonel of Encampment No. 107. Union Vet- 
eran Legion. 

.In 1894 he was commissioned by Gover- 
nor MeKinlcy as battalion adjutant in the 
fourteenth Ohio National Guard, and in [81 ; 
by Governor Bushnell as captain and inspector 
of rifle practice, in the same regiment, which 
rank he held on the opening of the Spanish- 
American War. and with his regiment pre- 




FLEETWOOD COURTWR1GH I 



AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



6-^3 



pared for active service at Camp Bushnell; 
but (in account of the rank lie held he was 
not allowed to muster into the United States 
service, but was appointed provost-marshal 

of Camp Bushnell. in which position he served 
until the camp was broken up. 

He was appointed a member of the Board 
of Trustees of the Delaware City Library by 
Mayor H. H. Beecher, and is secretary of the 
Commercial Club of this city. 

Captain Wiles married Anna, daughter of 

eph Bates, of Cortland. New York. Febru- 
ary 17. 1869, and he and his wife are the 
parents of two children — Nellie, who is re- 
siding at home, and Arthur, a mechanical and 
electrical engineer, who graduated in the class 
of '05 at the Case School of Applied Science. 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

Colonel Wiles is a member of Hiram 
Lodge, No. i8, F. & A. M., having been de- 
mitted to this lodge from Marathon Lodge, 
No. 438, of Cortland County. New York, 
where he was made a Mason in 1866. He also 
belonged to the Chapter and Commandery at 
Cortland. New York, and to Cortland Com- 
mandery No. 50. joining the chapter here 
about the same time that he was transferred 
by demit. His Masonic affiliations further 
include membership in Alladin Temple. Mys- 
tic Shrine, at Columbus. He is a member of 
George B. Torrence Post, G. A. R.. and is 
past commander of Grover Post of Cortland. 
New Y rk, and past commander of the posl 
in Delaware. He has also been colonel of the 
Union Veteran Legion in Delaware for five 
or six years. Colonel Wiles is a Republican in 
his political views. He takes a good citizen's 
interest in he progress of the community, and 
is este med and respected wherever known. 




LEETWOOD COURTWRIGHT. a 
prominent resident of Columbus, 
where he has large and valuable real 
estate interests, was horn on a farm 
that he still owns, in Concord Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio, Augusl 1 _\ 
1838. His parents were John and Martha 
I Mitchell ) Courtwright. 



The earliest Courtwright to establish him- 
self in the United States was Jesse Court- 
wright, the grandfather, who, it appears, made 
the grave mistake of leaving Canada, his na- 
tive land, when war was in progress, and on 
that account was not permitted to return, e 
after peace was declared, although, by that 
time, he had made a home for himself and 
family in the alien country. He settled on 
land in Union County, Ohio, and lived in this 
part of the State during the remainder of his 
lite. His remains lie buried in Franklin 
County, Ohio. 

John Courtwright, father of Fleetwood, 
was eight years of age when the family settled 
in Ohio. He acquired a large amount of land 
and lived an agricultural life. He married 
Martha Mitchell and they resided many years 
in Delaware Count}- and then moved to Co- 
lumbus, where they subsequently passed away 
and their burial was in Green Lawn cemetery, 
Columbus. The only survivor of their eight 
children is the subject of this sketch. 

Fleetwood Courtwright attended school in 
the neighborhood of his home, all through his 
boyhood, but he acquired further knowledge 
than that found in ' his school hooks. When 
only twelve years of age his father encouraged 
him in exercising his pronounced business tal- 
ents, and since that age Mr. Courtwright has 
been more or less of a trader. When his par- 
ents subsequently decided to move to Colum- 
bus, he made up his mind to buy 225 acre- 
his father's farm, which was exceedingly val- 
uable property. To the elder Courtwright's 
surprise, his son was able to make a cash pay- 
ment of $4,000, and readily gave his note-. 
agreeing to pay $1,000, annually, until the 
whole sum of $12,500 should lie paid. In less 
than six months. Mr. Courtwright had pur- 
chased 150 acres more, giving notes for the 
same. His growing indebtedness greatly wor- 
ried his father, but it in no way frighti 
the son. who never failed to pay his notes 
when they came due. This has always I 
Mr. Courtwright's policy in handling business 
deals of great magnitude and he has been ex- 
ceedingly successful. His remarkable fore- 
sight and husiness acumen have enabled him 
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have only met with failure. He has prospered 
in various speculative lines, including real es- 
tate, wool and stock. His present property in- 
terests are large. He owns 600 acres of valu- 
able farming land in Delaware, Union and 
Franklin Counties, together with property in 
the city of Columbus to the value of several 
hundred thousand dollars. He built the large 
structure that stands on the corner of Long 
and Randolph Streets, Columbus, and the fine 
brick residence which is on the home farm, 
where he passes a great deal of his time . 

Mr. Court wright was married, first, to 
Mary Jones, a daughter of Thomas Jones, w It" 
was engaged in the milling business in Frank- 
lin County. They had two daughters and two 
si >ns. The latter were twins and both are in >\v 
deceased. Of the daughters. Olive and Mary, 
the former married a Mr. Trice, and the latter 
became the wife of John Freshwater, a resi- 
dent of Concord Township. At her death 
Mary left one daughter — Annie — and two 
sons — Elmer and Stanley Freshwater. After 
the death of her mother, Annie Freshwater 
took charge of her father's house and looked 
after the comfort of the family. Later she he- 
came a successful teacher in the public schools 
of Concord Township. 

Mr. Courtwright was married, secondly, 
to Jennie F.. Hill, who is a daughter of Rob- 
ert Hill, of Union County. Ohio, and of this 
union there are three children— Nellie, Clydie 
and Fleetwood. Xellie married J. I'. Stoltz 
and they reside in New York city, where Mr. 
Stoltz owns much valuable property. They 
have one son, Fleetwood Stoltz. Clydie mar- 
ried a Mr. (ioff and they reside at Pueblo, 
< olorado, where the latter is engaged in large 

business enterprises. Fleets 1 Courtwright, 

the only son. has already demonstrated much 
business ability, displayed in the management 
of more than one hundred thousand dollars' 
worth of property with which his father has 
endowed him. Mr. Courtwright has taken 
pleasure in providing for different members of 
his family during his life time and he has not 
forgotten the claims of Hianty and benevo- 
lence. 




OBERT WALLACE, a prominent 
citizen and trustee of Marlborough 
Township, whose farm of [-,C_- 
acres is credited with being one if 
the finest in this section, was born 
February 2. 1847. m Troy Township, Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, and is a son of John and 
Margaret (Giffin) Wallace. 

The parents of Mr. Wallace were born in 
Scotland and the father came to America 
when nineteen years of age. and the mother 
was brought across the Atlantic when she was 
a child of four years. For a number of years, 
John Wallace resided in Belmont County. 
Ohio, coming from there to Troy Township. 
Delaware County, where he lived until his 
death, when aged seventy-four years. He 
was a very successful farmer and was a highly 
respected man in every relation of life. For 
a long period he was one of the pillars. - 
speak, of the Presbyterian Church at I ' 
He gave his political support to the Rep- 
can party. His death removed one of Dela- 
ware County's valued citizens. 

Robert Wallace was reared in Troy Town- 
ship, and he obtained his education in the dis- 
trict schools, and remained in that section un- 
til 1878. when he settled on his present farm 
in Marlborough Township. His interests here 
have been largely of an agricultural nature, 
but during seventeen years, in addition to car- 
rying on his farm, he maintained also a ware- 
house at Ashley. Ohio, where lie engaged in 
buying grain, hay. seeds and other farm pro- 
duce. He has also been a very successful 
stock raiser. While closely attending to his 
own affairs, Mr. Wallace has always found 
time, however, to give a good citizen's atten- 
tion to public matters in his community, and 
has served both mi the School Board and as 
township trustee. 

Mr. Wallace was married (first) to Mar- 
garet Klee, who was a native of Marlborough 
Township. She had two children, namely: 
Maud F., who married Harry Blair, residing 
at Ashley, Ohio; and Benjamin F., residing 
in Brown Township. Delaware Count}-. Mr. 
Wallace was married (second) to Nettie 
Lewis, who was born in Oxford Township. 



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Delaware County, and is a daughter of Jerome 
Lewis. Mrs. Wallace accompanied her par- 
ents when they removed from Oxford to Marl- 
borough Township, she at that time being four 
years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace have a 
beautiful home, the residence being of brick 
construction and its surroundings exceedingly 
attractive. Air. Wallace is a leading member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at West 
Oxford. Oxford Township, and has been a 
church official for a considerable period. 




LEXAXDER X. DECKER, con- 
tractor and builder, residing at War- 
1 ensburg, was born at Fain iew . Dela- 
ware County, Ohio. June 24, 1859, 
and is a son of Frederick and Eliza 
G. 1 Reynolds) (Nash) Decker. 

Frederick Decker was born in Hoboken, 
Xew Jersey, and came from there to Craw lord 
Count}-. Ohio, building a grist mill near 
Bucyrus. Afterward he came to Delaware 
County and built a stone mill north of Dela- 
ware, which he sold some years later. He then 
bought the Snyder mill, which he rebuilt, but 
in a few years sold that property also. He was 
a man of excellent business qualifications and 
his financial operations were successfully con- 
ducted. Later he erected a mill at Mill Creek. 
where he was engaged in milling for several 
years. He then moved to Fairview. where he 
bought a mill on the present site of Warrens- 
burg, and also purchased farming land. This 
mill he operated for almost thirty years, con- 
tinuing thus occupied until his death. From 
1858 he also engaged in farming and was an 
extensive agriculturist, owning from 500 to 
600 acres of land. He was a successful grower 
of sheep, keeping 1.200 to 1.400 head, and he 
raised enough grain to feed all his stock. Until 
1S72 he was identified with the Republican 
party, after which he cast his influence in 
favor of the Prohibition party. 

Frederick was twice married. The chil- 
dren of the first marriage were: Clark, now de- 
ceased, but formerly a resident of Kansas; 



Greeley, residing at Franklin County. Kansas; 
Julia, deceased; Alfretta, who married Dr. 
Willis, residing at Delaware: LeRoy. a resi- 
dent of Cleveland; Margery, who is deceased; 
Samuel R.. residing in Scioto Township: and 
Alvin O.j who is deceased. Frederick Decker 
was married secondly to Mrs. Eliza G. 1 Xash) 
Reynolds, who was born in Vermont and who 
was the widow of Solis Reynolds. The chil- 
dren of her first marriage were: Albina. a 
resident of Xebraska ; Richard C. residing ai 
Wichita. Kansas; Marion, who resides in Os- 
trander; and Solis. wdio is a physician residing 
at Indianapolis. Of Frederick Decker'- sec- 
ond marriage the following children were 
born: Alexander X... whose name begins this 
article; D., residing at Warrensburg: and 
George W. and William Xew ton. both resid- 
ing in Columbus and F. E. Decker residing 
the home farm. The family was reared in 
the faith of the Presbyterian Church. 

Alexander X. Decker was four years old 
when his parents moved to Scioto Township, 
where he was reared and educated. \\ hen 
about sixteen years of age he started to learn 
the carpenter's trade, working for one year 
with Charles Robinson, from whom he learned 
the first principles, after which he put them 
into practice and taught himself, undoubtedly 
having a natural bent in this direction. For 
twenty years he operated a farm of eighty 
acres, which he sold in 1906, and since then he 
has devoted his entire attenton to building and 
contracting. He gives employment to several 
helpers, and his contracts take him all over 
Delaware and Union Counties. He is con- 
sidered a very expert workman and is one who 
is never obliged to fold his arms for lack of any- 
thing to do. 

Mr. Decker married Rosa F. Mason, a 
daughter of James B. Mason, of Delaware 
Township, and they have three children, 
namely: Lorain; Grace, who married Leo 
Smith": and Eliza Caroline. Mr. Decker and 
family belong to the old stone Presbyterian 
Church at South Radnor. He is an Independ- 
ent in politics. For many years he has been a 
member of Ruffner Lodge of Odd Fellow-. 



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DW'ARD KENT, one of Concord 

Township's foremost citizens, who 

resides on his valuable farm of 104 1 _. 

acres, where he carries on general 

farming was born in Jerome 

Township, Union County. Ohio, November 2, 

1855. He is a son of Elijah and Charlotte 

1 X orris) Kent. 

Elijah Kent was horn in Madison County. 
Ohio, in 1S23. and settled in Union County 
in young manhood, and in Concord Township, 
Delaware County, about the close of the Civil 
War, purchasing the Carson farm of 250 
acres. He died at the age of sixty-three years. 
He married Charlotte Norris, who was born 
in Harrison County, Ohio, and accompanied 
her parents, Edward and Susan Norris to 
Union County, where she was reared and mar- 
ried. Her parents died at Richwood, Ohio. 
She survived until February 14. 1907, dying 
at the age of seventy-three years. Elijah 
Kent and wife had eight children, namely: 
George, residing in Thompson Township. 
married Maggie Swartz; Edward; Dennis, re- 
siding in Concord Township, married Amelia 
Bass; John, residing in Scioto Township; 
Silas, residing at Urbana, Ohio, married Hat- 
tie Ellis; Benjamin, residing in Kansas, mar- 
Jane Martin; Jane, deceased, who mar- 
ried 1 first ) Isaac [ones, and (second) Newton 
Howard; and Ellen, who died aged eight 

\tter his school days were over, Mr. Kent 
settled down to farming and has devoted him- 
to agricultural pursuits ever since. 
ugh Iik industry and his practical 
methods he has reaped abundant success. He 
has a well cultivated farm, on which he has a 
valuable silo, and he also carries on dairying, 
keeping, about twenty-five cows and selling 
forty gallons of milk per day at Columbus. He 
has continued to improve Ins property ever 
since it came into his possession and in 190^ 
completed the building of a very substantial 
barn. 

Mr. Kent married Jennie Rutherford, wdio 

is a daughter of Archibald Rutherford, who 

le of the prominent ami substantial citi- 

of ( oncord Township. They have two 



daughters, namely: Lurabella, who married 
William Blainey, a successful farmer of Con- 
cord Township; and Esther Irene, who is a 
school girl of twelve years. 

In politics, Mr. Kent is a Republican, but 
lie takes only a good citizen's interest in pub- 
lic affairs. The family is one that is well and 
favorably known all through this section. 



CTOR ARXOLD WILLIAMS, in 

former years well known throughout 
Genoa Township as a prosperous 
farmer and stockraiser. was born on 
the farm of which he was afterward 
the proprietor, in August, 1839. His parents. 
William and Lucinda (Phelps) Williams, 
were married in Blendoii, Franklin County, 
Ohio. William Williams, who was a native 
of this State, in his youth accompanied his 
father to Delaware County, they being among 
the pioneers of Genoa Township. Here the 
elder Williams, grandfather of the subject of 
this sketch, bought some hundreds of acres of 
land from the Government, a part of which he 
subsequently cleared. He spent the rest of his 
life on his property, engaged in agriculture, 
being known as a good reliable citizen. 

William Williams also became a prosper- 
ous farmer and was a much respected citizen 
of this township. He and his wife Lucinda 
were the parents of a large family of fifteen 
children, all of whom were born on the present 
homestead, which was purchased by him. This 
originally consisted of 140 acres, most of 
which he cleared, besides making the present 
improvements. He owned in all several 
hundred acres in Genoa Township. In politics 
he was a Republican. He died on his farm 
here at a ripe age. 

Victor Arnold Williams was educated in 
the district schools of Genoa Township, and 
was reared to agricultural pursuits, which, 
with stock-raising, he followed through 
life, lie was married September 12. [865, to 
Priscilla Martin, a native of Pennsylvania, and 
daughter of Richard Martin, who was in his 
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who is now deceased. Richard Martin was 
a native of Pennsylvania, in which State he 
married. His wife was in maidenhood Sarah 
Konkel. and was bum. reared, and educated 
in Pennsylvania. They were of German and 
Welsh ancestry respectively. They were the 
parents of thirteen children — eight sons and 
five daughters — nine of whom were horn in 
Genoa Township and four in Pennsylvania. 
The family came to Delaware County in 1852, 
Mr. Martin conducting- a grocery store for a 
number of years in Genoa Township. In addi- 

• to his mercantile business, he conducted a 
small farm, and resided on it until his death, 
which occurred when he was sixty-five years 
old. He was a life long Democrat, and a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Mr. and Mrs. Williams located on the 
present place at the time of their marriage. 
Though they never denied themselves any of 
the reasonable comforts of life, they were 
frugal and industrious, and attained a fair 
measure of prosperity. Mr. Williams died in 
1903, at the age of sixty-four years. He was 
widely known and respected, and his death re- 
moved from the community one of its best 
citizens, and a worthy representative of its 
agricultural interests. He was a Republican 
politically. Mrs. Williams continues to reside 
on the homestead and enjoys the esteem of all 
who know her for her kind, neighborly charac- 
teristics. She has been the mother of five 
children — three sons and two daughters — 
namely: Lucinda. Clayton. Erne. Clifton, and 
Clarence, all of whom are worth}' members of 
1 immunity. 




ARE PARKER INGALLS, a lead- 
ing farmer and stock-raiser of Genoa 
T wnship, was born on his farm, 
September 14. 1848. His parents 
were Joseph B. and Elizabeth 
ip 1 Ingalls. 
The late Joseph 1'.. Ingalls, father of Trail 
P. Ingalls, was born in Franklin County, 
Ohio, February 2. 1S15, and was a son of 
Thomas Ingalls. and a grandson of Josepb 
_ lis. who was a soldier in the Revolutionary 



War. Thomas Ingalls was a native of Ver- 
mont and was a pioneer settler in Franklin 
County, Ohio. He married Sarah Bigelow, 
also of Vermont, and together they reached 
Franklin County in 1814 and established their 
pioneer home on land which is now the site of 
the town of Westerville. Subsequently he 
purchased land on the county line between 
Franklin and Delaware Counties. He lived 
to the age of seventy-seven years, but his wife 
died aged fifty-five. 

Joseph B. Ingalls was the eldest born of his 
parents' family. He was a wagonmaker by- 
trade and did a large business in the days 
when the strongly built farm wagons was 
needed to transport commodities over the 
highways from the farms far distant from 
trade centers. Mr. Ingalls also manufactured 
furniture and was skilled in all kinds of me- 
chanical industries. In 1835 he came to Genoa 
Township and bought 80 acres of land on 
which he built a cabin, and continued to make 
improvements until he had developed a fine 
farm. For man}- years he served as a justice 
of the peace and his judgment and counsel 
were sought on all matters concerning the pub- 
lic welfare and in many cases of private 
trouble. He was a promoter of the schools 
and of religious movements and always a con- 
sistent member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Joseph B. Ingalls was married (first) to 
Anna Maria Westervelt. who was born in 
Dutchess County. New York, and they had two 
children, both daughters. The first wife died 
in 1845. and in 1S47 Mr. Ingalls was married 
(second) to Elizabeth Bishop. She was born 
in Franklin County. Ohio, and was a daughter 
of John Bishop, who came to Ohio from 
Dutchess County. New York. The}'' had two 
sons. I 'earl P. and Pursus B. 

Pearl P. Ingalls was reared on the home 
farm, obtaining his education in the district 
schools. In [863 he enlisted for service in the 
Civil War. entering Company 'A, Sixtieth 
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, ami he 
participated in ten of the leading battles of the 
period, including the battle of the Wilderness. 
His regiment was the second to enter Peters 
burg during the engagement there. \tter the 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



close of his military service lie returned home 
and entered Otterbein University at Wester- 
ville, where he completed his interrupted edu- 
cation. 

When he was 26 years of age, Mr. Ingalls 
married Emma Crayton, who is a daughter of 
of Rev. J. A. Crayton of the United Brethren 
Church. They have cine daughter, Laura, who 
is the wife of Otis L. Bowers, who is an elec- 
trician of Columbus. They were both students 
and graduates of Otterbein University. 

Mr. Ingalls is a stanch Republican and has 
been active in party affairs for many years. 
He has served as justice of the peace and as 
township treasurer for many years and almost 
any local office might be his for the asking. 
Grand Army matters are of great interest to 
him and he is past commander of James Price 
Post, No. 50. He is a charter member of the 
Knights of Pythias and first chancellor com- 
mander of the same; is past noble grand of 
Rainbow Lodge of Odd Fellows and is a 
council member of the Masons and past master 
of Blendon Lodge. Mrs. Ingalls has been an 
officer of Blendon Grange, Patrons of Hus- 
bandry and both belong to the order of the 
Eastern Star. They maintain a pleasant, hos- 
pitable home and have a wide circle of friends. 
Mr. Ingalls carries on a general agricultural 
line. lie has improved his farm and has 
stocked it with a fine grade of cattle, horses 
ami other live stock. Mr. Ingalls is a mem- 
ber of tlie Methodist Episcopal Church and 
Mrs. Ingalls of the United Brethren. 




EORGE W. JONES, formerly one -1 
the leading citizens of Delaware 
County, Ohio, who was prominently 
identified with the agricultural and 
political interests of his township 
and county, died at his home in Radnor. No- 
vember 1. 1907. Mr. Jones was born August 
24. [839, in Licking County, Ohio, and was a 
son of David and Elizabeth (Evans) Jones, 
natives of South Wales. 

David Jones, father of ( leorge W.,came from 
Wales to America with his family in 1K34, 
and for a time resided at Albany, New York. 



moving later to Licking County. Ohio. He 
erected a blacksmith shop near Newark, where 
he carried 011 his trade for a number of years, 
but in 1848 he removed with his family to 
Radnor Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
settling on 200 acres of land in the woods 
north of Radnor village, where he carried on 
agricultural pursuits and blacksmithing. his 
shop being situated in what is now Radnor. 
Some years prior to his death he returned to 
South Wales, where he died in 1885, his wife 
having passed away in Radnor Township in 
1876. David Jones was a Democrat in poli- 
tics, and his religious connection was with 
the Congregational Church. Of the 1 1 chil- 
dren born to him and his wife, all are grme, 
the last to depart this life being George W., 
and Ellen. She was the wife of Elias Kyle, of 
Richwood, Ohio, and died in December, 1907. 

George W. Jones was reared to manhood 
in Radnor Township, whence he had come 
from Licking County when nine years old. 
He received his education in the public schools. 
On November 8, 1861, he enlisted for service 
in the Civil War, in Company E. Sixty-sixth 
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which 
regiment became a part of the Army of the 
Potomac and was later transferred to General 
Sherman's command. Mr. Jones participated 
in numerous battles, among which may be 
mentioned Antietam. Gettysburg, Chancellors- 
ville. Lookout Mountain. Missionary Ridge 
and Peach Tree Creek, and others of minor 
importance. At Chattanooga, Tennessee, his 
regiment was joined to General Sherman's 
force and Mr. Jones participated in the siege 
of Atlanta. He was honorably discharged 
March 14, 18O5, having served four months 
more than his enlisted term of three years. 
He nobly performed a soldier's duties, and 
faced dangers and endured hardships with a 
courage and heroism that won him the esteem 
and confidence of his comrades and super 
After the war Mr. Jones returned to Dela- 
ware, and there was engaged in agricultural 
pursuits, owning a fine farm of fifty acres. 
hut residing in Radnor village. 

On February 25, 1809, Mr. Jones was 
married to Elizabeth Humphreys, who was 
born August iS. [838, in Radnor Township, 



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629 



Delaware Count}', Ohio, and is a daughter of 
Humphrey and Margaret (Griffiths) Humph- 
reys, who were natives of Wales and early set- 
tlers of Radnor township. Mrs. Jones has two 
surviving sisters, and one halt-sister: Mary 
A., who is the widow of Evan B. Jones, late 
"i" Radnor Township: Margaret A., who is 
the wife of George Perry, residing in Dela- 
ware: and Josephine, who is the wife of Evan 
Jones, residing in Lieking County. 

Mr. Jones was a member of the Congre- 
gational Church at Radnor, in which he served 
.1- deacon and treasurer. In political matters 
he was a Democrat, and he has served as a 
trustee of Radnor Township, and for six years 
was a commissioner of Delaware County, dur- 
ing the last three of which time he was presi- 
dent of the board. He always interested him- 
self in every movement which he believed 
would he of assistance in the development of 
his section, and he was one of the greatest 
friends of the cause of education in Radnor. 
He was known to be a man of strict integrity 
and reliability and no one in Radnor Town- 
ship stood higher in public esteem. 




OX. HEXRY R. SMITH, at one time 
prominent as a legislator and Mill 
well remembered for his activity in 
securing the passage of a number of 
important measures, and his sturdy 
opposition to iniquitous bills introduced in the 
legislative body, was for many years active in 
the ministry. Owing to ill health he was 
obliged to seek an outdoor life and as a result 
t< h ik to agricultural pursuits, and has a farm 
of 180 acres, near Leonardsburg. 

Rev. Smith was born at Sarahsville, Noble 
County, Ohio, April 29, 1846, and is a son of 
John W. and Sarah (McGarry) Smith. John 
W. Smith was born in the North of Ireland. 
and upon coming to the United States located 
in Sarahsville, Ohio. He was a member of the 
United Presbyterian Church, hut as there was 
no church of that denomination in his vicin- 
ity, he attended the Wesleyan Methodist 
Church. He was a very active anti-slavery 



man. and the ministers who came to preach 
abolition were welcomed at his home, although 
they were threatened, egged and subjected to 
other indignities. lie had two cousins, G& 
H. and John, both of whom were Presbyter- 
ian ministers in Washington. I). ('.. and a 
brother, Matthew, who was a United Presby- 
terian minister in Iowa. 

He married Sarah McGarry, who was born 
in Noble County, Ohio, and was a daughter of 
John McGarry, who came from the North of 
Ireland. She had a brother Samuel, who vvas 
the first probate judge of Noble County. A 
cousin of Dr. Smith. David Morrison, was a 
later incumbant of that office. John \Y. and 
Sarah Smith were parents of the following 
children : Henry R. : Jane Elizabeth, deceased, 
who was the wife of L. W. Thompson; John 
W.. who died in 1907, at Sarahsville. Ohio: 
Matthew L., who lives on the old home place 
at Sarahsville: and Hugh, who also live- at 
Sarahsville. 

Henry R. Smith was reared at Sarahsville 
and attended the public schools and taught in 
the schools of the county for several years. In 
1808 he entered Ohio Wesleyan University at 
Delaware and attended nearly three years, after 
which he was a student at Oberlin College for 
two years, and while there had a call, in [873, 
to fill a vacancy in the pulpit, his charge in- 
cluding Wesleyan Methodist churches in Ben- 
nington Township, Morrow County, and Ox- 
ford and Orange Townships, Delaware Coun- 
ty. After two years he accepted a call to the 
Sarahsville Weslyan Methodist Church, and 
during his long pastorate there exerted a pow- 
erful influence for good in the community. 
His advanced stand on public questions to 
which he gave fearless expression resulted in 
his nomination in 1879, on the Republican 
ticket, and subsequent election, to the State 
Legislature, although he had not solicited the 
office. In 1881 he was returned to the Legis- 
lature for a second term. He was one of the 
pioneers in the movement to regulate saloons 
and during his second term introduced and 
secured the passage of a bill requiring them to 
close on Sunday. The liquor organizations 
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an attempt to defeat the measure, and resort 
was had to anonymous letters threatening Air. 
Smith with death. One letter signed "Mes- 
senger of Freedom" contained a picture of 
crossed daggers and an hour-glass with the 
sand nearly run out. Journals puhlished in 
interest of the liquor traffic villified, abused 
and ridiculed him and the community he rep- 
resented, hut without avail. He was called 
Saint Smith. Crank. Sunday Bill Smith, etc. 
The stronger the opposition, the harder he 
fought, and so forceful was lie in championing 
the cause of law and order, that his speeches 
were more widely published and commented 
upon by the press of the State than those of 
any other member of that body. 

A hill had been introduced for the taxation 
of churches and it looked as though it would 
pass until Rev. Smith, without any prepara- 
tion, in the final hour of debate, took the floor 
and extemporaneously delivered a masterful 
speech showing the influence of the church for 
good, and the questionable aim of those foster- 
ing the hill. 

Among the press comments on his ability 
and demeanor as a legislator, we quote the fol- 
lowing in appreciation of his efforts: "Hon. 
il. R. Smith of the Legislature from Noble 
County, is recognized as one of the most in- 
dustrious and clear-headed members of the 
House. In his seat every day during the ses- 
sion, he votes intelligently on every measure 
thai comes up, and his votes are always casl 
in the interest of economy and honest laws. 
Mi- speeches on local option and against the 
hill taxing property have received more gener- 
al publication and comment throughout the 
State than an\ speeches made in the Legisla- 
ture." 

.The following letter, accompanying a gift 
ol two volumes of Harper's Cyclopedia of 
United Slates History, is self explanatory: 
"I Ion. I lenrv Smith, 

.My Dear Sir: 

You have had a laborious task as member 

1 ommittee on Enrollment and Revision, 
and I desire to acknowledge the service you 
have rendered the House and also myself by 



the presentation to you of the accompanying 
volumes, 

Very Respectfully, 

O. J. HODGE, 

Speaker." 
In 1884, Rev. Smith returned to pastoral 
wank at Morton's Corners and continued until 
1889, when ill health compelled him to leave 
the ministry. He then moved to Leonards- 
burg, where he has since followed farming 
with beneficial results. Always a Prohibition- 
ist in principle, he was in 1895 tne nominee of 
that party for secretary of State. Tn 1907 he 
was elected justice of the peace of Brown 
Township. Mr. Smith was delegate to the 
General Conference of his denomination for a 
number of terms. He has been a member of 
the Book Committee of his church for 12 
years. 

Henry R. Smith was united in marriage 
to Celia L. Potter, October 16, 1879, at Leon- 
ardsburg, Ohio, Rev. George Richey perform- 
ing the ceremony. Mrs. Smith was born in 
Peru Township, Morrow County, Ohio, and is 
a daughter of Israel and Phoebe (Whipple) 
Potter. After completing a course of instruc- 
tion in the public schools she attended Sharp's 
Business College at Delaware, receiving a di- 
ploma. She then engaged in artistic studies 
in the Ohio Wesleyan University, developing 
a talent she has possessed from childhood. Al- 
though she has. at different times, given les- 
sons in painting, her accomplishment has 
mainly been used for the pleasure it gives her 
and others. With an eye for symmetry and 
beaut}', she can paint scenes from nature rap- 
idly and without studious effort, and has re- 
produced numerous views in the vicinity, with 
which she has been familiar all her life, one 
being of the old Rotter homestead. These, to- 
gether with paintings of flowers, reproduc- 
tions of other paintings, her crayon portraits 
and pencil sketches, ornament her home and 
those of her friends and make a beautiful col- 
lection. 

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children as 
follows: Henry Richey, who graduated from 
Delaware High School, completed the classi- 




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633 



cal course in Ohio Wesleyan University in 
1907, and after pursuing post graduate work 
in the oratorical and commercial courses he ac- 
cepted the principalship of Gibsonburg, Ohio, 
High School. Walter Reed, who is farming 
the home place, and Esther, who is attending 
school. 




-EORGE STOKES, a leading citizen 
V h ot ~ Concord Township, residing on 
his well-improved farm of 126 acres, 
was born in Somersetshire. England, 
November 24, 1821;, and is a son of 
Tin unas and Elizabeth (White) Stokes. The 
parents of Mr. Stokes were born in Somer- 
setshire and both died in England. They had 
two children, George and Mary Ann, the lat- 
ter of whom married John Carp. Thomas 
Stokes was a malster and brewer by occupa- 
tion. 

< ieorge Stokes attended school in his child- 
hood, near the family home, and when he had 
grown older, his father sent him to a school 
in the city of Bath, where he remained for 
several years, having two yearly vacations — 
in mid-summer and at Christmas. These were 
great occasions, as time-honored old customs 
were observed in the family home. In [848, 
(ieorge Stokes was married to Annie Hill, 
who is a daughter of George and Elizabeth 
Hill. She also was horn in Somersetshire, 
England, and attended school with Mr. Stokes. 
Prior to their coming' to America, in [851, 
they had a daughter, Sarah Ann. born to them, 
January 14. 1850. who married James Mad- 
dox, who resided on the farm which Mr. 
Stokes now owns, in Concord Township. Mr. 
and Mrs. Maddox had two daughters, Mary 
and Jessie. The latter died at the age of 
twenty-two years. The former married John 
Rutherford and thev reside in Morrow 
County, Ohio. The_\' have four children. Mr. 
and Mrs. Stokes had a son born in 1858. in 
Union County. Ohio. They gave him the 
name of the grandfather, in England — Thomas 
Stokes. He died in 1802. leaving a widow 
and one daughter, both of whom are eng; 



in teaching, the former, in the public schools 
of Delaware. 

When Mr. Stokes and family came to 
America, they settled in Jerome Township, 
Union County, Ohio, which continued to be 
their home until 1863. In 1858, Mr. Sto|< L -s 
was engaged to do all the butchering and pre- 
paring of meat tor Mr. Wilson, who then had 
charge of the White Sulphur Springs Hotel, 
and after completing that contract, in- 1859, he 
returned to visit his aged parents in England 
and remained with them for four months. In 
March, 1863, he returned to Ohio, and bought 
the farm on which he resides, moving to the 
Springs in the same year. At that time this 
land was in heavy timber and much effort 
has since been expended in clearing', cultivat- 
ing and improving it. For a season the fam- 
ily lived in an unpretentious house, but later 
erected the substantial one now standing. For 
twenty-seven years Mr. Stokes was employed 
on the property which was acquired by the 
State of Ohio for a site for the Girls' Industrial 
Home, in Delaware County, and thereby 
earned a large part of the capital which he 
has been able to use to such good advantage 
in the improvement of his present property. 
His whole lite has been a busy and useful 
one. 

In national affairs, Mr. Stokes is a zealous 
Republican, but in local affairs he is influ- 
enced by the special fitness of candidates, aside 
from party lines. He is a member of Lodge 
No. 225, Knights of Pythias, at Bellpoint. 




LEXANDER M. JACOBS, notary 
public, and senior member of the 
firm of A. M. Jacobs & Son. manu- 
facturers of monuments, at Ostran- 
der. was born at Hopewell, Perry 
County, Ohio, June [9, 1844, and is a son 
of Levi and Elizabeth < Bear) Jacobs. Toliver 
Jacobs, the grandfather of Alexander ML, was 
born in Virginia, came to Ohio in [836, and 
died in 1858. He married Lucretia Walker, 
whose father served seven years in the Ri 
lutionary War. Thev lived in a loe house on 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



their clearing in Perry County, and shared in 
the hardships and privations endured by the 
early settlers. 

Levi Jacobs, son of Toliver ami father of 
Alexander M., was born near Richmond. Vir- 
ginia, in [816. He had few educational ad- 
vantages in his boyhood, and to learn to read 
attended school for three months after he was 
married, thus showing a creditable determina- 
tion to make up to some extent for his lack of 
early opportunities. He learned the carpen- 
ter's trade with his lather and he was 20 years 
of age when he accompanied the latter to 
Perry County, where he worked first at Ins 
trade, but later gave his entire attention to 
farming. He married a daughter of Joseph 
Bear, of Perry County, -and they had six chil- 
dren, four of whom survived infancy, namely: 
Alexander M., subject of this sketch; John 
W., who died in 1907: Marion, who resides 
at Findlay, Ohio; and Sarah E., who is the 
wife of Elmer Dunlap, of Deshler, Henry 
I ounty, Ohio. He was a leading member, as 
had been his father, of the Christian Union 
Church. 

When Alexander M. Jacobs was three 
years old his parents moved to Big Lick Town- 
ship. Hancock County, Ohio, and he obtained 
his education in a log school-house, a mile and 
a half distant from his home, which was 
reached by means of a corduroy road. The 
country was very wild for miles around and 
Mr. Jacobs' early advantages were few. al- 
though settlers soon came and the most incon- 
venient features of pioneer life were gradually 
overcome. lie learned the carpenter's trade, 
at which he worked until 1888. when he 
moved to Cary, Ohio, ami entered into the 
monument business, remaining there for seven 
years. In [899, he came to Ostrander and 

larked in the same line of business here, his 
s.n Lewis having become his partner in [892, 
when tlie linn style of A. M. Jacobs & Son 
was adopted. Another son of Mr. Jacobs is 
employed in the business but is not a partner. 
This firm dors a very large business, tilling 
contracts all over Delaware, Union and Alar- 
ion ('.rallies, and occasionally work- comes 
distant points. This satisfactory 



condition of affairs speaks well both for the 
quality of their work and the honorable busi- 
ness methods followed by the firm. 

Mr. Jacobs was married (first) to Cor- 
delia McRill, a daughter of Benjamin McRill, 
who was Mr. Jacobs' first school teacher. Of 
the five children born of this marriage, four 
survive, namely : Lewis, junior member of 
the firm; Charles, residing at Ostrander, who 
married Delia Tong; Frederick; and Rosa. 
who married Ashley Alspach, residing at Os- 
trander. Mrs. Jacobs died in 1880, aged 34 
years. She was a consistent member of the 
L'nited Brethren Church. Mr. Jacobs was 
married (secondly) to Sarah E. Pendleton, 
who was born in Concord Township, and who 
is a daughter of William Pendleton, a pioneer 
settler there. Three children were born of 
the second marriage, one of whom died young, 
the two survivors being Jessie and Walter. 
Mr. Jacobs was very active in Sunday-school 
work and was an elder in the Christian Union 
Church, in Hancock County. 

In politics, Mr. Jacobs is affiliated with the 
Democratic party. From 1883 until 1892 he 
served as a justice of the peace in Hancock 
County, and in 1901 he was elected to the 
same office and served three years at Ostran- 
der. He has been a notary public for the past 
five years. His public services have been 
faithfully and efficiently performed. While 
residing at Cary, Ohio, he joined the Tribe of 
Ben Hur. and he belongs also to the Odd Fel- 
low s. having held official position in Fountain 
Lodge, No. 353, at Vanlue, Ohio. 




EV. IRA CHASE was born at Ban- 
gor, Maine, on the 12th day of April. 
A. D.. 1809. llis progenitors were 
of English origin and came from the 
nobility of England. His family 
still have in their possession the design of their 
coat-of-arms. The motto inscribed thereon is 
"Ne cede malis," "Never yield to discourage- 
ments," which seems to have been a prominent 
characteristic of the family and was very 
marked in the subject of this sketch. The 



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early history of the Chase family in America 
daie- hack to the year (630, when three broth- 
ers, William. Thomas and Aquilla, landed on 
the continent, having come here with the fleet 
which brought John Winthrop, the Puritan 
or of Massachusetts to American soil. 
In 1639, two of these brothers, Thomas and 
Aquilla, became the first settler- of Hampton, 
New Hampshire. They remained there un- 
til [652, when Thomas died, after which 
Aquilla removed to X'ewhury and remained 
there until his death. He left a large family 
of children who settled in various part- ■ [ 
New England, and from this family came the 
subject of this sketch. 

Rev. Ira Chase's father's name was Elipha- 
let Chase, and he was born March 26, 1 775. 
Hi- mother's name was Susan Mugget, and 
she came from a prominent and wealthy family 
of Massachusetts. His parents were married 
May 1, 1794. and were both devout members 
of the Episcopal Church. They had a family 
of ten children, some of whom died before 
they arrived at their majority. The father 
was a merchant in Bangor, Maine. After his 
death the family removed to the West. One 
of the older brothers. John M. Chase, settled 
in the State of Michigan, where he reared a 
family of six sons, all of whom became pro- 
fessional men. and like their ancestors were 
enthusiastic politicians, one son being elected 
r of Indiana. Another brother. Rev. 
Ebenezer B. Chase, was a prominent minister 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church and trav- 
eled through Ohio and will be remembered by 
many as one of the most eloquent and zeal- 
ous preachers in the Ohio Conference. He 
married Miss Catherine Rosecrans, a sister of 
the late Bishop and General Rosecrans. The 
youngest brother. Silas H. Chase, graduated 
from the Medical College in Cincinnati and la- 
ter o mpleted a course in law. after which he 
located in the above city where he became in- 
timately associated with his cousin. Salmon 
P. Chase, who was United Slate- senator, 
then governor of ( Ihio and later chief justice 
of the United State-. Dr. Silas Chase re- 
moved to Washington, 1). C, about the time 
his o -~ : -.\ became chief justice, where he died 



while yet in the prime of life, and just before 

his hopes for promotion had been realized. 
The subject of this -ketch was educated in 
Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and studied medicine for 
several months under the tutelage id" Dr. Rus- 
sell, one of the most prominent physicians in 
the State. But having been impressed, when 
hut a boy, with the feeling that he was called 
to preach the Gospel, he yielded to his early 
convictions and abandoned his chosen profes- 
sion and began the study of theology. He was 
licensed to preach by the Quarterly Conference 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the 
• Mm. Conference, when hut 19 years of age. 
after which he continued his studies for several 
years and in the autumn of 1N34 he was ap- 
pointed to Greenville Circuit, Darke County, 
Ohio, his colleague being Rev. William IS. 
Christie, who later became a noted divine of 
the Methodist Church. 

It was during his pastorate at Greenville 
that he was married to Jane Wilcox, of Wilkes- 
barre, Pennsylvania, who had been spending 
several months in Ohio with her sister. Mrs. 
Elizabeth Stark, the wife of Mr. James Stark, 
one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of 
Kingston Township, Delaware County. An 
incident occurred the day previous to his mar- 
riage, which showed the true courage and de- 
votion of Mr. Chase. He started from Green- 
ville on horseback to meet his chosen bride in 
Kingston Township. It had been a very 
rainy season and when he reached the Scioto. 
on the road between Marysville and Dela- 
ware, he found the water raging and the river 
overflowing its banks, and there being no 
bridge, he was advised that it was not safe 
tor hint to cross, but he determined to stem 
the flood and he guided his horse to land, be- 
tween the two enormous boulders, on the east 
side of the river. Had he failed to land between 
these two boulders, both rider and steed would 
have perished. But Mr. Chase arrived safely 
and was married on the eleventh day of June. 
[835, according to promise. 

Mr. Chase's next appointment was Medin 1. 
in the Western Reserve. While traveling 
this circuit he had as his colleague, Kduard 
fhompson, who afterward became Bishoj 



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the Methodist Church. His next work was 
on the Norwalk circuit, which at that time ex- 
tended as far west as the village of Toledo, 
Ohio, and during' his pastorate there, he estab- 
lished the first Methodist Episcopal Church in 
what is now the city of Toledo. In his travels 
lie was obliged to cross what was then known 
as the Great Black Swamp. Mr. Chase and his 
ever faithful wife made many trips together 
through those dangerous and malarial regions 
and while there he contracted what was at 
that time commonly known as "preacher's sore 
throat," and he was obliged to withdraw from 
the active work. With the hope of being hene- 
fittecl by a pure country atmosphere, he located 
on a farm in 1'orter Township, Delaware 
Count)'. Ohio. He was during this time trans- 
ferred to the Central Ohio Conference and was 
called to fill a vacancy at William Street 
Church of Delaware, the pastor. Rev. Mr. 
Sawyer, having died. Mr. Chase filled his 
pulpit until the next conference. While on his 
farm Air. Chase still felt a lively interest in 
all public affairs and filled numerous positions 
of responsibility in the county as well as in the 
church, lie also manifested a marked inter- 
est in the politics of his county and State. He 
originalK belonged to the old Whig party, 
but allied himself with the Republican party 
at its organization, from his Puritan training 
be bad earl)- learned to view all questions in 
their moral aspect ami so from the beginning 
of his career he was the friend of the slave 
and during the anti-bellum days his home 
became a prominent station on the Under- 
ground Railway, and many timid and fright- 
ened fugitives were directed from there to 
the next station north and their larders were 
filled with supplies for the next night's jour- 
ney. 

'fhe home of Rev. and Mrs. Chase dur- 
ing the time they resided on the farm was 
also the hostelry for Methodism in. all that 
■ pai't of the county. Their doors were always 
open to the ministers, who would often travel 
many hours overtime to reach this pleasant 
and hospitable home. 

Re\ . [ra Chasi married, as above stated. 
Miss Jane Wile- ;e parents were from 



Rhode Island. She was born in Poughkeepsie, 
\ew York, and later removed to Wilkesbarre, 
I 'a., where her brothers had purchased many 
hundred acres of land in Luzerne County 
and owned and opened the first anthracite coal 
mines in the Wyoming Valley. Mrs. Chase was 
related by marriage to David Livingstone, the 
celebrated African exnlorer. and was also -\ 
cousin by birth to General and Bishop Rose- 
crans. Mrs. Chase was a woman of beaut)' 
and charm and her married life was one of 
happiness, unbroken, until her death which oc- 
curred on December 2, 1882, and the memory 
of her virtues and charities have never been 
forgotten. 

To Rev. and Mrs. Chase were born six 
children, one son and rive daughters. The 
eldest daughter, Elizabeth Jane, married Doc- 
tor Philander F. Beverly, who was a promi- 
nent physician in Columbus. Ohio, and during 
the Civil War be was appointed assistant 
surgeon of the Thirtieth Regiment of Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry. His wife was a devout 
and efficient worker in the Woman's Home 
Missionary Society of her church and was 
greatly beloved by all who knew her. Mrs. 
Beverly died in September. [895, and her hus- 
band survived her but one year, be having died 
in December. 1896. 

'fhe son, William B. Christie (who was 
named lor his father's first colleague in the 
ministry), married Elizabeth Marshall and re- 
sides in Marion, Ohio. 

The second daughter, Cornelia Ann, mar- 
ried James Robert Lytle, an attorney at law. 
and resides in Delaware. Ohio. 

'fhe third daughter. Elnora Edmonia, mar- 
ried Gilbert M. Blackford, who was at one 
time a hardware merchant, but now a travel- 
ing salesman. 

'fhe fourth daughter. Mildred Madora. 
graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University 
and became a successful teacher in the West, 
having taught in the University <>f Arizona. 

The fifth daughter, Viola Adelthia, married 
Rev. Job,, Collins Jacks,,,,. I). D., Ph. D., whe 
is a prominent minister of the Gospel in the 
Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episco 
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637 



pits in the conference, and was called to the 
leading Methodisl Church at Appleton, Wis- 
consin, also to Jerse) City and Paterson, New 
Jersey, lie returned to Ohio ami became on? 
of the founders of the Anti-Saloon League of 
( mio and was later elected editor of the Ameri- 
can Issue, the leading organ of the \nti-Sa- 
loon League of Ohio, lie is now the National 
Editor of the American Issue of the Anti-Sa- 
loon League of America, with headquarters at 
Chicago. Illinois. Dr. Jackson has heen one 
ol the most faithful and courageous workers 
in that organization. 

Rev. Ira Chase has long since gone to his 
final reward, he having died on the fifteenth day 
of September, A. I).. 1S87. Prof. William ( i. 
Williams of the Ohio Wesleyan University at 
Delaware (in his life sketch of Rev. Chase. 
in the Western Christian Advocate) says: 
"Rev. Ira Chase was a man of rare virtues, 
patient under all circumstances, never being 
known to murmur or repine, lie was a quiet 
yet firm Christian, and as his own religious 
life ripened and deepened, he felt an increasing 
solicitude for those around him. His life was 
good and his death was triumphant." 




YMAN JEROME CRUMB, a pros- 
perous farmer of Delaware Township, 
was horn in Orange Township, Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, February 15, 
1857. son of James H. and Elizabeth 
Martha ( Faulkner ) Crumb. 

The lather of Mr. Crumb was horn in 
Madison County. New York, and was [6 yi ai 
oi age when he accompanied his father. 
Stephen Crumb, to Delaware County. In his 
boyhood he drove two horses along the tow- 
path on the canal and later adopted farming 
for his life work. When _> 1 wars old lie mar- 
ried and then bought a farm of So acres in 
Orange Township, from which he cleared the 
heavy timber, all the work being accomplished 
by his own hands. He subsequently be< 
the owner of 1 s, , acres, and as his means grew 
more ample, he invested in farm machinery. 
Me was a man of more progressive ideas than 
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many of his neighbors, and was proportion- 
ally successful. | n early life he was a \\ big, 
hut later became a Republican, lie married 
Martha Faulkner, and seven of their 10 chil- 
dren grew up to maturity, namely: Mary X.. 
who died at the age of [9 years; Eunice AI.. 
who married Gordon S. kumiss and. with 
her husband, is now deceased; Lyman Jerome, 
whose name begins this article; Harvey ].. 
who resides in Lebanon. Missouri ; William B , 
who resides on the home farm in Orange 
Township; Hiland F., who is a resident of 
Auburn. Xew York; and Julia E., who mar- 
ried James Harris and resides at Monett. Mis- 
souri. James H. Crumb was horn October _>;. 
[823, ami died January 15. [890, in his 67th 
year. His wife, who was born April 1. [826, 
survived him until January. 1900. They were 
faithful and consistent members of the I nited 
Brethren Church, quiet, unassuming, virtuous 
people, whose presence was a benefit to the 
community in which they resided. 

Lyman J. Crumb, the direct subject of this 
sketch, remained on the home farm until he was 
25 years old. acquiring a good common school 
education and an agricultural training that has 
proved of great advantage to him since. He 
was subsequently engaged in a saw-mill and ■ 
tile manufacturing business for three vears, in 
partnership with Frank Johnson, under the 
firm name of Crumb & Johnson. In 1885 Mr. 
I rumb withdrew and came to Delaware, where 
he carried on a dairy business for six years, 
during which time he had a paying milk route, 
selling to private families. He had clean ami 
sanitary quarters at No. 55 West William 
Street. In 1891 he bought 50 acres .if his pres- 
ent farm, subsequently acquiring the remain- 
der — 65 acres, making 115 in all. He culti- 
vates about 75 acres and devotes the rest to 
pasturage, also retaining his interest in the old 
homestead consisting of 32 acres. He keep- 
30 or more head of cattle, and from six to 
eight head of horses, raising a number each 
year. His buildings, including a [20-ton silo, 
are substantial and appropriate, their capacit) 
!n-iii- ample for the needs of the farm. From 
[895 to M)i 17 he supplied Moimeit I [all v\ ah 
milk, since which time he has sold to the 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



creamery. In 1881 Mr. Crumb contracted for 
and built the brick school building' in Sub-dis- 
trict No. 10, Berlin Township. 

Mr. Crumb married Ella May Besse. who 
is a daughter of the late Dr. Henry Besse, 
of Delaware, and a graduate of the Ohio W'es- 
Ieyan University, at Delaware, Class of '76. 
Thev are the parents of three children — Stan- 
ley. Dale and Pearl. The family are members 
of the Presbyterian Church. In politics Mr. 
Crumb is a Democrat. 




>HN WHERRY, a prominent farmer 

and stockraiser of Genoa Township, 

residing on his valuable farm of 122 

acres, is an honored survivor of the 

great Civil War in which he took an 

active part. He was born in Pennsylvania, 

Ala) i). [838, and 1- a son of Samuel and 

Sarah 1 ( ialey ) Wherry. 

Mi'. Wherry is of German-Irish extraction. 
In [856 Samuel Wherry brought his family 
from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled on a 
farm - f 60 acres which he purchased in Genoa 
Township, Delaware County, which he culti- 
vated for two years and also followed the 
blacksmith trade. In 1858 he went to Missouri 
and there worked at his trade until the time of 
hi- death which took place in middle life. 
Of his 11 children four reached maturity, 
namel} ; Samuel. John, Alary Jane and Eliza- 
beth, the two latter being since deceased. 
Samuel Wherry was a Republican in his po- 
litical views. 

John Wherry accompanied his father to 
Missouri in 1858, hut in June, [860, lie re- 
turned I the old homestead in Genoa Town- 
ship and in the following vear ne xvas married. 
Shortly afterward Air. and Airs. Wherry set- 
tled on the Steele homestead and to the old 
farm 1- added until his land aggregates 

122 acre-, and here lie has carried on a gen- 
eral line I agriculture for many years. In 
[864 Mr. Wherry enlisted for service in the 
. ntering ( 'ompany H, < >ne I [un- 
dred.and Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer In- 
rv, with which he remained connected until 



the close of the Rebellion and the return of 
peace, his discharge bearing the date of June 
28, 1865. He saw hard service, participating 
in the battles of Nashville and Murfreesboro, 
Tennessee; Athens. Alabama; the evacuation 
of Decatur; the siege of Murfreesboro; Over- 
alls Creek: battle of the Cedars, and the battle 
at Wise Fork, North Carolina. His record 
shows that at all times he was a fearless, effec- 
tive soldier ever at the post of duty. 

On Macrh 20. 1801, Air. Wherry was mar- 
ried to Margaret Ann Steele, who was horn 
in Carroll County, Ohio, August 2^, [839, 
and is a daughter of William Stewart and 
Margaret (McEldary) Steele. William S. 
Steele was born in Pennsylvania, April 29, 
[805, went to Carroll County, Ohio, in young 
manhood and on December 23, 1834, was mar- 
ried to Margaret McEldary. who was horn in 
Pennsylvania, April 20. 1815. They had 1 1 
children, three of whom were born in Delaware 
County. In 1X41) Air. Steele moved to the 
latter county and bought a farm of 100 acres 
in Genoa Township, paying $11 per acre and 
cleared 50 of the same, later selling 50 of the 
original purchase and still later buying 60 
more acres. He died on the present farm of 
Mr. and Airs. Wherry, aged 83 years. He was 
a leading member of the Presbyterian Church. 
Mr. and Mrs. Wherry's one daughter and 
three sons were born on the home farm. 
namely : Eva Adelle, George Grant, William 
Sherman and Nathaniel. The daughter is 
deceased. Mr. When'}' is a stanch Republi- 
can. 




ILLER BROTHERS, undertakers 
and embalmers. at Delaware, have 
one of the best equipped establish- 
ments, in their line, in this State, 
and the)- enjoy the confidence of 
the public to a large degree. The firm of Mil- 
ler Brothers is made up of O. F. and H. II. 
Miller, and is located at No. 20 East William 
Street. 

( ). F. Miller was horn in Harrison County, 
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639 



ti 11 County, where lie attended the public 
and later the Ohio Normal University 
at Ada. lie is a member of the Masons, the 
i ellows and the Knights of Pythias. He 
attends to the main business of the firm. He 
is a graduate of the Champion College of 
Embalming and was licensed by the Ohio State 
Board ot Embalming. In addition to his ser- 
vices, two other graduate embalmers are ein- 
1 1. !•'. Miller is a member of the Wil- 
liam Street Methodist Church. 

H. H. Miller, the second member of the 
firm, is an evangelist and has been in the field 
for the past five years and will soon receive 
his theological degree from the Ohio Wesleyan 
University. 

The Miller Brothers established themselves 
first at Chesterville, Morrow County, where 
they remained for some years. They then re- 
moved to Ashley, Delaware County, remaining 
there for three years and then coming to Dela- 
ware. As funeral directors they are widely 
known and during the past year their services 
were engaged 139 times, an unusual record for 
any • me firm. 




LLIAM W. McKENZIE, president 
of the McKenzie Lumber Com- 
pany, at Delaware, has been a 
resident of this city since 1897. 
He was born in Scotland in 1870. 
and was 14 years of age when he came to 
America. Mr. McKenzie completed his edu- 
cation at Tiffin, Ohio, and was then engaged 
for about 10 years in getting out timber for 
the manufacture of section rods, being located 
at Bloomville during this time. Later he went 
to West Mansfield, where he carried on a lum- 
ber business for four years, and then came to 
Delaware, where the lumber firm of McKenzie 
& Thompson was established. Subsequently, 
Mr. McKenzie bought Mr. Thompson's inter- 
mi established the McKenzie Lumber 
. of which he 1- president. The com- 
pany does business on Easl Winter Street, and 
they operate a planing and a saw-mill together 
with a rod factor), doing both a retail and 



wholesale business. Mr. McKenzie is also 
president of the Chaseland Building Company 
and is a large owner of valuable real estate in 
this section. 

In June, 1900, Mr. McKenzie was married 
to Rachel B. Colber, and they have three chil- 
dren — Marguerite, Frances Marie ami Mary 
Olive. The family belong to the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. Mr. McKenzie's fraternal 
connections include membership in the Odd 
Fellows and the Masons. In the latter organ- 
ization he belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter 
and Council, at Delaware, the Commandery at 
.Marion, and the Shrine at Columbus. 




ODNEY. D. McGONIGLE, one of 

the best-known residents of Oxford 
Township, extensively engaged in 
general farming and stock-raising, 
making specialties of French draft 
horses, Shorthorn cattle and American Merino 
and Delaine sheep, has been a life-long resi- 
dent here, having been born on his present 
farm February 24. 1848. He is a son of Rob- 
ert Jones and Almira (Foust) McGonigle, and 
a grandson of Joseph McGonigle. 

Joseph McGonigle came to America from 
Ireland when a young man and located in 
Virginia. He served through the War of 
1812, and subsequently while in the Indian 
War, passed through the part of Ohio which 
was later to become his home. Upon settling 
in Ohio he first located in Ros> County, but a 
few years later, in 1825. he came to Oxford 
Township, in Delaware Count}-, where he pur- 
chased 200 acres of unimproved land. He first 
built a log house of the pioneer type, and set 
about clearing the place. Some years later 
he erected a more substantial house and lived 
in it the remainder of his days. He was a man 
of fair education for those days and for a time 
taught school. While a resident of Virginia, 
he was joined in marriage with Elizabeth 
Jones, who was born in that State and came of 
one of the first families of Virginia. 

Robert J. McGonigle was horn in Virg 
January 6, 1N17, ami was very young- when 



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his parents came to Ohio. Here he grew to 
maturity, living with his people until alter his 
marriage when he built a house on the same 
farm where his son Rodney D. now lives. He 
followed farming throughout his entire life, 
dying on the home place, April 8, 1892. His 
wife, Almira Foust, was born in Oxford 
Township, December 28, 1819. and they were 
parents of the following children: Chauncey 
H, deceased, lived in this township; Mary 
died in young womanhood; Elizabeth died aged 
about six years; Sidney died aged three years ; 
Rodney I).; and Joseph A., living in Olympia, 
Washington. Robert J. McGonigle was a jus- 
tice of the peace for some years. 

Rodney D. McGonigle was reared on the 
home place and received his educational train- 
ing in the public schools. He has followed 
agricultural pursuits entirely and has made a 
specialty of stockraising. In 1904 he began 
growing American Merino sheep, purchasing 
from some of the best-known breeders in the 
United States. He has met with success and 
is establishing quite a reputation, having taken 
prizes at the State fairs in Ohio. Virginia, 
Illinois, Michigan and Xew York. He has 
made many sales at big prices and has shipped 
to Texas, Xew Mexico and Idaho, as well as 
to States nearer home, lie is a stockholder 
and director in the Farmers Savings Hank at 
Ashley. Mr. McGonigle is one of the fore- 
most men of the township, enterprising and 
public-spirited, and is held in highest esteem 
by his fellow citizens. 

September 4. 1870, be was joined in mar- 
riage with Miss Ella ( i. (.'line, who was born 
in Marlborough Township. Delaware County, 
and is a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth 
(Downing) ('line, pioneers of that vicinity. 
Seven children were born to them: Maude, 
born December 24. 1871, is the wife of Charles 
II. I 'ill and has two children. Walter and 
Rodney; Murray IS., a physician, bom Sep- 
tember 12, 1X73, married I'ersis Scheble and 
has two children. Ruth ami Mary; Mary, born 
August 22, 0S75, married Orrie Jeffrey and 
they have two children, Lorain and Ellen; 
Myra. born April 11. 1N7N. married Dallas 

eman, and they have on I >a\ ; Robert 



Mart, born December 2^, 1880; Tod (Mine, 
born June 16, 1882; and Walden, born June 
3, 1SS4, died October 11. 1XS4. Mr. Mc- 
Gonigle is a Democrat in politics and has 
served six years as township trustee. He is 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
He belongs to the Masonic Lodge at Ashley, 
and to the Patrons of Husbandry. 




LIHU CLARK, retired farmer and 
veteran of the Civil War. is a well- 
known resident of Ashley, Ohio. He 
was born in the northwestern part of 
Oxford Township. Delaware County. 
August 9. 1837, and is a son of Isaac and 
Clarissa (Gale) Clark. 

Isaac Clark, father of Elihu, was born in 
Xew York State and at an early date came' 
west to Ohio, locating in Oxford Township, 
Delaware County, on what was known as the 
Henry Foust farm, and near there he owned a 
tract of 50 acres on which he resided some 
years, then moved to the farm of 50 acres on 
which his son was born. Here he resided until 
his death. I lis union with Clarissa Dale re- 
sulted in the birth of twelve children, of whom 
three survive, namely: Elihu; John, who is 
engaged in agricultural pursuits in Berlin 
Township: and Mary Jane, who is the wife of 
Edward Morgan, now living in Kansas. 

Elihu Clark was reared on the home place 
and received his educational training in the 
common schools of that neighborhood. Ik- 
helped to clear the home property, a part of 
which was heavily timbered, and followed 
farming until he entered the army. He en- 
listed August 13, 1862, in Company D. One 
Hundred and Twentv-first Regiment, Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, and after a service of 10 
months re-enlisted in Company F, of the One 
Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment. Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, lie continued in active 
service until the close 0!" the Civil War. and 
participated in many important engagements, 
among them Cedar Creek. Petersburg and 
Sailor's Run. He was in the Army of the 
Potomac, and in the summer of [864 was with 




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General Sheridan's forces in the Shenandoah 
Valley, and was with General Grant's through 
the Virginia campaign. He participated in the 
Grand Review at Washington, I). C, and was 
then mustered out and discharged in July, 
1865. 

Alter returning home he remained until 
the following spring, after which he followed 
general farming on the second purchase of his 
father and with much success. In [882 he 
erected a handsome brick residence in which 
he lived until 1899. when he sold his property 
and unwed to Ashley, buying a small home 
there, lie is now living in retirement in the 
enjoyment oi a well earned rest after years of 
acth ity. 

October 10. [863, Mr. Clark was united in 
marriage with Miss Margaret Felky, a native 
of Delaware County, Ohio, and they became 
the parents of three children, as follows : Eva, 
deceased, who married Byron Porterfield, left 
two children. Vita and Fay; Josephine, who 
married William Morehouse of Columbus, has 
two children. Pearl and Verner; and Chesley, 
who lives in Ashley, married Bertie Vining 
and has two children. Merle and Lloyd. In 
1885 Mr. Clark was deprived of the com- 
panionship of his beloved wife and helpmeet 
by death. Politically, he is a Republican, lie 
is a member of J. E. Coomer Post, No. 281, 
G. A. R.. at Aslilev. 




LMER A. WIGTON. There are few- 
residents of Delaware County, in all 
probability, who have passed through 
so many thrilling experiences and 
survived more dangers or encoun- 
I more adventures than Elmer A. Wigton, 
who spent many years on the frontier, on the 
outskirts of civilization, but who now is an es- 
teemed citizen of Liberty Township. Mr. 
Wigton was born in Brown Township, Dela- 
ware County. Ohio. June 22. 1839, and is 1 
-on of Sylvester and Elmina (Bern 1 Wig- 
I 

The paternal grandfather, Thomas Wig- 
ton, was born in Pennsylvania in 1777 and 



came to Delaware County in 1819. He set- 
tled on a farm in Kingston Township, near the 
Blue Church, where he lived until 1852, when 
he moved to Berkshire. Four years later he 
settled on a farm between Berkshire and Sun- 
bur}', a property that is occupied by his grand- 
son, Charles Wigton, and his mother. Thomas 
Wigton died in 1877 when almost 100 years 
old. His children were respectively as fol- 
lows: David, Sylvester, Abiram, Jacob. 
James, Frazier, William. Mrs. Samuel Hall. 
Mrs. Orlin Root. Mrs. Joel Root. Mrs. Benja- 
min Lee. Mary Jane and Mrs. Peter Colum, 
all of whom are now deceased. 

The maternal grandparents of Mr. Wigton 
were William and Electa Perry. After the 
death of William Perry his widow married 
Benjamin McMaster. The Perry children 
were: William A., Elmina Rachel, Philemon 
F. ; and the McMasters children were: Rob- 
ert ( iordon. Horace P. and William A. ; and 
the children of the McMaster-Perry mar- 
riage were: George, Esther, Hiram and 
Elosia. 

The father of Mr. Wigton was born in 
Pennsylvania, in 1812. and was seven years of 
age when he accompanied his parents to Dela- 
ware County. Fie died in Brown Township, 
in March, 1873, a g e( l sixty-one years. In 
1837 he married Elmina Rachel Perry, who 
was born in Liberty Township, Delaware 
County. Ohio, October 11, 1819. Alter the 
death of Sylvester Wigton, she married Dr. 
Besse, of Delaware. The parents of Mr. Wig- 
ton settled in Brown Township, one and one- 
half miles west of Eden, when the country was 
yet all covered with forest. They had two 
children: William Perry and Elmer A. The 
former was born June 14. [838. In [862, just 
before entering the army, he married Esther 
E. Holt. He was a member of the Ninety- 
sixth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 
was killed at Arkansas Post, in February, 
1 803. 

Elmer A. Wigton always had a strong in- 
stinct of direction and a faculty for woods 
travel. When a mere child of only four or five 
years of age, he would go far out into the 
dense woods alone and ramble about in every 



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direction, amusing himself by throwing sticks 
at wild turkeys, and when he thought he had 
them driven far enough away, he would strike 
out in the right direction for the little cabin 
which was his home at that time. This latter 
feat he would perform as accurately as a pig 
would have done if it had been carried away 
in a sack and then turned loose. 

About 1844 or '45 Brown Township was 
almost an unbroken wilderness, with the ex- 
ception of the small patches that had been 
cleared around the cabins of the few hardy pio- 
neers that came in from the East to establish 
new homes for themselves. Many times these 
settlers would become uneasy about their chil- 
dren when they had not seen or heard them 
for an hour or two, fearing they were lost in 
the woods. In those days there was more of 
.harmony and friendly feeling existing between 
neighbors than now. They would take their 
families and pay their neighbors a visit and 
have a good time and a good dinner. On such 
occasions a strong cup of coffee, with cream 
and maple sugar, hot biscuit with flutter and 
maple syrup or honey, chicken and dumplings. 
fried ham, boiled eggs, mashed potatoes, boiled 
parsnips, pumpkin pie and cakes sweetened 
with maple sugar — all the cooking done on the 
fireplace — would have been considered a good 
dinner, and would not be very bad to take 
m nv. 

At one time a family, the children of which 
ranged in age from eight to twelve years, 
came to the cabin of Sylvester Wigton, the fa- 
ther of the subject of this sketch, where 
they were cordially received. Neighbor set- 
tler and Mr.. Wigton were busily engaged in 
talking, when all of a sudden neighbor said, 
"Where are the children? I haven't heard 
them for some time: I am afraid they are lost." 
Mr. Wigton looked up in his good natured 
manner, and said, "They are not lost, for lit- 
tle Elmer followed them, and he will keep 
with them. When he gets hungry and tired, 
he will say, '1 am going In. mi-.' They will all 
be hungry about that time, and that little pig 
will start out on a bee-line fur home." Neigh- 
bor said, apparently with -Mine surprise. "Sup- 
pose they have rambled around in the woods 



until they do not know where they are, and he 
starts nut in the wrong direction?" Mr. Wig- 
ton said with a smile, "He was never known to 
go the wrong way ; I have had him in test f> ir 
over a year. He has followed me many times 
into the woods, so thick with spice brush that a 
person could not see out one rod from where 
he started, and I would then ask him, 'Which 
way is home?' He would raise his little hand 
and point the right direction every time." 

Mr. Sylvester Wigton was also a good 

w Is traveler. He was never known to get 

lost, or t<> hunt for the moss which is always 
more plentiful on the north side of the stand- 
ing tree in order to keep his course, although 
he traveled many dark, cloudy nights through 
the woods, and showed many lost persons to 
their homes. 

Elmer A. Wigton in his boyhood days, 
went to school winters in the old log school- 
In mse, and in the summer assisted his father 
in clearing the land and raising crops. Tins 
life continued until March 6, i860, when he 
left the parental roof and started for the We-r. 
going by rail to Cincinnati, where he took a 
steamer down the Ohio River. Then he took 
the steamboat "White Cloud" and went up the 
Missouri for Leavenworth, Kansas. It was 
the month of March, when the Missouri River 
is lower than at any other time of year. It w as 
then so low that in many places the boat had 
to lie moved by use of the spar and capstan. 
Many times passengers were landed and 
walked up the river a mile or more until deep 
water was reached, when the boat would make 
a landing and take them aboard. On March 
26th he arrived at Leavenworth, having been 
twenty days on his journey. He remained in 
the city the first night; in the morning taking 
his grip-sack, he started out on the Lawrence 
and Leavenworth road, continuing on that 
road until he came to the stream. Little 
Stranger. Here there was a hotel which was 
a stage station on the route between Leaven- 
worth and Lawrence. Here he took dinner 
and in the afternoon, abandoning the road, he 
went across the prairie in a southwesterly di- 
rection, and at night put up at John Wright's 
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lie remained a week, daily walking about the 
adjoining country, and down into the Dela- 
ware Reservation which was near by. The In- 
dians were more of a curiosity to him at that 
time than they were later. Since then Mr. 
Wigton has passed weeks at a time without 
seeing - any other class of people. 

On the 1 6th of April he started on another 
tramp, going in a westerly direction. After 
traveling fourteen miles, he pulled into the lit- 
tle town of Osackee. The next day he took the 
stage for Le Compton, which was the first pro- 
posed capital of Kansas. He remained in this 
town and vicinity during the greater part of 
the summer of i860, and in August left for 
the southern part of Kansas and northern part 
of Indian Territory. In October, i860, while 
stopping at Le Roy, on the Neosha River in 
southern Kansas, he first met Capt. E. H. 
Mosley, the great trader and trapper oi the 
Southwest, lie was a hardy frontiersman, 
about fifty-four years of age, with long brown 
hair, and flowing whiskers mixed with gray. 
He wore a drab coat and badger-skin cap, to 
which raccoon skin was hanging in the rear. 
While on the plains he always had a revolver 
and a long knife hanging to his belt, and 
would entertain newcomers from the east with 
his thrilling adventures and hair-breath es- 
capes from the Indians. This humorous old 
pioneer took quite a fancy to young Wigton, 
giving him a new name, which clung to him 
for years — Wild Buck, ddie Captain insisted 
on Buck accompanying him to the extreme 
frontier, which he consented to do. Soon after 
this an old Indian trader had returned to his 
trading post, which at that time was situated 
on the southwest bank of the Arkansas River, 
about one mile west of where Wichita now 
stands. At that time the region was the home 
of the wolf and the huffalo. The old Captain 
and a man named Moxley on the west hank 
of the Little Arkansas River, at the crossing 
of the old California trail of '49, which place 
is now within the limits of North Wichita, had 
the only houses west of EI Dorado, which is 
situated on the Big Walnut, twenty-five miles 
east of Wichita. 



At the time young Wigton arrived at the 
trading post, Captain .Mosley had several men 
in his employ putting up hay, there being nu- 
merous stacks which had been mowed on the 
surrounding- prairie. A few days later an old 
Frenchman accompanied by an Indian came 
into the post, and requested Captain Moslej to 
take some merchandise and go with them to 
their camp, as they had many buffalo robes and 
other articles of traffic to dispose of. After 
loading some prairie schooners. Captain Mos- 
ley said, "Now, Buck, come and go with me. 
and we will see Indians in their purity. We 
will he off in the morning, as the wagons will 
be loaded tonight, and then we will have noth- 
ing to do but to yoke up the oxen — there were 
six yoke to a wagon — and start." In the 
morning when all was ready to start. Captain 
Mosley said to the little Frenchman, Lob, 1 by 
name. "I will expect you to guide me to your 
cam]), as you have not vet told me where it is 
located." At this request, Lobo told the In- 
dian in his native tongue to act as guide. The 
Indian adjusted his blanket and started on 
about twenty paces in advance of the rest of 
the party. The whole outfit was soon moving, 
and Buck was standing with his rifle on his 
shoulder ready to start out on his first trip to 
an Indian camp. Captain Mosley gave a few- 
orders to the men who were to remain at the 
post, and shouldered his favorite old rifle, 
"Sweet Lips," as he called it, said "We will 
go." Captain Mosley and Buck walked slowly 
and steadily on their way, about a quarter of a 
mile in the rear of the outfit. They did not 
come up with it until it had reached a little 
stream called the Cow Skin, about eight miles 
fn mi the post. Here they had unyoked the 
oxen and struck camp to remain for the night. 
By this time there were many clouds in sight 
giving prospects of rain. By the time the cook 
had dinner ready, the clouds had become 
dense, and Captain Mosley said. "1 wish it 
would rain, for it has not rained for so long 
that I have almost forgotten what it looks 
like." This was in the fall of i860, the driest 
year ever known in that part of the country. 
Night passed but without rain, though it was 



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still dark and cloudy. They broke camp at an 
early hour, and lie lore they had traveled one 
mile drops of rain began to fall and soon it 
was raining quite hard and the prairie was be- 
coming quite muddy. Captain Mosley, Buck, 
I.obo, the extra man and the cook, sought 
shelter in the wagons, while the ox-drivers 
and the Indian walked on in the rain. 

While the Captain and Lobo were busy 
talking. Buck was seated in front on a package 
of goods looking out into the rain. After a 
short time. Captain Mosley came to the front 
of the wagon and seated himself on some 
goods. His face wore an uneasy expression. 
He said, "Well, Buck, how are you making it 
sitting here in silence this rainy day?" "Cap- 
tain," was the answer. "1 do not think I will 
ever learn to travel on the plains, although 
when I was four or five years old 1 was con- 
sidered equal to a pig in traveling in the 
woods. Now here 1 am with an Indian guide 
at our head — and 1 have heard that they were 
the best guides in the world and can always 
strike their point under any circumstances — 
and I have been sitting here all the morning 
looking out in front, with my eye on the guide, 
and my mind wholly on the run of our travel, 
anil it does seem to me that we have been 
steadily swinging to the left, and are now- 
headed to the north of the place we came from 
this morning. 1 have never felt so com- 
pletely lost in my life." The Captain said, 
"Buck, you are right; that damned Indian has 
turned us around, and I am going to get out 
and do some guiding myself." The French- 
man said, "That [ndi-on is one good gui-eed. 
lie was raised on the pvai-ree, and he does 
know where he does go." "I do not care what 
he knows. I ain going to get out and guide this 
outfit." By the time he had alighted from the 
wagon, the Indian had stopped and was look- 
ing at the ground. When Mosley came up to 
him he was standing as still as a mile-post, and 

ng at the tracks the) had made an hour or 
two before. The Captain turned the outfit 
around to a southerly direction and headed to- 
ward the Ninnesqua, and the Indian crawled 
into a wagon and covered his head with a 
blanket. When they hail gone about a mile, it 



stopped raining and the sun came out. Mosley 
threw his blue blanket on the ground, mo- 
tioning to the teamsters to pick it tip and con- 
tinued on. As Buck was tired of riding, he 
jumped out of the wagon and started on at a 
rapid pace to overtake Mosley. By the time 
he caught up with him they were at the banks 
of the Ninnesqua, and Mosley was looking for 
a place to stop for the night. After locating 
the camp, they were busily engaged in gather- 
ing wood. The sun was still shining, but low. 
They had a tire burning when the wagons 
came up. Coffee was soon made and the cook 
was occupied in making bread. Each man 
had his piece of buffalo meat cooking in a 
manner to suit himself. This was the second 
day out from the post, and they were only 
twenty-five miles away. When they had fin- 
ished supper the sun had set. it was growing 
dark, the wind had shifted to the northwest 
arid the air was getting quite cold. The stars 
were shining and everything was wet with 
dew, and the silence of the night was soon 
broken by the keen sharp yelling of the 
coyotes and the low mournful howl of the big 
gray wolves. In the morning there was a 
heavy white frost on the vegetation, appar- 
ently the first frost of the season. 

After supper the Indian bad crawled out of 
the wagon and walking to the camp said, "1 
know where I am now, our camp is about live 
miles (holding up the fingers of one hand to 
indicate the number) from the place. Mr. In- 
dian now acted as guide. As we reached the 
summit of the elevated prairie, we could see 
vast herds of horses grazing on the descend- 
ing prairie, and farther on could be seen small 
clumps <>f trees, which were at the head of a 
small stream called Shumacusse. This was the 
lout; looked-for cam]), and the first Indian 
Indian camp Buck was ever in. In this camp 
could lie seen Indians from the smallest 
pappoose in a parted raw-bide baby-cage sus 
pended from the limb of a tree up to the big 
laz) buck sunning himself 1 n the south side of 
a hill. Buck made himself useful in assisting 
the Captain in measuring out merchandise. 
Maii\ times during tin- day the Captain and 
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and of the noble bloods for a feast, which in- 
vitation could not he refused without insulting 
the Indian. The cook, the extra man and the 
teamsters were invited into the lodge of Lobo 
and the other lodges of low rank. Lobo was 
living with an inferior looking old squaw, and 
though lie had lived many years with the In- 
dians, he seemed to he of low rank in the vil- 
By evening the cargo was very much 
reduced. When the cargo from a wagon was 
removed, the cover and bows were laid aside 
and the bed of the wagon was filled with buf- 
falo robes, piled up until the top of the load 
projected over the sides and from there up 
would he ten feet wide and seven feet high, 
there being many hundred robes in the pile. 
Trading had about ceased when night came 
i in. Bon-fires were being kindled. Small 
brush was gathered and saturated with buffalo 
tallow, and these when set on fire produced a 
brilliant light. As the fire began to burn, one 
could see the numerous warriors taking from 
their belts a small sack containing red, yellow 
and black paint, and a small looking-glass in- 
serted in a board handle like a hair brush. In 
the morning the wagons were started back 
with the cargo. Mosely and Buck remaining in 
the camp. They were gone about four days, 
and by the time the}- returned, the entire stock 
of merchandise was sold out. The return 
cargo consisted of buffalo tallow and robes, 
dressed buckskin and robes. Mosley was to 
guide the outfit hack. He stayed in just about 
foot behind Buck, and every once in a 
while would ask, "Where are we going now ?" 
Buck would reply. "I think you are about 
right," and then conversation would be re- 
sumed. 

After they had been hack at the post a few 
;, an outfit was rigged up for a wolf hunt. 
Flour, coffee, sugar, dried fruit, beans, for the 
men. and a large stock of strychnine for am- 
munition for the wolves. The party consisted 
of \-hby. Engal, Condit, Hayden. Moffit ami 
Wigton. When the party was ready, Moslej 
"If you are attacked, \-hley. you are 
Captain or this outfit, and 1 will expect every 
man to he under your command. Buck, you 
are the guide of this party, and Ashley. 1 want 



you to understand that he is the guide of the 
part\, I tuck, you go smith to the Cimron 
(Cimarron), and if you cannot find plenty of 
wolves there, go up the Cimron until you do 
find them." 

It took six days to reach the Cimarron, and 
then there were no buffalo or wolves. They 
started slowly up the stream until they reached 
the salt plain country. There they found 
plenty of wolves and made a grand hunt. The 
party got over a thousand wolf skins. Each 
man got one-half of what he made, the Cap- 
tain furnishing all supplies, except fire arms 
and blanket. Baits poisoned with strychnine 
were set about dusk at evening for the wolves. 
One day on reaching camp, it was discovered 
that the Indians had been there, cut the tents 
and cut up the wagon and pitched it into the 
stream. They had taken all the provisions, so 
the party started back to the trading post. The 
third day they were going a little north of 
east, and when they reached a certain point a 
dissension arose as to the direction they should 
take. The party broke up. different one- go- 
ing in the direction they thought right, only 
Moftit. the youngest man in the party remain- 
ing with Buck, the official guide. They 
reached .Mosley on the fourth day, having had 
nothing to eat since the morning of the day 
they started hack, except a few black walnuts 
which they had found on the evening of the 
third day. When Mosley saw them, he said, 
"What the devil are you doing there?'" "We 
have been robbed by the Indians." "Have 
they killed the men?" "No, the men left me at 
the Minnesqua." "Well, that's a devil of a 
note: which way did they go?" He was told 
the direction taken by the different men. It 
was several day- before the balance of the 
party staggered into camp one and two at j 
time, and most of them with badly frozen 
limbs. In the interval Mr. Wigton spent two 
days with an old hunter. James Dewit. 

Early in 1861, a party came down off the 
Cimarron River, to the trading post, report- 
ing that two of their party, Shaw and Green, 
had been killed by the Indian-. Mr. Wigton 
with Mr. Ashby and Mr. Ingle, went in search 
and found Shaw's body, which had been 



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scalped, but Green's body was never recov- 
ered. In a few days, Air. Wigton and bis 
companions returned to the post and shortly 
afterward Captain Mosley went back to bis 
residence on Fall River, twenty-five miles east 
of Eureka, Butler County. Kansas. Mr. Wig 
ton there raised some recruits to pursue the In- 
dians, who had a council and camp at the 
mouth of Fall River. It was this camp that 
Air. Wigton and Mr. Ingle raided, carrying 
oft" the Indian horses to Leroy, where they re- 
mained a few days, when Captain Mosley 
came with his ox-train of hides, to ship to St. 
Louis from Leavenworth. When the trader 
reached St. Louis they found that city in an 
uproar, and Captain Mosley could not sell his 
cargo and left Air. Wigton in charge, while 
he went to Peoria, Illinois. Subsequently, Mr. 
Wigton placed the cargo of hides on a boat 
and shipped the same to Peoria, where Mr. 
Mosley traded the most of them for corn, 
which he shipped to Kansas. 

Air. Wigton then left Captain Mosley and 
went to Michigan. He also visited Chicago, 
and then returned to Leavenworth, going 
thence to Denver, from which city be went 
back to Leavenworth with a four-mule team, 
in preparation for entering the Government 
transportation service. He remained at dif- 
ferent points in Kansas and Nebraska until 
June, [862, when be started south with the 
first and second Indian regiments to Fort 
Scott, where he was employed in handling- 
transportation. He was a member of the no- 
ted Colonel Coffey expedition and in Decem- 
ber, [862, participated in the fight at Perry 
Grove, later at White River, and at Spring- 
field, Missouri, in March', [863, after which 
he returned to Fort Scott. In the fall of this 
year be went to Fort Smith to pass the winter. 

Up to January, [865, when Mr. Wigton 
reached Leavenworth again, his life was 
one round of dangerous adventure and 
on several occasions be was the only 
member of bis party who entirely es- 
caped injury. He remained in the service of 
the Government until October, (865, when be 
was honorably discharged, having spent the 
previous summer putting up bay on the plains. 



He remained at Fort Scott, engaged in a traf- 
fic business for a time and then went down into 
the Indian Nation, with Chester Turtle, of 
Topeka. He remained variously engaged on 
the frontier of Kansas, until 1875, and then 
went into Western Texas, and in the sprim. of 
[879, from there to Las Vegas, New Alexico. 
A few days later he went to Fort Union, in the 
Government employ, under Captain Hooker, 
as chief packer on the Apache expedition 
and remained out in the transportation service 
until September, a number of the men and 
horses of the troop being killed in the mean- 
while. He remained at Las Vegas also as in- 
terpreter for Obirn & Hosick, of Chicago, 
dealers in hides. In 1882, he made a prospect- 
ing trip west of Las Vegas for coal and 
worked a coal bank that would have been 
profitable if transportation facilities had been 
near. Mr. Wigton then built a small mill near 
Mineral Hill and he also often served, as .1 
guide to tourists in the mountains, who v Yited 
the Mineral Hill Resort, which is 10.000 feet 
above sea level. 

The time came, however, when Air. Wig- 
ton felt a longing for the scenes of his early 
life and he came back home in February, 
1896. He is a member of Lodge No 421. Odd 
Fellows, at Ashley. Ohio. In politics, he is a 
Democrat. He is engaged in the milling busi- 
ness at the old Beaver Mill, which he owns. 
He speaks Spanish, keeping himself in prac- 
tice by reading aloud to himself Spanish pa- 
pers. He also speaks four Indian tongues. 




K. WYLIE, proprietor of a flourishing 
hoop and stave manufactory at Dela- 
ware, is a son of Abraham P. and 
*^ a<ffl l Sarah E. (McConnell ) Wylie. and a 
grandson, on the paternal side, of 
Robert and Elizabeth (Patterson) Wylie. The 
grandparents were early settlers in Logan 
County, Ohio, Robert Wylie being an industri- 
ous and successful farmer. They professed 
the faith of the old Scotch Covenanters and 
were earnest Christian people. 

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649 



and father of the subject of this article, was 
born in Richland Township, Logan County, 
( )hio, and is now living ( iox>8) at the age of 
67 war-. lie has followed the trade of lum- 
I erman all his life. During the Civil War 
he served in the One Hundred and Thirty- 
second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After its 
close he became proprietor of a portable saw- 
mill. About 1883 he located at Bell Center, 
where he was engaged in the milling business 
until the spring of 1904. lie is now a resident 
of Lawrence County. Tennessee, and is still 
actively engaged in business pursuits. His 
wife Sarah, who was a native of Pennsylvania, 
died about five years ago at the age of 63. She 
bore her husband two children — J. K., born 
January 2. 1869. who is the subject of the 
present notice: and Margaret P.. who is now 
the widow of J. C. Todd, of Lawrenceburg, 
Tennessee. Mr. Wylie's parents, like his 
grandparents, were members of the Covenant- 
er-' Church. 

J. K. Wylie was educated in the district 
school. When old enough to enter the in- 
dustrial ranks, he began to learn the milling 
business with his father, and by application 
and industry he graduallv acquired a very 
thorough knowledge of it. In 1904 he started 
in the business for himself in Wyandotte 
County, Ohio, where he continued until De- 
cember. 1906. He then purchased his present 
plant in Delaware of Reyes & Worlogs, of 
New York City, and has since taken rank 
among the prosperous manufacturers of the 
county. He has doubled the capacity of the 
plant, manufacturing about thirty thousand 
hcops and thirty-six thousand staves daily, and 
shipping his product to all parts of the coun- 
try. He gives employment to about 30 men 
on an average, and has worked up such a large 
and profitable business connection, that he no 
longer has occasion to advertise. His goods 
command a steady market, and he never has 
any difficulty in disposing of all that he can 
produce. He is one of those who act up to the 
maxim — '"Push your business and your busi- 
ness will push you." He shows an intelligent 
interest in local affairs, though without caring 
to take office. 



Mr. Wylie married Mary P.. daughter of 
William and Sarah Stough, of Bellefontaine, 
Logan County. Ohio, and has two children — 
William A. and Dwight < 1. The family are 
members of the United Presbyterian Church 
at Belle Centre. 




ON. EMMETT MELVILLE WICK- 
HAM, Common Pleas judge for the 
First Sub-division of the Sixth Ju- 
dicial District, embracing Delaware. 
Knox and Licking Counties, was born 
in Genoa Township, Delaware County. Ohio, 
October 29. 1859, son of Kitridge Havens and 
Marinda Rose (Sebring) Wickham. 

He is a descendant, in the eighth genera- 
tion, of Thomas Wickham. born in England 
in 1624, who settled in Weathersfield. Con- 
necticut, in 1648. becoming a freeman 10 years 
later. He followed the occupation of merchant 
and was a man of some prominence. His 
death is believed to have occurred about the 
year 1690. His wife, whose given name was 
Sarah, died in January, 1700. 

Joseph Wickham. son of Thomas, through 
whom the present line descends, was born in 
Weathersfield. Connecticut, in 1662. He was 
a tanner and land owner and quite wealthy for 
his day. He married Sarah Satterlee, of 
Southampton. Long Island, in which locality 
he settled about the time of the marriage. He 
was at Southampton as early as 1698. and at 
that time had one child — Joseph. Later he re- 
moved to Southold, where he received land in 
return for setting up a tannery, which he 
agreed to run for seven years. He was one 
of a company organized to repel a threatened 
invasion of Dutch settlers from New York, 
which, however, did not take place. At the 
time of his death he owned Robin's Island, 
comprising 400 acres. He died in 1734. His 
wife died previous to 1725. They had five 
sons and one daughter, of whom the youngest 
son, Jonathan, comes next in the present line 
of descent. Joseph bequeathed his lands to his 
eldest son. Joseph. Jr.. and also stated in his 
will. "I bequeath to my daughter. Elizabeth, 



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my mulatto girl until she shall arrive at the 
age of 30 years, when it is my will that she 
shall have her freedom." Elizaheth married 
the son of the Lord of the manor of Gardiner's 
Island, which lies east of Long Island. He 
gave to his four youngest sons the rents and 
profits of certain lands for a certain number 
nf years, which had been bequeathed to Joseph. 

left Long 



In 1740 the four younger sons 
M.md and went up the Hudson River. Two 
1 if them — William and Samuel — settled in 
Orange County, New York, near the site of 
the present city of Middletown. Benjamin 
and Jonathan settled in the eastern part of 
Dutchess County. At the time of the Revolu- 
tionary War this Jonathan, though living, was 

t Id to serve. 

Jonathan Wickham, son of the Jonathan 
above mentioned, and great-great-grandfather 
of the subject of this sketch, was horn in 
Dutchess County, and was a member of the 
"Associated Exempt" during the Revolution- 
ary War. I le was twice married. His second 
wife, through whom the present line of descent 
was continued, was Susan, daughter of Robert 
Wilkinson. After the Revolutionary War 
Jonathan and his family left Dutchess Counts 
and settled at Plattsburg, Xew York, where 
he followed his trade of miller, conducting the 
first mill established at that place. Here a 
gloom was cast over the family by the murder 
of lu's wife's father, Robert Wilkinson, who 
had accompanied them to Plattsburg. While 
returning from Dutchess County, where he had 
gone to collect money or dispose of property, 
Mr. Wilkinson was knocked from his horse 
by desperadoes, robbed and murdered. His 
body was found in a small stream of water 
by the roadside. A son of Jonathan Wick- 
ham liv his first wife, and also named Jona- 
than, organized a posse and traced the mur- 
derers to Canada, where they were captured. 
P.eing brought hack to Plattsburg. they were 
there tried, convicted, and hanged. Jonathan 
and Susan (Wilkinson) Wickham had nine 
children — six sons and three daughters — of 
whom the second son, Ahaz, comes next in the 
1 logical line now under consideration. 
Ahaz Wickham learned the trade of mil- 



ler under his father. When he was about 
20 years old he moved to old Saratoga, now 
Schuylerville, Xew York. This was about 
1802. At Saratoga he married Eunice Welch, 
and they became the parents of 12 children. 
six sons and six daughters. In January, 1849, 
his wife died at Middle Grove, Saratoga 
County, and he went to Schroon Lake, where 
he had a son living. Here he remained, re- 
siding with his son, until his own death, which 
took place in January, 1 S 5 < > . 

His wife, Eunice, was a daughter of Jo- 
seph and Eunice Welch, the former of whom 
was living at Richmond, Berkshire County, 
Massachusetts, at the outbreak of the Revolu- 
tionary War. He was captured by Indians and 
remained a prisoner in their hands for a year 
before making his escape. He took part in the 
fight at Bunker Hill, being first lieutenant of 
his company. Subsequently serving in the 
expedition against Canada, he was there cap- 
tured by the English and Indians and was 
taken to Halifax, where he was kept on board 
a British prison ship for nine months. He was 
then parolled and sent to Boston, where he 
resided until 1781. He died at old Saratoga 
in 1825. his wife passing away two years 
later. 

Asa Wickham, son of Ahaz and grand- 
father of Hon. Emmett M. Wickham, was 
horn March 29, 1803. in old Saratoga. When 
a boy he worked under his father in the mill. 
hut on reaching the age of 12 he was appren- 
ticed to learn the shoemaker's trade, which he 
subsequently followed more or less all his life. 
He also acquired the trade of basket-making, 
and was engaged to some extent in tanning, 
conducting a small tan-yard in connection with 
his shoe-making. During his apprenticeship, 
when he was about 16 or 17, having received 
a whi]i] ling with a strap, he ran away from 
his master and returned home, where his 
mother, a woman of stout frame and Strong 
character, kept and protected him. At Schroon 
Lake, in 1823, he met and married Sarah 
Wiswell. their union being solemnized in De- 
cember of that year. They had nine children 
—four sons and five daughters. In May, 
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County, Ohio, making the journey from Sche- 
nectady to Buffalo by the Erie Canal, and 
thence to Ashtabula County. Here they resided 
for two years. Mr. Wickham being engaged in 
shoemaking. In the spring of [836 they moved 
again, this tune to Black Lick, Franklin 
Count}', in which place they were located for 
15 years. Then, in the spring of 1851, they 
made their last migration, coming to Dela- 
ware County and settling in Genoa Township. 
where Asa Wickham died, alter a long, in- 
dustrious and well spent life, on April 23, 
1888. The last 3- years of his life had been 
spent in Genoa Township, where he was gen- 
erally esteemed as a good and useful citizen, 
well endowed with intelligence, industry and 
perseverance. During his residence in New 
York State he was connected with the militia. 
in Essex County, serving in the capacity of 
drummer. 

His wife, Sarah, was a daughter of Moses 
and Keziah (Woods) Wiswell. Her father. 
a native of Shoreham, Vermont, removed to 
Schroon Lake, Essex County. New York. His 
wife Keziah was a daughter of Joseph and 
Keziah (Goddard) Woods, who were natives 
of Massachusetts and later lived in Vermont. 
Joseph Woods was a minute man in the Revo- 
lutionary War and was a resident of Boston 
at the time of the battle of Lexington. Bunker 
Hill and Saratoga, in which he participated. 
He died October 12. 1807, and was buried at 
Sudbury. Vermont. 

Among the children of Asa was Kitridge 
Havens, who has been mentioned at the be- 
ginning of this sketch as the father of it- di- 
rect subject. He was born at Crown Point, 
Essex County, New York, September 16, 
1833. Like his father, he became a master of 
several trades, being a shoemaker, basket- 
maker, and stone cutter. He took up the last 
mentioned trade about [875, the two othet 
trades he had acquired having by thai time 

OTie unprofitable. lie crime to Delaware 
County in the fall of [850. and removed to 
Delaware City in [892. Like his progenitors 
in the paternal line for several generations 
back, he was a Democrat in politics. In [890 
he was elected justice of the peace, having 



previously served as constable. His death took 
place December 18, 1899. 

( )n January 9, 1859. he was married to 
Marinda R. Sebring, who bore him three chil- 
dren, namely: Emmett Melville, whose name 
begins this article; Myrtie V.. wife of George 
H. Rickner, of Mansfield; and Asa I... who 
now resides in Genoa Township. The nn ither 
of these children, who was a member of the 
Baptist Church, was born June 9, 1834, and 
died February 11, 1907. She was a daughter 
of Josiah and Sarah ( Adams ) Sebring. and 
a granddaughter of Fulkard Sebring. of Ly- 
coming County, Pennsylvania. Josiah Se- 
bring was born in Pennsylvania about 1705. 
and died in Kosciusko County. Indiana, in the 
spring of 1870. He was a farmer and settled 
in Indiana in 1853. He had accompanied his 
father from Pennsylvania to Franklin County, 
Ohio, in 1810. Three years later they settled 
in Genoa Township, where the father bought 
a large tract of uncleared land. 

Sarah Adams Sebring. above mentioned, 
was born in 1796 and died in 1874. She was 
a daughter of David Adams, a Revolutionary 
soldier, who enlisted in 1778. when he was 
but ib J 2 years old. After his return from the 
army he married, at Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl- 
vania, Elizabeth, daughter of Rulif and Mary 
Fischer, of Amsterdam. Holland. In 1814 he 
brought his family to Harlem Town-hip. 
Delaware County, and he resided here until 
his death. His wife Elizabeth died in 1854, 
when in her 89th year. 

Emmett Melville Wickham acquired his 
elementary education in the township schools, 
which he attended until he was twenty years 
of age. In the spring of 1880 he secured 1 
teacher's certificate and began to teach in his 
home district, where he continued for three 
months. lie continued in the occupation of 
teaching in Delaware County for 1 _' year-. 
In the fall of [889 he began the study of law. 
and he was admitted to the Bar December 3, 
1891. by the Supreme Court of Ohio. In the 
following June he gave up teaching and in 
September. rgo2, entered the office of Hon. 
F. M. Marriott, with whom three year- later 
he formed a partnership under the firm name 



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of Marriott & Wickham. This was continued 
until December, 1896, when it was dissolved 
owing to Mr. Wickham having been elected 
for the term of five years to the Common 
Pleas bench. In 1901 he was a candidate for 
re-election, but was defeated by the narrow 
margin of eight votes. His term on the bench 
expiring February 8, 1902, in the following 
July he formed a partnership with Messrs. 
Marriott and Freshwater under the firm name 
of Marriott, Freshwater & Wickham. In 1906 
he was re-elected Common Pleas Judge, and 
accordingly, on December 31st the partnership 
was diss. ihed. Judge Wickham has demon- 
strated that he possesses in a high degree the 
judicial temperament, united with a firm grasp 
of the principles of bis profession, and his 
demeanor on the bench has been marked by 
an unfailing courtesy that has made him popu- 
lar among all the brethren of the Bar. He is 
a member and officer of Lenape Lodge, No. 
jo. K. P., anil of Delaware Lodge, No. 76. 
B. P. O. E., of which he is exalted ruler. 

Judge Wickham was first married August 
14. 1888, to Joanna, daughter of Jacob and 
Maria Ekelberry. of Delaware. Of this union 
there was one son, Joy Carroll, born March 
28, [890. He was married for the second 
time. July 23, 1903, to Anna A., a daughter of 
Tobias Frederick and Susannah (Wells) 
Reichert. The children by this marriage are: 
Frederick Reichert, born September 5, 1904; 
and Susanna, born November 11, 1906. Mrs. 
Wickham is a member of Asbury Church. 
Both she and her husband are highly esteemed 
and have a wide social acquaintance among the 
refined and cultivated people, of Delaware 
County. 




MDREW F. M< >SKS. one of Liberty 
Township's representative citizens, 
wlio carries on general farming on 
his valuable farm of -cj 1 . acres, was 
born April [8, r.861, in Delaware 
nty, Ohio, and is a son of Flavel and Eliza- 
beth M' ises. 



The Moses family was established in Dela- 
ware County by Salmon and Orpha Moses, the 
grandparents of Andrew F. They came to 
this section from Litchfield County, Connecti- 
cut, in 1817, and settled on the farm which 
is now owned by a granddaughter, Mrs. Helen 
Jewell. At that time all this part of the coun- 
try was heavily timbered and but few pioneers 
bail yet dared the dangers and hardships which 
attended founding homes in such a wilderness. 
Salmon Moses, however, was a man of sturdy 
strength and of enterprising character. He built 
his log cabin in a clearing he made in the great 
woods and gave assistance to his neighbors as 
they gradually settled in his vicinity, and later 
was one of the builders of the first church 
edifice in this section, which was the first 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Powell. Sal- 
mon A loses and wife had five children, three 
daughters and two sons, namely : Dorcas, 
who married Ebenezer Pike; Flora, who was 
not married; Flavel : and Russell, who died 
in Liberty Township. He married Alice 
Gregg. Salmon Moses died in 1869. at the 
age of 76 years. 

Flavel Moses, father of Andrew F. Moses, 
was three and one-half years old when his 
parents came from Connecticut to Delaware 
County and here the whole of his life was 
passed. He devoted his attention to agricul- 
tural pursuits, acquiring considerable property, 
and at the time of his death he owned 344 
acres of valuable land. For nearly 90 years 
he was a resident of Delaware County, where 
he died May 27. 1905. in his 93d year, lie 
gave liberally in support of schools and 
churches and was a consistent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He married 
Elizabeth Dunton, who was born April 17. 
[820, and died February 25, 1901. They had 
the following children: Orpha, who married 
Robert Conroy, residing at Powell, has four 
children; Sarah, who married Albert Standish, 
who is in the seventh generation from Miles 
Standish, residing at Columbus, has three chil- 
dren; Mora E, who married L.'V. Humphrey, 
residing at Lake Arthur. New Mexico, has 
three children: William, residing on the farm 
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lie built, married Susan, a daughter of Miles 
Case, and they have two children; and An- 
drew F. 

Andrew F. Moses was reared on his 
father's farm and attended the public schools 
at Pi ..ell. In [882 he was married to Emily 
E. Scott, who is a daughter of Andrew J. 
and S irali \. (Goshage) Scott, and they have 
had five children horn r < > them, as follows: 
Blanche. Aha M., Helen !•.. Guy S. and Mary 
A. Blanche married John Penn and they re- 
side south of Stratford and have two chil- 
dren, Florence and Hazel Naomi. Aha M. 
married Charles A. Coldflesh and they reside 
at Fairview, They have two children. ( iu\ 
M. and Irene. Helen E. married Finest 1'.. 
Vigar. The other members of the family re- 
side at home. 

Mr. Moses is a stanch Republican. His 
busii ess lias been farming" and he has devoted 
almost all of his time to this line, but for 
five years he had charge of the rural mail 
delivery route from Powell, during which time 
he faithfully performed the duties pertaining 
t< 1 that office. 




EORGE HENRY SEESE, a leading 

citizen of Orange Township, who 

owns a valuable farm of 130 acres, 

which he devotes to general farming, 

stockraising and dairying", was born 

April 7, [856, in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 

not far from Strasburg, and is a son of David 

and Susan ( Wallick ) Seese. 

The Seese family came of German ances- 
ivhi settled in Westmoreland County, 
Pennsylvania, and from there George Seese, 
the g ther of George Henry Seese. came 

to Ohi at an early day. settling in the wil- 
derness of Tuscarawas Comity, a long distance 
from civilization. At that time he was obliged 
tiles to reach a mill. George Wal- 
lick. the maternal grandfather, was also a 
pioneer in the same county and the families 
oi Seese and Wallick lived in close proximity. 
Grandfather Seese reared 1 _' children and 
ler Wallick reared eight. The for- 



mer died aged 56 year-, but Grandmother 
Wallick survived to be 72. David Seese, 
father of George Henry, was born July 28, 
[828, and still survives, the only remaining 
member of his family, lie married Susan 
Wallick, who died about [893, aged 56 years. 
Ten children were born to them, namely : Jose- 
phine, deceased, was the wife of J. H. Burris; 
George H. ; Charles F., a prominent educator 
and man of public affairs now filling a profes- 
sorship in a Cleveland school, was formerly 
principal of the Hudson High School and 
served several terms in the State Legislature 
from Summit County; S. B. E., residing at 
Seattle, Washington, is general agent for the 
Xew York Life & Accident Insurance Com- 
pany, formerly a resident of Toledo; Tena 
Melvina. who married William Grennell, a 
resident of Massilon. Ohio; Sarah Elizabeth, 
residing at Massilon, married Dudley Koontz; 
Amanda Jane, unmarried, resides at Massilon; 
William Grant, who is engaged in educational 
work, married Orpha Kohr : and the others 
died in infancy. Both parents of Mr. Seese 
were well known in the community in which 
they lived and enjoyed the esteem of those who 
knew them. 

George Henry Seese went to school in 
Franklin Township, Tuscarawas County, an 1 
attended the Hartline district school. He has 
followed agricultural pursuits ever since, work- 
ing for six years by the month in his native 
county, following his marriage. In 1893 he 
bought his first farm, a tract of land in Liberty 
Township. Delaware County, on which he in- 
curred an indebtedness of $.2,000. Trior to 
the purchase of his present fine farm he sold 
that property at a profit of $1,000. This 
speaks well for his business capacity as well 
as his industry and perseverance. He has 
been blessed with a wife who has greatly as- 
sisted him in providently taking care of his 
earnings and he gives her credit for a large 
part of his success. The}' began life together 
with not a dollar of capital and hue proved 

that money, while a very g i possession, is 

not necessary to happiness. They can lool 
over their broad acres, enjoy the comforts of 
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valuable stuck, and know that these things are 
theirs through honest effort on their part, with 
assistance from no outside party or any specu- 
lative investment. The farm they have owned 
for the past six years is valued at fully 
$12,000. 

On April 10, 1880, Mr. Seese was married 
to Almeda C. Hum's, who is a daughter ol 
Jonathan and Mary (France) Burris, who 
"lived and died in Tuscarawas County. They 
have had two sons and two daughters born to 
them, namely: Ilurles R., who is engaged 
in farming in Liberty Township, was married 
to Myrtle R. Bennett and they have one child: 
Porter 11., residing one-quarter of a mile from 
his father, does his farming for him and mar- 
ried Ethel Fate; Tessie May is the wife of 
Ralph Brintlinger. residing in Liberty Town- 
ship, south of Powell; and Susie B.. who 
recently married Darrel Hursey, resides at 
home. 

hi politics, Mr. Seese is a very active and 
influential Republican and is his party's candi- 
date fur nomination lor county commissioner. 
He is known to he both capable, honest and 
public-spirited and he has an army of good 
friends. For the past 20 years he has been 
prominent in political matters in this section. 
During his residence in Liberty Township, he 
served several terms as township trustee. Fre- 
quently he has served as a delegate to State 
conventions and he was appointed on the 
Centennial Committee from Orange Township 
to represent Delaware Count}. Both Mr. and 
Mrs. Seese were reared in the United Brethren 
faith but at present they are united with the 
Presbyterian Chinch of Liberty Township. 




HARLES CURTISS STEDMAX. 
secretary and general manager of 
'lite Cook Motor Company, at Dela- 
ware, is one of the enterprising 
and successful young business men 
of this city. 1 le was born in Randolph Town- 
ship, Portage County, Ohio, December 5, 1871. 
and is a son of I dward K. and Martha A. 
1 ( Gardner 1 Stedman. 



The great-grandfather, Edwin Stedman, 
and the grandfather, William Stedman. came 
from Xew York State and settled in I'm 
County. In 1861 William Stedman becaj ie 
colonel of the Sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer 
Cavalry, and served with distinction through 
the Civil War. Later he became closely 
identified with the Republican party in Ohio, 
and was a strong supporter of the political am- 
bitions of James A. Garfield. After the lat- 
ter's election to the Senate, he testified to his 
appreciation of Mr. Stedman's loyalty by 
bringing about the latter's appointment as 
consul to Cuba. Both men. united in friend- 
ship, were fated to fall by the hand of an as- 
sassin, Mr. Stedman being the victim of a 
Spanish insurgent in r868. He had married 
Samantha Elmore, whose people came from 
Connecticut to Ohio in an ox-cart, among the 
early pioneers. 

Edward Elmore Stedman. father of I'. C. 
Stedman. was born in 1843. and died No- 
vember 15, 1906. He was reared on his 
father's farm and later learned the watchmak- 
ing trade at Ravenna. At the opening of the 
Civil War. with his father and two brothers. 
Wallace and Charles, Mr. Stedman entered the 
Sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and 
was twice discharged on account of disability. 
When he served last it was in the capacity rj] 
chief bugler. He then went into the jewelry 
and watch business but continued ill health 
forced him to give it up. and in 1872 he re- 
turned to the farm in Randolph Township. 
This farm he sold in 1879 and moved to New- 
ton ['"alls, Ohio, where he resided until his 
death, having been on the road for several 
years previously, in the interest of an inven- 
tion of his own on which he had secure 
patent. He was a member of the Grand Army 
of the Republic Post at Xew ton Falls. Like 
bis father and grandfather, he was a mem- 
ber of the Masonic fraternity, with which he 
united in Ravenna. In politics be was a Re- 
publican. 

In [869 Mr. Stedman was married to Mar- 
tha Aldula Gardner, daughter of William 
Gardner, oi Freedom, Ohio. They bad 
children: William G., residing at Clevel: 1 d, 




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C. C.j Winnifred, wife of F. A. Starr, resid- 
ing at Newton Falls; Roy C, residing at 
Akron; and Olive, wife of Homer J. Crane, 
residing at Columbus. The mother of the 
above family still survives and resides at New- 
i' n Falls. She is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. 

C. C. Stedman was reared at Newton 
Falls and after attending school through early 
boyhood, he went to Akron as an apprentice 
in the machine shop of the Starr Drilling- Ma- 
chine Company, where lie remained rive years, 
gaining a thorough knowledge of the business. 
He came then to Delaware and in 1895 en ~ 
gaged in the well drilling business with War- 
ren H. Williams and they continued togethe' - 
for two years when Mr. Stedman purchased 
hi- partner's interest and continued alone until 
1904. From 1896-98 he was engaged also in 
dealing in bicycles. He disposed of his other 
interests when he entered into his present con- 
nection in 1904. 

For one year, 1898, Mr. Stedman taught 
the clarinet and the Mute in the Delaware 
Conservatory of Music. He is a natural musi- 
cian, has been an expert performer since he 
was 12 years of age, but has mainly followed 
it as a pastime. 

Mr. Stedman married Monette Carr, who 
is a daughter of S. T. Carr, of Ostrander. In 
politics, he is identified with the Republican 
party. 1 le belongs to the American Federation 
of Musicians, to the Commercial Travelers of 
America and to the Elks. 




OUNT BOTHO EULENBURG, who 

comes of one of the wealthiest and 
must distinguished families of the 
German Empire, was born in Ber- 
lin, Germany. His father. Count 
Frederick Eulenburg, represented the German 
Government at one time as special embassador 
to London, and an uncle, Prince Philipp Eu- 
lenburg, is one of Germany's greatest states 
men and a great favorite of the Kaiser. The 
Eulenburgs have for more than a century held 
the highest positions in the Empire, in both 

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army and state. The family genealog) dates 
back to the year 1 [56, and comes of the roy- 
alty in Saxony. The mother of Count Botho 
was a multimillionairess at her marriage and 
is one of the most prominent society women 
oi Berlin. She is an enthusiastic horse- 
woman, and has one of the best appointed 
stables in Germany. Count Botho is highly 
educated, having attended the universities of 
Halle, Frankfort and Berlin. He is an accom- 
plished linguist, speaking a number of lan- 
guages, and has traveled extensively over the 
world. Upon attaining the age of thirty 
years, he will receive the title of Court Cham- 
berlain at the Kaiser's Court, the present Mas- 
ter of Ceremonies being an uncle, Count Au- 
gust Eulenburg. 

Countess Nelly Lytle Eulenburg 
youngest daughter of James and Cor- 
nelia (Chase) Lytle, was lorn in Delaware, 
( )hio. Her early education was received in a 
private school and was supplemented by a 
course of study in Ohio Wesleyan University 
at Delaware. Upon leaving the latter institu- 
tion, she went to Berlin, Germany, to visit her 
sister. Baroness von Uchtritz, and also to com- 
plete her education. She is possessed of many 
accomplishments, has a charming voice, and in 



addition to her native 



-English- 



speaks German, French and Italian fluently. 
Like her sister, she is endowed with unusual ar- 
tistic and musical talent. High-spirited, i iriginal 
and brilliant, with personal beauty and wealth 
of charm, she soon won many friends and in 
society circles attained the center of highest 
favor. She was a guest at man}- social func- 
tions attended by the Royal family, and, with 
her sister. Baroness von Uchtritz, was pre- 
sented at the Kaiser's Court during her first 
winter in Berlin. On the following evening, 
at one of the most elaborate social functions 
of the year, a Charity Ball given l>v the no- 
bility of Berlin, in which the Baroness von 
Uchtritz and Miss Lytle took an active part, 
the latter made the acquaintance of Count 
Botho Eulenburg, whom she afterward mar- 
ried. This occasion marked the beginning of a 
friendship between them that was enduring. 
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noble family. In the autumn of 1904, Count 
Botho ami Miss Lytle were married in the 
Garnison Church in Berlin. Mrs. Lytle, of Del- 
aware, being present at the ceremony. They 
are congenial and happy in their married life, 
both being lovers of music and works of art, 
and the exhilaration of outdoor sports. 1 he 
Countess is an expert marksman and a great 
lover of horses, and the prediction is made by 
her friends that she will take rank among the 
famous horsewomen of the Empire. 




HOMAS \Y. LEA, a well-known resi- 
dent of Oxford Township, lives on 
his improved farm of 180 acres two 
miles south of the village of Ashley. 
He is a native oi Porter Township, 
Delaware County, where he was born Novem- 
ber 10. 1853. and is a son of Benjamin and 
Nancy ( VVigti m ) I.ea. 

Benjamin Lea was born January 9, [8 17. 
in the parish of Kidderminster, County of 
Worcester, England, and was a son of Jacob 
and Mary Lea. both of whom were born in 
England, >rmer, September [8, 1773, 

the latte'r, January 9, 1775. and neither 
came to this country. Benjamin was 
reared in England and at the age of nine years 
me a weaver of : ' and other kinds 

of carpet. lie was an expert at that work. 
following it successfully for some 18 years 
in New York Cilv after coming to America, 
lie served one year and four months in the 
British Army and his father then purchased his 
release. He was married to Thurza Holmes, 
March [9, 1832, and immediately after came 
to the United State-, landing in New York 
with just S5. 00 in his pocket. There he fol- 
lowed his trade as mentioned, prospered and 
became the owner of a home. In 1847 he 1 
west to Delaware Count)', Ohio, purchasing a 
farm of So acres in Porter Township, and 
in 1854 traded that pn perty for too acre- in 
( Ixford Township, the most of which was tim- 
berland. Although the railroad ran less than 
a quarter of a mile from the farm, at only- 
one place could a glimpse of a passing train 



be had, so heavy was the growth of timber. 
Mr. Lea lived on this place until his death. 
February 16, 1888. Religiously he was a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. By his 
first wife he had six children : Mary Thurza, 
horn August 11, 1833. died young; George, 
horn March 14. 183d. lives at Mt. Vernon, 
Ohio: William II., horn January 23, 1838, is 
deceased; John D.. born February, 1839, is 
deceased; Charles, born December 1, 1842, is 
deceased; and Thurza Ann. who was the wife 
of \V. W. Hill, was horn October 11, 1844, 
and died in 1906. After the death of his first 
wife at an early age. Mr. Lea formed a second 
union in New York City with Mary Ann Alli- 
son, who died leaving one son. Alexander, now 
deceased, who was horn January II, 1848. 
His third marriage was with Xancv Wigton, 
who was bom July 18, 1817. and was a daugh- 
ter of Rev. Thomas Wigton. who crossed the 
Allegheny Mountains in a wagon on his way 
from Pennsylvania to Delaware County, Ohio 
He located first in Kingston Township, and 
later in Berkshire Township on a farm now 
owned by a grandson. He was a hardy old 
pioneer, who was the father of 14 children, ali 
of whom but one he survived, dying at the 
age of 99 years. Mrs. Lea died October 4. 
1891, after giving life to two children: 
Thomas W. ; and Crania Adell. the latter of 
whom was bi rn December jo, JS54. and died 
in April, [885. She was the wife of Edward 
Whipple, of Oxford Township. 

Thomas W. Lea was reared on the farm 
on which he now lives and received his edu- 
cational training in the schools of this vicinity. 
He assisted in clearing the home farm, also in 
tilling it, and has always lived here and en- 
■gaged in general farming. Upon his father's 
death he 1. ought the interests of the other 
heirs, and to the original farm has added 80 
acres. He is one of the substantial men of the 
community, and is held in highest esteem. 

October jo. 1876, Air. Lea was joined in 
marriage with Elizabeth Slack, who was horn 
in (Ixford Township, December 9. 1857. and 
is a <laughter of Seth and Sarah (Dodd) 
Slack, concerning whom may he found facts 
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were the issue resulting from this union: 
Wellie E., born November 22, 1877, married 
Lillian Shoemaker and has two children, Ken- 
neth and Margaretta; Harry L., born July 5. 
[879, married Clara Bell and has two chil- 
dren. Merle and Robert E. ; a babe born "May 
1. [881, died unnamed; Orton G., born Sep- 
tember 5, [882, is attending Ohio Wesleyan 
University; Ross E., born October 4. 18X4; 
Una E. born February u. 1887; Walter T., 
born May 27, 1889; and Lloyd H.. born No- 
vember 19, 1893. 

Mr. Lea is a Republican in politics, and 
served as a member of the School Board 21 
Iso as township assessor. He served 
as township trustee several terms, receiving the 
three-year term on his first election as a result 
or having the largest number of votes. Fra- 
ternally, he is a member of the Masons. Odd 
Fellows, and Knights of Pythias. Mrs. Lea 
is a member of the Rebekah Lodge 
Pythian Sisters. 




ESLEY Z. EVANS, proprietor or 
the Delaware Creamery, one of 
Delaware's important industrial 
concerns, was born at Delaware, 
Ohio. August 8, 1852, and is a 
son of Thomas and Isabella (Johnson) Evans. 
The paternal grandfather, Thomas Evans, 
was horn at Milton, Pennsylvania, and sur- 
vived to be ninety-two years of age, dying in 
[888. He came to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, al a 
very early day. where he worked as a plas- 
terer and also acquired land .and engaged in 
tannin--. He was married several times, the 
grandmother of Wesley Z. Evans being 
named Phebe Nevyns. She was horn in Kelly 
Township, Union County. Pennsylvania, 
April 19, 1798. and died November 25, [843. 
She married Thomas Evans in April, [826, 
.accompanied him to Ohio in 1841. 
Her father. Christian Nevyns, was born 
November 1, 1759. probably in Bedmin- 
ster Township, Somerset County. Xew Jer- 
sey, and died November 1, 1815. lie married 
Lucretia Chamberlain. In 1780 his name ap- 



pears on the pay roll of Major William 
Beard's company at Elizabethtown, and lie- 
also served in Capt. Jacob Ten Eyck's com- 
pany, First Battalion of Somerset in the Rev- 
olutionary War. In 1793. he moved to North- 
umberland County. Pennsylvania, with wife 
and two children. His father was Peter 
Nevyns, born near Three Mile Run. New Jer- 
sey, baptized April 23, 1727, died after 1800. 
He married Maria Van Doren. His father was 
Roeloff Nevyns, horn in 1087 in New Jersey, 
married Catalyntje Lucasse Van Yoorhees. 
He was a man of more than ordinary piety 
and with great capacity for organization and 
evangelistic work. His father was Pieter 
Nevyns of Flatlands, Xew York, born in New 
Amsterdam, baptized February 4, 1663, at the 
Xew Amsterdam Dutch Church, died 
29. 1740. He married Janetje R el 
Schenck. He was the y< lunger 1 if two sons of 
Johannes Nevyns, the origintal immigrant, 
who was born in Holland in i (| 27. arrived in 
America in 1651, and died in 1672. He mar- 
ried Adriaentje Bleijck. Further informal 
may be gained by consulting a genealog 
record of this family which was published in 
1900. 

Thomas Evans learned the tinner's trade 
at Mt. Vernon and worked at the same there 
for a number of years and then came to Dela- 
ware. In the days of the California gold fe- 
ver, he accompanied a party from this city. 
but his health and he returned to the East, 
coming by way of the Isthmus of Panama. 
He then opened up a business of his own at 
Delaware, which he continued until 1870, 
when he sold his interests to his son. Wesley 
Z. Evans. For many years Mr. Evans was a 
very prominent political factor. For 20 years 
he published the Delaware Signal, a complete 
file of which may he found in the Slocum 
Library and a most interesting collection 
It was a prohibition journal, as Mr. Evans 
was one of the leading prohibitii 1 the 

State. On several occasions he was placed on 
the State ticket as a representative of that 
party. He was a man of sincere devotion to 
duty and his influence was far-reaching. 1 Le 
was active both a- a Mason and as an Odd 



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Felluw. for a long time was a member of Hi- 
ram Lodge, F. & A. M., and was past grand 
of Olentangy Lodge. No. 53, Odd Fellows. 

Thomas Evans married Isabella Johnson, 
who died April 15, 1889. in her sixty-second 
year. She was a daughter of Zechariah John- 
son, who was a pensioner of the War of i8u. 
accredited to New York. There were six 
children born to this marriage, namely: Wes- 
ley Z. ; Aaron, residing at O ilumbus, was 
li-rn August 6, 1854; Jessie, residing at Co- 
burg, Ontario., is the wife of James E. Skid- 
more; Mary Belle, residing in Xew York 
City; Thomas B., who died in 1885: and Mi- 
nerva, residing at Buffalo, is the wife of Mel- 
vin E. Wilkinson. Miss Alary Belle Evans 
is the publisher of two newspapers for the 
Home Missionary Society of the Methodist 
Eipscopal Church, and has distinguished her- 
self both for her literary talent and her finan- 
cial ability. Since she has taken charge of the 
Home Mission and of the child's paper, they 
are both paying investments. Thomas Evans 
died April 15, [888. For a long period lie 
had been a worthy member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church and had officiated in many 
official positions. He was a man of sterling 
character, admirable in every relation of life. 

The birthplace of Wesley Z. Evans was in 
a house which then stood where now the Ma- 
sonic Temple structure stands. He attended 
the Delaware schools, completed the High 
School course and spent two years in the Ohio 
Wesleyan University. For one year he was 
employed as a clerk at Cleveland, and then 
assisted his father in conducting a general 
hardware business, which he purchased in 
[876. He continued the hardware and stove 
business and added plumbing and roofing to 
his other lines, and for seventeen years he led 
the trade in the lines mentioned. In 1803. 
Mr. Evans sold out to K. J. Pumphrey, but 
he is still interested in the property on which 
the business is located. He then turned his 
attention to the manufacturing of tile and for 
some six years was secretary of and a director 
in the Delaware (lay Manufacturing Com- 
pany. He built up what is known as the Un- 
ion Grocery Company, and from [899 until 
1905, he was engaged in a successful grocery 



business. In 1901, Mr. Evans established the 
Delaware Creamery, for the manufacture of 
butter and condensed milk. This is the onl} 
condensing plant in Delaware County. The 
business is a large one and constantly increas- 
ing. During 1907 a business of $75,000 was 
done and prospects are bright for a great in- 
crease in the current year. 

Mr. Evans married Ida Loveridge, who is 
a daughter of Philip Loveridge, of Knox 
County. Ohio, and they have had four chil- 
dren, namely: Harold, who died aged four 
and one-half years; Adelaide, who was a grad- 
uate in [907, at the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity; Paul, who is a member of the class 1 a" 
[910 at the University, and Harriet. Mr. 
Evans and family belong to the Williams 
Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He is 
a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 18, F, & A. 
A I., and of Olentangy Lodge, No. 53, Odd 
Fellows, of which he is past grand. 



HE BANK OF ASHLEY was es- 
tablished in 1884 with a capital stock 
of $15,000 by C. F. Sperry and C. 
Wornstaff, proprietors. The Bank 
has been situated at its present loca- 



tion since its founding, 



the building 



been built at that time, and the business bouses 
of the village which were a considerable dis- 
tance from it then, have since gradually built 
on both sides until now the Bank is in the 
business center. 

Charles Fremont Sperry, who was born 
February 17, 1858, in Knox County. Ohio, 
is a son of Peter W. and Jerusha (Wilson) 
Sperry. both of whom came of old families 
from Pennsylvania. His father was a native 
of Knox Couutw Ohio, and there followed 
farming for some years, when he moved to 
Utica, Ohio, and established a private bank, 
which he conducted successfully for many 
years. The last few years of his life were 
spent in retirement in the enjoyment of a well 
earned rest after years of unceasing activity. 
His widow, who still survives him, continues 
a resident of L'tica, Ohio. 

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661 



his parents moved to Utica, Ohio, and there 
his primary education was supplemented by 
a course at the Utica High School after which 
he attended Duff Business College of Pitts- 
burg, Pennsylvania. Air. Sperry has never 
engaged in any other business than banking 
and was for seven years in the bank with his 
father at Utica, after which he came to Ash- 
lex, and in 1884 established in partnership 
with his brother-in-law, C. Wornstaff, the 
present Bank of Ashley, and has attained an 
enviable reputation in this community as a ca- 
pable and successful business man. 

On September 23, 1880. Mr. Sperry was 
united in marriage with Maine B. Chapman, 
of Licking County, and a daughter of Sidney 
A. and Eliza (Fuller) Chapman, the latter 
of whom is living at the advanced age of 78 
years. Six children have been bom to Mr. 
and Mrs. Sperry. namely: Edwin Ray, who 
i~ bookkeeper in the Bank of Ashley, mai 
Dawn Sherman, and they have one son, Ed- 
win : Teressa E., wife of \Y. A. Barnes, lives 
in Cleveland: Arthur Leon, is a senior in the 
Law Department of the Ohio State Univer- 
sity: Earl Chapman, is engaged in the grocery 
store of his brother-in-law. in Cleveland; 
Grace Marguerite; and Robert Theodore. 

Politically, Mr. Sperry is a Republican and 
has served as corporation treasurer for several 
term> and is the present incumbent of that of- 
fice . 




IANKLIN ELLIOTT SMITH, a 

representative citizen of Orange 

Township, where he is engaged in 

operating a farm of 175 acres, giving 

the main part of his attention to 

dairying, was born in Delaware Count}'. < >hio, 

December 3, r86i, and is a son of Horace F. 

and Maria ( Elliott ) Smith. 

The family to which Mr. Smith belongs 
was established in Orange Township, Dela- 
ware County, by his grandfather, Benjamin 
Smith, who eame here at an early day from 
Syracuse, New York. He was a carpenter by 



trade but he purchased the present farm in 
order to provide independence for his family, 
settling in the green woods and courageously, 
with his faithful wife, taking up the burden of 
pioneer hardship. Horace F. Smith accom 
panied his bather to Delaware County, where 
he -till lives. To his marriage with Maria 
Elliott, two sons were born: Franklin' El- 
liott and Lewis M. The latter was born July 
9, 1804. and is a farmer in Orange Township. 
He married Minnie Slain and they have three 
children. The father married (second) Airs. 
Elizabeth Skeels, widow of Henry Skeels. 
During the Civil War he served in the Ninety- 
sixth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 

Franklin Elliott Smith was reared on the 
home farm on which he still resides and he has 
engaged in agricultural pursuits all his 
life. IR* has found dairying a profitable 
branch of the business and keeps from 17 to 
25 head of cows. He raises enough proi 
to feed all his stock. 

In 1885 Air. Smith married Anna AA'ith- 
row, who is a daughter of Henry and Nancy 
rhornburg) Withrow. She was born and 
reared in Orange Township, her parents hav- 
ing come here from Morrow County, and her 
mother still survives. Air. and Airs. Smith 
have had three children: Lila, who is de- 
ceased: Josie, who married Frank Holt, re- 
siding at Columbus, have one daughter, i 
ence; and Mamie, residing at home. In [886, 
Air. Smith came to the present farm to make 
his permanent home and here he has continu- 
ousl) In id for the past 21 years. The house, 
with the exception of a dining-room, which 
has since been added, is the same as when his 
grandfather built it. 

In politics, Air. Smith is a Democrat and 
1- serving his third term on that ticket as town- 
ship trustee. Although the township is nor- 
mal!}' two to one Republican, Air. Smith's 
popularity was shown at the last election for 
trustee by his receiving two votes to one of his 
opponent. In 1905, he served as a delegate to 
the State convention that nominated Gover- 
nor Pattison and he has been a delegate to 
every county convention, with one exception, 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



since 1896. He is a member of the benefi- 
cial"}- order of the Maccabees and carries a one 
thousand-dollar policy in that organization. 




LATT PI. PERRY, residing on his 
farm oJ 175 acres, in Thompson 
rownship, all of which he has under 
cultivation, was born in Leesburg 
Township, Union Count}-. Ohio, Oc- 
tober jo. 1869, ani ' > s a son of Albert T. am! 
Laura A. ( Irving ) 1 'erry. 

Henry Perry, the paternal grandfather of 
Piatt II., was horn in Wales and accompanied 
his parents to Radnor Township. Delaware 
County, when the country was still covered 
with forests and wolves and other wild ani- 
mals were almost the only other live things in 
the wilderness. When he grew to manhood he 
married Martha Lavender, who was probably 
born in Thompson Township, and they had a 
family of several children. He subsequently 
removed to Thompson Township and later to 
Bokes Creek Township, in Logan County, 
where he lived during the last 25 years of his 
life, his death taking place in July, 1889, at 
the age of 63 years. 

Albert T. Perry was born in Union 
County. Ohio, August [8, [846, and died Au- 
gust 25, [906. Until withm a year before his 
death he resided in Leesburg Township, Un- 
ion Count}-, but tlie last year of his life was 

ed at Marion. | [e left an estate aggregating 
nearly 401 1 acres of land. During the Civil War 
he saw service as a member of. Company (i, 
One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Regiment, 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He married a 
daughter of William Irving, of Thompson 
Township, who settled in Delaware County at 
an early day. and she is still living. The three 
surviving children are: Piatt II.: Roland P., 
residing at Marion; and William, who man- 
ages the home place in Union County. The 
late Albert T. Perry was a man of tine char- 
acter and enjoyed the confidence and esteem 
of his fellow citizens. Politically he was a 
Republican. 



Piatt II. Peri'}- attended the country 
schools through boyhood and remained on the 
homestead farm until his marriage, shortly 
after which he moved to Logan County, where 
engaged in farming for two years. In the 
spring of 1893 he came to Thompson Town- 
ship, settling un his farm, where he has since 
been engaged in growing wheat, corn, oats 
and hay and in raising horses, cattle, sheep 
and hogs. He is considered one of the suc- 
cessful agriculturists of this section. 

< in March 16. i88y. Mr. Perry was mar- 
ried to Mar}- Delia Hupp, who is a daughter 
of Henry Hupp, residing in Claybourn Town- 
ship, Union County, ami the}- have two chil- 
dren: Jennie E. and Ora V. Both Mi-, and 
Mrs. Perry are social by nature and he is a 
member of Magnetic Springs Lodge, No. 380, 
Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chan- 
cellor and has been a representative to the 
Grand Lodge, while she is a member of the 
Pythian Sisters and holds the office of past 
most excellent chief. 




ORRINGTON CLINE, a member of 
the Board of Education of Marl- 
borough Township, residing on his 
valuable farm of 132 acres, which is 
situated on the east branch of the 
Olentangy River, was born March 17. [866 
in Marlborough Township, Delaware County, 
Ohio, and is a son of Samuel D. and Lucinda 
J. ( Schultz ) Cline. 

Samuel D. Cline was born also in Marl- 
boro'ugh Township and was a son of Henry 
Cline and a grandson of Henry Cline. and 
great-grandson of Conrad Cline. the latter of 
whom was a Revolutionary soldier. Henry 
Cline. Si., served in the War of [812. lie 
was born in Pennsylvania and accompanied 
his father to Kentucky, thence to Pickaway 
County, Ohio, and thence to Delaware 
County. Samuel D. Cline lived in Marlbor- 
ough Township from 1833 until 1861;. during 
his active years having engaged in the manu- 
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663 



situated on the Olentangy River. Later he 
removed his mill to Cardington, Morrow 
County, Ohio, where he had better facilities 
ami was able to carry on a more extensive bus- 
iness, lie died there in [876. lie married 
Lucinda J. Schultz ami all of their children 
survive: Wellington, Corringti n ami Arling- 
ton, the latter of whom now resides in Marion 
County, while Wellington resides in Delaware 
County. Samuel D. Cline was a Democrat. 

Corrington Cline was four years old when 
his father moved to Cardington and he lived 
there until the death of his father, when he 
was nine years 1 £ age. He then accompanied 
other members of the family to Marion 
1 ' unity, where they all lived for a time, and 
later to Marlborough Township, where he has 
resided ever since. His main occupation has 
been farming and his excellent property shows 
the care and attention devoted to its develop- 
ment. 

On March 22, (888, Mr. Cline was mar- 
ried to Elizabeth Hauck, who was born in 
Marlborough Township, and is a daughter of 
Peter Hauck, of Delaware County, and they 
have six children: Erwin C, Orrin L, Toura, 
Annita, Lela and Erma. Mr. Cline has reason 
to tike a great deal of pride in his family of 
bright, attractive children. Erwin C. gradu- 
ated from the Ashley High School in 1903, 
in a class of 20, bearing off all the honors. 
although then but 13 years of age, subse- 
quently graduating irom the Ohio Wesleyan 
University at Delaware, with equal credit. 
He took a course in the classics at the Uni- 
versity, graduating with the highest honors in 
June. 19.07. and is now assistant superintend- 
ent of the Covington, Tennessee, schools. He 
has a high testimonial from President Welch 
of the ( ). W. U. Corrington Cline has served 
as justice of the peace and has held other of- 
fices, taking the most interest in those identi- 
fied with educational work. He has been of- 
ficially connected with the Elm Tree School 
for a number of years. He is a stanch Demo- 
crat in his political views, and for 11 years 
served as township committeeman, lie beli ngs 
to Ashley Lodge, Xo. 421, Odd Fellows, in 
which he has passed all the chairs. 




one of the well 

esteemed rcsi- 

1 )elaware C tinty. 



ATHAN MARBLE 

known and highly 

dents of Sunbury 

1 'bio. who is now living retired after 

a long and useful life, was born No- 
vember 29, [829, in Belmont County. Ohio, 
and is a son of Ephraim and Leanna (David- 
son) Marble. 

Nathan Marble, grandfather 1 f Nathan, 
came from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on the 
Monongahela River, and settled at Rising 
Sun, Indiana, where both he and wife died 
well advanced in years. Mr. Marble culti- 
vated a large tract of land near Rising Sun. 
Ephraim Marble, father of Nathan, was 
a native of Pennsylvania, where in young 
manhood he engaged as a millwright. He 
came to Ohio at a very early day. and settled 
near \Y< 11 ister, Wayne O unity, where his 
father had purchased 040 acres of land for 
him, but the Indians and wild animals were 
so troublesome that the pioneers deemed it wise- 
to return to Pennsylvania. Later, however, 
they returned to Ohio, settling near Byesville, 
in Guernsey County, where Mr. Marble pur- 
chased 80 acres of land, and here the remain- 
der of his life was spent, partly in agricultural 
pursuits and partly as a miller, in the em] 
of Joshua live. Being a millwright Mr. Mar- 
ble built a boat, which he loaded with Hour and 
piloted it to Dresden, on the Muskingum 
River, in [838. While on the trip he con- 
tracted typhus fever, and. although a powerful 
man physically, this disease caused his death in 
the prime of life. His wife survived until 1892, 
when she died at a very old age. Both be- 
longed to the Society of Friends. Mrs. Mar- 
ble's parents came from Pennsylvania to ( Ihio 
at a ver\ early day, and settled in Belmonl 
County, where her father purchased land. 
Here both parents spent the remainder of their 
lives, Mrs. Davidson being aged over too 
years at the time of her death. To Ephraim 
Marble and his wife the following children 
were born: Reese. Nathan. Talitha. Chris- 
tine, Sarah Ann. Esther and Mary Ann. 

Nathan Marble spent his schooldays at 
Byesville, and came to Sunbury, Ohio, in 
[845. In his youth he learned the cabinet- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



making trade, which he followed for many 
years. On October 14, 1863, he enlisted in 
the First Regiment, United States Volunteer 
Engineers. Captain William Lawrence, and 
served until June 9, 18(15, when he was hon- 
orably discharged and mustered out. The 
most of his service was at Chattanooga, Ten- 
nessee, where he saw Jefferson Davis as a 
prisoner, and at various times he was engaged 
in the sharp skirmishing which ti » >k place 
there. On his return from the war Mr. .Mar- 
ble resumed his business of cabinetmaking and 
undertaking, and continued until recent years, 
when he retired from active life. 

On June 1. [852, Mr. Marble was mar- 
ried to Louisa Kempton, who was a daughter 
of Henry and Louisa (Wright) Kempton, 
natives 1 f Maine, and to this union there were 
bom eight children, as follows: Lewa J).. 
Mattie Jane. Fannie F., Hannah Jane, 
Wright, and three who died in infancy. Lewa 
D. married (first) Henry Peck of Sunbury, 
by whom she had three children, married 1 sec- 
ond) her first husband's half-brother, Clinton 
X. Peck, and they had one son, and married 
(third) Thomas L. Dorman, and now resides 
in Morrow 1 ounty, Oregon. Mattie Jane 
married Charles Crego, by whom she has a 
daughter, Bertha, and lives in Sunbury. Fan- 
nie F. married Norman Patrick, of Sunbury, 
and they have two children. Armond and 
Christian. Hannah Jane married Charles 
Wormell, of Trenton Township, Delaware 
County, and they have eight children, Pearl. 
Wright, Edwin, Fannie, Irene. Stanley. Reese 
and Velmas. Wright Marble married a lady 
in Indianapolis, and makes his home in Birm- 
ingham, Alabama. The mother of these chil- 
dren died April 3, [877, aged 44 years. 13 
days, in the faith of the Christian Church. 
Mr. Marble was married (second) to [ose- 
phine Warner, and they had one child, Mary 
Maud, who died aged 20 years. Mrs. Marble, 
who was born December to, 1857, and was a 
daughter of William Warner, a half-brother 
of Genera] Robert E. Let-, died August 29, 
[889, in the faith of the Methodist Church. 

Mr. Marble was married (third) to Cath- 
erine Little, who is a daughter of John Little. 
Mr. Marble is a member of the Baptist 



Church. Mr. Marble is a 32d degree Scot- 
tish Rite Mason, and also belongs to L. A. 
Myers Post No. 287, G. A. R., of which he 
was adjutant for one term. In political mat- 
ters he is a Republican and for a time served 
in the Sunbury city council. 




RANK E. WHIPPLE, cashier of the 
Farmers Savings Bank Company of 
Ashley and one of the most promi- 
nent citizens of that village, was born 
four miles southeast of Ashley, in 
Peru Township, in what was then Delaware, 
now Morrow, County. Pie was born Novem- 
ber (1. 1853, on the old family homesteacl where 
his grandfather, Reuben Whipple, settled in 
1818. Reuben Whipple came from Rhode 
Island with his family at that time, but had 
- iously been here to secure a location and, 
had 140 acres of land wholly uncleared. He first 
made a clearing for a log cabin, and then set 
about converting his land into tillable, shape. 
He was a hardy pioneer and became one of the 
most prosperous farmers in the township. He 
was a carpenter and mechanical genius and 
erected a house and barn on his place, which 
were unexcelled in that vicinity for many 
years. These buildings were built on a more 
substantial plan than those of modern type 
and are still in service on the farm in good re- 
pair. He had a carpenter shop on his place, 
and followed his trade for some years. He 
married Sally C ok, and of their children, one 
was Noah Whipple, father of Frank E. 

Noah Whipple was born in Rhode Island, 
July 7, 1X11, and was seven years old when 
the family moved west to Ohio. Throughout 
his active career he farmed the home place, 
but moved to Ashley with bis son ['"rank E. in 
1895. He resided here until a short time be- 
fore his death, which took place in Massillon, 
Ohio, in January, [900, while visiting a 
daughter. His wife's maiden name was Mar- 
garet Elliott, and she was born in Virginia. 
Her father, Archibald Elliott, came from Vir- 
ginia ami first settled in Blendon Township, 
Franklin County, moving subsequently to 
Eden Station. Delaware County. Mrs. Whip- 




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pie died November 5, 1895. Of seven chil- 
dren born of their union five are living, as fol- 
lows: Phoebe (Kohler), of Ashley; Ella 
(Wallace), a widow residing in Ashley; J. C. 
who resides near Leonardsburg ; Frank E. ; 
and Flora I Benedict ). who lives in Massillon, 
Ohio. 

Frank E. Whipple was reared on the home 
farm and although a well-informed and broad- 
guaged man. his educational training - was lim- 
ited to the common schools. He followed 
farming until his connection with the bank be- 
gan, although he had moved to Ashley in 
1895. He added to the home place, and still 
owns 180 acres of it, and also has a valuable 
farm of 135 acres adjoining the corporation 
on the east. He recently erected a tine two 
story pressed brick building in the business 
centre of Ashley, with two store rooms on the 
main Hoor, ami a hall for Knights of Pyth- 
ias above. Mr. Whipple was the first pres- 
ident of the Farmers Savings Bank Company, 
>j\ which he was one of the promotors and in- 
corporators, and served as such until January 
1. 1907. since which time he has been cashier. 
A careful, capable business man. his success 
lias been uninterrupted. He is a man of pub- 
lic spirit and has done much to advance and 
develi p the interests of Ashley. 



On October 15, ii 



Mr. Whipple was 



united in marriage with Xettie Slack, who 
was born in Oxford Township, and is a 
daughter of Nathaniel Slack. They have a 
daughter. Pearl, who married Harley Dennis, 
1 >f Ashley, on June 6, 1907. 

Politically, Mr. Whipple is a Republican 
and served as a member of the School Hoard 
for seven years. He is fraternally connected 
with the Knights of Pythias and the F. et A. 
M. of Ashley. 



WID BEVAN, one of the leading 
citizens and most successful agricul- 
turists of Delaware Township, Dela- 
ware County, < >hio. who is now living- 
retired, was born April 20, 1829, in 
Breconshire, South Wales, and is a son of Da- 
vid and Margaret (Lewis) Bevan. 




David Bevan, Sr., who was also a native of 
Breconshire, South Wales, came from that 
country to America in 1842 with his wife and 
six children, and located in Delaware Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio, where his wife's 
sister and her four children lived. Mr. Bevan 
settled in a little log cabin on a fifty-acre tract 
just north of where bis sou David now lives, 
and here commenced clearing the heavily lim- 
bered land. In a tew years the family had a 
well improved farm, and Mr. Bevan prospered 
to such an extent that at the time of his death, 
May 23, [879, he was the owner of 400 acres 
of land. He was a man of great energy and 
ambition, but was prudent and economical. Ik- 
was also engaged for a number of years in rais- 
ing and dealing in cattle and sheep. Mr. Bevan 
was married to Margaret Lewis, who died in 
1863, having been the mother of six children : 
Margaret, who died single; James, who is also 
deceased; William, who lives in Scioto ["own- 
ship ; David; Charles, who is deceased; and 
Dinah, who resides with her brother William. 
William Bevan served three years and two 
months in the 121st Regiment, Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantry, during the Civil War. and par- 
ticipated in all the actions of his regiment. 

David Bevan went to school in his native 
country, and when thirteen years of age came 
with the family to America, lie remained on 
the home farm until twenty-seven years oid, 
when he began operating on his own account 
on the ro6-acre, farm on which he now re- 
sides, and where he continued actively in ag- 
ricultural pursuits until 1899; but lie con- 
tinued to deal in cattle, sheep and hogs, in 
which occupation he had been engaged for 
many years, until the fall of 1906. Mr. Bevan 
is the owner of 800 acres of land, mosl of 
which is being cultivated by tenant farmers, 
lie is one of Delaware Township's best known 
men. and has the honor and esteem of all with 
whom he has come in contact. 

Mr. Bevan was married to Eliza Davis, 
who was born in Wales, December id, [829, 
and who came to this country with her par- 
ents when two and a half years old. Four 
children came to brighten the home life of Mr. 
and Mrs. Bevan. as follows: Margaret Clara, 
born May 25, 1857. and residing at home; 



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David Willard, burn September 22, 1859. who 
died March 29, 1906; Elizabeth Emma, bom 
June 6, [864, who died April 13, 1887; and 
Edward James, burn March 21, 1867, and re- 
siding at borne. Mr. Bevan and wife belong 
to the Congregational Church, in which he 
has been a deacon for main- years. 




AYLOR DONOVON, a substantial 
citizen and self-made man of Dela-' 
ware County, Ohio, who owns and 
operates a farm of 1N4 acres in Marl- 
borough Township, was born No- 
vember 24, 1850. in Chester County, Pennsyl- 
vania, and is a sun of John and. Elizabeth 
(Wagonseller) Donovon, natives of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

In 1859 Taylor Donovon was brought by 
his parents from his native place to Delaware 
County, Ohio, where his father established 
himself in the butchering business, an occupa- 
tion which he followed until a short time prim- 
to his death in [865. Taylor Donovon learned 
the butchering business with hi-- father, and 
in 1873 engaged therein on Alain Street. Del- 
aware, where he remained until 1SN0. and in 
that year removed to Montgomery County, 
Iowa, where he engaged in agricultural pur- 
suits for twelve years. Mr. Donovon then re- 
moved to Sunbury, Ohio, where he spent 
nearly twelve years, and in 1903 he removed 
to his present property, one of Marlborough 
Townships hot farms. Mr. Donovon en- 
gages in a general line of farming and stock- 
raising. His efforts have met with success 
and lie is placed with the solid, substantial men 
of his township. 

On December 25, [881, Air. Don- won was 
married to Ida C. Mason, who was born 
March i<;. [861, in Montgomery County, 
Iowa, and is a daughter of Parley J. and Su- 
san C. (Bean) .Mason, who were natives of 
Xew Hampshire and early settlers of Mont- 
gomery County, lowi. love children have 
been born to Mr. and Airs. Donovon: James, 
residing in Marlborough Township; George, 
residing at Sunbury, Ohio; Nellie M., Blanche 



and Joseph. Mr. Donovon is a Democrat in 
his political views, and while a resident of 
Sunbury served as a member of the Town 
Council. He has always been interested in 
educational movements., and has been found 
in the front rank of all enterprises calculated 
to be of benefit to his township. 




DWARD M. HALL, M. D., has been 
a resident of Delaware, Ohio, since 
[889" In 1862, when id years of 
age, he enlisted in the One 
Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, but, being under 
age and size, he was at first rejected by the 
mustering officer, who afterwards, when as- 
sured by the Colonel of the regiment that he 
was competent to perform the clerical duties 
to which he bail already been assigned, per- 
mitted bis name to remain on the rolls. 

He served with his regiment till shortly 

after the battle of Chickamauga when, for 

1 rial service rendered Gen. James B. Sted- 

nian. be was appointed by him his division 

pi istmaster. 

On the Atlanta campaign, however, he 
took up the duties of a soldier, and on the 6th 
day of August, when his divisii n was occupy- 
ing an important and hazardous position, re- 
ceived a gunshot fracture of his left thigh and 
was sent to the field hospital, where he had 
careful attention from the late Dr. T. B. Wil- 
liams of this city, who was then division sur- 
geon. A few weeks afterwards, on being 
transferred from Chattanooga to Nashville, 
Tennessee, the hospital train was thrown from 
the track and he was so severely injured that 
be was compelled to remain in the hospital 
111 mi\ mi iiiths. 

While in general hospital at Jeffersonville, 
Indiana, and still obliged to use crutches, he 
was appointed executive clerk to the board of 
surgeons of the hospital. At the time 1 .en. 
Sherman's army was ordered to Louisville, 
Kentucky, to be mustered out of service, 
many soldiers from the hospitals, he among 
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iii 1 ut mils. His assignment was that oi 
chief clerk in the office of Col. Flint at Gen. 
Palmer's headquarters, where he remained 
from May till August, [865, when he was 
mustered 1 >ut 1 i service. 

At Shell vville, Tennessee, in 1863, he was 
taken sick with the prevailing camp disease, 
from the effects of which he has never fully 
recovered. 

On returning home, broken in health and 
still suffering' from his wound, he was obliged 
to abandon the idea of a university education, 
and spent such time as he was able during the 
next two or three years in reading, prepara- 
tory to taking up the study of medicine, which 
he did, later, graduating- in 1871. 

In 1874, Dr. Hall was married to Laura 
Beaver Nevius, daughter 1 f Aaron C. Nevius 
of Fredericktown, Ohio. The Nevius family 
is of Dutch extraction, Aaron C. Nevius* being 
fifth in descent from Johannes Nevius, who 
after being graduated from the University of 
Leyden, emigrated to New Amsterdam, now 
New York, in 1651, and in 1653, at its organ- 
ization, became a member of the Court of 
Burgomaster- and Schepens, serving seven 
years as Schepen. and afterwards as city sec- 
retary, which office he held when the city sur- 
rendered t<> the English in [664. 

The wife of Aaron C. Xevius. Sarah Bea- 
ver Nevius, was a daughter of Rev. Peter Bea- 
ver, of the Philadelphia Conference, and a 
granddaughter of George Beaver, a Revolu- 
tionary soldier. Site, also, was an aunt of 
ex-Gov. James A. Beaver of Pennsylvania. 

Dr. Hall's maternal ancestors emigrated to 
New England about the middle of the eight- 
eenth century. David Brown and Hardy Run- 
dall, great-grandfathers. David Brown I 
Scotland, making his permanent home at 
Greenwich, Connecticut, and Hardy Rundall 
from England, at the nearby town of Nor- 
walk. 

During the Revolutionary war. when the 
English troops, in 1770. raided Ndrwalk, 
Fairfield and New Haven. Hard}- Rundall, Jr., 
a colonel of light dragoons in the English 
army, took leave of his family at Norwalk, af- 
ter which he sailed for England, not to re- 
turn. 



His paternal ancestors settled in Xew Jer- 
sey early in the eighteenth century in the vi- 
cinity of Morristown, where his grandfather. 
Caleli Hall, was horn in [780. Hi- grand- 
mother, Sarah Anderson, was a daughter of 
Col. Richard Clough Anderson, a well known 
Revolutionary soldier. 

Three children have been horn to Dr. and 
Mrs. Hall: Mary, who died in 1893, in her 
seventeenth year, while attending the Ohio 
Wesleyan University: Aletheia. who married 
Philo M. Buck, Jr., after their graduation 
from the O. W. U, and who reside in St. 
Louis. Mo.; Edward M-. Jr.. who after gradu- 
ating from the Ohio Wesleyan University, 
ti ok up the study of law and graduated from 
the law department of Harvard College, and 
is now practicing law in Cleveland. Ohio. 

Dr. Hall is a.member of the American 
Medical Association, the State Medical and 
County Medical Societies, and was president 
of the County Society in 1905. 

While not seeking political preferment, he 
has taken great interest in political questions 
since his boyhood, and has given ready sup- 
port to such measures as have had for their 
object improved conditions or better citizen- 
ship. 

At the time of his removal to this city, 
he was serving his fourth term as a member of 
the Board of Education of Fredericktown, 
and was a member of the Board of Examining 
Surgeons for Pensions for Knox County. 

( >hlo. 

For about twelve years he has been presi- 
dent of the Board of Directors and Trustees 
of Oak Grove Cemetery Company, and has 
been a member of the Board of Trustees of the 
Delaware Young Men's Christian Association 
since its organization. 



Y IHN J. AYRF.S. one of Scioto Town- 
ship's leading citizens, an auctioneer. 
carpenter and stonemason, wa- horn 
in Scioto Township, Delaware 
County, Ohio, May 24, [865. His 

parents were Col. Jacob and Mary P. 

(Rhoades) Ayres. 




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The father of Mr. Ayres has long been a 
prominent citizen of this section, having set- 
tled on his present farm in Scioto Township 
in 1870. He was born in Pickaway County. 
Ohio, March 12, 1841. During the greater 
part of the Civil War he served as a Union 
scout and only retired from the service after 
being severely wounded. For some years af- 
' ter the close of the war he traveled through 
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan giving lectures 
on the battle of Gettysburg, in which he took 
a prominent part. He married Mary P. 
Rhoades, who died March 9, 1907. 

John J. Ayres was educated in the public 
schools of Scioto Township and at Delaware, 
after which he taught school for three years. 
In the meanwhile he learned the carpenter's 
and also the stonemason's trade and has 
worked at these more or less ever since, now- 
having a hue building and contracting trade 
through Delaware and Union Counties. He 
has .lone a large amount of work in this section 
and in 1S87 lie built his own commodious res- 
idence, in 1904 remodeling it and making it 
still more attractive and valuable. In [882, 
Mr. Ayres began auctioneering in partnership 
wiih his father and they continued together 
until 1 0:07, when Colonel Ayres retired. 

In 1887. Mr. Ayres was married to Annie 
McCombs, a daughter of Frank and Catherine 
McCombs, of .Magnetic Springs, Ohio, and 
they have had five children, the three survivors 
being: Carl Abner, Goldie May and Myrtle 
I. mile. Mrs. Ayres is a member of the United 
Brethren Church, which Mr. Ayres attends 
and to which he gives a liberal support. In 
politics, be is identified with the Republican 
party, lie is a member of Edinburg Lodge, 
Odd Fellows, at ( Istrander, of which he is past 
errand. 



T. McCARTY, M. I)., a practicing 

physician located at Cheshire, where 
he has built up a lucrative practice 
and identified himself with the town's 
various interests, was born in [868, 
near the county seat of Washington County, 



Pennsylvania, and is a son of A. J. and .Ma- 
tilda (Wilson) McCarty. 

The father of Dr. McCarty was born in 
Pennsylvania. For many years he followed 
farming and worked at blacksmithing, in 
Washington Count}', where he was a well- 
known and respected citizen. In bis political 
life he was a Democrat. He died in 1904, 
aged 76 years. He married Matilda Wilson, 
who was also born in Pennsylvania, and she 
died, in 1897, in Delaware County, Ohio, aged 
63 years. They had the following children: 
John, a resident of Washington County, Penn- 
sylvania; Dora C, residing with her brother 
at Cheshire; Simon C, who resides in Kansas 
City; Mrs. Martha Gleason, residing in 
Kingston Township, Delaware County; Mrs. 
Belle Harrison, residing at Marion. Ohio; and 
Dr. I. T., of Cheshire. 

Dr. McCarty came to Delaware County in 
1880. and after completing his literary educa-' 
tion he began the study of medicine and was 
graduated with his degree from the Western 
rve College, in 18117. He entered upon 
practice at Olive Green, in Kingston Town- 
ship, Delaware Count)-, where he remained 
three years and then came to Cheshire. II ere 
he has a wide circle of both personal and pro- 
fessional friends. 




ESLEY G. McCURDY was born 
on the old home place in Oxford 
Township, Delaware Count}-. 
Ohio, July 7, 1869, and is a son of 
John and Amanda (Kohler) Mc- 
Curdy. 

John McCurdy was born in York Count}'. 
Pennsylvania, and lived there until 1849 or 
1850, when he came west with his wife and 
three children. He located on swamp land 
about three miles south of Ashley, and erected 
a cabin on the highest part of his farm. It 
was in this cabin Wesley ('■. McCurdy was 
born. In the early days, before tiling was 
made use of, a pan was utilized to scoop up 
water for washing purposes, and many make- 
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possible in the wilderness. Mr. McCurdy set 
about placing his farm in tillable condition, 
made clearings and built a barn. These prim- 
itive buildings lasted some years, and were 
then replaced by modern structures, lie lived 
on the In mie place the remainder of his life, 
dying at the age of about 84 years. He was 
united in marriage with Amanda Kohler, sis- 
ter of Charles Kohler of Ashley. This union 
resulted in the following issue: Maria 
(White), who lives in Kingston Township; 
Daniel, who lives southeast of Kilbourne; 
Charles, who is engaged in the horse business 
in Marion, Ohio; John J., who lives near 
Westtield. Morrow County; Joseph A., who 
lives in Ashley; Elizabeth, who died at the age 
of 29 years; William, James, and Edward, 
who live on the old home farm ; and Wesley 
G. Mr. McCurdy was a Republican in poli- 
tics and served some years as township trustee, 
also in other local offices. Airs. McCurdy still 
resides at the old family home at the advanced 
age 1 if 81 ' years. 

Wesley < '<. McCurdy was reared on the 
hi nne farm in Oxford Township, and attended 
the public schools of that vicinity. Upon com- 
ing to Ashley he clerked in a grocery for 
J. C. Eckals for one year, then formed a part- 
nership with J. T. Olds and conducted a hard- 
ware store with much success for a period of 
u years. Dissolving partnership in January, 

1904, Mr: McCurdy fur three years dealt in 
high class horses extensively, buying ami ship- 
ping to points where they could be sold to ad- 
vantage. An excellent judge and experienced 
li tndler of horses, he followed this business 
until tlie market value of roadsters became 
such as to preclude further profitable opera- 
tions along that line. 

On April 1. 1896, Mr. McCurdy was joined 
in marriage with Miss Grace Sumner West- 
brook, whi 1 was born in Ashley and is a 
daughter of Dr. E. A. Westbrook. Four 
children bless their union, namely: Lois 
Amanda, bum July 27. [897; Lawton \V.. 
burn September 9, [898; Lloyd E, born April 
23, 1901 ; and Rose Cunnard, born March 2, 

1905. Mr. McCurdy is a Republican in poli- 
tics and has served on the School Board and" 



in the village council. A member of the Ma- 
sonic Lodge, he has served two years as 
treasurer. Religiously, he is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. McCurdy 
is a popular man. following up-to-date busi- 
ness methods, and the success attending his 
efforts is well merited. 




DWIX LUTHBEN HEMSTEAD 
fur nmre than forty years was a 
well-known resident of Sunbury. 
lie was a native <>; Connecticut, 
where he was born in [826. The 
larger part of his life was passed in Ohio, his 
father, Charles Hemstead, having brought his 
family to Delaware County at an early peril id. 
and Mr. Hemstead died at his home in Sun- 
bury. July 2. 1901, aged y^ year-. 

The boyhood of Edwin L. Hemstead was 
spent on his father's farm but as the latter was 
a school teacher as well as farmer, the b \ 
had excellent educational training and spent 
some time at Central G illege. When he left 
home he went to Columbus, where he learned 
the blacksmith's trade. He married Eliza 
Williams, who was born April 5, 1825. at Ge- 
neva. Delaware County, Ohio, who is a 
daughter of Thomas and Phebe ( Seaburn) 
Williams. The Williams family came to Del- 
aware County from Pennsylvania. There 
were five children in the family. Mr. Wil- 
liams owned a farm in Geneva Township. 

After his marriage. Mr. Hemstead contin- 
ued to work at his trade at Columbus, ami his 
capable wife started a millinery business, hav- 
ing previously learned this trade, and they 
prospered and accumulated enough capital to 
invest in various properties after they came to 
Sunbury. in 1857. Mr. Hemstead carried on 
his blacksmith business there for some \ 1 
i>nl_\- giving it up after he had been seriously 
injured by a vicious horse. He was subse- 
quently appointed mail carrier and served for 
a Imig time between Mi. Vernon and Central 
College. He was a man of much energy and 
enterprise and possessed excellent busin'i 
judgment. In all his dealings with his rellow- 



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citizens he was hi nest and upright, while to 
his family he was kind and thoughtful. 

Mr. ami Mrs. Hemstead had three chil- 
dren: Martha Augusta. Smith Webb, and 
Charles Burr. Charles Burr Hemstead is a 
prominent physician and surgeon who is lo- 
cated at Croton, Morrow County, Ohio. He 
has been called for consultation to Cincinnati 
and other points. Both of the older children 
died of diphtheria. Martha Augusta aged 
seven years and eight months and Smith Webb 
aged two years. Mrs. Hemstead is very com- 
fortably provided for. She resides alone at 
Sunbury where she owns two valuable lots of 
three acres each, seven acres of pasture land 
and other tracts, all being land that is yearly 
increasing in value. 

In politic. Mr. Hemstead was a stanch 
Republican. He was a member of the Odd 
Fellows organization and of the Masons, hav- 
ing been instrumental in organizing the first 
Masonic Lodge at Sunbury. 




OSEP11 11. CUNNINGHAM, who is 
engaged in the florist business in Del- 
aware, has been thus established in his 
present location on West William 
Street, since [890. He was born in 
Liberty Township about three miles west oi 
Hyattsville, son of George and "Mar)' J. (Har- 
ris) Cunningham. I lis father, a native of 
Edinburg, Scotland, and a machinist by trade, 
emigrated to this country, settling in Marietta, 
Ohio, where he followed his trade for a while, 
subsequently removing to Liberty Township, 
Delaware County. lie enlisted in Company 
F, Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 
died in the spring of [863, while serving with 
his regiment in the Civil War. He was a 
Free Mason, belonging to the lodge of that or- 
der at Marietta. 1 I i < wife was a daughter of 
Joseph Harris of Concord Township. They 
'had two children: Joseph II.. the subject of 
this notice, who was born July 25, 1 S 5 5 . and 
Edward, who is now a resident of Cleveland, 
( Ihio. Mrs. George Cunningham died in June. 
1905. at the age of about 65 years. 



Joseph H. Cunningham acquired his edu- 
cation in the schools of Marietta and Liberty 
and the old High school at Delaware, lie be- 
gan industrial life in the employ of George 
W. Campbell, who was formerly secretary of 
the Ohio State Horticultural Society, and later 
its president, and who was a man widely 
known in horticultural circles. Under his in- 
struction Mr. Cunningham acquired a thor- 
ough knowledge of horticulture and floricul- 
ture, rem lining with him until 1890, when. 
as alread\ noted, he started out for himself at 
his present location. His first greenhouse was 
72x20 feet. With the gradual but steady in- 
crease in his business he enlarged his facilities 
until he now has 10,000 feet of glass. He 
does a general business in greenhouse, bedd 
and flowering plants, shipping his floral pro- 
ducts to all parts of the country. Few people 
in Delaware realize what a complete and well 
ordered establishment he has, containing ev- 
er) thing that can be needed for any kind of 
floral decoration. His natural taste in such 
matters has been cultivated and perfected by 
the thorough training he received under his 
former in ted employer, and the produd 
his art, in the line of floral decorative work, 
m the highest degree tasteful, and appropriate 
to the occasion for which they are intended. 
The existence here of so complete an estab- 
lishment of this kind is another proof, added 
to the many contained in these pages, that Del- 
aware need not fear comparison with any city 
of its size in all that goes to illustrate the pro- 
gressive and up-to-date character of its cit- 
izens. 

Mr. Cunningham is a Republican in poli- 
tics and has served four years as a member of 
the City Council. He belongs to Hiram 

[ge, I-'. & A. M. : Olentangy Lodge. No. 
53. 1. O. 0. I'"., and to Lenape Lodge. No. 20. 
K. I'., all of Delaware. 

Mr. Cunningham married Emma J. Gen- 
ier. a daughter of John S. Genier. of France, 
lie and his wife have been the parents of five 
children, of whom four are now living, 
namely: Irene M., George W., Mary M., and 
Jean J. The family are members of St. Pe- 
ter's Episcopal Church. 



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f.OEL LETTS, who was one of Berk- 
shire Township's most highly es- 
teemed citizens, successful business 
men and prominenl fanners, was 
born in Morgan Township, Knox 
Ohio, August e8, [82fi, and died at 
[896. I lis parents 



Count] 

Sunbury, Ohio, May .25 

were John and Mary (Hanna) Letts. 

The parents of Mr. Letts were born in 
Pennsylvania and they were among the pio- 
neer settlers of Knox County, Ohio. The 
father secured 400 acres 1 f wild land and set- 
tled on it when Indians still roamed through 
the uncleared forests and game and wild ani- 
mals were plentiful all through Morgan 
Township. The parents of Mr. Letts died 
there. They had ten children and all of this 
larg£ family were sons with one exception. 

Joel Letts was the third member of his 
parents' family and he remained on the home 
farm and assisted in the clearing and develop- 
ing of the land, remaining until his marriage, 
October 4. 1859, to Ella Lace. Mr-. Letts 
was bcrn in Luzerne County. Pennsylvania, 
June 7. [830, and is a daughter of Michael 
and Elizabeth (Jones) Lace. They also were 
natives of Luzerne County, and the paternal 
grandparents, Michael and Anna | Freeman) 
Pace, were born in Pennsylvania. The great- 
grandfather, Michael Pace, was born in Ger- 
many. Mr. and Mrs. Letts had three children, 
namely: Edward Howard, born February 18, 
[861, died October 19, [865; Arthur Reed, 
born February 4. 1866, residing in Florida; 
and Lillian M., who was born March 17. 
[868. She married Frank Whittier, who is 
connected with the Sunbury Nczcs. 

The late Joel Lett- owned 100 acres of 
valuable ' land adjoining Sunbury, on the 
southwest, and also a good house and im- 
proved lot in Sunbury. He carried on farm- 
in-- and for tive years was also interested in 
a hardware business at Sunbury, for two years 
with a Mr. Payne and tor three years alone. 
His store was destroyed by fire and he never 
resumed business but lived retired for three 
years prior to his death. He was an upright, 
Christian man ami for many years had been 
a class leader in the Methodisl Episcopal 



Church, lie was also a man who unswerv- 
ingly followed the path he believed to he right 
and this was particularly shown in the matter 
of prohibition. He hail been a temperance ad- 
vocate from his youth and when the question 
came up at the polls, he was the first voter of 
the Prohibition ticket in Berkshire Township. 



K. JONES, M. D., physician and sur- 
geon at Radnor, was horn in Troy 
Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
April id, 1853, and is a son of Wil- 
liam and Hannah ( Humphreys) 
Jones. 

The father of Dr. Jones was born in Mont- 
gomeryshire, Wales, in 1N00. and died at Rad- 
nor. Ohio, in [889, aged 83 years. He re- 
mained in his own country until a man of 35 
years and then came to America, later settled 
in Troy Township. Delaware County, Ohio, 
where he carried on farming and stockraising 
until 1885. when he retired to Radnor. He 
married a daughter of Edward Humphreys. 
The latter was a native of Wales and an early 
settler in Troy Township. William and Han- 
nah Jones had three children to -row to ma- 
ture years, namely: Elizabeth, T. K. and 
Ruth A. Elizabeth is deceased. The father 
was a Welsh Presbyterian in his religious 
faith, but the mother was a Congregationalist. 
The paternal grandfather was a soldier in the 
English army. 

Dr. Jones was educated in Troy Township, 
in the Ohio Business College at Delaware and 
at the Normal School at Worthington, Ohio. 
Lor several winter terms he taught school, en- 
gaging in farming during the summers and 
while teaching began the study of medicine 
under Dr. Fowler, a practitioner at Delaware. 
He attended the Columbus Medical College. 
where he was graduated in 1883. He estab- 
lished himself at Radnor, where he has re- 
mained ever since, his practice extending over 
a wide territory. in earlier years he did a 
great deal of driving through the country, but 
latterly his practice is more restricted. He is 
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Society and the Ohio State Medical S< iciety. 

Dr. Junes married Emma Harsh, residing 
at Radnor and they have three children, 
namely: .Martha J I., Albert H. A. and C. Ir- 
win. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Method- 
ist Episcopal Church, while Dr. Jones con- 
tinues in his mother's faith ami for several 
years served as trustee of the Radnor Congre- 
gational Church. 

Politically, Dr. Jones is a Republican. 
Fraternally, he belongs t< > Prospect Lodge. F. 
& A. M., and of Radnor Lodge of Odd Fel- 
lows, and has served as district deputy grand 
master of the latter organization. Mrs. Jones 
belongs to the auxiliary li dges of these orders, 
the Eastern Star and the Rebekahs. Dr. Jones 
and wife are among the most esteemed citi- 
zens of Radii* ir. 



JM 



TANLEY BELL, a veteran of the 
Civil War and trustee of Oxford 
Township, has been a life long resi- 
dent of this community. He was 
horn two miles southeast of Ashley. 
Oxford Township. January i, 1843. and is a 
son of Henry and Mar)- ( Miller) Bell. 

Henry Bell was born in Maryland, and 
came west to Zanesville, Ohio, walking ami 
carrying his carpenter's tools. His wife came 
into possession of a piece of land in Oxford 
Township, Delaware County, upon which they 
moved. This they cleared and elected thereon 
buildings, some of which still stand. Mr. 
Bell became a man of prominence in this vi- 
cinity and was frequently called upon to fill 
local offices, lie served several terms as 
township trustee. He married Mary Miller, 
who was born in Zanesville, Ohioj and was a 
daughter of Jesse and Mary Miller, her father 
being a shepherd and a very wealthy man. 
Henry Bell and wife became parents ,,f the 
following children: John, w no lives in Co- 
lumbus: Sarah (Poale) deceased; Mary, who 
h\es on the old home place; Stanley: Robert, 
who also lives on the old home farm; David, 
who lives east of Delaware: and Celia, who 
resides on the old home place. Mr. Bell was 



an Abolitionist prior to the Civil war and later 
a Republican. 

Stanley Bell was reared in Oxford Town- 
ship where he attended school and worked at 
home until the Civil War was in progress. 
He was very anxious to enter the service but 
could not secure the consent of his father who 
needed him at home and wished him to remain 
in school. In 1863, he accompanied his 
father to Ashley, to see some soldiers depart 
for the front, and while his father's back was 
turned jumped tin the train. He enlisted for 
three months service in Company C. Eighty- 
fifth ( ). Y. I., at the end of which time he re- 
turned home for three weeks. He then re-en- 
listed in Company II. One Hundred and Sev- 
enty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 
served till the war was over. He fought at 
Murfreesboro, Stone River and Nashville and 
in many skirmishes of importance. While in 
action. General Jones observed him in an act 
of bravery and had him advanced in rank to 
Sergeant-Major. He was with General Sher- 
man's Army at Raleigh, North Carolina, 
where the war closed, and from there returned 
to Washington. D. C, and was discharged af- 
ter taking part in the Grand Review. After 
returning home he remained there until 
March, iSoo. when he located on 50 acres in 
Oxford Township. This land he improved, 
erected a residence and the necessary buildings 
ami resided there about 25 years. He then 
moved across the line into Peru Township. 
Morrow County, where he lived until October 
17, 1904, then bought 23 acres of the old B. 
S. Brundage place, lying within the corpora- 
tion limits of the village of Ashley. He has 
a comfortable home, built of brick, and de- 
votes his time to farming on a small scale. 

In [868, Mr. Bell was united in marriage 
to Harriet Walters, who was born in Oxford 
Township, and is a daughter of Hosea and 
Hannah (Heverlo) Watters. They had the 
following children: Harry, who lives in 
Cleveland; Bertha, who married Marion Hat- 
ton, lives in Brown Township; Lena, who 
married Frank Librock, lives in Delaware; 
Arthur, who lives in Delaware, married Minta 
Hupp, and has a son, Clyde Stanley; Joseph. 




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who is attending a dental college in Columbus; 

Clara, who lives in Oxford Township, is the 
wife of Harvey Lea. by whom she has two 
children : Merle and Robert E. ; and May and 
Elizabeth, both of win mi are at home. 

Politically, Mr. Bell is a Republican and at 
the present time is serving as township trustee 
and health officer. He formerly served two 
terms as trustee, and was also member of the 
School Board. He belongs to the Grange, 
and to J. E. Coomer Post, No. 281, G. A. R. 
at Ashley. 




REM J. HEALY, a leading citizen of 
Concord Township, residing on his 
well-improved farm of 152 acres, was 
horn where he now resides, on the old 
Healy homestead in Delaware 
County, Ohio, August 10. 1850, and is 
a son of F.henezer and Sophronia (Cotton) 
Ileal}', and a grandson of Ehenezer and 
Eunice (Crossman) Healy. The first mem- 
ber of the Healy family that is on record as 
resident in America, came from England in 
1630 and settled at Roxbury, .Massachusetts. 
Ehenezer Healy, paternal grandfather of 
Erem J., was horn at Newton, .Massachusetts, 
February 3, 1768, and died at Sennett, New 
York, September 22, 1857, aged nearly ninety 
years. In 1793 he settled in Cayuga County. 
New York, where he bought an undivided half 
of lot 8, on which the town of Sennett now 
stands, paying $2.50 ner acre, which he added 
to an adjoining farm he already owned. In 
the autumn of 1793 he returned to Newton, 
Massachusetts, where he was married to 
Eunice Crossman. In the following February, 
Mr. and Mrs. Healy started for New York, 
reaching the new home in thirteen days. Ehen- 
ezer Healy was a man of great enterprise and 
became prominent in the section in which he 
settled. His farm lay on the line of travel to 
the Western Reserve, and for a number of 
years he kept a well-patronized tavern. He 
a deacon in the Baptisl Church. Ill- wife 
died September [6, [810. They had the fol- 
lowing children: Lyman \\\. John Mason, 

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Nathaniel, Ehenezer and Sallie, twins. Eliza 
H., and two who died in infancy. Mr. Ileal) 
was married (second) to Anna Leonard. 
March 11, 1S11, and they had one son, George. 
Mr. Healy built his barn in 1796 and in it the 
first Baptist Association in Cayuga County 
was formed in 1801. 

Ebenezer Healy (2d), father of Erem J., 
was horn in Cayuga County, New York, Janu- 
ary 29, 1806. He grew up on his father's 
farm and was married November 5, [838, to 
Sophronia Cotton, who was horn in 1809. and 
died November 29, 1884. aged seventy-five 
years. Immediately after marriage, Ebenezer 
Healy and bride set out to find a western 
home. They traveled to Buffalo, thence to 
( lc\ eland, and from there by way of canal to 
Columbus, where Mrs. Healy remained, while 
her husband started out prospecting, traveling 
over a large part of the neighboring country 
on foot. Finally he found land to please him 
— a farm well located and with fertile soil — 
152 acres situated in Concord Township. 
Delaware County, and this he bought. The 
land at that time was largely covered with tim- 
ber. By December 5, 1838, Mr. and Mrs. 
Healy had established their household goods 
which they had brought from New York, in a 
temporary dwelling on the new farm and in 
this location Ehenezer Healy (2d) remained 
until his death, which occurred October 25, 
[873, when he was sixty-seven years old. His 
three children were: Erem J., subject of this 
sketch; Eunice, who died at the age of ten 
years: and Eliza, who married James T. 
Hutchinson, residing at Delaware. 

Erem J. Healy grew to manhood on the 
present farm and obtained his schooling in the 
district schools. In 1870 he was married to 
Mary J. Freshwater, who died in 1890, a 
thirty-six years. She was a daughter of George 
and Sallie freshwater, the former of whom 
was the first white child horn in Concord 
Township, where he died in 1906, at the age 
of ninety-three year-. His wife died in 1872. 
They had five children. The children bori 
Mr. and Mrs. Healy were as follows: Sarah 
Sophronia. who married George Berlet 
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daughters — Helen and Florence; Eliza Rae, 
who married Frank Loveless, a mail clerk on 
the Big Four Railroad, residing at Cincinnati, 
and has one daughter — Violet; Alice,' who 
married H. O. Moore, a farmer of Concord 
Township, and has two children — George and 
Harold: and Minnie, who married W. C. Mc- 
Cloud. who is engaged in farming in Concord 
Township. Mr. Healy was married (sec- 
ondly) October 26, 1893, to Estelle Krohn, 
who is a daughter of H. S. and Anna Eliza- 
beth ( Swisher) Krohn, and who was educated 
in the Galion High School and Otterbein Uni- 
versity, and for five years was a successful 
teacher in various high schools. They have 
two bright boys — Eldredge J., aged thirteen 
-. and Russell Krohn, aged five years. 
Mr. Healy is a director in the Deposit 
Bank at Delaware. He is a member of the 
order of Knights of Pythias, being connected 
with Lodge No. 525 at Bellpoint. He has 
long been a leading factor in local politics and 
has represented Concord Township on the Re- 
publican Central Committee, for a number of 
years. He has been very active in educational 
movements and largely through his efforts the 
township high school was established here, it 
being the first one in the county outside of 
Delaware. He is a member of the United 
Brethren Church. 




STER GILEAD PEET, a representa- 
tive citizen of Thompson Township, 
where he is engaged in farming and 
sheep-raising, was born in Berlin 
Township, four miles east of Dela- 
ware on the Sunburv Pike, June 20. [855. 
His parents were William J. and Anna 
(Welch) Peet, and he is a grandson of Alba 
Peet, who migrated with his family from 
Connecticut to Franklin County, ( Ihio, prior b 
[830, settling near Worthington. They re- 
sided there about nine years and then came to 
Berlin Township, Delaware County. Alba 
Peet's wife was in maidenhood a Miss Orton. 
Alba Peet removed subsequently to Delaware, 
where he died in [876 at the age of 84 years. 



He and his wife reared three children, namely: 
Judd, who died in 1862; Orpha, who married 
David Croncelton and died in Delaware about 
1904 at the age of 84 years; and William J., 
father of the subject of this sketch. Their 
other children, of whom they had several, died 
young. 

William J. Peet was horn in Connecticut 
and accompanied his parents when they re- 
moved to Ohio, he being then about nine years 
of age. He was brought up to agricultural life 
and while a resident of Berlin Township he 
purchased a farm there. This he sold in 1862 
and purchased land in Thompson Township, 
taking up his abode in the house that is now the 
property of his son Lester. In 1882 he re- 
moved to Richwood, where he died in 1886. 
At the time of his death be owned a farm of 
221 acres. He was three times married: 
First to Penelope Halley. who bore him one 
daughter, Ida. The latter married a Mr. 
Thurston, of Knox County, and died subse- 
quently in Paulding Count}-, Ohio. Mr. Peet 
married, secondly, Anna Welch, who was a 
daughter of Hiram Welch and a native of 
Delaware County. Of this union there were 
three children, namely : Lester Gilead, sub- 
ject of this article; William L., who resides 
in Richwood. Union County, Ohio; and 
Fannie, who died in infancy. William J. 
Peet's third wife was a widow. Mrs. Melissa 
Evans. They were married in 1861, and she 
is still living at the advanced age of 92 years. 
Mr. f^eet removed in 1882 to Richwood, where 
he died four years later at the age of 69. 

Lester G. Peet was educated in the district 
school, which he attended for some time in 
Richwood and for about a year in Delaware. 
He was married in 1X82 to Miss I lattie Cone, 
a daughter of John and Mary (Williams) 
Cone, and located on the farm which he now 
owns and cultivates. This union has been 
blessed by the birth of four children, namely: 
Mary B., Georgianna, Ralph C, and Stanley, 
all of whom are residing at home. Stanley, the 
youngest, being now t8 years old. 

In [899 Mr. and Mrs. Peet removed to 
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there. Mr. Peet goes out daily to his tarn: 
which comprises 250 acres and which he has 
improved considerably since it came into his 
possession. Besides carrying on agriculture, 
he feeds Western Iambs for the market. He 
is a member of the Rising Sun Lodge, No. 
72. K. of P., at Richwood, and he and his 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in that place. He is a Democrat po- 
litically and has served as township clerk and 

trustee and is now a member of the Scl 1 

Board. A good, practical farmer, he is one 
cf the successful men of the township, of which 
he and his wife are among the most respected 
residents. 




LONZO FLEMING HOSKINS, a 
prosperous and enterprising general 
farmer, of Thompson Township, was 
born on the homestead where he now 
resides. April 8. 1855, son of Jacob 
and Elizabeth (Fleming) Hoskins. His pa- 
ternal grandfather. John Hoskins. was a na- 
tive of Wales, who emigrated to America 
about 1807, landing in the city of Baltimore. 
He was an earlv settler in Delaware County, 
locating first near Millville, now Warrens- 
burg, later settling on a farm adjoining that 
of the subject of this sketch to the south. The 
farm was then covered with heavy timber, no 
improvements having been made, and should 
therefore be referred to in this connection as 
wild land rather than a piece of agricultural 
property. He built a log- cabin on it and began 
the arduous work of clearing- oft" the timber. 
In course of time the improvements made by 
him completely changed the aspect of the place. 
The log cabin gave way to a brick house, and 
smiling fields appeared instead of the trackless 
forest. There he and his wife spent the rest 
of their lives. Their family included 12 chil- 
dren, several of whom died in infancy. The 
foil,, wing is their record in brief: Jane, mar- 
ried John Randall. Rachel became the wife 
of John Lenox. Betsy married Owen Avery. 
Another daughter. Ann, married George 
Mover. Henrv married a Mis> Fields. Ja- 



cob ( lather of the subject of this sketch) mar- 
ried Elizabeth Fleming. Perry married Han- 
nah Deck. Ebenezer never married. 

Jacob Hoskins was bom on the farm in 
Thompson Township above referred to, March 
21, 1822. and resided there all his life. He 
married Elizabeth Fleming, who was a daugh- 
ter of Crazier Fleming, a native of Ireland, 
who settled in Radnor Township. Delaware 
County, at an early day. Jacob Hoskins set- 
tled on the farm now owned and occupied by 
his son Alonzo, and made thereon some of the 
first improvements, building the present resi- 
dence about 1870. Soon afterwards he erected 
the barn that stands on the farm. The first 
house was a weather-boarded building, which 
was destroyed by fire, after which Mr. Hos- 
kins erected a log house. About 1870 he 
built the present residence. His wife Eliza- 
beth died in 1862. She had borne him six 
children, as follows: Oliver, who was a drug- 
gist residing in Prospect, married Miss Ellen 
Greek; Jennie who died in 1862; Alice, who is 
single, resides in Prospect ; Alonzo F. mar- 
ried Miss Jennie Fields, daughter of Marshall 
Fields, of Delaware County, Ohio; Ida. who is 
single, resides in Prospect ; and one son who 
died in infancy. 

Alonzo F. Hoskins was educated in the 
district schools and was brought up to farm 
life and labor. He was married in 1882 and 
subsequently resided in several different 
places, being a resident of Union County for 
nine years. For the past seven years he has 
occupied the old Hoskins homestead in Thomp- 
son Township, the farm which he owns and 
cultivates successfully, containing 103 acres. 
He is a highly esteemed citizen of the town- 
ship and is well versed in the science of farm- 
ing. He is a member of Prospect Lodge. F. 
& V M., No. 144: Durwood Lodge. K. of P.. 
at Prospect (No. 153): and of the Prospect 

Lodge of Modern W Imen. He is a member 

of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Mrs. Jennie Hoskins died February 15. 
1903. She and her husband had been the 
parents of the following children : Ethel, re- 
siding at home: Annie B., wile of Albert B. 
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who married Dillon Howser, and has one son 
■ — Robert Hoskins Howser. Mr. and Mrs. 
Howser reside in Richwood. 




HARLES E. McELWEE, who 
conies of an old and respected Dela- 
ware County family, is a prosperous 
farmer and also an undertaker, and 
resides in Harlem Township. He 
was born in this township May 14, 1869. and 
is a son of Joseph and Mary (Haycook) Mc- 
Elwee, and grandson of John McEhvee. 

John McEhvee was born in Virginia and 
there grew to maturity and was married. His 
first wife's maiden name was Orndorff, and 
they reared six sons and three daughters, of 
whom Joseph was the oldest. His second wife 
was Margaret Haycook and they had four 
daughters and one son. He came to Delavtare 
County, Ohio, at an early age and here lived 
the remainder of his life. Joseph McEhvee 
was born in Virginia ami was young- when 
his parents came to Ohio, and received his 
education in the schools of Harlem Township. 
He has always followed farming, owning a 
farm of 125 acres in addition to property in 
Centerville, and has ranked as one of the pro- 
gressive men of the community for many 
years. He married Mary Haycook, who was 
born in Harlem Township and is a daughter of 
Amos Haycook, who was a native of New 
Jersey. Amos Haycook came to Harlem 
Township, Delaware County, at an early- 
period and followed fanning near Center- 
ville where he owned property. This mar- 
riage resulted in the birth of two children: 
Charles E. ; and Zora, who is the wife of 
Luther Johnson, an implement dealer of Wes- 
terville. Joseph McElwee is a Republican in 
politics. He is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias at Centerville. 

I harles E. McElwee was reared. on the 
home farm and was educated in the common 
schools of Harlem Township, and a high 
school in Franklin County. He began farm- 
ing in his youth and has always followed that 



occupation, and has also engaged in the under- 
taking business. 

September 27, 1888, Mr. McElwee was 
joined in the bonds of matrimony with Miss 
Lucy Wilcox, who was born near Richwood, 
Union County, September 26. 1868, and is a 
daughter of Martin Wilcox, who was born 
in this county and made his home here all 
his life. He was engaged in farming in Berk- 
shire Township. He was an unusually well- 
informed man, having been a great traveler, 
visiting in many States and viewing many 
points of historical interest. Mr. and Mrs. 
McElwee have four children : William. 
Blanche, Charles and Lucy. All were born on 
the farm on which they now live. Fraternally, 
he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, at 
present serving as master of exchequer, and 
has filled all the other offices, and twice he has 
been a delegate of the home lodge to the 
( hand Lodge. He is also a member of the 
Patrons of Husbandry and both he and wife 
belong to the auxiliary lodge. They are 
consistent members of the Christian Church. 




I. BOLLOCK, cashier of the Dela- 
ware National Bank, was born at 
Port Clinton. Ohio, in i860, and 
came to Delaware in 1887. His edu- 
cation was secured at the points where 
his father, who was a minister in the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church, happened to be sta- 
tioned, but it was thorough and practical, and 
was completed at the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity. Mr. Pollock entered into business as 
bookkeeper for W. Z. Evans, with whom he 
remained for over six years. He then came to 
the Delaware County National Hank as teller 
and bookkeeper, later becoming assistant 
cashier, and in 1900 was elected cashier. The 
Delaware National Bank began its career as a 
branch of the old State Hank of Ohio, and 
was established in 1845, being succeeded in 
[865 by the Delaware County National Bank, 
which institution became the Delaware Na- 
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V. T. Hills, president; L. L. Denison, vice- 
president, and E. I. Pollock, cashier. It lias a 
capital stuck of $150,000, and is a carefully 
and profitably managed institution. As cashier 
Mr. Pollock has made man}- friends for the 
bank, his genial manner and accommodating 
demeanor making him an agreeable person 
with whom to do business. 

In 1SS4 Mr. Pollock was married to Alice 
C. Armstrong, of Delaware. He has always 
taken a good citizen's interest in public affairs 
and for a number of years has been president 
of the City Council. He retains his old fra- 
ternity membership, in the Beta Theta Pi So- 
ciety of the < )hio Wesleyan University. He is 
a member of the St. Paul's Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, which he is serving as a steward. 




OSEPH 11. ANDREWS,a well-known 
resident of Delaware Township, Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, who owns and 
operates a fine farm of 50 acres, was 
horn July 27, 1869, in Concord Town- 
ship. Delaware County, and is a son of Dr. 
Hugh B. and Mary E. ( Dall ) Andrews. 
Hugh Andrews, grandfather of J. H.. was 
horn in 1781, in Dauphin County, Pennsyl- 
vania, and came to Ohio when u years old. 
He served in the War of 1812, being with Hull 
when he surrendered, and after the war set- 
tled in Fairfield County, Ohio, where he fol- 
lowed the trade of tailor and later took up 
farming, which he continued until his death. 
His son, Dr. Hugh B. Andrews, was born 
October 6, 1819. in Fairfield County, and in 
the spring of 1852 came to Delaware County, 
where for many years he practiced medicine, 
but subsequently settled on a farm in Concord 
T vvnship consisting of 85 acres, where he lias 
since carried on general farming and stock 
raising. Originally a Whig, Mr. Andrews is 
now a Republican. He is a' member of the 
United Brethren Church. Air. Andrews was 
married to Alary E. Dall, who was the daugh- 
ter (if James Dall. and five children were born 
to this union: John and James II., who are 
deceased; Nettie E., who is the wife of David 
Bailey of Concord Township; Maggie, who 



married Adron Cook of Concord Township; 
and J. H. 

J. H. Andrews received a common school 
education in his native township, and spent one 
year at Lebanon, Ohio, and two years at what 
is now Ada University. He taught several 
terms before entering the last named institu- 
tion. He left school to make his campaign for 
the office of count}' recorder, to which he was 
elected in 1899, and in which he served until 
September, 1906. On April 1, 1907, he pur- 
chased bis present farm of fifty acres in Dela- 
ware Township, where he gives special atten- 
tion to the raising of corn and hay, selling 
most of the latter, while the former is fed to 
his fine Chester White hogs. 

Air. Andrews was married to Jessie C. 
Cutler, who is the daughter of Orange D. Cut- 
ler, formerly of Jerome, but now of Delaware, 
Ohio. One daughter. Alary Stiles, has been 
horn to this union. Mr. Andrews and his 
wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Fraternally he is connected with 
Delaware Lodge No. 76 of the Elks, of which 
he is esteemed loyal knight, and the Odd Fel- 
lows at Jerome, Ohio, of which he is past 
grand and of which he was district deputy 
grand master for four years ; and at one time 
was a member of Delaware Encampjnent N . 
52, of the Odd Fellow-. 




ROF. CYRUS B. AUSTIN. D. D., 
Dean of Women of the Ohio We— 
leyan University, and professor of 
Mathematics and Astronomy on the 
faculty of that institution, was horn 
in Clinton County. Ohio, son of David S. and 
Lois (Smith) Austin. The Austin family is, 
well and favorably known throughout Clin- 
ton County, where Prof. Austin's father was a 
substantial farmer and a man of large influ- 
ence in civic and religious matters. He was 
a local preacher in the Methodist Church. His 
death occurred in (886. His wife, the Profes- 
sor's mother, is still living in Wilmington, 
Ohio. The}' reared a family of eight chil- 
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Cyrus B. Austin acquired his elementary 
education in the schools of his native county, 
and subsequently entered the Ohio Wesleyan 
University, where he was graduated in 1879. 
Immediately following his graduation he was 
elected Tutor of Mathematics in the univer- 
sity. A few years later he was made a profes- 
sor in the department of which he is now the 
head. In 1883 he was placed in charge of 
Monnett Hall, the home for the young women 
of the university, which position he still holds 
with the official title of Dean of Women. Since 
1883 Monnett Hall has been greatly improved 
and its size more than doubled. Twelve teach- 
ers and 260 pupils reside in the building. Mon- 
nett Hall was formerly the Ohio Wesleyan 
Female College, and was founded in 1854; ad- 
ditional facts in regard to it may be found in 
another part of this volume. 

Dr. Austin was married in 1884 to Mary 
McVay, who is a daughter of Jason McVay, 
formerly of Columbus, Ohio. They have 
three sons — Jason McVay, Raymond Brooks 
and Cyrus Bash lord, of whom the two elder 
are students at the Ohio Weslevan Univer- 
sity, while Cyrus is attending the public 
schools. Dr. Austin is a member of the Cen- 
tral Ohio Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, of which church the family are 
all members. Politically he is a Republican. 
His fraternal affiliations are with the Delta 
Tau Delta Fraternity and the Free Masons. 




P. WINTERMUTE, who is inter- 
ested in a number of business enter- 
prises at Delaware, notably the 
Delaware Hardware Company, was 
born February 25, 1N54. in Muskin- 
gum County, Ohio, son of ^.shfordby and 
Mary (Fleming) Wintermute. When he was 
six years old, the parents of Ah-. Wintermute 
moved to Licking County, where his boyhood 
was spent. lie was about 21 years of age 
when he came to Delaware County and found 
a position as clerk in a mercantile store at Nor- 
ton, but four years later he returned to Licking 
Count v. where he carried on a similar business 



for four years. He then went back to Norton 
and bought a half interest in the store of his 
uncle, J. F. Wintermute, when the firm be- 
came A. P. Wintermute & Company, and this 
firm continued in business until 1893. when 
J. H. Schaaf bought the interest of J. F. Win- 
termute, the style being then changed to Win- 
termute & Schaaf. The firm later pur- 
chased a hardware store at Waldo. When the 
partnership was dissolved, Mr. Wintermute 
took the Norton store which he conducted un- 
der the name of A. P. Wintermute until 1003. 
when he sold out and came to Delaware. In 
January, 1906, he purchased an interest in the 
Delaware Hardware Company and he has 
made a number of other excellent investments 
in this city and the vicinity. 

In 1878. Mr. Wintermute was married to 
Emma E. Schaaf. who was born in Marion 
County, right on the Delaware Count}- line. 
They have two children: lmogene and Edna. 
The family belong to the Asbury Methodist 
Episcopal Church of Delaware. 

While still a resident of Norton. Mr. Win- 
termute was elected township treasurer, in 
[884 and served in that capacity until his re- 
moval to Delaware, in 1903, resigning after 
serving seven days in the new term t> 1 which 
he had been re-elected. In 1884 he was ap- 
pointed postmaster under a Republican admin- 
istration and served continuously until 1003. 
with the exception of three years during the 
administration of President Cleveland. 




EORGE T. WOLFLEY. postmaster 

at Radnor, has been prominent in 
the affairs of this section of Dela- 
ware County for many years. Me 
was born at Radnor, Ohio. May 22. 
1 837, and is a son of George and Nancy 
(Perrv) Wolfley. and a grandson of Lewis 
Wolfley. 

Lewis Wolfley was born in Germanv and 
after he came to America he settled in Penn- 
sylvania, where he married Mary Tute for his 
second wife. George Wolfley, son of Lewis 
and .Mary (Tute) Wolfley. was born in Lan- 



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683 



caster County, Pennsylvania, July 8, [807, and 
died at Radnor, December 29, [879. When 
he was three months old his parents moved to 
Lancaster, Ohio, where they resided until the 
death of the father. On .May 3, [823, George 
Wolfley came to Radnor, with his widowed 
mother, teaching several terms, having settled 
on a farm which was situated one and one-half 
miles of what is now Radnor village. The 
first settler on the place had been a pioneer of 
1805 and he left a log cabin into which the 
Wolfley family moved. George Wolfley re- 
sided "ii that farm until 1871. when he sold 
out ami moved into Radnor. He was a man of 
sterling traits of character, active in both pub- 
lic affairs and in the educational and religious 
advancement of his community, lie was one 
of tlie pillars of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church and was as firm in his belief as were 
his neighbors and close friends. John Humph- 
reys and James Kyle, in theirs, the former be- 
ing a Congregationalist and the latter a Bap- 
tist. These three representative men con- 
trolled and promoted many of the industries of 
the neighborhood' and were warm friends as 
long as thev lived. In his political views. 
George Wolfley was first a Whig and later a 
Republican. For twenty-five successive years 
he served as township clerk and he filled other 
offices. 

George Wolfley married Nancy Perry. 
who was a daughter of Robert Perry. He was 
born in Wales and left home when a boy of 
[6 years with the intention of being a sailor, 
and came to America on a vessel in that ca- 
pacity. When again on land he decided to 
make the United States his. home, and after 
working at farming for four years in the State 
of New York, he went to Baltimore, with the 
intention of returning to Wales in order to 
bring his parents hack with him. As he walked 
down a street in that city he was amazed to 
see a woman who walked with his mother's 
peculiar gait and when he stopped her it 
proved indeed to be the mother whom he had 
imagined to be in Wales. The meeting was an 
affecting" one and the mother had no idea that 
her sailor son was in America. The Perry 
family, consisting of father, mother, Roberl 



and several other children, then made their 
way to Delaware County, Ohio, and were the 
first settlers in Radnor Township, this being 
in 1803. In 181 [, Robert Perry married Sarah 
Hoskins and their first child was the mother 
of Mr. Wolfley. She was born March 22. 
[812, and died August 24. [894. Henry and 
Robert Perry helped to organize the first 
Methodist Episcopal Church in the township, 
the first place of worship being a log cabin. 
Robert Perry was one of the first trustees of 
the township. He died in September, [852, 
aged 66 years. 

When Robert Perry found his parents in 
Baltimore, he learned that they had left Wale-. 
in 1802. Together they came to Ohio and 
reached Radnor Township in May, [803, 
where Henry Perry secured 100 acres of land 
and he remained with his sous until the fol- 
lowing Julw two of them having accompanied 
him. the rest of the family having remained 
in Baltimore. They made the trip from that 
city to Radnor in a cart, and the family was 
reunited in November. The two sons who 
were left in the woods alone were Levi and 
Reuben and they had early learned the use of 
firearms. Game was plentiful and they had 
no difficulty in finding sufficient food and by 
the time the father returned thev were able to 
show him a large part of cleared land. They 
had many undesirable visitors in wandering In- 
dians, who were not always friendly, and were 
invariably thievish. On numerous occasions 
the Perry boys were forced to show their met- 
tle but there is no record that they ever 
evinced any cowardice or failed to rout their 
enemies. They were pioneers by instinct anil 
when they grew to manhood and the country 
in their neighborhood had become settled, they 
left home and again became pioneers, making 
homes for themselves in the still uncivilized 
regions of Indiana. 

Of the seven children born to George 
Wolfley and wife, the survivors are four, but 
six passed infancy, namely: Lewis, who is a 
veteran of the Civil War. resides at Olathe. 
Kansas, having served in Company A. One 
Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment. Ohio Na- 
tional Guard; Robert, who died in Kansas in 



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1896, was a member of the same regiment; 
George T. ; Sarah, who was accidentally killed 
in a runaway, at the age of six years; Eben- 
ezer. residing at Edgerton, Kansas, served in 
the Civil War as a member of the Second 
Regiment, Ohio Heavy Artillery; John M., 
who died in 1881, served in the Ohio National 
Guard; and Margaret Ellen, who married 
William H. Dildine, of Prospect. 

George T. Wolfley attended the local 
schools and later spent three years at the ( )hio 
Wesleyan University, following which he 
taught several terms of school. In 1867 he 
moved to Shelby County, Illinois, where he 
engaged in teaching school during the winters 
and farming during the summers until 1876, 
when he returned to Delaware County and for 
seven years engaged in farming in Troy Town- 
ship. In the spring of 1883 he came to Rad- 
nor, where he embarked in a mercantile busi- 
ness and conducted a store for twenty and one- 
half years, on April 1. 1904. selling it to Pow- 
ell & Coonfare. From 1888 to 1904. Mr. 
Wolfley was in the tile business under the firm 
name of Wolfley & Son. during which time he 
erected all the buildings used in the industry 
and carried on a large trade. From 1897 until 
[904 he gave his attention to managing the 
mill, his son and partner. H. W Wolfley, hav- 
ing moved to Prospect. In 1889, Mr. Wolfley 
was first appointed postmaster at Radnor, by 
President Harrison, and held the office for 
four years. On January 1. [898, he was ap- 
pointed postmaster by President McKinley 
and he has been the incumbent ever since. He 
is an ardent Republican and is in close touch 
with political matters in this section. On va- 
rious occasions he has been elected to other 
offices, being one of the reliable and substan- 
tial men of the community, but he has not 

At political favors for himself and when 
he was elected justice of the peace for Rad- 
nor, he refused to serve. During his first resi- 
dence in Troy Township he served as a trus- 
tee and also served one year in Radnor Town- 
ship as assessor. In [864, Mr. Wolfley en 
1 in Company P. One Hundred and For- 
ty-fifth Regiment. Ohio National Guard, and 



accompanied his command when it was sent to 
the defense of Washington. 

Mr. Wolfley was married to Louisa Darst, 
who is a daughter of Samuel Darst, of Troy 
Township, Delaware County, and five of their 
six children reached mature years, namely: 
Harvey W., residing at Prospect; Jennie F., 
who married Thomas L. Wiggins, residing at 
Portales. New Mexico; Nannie B. ; Cora L, 
who married Daniel Ritter, residing in Radnor 
Township, and Hattie. Mr. Wolfley and fam- 
ily belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
in which he is a trustee, and has held all of the 
offices of a layman. He is a member of Pros- 
pect Lodge, F. & A. M., and he served four 
years as master of Tower Hill Lodge, No. 
493, in Illinois. 




AMES R.THOMAS, who owns a mag- 
nificent farm of 200 acres in Radnor 
Township, on which he is extensively 
engaged in farming and stock rais- 
ing, was born February 11. 1863. in 
Radnor Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
and is a son of James and Elizabeth ( Evans I 
Thomas. 

James Thomas, father of James R.. was 
born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, and died in 
Radnor Township. April <;, 1891. aged 74 
years. At the age of 12 years he accompanied 
his parents to America. They lived for three 
years at Utica. New York, and then came to, 
Delaware. Mr. Thomas was employed in 
Pettibone's hotel and drove a stage coach for 
a number of years, after which he bought a 
farm in Troy Township on which he remained 
until 1855, when he came to Radnor Town- 
ship, selling his Tmy Township farm and buy- 
ing one north of Radnor village. It was wild 
land at that time, which he cleared off and 
here developed a valuable property. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Evans, who was also born in 
Montgomeryshire, Wales. They had 11 chil- 
dren, nine of whom survived infancy, namely: 
Mary,, who is the widow of David W. Jones. 
resides at Radnor; Robert, who lives in Rad- 




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687 



in r Township; Margaret, who is the wife of 
Rees W. Jones, of Radnor Township; Wil- 
liam, who died in February, 1907, was the first 
break in the mature family in fifty years; 
Ji 1 i 1 1 . who lives in Radnor Township ; Eliza- 
beth, who married Charles Dildine, of Ash- 
ley Township: James R. : Martha, who mar- 
ried Samuel Seigfried, residing - in Delaware 
Township; and Alice, who married William 
Wiser of Troy Township. The parents reared 
their children in the faith of the Congrega- 
tional Church. 

James R. Thomas remained at home and 

issisted his father until his own marriage. He 
was educated in the excellent public schools of 
Radnor Township and his interests have been 
centered almost entirely in this section. In 

[884 he bought his present farm of 200 acres 
and has 100 acres under the plow, but wheat 
is the only crop he markets, lie keeps 30 head 
of Shorthorn cattle. 100 Chester White hogs 
and from ro to 12 burses. He erected a very 
tine residence on his farm and a substantial 
barn 40 by 50 feet in dimensions, with 16-foot 
pi >sts. 

Air. Thomas married Lavina Feaster. who 
is a daughter of James Feaster. of Troy 
Township, and they have five children: Ha- 
zel. Goldie, Wealthy. Erma and Arden James. 
Mr. Thomas and family belong to the Congre- 
gational Church. In political sentiment, Mr. 
Thomas is a Republican, but his interest is 
only that of a good citizen who is anxious ti > 
see the laws upheld. 




SHTOX STOVER CONKLIN, cash- 
ier of the Deposit Banking Com- 
pany, of Delaware, was born in 
[870, in Berlin Township. Delaware 
County. Ohio, and is a 50H of the 
lin G mklin. 
John Conklin was born in Licking County, 
. and was brought to Orange Township, 
Delaware O unity, in childhood. During the 
Civil War he served as a member of Com- 
pany C. Fifth Independent Cavalry, which was 
afterward merged with the Thirteenth Ohio 



Volunteer Cavalry. He returned unharmed 
from the army, and the rest of bis life was 
passed as a farmer and stock-raiser. 

Ashton S. Conklin was educated in Ber- 
lin Township, where he subsequently taught 
school, remaining six years in one district. In 
1894 he came to Delaware and accepted the 
position of deputy county clerk, in which he 
continued until June, 1898, when he began 
work fur the Deposit Banking Company as 
bookkeeper. In October, 1900, he was elected 
assistant cashier and served in that capacity 
until he assumed the duties of county auditor, 
tn which position he was elected in the fall of 
1904. and in which he made a. good record. 
April 1, 1908, he was elected to his present 
position as cashier of the Deposit Banking 
Company. Politically, he is a Republican and 
he has always been more or less active in poli- 
tics, and is in close touch with the leader^ of 
his party in this locality. 

In October. 1901, Mr. Conklin was mar- 
ried to Loma Owen, who is a daughter of H. 
F. Owen. He belongs tn the United Brethren 
Church. Fraternally, he is connected with 
the Masons, and the Knights of Pythias, and 
belongs socially to organizations which have 
charity for their object. 




AVID T. PERKINS, who has been 
prominently identified with the de- 
velopment of Ostrander; was born 
October 25, 1840. in Dover Town- 
ship, Union County. Ohio, on Little 
Mill Creek, and is a son of Schuyler and Re- 
becca (Rittenhouse) Perkins. 

Schuyler Perkins was born in Albemarle 
County, Virginia, a son of Samuel Perkins. 
and he remained in his native State until after 
marriage and the birth of one child, when he 
moved tn Iv^s County, Ohio. He remained 
there two years, when, having found land ti > 
suit him better in Dover Township, Union 
County, he brought his family tn tin- section, 
where he secured 137 acre- for Si. 37 an 
In order to make his payments be was oblige 1 
to sell his "dandy-wagon," to chop down ti 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



and tn exercise every known principle oi strict 
economy. He gradually cleared his land and 
put in a first crop, but the work was weari- 
some and often discouraging' as he had neither 
farm implements nor machinery. He built on 
his land the log cabin in which his son David 
T. was horn and continued to live in it until 
he erected a substantial frame house. At the 
time of his death he was the owner of several 
hundred acres of excellent land which he had 
acquired through farming and stock raising. 
He married a daughter of Henry and Martha 
(Turner) Rittenhouse, and they had 12 chil- 
dren horn to them, of whom the following 
reached maturity : William H.. residing in 
Dover Township; Samuel Price, who died 
aged eighteen years; Martha Jane, who is the 
widow of Perry J. Sherman, residing in Dover 
Township; James H., residing at Hutchinson. 
Kansas; David T. ; Frances Elizabeth, de- 
ceased, who was the wife of William Abrams, 
of Iowa; Daniel Morgan, residing in Okla- 
homa; and Adoniram Judson, residing at ( >-- 
trander. Schuyler Perkins was a faithful 
member of the Baptist Church and in earlv 
days frequently rode six miles on horseback 
in order to attend religious exercises. 

David T. Perkins obtained his education 
in a log school-house near his home, three 
months in the winter being all that was of- 

forded him, as from bOyh 1 lie was kept busy 

on the home farm, on which he continued to 
live until he was 2] years old. He then vis- 
ited Indiana and remained one winter in Ful- 
ton County, during which time he was first 
married, after which he returned to Dover 
Township and engaged in farming for a few- 
years. After his wife's death he went back to 
Indiana and lived for two years with his fa- 
ther-in-law, and then returned once more to 
Doyer Township, where he purchased a farm 
of 100 acres, which he operated until 1907. 
He now owns 105 acres of land which he uses 
for grazing in summer, also owns 54 acres in 
and adjoining Ostrander. 

Mr. Perkins was one of the organizers of 
the Ostrander Banking Company. In 189] 
he bought 66 acres f land from Dr. John 
Fields, which he platted and made into town 



lots. He erected his own fine two-story brick 
residence on the southwest corner of North 
and Fourth Streets. All of the attractive and 
substantial houses which stand on Fourth 
Street and on the south side of North Street, 
west of Mr. Perkins' residence, are built mi 
the laud which he has improved since [891. 
Probably more than any other individual. Mr. 
Perkins has developed ami improved Ostran- 
der. 

Mr. Perkins was married (first) in Fulton 
Ci unty, Indiana. March 31. 1863. to Lydia A. 
Hudkins. a daughter of Daniel and Sarah 
Hudkins, residents of Kewanna, Indiana. 
They had three children: Marion P., born 
March 3, [864, residing at Muscatine, Iowa; 
Sarah Rebecca, who died in infancy; and 
Olive Candace, who was bom September '1. 
1866, and died aged 26 years. Mrs. Perkins 
died April 12, [871. She was a consistent mem- 
ber of the Baptist Church. Mr. Perkins was 
married (second) September 18, 1873. to 
Melissa ( i. Rittenhouse. who was born March 
2T,, 185 1. and died February 18. 1905. She 
was a daughter of Thomas Rittenhouse and 
a granddaughter of Samuel Rittenhouse ami a 
grandniece of Henry Rittenhouse, who was a 
Revolutionary soldier. To his second marriage 
.Mr. Perkins had horn the following children; 
Floron D., born July 4. 1874. who is a mem- 
ber of the faculty of a Baptist College at Wil- 
liamsburg, Kentucky: Norman B., born June 
17, 1877, residing at Williamsburg; Cora 
Belle, born June 13. 1N78. who married Frank 
Shover, of < tstrander; James E., born July [8, 
[880, residing at Westburn. Tennessee: Maude 
M., burn April 18, 1883. who married Prof. 
Harvard Valance, residing at Columbus; and 
Ervin C, born May 2, [893, residing at Wil- 
liamsburg, Kentucky. 

In political preference, Mr. Perkins is a 
Democrat but he is not active in politics. On 
several occasions he has accepted office, but 
has never sought it and has served as trustee 
of both Dover and of Scioto Townships. He 
is a member of Palestine Lodge. F. & A. M.. 
at Marvsville. Union County, Ohio. He is a 
member of Springdale Baptist Church. 



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689 



[1 >M \S B. JONES, a prominent re- 
tired fanner of Radnor Township, 
was born in Belmont County, Ohio, 
December 20, [834, and is a son of 
Nicholas and Elizabeth (Warner) 
Jones. 

The founder of this family in America was 
Griffin Jones, who came from England to 
America at a very early day. when somewhat 
advanced in years, but his son Edward, who 
was the grandfather of Thomas E., was born 
after he settled in Virginia. Edward Junes 
learned the carpenter trade and he also was 
employed as an overseer on Virginia planta- 
tions. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 
and received a land warrant on that account, 
but he never made use of it. His last years 
were spent at the home of his son Nicholas, in 
Delaware Count}', Ohio, where he died in 
1856, at the age of 62 years. He married 
Nancy Wharton and they had several chil- 
dren. She had five brothers, all of whom he- 
came ministers either of the Baptist or the 
Methodist Episcopal faith. 

Nicholas Junes was born near Fredericks- 
burg. Virginia, in January, 1807. and died in 
( )hio, in 1868. He remained in Virginia until 
the construction of the National road was un- 
der way, when he came to Ohio and engaged 
as a hotel clerk at Morristown, in Belmont 
County. He married Elizabeth Warner, who 
died in 1883, aged 72 years. She was a daugh- 
ter of Henry Warner, who kept the hotel at 
Morristown, in which Mr. Jones was em- 
ployed as a clerk. To this marriage were born 
12 children, the following of whom grew to 
maturity : Edward, who was a physician, 
died in Missouri: Thomas I',.; Nicholas, who 
resides in Nebraska; Winfield S., who resides 
at Moberly, Missouri; Mary, who is the wife 
of Sidney Howe, of Black Rock, Arkansas; 
Charles, who resides near Rochester, New 
York; and Stella, deceased, who married Ru- 
ins Wells of Chicago, who is also deceased. 

Nicholas Jones and wife continued to live 
in Belmont County, until after the birth of 
Thomas B.. when they came to Troy Town- 
ship. Delaware County, where Mr. Jones built 
a log cabin in the woods and subsequently 



cleared up an excellent farm. He was a man 
of more than ordinary intelligence and force 
of character and so impressed his fellow citi- 
zens that for many years he was retained in 
public office. In politics he was first a \\ lug 
and later a Republican and he was elected a 
justice of the peace in Troy Township and 
served for u consecutive years. In 1847 he 
was elected sheriff of Delaware County, an 
office he efficiently filled for four years, leav- 
ing it to became county auditor fur a like pe- 
riod. He then returned to Troy Township, 
where he bought what was known as the 
broom-corn farm, hut five years later he sold 
that property and retired to Delaware, where 
the remainder of his life was passed. Both 
he and wife were leading members of the 
Baptist Church. 

Thomas B. Jones was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Troy Township and at the Ohio 
Wesleyan University. He engaged in farm- 
ing with his father until his marriage in 1861 
and continued to live in Troy Township until 
1866, when he came to Radnor Township: In 
the above year he bought his farm of 187 acres 
on which, until within the past two years, he 
has carried on general farming and stock rais- 
ing. He made all the improvements here and 
erected all the buildings except the residence. 

In 1 861, Mr. Jones was married to Ellen 
Bush, who is a daughter of David Bush, of 
Troy Township. Mrs. Jones was a school 
teacher for a number of years in southern Ohio 
and in Iowa, prior to her marriage. Of the 
ten children born to Air. and Mrs. Jones, all 
but one reached maturity, as follows: Louis 
J., residing at Lorain. Ohio: .Mice, who mar- 
ried Cadwallader Price, residing at Magnetic 
Springs, in Union Count}': Thomas Bennett, 
deceased: Walter A., residing in Concord 
Township; Victor W., residing at Columbus: 
Hosea H.. residing in Radnor Township: 
Elizabeth, who married Edmund Morrison, re- 
siding on the home place; and Anna, who 
married Frank < iraham. residing in Thomp- 
son Township. Mr. Jones and family belong 
to the Baptist Church at Radnor. 

Among the many recollections of his boy- 
It 1, Mr. Jones recalls seeing a party of W'y- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



andot Indians riding through Troy Township 
on their way to the Ohio River. They im- 
pressed him as a very jolly company, singing 
as they went on out of hearing. They never 
returned to this section. Mr. Jones remem- 
bers also the mob that came out from Colum- 
bus, in 1844, for the purpose of tearing down 
the gates along the Columbus & Sandusky 
turnpike road. When they reached Tin mias 
Casey's gate, in Troy Township, they found 
a band of militia awaiting them and when the 
mob persisted in tearing clown the gate, the 
militia fired and wounded one of the invaders. 
In spite of the militia the gate was demol- 
ished. 



IM 



OHN P. CRASSER, a prominent busi- 
ness citizen of Delaware, senior mem- 
ber of the cigar manufacturing firm 
of Grasser & I bias, was born in Ba- 
varia, Germany, July 10, 1858. and 
1- a sun of Michael and Eva ( Bayerlein) 
Grasser. 

The father of Mr. Grasser was also a na- 
tive of Bavaria, where he was a man of con- 
siderable importance, being a general fanner 
and owning 100 acres of land, a very large 
amount in that country of small farms. He 
never came to America, but survived in his 
own land into advanced age, dying December 
14. 1903, when 83 years old. He married 
Eva Bayerlein, who died in 1893, aged j^ 
years. Their family consisted of six sons and 
two daughters, two of the former coming to 
America, John I', and John George. 

John 1'. Grasser was reared in the town of 
Neudorf and was educated in the parochial 
school, his parents being of the Catholic faith. 
He assisted his father on the home farm until 
[882, when lie crossed the Atlantic and joined 
his brother, who had settled at Baltimore, 
Maryland, in [872. \i'ter a visit of two 
months there, Mr. Grasser came to Ohio, 
reaching Delaware November 2j. [882. He 
continued to be active in various lines of in- 
dustry at Delaware until [886, when he he- 
came a stockholder in the Delaware Co-opera- 



tive Cigar Company and went to work for this 
concern. In 1893 ne formed a partnership 
with August Dauernheim under the firm name 
of Dauernheim & Grasser and they purchased 
the business of the Delaware Co-operative 
Company and continued together until 1897, 
when Mr. Grasser bought out his partner's 
interest. He continued to carry on the busi- 
ness alone until 1898, when he admitted W. 
E. Haas to partnership and the firm style be- 
came Grasser & Haas. Employment is given 
to about nine people and 400,000 cigars are 
annually turned out. The leading brands are 
the Henry Gray, the Ripper and Tom Watts, 
the last being a ten cent cigar. 

In 1903. Mr. Grasser re-visited his native 
land and while there made some investiga- 
tions into his ancestry. He found it easy to 
trace back to Hans Grasser, a senator in Nurn- 
berg in 1452. The family own a coat of 
arms which displays the symbols of eagle, 
sickle and crown, each of which have a dis- 
tinctive significance. 

In politics, Mr. Grasser is a Democrat. He 
is a member of the Catholic Church and of 
many of its strong organizations, including 
the Catholic Society, of which he has been sec- 
retary and treasurer at various times; of the 
Knights of Columbus: of the Catholic Knights 
of Ohio, of which he is treasurer. He is 
treasurer also of the Federation of Catholic 
Societies. He is a member of the fraternal 
order of Eagles. He is a public-spirited, pro- 
gressive man. one who has prospered through 
his own efforts. He has literary tastes and 
takes pride in his private collection of well-as- 
sorted literarv works. 




\MILTOX W. RITTENHOUSE, a 

retired farmer of Scioto Tow; 
who has resided at Ostrander 
[903, still retains 122 acres of land 
in Delaware County and 120 acres in 
Union County. Ohio. He was born in Al- 
bemarle County. Virginia, January 24, 1834, 
and is a son of Henry and Martha ( Turner ) 
Rittenhouse. 



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691 



Henry Rittenhouse was born in Pennsyl- 
vania and was taken in childhood to Vir- 
ginia by his father, who settled in the rich 
lands of Albemarle Count}-, where he ac- 
quired a large plantation and slaves to work 
it. He died on his Virginia land prior to the 
Civil War and during the great struggle about 
one-third of the estate was lost. It made no 
difference to Hamilton \\\, however, as he 
never claimed any part of it. Henry Ritten- 
house married Martha Turner, who was a 
daughter of Terrence Turner, who was a 
wealthy Virginia planter and a strong sup- 
porter of President Andrew Jackson. Of the 
ten children horn to this marriage. Hamilton 
W. was the youngest. His paternal grandfa- 
ther probably was born in Germany and he 
took part in the Revolutionary War. while his 
father served in the War of 18 12. 

Hamilton W. Rittenhouse was reared and 
educated in Virginia. In 1855 he came to 
Scioto Township, Delaware County, and set- 
tled south of Ostrander, where he engaged in 
farming and raising cattle, horses, hogs and 
sheep. During his last years on the farm he 
gave a large acreage to hay. He was one of 
the organizers of the Ostrander Banking Com- 
pany and has been one of its Board of Direc- 
tors ever since, with the exception of the 
year 1902. He has always taken an interest in 
the progress and development of this section 
and has been a patron of school and church. 
His grandfather and his father were stanch 
Democrats, but he is an independent voter, se- 
lecting his candidate according to his own 
judgment. He is pronounced in his temper- 
ance views. He has never sought political of- 
fice but served for 12 years as trustee of S 
Township and always held himself ready to 
perform any act of good citizenship which 
would be for the general welfare of his com- 
munity. 

Mr. Rittenhouse was married (first) to 
Jane Liggett, who was a daughter of Joab and 
Mary (Carr) Liggett. They had one. child, 
James II.. who is deceased. Mr. Rittenhouse 
married for his second wife, Sarah J. Elsom, 

mghter of Nelson Elsom. of Albemarle 
County, Virginia, and their children who 



reached maturity were: Nelson, now deceas- 
ed; Eva, who married Alexander Mosely, of 
Union County; Lulu, who married Thomas 11. 
Newhouse, of Scioto Township; and Bernard 
H.. residing at Ostrander. Mr. Rittenhouse 
was married (third) to Amanda J. Reed, who 
1- a daughter of William Reed, of Union 
County, Ohio. Many years ago, in the in- 
fancy of the Marysville lodge, Mr. Ritten- 
house was made a Mason and later, when a 
Masonic lodge was established at Ostrander, 
he secured a demit on account of convenience. 
He has never lost his deep interest in the fra- 
ternity. He is a deacon in the Baptist Church 
at Ostrander and one of its most liberal sup- 
porters. 




ON. THOMAS R. SMITH, one of 
Delaware County's leading citizens, 
who represented the county in the 
seventy-third and seventy-fourth ses- 
sions of the Ohio General Assembly, 
and is prominently identified with large public 
and private interests of this section, reside- 
on his well-cultivated farm of 22^ acres, which 
is favorably located on the Sunbury Turnpike 
Road, in Berlin Township. He was born on 
tin- farm, in 1838, and is a son of Rodney and 
Delilah (Reynolds) Smith. The grandpar- 
ents of Mr. Smith were William and Luanda 
1 Witter) Smith, natives of Massachusetts, 
who came to Ohio and settled in [816 on the 
farm now owned by him. 

Rodney Smith was about fifteen years of 
age when his parents settled here, and he as- 
sisted to clear the farm, which then contained 
320 acres. He erected the present residence, 
it taking the place of the log cabin built by the 
grandparents. For a number of years Rodney 
Smith kept a country tavern, and his sun re- 
members seeing the road in front of the house 
rilled with wagons and teams, and sometimes 
the guests would he so numerous that 
women would frequently be obliged to sleep 
on the floors of the inn, while the men would 
take up their night quarters in the wagon.-,. 
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dying in 1882. His wife. Delilah, died in 
1866, at the age of 57. They were parents of 
1 1 children — ten sons and one daughter. 

Thomas R. Smith was the fifth of the 
above family in order of birth, and he re- 
mained under the parental roof-tree until he 
was 17 years of age, being absent only during 
one term of school, which he spent at Berk- 
shire. By teaching school during the winter 
seasons he obtained the means to attend the 
Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was 
graduated in 1863. From there he went to 
Memphis, Tennessee, where he taught school 
for one year, and then to Cleveland, Ohio, 
where he taught one year in the Military In- 
stitute. He subsequently returned to Dela- 
ware, where he read law under Hon. James l\. 
Hubbell and was admitted to the Bar in 1866. 
After two years of law practice at Delaware, 
he removed to Marion County, where he oper- 
ated a cattle ranch for fifteen years. While re- 
siding in that county he served one term as 
countv school examiner, but accepted no other 
public office. 

When .Mr. Smith's father died, he bought 
the homestead and took possession and has 
continued to reside in Berlin Township ever 
since. In addition to carrying on agricultural 
operations on a large scale, he is extensively 
engaged in raising fine Delaine Merino sheep, 
keeping a flock of 400 head. From early man- 
hood he lias taken an active interest in politics 
and has always been influential in the Republi- 
can party. For many years he served as justice 
<pf the peace and during his presence at Co- 
lumbus, as a member of the seventy-third and 
seventy-fourth General Assembly, he took part 
in the memorable contest which gave the late 
Senator Manna his seat in the L'nited States 
Senate. From its date of organization, Mr. 
Smith has been identified with the Patrons of 
Husbandry, for many years served as master 
of the subordinate lodge, for ten years was 
secretary of the State organization, and for 
four years was master of the same body. 

In 1N07, Mr. Smith was married to Ca- 
melia Gooding, of Marion County, < >hio, who 
died in 18X0, aged forty years. In 1881 Mr. 
Smith was married (second) to Lucy A. 



Gooding, a cousin of his former wife. Not 
having any children of his own. Mr. Smith 
reared two girls and adopted a boy, the latter, 
Chiton Smith, being now a resident of Ari- 
zona. Of the two girls who found a home 
and protection with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Anna 
Bluhm died aged 22 years. Mary Bluhm mar- 
ried and now resides near Madison, Maine. 

At certain times in the proper season Mr. 
Smith's friends and neighbors may find him 
buisily engaged with his lawn mower, an im- 
plement he greatly values. He takes a land- 
scape gardener's delight in his beautifully 
kept lawn and has been heard to say that in 
bis opinion, a utensil of this kind should 
closely follow the purchase of a plow. He 
was the first one in the vicinity to make use 
of a lawn mower and his example has been fol- 
lowed to a large extent, so that along Sun- 
bury Road beautiful lawns are the rule, in- 
stead, as formerly, the exception. The pub- 
lic is greatly indebted to men like Mr. Smith, 
whose care and love for the beautiful provide 
almost park-like highways along which to 
travel. Mr. Smith takes a good citizen's inter- 
est in the cause of education, and is at pres- 
ent president of the local School Board. 




OSES GINX, a highly respected and 
well-known retired citizen of 
Galena, was born in Trenton 
Ti >wnship, Delaware County. 
Ohio. May 2, 1834, and is a son 
of James and Effie (Brown) Ginn. 

James Ginn was born in Delaware, Sep- 
tember 12. 1795, and was a son of John Ginn, 
who was born in Ireland. The latter brought 
bis family to Delaware County, Ohio, in 1812, 
and settled on land he procured from the Gov- 
ernment, in Trenton Township, which was 
covered with a heavy growth of timber. James 
Ginn was seventeen years of age at this time 
and he assisted his father in making a home 
in the wilderness. He was married in Trenton 
Township, to Effie Brown, who was born in 
Connecticut. June 16, 1798. and was a daugh- 
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Connecticut to Delaware County among the 

early settlers. After his marriage, James Ginn 
bought 125 acres of land in Trenton Town- 
ship, which he cleared and improved, and on 
that farm he died. March 2, i860. He was 
survived many years by his widow, who died 
at Galena, April 6, 1885. They had a family 
of five daughters and four sons. The sur- 
vivors are: Mrs. Mary Jane Huff, widow, re- 
siding at Columbus; .Mrs. Levina Watts, 
wid.»w. residing in Berkshire Township; Eliza 
Ann, who married Reuben Perfect, residing at 
Galena; and Moses Ginn, residing at Galena. 

Moses Ginn attended the district schools 
during his youth, as opportunity was afforded, 
and he remained with his parents until he was 
22 years old. .For one year he worked on the 
farm of Robert McAllister, and then bought a 
farm of 63 acres, in Geneva Township, on 
which he lived for three years, when he sold 
and then rented for the next fi mr years. Mr. 
Ginn then bought a farm of 62 acres, in Har- 
lan Township, but when a good opportunity 
offered, two years later, he sold it and bought 
one-half of the old homestead farm, on which 
he lived for three years. This he subsequently 
sold to William D. Miller, who still resides 
there. Mr. Ginn then went into the business 

getting out timber for lumber and staves 
and remained interested in that business for 
jo years. In 1872 he came to Galena, where 
he has lived ever since with the exception of 
four years, from 1880 to 1884, during which 
period he lived at Westerville. Since 1900, 
Mr. Ginn has lived retired, owning a house 
and four acres of land at Galena. 

On October 9, 1850. Mr. Ginn was mar- 
ried to Sarah R. Carter, who was born in 
Herkimer County. New York. July 6. 1830, 
and died November 20. 1900. She was a 
daughter of George Rodney and Julia (Fos- 
ter 1 Carter, who were natives of Connecticut. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ginn had the following children 
born to them: Edna A., born May 12. 1:859, 
married Wellington Mills, and died June 4, 
[893; Helen M.. born January 20, 186T, died 
July 12. 1896; Maynard L., born November 
25. 1803. died October 18. [864; Bertha M., 
born January 30. 1867, married W. H. Camp- 



bell, postmaster of Galena, Ohio; and Frank 
E., born September 2T,. 1871, residing at 
Santa Cruz. California. 

Mr. Ginn is identified with the Republican 
party and on numerous occasions he has 
served in local offices, having been school di- 
rector and road superintendent, lie is a mem- 
ber of Rainbow Lodge, No. ^t,j. Odd Fellows, 
at Westerville, Ohio. 




RAM HEINLEN, general farmer 
and representative citizen of Kings- 
ton Township, of which he was a 
trustee for six years, resides on his 
val uable farm of 102 acres, all of 
which he has cleared with the exception of 
fifteen acres. Mr. Heinlen was born in Mor- 
row County. Ohio, October 14, 1839, and is a 
son of Jacob and .Mary (Wittenberg) Heinlen. 
Jacob Heinlen was born in Germany, 
March K.. [799, and died in Ohio. June 12. 
J< s 74- After reaching America he worked 
hard and soon paid the man wdio had advanced 
his passage money. On the same sailing ves- 
sel came Mary Wittenberg, who was also born 
in Germany, December 8, 1803. They both 
landed in Ohio in 18 18, where they became 
acquainted and subsequently were married. 
Jacob Heinlen entered 45 acres of Government 
land in Westfield Township, Morrow County, 
although at that time the territory was all 
known as Delaware County. He resided on 
his land there until the close of his life, a 
sturdy German farmer, one who gained and 
kept the respect of all who knew him. II is 
wife survived him but two years, her death 
taking place July 19. 1876. They had thirteen 
children, the six survivors of the family being 
the following: Emanuel, residing in North 
Missouri: Rebecca, who married Eli Rhodes, 
residing in Will County, Illinois; Abram; 
Mrs. Elizabeth Petre, widow, residing at 
Denver, Colorado; Lydia. who married Hiram 
Howard, residing at Marshall, Saline County, 
Missouri ; and Reuben, residing a t Syracuse, 
Kansas. 

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school education and remained with his par- 
ents until the fall following the opening of 
the Civil War. Air. Heinlen was a loyal sup- 
porter of the Government and in October, 
1861, after the summer work on the farm was 
completed, he enlisted for service, entering 
Company B, Forty-third Regiment, Ohio Vol- 
unteer Infantry, under Captain Marshman. 
The Forty-third Regiment was assigned to 
duty in the Army of the Mississippi, where it 
gave a good account of itself, bearing off 
honors for gallantry in the battles of New 
Madrid, Island No. 10 and Corinth. The ex- 
posure and hardship fell too heavily on Mr. 
Heinlen. and in the fall of 1862, he was honor- 
ably discharged on account of disability. After 
his return he worked on various farms for 
si itne years before he bought his present prop- 
erty in Kingston Township. At that time it 
was a dense tract of timber, but Mr. Heinlen 
has cleared all but one fine piece of fifteen 
acres and has all the rest under good cultiva- 
tion. He is one of the township's industrious 
men and is numbered with her substantial 
ones. 

Mr. Heinlen was married (first) in Feb- 
ruary, j 870, to Lydia E. Schults, who died in 
A[a_\'. [891, and is buried in Marlborough 
Township, Morrow County, Ohio. She was 
a daughter of John and Susan (Gingrich) 
Schults, who were natives of Pennsylvania. 
There were two children born to this mar- 
riage, namely: Thomas I., born July 5, [871, 
a mechanic, residing in Delaware Township; 
and Alton Ray, born October 19, 
1873, residing at home. Mr. Heinlen 
was married (second) September 27, 1892, to 
Mrs. Cordelia (Cross) Christ, who is a 
daughter of Reynolds and Louisa (Farley) 
Cross, and was the widow of Julius V. Christ, 
who died February 8, 1889. Mr. Christ left 
two children: Lewis \\'., residing in Morrow 
County, and Mrs. Samuel Hutchison, residing 
in Kingston Township. 

Politically, Mr. Heinlen is a Republican 
and he has served in township offices; for six 
years being township trustee. He is a leading 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
and formerly a trustee. 




florist, residing 



OBIAS C. BREECE, 

near Berlin Station, on the Berlin 
turnpike, was born in 1 841, in Brown 
Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
and is a son of Lewis and Sarah 
(Smith) Breece. 

Lewis Breece was born in Pennsylvania 
and made his first visit to Ohio in 1825. He 
subsequently returned to the East and in 1829 
he was married to Sarah Smith, with 
whom he returned to Delaware" County 
and settled in what was then a wild region 
although it was but two miles east of Dela- 
ware. Lewis Breece cleared up an excellent 
farm and continued its improvement through 
his active years. He died on this land in 
1 87 1, aged 65 years. His parents were Daniel 
and Abigail (Love) Breece, natives of Penn- 
sylvania, who came to Delaware County after 
their son had settled here and spent their re- 
maining years with him. Lewis Breece mar- 
ried as above noted. Sarah Smith w; 
daughter of Nathan and Rhoda 1 Love) Smith. 
They were natives of Pennsylvania, from 
which State they later moved to New York 
and from there to near Pontiac, Michigan, 
where they subsequently died. Lewis and 
Sarah Smith had ten children, as follows : 
Amy Ann, Minerva, Delilah. Lorane, Celia. 
Biancy, Melvin W., Tobias E., Bethesby and 
Olive. Of this large family eight still survive, 
the youngest of whom is 60 years of age. 

Tobias C. Breece attended school until 
aobut 18 years of age and then learned the car- 
penter trade. At the outbreak of the Civil 
War he enlisted in the Federal Army, entering 
Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth 
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and 
served as a brave and faithful soldier for three 
years, during this long period participating in 
many dangerous battles and a protracted 

series of tiresome marches. With great g 1 

fortune, however, lie reached home in safety. 
In 1805, Mr. Breece was married to Susan 
C. Osborn, who is a daughter oi Henry and 
Mary A. (Havens) Osborn, natives of New 
Jersey, who came to Delaware County in 1S52. 
locating at Berlin Station, where Mrs. Osborn 
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of his life, with the exception of the last two 
years, which were spent in Delaware. He died 
March 7. [898. Mr. and Mrs. Breeee have 
four smis, namely: Melvin J., who is super- 
intendent of the water-works at Galion, Ohio ; 
Henry 1... residing at Delaware, following the 
carpenter trade; Archie O., residing in Texas; 
and Clayton A., residing at home. 

For some 20 years following his marriage. 
Mr. Breeee worked at the carpenter trade, 
after which he settled on his present place. Ik- 
has always had a taste for flowers and after 
coming here engaged in raising them as a 
business. He has a beautiful, well-arranged 
home and grounds, with equipments for grow- 
ing and caring for tender plants. Mr. Breeee 
is a highly respected citizen. He is a man of 
temperance and is identified with the Prohi- 
bition party. 




ARON EDGAR vox UCHTRITZ, 

one of Germany's most celebrated ex- 
plorers and a retired officer oi the 
German Hussars, was born in Castle 
Tzschocha, Silesia. Germany. He is a 
man of high educational attainments, speaks 
seven different languages and is Doctor of 
Medicine. Philosophy, Natural History and 
Geology. He attended college at Hirschberg 
and Dresden, and later the Universities of 
Halle, Frankfort and Berlin. In 1889-1890, 
he made several trips into the unexplored re- 
gions of Brazil, principally in quest of game, 
ami from [891 to 1893 explored southwest 
Africa in the interest of the German Govern- 
ment, with a view to establishing German col- 
onies in that country. He was the first white 
man to succeed in crossing the Sahara Desert, 
pushing his way forward and encountering 
the many dangers from savage natives and un- 
salubrious climate with an indomitable will 
power and characteristic energy and bravery. 
It was Baron von Uchtritz's favorable report 
■ 'f the great value of this vast country, which 
induced the German Government to retain it 
instead of selling it to Great Britain, as had 
been recommended by the German Secretary 

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of State. During [893-1894, Karon von 
Uchtritz was chiei (if an expedition from Cam- 
eron to Lake [sod, the success of which placed 
him among the bravest and most celebrated of 
African explorers. Numerous battles were 
fought with powerful and fanatic Moham- 
medans, but the brilliant military tactics and 
genius of the leader made every engagement 
a victory. The greatest success was in ac- 
complishing the surrender of the powerful 
state of Bubanzidah, which had been regarded 
as almost unconquerable. Baron von Uch- 
tritz, having acquired some vast tracts of land 
for the use of the German colonies, returned 
to his native land. Having gathered some 
very valuable data while on these expeditions, 
from his notes he compiled and published a 
book of 573 pages, a work of much merit. In 
appreciation of the results accomplished -on 
this expedition, the German Emperor con- 
ferred upon the Baron a very high decoration, 
with an additional decoration for per- 
sonal bravery. He was soon after his 
return united in marriage with Miss 
Viola Lytle, oldest daughter of Hon. 
and Mrs. James R. Lytle, of Delaware. 
Ohio, an event which marked his retirement 
from the field of exploration, although he has 
since made some very interesting trips into 
Northern Norway, Sweden and Lapland, bent 
on sport and scientific research. He has al- 
ways been accompanied on these trips by his 
wife, who is a fine shot and an enthusiastic 
horsewoman. 

Baron Edgar von Uchtritz comes of one of 
the oldest and wealthiest families of Germany, 
and is youngest son of Baron Otto von Uch- 
tritz. Members of this family served as chiefs 
of their clans in the days before Germany was 
Christianized, and a very early record in 
Prague mentions the name, with the informa- 
tion that its bearer was a relative of Unata, a 
powerful Bohemian king who lived about the 
time of Charlemagne the Great. From that 
time the name appears frequently in the pages 
of German history. The mother of our sub- 
ject was Princess Wartenslaben, who also was 
of a distinguished old German family and was 
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was 1 ne of Frederick the Great's most trusted 
and honored generals. One of her brothers is 
still living and is a celebrated general ami per- 
sonal friend of the Kaiser. Baron Edgar has 
one brother and two sisters. The brother, 
Baron Bolco, was court chamberlain to Em- 
peror Frederick and serves in a similar capac- 
ity to Emperor William, this being a distinc- 
tion granted for life. He is one of the official 
ministry of the Royal household, first lieu- 
tenant in the Garde Landwehr Cavalierre, and 
a Knight in the Order of St. John. The older 
sister is the wife of the Austrian ambassador 
to Spain. Count Welsersheimb, who also rep- 
resented Austria at the international peace 
conferences at The Hague and at Algeria. The 
Countess was considered one of the must 
charming women at the Court of Vienna and 
was a great favorite of the Empress, from 
whom she received the title of honor, "Palast 
Dame," or in English, Palace Lady. The 
youi ger sister of Baron Edgar married a dis- 
tant relative of the Hungarian line of 
Uchtritz, his title in English phraseology be- 
1 Count \iin Uchtritz. lie is a man 
of note in Hungary and his father. Count von 
L'chtritz, paid tor the education of Liszt, the 
great composer. Castle Tzschocha, the pres- 
ent home of the Uchtritz family, was origi- 
nally built more than eight hundred years ago, 
but has been rebuilt and modernized and is 
now 1 ne of the most beautiful and interesting 
castles in the German Empire. Connected 
with it are several thousand acres of land and 
numerous beautiful hunting forests. 

Baroness Viola Lytle von Uchtritz, 
eldest daughter of James Robert and 
Cornelia I Chase ) Lytle, is a native of Dela- 
ware. Ohio. Her early education was re- 
ceived under the direction of a private tutor 
and later in Ohio Wesleyan University at 
Delaware, from which institution she was 
graduated with high honors in the class of 
1S04 She is a musician of marked ability on 
the piano, harp, violin and cymbal. After 
completing a special course in literature under 
Prof. John 11. vmi Cleve, she. accompanied 
by her chaperon, went to Berlin, Germany, to 
complete her musical education and to get a 



1111 ne perfect knowledge of the German and 
French languages. Her brilliancy and origin- 
ality, together with a charming personality, 
soon made her a great favorite 111 society. Dur- 
ing the first winter in Berlin she made the ac- 
quaintance of Baron Edgar von Uchtritz, who 
was attracted by her beauty and personal ac- 
complishments. Congenial in their tastes, 
friendship soon ripened into a deeper attach- 
ment and in 1805 they were married. Sev- 
eral months were spent by them in touring 
America, visiting the many points of scenic 
beauty and historic interest, and both being 
fond of travel they have since visited the vari- 
ous countries of Europe and foreign lauds. A 
mutual interest in hunting and in natural his- 
tory and geology led them into Northern Nor- 
way, Sweden and Lapland. Both are musi- 
cally talented and are devotees of outdoor 
forms of sport, the Baroness developing into a 
fine horsewoman under the instructions of her 
husband, whose military training in the Hus- 
sars made of him a superior rider. Besides 
English — her native tongue — the Baroness is 
conversant with the French, German and Ital- 
ian languages, and has attained success as a 
writer of stories, main- of which have appeared 
in both German and American magazines. 




EORGE W. POWERS, cashier of the 

First National Bank. Delaware, is 

one of the leading business men of 

the city, in which he was born, in 

1846. He is a son of Benjamin 

Powers, who was an early settler in this part 

of Ohio. After completing his education, he 

entered the First National Bank in a clerical 

position, remaining until 187-'. when he went 

to Dayton, where he was in a grocery business 

until 1875. He then returned to Delaware and 

to the First National Bank, soon afterward 

becoming assistant cashier, and he served as 

such until 1884, when he was elected cashier. 

In [876, Air. Powers was married to Mary 

E. McKinney, who is a daughter of Robert 

.\U Kinney, a prominent farmer of Radnor 

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ert B., Harry \Y., Helen M. and Lawrence A. 
Robert graduated with the degree of B. S., 
from the Ohio Wesleyan University, in 1902, 
since which time he has been assistant cashier 
of the First National Bank. He is a member 
of the .Masonic fraternity and of the Phi 
Gamma Delta and the Theta Nu Epsilon col- 
lege societies. Harry W. Powers, teller 111 
the First National Bank, was educated at the 
Ohio Wesleyan University School of Business. 
Helen M. Powers, like her brothers, was edu- 
cated at the Ohio Wesleyan University. Law- 
rence A. is still a student in the Delaware 
schools. The family is identified with the 
Presbyterian Church. Mr. Powers and two 
older sons are well known in banking circles, 
almost their whole business careers having 
been identified with banking interests. 




MONROE CREGO, a successful agri- 
culturist of Berkshire Township, re- 
siding on his well cultivated farm of 
100 acres, was born in Guernsey 
County, Ohio, December 18, 1837, 
and 1- .1 son of Charles and Eliza 1 Clark) 
Crego. 

Charles Crego was born in Otsego County. 
New York, and was a son of Lester and Mary 
( Chase ) Crego. They came to Guernsey 
C tunty at an early day. Charles Crego grew 
to manhood on his father's farm and married 
Eliza Clark, who was born in Maryland. Her 
parents were Levi and Eliza (Basward) 
Clark, who also were early settlers in Guernsey 
Ci unty. Some 2? years after his marriage, 
Charles Crego removed from ( iuernsey 
O lunty to Knox County. Ohio, and five years 
later to Berkshire Township. Delaware 
County, where he died at the age of 82 years. 
The mother of J. Monroe Crego spent the last 
years of her life with this son, dying at his 
home, in June, 1905. aged 85 years. The 
family contained 13 children, nine of whom 
still survive. 

J. Monroe Crego resided with his parents 
until he was 21 years of age, when he married. 
He learned the carpenter's trade in Knox 



County and worked at thai until March. 1863, 
when he enlisted for service in the Civil War, 
entering Company 1), One Hundred and 
Forty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, and was assigned to the Army of the 
Potomac. He continued in the service until 
the close of the war and, although participat- 
ing in many battles and skirmishes, survived 
them all and returned practically unharmed 
to his family. For Mime years he followed his 
trade after coming to Berkshire Township. 
Delaware County, and then purchased his 
farm of 100 acres, all of which he has placed 
under fine cultivation. 

Air. Crego was married (first) August 1, 
[858, to Alice Mitchell, who was born in 
Knox County, Ohio, and died June 14, 1898, 
and is buried at Galena. She was a daughter 
of Allen and Margaret (Hawkins) Mitchell, 
who were natives of Vermont. To this mar- 
riage were born six children, two of whom are 
deceased, the survivors being: Luella, who 
married William Garlinghouse. residing in 
Berkshire Township; Clara, who married Wil- 
liam McWilliams, residing in Berkshire 
Township: Oren, residing in Knox County; 
and Caroline, who married Elmer Jaycox. re- 
siding in Berlin Township. Delaware County. 
Mr. Crego was married (second) October 17, 
1901, to Josephine Hoy, who was horn in 
Fairfield County. Ohio, and is a daughter' of 
Peter and Catherine ( Erick) Hoy, who were 
born in Pennsylvania and came as early set- 
tler^ to Fairfield County. 



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ENJAMIN F. DAVIDS, a representa- 
tive citizen of Radnor Township, 
owns the old homestead farm of 175 
acres, which is situated in Delaware 
County, Ohio, and on this place he 
horn April 9. 1S46. His parents were 
Sylvanus and Margaret (Evans) Davids. 

Thomas Davids, the grandfather of Ben- 
jamin F., was horn in Pembrokeshire, Wales, 
and he died in Delaware County. September 
5, 1S10. The inscription on his tombstone in 
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ond burial there. He left his widow with 
ten children, their ages ranging from 19 years 
to infancy. The land he secured was un- 
cleared and consisted of a. large acreage, the 
village of Radnor now standing on what was 
once his farm. He was one of the early set- 
tlers in Radnor Township but lived but a short 
time after reaching here. 

Sylvanus Davids, father of Benjamin F.. 
was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in 1797, 
and died in Delaware County, in 1872. He 
was about two years old when his parents emi- 
grated from Wales to America and settled in 
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where 
the family lived until June, 1810, when re- 
moval was made to Delaware County. The 
early death of his father placed heavy respon- 
sibilities on him. He cleared many acres of 
land of the virgin forest. At the time of his 
marriage he settled on the farm which is now 
owned by his son Benjamin F. At first a rude 
log house was the home but it soon gave way to 
a comfortable hewed log house and later to 
a substantial brick residence. He carried on 
general farming until the close of bis life. For 
many years he was a township official and 
through his whole career was noted for the 
manly qualities which have always marked 
men of his family. They have all prospered 
through industry, and they have been univers- 
ally held as reliable, honest and upright citi- 
zens. Sylvanus Davids married Margaret 
Evans, a daughter of Thomas Evans. She 
was born in Carmarthen, Wales, in 1805, and 
died in 1878. They had ten children, seven 
of whom grew to maturity, namely : Thomas, 
who is deceased; Mary, who married Charles 
Robinson, is deceased ; Isabella, who married 
John Bonner, is deceased; Margaret, who mar- 
ried ( first) Henry Hermon and ( second) 
William Ferguson, resides at Columbus, a 
widow; Sarah M., who lives at home; Julia, 
deceased, who married (first) Leander Carr 
and (second) Robert Ferrier; and Benjamin 
F. The family belonged to the Radnor Bap- 
tist Church, the parents being among its 
founders. 

Benjamin F. Davids has always resided on 
the home farm, his longest period of absence 



being during the Civil War. when, as a mem- 
ber of Company A, One Hundred and Forty- 
fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he 
assisted during the summer of 1804, in the 
guarding of Washington City. His interests 
have always been centered in agricultural pur- 
suits. He added to the land secured from his 
father's estate, and of his farm of 175 acres, he 
cultivates 140 acres, selling nothing he pro- 
duces except his wheat. He is largely in- 
terested in raising fine horses, hogs and Short- 
horn cattle, keeping from 40 to 50 head of the 
latter. Mr. Davids takes justifiable pride in 
his well-improved farm and his other posses- 
sions. His home and surroundings are so at- 
tractive that they excite favorable comment 
from the passing stranger. In 1882 he built 
the fine brick residence, two stories in height. 
containing 14 rooms, the most commodious 
house in Radnor Township, and its inside 
equipments equal its outside appearance. In 
1888 he erected his fine barn with dimensions 
of 64 feet in length with an ell, 50 feet in width 
and with 18-foot posts. 

On October 22, 1874, Mr. Davids married 
Lucy E. Humphreys, a daughter of Morris 
Humphreys of Radnor, and four of their six 
children reached maturity, as follows: Gert- 
rude, William, John E. and Margaret I. Mr. 
Davids and family belong to the Baptist 
Church and he is a member of the committee 
on Missions. In politics, he is a Republican 
and has served as township trustee and in 
other offices. 




D. STAYMAN, a well-known re- 
tired citizen of Delaware, who has 
been identified with the express busi- 
ness at this point for over 40 years 
and has been a resident here since 
September, 1845, was born in 1837. at Fred- 
erick, Maryland, and is a son of George F. 
Stayman. 

The late George F. Stayman came to I >ela- 
ware County in 1845 an( l founded the Loco 
Foco, which was the first Democratic paper 
established here. He conducted it until [865, 



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when he sold out the plant, and in 1847 it be- 
came the Standard and now is the Journal- 
Herald. Mr. Staynian published the Clark 
1 ounty Democrat, for several years and then 
went into the hotel business at Springfield and 
later at Piqua. He then removed to Colum- 
bus, where he died in 1888. • 

One of the earliest and best schools which 
V. D. Stayman attended, was his father's 
printing office, in which he was setting type 
when but eight years old. He remained con- 
nected with printing and newspaper work until 
[858, when he became connected with the ex- 
pros business, first with the United States Ex- 
press Company and later with the American 
Express Company, being the agent for the lat- 
ter at Delaware for about 40 years. Since 
1903 he has lived retired from active business. 

In 1868. Mr. Stayman was married to; 
Sarah S. Lamb, who died in 1904. She was 
a daughter of Henry Lamb, who was one of 
the first white children born in the county. 
Mr. and Mrs. Stayman had one son, Guyton, 
win ) is a resident of Indianapolis. Indiana, 
where he is engaged in an insurance business. 
On January 2. 1908, Mr. Stayman took for 
his second wife. Miss Nellie F. Pratt, a native 
of Delaware, Ohio, and formerly librarian of 
the City Library. 

During all his active years. Mr. Stayman 
was more or less concerned in politics and has 
always taken a great interest in public affairs. 
Fraternally he belongs to the Elks and the 
Odd Fellows. He is a member of the vestry 
of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. 




T. CARR, a retired farmer residing 
at Ostrander, was horn August 19, 
1849, at Ostrander, Delaware 
County, Ohio, and is a member of 
one of the old and important families 
of this section. 

S. T. Carr was reared on the home farm 
and was educated in the common schools. In 
[872 he bought the David Pike farm, which is 
ited two and one-half miles north of Os- 
trander. on which he resided for ten years. He 



owns 102 acres and one-half of the old home 
farm, about 70 acres, using the latter for 
pasturage and renting the former. " In 1882 he 
built his commodious residence of twelve 
rooms. Mr. Carr was one of the organizers 
of The Ostrander Banking Company. 

Mr. Carr married Lizzie David, a daughter 
of Thomas E. David of Radnor Township, 
and they have five children, namely: Ella, 
who married E. W. Thompson, cashier of the 
Citizens National Bank of Wooster; Ethel M., 
who is the wife of William Harris, cashier of 
The Ostrander Banking Company; Monette, 
who married C. C. Stedman, superintendent of 
the Cook Motor Works at Delaware; Jean, 
wife of Raymond E. Dix of Cleveland, Ohio; 
and Marie, a high school student at Ostrander. 
The family belong to the Baptist Church. In 
politics, Mr. Carr is a Republican. He has 
served for a number of years as member of the 
School Board but is not a seeker for public 
office. 




EORGE F. ELSBREE, who is num- 
bered with the leading citizens of 
Orange Township, has resided for 
the past 41 years on his present farm 
of 137 acres. He was born Septem- 
ber 9, 1834, in Orange Township, Delaware 
County, Ohio, and is a son of Collins P. and 
Matilda (Norton) Elsbree. 

Collins P. Elsbree was born in 1800, in 
Dutchess County. New York, and in 181 1 he 
accompanied his step-father, Jeremiah Mc- 
Cumber, to Orange Township, Delaware 
Count v, returned to his native place in 1816. 
and came back to Ohio in 1822. He had two 
half-brothers and two half-sisters, namely : 
Alva. Nahum, Phebe and Nancy. Alva Mc- 
Cumber lived to the age of 91 year- and 
Nahum McCumber to be 93. In 1827. Collins 
P. Elsbree was married to Matilda Norton, 
who was a daughter of Captain Joab Norton. 
an officer in the State militia. He came from 
Hartford, Connecticut, to Ohio, and landed at 
Worthington, in 1806 and settled in Orange 
Township. Delaware County, in 1807. A rude 



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log cabin in the forest was the first family 
home. Captain Norton died at Delaware. He 
erected block houses all along the Sandusky 
turnpike and when he built at what is now the 
town of Norton, the settlement was named in 
his honor. He became the owner of a number 
of large farms and also of property at Dela- 
ware. The land on which the Ohio Wesleyan 
University stands was once owned by him, 
and he also owned the corner of Sandusky and 
William streets, on which the present Inter- 
urban station of the C. D. & M. road is lo- 
cated. He owned a tannery which was situ- 
ated on the property where the college now 
stands. He was one of the civilization builders 
of his time. The children of Joab Norton 
were the following: Desdemona, who mar- 
ried Jacob Coldflesh, lived and died in Liberty 
Township, Delaware County ; Edward ; Ma- 
tilda, who was the mother of George F. Els- 
bree; and Minerva. She was married (first) 
to Samuel Falkner and they resided in Union 
County, Ohio. She was married (second) 
to John Gordon and they moved to Wisconsin. 

Prior to returning to Ohio, Collins P. Els- 
bree learned the trade of distiller and when he 
came to Delaware County he established the 
first distillery on the Whetstone River, known 
now as the Olentangy River. Later he sold 
the same to Simon Thomas. His first pur- 
chase of land was 67 acres of John Goodrich, 
which he sold to George Gooding. In 1847 ne 
bought 137 acres at Lewis Center Corners and 
remained on the same until his death, in 1880. 
He was a great fancier of fine stock. His fam- 
ily consisted of four sons and two daughters, 
those who survived infancy being: Gustavus, 
who died June 29, 1877; Augustus C, who 
served in the Union army during the Civil 
War, in Company H, Ohio National Guard. 
owns 240 acres of land in Orange Township, 
married Elizabeth Case; George F. ; Cicero 
M., who owns 200 acres of land in Orange 
Township, married Adaline Crawford; and 
Eliza, who died aged [6 years. 

George F. Elsbree attended the local schools 
through his boyhood and as he increased in 
age became of more ami more value to his 
father in managing the home property. On 



December 18, 1866, he was married to Caro- 
line J. Case, who is a daughter of Rev. Titus 
and Hannah (Fisher) Case. Mrs. Case was 
a daughter of Isaac Fisher, who came to Ohio 
from Bergen County, New Jersey, in 1809. 
Grandfather Fisher settled on the edge of 
Franklin County. The paternal great-grand- 
father, George Case, came to Delaware 
County in 1806 and when he died he was 
laid to rest on a quiet part of his own farm. 
His son, Titus Case, was born in 1797 and was 
nine years old when he accompanied his 
father, who had been a Revolutionary soldier, 
to Ohio, from Simsbury, Connecticut. He be- 
came a preacher and elder in the Christian 
Church. The children of Rev. Titus Case and 
wife were: Fredonia C, who married Irvin 
Thurston; Elizabeth A., who married A. C. 
Elsbree; Miles S., who married Emily J. Bar- 
tholomew; and Caroline J., who became the 
wife of George F. Elsbree. The two sur- 
vivors are Mrs. Elsbree and Miles S., the lat- 
ter of whom resides near Hyattsville. 

In 1867, Mr. and Mrs. Elsbree settled on 
this pleasant old farm and they hold a deed 
from the Maynard family which first owned 
this property before it came into the possession 
of the Elsbrees. In 1S95, the old house was 
destroyed by fire, but Mr. Elsbree has rebuilt. 
Here he has continued to successfully carry 1 >n 
a general line of farming and is one of the 
township's substantial men in every particular. 
In 1864, when the call came for defenders of 
the National Capital. Mr. Elsbree went out as 
a member of Company H, Ohio National 
Guard, and remained at Arlington Heights, 
near Washington, as long as the alarm con- 
tinued. 




OHN H. PRICE, member of the Board 
of Education, of Troy Township, re- 
siding on his well-cultivated farm of 
22H acres, is a representative citizen 
of this section. Mr. Price was born 
in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Ohio. 
July 6. 1859, and is a son of John R. and Eliz- 
abeth ( Powell) Price. 



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The parents of Mr. Price were born in 
Wales and came to America in [859, settling 
in Radnor Township, Delaware County, prior 
to the birth of their son. John R. Price died 
in 1X77. He was a worthy member of the 
Calvinistic Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
was twice married and seven of his children 
survive, namely: Reese, residing in Delaware 
Township; Sarah, who married Frank Dix, 
residing in Brown township; John H. ; Cad, 
a resident of Union County. Ohio; Thomas 
R., residing in Radnor Township; Charles X., 
who resides in Radnor Township; and Mary 
E., also a resilient of Radnor Township. 

John 11. Price was reared in Radnor 
Township and attended the district schools 
as he had opportunity in the meanwhile re- 
ceiving a practical training in agriculture, on 
his father's farm. He continued to live in 
Radnor Township until the spring of 1889. 
when he came to Troy Township, where he 
has successfully engaged in farming and stock- 
raising until the present time. His land is 
productive, his methods of working it are en- 
tirely up-to-date, and he is considered one of 
the substantial farmers of this section. 

Mr. Price married Amanda Miller, who is 
a daughter of John and Catherine Miller, 
formerly of Delaware Township. Delaware 
County. Mr. and Mrs. Price have five chil- 
dren: John A., Grace C. Walter P., Flor- 
ence L. and Bernice. The family belong to 
the Congregational Church at Radnor. 

Mr. Price is a Republican and as a member 
of that party has frequently been elected to 
township offices. For four years he served as 
trustee of Troy Township and two terms as 
treasurer and is a valued member of the town- 
ship Board of Education. 




EORGE ALBERT SHUSTER, a 
highly esteemed resident of Dela- 
ware Township, who is engaged in 
general farming on his tract of 50 
acres, was born on his present farm 
in Delaware County. Ohio, May 31, 1840. and 
is .1 son of George and Catherine (Morgan) 
Sinister. 



George Sinister was born Januarj jj, 
1809, m Pennsylvania, and died in Delaware 
County, Ohio, aged 82 years. He was 
nine years old when he was brought 
to Morgan County, Ohio, by his father, 
John Sinister. I lis educational 
tunities were decidedly limited, and he went 
barefooted winter and summer until he worked 
for the money with which to buy himself his 
first pair of shoes. For nine years Mr. Shuster 
worked on the National turnpike, and then 
came to Delaware Township, where he 
worked on the Mull turnpike until he ptir- 
chased the farm now owned by his son George 
Albert, then a tract of 115 acres, of which he 
later sold 15 acres to his father-in-law. On 
locating on this property, Mr. Shuster found 
it heavily timbered, the only clearing that had 
been done being that cut by the coon hunters. 
He was married to Catherine Morgan, who 
was the daughter of Jacob Morgan, of Hamil- 
ton County, and they had ten children, five 
of whom grew to maturity: John, who re- 
sides at Pana, Christian County, Illinois-, 
Mary, deceased, who was the wife of Henry 
Swartz, of Delaware Township; Rachel, who 
married Josiah Hill, of Delaware Township; 
George Albert ; and Clara, of Delaware Town- 
ship. The mother of these children died in 
1 90 1, aged 82 years. 

George Albert Shuster was reared on the 
home farm. When but 14 years of age he 
decided to become a soldier in the Civil War. 
and being large for his years convinced the 
recruiting officer that he was eighteen. He 
was mustered into the Union Army February 
4. 1864, and went first with his regiment to 
Munfordsville, Kentucky. Later he was at 
Bowling Green. Charleston. Rnoxville, Straw- 
berry Plains and Lowden, Tennessee, and re- 
ceived his honorable discharge. August 29, 
1865, despite bis youth, having served his 
country faithfully for 19 months and 24 days. 
Since returning from the war. Mr. Shuster has 
engaged in cultivating his 50 acres, hay being 
the principal crop of the farm, and he also 
keeps nine head of horses and colts. Mr. 
Shuster is a Democrat in politics, but has 
never cared to hold office, preferring to give 
his entire attention to his farming inter. 



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He is acknowledged to be one of Delaware 
Township's good, practical farmers, and his 
standing as a citizen in his community is de-~ 
servedly high. 

Air. Sinister was married to Alvira Stick- 
ney, who is the daughter of Hugh Stickney of 
Union County. Ohio, and 11 children were 
born to this union : George, who died from 
decease contracted during the Cuban War; 
Emma, who is the widow of Michael Mc- 
Carthy, of Delaware; Margaret, deceased, who 
was the wife of Sherman Moore; Edward, 
who lives at home; Catherine, who is the 
widow of George Home; Frank, who lives in 
Delaware; Samuel, of Berlin Township; Eliza- 
beth, who is the wife of Howell Thomas, of 
Columbus; Hugh, of Berlin Township; and 
Esther and Susan, twins. 




EES PRICE, general fanner, dairyman 
and stock-raiser, in Radnor Town- 
ship, was born in Breckonshire, 
South Wales, August 12. 1851, and 
is a son of John R. and Margaret 
1 Morgan) Price, and a grandson of Rees and 
Margaret (Jones) Price. 

John R. Price grew to manhood in his 
native land and engaged in farming and also 
was a collector for a number of years prior 
ming to America. He married the daugh- 
ter of a neighbor, Rees Morgan, and they had 
two children: Rees and Margaret, the latter 
of whom died aged 24 years. John R. Price 
and wife were consistent members of the Cal- 
vinistic Methodist Church and the former was 
a singer in the choir, possessing the fine voice 
which is so general a gift to natives of Wales. 
After the death of his first wife, John R. Price 
married Elizabeth Powell and eight children 
were bom to thai union. In June, 1858, he 
brought his family to Radnor Township and 
settled on what was known as the Thomas 
Lewis farm, on which he lived the remainder 
of his life. In politics, he was a Republican. 
lie died in his 57th year. December 10, 1877. 
Rees Price was reared in Radnor Town- 
ship and obtained his education in the district 



schools. From boyhood he was accustomed to 
farm work and when 19 years old he started 
out to make his own way in the world, secur- 
ing employment on the farms in Delaware 
County. After his marriage he settled in 
Radnor Township where he has operated dif- 
ferent farms, locating on his present one in 
1905. In 1908 he and his son, Ora C, leased 
the Thomas Joy farm in Delaware Township, 
and took possession April 1, 1908. He has 
dealt in horses for a number of years and is 
an excellent judge of all kinds of livestock. He 
keeps several cows, keeps about 100 head of 
Duroc Jersey hogs and raises enough on his 
land so that he is not obliged to buy feed. His 
operations are on so large a scale that he re- 
quires the assistance of two men to supple- 
ment the work of himself and son. 

Mr. Price married Rena Russell, a daugh- 
ter of J. B. Russell, of Thompson Township, 
Delaware County. She died May 8, 1906, 
aged 49 years. She was a most estimable lady 
and was beloved by all who knew her. She 
was an active member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church at Prospect, of which Mr. Price 
is one of the stewards. Three children were 
born to Mr. and Mrs. Price, namely: Lyda, 
who married C. H. Penry. residing in Radnor 
Township, and Leora C, who assists his 
father. One child died in infancy. 

Mr. Price is a Republican. He is a mem- 
ber of Ruffner Lodge, No. 320, Odd Fellows, 
of Warrensburg, of which he is past grand 
and he is past chief patriarch of Delaware En- 
campment. He belongs also to the Modern 
Woodmen of America and is past chief for- 
rester of lamp No. 4102. 




H. DAVIS, residing on his well-culti- 
vated home farm of 86 acres, owns 
land in Troy Township aggregating 
220 acres, and is one of the substan- 
tial as well as leading citizens and 
public-spirited men of this section. Mr. Davis 
was born in Radnor Township, Delaware 
Connt\. Ohio, February 14. 1850, and is a 
son of John H. and Maria (Hughes) Davis. 





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707 



The parents of Mr. Davis were born in 
the north of Wales. They came to America 
and settled in Delaware Count}', Ohio, in 
1832, locating in Radnor Township among 
the first settlers. John 11. Davis was an 

orable, upright man. a faithful member of 

the Calvinistic Methodist Episcopal Church. 

He was one of the founders of the old church 

in Radnor Township and his funeral sermon 

the hist ever preached under the old roof. 

H. H. Davis attended the schools in the 
neighborhood of his home, during his boy- 
1. and grew to manhood on the home farm. 
He remained in Radnor Township until 1SS5. 
when he came to Troy Township, where he 
has resided ever since. He is one of the lead- 
ing men of his community, taking an active 
part in all that pertain- to the public welfare. 
E r six years he served as trustee of Troy 
Township and for 14 years has been a member 
of the Board of Education. He belongs to 
Radnor Lodge. No. 250, Odd Fellows, at 
Radnor. 

Mr. Davis married Melinda Gust, of Pu- 
laski County. Indiana, and they have had four 
children, namely: Lewis: William H.. who 
died March 17. 1908, aged 16 years. 11 
months: Guy. and Charles A., who died aged 
2\ years. Mr. Davis and family belong to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Radnor. 



IRAM WRIGHT, one of the vener- 
able residents of Scioto Township. 
Delaware County, Ohio, and the 
owner of an excellent farm of eighty- 
six acres, was bom December _><i. [825, 
in Barrington, Licking County. Ohio, and is a 
f David and Chloe (Wells) Wright. 




Simeon Wrieht, 



the grandfather of 



Hi 



ram. was a native of Vermont, and one of the 
itain b ys during the Revolution- 
ary War. Late in life he followed his son to 
Ohio, and his death occurred at the age of 
ninety-seven year-, near Hartford, Licking 

nty. 

David Wright, father of Hiram, was born 
on Otter Creek. Rutland, Vermont, whence he 



came to Ohio after his first marriage, bring- 
ing with him three children, and settling as a 
pioneer in St. Albans Township, Ricking 
Countv. Later he purchased eighty acres oi 
land in Barrington, which he cleared from the 
vv ods, building a log house in which the sub- 
ject of this sketch was born. In about [840 
the family removed to Milford Township, 
Knox County, where they resided about twelve 
years, and in 1852 they located in Scioto 
Township, Delaware County, on Bokes 
Creek. David Wright was a remarkable man 
in many ways. He was within ten days of be- 
ing ninety-three years of age at the time of 
hi- death in July, 1S70, and with the exception 
of his eyesight, which had failed to some ex- 
tent several years prior to his demise, he was 
in full possession of every faculty. For seven- 
ty-five years he used tobacco. Mr. Wright 
vva- always a hard-working, industrious man. 
and accomplished more hard work at the age 
of seventv-five years than do the young men 
of one-third of that age today. During the 
War of [812 Mr., Wright served with the 
country's forces on Lake Champlain. He was 
made a Master Mason in Vermont, and oc- 
casionally attended meetings at Delaware. In 
political matters Mr. Wright was a Democrat. 
and he was the only man in Barrington to vote 
for Andrew Jackson, when the latter first ran 
for President. He was a justice of the peace 
for many years, and was well known for his 
honest dealings with his fellow-men. David 
Wright was married three times, and had chil- 
dren by each marriage. His third wife was 
Chloe Wells, who was a daughter of Israel 
Wells of Granville. Lebanon County, and 
they had two children, of whom Hiram grew 
to maturity. The family were members of the 
Presbyterian Church. 

Hiram Wright was educated in the dis- 
trict schools during the days when the pupils 
brought axe- and chopped down trees for fuel 
to heat the log schoplhous'e. lie grew up on 
the home farm, where he remained until his 
father's death, at which time he purchased [50 
acre- on Bokes Creek, about thirty acre 
which had been partly cleared. There he re- 
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ent eighty-six acre tract, which he had pur- 
chased in 1870, selling- his original farm to 
his grandson, Charles Wright. His present 
tine residence was erected in 1883, and in- 
cludes ten rooms and a good cellar. He en- 
gaged for some time in stock-raising, and dur- 
ing the war bought and sold sheep and horses. 
He now keeps ten cattle, ami is quite exten- 
sively engaged in butter-making. 

Mr. Wright was married first to Sarah 
Simons, daughter of John Simons, of Homer. 
Licking County, and to this union there were 
horn five children, one "of whom grew to ma- 
turity: Henry, of Magnetic Springs. Mrs. 
Wright died in the faith of the Christian 
Church, and Mr. Wright was married sec- 
ondly to Mrs. Rachel Green, a widow, who is 
the daughter of George McElroy of Harrison 
County. Mrs. Wright had two sons, Lawson 
and Cassius, by her first marriage. In politi- 
cal matters Mr. Wright is a Democrat, and 
he has served as justice of the peace for one 
term and as township trustee for twelve years. 
Mrs. Wright is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church of Radnor Township. 




OIIX G. YERGON, a prominent and 

influential citizen of Troy Township, a 

member of the Board of Education, 

a large land-owner and a successful 

farmer and sheep grower, was born in 

Delaware Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 

July 10, 1865, and is a son of Frederick P. 

and Catherine (Jones) Vergon. 

The father of Mr. Vergon was born in the 
eastern part of France, and the mother in Vir- 
ginia. She belongs to the old and aristocratic 
Jackson family, from which came the great 
Confederate officer, known as "Stonewall" 
Jackson. Frederick 1'. Vergon is one of the 
most highly respected aged residents of Dela- 
ware County. He was about three years of 
age when he was brought to America by his 
parents, who came directly to Delaware 
County and settled in Delaware Township, 
where, in the course of time, he acquired valu- 
able tracts of land. He was the original 



owner of Greenwood Park, which he devel- 
oped and kept up for the city of Delaware, for 
a number of years, at last selling his interests 
when he could no longer devote his time to its 
care and further improvement. He retains 
fifty acres of land which he devotes mainly to 
growing choice winter apples. He has been 
a leading authority on horticulture, for many 
years, and has been called all over the State 
to give lectures on this subject, before horti- 
cultural organizations. He is a valued mem- 
ber of the William Street Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, at Delaware. He has resided 
in Delaware Township ever since 1836. His 
surviving children are the following: Fred- 
erick L., and Elizabeth, both residing in Dela- 
ware Township; Hattie. who married Edwin 
A. Smith, wdio is president of the Ohio 
Northern University at Ada, Ohio; John G. ; 
James C, residing in Delaware Township; 
Annie, wdio married George Warner, residing 
at Warren, Ohio; and Mary M. 

John G. Vergon has been identified with 
the interests of Delaware Township all his life. 
He obtained an excellent common school edu- 
cation and has taken part in the township's 
pleasant social life, been interested in its public 
affairs and has contributed his substantial in- 
fluence to further development and public im- 
provements. He served some five years dur- 
ing young manhood, as a member of Com- 
pany K, Fourteenth Regiment. Ohio National 
Guard, at Delaware. Mr. Vergon is num- 
bered with the prosperous agriculturists of 
Troy Township, successfully raising the grains 
of tliis climate and growing many sheep. 

Mr. Vergon married Emma E. Troutman. 
who is a daughter of Jonathan and Angeline 
Troutman, the former of whom is deceased. 
Mis. Troutman resides with her daughter. The 
Troutmans were among the early settlers of 
Troy Township and Mrs. Troutman can re- 
call many interesting pioneer experiences. Mr. 
and Mrs. Vergon have two daughters, Marie 
and Catherine. Mrs. Vergon is a member of 
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, at Delaware, 
while Mr. Vergon and his daughters belong 
to the William Street Methodist Episcopal 
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709 



Like his father, Mr. Vergcm is a Republi- 
can. He is serving his first term as a member 
of the Board of Education of Troy Township, 
and his advice and good judgment gives 
materia] assistance to his co-workers. 




'.I'.S W. JONES, a representative 
citizen of Radnor Township, where 
he has a farm of 175 acres under cul- 
tivation, was born at Llanafan Fawr, 
Breconshire, South Wales, Novem- 
ber 13, 1S45. arK ' ' s a son ,lf ^ ees T. and Sa- 
rah ( Williams) Jones. 

The father of Mr. Jones was bom in the 
same section of South Wales as saw his own 
birth but in an adjoining parish. Llanafan 
Fechan, May 2. 1804. and died in Delaware 
County, Ohio, in 1891. He followed farm- 
ing in his native land until [861, when he 
came to America and in the fall of that year, 
purchased a farm of 175 acres, in Radnor 
Township, on which he lived during the re- 
mainder of his life. Almost 80 acres of his 
farm was timbered and he sold 20 acres in 
\\ 1. In early days he was a strong anti- 
slavery man and later became an ardent Re- 
publican. He married a daughter of David 
Williams, who was born in the same parish as 
himself, and of their six children, the follow- 
ing five reached maturity : Alary, deceased, 
married Evan F. Jones, residing in Norwich 
Township. Franklin County; Thomas Wil- 
liams, residing in Sugar Creek Township. Put- 
nam County; David, who died in 189] ; Rees 
W. ; and Elizabeth, who married John A. 
Price, residing in Radnor Township. Rees T. 
Jones and wife were worthy members of the 
Congregational Church. The mother of the 
above family died in her 75th year. February 
.20. 1884. The paternal grandfather. Thomas 
Jones, lived to the age of 90 years, but never 
left Wales. 

Rees W. Jones commenced his education 
in Wales and completed it with two terms in 
the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. 
He taught school during nine winters in Rad- 
nor Township and has never lost his interest 



in the educational advancement of the town- 
ship. He has never sought a position on the 

School Board, but his fellow-citizens have 
elected him a member for 14 years and he has 
been a valuable addition to a body of very 
earnest men. From boyhood he has continued 
-ui the home farm, where he raises corn, 
and hay for feeding purposes and wheat for 
sale. He devotes considerable attention to 
stock and his fields and pastures show many 
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. 

On September 20. 1870, Mr. Jones was 
married to Margaret Thomas, who is a daugh- 
ter of James Thomas of Radnor, and they 
have had seven children, namely; James R., 
residing at Roosevelt, Washington; David V., 
residing at Great Falls, Montana; T. Arthur. 
who is a member of the class of [909 at the 
Ohio State University; Sarah E. ; Margaret 
A.; John W. and R. Ellsworth. For many 
years Mr. Junes has been a deacon in the * 
gregational Church. The fine two-story brick 
structure in which Mr. Jones and family live, 
was built for a tavern about two years before 
the Big Four Railroad was put through this 
section, and it was one of the chief stopping 
points on the old turnpike from Sandusky and 
Columbus. In politics, Air. Jones is a Repub- 
lican and on that ticket he was twice elected 
township trustee. 




ILI.IAM H. MARRIOTT, a re- 
tired farmer and stock raiser of 
Delaware Township, Delaware 
County, Ohio, and an honored 
veteran of the great Civil War. in 
which he took an active part, was born in 
Knox County. Ohio, March 23, 1842, and is a 
son of Henry T. and Rebecca (Penn) Mar- 
riott. 

William Marriott, the grandfather of Wil- 
liam H., was a native of Maryland, and a 
captain during the War of 1812, in which he 
was wounded. He came to Ohio at an early 
day and settled near UTica. Licking County. 
Mr. Marriott married Edith Waters, al 
native of Maryland, and of their children 



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Henry T. was the eldest. Henry T. Mar- 
riott came to Utica, Ohio, as young man. and 
spent all of his life as a farmer and 
stock raiser, dying- in 1875, aged sixty-nine 
years. He was a leading member of the Meth- 
odist Church, and was a man well known for 
his many sterling qualities. He married Re- 
becca Penn, who was the daughter of Joseph 
Penn of Maryland, and she died in 1881, 
aged ~~, years. After the death of Joseph 
Penn Marriott at the siege of Vicksburg, 
there was not a death in the family for 42 
years. Mr. and Mrs. Marriott were the par- 
ents of u children, ten of whom grew to ma- 
turity : Thomas, who is deceased; Ann. de- 
ceased, wdio married Isaac Yeomans; Joshua. 
who resides at Richwood.; Albert, who is de- 
ceased; Caroline, who is the wife of Joel Gra- 
ham of Richwood; Joseph 1!.. who was a 
member of Company B, Thirty-second Regi- 
ment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil 
War; William H. ; Henry \V., who is de- 
ceased; Franklin \\'., who lives at Columbus; 
and Orville, who is a resident of Richwood. 

William II. Marriott was taken to Rich- 
wood by his parents when he was three years 
old, and there he grew to manhood on the 
home farm. In iSdt he enlisted in Company 
B, Thirty-second Regiment. Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, and was sent to Beverly, West Vir- 
ginia, where he fought in the mountains until 
the surrender of Harper's Ferry, when the en- 
tire army at that point was captured. After 
being exchanged he was sent with bis regi- 
ment to Memphis, and assigned to John A. 
Logan's Division, and thereafter saw very 
active service, participating in the battles of 
Green Bar, October 3. [861; Camp Alle- 
gheny. West Virginia, December 13. 1861.; 
Mellow ell, Virginia, May 8, [862; Cross 
Keys. Virginia, June 6, [862; Port Repub- 
lic, June 9, [862; Harper's Ferry, September 
12-15, [ 862; Raymond, Mississippi, May 12. 
1863; Port Gibson, Mississippi, May 1. [863; 
Jackson, Mississippi, May 14. [863; Cham- 
pion Hills. May 10. [863; Siege of Vicksburg, 
May iS to |„ly 4. [863; Baker's Creek. Mis- 
sissippi. February 4. [864; Clinton, Missis- 
sippi, February 5, [864; Kenesaw Mountain. 



June 9-30, 1864; Xickajack Creek, Georgia, 
July 6-10, 1864; Peach Tree Creek, July jo. 
[864; Atlanta, July 21-22, 1864; and Siege of 
Atlanta, July 28 to September 4, 1864. Mr. 
Marriott was continually with his regiment, 
engaging in every battle, skirmish and march 
in which it took part, and he was never in need 
of hospital service. Always a brave and cheer- 
ful, faithful and hard-fighting soldier, he 
earned the respect of officers and comrades 
alike and made for himself a war record second 
to none, in being present in every engage- 
ment. He was mustered out of the service at 
Louisville. Kentucky, in September. 1864. 

After the war Mr. Marriott went to Cham- 
paign, Illinois, arriving there a day or two 
after President Lincoln's death, and remained 
there for 20 months, engaging in farming. In 
1867 he returned to Utica, Licking County, 
Ohio, and for five years was a clerk in a store, 
after which he went to Richwood, and there 
engaged in business with L. H. Hastings, un- 
der the firm name of Hastings & Marriott. In 
1873 Mr. Hastings retired, and Mr. Marriott 
continued the business with his brothers, un- 
der the firm name of Marriott Brothers, until 
1886, at which time he removed to a farm 
three and one-half miles north of Richwood. 
and engaged in general farming and, stock 
raising. In 1893 he moved to Delaware in or- 
der to give his sons better educational advan- 
tages. 

Mr. Marriott was married January 1, [873, 
to Melissa Farrington, who is the daughter of 
Peter II. Farrington, of Tomkins County, 
New York. Five children were bom to this 
union, of whom two grew to maturity: Fran- 
cis Irvin, chief draftsman of the Mexican 
Central Railway at Aguas Calientes. Mexico, 
who was born November 18. 1 S77 ; and Car- 
roll P.. of Tryon, North Carolina, who was 
bom April 13. 1882. 

In politics Mr. Marriott is a Jeffersonian 
1 lemocrat, and he has always taken a great in- 
terest in political- principles, but not in being 
candidate for office, lie is a member of the 
Union Veteran Legion of Delaware, and with 
his wife attends the Williams Street Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church. 



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M. SYCKS, who in point of service 
is the oldest insurance man at Dela- 
ware, lias made this city his place of 
residence for the past 33 years and is 
thoroughly identified with its various 
interests. He was born in Greene County, 
Pennsylvania, April 9, [846. 

Mr. Sycks was about u years of age when 
his parents removed from Pennsylvania to 
Perry County, Ohio, where his boyhood was 
spent. His early education was secured in the 
local schools and he subsequently became a 
student in the National Normal University at 
Lebanon, where lie was graduated in 1873. 
The following year was passed at Ansonia, 
Darke Count}-, where he served as principal 
of the schools, and in the next year he came to 
Delaware. He continued teaching in Dela- 
ware County, until 1879, acting also for sev- 
eral years as outside passenger agent for the 
Lake Erie and Western Railroad. In 1880 
he went into general insurance, opening up an 
office at Delaware, writing his first risk on 
Jul)' 15th following, in the Connecticut Fire, of 
Hartford. He still carries the same parties 
on his books. Later. Mr. Sycks added deal- 
ing in real estate and handling" loans and in- 
vestments, to his insurance business, and he 
has very convenient quarters at No. 22 North 
Sandusky Street. He represents all the lead- 
ing local mutual companies, together with the 
most important organizations outside, and is 
also agent tor the Anchor and the North Ger- 
man Lloyd steamship lines, and the Allen 
State line of steamers. He is one of the city's 
progressive, busy men. 

On Christinas eve, 1873, Mr. Sycks was 
married to Miss Martha Cary, who is one of 
the John Cary descendants — the family being 
one of the oldest in England. The Rev. Seth 
Cary of Boston and General Samuel Cary are 
her kinsmen. A long line' of her ancestors 
may he found in the following hooks: "The 
Cary Family in England" -and "The Car) 
Family in America." She has proven herself 
to be a faithful helpmate to her husband and a 
wise and good mother to her children. The 
latter are four in number, namely: Anna. 



who married Prof. T. Howard Winters, of 
[ronton, Ohio; Dana Cary. who is engaged in 
an insurance business at St. Louis, Missouri; 
and Grace C. and Mary, both of whom are 
residing at home. The family belong to the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. 
Sycks has been a steward for many years. 
Politically. Mr. Sycks is affiliated with the 
Democratic party. While taking an active in- 
terest in public affairs and willing to work for 
his friends, he has consistently refused all 
political favors for himself. 




AC( IB G. ROSENTHAL, secretary of 
The Delaware Light, Heat & Power 
Company, secretary of The Elec- 
tric Roller Milling Company, and 
secretary of The Delaware Water 
Power & Realty Company, has been identified 
with the business interests of Delaware for 
many years. He was born at Dayton, Ohio, 
September 29, 1851, and is a son of Simon 
and Theresa ( Ullman) Rosenthal. 

The grandfather of Mr. Rosenthal was 
Rabbi Bernhard Rosenthal, a Hebrew teacher 
and German scholar, who was a native of 
Wurtemberg, Germany. Simon Rosenthal 
was born also at Wurtemberg, where he grew 
to manhood, receiving a technical education. 
He was employed by the German Government 
as a bridge architect. Wishing to escape mili- 
tary service, for which he had no taste, he left 
his native land and came to America, throwing 
his fortunes in with others of 1848, who 
formed the revolutionary colony which in- 
cluded the late distinguished Gen. Carl Schurz. 
Mr. Rosenthal settled first at Cincinnati, went 
from there to Dayton and in 185 1 to Car- 
dington, Ohio, where he established himself 
in a hardware business. In 1859 he returned 
to Cincinnati and went into the wholesale fish 
business with a partner, under the firm name 
of Rosenthal & Kauffmau. During the Civil 
War. Mr. Rosenthal returned to Cardington 
and embarked in a dry goods and grain bus- 
iness. He was elected county auditor and 



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moved to Alt. Gilead, where he died soon after 
his term of public service closed. He was a 
member of the Odd Fellows at Cardington 
and of the Be Nai Beretta, at Cincinnati. He 
married in German}', but all his seven children 
were born in America, namely: Mier, resid- 
ing at Delaware; Jacob G. ; Hattie, deceased, 
was the wife of David Mezger; Charles, re- 
siding at Cleveland; Hannah, wile of Lee 
Goldsmith, residing at Cleveland; and Emma, 
wife of William Simms, residing at Mt. Gil- 
ead. The mother of the above family died m 
1905. aged 83 years. The father died in De- 
cember, [884, aged 59 years. 

Jacob G. Rosenthal was educated in the 
public schools of Cardington and Cincinnati 
and remained in the latter city until 1872, 
employed by his father in the hardware bus- 
iness. He then came to Cardington and be- 
came his father's partner in the dry goods line, 
under the firm name of S. Rosenthal & Son, 
which continued until [879, when the partner- 
ship was dissolved and Jacob G. Rosenthal 
came to Delaware, where he carried on a gro- 
cery business for 20 years. In [898 he sold 
his grocery interests and lias given practically 
all his 'time ever since to the promotion of the 
enterprises with which he is at present con- 
nected. He was one of the organizers of The 
Delaware Light, Heat & Power Company 
and has bad charge of its business ever since. 
Mr. Rosenthal possesses the business acumen 
and the foresight and judgment which enable 
him to handle large affairs with ease, and his 
standing in the commercial life of Delaware 
is one of prominence. 

In 1876, Mr. Rosenthal was married to 
Rebecca Mayer, who is a daughter of Alex- 
ander Mayer, of Cardington, and they have 
one daughter, Blanche. They are members of 
Scoville Avenue Jewish Temple, at Cleveland, 
and are interested in its various benevolent 
agencies. 

In politics, Mr. Rosenthal is a Democrat 
and he has served as treasurer of Delaware 
Township. He is a member of Olentangy 
Lodge, Odd Fellows; of Hiram Lodge, No. 
18, F. & A. M. ; Lodge of 1'erfection at Co- 
lumbus and the Consistory at Cincinnati. 




IEUTEX.W'T-COLONEL BENSON 

WALKER HOUGH., a prominent 
citizen of Delaware, and a member 
of the law firm of Overturf & 
Hough, leading attorneys, was born 
March 3, 1875, nl Berkshire Township, Del- 
aware County, Ohio. He is a son of Leonard 
Samuel and Mary (Linn) Hough. 

The Hough family was prominent in New 
England before becoming established in Ohio. 
In 1 81 2, one of its members, Dr. Sylvester 
Hough, the great-grandfather of Colonel 
Hough, left Connecticut and came to Dela- 
ware County, settling in Genoa Township, 
where he engaged in a mill business in addi- 
tion to his professional work. He married 
Sarah Williams and one of their sons they 
named Orsamus Daniel. He was born in Bur- 
lington, Vermont, and was brought to Genoa 
Township when three years old and lived a 
long, active and useful life which closed Oc- 
tober 10. 1 89 1. After his marriage at the age 
of 24 years, he conducted his father's farm 
for a year and then moved to Brown Town- 
ship and there operated a grist mill for 15 
years, in partnership with his brother-in-law. 
Kil bourne Thrall. This was an old water- 
power mill and during about six months of the 
year lack of water kept it idle, and during 
these periods he cleared up a farm of 114 
acres. After the death of his father, in 1847, 
he bought the old homestead and lived on it 
for several years and then sold and bought 
342 acres of Peter Van Sickle and 1 1 7 acres 
from another party, later purchased what was 
called the Prince farm and kept on acquiring 
land until at the time of his death he owned 
1,000 acres. The only financial assistance he 
had ever had was the sum of $192, received 
from his father's estate, securing all the large 
fortune which he left to .his descendants 
through his own sagacity and industry. 

Upon the organization of the Sunbury 
Bank, Mr. Hough became a director and held 
this office for many years. He was active in 
all public-spirited movements and was one of 
the stockholders and organizers of that large 
enterprise, the Delaware, Berkshire & Sun- 
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count}- commissi if Delaware County, 

served as many year- as township treasurer 
and as a justice of the peace. Upon the res- 
ignation of Hon. J. R. Hubbell, lie was elected 
to fill the vacancy in the Legislature, and in 
1 he was elected t< 1 succeed himself. He 
was twice married, his first wife being Corin- 
thia Charlotte Thrall, a member of one of the 
earliest families in Brown Township. She 
was l»'rn at Granville, Ohio, July 3, 1812. and 
died April 1. 1878. the mother of four chil- 
dren. Clarissa Almira married Otho H. Wil- 
liam-, a farmer and merchant. Leonard Sam- 
uel, father of Colonel Hough, was the only 
Charlotte A., residing at Delaware, is 
the widow of Benjamin 1'.. Walker. One 
child 'lied in infancy. Mr. Hough married for 
his second wife the widow of Dr. McMillan. 
Leonard Samuel Hough was born August 
3. 1835, an d died April 8. 1879. He was 
reared and attended school at Kilbourne. He 
ssed much of his father's excellent busi- 
sense and at one time, in partnership 
with the latter, owned 1.000 acres of land in 
Berkshire Township. He was an extensive 
farmer and stockman. On October 19, 1870, 
he married Mary Linn, a relative. Her mother 
was a daughter of Dr. Daniel Hough, who 
was a physician of Seneca County. Ohio, and 
a brother of Dr. Sylvester Hough, the paternal 
grandfather of Colonel Hough. There 
were three children born to the above mar- 
riage, namely: Clara, born in 1874. who died 
in infancy ; Benson W. ; and Leonard T., who 
was born July 31. 1879. The mother survived 
until September 1. hjoo. 

O lonel Hough attended the district 
schools until he was nine years old and then 
accompanied his mother to Delaware, where 
he completed the High School course, then 
spent three years in the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity and in 1899 graduated from the Ohio 
State University with the degree of B. L. 
Ab^ut 1897 ne m "st began to read law. with 
the firm of Overturf & Coyner, and he was ad- 
mitted to the bar in [899 and for three years 
practiced alone. In 1902 he entered into part- 
ner-hip with Hon. X. F. Overturf. and the 
present strong law firm then formed has con- 
tinued to the present. 



( olonel Hough has been prominent in 
State military affairs for a number of years 
and has won his present high rank through 
faithful service. In 1892 he enlisted in Com- 
pany K. Fourth Regiment. Ohio National 
Guards, serving five years. The pressure of 
other duties kept him out of the service for a 
time, but in January. 1902, he was eK 
first lieutenant, in June. 1902. captain, and in 
June. 11)05. major of the Third Battalion, 
Fourth Regiment, and in July. 1906. he was 
commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fourth 
Infantry. He was the seventh major this com- 
pany has turned out in the State, and the sec- 
ond lieutenant-c 'lonel. 

On June 25, 1902, Colonel Hough was 
married to Edith B. Markel, who is a daughter 
of Jeremiah Markel. of Delaware, and they 
have oik- son, Benson Markel. who was born 
December 24. 1905. Colonel and Mrs. Hough 
belong to the Presbyterian Church. He is a 
member of the V. M. C. A. and of the Com- 
mercial Club, is a charter member of the Del- 
aware Club and a member of the Elks, at Del- 
aware, and retains his connections with his 
college fraternities, the Phi Gumma Delta, the 
Theta Nu Epsilon and the Phi Delta Phi. In 
politics he is a Republican and from 1902 until 
1906 he served as city solicitor of Delaware. 




ILLIAM M. HUMPHREYS, gen- 
eral farmer and representative 
citizen of Radnor Township, Del- 
aware County. Ohio, was born on 
the homestead where he lives, 
July 14. 1859, and is a son of Morris and 
Margaret Elizabeth ( Wasson) Humphreys. 
The Humphreys family was established in 
Radnor Township as early as 1818, by John 
Humphreys, the grandfather, who was a pio- 
neer in this section. He was a native of 
Llangadran, Montgomeryshire. North Wales. 
from which country he came to America and 
settled in Delaware County. Ohio, where his 
descendants have since been representative cit- 
izens. In April. 1825. he married Elizabeth 
Chidlaw, who was a sister of Rev. Benjamin 
W . Chidlaw. She died October 27. 1830. 



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John Humphreys died at Cincinnati, Decem- 
ber 9, 1873, and is buried in the Radnor cem- 
etery. He had three children : Ann, Benja- 
min Chidlaw and Morris. His farm of 100 
acres was swamp and timber land and thus he 
had the double task of draining as well as 
clearing the property. He served as one of 
the first township trustees. 

Morris Humphreys was burn in Radnor 
Township and he spent his whole life on the 
farm on which his father had settled. He died 
August 2$. 1899, having been born June 26, 
1829. On April 3, 1851, he was married to 
Margaret E. W'asson, who died January 21, 
1895. She was a daughter of William M. and 
Lucy ( Minter) W'asson. They had the fol- 
lowing children: Lucy Elizabeth, born Janu- 
ary 17, 1853, married Benjamin Davids, of 
Radnor Township; John W'asson, who -was 
born December 29, 1854, resides at Prospect. 
Ohio; Margaret Ann, born December 29, 
1856, married John L. Ransome, who resides 
two miles north of Prospect; William McVey; 
Mary Arcena, born December 25, 1861, mar- 
ried John B. Davis; Harriet Louise, born July 
29, 1864, married Eugene J. Young, and they 
reside in Pleasant Township, Marion County; 
Benjamin Chidlaw, born December 9, 1866, 
resides at Richwood; and Morris James, who 
died in infancy. .Morris Humphreys and wife 
were members of the Presbyterian Church, of 
which he was a trustee. 

The maternal ancestors of William M. 
Humphreys, the Wassons, were of Scotch-Ir- 
ish extraction. Prior to the Revolutionary 
War three of the name, Thomas, James and 
Elizabeth, came to America, where they sub- 
sequently became separated. Elizabeth becom- 
ing the wife d an officer in the Patriot army. 
Her brothers never heard more concerning 
her. James went to Missouri and he also be- 
came lost to Thomas, who was the maternal 
grandfather of Mr. Humphreys. Thomas 
served through the entire period of the Rev- 
olutionary War and at its close he settled in 
Pennsylvania, where he married Margaret Mc- 
Cleland, who was also of Scotch-Irish ances- 
try. They lived in the Conococheague Valley. 
in Pennsylvania until the death of Thomas, 



after which, when the youngest son became of 
age, the homestead was sold and a part of the 
family moved to Path Valley, Pennsylvania. 
They had children; John, James, William, 
Elizabeth, William McCleland, Robert 
Thomas and Mains. 

William McCleland W r asson was a quar- 
termaster during the War of 1812 and after 
its close he settled at Dayton, Ohio, for a short 
time and then returned to Pennsylvania to 
search for his mother and brothers. He found 
that they also had gone to Ohio and became 
established in Radnor Township, Delaware 
County, and here be joined them. He was 
born April 28, 1790, and was married to Lucy 
Minter on April 3, 1828. She was born Sep- 
tember 3, 1799, and died August 30, 1864. 
They had seven children, the mother of Mr. 
Humphreys being the first born. William M. 
Wasson and wife lived on the farm now- 
owned by Charles Gallant, in Radnor Town- 
ship, where Mr. W'asson died when his oldest 
child was 14 years of age. His widow was a 
very capable, energetic woman. She reared 
■her children carefully, gave them educational 
opportunities and four of them became teach- 
ers. 

William McVey Humphreys has always 
lived on the old homestead in Radnor Town- 
ship. The line two-story brick house was built 
by his father, in 18(15, tne material for its con- 
struction having been made on the place. The 
brick used in the building of the Baptist 
Church at Radnor as well as other buildings 
on the farm, were burned in the same place. 
Mr. Humphreys like his father, has carried on 
main' industries here, making himself inde- 
pendent of outside help, to a large degree. He 
adopts business methods in operating his farm 
and has prospered accordingly. Formerly he 
raised many Percheron horses and now raises 
sheep, cattle and hogs, together with the 
grains which do well in this section. 

On January 14, 1891, Mr. Humphreys 
was married to Martha Davies, who is a 
daughter of John B. and Mary Davies. Mrs. 
Humphreys was born in Blaina, Monmouth- 
shire. South Wale-. April 20, 1863. They 
have had three children, namely: Walter 




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John, born April 13, [892; Alary Elizabeth, 
born December 3, [899; and Margaret Ann. 
born June 25, 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Hum- 
phreys are members of the Congregational 
Church, in which he is a deacon. 

During the closing years of her life, die 
mother of Mr. Humphreys was an invalid and 
to ease many weary hours she occupied her- 
self in compiling a family record which she 
subsequently published. To this memorial ot 
her patience and family pride, the present bi- 
1 igrapher is indebted. 




EE ATHERTON, general farmer, re- 
siding on his finely-improved farm of 
eighty-six acres, in Thompson Town- 
ship, was born near Newark. Ohio, 
March 9, 1848. and is a son of Au- 
gustine Washington and Cynthia (Taft) 
Atherton. 

Thomas Atherton, the great-grandfather 
1 if Lee. came from Shippensburg. Pennsylva- 
nia, tn Newark. Ohio, when the latter was a 
mere hamlet of log cabins on the frontier. His 
Mm. John Atherton. was probably the first 
manufacturer at Newark, his industry being 
the making of chairs. John Atherton was 
born at Shippensburg and he became a man of 
consequence in the new country where he and 
his father were pioneers. He gave up his 
manufacturing business while still young and 
bought a farm two miles north of Newark, 
which he operated during the remainder of bis 
life. He married Achsa Ackley. whose father 
was a pioneer of Licking County, and a vet- 
eran of the War of [812. John Atherton and 
wife had three children, namely : Augustine 
Washington; Walgrave, who resides near 
Madison. Wisconsin, and who married a Miss 
Fleek in Licking Count}'. Ohio; and Gibson, 
win 1 is now deceased. The latter was a very 
prominent member of the bar at Newark, was 
twice elected to Congress, and subsequi 
served on the Supreme Bench of Ohio. 

Augustine Washington \therton was horn 
on his father's farm near Newark. February 
10. 1824. and died June 15, [889. lie mar- 

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ried Cynthia Taft. who was born August jo. 
[825, and who still survives, being in the en- 
joyment of health, and the center of a vei") 
devoted family circle. There were seven chil- 
dren born of the above marriage, namely: One 
mhi. Herbert, i- serving his third term as 
mayor of Newark, Ohio; Lee. who is the di- 
rect subject of this article ; Alice, now de- 
ceased, who was the wife of helix Blizzard, of 
Newark; Wallace, who was killed on the rail- 
road, at Bement, Illinois; Gibson, who died at 
Magnetic Springs; Warren, who is a black- 
smith in Newark; Tohn, who left home and 
has not been heard of for many years. Au- 
gustine W. Atherton served as lieutenant of a 
home company during the Civil War, but 
never enlisted. Otherwise, he spent his life in 
the section in which he was born. He was 
a member of a Masonic Lodge north of New- 
ark and always took an interest in the frater- 
nity. In politics he was a Democrat but he 
never consented to hold office. He was one 
of the founders of the Christian Union Church. 

Lee Atherton remained on the home farm 
until he was twenty-one years of age. He 
then went on the road as a commercial trav- 
eler, first handling notions, but later glass- 
ware, and covering a territory that reached 
into Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, 
Virginia and Kentucky. In 1877 he settled 
down to farming, in Licking County, Ohio, 
and in [880 he purchased his present farm in 
Thompson Township. He has made all the 
improvements here and owns one of the most 
attractive properties in this section. 

Ill .1876, Mr. Atherton was married ti 1 
Ella Pound, who is a daughter of Isaac 
Pound, of Orange County. New York, and 
they have two -mis — Bert, residing on the 
home place, and Edson, who is a resident ot 
Scioto Township. 

In politics. Mr. Atherton is a Democrat 
and has been township trustee for a number 
1 if years. \t the time of his last election he 
received every Democratic and Republican vote 
pulled except one. He is a member of Pros- 
pect Lodge, No. 444. F. & A. M.. and of Mag- 
netic Springs Lodge, No. 380, Knights 
Pythias, of which he is past chancellor, ami he 



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has been sent as a representative to the Grand 




Lodge. 



H. GERHARDT, M. D.. who for 20 
years has been prominently identified 
with the medical profession of Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, is one of the 
leading citizens of Sunbury. Dr. 
Gerhardt was born near West Jefferson. Mad- 
ison County, Ohio, June S. [858, and is a son 
of Christian and Magdalena (Gerich) Gar- 
hardt. 

Christian Gerhardt was a native of Ger- 
many, where he held an important government 
position. Owing to reverses in fortune he 
came to America with his wife and six chil- 
dren, and settled in Madison County. Ohio, 
where for many years he engaged in agricul- 
tural pursuits. Later in life he removed to 
\\ est Jefferson, where he conducted a bakery 
up to the time of his death, which occurred in 
[872, in his /Jd year. His wife died in 1891, 
aged 73 years. Both were Lutherans in re- 
ligious belief. Christian Gerhardt and his 
wife had seven children, as follows: Caro- 
line, who is the wid « of William Erb, re- 
sides at Lilly Chapel. Ohio; Lizzie, who is the 
widow 1 i Petef Schmiegel, resides at Cincin- 
nati. Ohio; Catherine, who is the wife of 
George Haffner, of Columbus; Mary, who 
also resides at Columbus; Lmil. who served 
in the Civil War. was accidentally killed at 
Columbus; Christian, who was accidentally 
shot by a comrade during the Civil War; J. 
H., residing at Sunbury. 

Dr. 1. H. Gerhardt was reared on his 
father's farm in Madison County, and when 
10 or 12 years of age removed with the family 
to West Jefferson, where he assisted his father 
in the bakery business. Hi- preliminary edu- 
cation was -ecurcd in the public schools, and 
he began the study of medicine at Columbus, 
graduating from the Columbus Medical Col- 
li- e in [882, at which time be chose the town 
of Hebron as his field of practice and remained 
there for about one year. 1 1c then received an- 
appointment as assistant physician at the Ohio 



State Penitentiarv, in which capacity he 
served for three years, and in 1887 he came 
to Sunbury, where he has built up a large and 
lucrative practice. 

On July 8, 1890, Dr. Gerhardt was mar- 
ried to Emma Ayres, who was born in Spring- 
field, New; York, and is a daughter of Albert 
and Martha (Casler) Ayres. Mrs. Gerhardt 
taught for 13 years in the Sunbury public 
schools and three years in the Primary Depart- 
ment of the Coshocton public schools. Jesse 
Ayres, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Ger- 
hardt. was a son of Jesse Ayres. a Revolution- 
arv soldier, and was born in Massachuseti-. 
whence his parents had come from Ayrshire. 
Scotland, early in the 17th century. Jesse 
Ayres was a .manufacturer of woolen goods 
until reaching old age, when he took up the 
growing of hops and continued in that occu- 
pation till his death, which occurred in his 94th 
year in New York. He enlisted in the War 
of 18 1 j. but being under age did not see ser- 
vice. Mr. Ayres married Nancy "Myers, who 
died at the age of 67 years, and they had nine 
children. Mrs. Gerhardt's maternal grand- 
father, Solomon Casler, was a native of New 
York, of Dutch extraction, and was a con- 
tractor for ornamental work in the finishing 
of houses. He married Louvina Riker, and 
she died of cholera in 185 1, leaving her hus- 
band four children. Mr. Casler lived to be 
nearly 90 years old. 

Albert Ayres, father of Mrs. Gerhardt. 
was born in New York State, and in 1871 
came to Coshocton County, Ohio, from 
whence he removed in 1882 to Columbus, and 
there has been engaged in the grocery business 
for a number of years. He married Martha 
Casler, who died in January, 1902, aged 62 
years, and to them were born two children: 
Mrs. Gerhardt, and Renetta, who was the wife 
of Edward Sargent of Columbus. 

Dr. Gerhardt and bis wife are members of 
the Baptist Church, of which he is a trustee. 
He belongs to Sparrow Lodge, No. 400, of 
Masons, and Sunbury Lodge, No. 321, Knights 
of Pythias, and he and his wife are also mem- 
bers of the Eastern Star. He was surgeon in 
the Ohio National Guards, Seventeenth Reg- 



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iment, for eight years. Politically, the Doc- 
is a Democrat, and for several terms 
- a member of the city council. 




DGAR JONES, a representative citi- 
zen and prosperous farmer of Rad- 
nor Township, belongs to one of the 
early pioneer families of this section. 
He was burn in Greene County, 
Ohio, January 21, [854, and is a son of Philip 
and Jane (Tomley) Jones. 

The paternal grandfather of Edgar Jones 
was John P. Jones, who founded this family 
in ( Ihio. Both be and his wife, Mary Penry, 
were b< >rn in Wales. With their three chil- 
dren they came to America in 18 18. John P. 
Jones was one of the earliest settlers in Rad- 
ii' >r T< wnship, Delaware County, where he 
purchased 180 acres of wild land, developed 
a fine farm and lived respected and esteemed 
on his own property until his time of death, 
in 1864. The maternal grandfather of Ed- 
gar Jones was also a man of sterling charac- 
ter. He was born in England, January 12, 
1780, and died in Delaware County, Ohio, 
November 28, 1857. In early manhood he 
went to Wales, where he married and then en- 
gaged in farming in that country until 1840, 
when he brought his wife and four children to 
America. On the farm he subsecjuently bought 
in Radnor Township, Delaware County, he 
spent the remainder of his life. Of his five 
children those who reached maturity were : 
William, Hannah and Jane, all now deceased, 
and Richard B., who resides in Radnor Town- 
ship. 

Philip Jones was born on the Penlyn farm, 
in Radnor Township, Delaware County. Ohio, 
July 17. 1820, and died at Delaware, Novem- 
ber 23. 1896. He followed an agricultural 
life until May, 1896, when he retired and took 
up his residence at Delaware, having lived 
continuously in Delaware County with the ex- 
ception of 1854-5, when he resided in Greene 
County. On the Republican ticket be was fre- 
quently elected to office and he served as town- 
ship trustee, clerk, treasurer and land ap- 



praiser. He married Jane Tomley, who was 
born June 28, 1822, ami died January 2j, 
1898. They had the following children: Ed- 
gar; Susan, who married J. D. Griffith, who 
holds the responsible office of assistant Con- 
gressional postmaster, Washington, D. C. ; W. 
(iu\-. residing at Delaware; Jennie F., resid- 
ing at Delaware; and Jessie, who married W. 
E. Harris, residing at De Graff, Logan 
County, Ohio. Mrs. Jones was a member or 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, while Mr. 
[ones was a Presbyterian. Both were con- 
scientious Christian people. 

Edgar Jones was reared to manhood on 
the old home farm. His early education was 
obtained in the local schools, following which 
he spent three years in the Ohio Western Uni- 
versity, at 1 )elaware. A decade of educational 
work followed, nine years of teaching through 
Delaware County in various districts more or 
less intelligent, and one year at Prospect. His 
vacations were usually busy seasons on the 
farm and since 1882 he has devoted all of his 
attention to agricultural pursuits. To the 
grandfather's estate of 180 acres, Edgar Jones 
and his father added 20 acres. After the old 
home residence was destroyed by fire on No- 
vember 12, 1 90 1. the estate was divided, Ed- 
gar Jones receiving" 120 acres as his portion. 
In April, 1904, he bought his present farm of 
108. acres. For a number of years he gave a 
large amount of attention to growing Shrop- 
shire sheep from imported stock, and he has 
exhibited all over the State, but for the past 
12 years he has made a specialty of hogs. He 
has a valuable herd of Shorthorn cattle and a 
number of fine horses. The hay, corn and 
oats he raises he uses for feed but he sells his 
wheat. 

Mr. Jones married Anna Davis, who is a 
daughter of John J. Davis, of Delaware. Sh<? 
was born June 28, 1855. She is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church at Delaware, 

In political sentiment Mr. Jones is a Re- 
publican, but he takes only a moderate inter- 
est in party affairs. He is known to be a pub- 
lic-spirited and conscientious citizen and in 
1907 his fellow-townsmen elected him town- 
ship trustee. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 




ELL TEED COURTER. senior pro- 
Is J! prietor of Pleasant Hill stuck farm, 
which is located in Delaware Town- 
ship and is operated under the firm 
name of P. T. Courter & Sons, is 
one of this section's must progressive agri- 
culturists and stockmen. He was born in Es- 
sex County, New Jersey. August 25, 1840, 
and is a son of Henry M. and Desire C. E. 
( "feed ) Courter. 

The Courters are of Scotch and Dutch an- 
cestry, and although of several generations 
back, the solid qualities belonging to this com- 
bination are apparent in the present represen- 
tatives of the family. Henry M. Courter was 
horn in Essex County, New Jersey, and was 
a son of Henry and Charlotte (Terrell) Cour- 
ter. He learned the shoemaking trade, which 
he followed until he came to Ohio in 1857, 
when he bought a home in Berkshire Town- 
ship, to which he brought his family in the fol- 
lowing year, and remained a resilient of Del- 
aware Countw until his death. He passed the 
closing three years of his life at the home of 
his son, Pell T. Courter. The mother of Mr. 
Courter was a member of one of the oldest 
families of Essex County, New Jersey, and 
her father. Pell Teed, was a prominent mem- 
ber of a family that had been established at a 
very early date by burghers from Amsterdam, 
Holland, who settled in Livingstone To.wn- 
ship, Essex County. As Desire Teed, she was 
married ( first ) to John Jones, who died in Co- 
lumbiana County, Ohio, a few days before the 
birth of her son, John F. Jones. She subse- 
quently married Henry M. Courter, and the 
following children reached maturity: George 
H., deceased; Pell T. : Josiah, deceased; Amzi, 
residing at Galena. Ohio; Charlotte, who mar- 
ried L. W. Miller, residing at Bellefontaine ; 
and Wesley, residing al Mi. Pleasant, Michi- 
gan. The parents of the above children were 
faithful members of the Baptist Church. 

Pell Teed Courter, who bears his maternal 
grandfather's name, was eighteen years of age 
when the family came to Delaware County, 
Ohio. In those days a parent was obliged to 
die sum of two dollars a month in order 
to have his child attend school, and after he 



was eight years old, Mr. Courter was not af- 
forded many months of schooling. When 1 1 
years old he went to work at the shoe bench 
and soon learned all the details of shoemaking. 
and by the time he was 12 yars old he went to 
a journeyman shoe shop and took a job to 
w -i irk on his own account. At that time it was 
the custom for the shoemaker to take his work 
home with him. and it was with some misgiv- 
ings that the proprietor of the shop gave the 
yi iiing workman his first two-dozen shoe or- 
der. His attitude changed, however, when 
the well-made shoes were returned to him, a 
rigid inspection failing to show any defect, 
and after that, Mr. Courter had no difficulty 
in securing all the work he could do. The 
thoroughness which marked his boyish efforts 
has attended all his enterprises and undoubt- 
edly has been one of the factors in Mr. Cour- 
ter' s business success. 

Until 1883 Mr. Courter followed shoe- 
making, then became foreman in a shoe store 
for some three years, after which he engaged 
in clerking hut became interested in farming 
in 1 88 1_, when he took charge of his father-in- 
law's farm, on the east side of the river. Here 
again his thoroughness and attention to detail 
brought about success and in the spring of 
i8ij4 he bought his present farm containing 60 
acres. This he has operated mainly as a stock 
farm, making a specialty of thorough-bred 
swine and sheep, favoring the Chester White 
hogs and the Shropshire sheep, all registered, 
and giving a great tleal of profitable attention 
to choice poultry, especially to Rose Comb 
Brown Leghorns. He raises also good crops 
of corn, oats, wheat and hay. 

When the Civil War broke out, Mr. Cour- 
ter was j 1 years of age and was making an 
ample living working at his trade and was 
busy with plans for the future. When the 
first call came for troops these plans were put 
to one side ami he. with other loyal young 
men of his acquaintance, went forward and in 
a spirit of true patriotism, offered life and ser- 
vice in defense of country. In April, [86l, 
he became an enlisted private in Company 1, 
Fourth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
anil with his comrades was sent to Camp Den- 



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i] and kept there through the first enlist- 
ment. In October, 1861, he re-enlisted, en- 
tering Company E, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantry, winch was soon sent across the 



river into Virginia. 



From Wheeling the reg- 



iment followed down the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad to Martinsburg, and thence to Win- 
chester and then on to Fredericksburg. On 
June 9, 1862, he participated in the fight with. 
General Jackson's troops at Port Republic, 
where he was unfortunate enough to be taken 
prisi ner. He was sent first to the Lynchburg, 
Virginia, Fair Grounds, and from there to 
Belle Isle, where he was kept until September 
13th, when he was paroled and transferred to 
Annapolis and thence to Alexandria. Vir- 
ginia. He was detained there until Novem- 
ber _'Oth, when he joined his regiment at Boli- 
var Heights. On account of disability he was 
then ordered to he examined and in Novem- 
ber, 1862, he was honorably discharged. He 
is a member of the George B. Torrence Post, 
< .rand Army of the Republic. In his political 
affiliation, Mr. Courter is a Republican. He 
has never been an active seeker for office but 
has served as township trustee. 

Mr. Courter married Eliza Kruck, who is 
a daughter of Mathias Kruck. She was horn 
in Delaware Township. Delaware County, 
Ohio, where her father settled in [842. Mr. 
and Mrs. Courter have had three children: 
Harry. Clara and Walter. The latter is de- 
ceased but is survived by his widow and two 
si ins. Ralph and Perry. Harry Courter, the 
surviving son of P. T. Courter, 1- associated 
with his father in operating the farm and is a 
very enterprising, intelligent and successful 
business man. He married Emma Salisbury 
and they have one son. Earl H. The only 

jitter, Clara, married John H. Maxton, re- 
siding at Van Wert, Ohio, and they have four 
children: Ruth, Jean Marguerite, Reid and 
Vesta. 

Mr. Courter and family are identified with 
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. He 
has long been actively interested in the same, 
serving for years as one of the trustees and 
for some time was superintendent of the Sun- 
day-school. For a long period he has been 



an enthusiastic and practical supporter of this 
congregation and in large measure, to his ef- 
forts its well being and strength is due. In 
like manner he has supported public-spirited 
enterprises in his community, being one of the 
first to recognize the importance of good roads 
to insure speedy and safe transportation, to 
introduce improved machinery on his own 
farm and to encourage its use by others, while 
his efforts to raise the grade of stock to a high 
standard, has been of great value to all this 
section. He is one of its most representative 
men. 




RIFFITH G. BENEDICT, proprie- 
tor of the Benedict Evaporating 
Company, manufacturers of evapo- 
rated sweet corn and fancy evapo- 
rated apples, and one of the leading 
business men of Delaware Township, was born 
in Peru Township, in what is now Morrow 
County, Ohio, October 3, 1^45. and is a son of 
Aaron L. and Phebe (Wing) Benedict. 

The progenitor of this old and honored 
family was Thomas Benedict, who was born 
in 1617 in Nottingham, England, where he 
married Mary Bridgum. and came to America 
in 1038. Their son, John, was born during 
the 1 640s. and his son Joseph, had a 
Aaron, who was born December 6, 1740. in 
Connecticut, and married Elizabeth Knowles, 
who was born Februery 20. 1 74 1 . and died 
August 15, 1821. Aaron Benedict, son of 
Aaron and Elizabeth (Knowles) Benedict, 
was burn November 25. 1769, in New Mil- 
ford, Connecticut, and in the fall of 1795 emi- 
grated to New York State with his wife. Es- 
ther Lancaster, who was born April 24. 1776, 
and died September 25, 1S25. They cami 
Ohio in 1812, and here the remainder of their 
lives were spent. Mr. Benedict was an elder 
in the Society of Friends. 

Aaron L. Benedict, father of Griffith G., 
was bi rn in Peru Township. Clinton County. 
New York, the third child and only son of 
Aaron and Esther (Lancaster) Benedict. He 
was eight rears of age when the family came 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



to Ohio, and the larger part of his education 
was acquired in an old log schoolhouse. He 
grew up on the home farm, which he helped 
to clear and cultivate. Here his death oc- 
curred June 25, 1867. He was a preacher in 
the Friends Church. He married Phebe 
Wing, who was born July 22, 1808, and died 
August 20, 1884, and was a daughter of Mi- 
ner Wing, originally of Dutchess County, 
New York. Of their children, seven grew to 
maturity : Amelia, who married Jonathan 
Stanley, both now being deceased; Livius A., 
of Peru Township: Charity T., who is de- 
ceased; Lydia, deceased, who married Joseph 
Johnson; Edward A., a resident of Salem, 
Columbiana County; Griffith G. ; and Agnes 
S.. win 1 resides on the old home place. 

Griffith G. Benedict was educated in the 
district schouls as well as a private school, and 
remained at home until the death of his father. 
In 1876 he came to his present farm of 17 
acres, where he embarked in trucking, in 
which he has continued to a certain extent to 
the present time, making a specialty of bush 
fruits and strawberries. He also keeps a 
small dairy, selling his milk to a creamery. 
Mr. Benedict started the first fruit and corn 
evaporating business in the county, in a small 
way, with a home-made dryer, but by 1888 
his business had increased to such an extent 
as to warrant the erection of a large building, 
which he fitted with the most modern machin- 
ery. He now evaporates from 25.000 to 
50.000 pounds of sweet corn and as high as 
2,000 bushels of apples during the short sea- 
son, which lasts not more than two months, 
and his business is still the only one of its kind 
in Delaware County. Some years ago Mr. 
Benedict purchased an additional 33 acres, and 
also rents property. The home that stood on 
the original 17-acre tract has been changed 
into a modern residence, and large, substan- 
tial buildings have been erected, making his 
property one of the most desirable in this sec- 
tion 1 if the tow nship. 

On July 23, 1N74. Mr. Benedict was mar- 
ried to Ellen Willits, who is the daughter of 
Joel Willits. of Cardington Township, Mor- 
row County, Ohio, and two children have been 
born to this union: Ethel and Frances W. 



Mr. Benedict is an active Prohibitionist. 
In religion Mr. and Mrs. Benedict are mem- 
bers of the Friends Church. 




leading business citi- 



H. RICHEY, a 

zen of Warrensburg, and one of the 

substantial men of Scioto Township, 

where he owns two valuable farms, 

comprising 143 acres, was born in 

Scioto Township, Delaware County. Ohio. 

January 25, 1874. and is a son of James M. 

and Ella (Berlett) Richey. 

James M. Richey, father of F. II., is one 
of Delaware's representative citizens, and is a 
member of the firm of Bird. Richey & Chris- 
tian, proprietors of the White Sulphur Stone 
Company. He was born June 23. [854, in 
Scioto Hownship and is a son of Isaac New- 
ton and Eliza (McClure). Both the Richeys 
and the McClures were pioneer settlers in Sew 
oto Township. 

F. H. Richey was reared on the home farm 
and secured his education in the schi - I 
Scioto Township. When he was 20 years of 
age he started out in life for himself, as a hay 
and straw dealer, and has remained connected 
with this industry ever since. He does a large 
business, shipping straw to Cleveland and hay 
to West Virginia, by the 100 car loads. He 
has a tenant on his farms, where he devotes 
four or five acres to apple orchards and raises 
150 head of sheep and from 15 to 18 head of 
cattle. 

Mr. Richey married Rosa Snyder, who is 
a daughter of Leonard Snyder, and they have 
three children : Eliza, Kilbourn and Amy 
Iola. Mrs. Richey is a member of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. In politics. Mr. 
Richey is a stanch Democrat and for six years 
he has been a member of the Board of Elec- 
tions, a township trustee and a member of the 
School Board for seven years. His fraternal 
connections include Ruffner Lodge, No. 330, 
Odd Fellows, of Radnor, of which he is past 
grand, Ruffner F.ebekahs. Lodge No. 248, and 
Scioto Camp, No. 92, of Woodmen of the 
World, of which he is an official. 



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DWARD D.JONES, one of the oldest 
and most highly respected citizens of 
Radnor Township, was born at 
Llangaffan, Breconshire, South 
Wales, April 16, (826, ami is a son 
oi Daniel and Sarah (Jefferson) Jones. 

The father of Mr. Jones was horn in Brec- 
onshire and never left his native place, where 
he died when aged 69 years. He was a small 
farmer and was a man of great industry. He 
married a daughter of 1 high Jefferson, who 
resided in Radnorshire. South Wales, and 
they had six children, Edward I), being the 
youngest member of the family and the only 
survivor and the only one who came to 
America. The family was reared in the faith 
of the Congregational Church. 

Edward D. Jones grew up on his father's 
little farm and attended the schools near his 
home, lie was more ambitious and venture- 
some than the other members of the fam- 
ily and when he reached manh 1 

he decided to emigrate to America, 
where he hoped industrial opportunities 
were better than in his own land. He 
felt unwilling, however, to have the Atlantic 
Ocean roll between him and the maiden of his 
choice, therefore he was married January 30, 
1852, and on April 12 following, he embarked 
with his bride on the sailing vessel "States 
Rights." for the United States, which landed 
them safely eight weeks later, at Castle Gar- 
den, New York. Mr. Jones came to Radnor, 
Delaware County. Ohio, where he found em- 
ployment and worked industriously until he 
had accumulated enough capital to purchase 
jo acres of land in Radnor Township, near 
Warrensburg. Here he first built a humble 
1' g cabin and then cleared and fenced his 
property and during the 12 years which he 
spent on it, put it under a fine state of culti- 
vation. In 1864 he bought his present farm 
of a little over 100 acres. 35 of which had been 
cleared, and a comfortable log cabin stood on 
the place, in which the family resided until 
I884. In that year he built the present fine 
two-story frame house, which contains 12 
large rooms. His substantial barns were 
erected three years after he look possession of 



the farm. Mr. Jones during his active years 
rawed many horse-, cattle, sheep and h >gs and 
also sufficient grain with which to feed them. 
Mr. Jones is a man of independent means hut 
every dollar he has made through In- own ef- 
forts. The only advantage he had over many 
others who started out in life at the same time 
he did. was the possession of unusual physical 
strength and to this he added industry, clean 
living and continued prudence. 

Mr. Jones was married to Mary Davis, 
who died in 1886, aged 51 years. She was 
the beloved mother of a large family, three of 
which died and eight survived to maturity, 
namely: Miriam, who grew to womanhood, 
married Joel Griffiths, and died in Radnor 
Township; Sarah, deceased, who married 
Evan T. Jones, who reside- at Richwood; 
Isaac, who is deceased: Elizabeth, wdio mar- 
ried Stephen Davis, residing in Radnor Town- 
ship; Mary Ann, who married William Her- 
bert, residing in Radnor Township ; Ruth, who 
married Edward Hadley, residing in Radnor 
Township: Alice, who married Griffith Rob- 
erts, who operates the Jones farm; Martha, 
win 1 married James Osborne, residing in Rad- 
nor Township. Mr. Jones and family belong- 
to the Congregational Church, in which he is 
a deacon. Since the election of President Lin- 
coln, he has been identified with the Republi- 
can party, but has prohibition tendencies. He 
attributes a large measure of his excellent 
health of mind and body to the fact that he has 
been temperate in all things and has never 
used either tobacco or liquor. He is a man 
who in every way deserves the high regard in 
which he is held by his fel'ow citizens. 




OHN COWGILL, one of Delaware 
Township's substantial agriculturists, 
who owns and operates a fine farm of 
mi >re than 200 acres, was born July 
18, 1842, in Jefferson Township. Lo- 
gan County, Ohio, and is a son of Daniel and 
Mary ( Everett ) Cowgill. 

Thomas Cowgill, the grandfather, was 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



born in Frederick County, Virginia, July 27, 
1777. and died September 16, 1846. He was 
a blacksmith by trade, an occupation which 
he followed in his native locality until his mar- 
riage, and then removed to Columbiana 
County, Ohio. Mr. Cowgill married Sarah 
Antrim, who was born September 16, 1780. 
in Stafford County, Virginia, and died June 6, 
1868, and to them there were born the follow- 
ing children: Ann, born November 27, 1800, 
in Culpeper County, Virginia, died October 
13. 1873; Henry, born in Columbiana County, 
Ohio, October 30, 1802, died September 12, 
[869; Susanna, born November 1. 1804. died 
February 8, 1851; Daniel, born October 8. 
180(1, died Aprd 8. 1896; Sarah, born Sep- 
•tember 3, 1809; Thomas, born June [9, 1812; 
Joseph, born May 15, 1814; Levi, born April 
8, [816, died June 5. 1859; Lydia, born in 
Champaign County, Ohio.. February i, 1818; 
John, born January 4, 1820, resides in Frank- 
lin County. Ohio; and Eli, born May 27, 1822. 
The family were Quakers. 

Daniel Cowgill, father of John, was born 
between Lisbon and Salem, in Columbiana 
County, Ohio, October 8, 1806, and as a boy 
accompanied his parents to Champaign 

mty, where he received a limited education 
and learned the trade of cabinet maker and 
undertaker. lie located in Zanesfield, Logan 
Count}-, where he established himself in busi- 
ness, and lie always spoke with pride of having 
made Samuel Kenton'-, coffin. In 1850 Mr. 
Cowgill engaged in farming on rented land 
near Delaware, but two years later purchased 
the farm now owned by bis son John, which 
he continued t<> operate until his death. He 
was first a Whig and later a Republican in 
us. ami served as justice of the peace of 
Logan County for nine years, and as trustee 
f r a long peril id. 

Mr. Cowgill was married (first 1 to llepse- 
beth Stokes, who was born December 24, 
iSin. and died August 14, [836, and they had 
two children: Deborah, who was born De- 
cember 15, 1831; and Joseph Stokes, born 
May 4. 1834. Mr. Cowgill's second marriage 
to Mary Everett, who was born August 
31, 181 I, and died May 15. 1875. daughter of 



Thomas Everett of Champaign County. Of 
their children, five grew to maturity : Sarah, 
born December 29, 1840, is the widow of John 
Sites and lives at Camp Chase, Franklin 
County; John; Rev. Josephine, twin of John, 
for several years was a missionary in Pales- 
tine, ami is now located at Los Angeles, Cali- 
fornia, where she still carries on missionary 
work; Ottaway C, born September 25, 184(1. 
died July 31, 1888; and Daniel E.. born April 
12. 1854, at one time principal of the schools 
of Delaware, is now located at Columbus. Mr. 
and Mrs. Cowgill were members of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church. Mr. Cowgill having 
had to leave the Quaker faith to muster in the 
old militia, as he was unable to pay the fine for 
111 t mustering. 

John Cowgill received his education in his 
native township and at Delaware, where he 
taught school for three terms, farming dur- 
ing the summer months. His parents had es- 
tablished a small dairy, and this he greatly en- 
larged, operating a milk route until Septem- 
ber, 1902, keeping about 30 head of cattle, 
and raising most of bis feed. He now has 20 
bead o.f cattle and 123 sheep, and about half 
of his farm is under cultivation, four acres be- 
ing devoted to apple trees, although the prin- 
cipal crops are corn, oats, wdieat and hay. The 
residence and main barn were built by Mr. 
Cowgill's parents, but the additions and other 
buildings have been built by him. Fraternally 
he is connected with the Lodge and Chapter 
of the Masonic order. He is a Republican in 
politics, and was township trustee for six years 
and land appraiser two terms. 

On May 2j , 1875, Mr. Cowgill was mar- 
ried to Ellen X. Yates, who was born January 
15, 1832. in Knox County, Illinois, and is a 
daughter of Thomas Yates, and to this union 
there were born five children: John Arthur, 
born July 2J , 1870, resides in Delaware; Mary 
Everett, born October 8. 1877, married Wil- 
liam Griffith, of Delaware; Margaret Elnora, 
born October 1, 1880. died January r6, 1896; 

Thomas Elw I. horn July jj. 1885, is a 

member of the class of [908 at the Ohio State 
University; and Oliver Clyde, born February 
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Mr. Cowgill is a Presbyterian, while his 
wife is a member of William Street Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and is very active in church 
and charitable work, having been for some 
years president of the Aged People's Home. 




1. ADAMSON, of the firm of Schop- 
pert & Adamson, lumber merchants. 
at 1 Kt rander. was horn in Randolph 
County, Indiana, April 16, 1867, and 
is a son of Ira and Nancy (Will- 
more) Adamson. 

The Adamson family is of English extrac- 
The grandfather of J. i. Adamson was 
Abraham Adamson, who was a pioneer in In- 
diana, where he became prominent in public 
affairs. The maternal grandfather was a na- 
tive of Virginia. Me married Eliza Love, 
whose mother was a Harrison, belonging to 
the old Virginia family from which came two 
presidents of the United States. 

Ira Adamson, father of J. I... is a highly 
respected retired citizen of Winchester. In- 
diana. He served as a soldier in the Union 
army during the Civil War and is a member 
nf the Grand Army Post at Winchester. He 
was a successful farmer for many years and 
for 15 years prior to retiring from active life, 
he was engaged in the bee business. He is 
a Republican in his political views and has 
frequently held township offices. He married 
a daughter of William C. Willmore, of Win- 
chester, who still survives. For 14 years Mr. 
Willmore was county recorder. Mr. and Mrs. 
Adamson had 10 children, namely: Willis A.. 
residing at Saratoga, Indiana; Mary E.; Sa- 
rah: Jesse W.. residing on the home farm: 
Alice A.; John W.. deceased; J. I.: George 
W.. residing at Everett. Washington, was 
clerk of the court there for eight years; and 
Hannah and Edith. The parents of this fam- 
ily are members of the Baptist Church, in 
which the father has been very active for many 
rs, frequently occupying the pulpit, lie is 
n> i\v in his 77th year. 

J. I. Adamson was reared in Indiana and 
educated in the Randolph High School 



and the National Normal University at Leb- 
anon, Ohio, remaining in the latter institution 
fir two years, after which he returned to Win- 
chester and taught in the public schools for the 
next five years. Failing health compelled him 
to abandon teaching and for the seven follow- 
ing years he engaged in farming in Scioto 
Township. In 1X91 he came to Ostrander and 
entered into partnership with J. A. Hayes, in 
the hardware line, under the firm name of 
Hayes & Adamson, which continued two 
years, when Mr. Adamson closed out his in- 
terest. For -iime four or five years he then 
conducted a restaurant. In the fall of 1905, 
he bought a farm of Albert Huntley, but re- 
turned to Ostrander in a few months and en- 
tered into partnership with his present asso 
ciate. The firm operates a portable sawmill, 
deals mainly in hard wood and ships largely 
to Dayton. Ohio. Mr. Adamson was one of 
the organizers of the Ostrander Banking Com 
pan}-, at Ostrander, and with the exception of 
one year, has been one of its directi irs ever 
since its beginning. 

Mr. Adamson married Minnie Manville. 
who was born in Scioto Township, Delaware 
County, Ohio, and they have one daughter, 
Lois Ellen. In politics. Mr. Adamson is a 
stanch Republican. He is a member of Os- 
trander Lodge. F. & A. M., and of Edinburg 
Lodge. Odd Fellows, of which he is past 
grand, and has also held the office of district 
deputy grand master. He is one of Ostran- 
der's representative men. 



ENJAMIN V. ax.) LYMAN 1'. Mc- 
MASTER, extensive land owners 
and farmers of Brown Township, 
Delaware County, Ohio, have at- 
tained a high degree of success and. 
are widely known throughout the county. 
Operating under the firm name of McMaster 
Brothers, they have cultivated the tract of 425 
acre- left by their father, and to this added 
from time t<> time until the farm has been al- 
most doubled in size. In pasl years they 
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scale, making a specialty of high grade Short 
Horn cattle and standard-bred draft horses 
and roadsters. They have bred and raised 
some fast horses, which made fine records 
for speed on various race courses. In Short- 
Horn breeding they have favored the red, and 
have a large herd almost uniformly of that 
color. Substantial men of the public spirited 
type, the McMaster Brothers have always 
worked for those improvements which tend to 
add to the comforts of life, as well as to en- 
hance the value of property, in Brown Town- 
ship. 

The McMaster family has long been one 
of prominence in Delaware County. Benja- 
min McMaster, the grandfather, was born 
September 24, 1795. in Ontario County, New 
York, and was the third in a family of four 
children, lie was quite young when his father 
died, and in 1813 located in Scioto County, 
Ohio. 'There he operated the first saw-mill 
in the county, and sawed the lumber used in 
the old State House in Columbus. In [814 
he moved to the village of Worthington, and 
lived in part of the bouse in which Colonel 
Kilbourne kept tavern. In the latter part of 
the same year, he came to Delaware County 
and cleared twenty acres for Dr. Warren. In 
1817 he went to Champaign Count}', and the 
next year married a daughter of Lemuel G. 
Humphrey, of Liberty Township, Delaware 
County, who lived but a few year-. Shortly 
afterward he again came to Delaware County 
and bought 100 acres of land on Elm Creek, 
upon which he built a cabin of the pioneer 
pattern, moving into it about ten o'clock one 
cold December night, when about fifteen 
inches of snow covered the ground. This is 
a little evidence of the hardships of the pio- 
neer days. lb- worldl) possessions at that 
time were one yoke of steers, one heifer, ten 
head of young hogs, a dog. a small supply of 
household goods and provisions, and fifty dol- 
lars in money, lie cleared ln- farm, which 
was considered in those days the finest im 
proved and richest in Brown Township, it 
being bottom land, which before the days . .1 
extensive drainage was not subject to fre- 
quent inundation as at present. Benjamin 



McMaster resided on this farm until (85 
when he moved to Ashley and erected a ware- 
bouse and forming a business partnership, be 
continued in this business until his death in 
1888. By his first marriage, Benjamin had 
three children, namely: Robert; Horace, who 
in 1852 bought the farm settled upon by bis 
father and William. His second marriage was 
with Electa Perry, widow of William Berry, 
by whom be had three children — Alvin, El- 
mina and Philemon Perry. The children of 
her second union : George. Esther, Hiram and 
Eloisa. This hardy old pioneer treated lus 
own and the Berry children with the same 
kindness and consideration, and assisted each 
to an excellent start in life. 

Robert G. McMaster. lather of the Mc- 
Master Brothers, was born December 3. 18 18, 
and grew to manhood on the home estate in 
Brown Township. He worked out by the 
month for two years for David Bush, and 
with the aid of bis father bought 100 acres 
of land which was the nucleus of the large 
farm of McMaster Brothers. This place was 
very little improved and Robert lived in a 
cabin for some years. He bought and bred 
stock with good results, financially, and added 
to his realty holdings until at his death, Febru- 
ary 28. 1873, he had 423 acres. He was 
joined in marriage with Mary Worline. who 
was born in Troy Township, and was a daugh- 
ter of Henry Worline. She died December 
10, 1847. five children having been born of 
their union, as follows: Benjamin F., born 
September 15. 1842: Lyman P., born April 
6, 1844; Theodore D., born October 2T,, 1843. 
died June 24. 1889; Mary Emma and Mary 
Etta, twins, born December 3, 1847. The 
latter died young and the former is the widow 
1 if David ( ). Jones, by whom she had a daugh- 
ter, Hattie R. Jones. Mrs. Jones lives on the 
farm her grandfather settled on and improv.ed. 
Robert G. McMaster was a Democrat and al- 
though not active in politics served as township 
trustee and once was a candidate for county 
commissioner. Religiously, he was a mem- 
ber of the Universalist Church. 

Benjamin F. McMaster served nearly three 
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the rank of corporal, lie enlisted August i 3. 
[862, in Company 1). One Hundred and Twen- 
ty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 
was mustered in September 10, anil in just 28 
days thereafter participated in the battle oi 
Perry ville, Kentucky. He was with the Army 
of the Cumberland. He took part in many 
important engagements, among them: Chick - 
amauga; Chattanooga, where they had three 
or four days' fighting; accompanied General 
Sherman from Chattanooga to Atlanta, being 
in spirited action at Kenesaw Mt.; Rome, 
Georgia; Red Oak Station, Georgia; and 
Jonesboro. After arriving at Atlanta, Davis' 
Division, of which the One Hundred and 
Twenty-first Regiment was a part, was de- 
tached and sent to Florence, Alabama, after 
which they rejoined General Sherman at At- 
lanta, and on November 15, began the memor- 
able march to the sea, arriving at Savannah, 
on December 10, 1864. On January 20th be- 
gan the invasion of South Carolina, and then 
of North Carolina, actions at Averysboro, 
Bentonville and Goldsboro, making their ex- 
pedition. The army arrived at Raleigh, North 
Carolina, where they were located at the time 
of General Johnston's surrender. Proceeding 
northward they participated in the Grand Re- 
view at Washington, D. C, and were there 
honorably discharged, June 8, 1865. Al- 
though passing through the war without seri- 
ous sickness or injury, he had numerous nar- 
row escapes. At Kenesaw Mountain, where 
164 of the regiment met death in about fifteen 
minutes of fighting, a piece of shell struck and 
bent the barrel of Air. McMaster's gun, ren- 
dering it useless, but saving him from in- 
jury and possible death. On June 19, 1865, 
he returned home to Brown Township, where 
he has resided continuously since. 

Lyman P. Mc. Master, who has always been 
rec< ignized as a capable business man. was 
called upon to serve as commissioner of Dela- 
ware County, serving three years, one year 
being chairman of the board, in a most effi- 
cient manner. He was elected on the Demo- 
cratic ticket by a majority of 480 votes, al- 
though located in a Republican stronghold. 
He has also served two terms as township 
trustee. 




F. WILT, a prominent and influential 
general merchant of Ashley, enjoying 
an extensive and lucrative patronage 

from the citizens of this community, 
was born October 3. [849, in Clarion 
County. Pennsylvania, and is a son of John 
and Catherine Wilt, both of whom were na- 
tives of Germany, who located in Clarion 
Count}-. Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Wilt spent the first 17 years of his 
life 111 Clarion County, Pennsylvania, and on 
April (1, 1867, when about 17 years old. came 
to Ashley with James L. Wray, who established 
a general store on the site where Mr. Wilt's 
present store is located. He continued in the 
employ of Air. Wray until the latter failed m 
business, when he sold out the stock for the 
receivers; after which he formed a partnership 
with Air. Corbett, with whom he continued 
associated for five years. He then sold his 
interest in the firm and clerked for others for 
about five or six years. In [882 he established 
his present business. He has gained an envi- 
able reputation as an honest and up-to-date 
merchant, and his customers always receive 
prompt and courteous attention. He erected 
his present two-story building in 1883, having 
been previously located a few doors west. He 
carries a full line of dry goods and shoes and 
aNo ;i >mall line of groceries and notions. Air. 
Wilt is a man of more than ordinary business 
ability, am 
has been well earned. 

On October 28, 1877. Mr. Wilt was joined 
in marriage with Emma Clifton, who was born 
in Perry County, Ohio, and to them were born 
the following children: George Clayton, born 
August 3. 1878, died on December 15, 1880; 
Merril, born February i<>. 1X80. died January 
2, 1S81 ; Elizabeth I'.elle. born April 22, iSSj, 
married L. K. Wornstaff, superintendent of 
the public schools of Ashley: Marie, born 
February 16. 1884; Marion Muriel, was born 
April 24. 1885. who is the wife of Ralph Da- 
vis, a teacher in the public schools; Genevieve, 
born August 19, 1889; and Harold, who was 
born in November, 1892, and died May 3. 
1894. 

Politically identified with the Republican 
party, Air. Wilt served six years as township 



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clerk, was six years a member of the Sc1im.i1 
Board, and for four years had charge of the 
postoffice of Ashley, during President Harri- 
son's administration. He is a member of the 
Ashley Lodge, F. & A. M. 




IMOTHY GOMER JONES, general 
farmer of Radnor Township, was 
born July r8, 1853, ' n Radnor Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio, and is 
a son of Evan T. and Ellen (Junes) 
Jones. 

Evan T. Jones was born in South Wales, 
in 1818. and died in Ohio, January 18. 1896. 
He grew to manhood in South Wales and 
on coming to America settled in Radnor 
Township, near the river, where he acquired 
a farm of 97 acres. At one time he was an 
active member of the Odd Fellows and as- 
sisted in erecting the fraternity's building at 
Radnor. In politics he was a Democrat. He 
married the widow of his brother Thomas. 
She was born in North Wales and was a 
daughter of David Jones. The four children 
of the second marriage who grew out of in- 
fancy were: Elizabeth, who married James 
Paulding, residing at East St. Louis, Illinois: 
Thomas T.. residing at Prospect : Timothy G. ; 
and Alary Ellen, who married Robert Thomas, 
residing in Radnor Township. Mr. and 
.Mrs. Jones are members of the 1 Congregation il 
Church. 

Timothy Comer Jones was six years old 
when his parents moved to the farm he now 
o\\n>. and his father built the residence and 
other structures. He secured his education 
in the district schools and his occupation has 
always been farming. To the original acre- 
age of the farm he has added until he now 
owns 143 acres. This In- has under a tine state 
of cultivation. Like his father. Air. Jones 
believes in the principles of die Democi 
party. 

On February 14. 1N7N. Mr. Jones was 
married to Elizabeth Jane Jones, who is a 
daughter of John A. and Mary (Newell) 
Cones. Three children have been born to 



them, of whom one is deceased, the two sur- 
vivors being: Evan T.. residing at Pincon- 
ning, .Michigan, and John A. Air. and Airs. 
Jones belong to the Congregational Church 
at Radnor, of which he has served as a 
trustee. 

John A. Jones, father of Airs. Timothy 
G. Jones, was born in North Wales and died 
in Ohio in 1895, a g ef l 7° years. He grew to 
manhood on his father's farm in Wales prior 
to coming to America with his bride. In [854 
they reached Columbus, Ohio. Here he learned 
the blacksmith's trade which he followed until 
within five years of his death. For _' 1 years 
he worked in the Aliami shops and was also 
employed in the Panhandle Railroad shops, 
later going into business for himself. Of his 
five children four reached maturity, namely: 
Elizabeth Jane: Airs. Catherine Williams; 
Mary Ann, who is the widow of George F. 
Twitchell, of Columbus, Ohio; and Emma 
Gertrude, also a resident of Columbus. 




)HN J. MILLER, a progressive farmer 
of Delaware Township, residing on 
his valuable farm of 75 acres, was 
born in Baden, Germany. October 2^. 
1845. and is a son of Jacob and Eliza- 
beth (Wightman) .Miller. The father of Air. 
Miller died in Germany, after which his mother 
came to America, where two of her sisters and 
a brother had already settled. She located 
for a few years in Franklin Township and then 
moved to Delaware Township. 

John J. Aliller spent the larger part of his 
boyhood with his uncle. Warner Marquette, oi 
Liberty Township, where he was given school 
advantages. When the Civil War broke out 
he was assisting on the farm. He enlisted in 
Compan) E, Second Regiment. Ohio Volun- 
teer Heavy Artillery, and was stationed'in 
Kentucky. Tennessee and Georgia. He is a 
member of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
After he returned from the army. Mr. 
Aliller rented land for several years, after 
which he bought about 50 acres in Delaware 
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by his wife, makes a compact farm, large 
enough For easy handling, and here Air. Miller 
has earned on general farming- and stock-rais- 
ing. He cultivates about 60 acres of his land, 
raising corn, oats, wheat and hay, and as he 
believes in using fertilizer, he has good crops 
when many others fail. lie keeps seven head 
of cattle, makes high grade butter, has 25 
head of thoroughbred Duroc hogs and pays 
considerable attention to poultry. 

Mr. Miller married Mary Elizabeth Lind- 
ner, who is a daughter of Frederick G. Lind- 
ner, of Delaware Township, and they have 
had nine children, the four who grew to ma- 
turity being: Frank, is married, resides at 
Delaware: Harry, also married, resides in 
Delaware: Katherine, who married George W. 
Owen, of Delaware Township; and Ellsworth, 
who resides at home. Mrs. Miller is a mem- 
ber of the Lutheran Church. Formerly Mr. 
Miller was identified with the Democratic 
party, but he has been a Republican since the 
second administration of President Cleve- 
land. He is no seeker fi >r 1 iffice, but always 
take- an active interest in electing those who 
have records as good citizens. He is an in- 
telligent, well-informed man and has adopted 
modern methods of agriculture, his land show- 
ing the results of his care. He built the pres- 
ent comfortable residence. 




ILLIAM L. PEET, who has lived 
retired from active pursuits, in his 
pleasant home at Richwood, since 
[880, still owns his farm of 170 
acres, a part of the old l'eet home- 
stead, which is situated in Thompson Town- 
ship. Mr. l'eet was horn in Delaware County, 
Ohio. July X. [856, and is a son of William 
J. ami Anna ( Welch ) Peet. 

Air. l'eet is a member of one of the old- 
est families of New England. His ance 
John Peet, crossed the Atlantic, from Duffield 

parish, Derbyshire. England, in the g 1 ship 

"Hopewell," in 1635. He died in [678, aged 
Si years. John Peet (2d) married Mary 
Morehouse in [696 and they had three daugh- 



ters and three sons, one of the latter being 
1 lavid l'eet. who was horn June 30, [698. I le 
was married to Alary Titherton, October II, 
[719. One of his sons, Samuel Peet, known 
as a hermit, devoted his life to the study of 
astronomical science. He married Sarah Wild- 
man. It was probably his brother, Lemuel 
Peet, who was the great-grandfather of Wil- 
liam L. Peet. He died in an old age at the 
home of his son, \||>a l'eet, in Berlin Town- 
ship, Delaware County. 

Alba l'eet. grandfather of William L., was 
horn in Litchfield County. Connecticut, and 
from there came to Franklin County, Ohio, 
accompanied by his father ami his own family. 
This was about 1830, and he settled on a 
farm within two miles of Worthington, his 
near neighbor being Ossian Gardner, with 
whom he later became interested in the manu- 
facture of brick. For 15 years they did an 
extensive business for the time, and their 
product was used in the construction of main 
of the buildings in the heart of the present 
city of Columbus. Alba Peet resided near 
Worthington for about jo years, when he sold 
his farm there and bought one situated in Ber- 
lin Township, four miles east of Delaware. 
There were 200 acres in this tract, very little 
of which had yet been cleared. Air. Peet sold 
that farm 10 years later, after which he re- 
sided at Delaware, where he died in 1879, 
aged 84 years. He was a man of sterling- 
character, strong in his convictions of right. 
Politically, he was an old-time Democrat. He 
was married (first) to Harriet Orton and 
lour of their five children reached manhood, 
namely: William J.; Or ha (born in [824, 
died in 1905). who married David Cronkel- 
ton, and left two children — Herman (de- 
ceased) and Helen Af., who is the widow of 
Dr. Calvin Welch, of Delaware; and Frank- 
lin and J-udd, both of whom are deceased. 
Alba Peet and wife were among the early 
members of the Methodisl Episcopal Church 
in this section, and were most worthy people in 
every particular. 

William J. Peet was horn in Liti 
County. Connecticut, and was twelve years old 
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remained at home until he was 21 years old, 
when he visited a section then seemingly on 
the western border of civilization — Wisconsin 
and Minnesota. After living there for eight 
years, he returned to Delaware, where he was 
married (first) to Pamela Halley. They had 
one daughter, Ida. who married a Air. Thurs- 
ton and is since deceased. 

Just prior to the Civil War. William J. 
Peet moved to Thompson Township and 
bought a farm to which he continued to add 
until he owned 221 acres. There he lived 
until he removed to Richwood, where he re- 
sided for a number of years before his death. 
In politics he was a Democrat and he took an 
important part in his township's affairs and 
served in the offices of trustee and treasurer. 
He wa- married (secondly) to Anna Welch, 
who was a daughter of Hiram Welch and they 
had three children, two of whom survive — 
Lester G., residing at Richwood, and William 
L. William J. Peet married for his third 
wife. Mrs. Melissa Evans, who still survives, 
at the age of 90 years. 

William L. Peet continued to reside on the 
old homestead in Thompson Township until 
[888, when he moved to Richwood. He mar- 
ried Lida Marriott, who is a daughter of J. 
1'. Marriott, of Richwood. and they have two 
children: Harry E. born in 1881, and re- 
siding in Chicago, and Judd M., born in 1885, 
who is residing at home. Airs. Peet is a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to 
which Mr. Peet gives liberal support. He 
was reared politically in the principles of the 
Democratic part)- and still votes for its candi- 
dates, but is never an active participant in 
political campaigns. 




EXTER X. DALTON, one of the 
highly esteemed citizens of Delaware 
Township, Delaware Count v. Ohio, 
who is carrying on general farming 
on an 82-acre tract, was born No- 
vember 3, [835, in Bainbridge, Chenango 
Countv. Xew York, ami is a son of Isaac and 
Eliza (Miller) Dalton. 



Isaac Dalton, who was also a native of 
Xew York, came to Ohio about 1845, an d re- 
mained for a year or two in Delaware County, 
subsequently removing to Illinois, where he 
and his wife spent most of their lives. They 
had these children: Eveline and Adeline, the 
former of whom is deceased: Dexter X.; Mar- 
garet. who is deceased; James, who was born 
in Ohio: Airs. Lorette Perry, who resides at 
Momence, Illinois; and Mary. 

Dexter N. Dalton was nine or ten year> of 
age when he accompanied his parents to Ohio, 
and made the trip further West with them, 
but subsequently, when 15 years old. re- 
turned to Delaware County, wdiere he lived 
until 22 years old. being engaged in farm 
work. He then again went West, where he 
farmed until 1863, in which year he enlisted 
in Company D. One Hundred and Thirteenth 
Regiment. Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and 
served about one year, being ill most of the 
time. After receiving an honorable discharge, 
Air. Dalton went to Onarga, Illinois, where he 
made his home until 1902, in that year pur- 
chasing his present farm of 82 acres, where he 
carries on general farming. Air. Dalton is 
also the owner of a fine tract of 134 acres in 
Oxford Township, which is being cultivated 
by his son, William D., as a general farm. 

Air. Dalton was married (first) to Ella 
M. Libhart, who was born in Michigan, and 
was the daughter of P. T. B. Libhart. Airs. 
Dalton died in 1879, aged 28 years, having 
been the mother of eight children, of whom 
seven grew to maturity, as follows : Francis 
H., who assists his father on the home farm; 
Fred L, who lives in Illinois; Fannie J., who 
married Christian Thompson, a resident of 
Minnesota; William D.. of Oxford Township; 
Fletcher L., who lives in Montana; Floyd A., 
who also resides in Montana; and Ferdinand 
O.. who is deceased. Charles A., died in in- 
fancy. Air. Dalton was married, secondly, to 
Sarah J. Johnson. Airs. Dalton is a member of 
the Congregational faith, but for convenience 
attends the Alethodist Episcopal Church with 
her husband. He is connected with the Grand 
Army of the Republic Post at Onarga. Illi- 
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[MBALL SEDGWICK, secretary and 
manager of the Sunbury Co-operative 
Creamery Company, at Sunbury, 

( >lii". was born in this place, July 17, 
[862, and is a son of William S. and 
Irene 1 Kimball 1 Sedgw ick. 

The father oi Mr. Sedgwick was formerly 
a minister in the Baptist Church and became 
State superintendent of Sunday schools for 
that body for the State of Kentucky, lie was 
May J4. 1836, was reared at Duncan 
Falls. Ohio, and died in Kentucky, Septem- 
ber 29, 1866. He was married to Irene Kim- 
ball. September 25, [861. She contracted a 
second marriage, with the late George Arm- 
strong, who died January 29, 1886. Of the 
first marriage there were two children — Kim- 
and George. The latter was accidentally 
killed on the railroad, when 16 years old. Of 
the second marriage there was one son — 
Charles O., who resides with his mother in 
Sunbury, and who. since 1894, has been assist- 
ant cashier of the Farmers' Hank, of this place. 

Kimball Sedgwick obtained his education 
in the schools of Sunbury and took a business 
course in a commercial college at Cleveland, 
Ohio. When 16 years of 
clerk in a dry 
when 22 years old he conducted a dry goods 
ami grocery business, in which he continued 
to be interested for 15 years. 

Mr. Sedgwick was married in February, 
1884, tn Sarah Louise Brown, who was horn 
in Lake County, Ohio, and who is a daughter 
of Watson H. and Sarah 1 Armstrong) Brown. 
They have three children, namely : George, 
Elizabeth and Roland. In politics be is a Re- 
publican. He is a Mason and a member of the 
Eastern Star. 

On the death of Joseph Kimball 1 his 
uncle), who was prominently identified with 
the Sunbury Co-operative Creamery Company. 
Mr. Sedgwick sold out his mercantile interests 
and became secretary and manager of this 
concern which has been organized since Janu- 
ary 28, [892, by the farmers and citizens of 
this vicinity. For 11 years, the late Joseph 
H. Kimball was secretary and manager, and 
the late Otis H. Kimball, formerly president of 



age he became a 
g Is store at Sunbury and 



the Farmers' Hank, was treasurer for 1 _' 
years. 

Iln- enterprise has proved profitable from 
the -tart. Milk to the amount of 2,298 pounds 
was received May 2, 1892, with 22 patrons. 
A stead) growth has followed and in the 
month of July. [907, the amount of milk re- 
ceived was 1.927. 106 pounds and the amount 
of butter produced was 110,000 pi muds, with 
1.034 patrons. In 1907 the vast sum of $223,- 
OOO was paid out tn farmers. In 1901 the 
creamery commenced establishing skimming 
statii n- and they now have them at 
Cheshire. Cond'it, Centervillage, Eden and 
Marin. 1. embracing territory of about 15 mile- 
radius. Their products are shipped to lead- 
ing points, and they have no second quality. 
The officers -1' the company are: L. lames 
Wilson, president; William" D. Miller, vice- 
president; C. ( ). Armstrong, treasurer, and 
Kimball Sedgwick, secretary and manager. 
The board of directors is made up of the fol- 
lowing leading citizens: James Cockrell, Jas- 
per Boyd. John Landin, Edwin .Phillips, 
Samuel Rosecrans, L. James Wilson and Wil- 
liam _D. Miller, the most of whom have been 
in office since the establishment of the busi- 
ness. During the year 11)06-07, there has been 
erected a modern, fire-proof plant, built ac- 
cording to sanitary principles, that is not ex- 
celled in any way by any other in the coun- 
try. The plant has cost about $30,000, and 
the location covers three and a half acres. The 
business is conducted with farmers on a 
strictly co-operative plan. It is one of the 
most prosperous industries of Delaware 
County. 




HARLES C. MILLER. In naming 
the progressive men of Delaware 
County, Ohio, mention sin mid lie 
made of the late Charles C. Miller, 
a leading agriculturist and business 
man. in whose death Delaware Township losl 
one of its most highly esteemed citizens. .Mr. 
Miller was born in Delaware Township. Dela- 
ware County, Ohio. November S, i8;j. and 



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was a son of Henry and Angeline (Brower) 
.Miller. 

Henry Miller, who was a mason by trade. 
carried mi that occupation for many years in 
connection with farming in Delaware Town- 
ship, where his death occurred. He married 
Angeline Brower. and they had three children, 
two of whom grew to maturity: Sarah, who 
is the widow of Enos Houser, of Berlin Town- 
ship; and Charles C. 

Charles C. Miller received his education in 
the common schools, supplemented by a course 
at business college, after leaving which he 
returned to the home farm, and there spent the 
remainder of his lite. The tract, which origin- 
ally consisted of 300 acres, now comprises 167 
acres, and was operated by Mr. Miller's widow 
until 1903, who erected a fine barn in 1899, 
the house having been built by Mr. Miller. He 
carried on general farming and raised cattle, 
sheep and liQgs, and in addition thereto was 
engaged in the hardware business at Delaware 
from [889 until his death, which occurred De- 
cember 20, 1892. Although popular in his 
community, a leading Democrat, and often 
urged to accept public office. Mr. Miller would 
never consent to do so. Fraternally he was 
connected with Lenape Lodge, No. 29, Knights 
of Pythias of Delaware. He was a member of 
the Reformed Church, of which he was a dea- 
con for many years. 

On August 10, [876, Mr. Miller was mar- 
ried to Anna II. Jennings, who is the daugh- 
ter of Sylvester Thrap Jennings. Sylvester T. 
Jennings was born October 6, 1S11. and died 
March 2. [862. lie was married (first) to 
Charity Scott, who was horn December 2. 
[814, and died February 21. 1850. Of the 
children of this marriage two are living: Mrs. 
Mary E. Williamson, of ECilbourn, Ohio; and 
Edward, who resides at Fort Worth, Texas. 
Mr. Jennings was married ( secondly) to Ange- 
line (Carr) Smart, who was b rn January 1. 
1819, and who died January 5, 1871). There 
were four children born to this union, three 
of whom grew to maturity, namely: Martha', 
born July 7, 1857, who married Gideon Lig- 
gett 1 deceased ). and lives at Delaware; \nna 
H. and Roberl Elmer, who is now deceased. 



Mrs. Miller was horn and reared about 
one mile from where she now resides. She- 
attended the common schools and High School, 
and after graduating from the latter taught 
school for a short time. She and her hus- 
band had three children, one of whom sur- 
vives — Elmer C, horn January iq, 1885. 
carries on the home farm, being engaged in 
general farming. Mrs. Miller and her son 
are members of the Presbyterian Church. 




HE UNION HANDLE AND MAN- 
UFACTURING COMPANY, which 
is the largest business concern in the 
village of Ashley, was established 
July 1, 1905, and gives employment 
to 40 men. They manufacture farm and 
garden tool handles, wagon stock, wood spe- 
cialties, and bending materials, and ship their 
goods to all parts of the United States and 
Canada; some of their goods go to foreign 
countries, also. Plans have recently been 
completed for a 40- foot addition to the pres- 
ent building and machinery purchased for the 
manufacturing of wood "D" scoop and spade 
handles, this addition to be completed and 111 
1 iperatii >n within 60 days. 

H. D. Hale, who is manager of the Union 
Handle and Manufacturing Company, was 
horn October 19, [865, in Arcadia. Hancock 
County, Ohio, and is a son of Thomas J. and 
Mary " i Miller) Hale. ddiis branch of the 
Hale family, who originally came from the 
East, are an old and well known family in 
Hancock County, and are blood relation to 
Senator Hale, and also to Nathan Hale. 

Mr. Hale was reared and grew- to manhoo 1 
on a farm in Hancock County, and when about 
23 years old engaged in a general saw-mill 
business at Arcadia. He continued in this 
business with much success for a period of 
seven years, when he was burned out. sul 
quently removing to Mt. Vernon, where he was 
again engaged in the same business for about 
one ami a half years. I le then went to Center- 
burg and for a time dealt in lumber and wagon 
materials ; thence to Columbus, Ohio, where 




CHARLES KOHLER 



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he continued to deal in lumber for five years, 
after which he sold oul and came to Ashley. 
At one tunc he was engaged for three years as 
wood-handle buyer for the Geneva Tool Com- 
pany, and was also interested in plants at Cir- 
cles die. and Marysville, as well as operating 
a factory in Delaware where the McKenzie 
Lumber Plant is now located. Upon locating 
in Ashley in 1905. Mr. Hale established his 
prosent business, the Union Handle and Man- 
ufacturing Company, which is the must exten- 
sive business concern in this community. 

Mr. Hale was united in marriage, March. 
1888] t<i Emma Wells, of which union there 
were born four children — Flossie M., Ethel L. 
Paul E., and Fred W. Politically, Mr. Hale 
is a Republican and has held various township 
offices. Fraternally, he is a member oi the 
Masonic Lodge of Bucyrus, and • if the Knight - 
of Pythias of Arcadia. 




HARLES KOHLER, a veteran of 
the Civil War and a well known 
farmer of Oxford Township, now- 
living in retirement in the village of 
Ashley, was born November 29, 
1832, in York County. Pennsylvania. He is 
a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Morningdoy- 
ler) Rubier, who were the parents of [2 chil- 
dren. 

Henry Kohler was also a native of York 
County. Pennsylvania, and never resided in 
Ohio. He was a soldier in the War of [812, 
and during his early days was a weaver by 
trade. He also operated a shad fishery for 
about twenty years, and owned a farm, which 
his son Charles operated. 

Charles Kohler was reared on his father's 
farm in York County, Pennsylvania, and re- 
ceived his education in the township schools. 
He remained at home until 24 years of age, 
when he came to Oxford T iwnship, Delaware 
County, and resided with bis brother-in-law. 
John McCurdy, until his marriage, when he 
purchased a trad of 50 acres in < )xford Town- 
ship, and started to housekeeping in a log house 
• mi that place, lie subsequently increased his 

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farm to 110 acres, and later bought 50 1 
acres, which he gave to a daughter. He has 
since added 40 acres to the home farm on 
which his son now resides, and continued liv- 
ing there until tyoo when he came to \-bley 
and purchased a home. He made all of the 
improvements on the farm and partly cleared 
it. Mr. Kohler was a carpenter by trade and 
during his early days devoted much of his time 
to that work. In September, 1862, Mr. Kohler 
enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and 
Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 
Ashley, and was mustered in at Delaware 
and served for three years, until the closi 
the war. He served in the Central Army 
under General George H. Thomas, and wa- 
in all of the battles of the Army of the Cum- 
berland, and afterwards was with General 
Sherman's forces on the march to the sea. At 
the close of the war he remained at Wash- 
ington for three weeks, and participated in the 
Grand Review. He was discharged and mus- 
tered out at Columbus. 

Mr. Kohler was married December 20, 
1866, to Phoebe Whipple, a daughter of Noah 
and Margaret (Elliott) Whipple, and a sister 
of F. E. Whipple. Mrs. Kohler was born in 
Peru Township, Morrow County, now Dela- 
ware, and attended the old log school hi uses 
of Drown and Peru Townships. She recalls 
the building of the Big Four Railroad through 
here and saw the first train go through. The 
farmers volunteered assistance in its construc- 
tion, and she often carried dinner to her father 
when he worked on it. Mr. and Mrs. Kohler 
bad two children — Louie Gertrude and Frank 
Noah. The former was born February 10, 
[868, married Frank P. Barton and lived on 
a farm adjoining that of her father. She died 
June 21, [898, leaving one son. Charles Fred- 
erick Barton. The son. Frank Noah, was born 
October 22. 1870. and has always lived on the 
home place. He married Maude Raines 
has four children — Thelma Lucille, Harry 
Wallace, Merle Marie and Ruth Esther. 

Politically, Mr. Kohler is a Republican. 
and has served as constable and supervisor. 
He was formerly a member of Coomer Post, 
G. \. R., of Ashley. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNT V 




■ HE FARMERS SAVINGS BANK 
COMPANY, of Ashley, was estab- 
lished in business February 9, 1905, 
with a capita] stock of $25,000. Mr. 
F. E. Whipple being the first presi- 
dent of that institution and, Mr. B. A. Durkee, 
cashier, serving as such until January 1, 1907, 
when the following officers were elected: \Y. 
Slack, president; T. J. Cole, vice-president; F. 
E. Whipple, cashier; and J. F. Riley, assistant 
cashier. The directors of the bank are all 
well known business men, as follows: W. 
Slack, T. J. Cole. I. F. Wilt, H. Blair, Isaac 
Clark, B, F. McMaster, and R. D. Mc- 
( i' migle. 

The Farmers Savings Bank Company 
erected a fine two-story brick building, the 
second door being occupied by the Masonic 
Lodge, the main floor consisting of three store 
rooms and the bank. 




EORGE ARMSTRONG, who was 
born at Sunbury, Ohio, May 26, 
1843, died' at Ellsworth, Kansas, 
January 29. 1886. 

The late George Armstrong was 
educated in the Sunbury schools and Dela- 
ware University. On April 16, 1861, he en- 
listed for service in the Civil War. entering 
Company C, Fourth Regiment, Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantry. This regiment was connected 
with the Army of the Cumberland, and Mr. 
Armstrong served as a faithful soldier, being 
promoted from the ranks to be corporal of his 
company, until he was honorably discharged, 
in August, 1X1.5. After the organization of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, he became 
identified with it. He was a member of the 
Baptist Church and served on its Board of 
Deacons. In politics he was a Republican. He 
belonged to the Masonic fraternity. 

The parents of the late George Armstrong 
were Charles and Elizabeth (Slocum) Arm- 
strong. They were born in Pennsylvania and 
came to Delaware County, Ohio, and Charles 



Armstrong bought a farm near Sunbun 



1897. at the home of her granddaughter. Mrs. 
Kimball Sedgwick, in Sunbury. Lor two 
terms he served as treasurer of Delaware 
Count)'. Of his 11 children, his son George 
was the fourth in order of birth. 



April 
April 



George Armstrong was married (first) 



'/• 



0X07, to Emily Kimball, who died 
Two children of that niar- 



V 
1875. 



nage survive — Burt D.. residing at Delaware, 
Ohio: and Mabel, who married Y. E. Bre- 
voort. Mr. Brevoort is engaged in business at 
Columbus.' Mr. Armstrong was married 
(secondly) May 24, 1876, to Mrs. Irene 
(Kimball) Sedgwick. A son, Charles O. 
Armstrong, is assistant cashier of the Sunbury 
Farmer's Bank. Mrs. Armstrong was born 
in Marion Count}', Ohio. September 21, 1X43. 
and is a daughter of Elias and Irene A. 
(Ticknor) Kimball, natives of Lebanon, New 
Hampshire, who came to Marion County, 
Ohio, in 1839. Elias Kimball was a merchant, 
ami in 1844 he engaged in a general mercan- 
tile business at Sunbury, which he continued 
until 1864. At that time he practically re- 
tired, but resumed business activity in 1872. 
when he became one of the organizers of the 
Sunbury Bank, of which he was the first 
president, remaining such until his death, De- 
cember 2T,, 1872. 



which he died in 1870. His wife 



on 
died in 




LLIAM ZIEGLER. a member of 
the board of trustees of Troy 
Township, is a leading citizen of 
this section and resides on his 
valuable farm of 1 14 acres., which 
he has under an excellent state of cultivation. 
He was born in Delaware Township. Dela- 
ware County, Ohio. March 30. 1861, and is a 
son of Frederick and Sarah (Biber) Ziegler. 
Frederick Ziegler was also born in Dela- 
ware County and still survives, being a resi- 
dent of Berlin Township. His father. Reuben 
Ziegler, was born in Berks County. Pennsyl- 
vania, and came to Delaware County and 
Township, at a very early day. Frederick 
Ziegler married Sarah Biber and they had 
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739 



married Claj Walker, residing in Missouri; 
Frederick, who resides at Marshall. Arkansas; 
Alice, residing in Berlin Township; Luther, 
.1 resident of the State of Missouri; Edward, 
residing in Troy Township, and John, who 
resides in Delaware County. Alter many 
years of residence in Delaware County, Fred- 
erick Ziegler went to Missouri, but in the 
spring of 1907, he settled in Berlin Town- 
ship. He is a Democrat. For many years 
he has been a worthy member of the Lutheran 
Church. 

William Ziegler was reared in Delaware 
Township and there attended the public 
schools. He has always found his chief in- 
terest in farming and has been very success- 
ful in bis agricultural operations. In 1902 he 
came to Troy Township, having resided for 
some years previously in Marlborough Town- 
ship. Since settling here he has become iden- 
tified with the public affairs of the township 
ti 1 Mich a degree that he was elected a meni- 
ber of the Board of Trustees and is making a 
useful official. 

Mr. Ziegler married Attie Schneck, who is 
a daughter of Thomas Schneck, of Troy 
Township, and they have bad the following 
children : Clyde C. Karl. Otto, Harry, 
Lowell. Clara B. and Florence. Mr. Ziegler, 
with bis family, belongs to the Lutheran 
Church at Delaware. In politics, he is a Dem- 
ocrat. 




ELLINGTON SLACK, president of 
the Farmers' Savings Bank Com- 
pany of Ashley, was horn on the 
old home farm which he now 
owns, September 22, 1854. He is 
- 11 of Seth and Sarah (Dodd) Slack, and 
randson of Ralph and Margaret (Riley) 
Slack. 

Ralph Slack, the grandfather, was born in 
Pennsylvania, February 17. 1777. and about 
1895 moved west to Franklin County. Ohio. 
Some time after he located in Berkshire Town- 
ship. Delaware County, and about 18 15 came 
to Oxford Township, and obtained from the 



State a tract of land which now forms the 
southeast part of the village of Ashley. 1 
he later sold off in small parcels. He lived 
here until his death in 1855. He married 
Margaret Riley, who was born in Virginia in 
1783, and was brought to Ohio by her par- 
ents in 1800. She died in Ashley, September 
1, 1846. 

Seth Slack, father of Wellington, was 
born on the old home place in Oxford Town- 
ship, June 6, j8kj. and died December 25, 
1S80. He lived on his father's farm until 
[854, when be moved to the farm which the 
subject of this sketch now owns, and in 1868 
erected the first brick house built in this vi- 
cinity. He was a prosperous and successful 
man. He married Sarah Dodd, who was born 
in Milton, Delaware. August 7, 1822, and is 
a daughter of Thomas and Eunice (Lane) 
Dodd. She now makes her home with her son, 
Wellington. She is the mother of the fol- 
lowing children: Albert L., of Greencamp. 
Marion County; Thomas C, who lives in Rus- 
sylvania, Logan County. Ohio; Margaret 
(Hyatt), who died in 1900 in Iowa; Charles 
O., who lives south of Ashley; Mancy, wife 
of Monroe Marsh, who lives in North Okla- 
homa; Wellington, subject of this article; 
Elizabeth, who married T. W. Lee, of Ox- 
ford Township; and Eunice, who died in 1887 
unmarried. Seth Slack was a Republican in 
politics and served as township trustee for 
some years. 

Wellington Slack was reared on the home 
place and in his youth attended the schools of 
that vicinity. He has farmed the property 
ever since old enough, and still does at the 
present time, although he has lived in Ash- 
ley since 1892. He was one of the organizers 
and incorporators of the Farmers' Savings 
Bank Company, and has served as director 
since its inception in February, 1905, and as 
president since January 1, 1907. He is one 
of Ashley's most successful business men and 
public spirited citizens. 

February 7. 1900. Mr. Slack was united in 
marriage with Mary Lanius. who was born in 
Greencamp, Marion Count}-, Ohio, and is a 
daughter of Henrv and Mary Lanius. Po- 



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litically, Mr. Slack is a Republican, and fra- 
ternally a charter member of the K. P. Lodge 
at Ashley. 




EORGE W. MILLER, one of Dela- 
ware Township's representative citi- 
zens, who is owner of 150 acres of 
fine farming land, was born June 3. 
1871, in Delaware Township, Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, and is a son of John and 
Catherine (Siegfried) Miller. 

Henry Miller, his paternal grandfather, 
was a native of Pennsylvania, whence he came 
to Ohio in 1836. and settled on 80 acres of 
land, most of which was heavily timbered. He 
erected the brick house now occupied 1>\ 
Georg-e W. Miller, which is still in a goo:, 
state of preservation, and here the remainder 
of his life was spent. 

John Miller, who was born in Pennsyl- 
vania in 1827, came with his parents to Ohio, 
and his entire life was spent on the farm. 
to which he added from time to time, and at 
the time of his death, in [886, it consisted of 
270 acres. He made a specialty of sheep rais- 
ing, and became one of the township's leading 
citizens, serving as township trustee, to which 
office he was elected on the Democratic ticket, 
for many years. He was a member of the 
Reformed Church, of which he was elder for 
man}' years, and in the faith of which his wife 
died in May. 1903. at the age of -2. Mr. 
and Mrs. Miller were the parents of seven 
children, namely: Frances, who is the widow 
of Johnson White, who resided in Delaware 
Township; Henry, who lives in Delaware 
Township; Forest, who was a resident of Troy 
Township, and was killed by a train. Decem- 
ber 7. 1907; Emma, who is now deceased: 
\nniida. who married John Trice, of Troy 
Township: Minnie, who married Kuicn Suit, 
of Huntington, Indiana; and George W. 

George W. Miller received a common 
scho,] education, and has always made his 
home mi the old original farm. lie owns 
150 acres, but cultivates about 73 acres, rais- 
in- corn. oats, wheat, hay and potatoes. 



sometimes marketing some of the hay. He 
has 175 head of sheep and from 15 to 20 cat- 
tle, and sells his milk to creameries in his 
section. 

June 10, 1896, Mr. Miller was married to 
Millie Darst. who is a daughter of D. 1'. Darst, 
and to this union there have been born three 
children — Arthur C, Raymond L. and Wal- 
lace H. Mrs. Miller is a Presbyterian in her 
religious belief, while her husband is a mem- 
ber of the Reformed Church. In political mat- 
ters he is independent, casting his vote rather 
for the man than for the party. 




DWARD WHIPPLE, a prosperous 
farmer residing in Oxford Town- 
ship, Ohio, comes of one of Dela- 
ware county's oldest and most promi- 
nent families. He was born in Brown 
Township, December io. 1852, a son of Lewis 
and Almira (Brown) Whipple, and a grand- 
son of Reuben Whipple, mention of whom is 
made elsewhere in this volume. 

Lewis Whipple was horn September 22, 
1814, in Rhode Island, and was four years of 
age when his parents came to Delaware 
Count}-, locating in what is Peru Township. 
Morrow County. Here he grew to maturity, 
receiving a limited education in the common 
schools of the pioneer type. In his early days 
he followed the trade of cabinet-maker. He 
and his brother James purchased 100 acres of 
land in the northwest part of Brown Town- 
ship which they afterward divided. 1 .e 
Whipple cleared his 30-acre tract and farmed 
it with success, adding thereto from time to 
time until he was possessed of a large estate. 
He owned the too acres on which his son 
Edward now- lives and the 52J/2 acres owned 
by Wellington C. Whipple, and at his death 
still owned 243 acres. He was a man of high 
principle, a credit to the community in which 
he lived, and his death, which occurred Sep- 
tember 28, 11)04. was mourned as a sad 
by his fellow men. He married Almira 
Brown, who was born in Connecticut, August, 
[821, and who was a young girl when her peo- 



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74i 



pie came west to Marion Count). Ohio. In 
her latter years she resided with her son \Y. 
C. Whipple, dying March 4, 1908, at the ad- 
vanced age of 87. The following children 
blessed this union: Harriet, wife of Albert 
McCreary, now deceased, lived in Oxford 
Township; Adelia, wife of Orville Slaw son; 
Samantha. wife of Charles Olmsted, lives in 
Washington, I). C. : Adelia and Smith, twins. 
of whom the former is the wife of Samuel 
Primmer and lives in Marion County, and the 
latter died at the age of one year: Edward, 
subject of this sketch: Omar H., who con- 
ducted a store at Leonardsburg, but is now de- 
ceased: Wellington C, who lives on a farm 
ining the old home place: Laura, wife of 
Newton Grant, of Ashley: and one who died 
unnamed. 

Edward Whipple attended the schools of 
his home district and lived at home until his 
marriage at the age of 25 years. He then 
moved to his present farm of 100 acres in the 
southwest part of Oxford Township. He 
made mosl of the improvements on this farm 
and has followed general farming and stock- 

- ig with g 1 results. In 1891 he erected 

immodious home — one of the best in the 
vicinity. 

March 15. [877, Edward Whipple was 
joined in marriage with Eurema Adell Lea, 
a sister of Thomas W. Lea. She died in 
1885, leaving three children, namely: Ona 
Lester, born October 2, 1878, a resident of 
Kingston Township, who married Blanch 
Rile}' and has three children — Norma. Dor- 
othy, and Riley; Winifred Isabel, born Febru- 
ary 5, [881, who married Harry Blair of 
Columbus and has a son — Harry Mitchell: 
Thomas Lea. born December 3, 188}, who died 
I (ctober 8, E884. 

Mr. Whipple married secondly, October 
12, 1887. Cora Raines, a native of Brown 

raship and daughter of James and l.ydia 
(Evans) Raines, who now live in Oxford 
Township. This union resulted in the follow- 
ing- issue: Ray Arthur, horn December 28, 
1 NSw : Klaude Arnold, horn November 20. 
1894, and Give Bryan, born September 1. 
[891 i. The last mentioned takes his second name 



from the illustrious William Jennings Bryan, 
who upon being apprised of the fact by a sister 
of Give Bryan, wrote a pleasing letter, which 
she still treasures. Politically, our subject is 
a Democrat and served three years as Town- 
ship trustee. Fraternally he is a member of 
the Patrons of Husbandry; Knights of 
Pythias, and Pythian Sisters, to which Mrs. 
Whipple also belongs. 




ENRY M. ROGERS, a representative 
farmer and successful stock-raiser of 
Genoa Township, residing on his 
well-improved farm of 136 acres, 
was born in Genoa Township, Mela- 
ware County, Ohio, and is a son of Jeremiah 
H. and Sarah ( Prosser) Rogers. 

The Rogers family is of Scotch-Irish ex- 
traction. It was the great-grandfather. Bixby 
Rogers, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio, 
as the pioneer of the family and after serving 
as a soldier in the War of 181 2. in the follow- 
ing year entered land in Delaware County 
which he cleared and occupied until his death. 
He married in Pennsylvania and became the 
lather of five sons, two of whom subsequently 
owned and cleared farms in Genoa Township. 
Samuel Rogers, grandfather of Henrv M.. 
was born in Pennsylvania, August 26, 1804. 
and hence was nine years old when he was 
brought to Delaware County, where the rest of 
his life was spent. He taught the district 
school (luring young manhood and also en- 
gaged in farming. He continued to live on the 
homestead until 1846. when he bought 50 
acres of the farm in Genoa Township now 
owned by his grandson, Henry M., which he 
cleared and partly improved. In Genoa Town- 
ship he married Sarah Closson, who was horn 
in Pennsylvania and was a daughter of Daniel 
Closson. who was horn in Pennsylvania, Oc- 
tober 19, 1794. and who was a pioneer settler 
of Genoa Township, to which he came in [818. 
lie took up a farm which was then covered 
with timber and which he cleared. He brought 
with him three children and seven more were 
horn to him in Genoa Township. In 1850 he 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



moved tn Illinois, where Jie died nine years 
later. One son, Jeremiah H., was bom to 
Samuel Rogers and wife. In politics, Samuel 
Ri igers was a Democrat. 

Jeremiah H. Rogers was born July 3, 
1832. in Genoa Township. He attended the 
district schools and grew to manhood on his 
fathers farm. In 185 1 he was married in 
Genoa Township to Sarah Prosser, who was 
born in Pennsylvania, March 6, 1833. There 
were nine children born to this union — seven 
suns and two daughters — namely: George 
A., William Clark, Charles Daniel, Henry M., 
Samuel L., John P.. Stephen H., Dura J. and 
Mary L. Like his father and grandfather, he 
was a stanch supporter of the principles of the 
Democratic party. 

Henry M. Rogers obtained his education 
in the district schools of Genoa Township. 
When he was 17 years of age, he left home 
and from that time on made his own way in 
the world. He purchased his present farm 
from his father and has made must of the 
substantia] improvements on the place. He 
carries on general agriculture and raises quite 
a large amount of valuable stock. 

On March 25, 1883, Air. Rogers was mar- 
ried to Laura J. Meeker, who was born at 
Galena, Delaware County, being the second of 
four daughters of Wickliff C. and Mary L. 
I Cunningham) Meeker. Mr. Meeker came 
tu Delaware County in boyhood and was 
reared by his uncle. Victor Arnold, and learned 
the tanning- business which he followed in 
connection with farming. He was married a 
second time and reared seven children by that 
marriage. When Mrs. Rogers was 13 years 
"Id she went to reside in the home of her 
aunt, Margaret Yates, and she was educated 
in the schools of Delaware and Galena, and 
prior to her marriage taught school for two 
years. She is an intelligent, well-informed 
lady. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have three chil- 
dren — Leonard G.. born June 20, [884; Edna 
G., horn December 15. [892; and Monna M., 
born April 25, [895. Mr. Rogers and his 
family belong t,> the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow and 
politically he is active in the Democratic 
party. 




ORACE A. SILVERWOOD, whose 

fine farm of 87 acres is situated in 
Troy Township, is a well-known 
agriculturist of this section ami is a 
survivor of the great Civil War. He 
was born October 13. 1845. U1 Wayne County, 
Michigan, and is a son of James F. and Eliza- 
beth (McPherson) Silverwood. 

Both parents of Air. Silverwood were born 
in Pennsylvania, but the ancestry on the pa- 
ternal side was English and on the maternal 
Scotch. John McPherson, the maternal grand- 
father of Mr. Silverwood, was a soldier in the 
War of 1 812, and from the same family came 
the brave and beloved ( leneral McPherson, who 
fell in front of Atlanta. In 1859, James F. 
Silverwood moved from Wayne Count}'. 
Michigan, to Delaware County, Ohio, settling 
in Troy Township, where he resided until his 
death at the age of j^, years. His widow, who 
survived him, attained the advanced age of 
ninety-three. 

Since he was about 12 years of age. 1 1 
A. Silverwood has lived in Troy Township. 
He attended the public schools and the High 
School at Delaware, and, for six months, the 
Ohio Wesleyan University. On May 10, 
1864, he enlisted in answer to the call'for 100- 
day men, entering Company C, One Hundred 
and Forty-fifth Regiment, O. V. I., which was 
attached to the Army of the Potomac, and un- 
til his honorable discharge, in the following 
September, he was stationed mainly at Arling- 
ton Heights, Washington, D. C. 

Mr. Silverwood married Mary E. Spauld- 
ing. who is a daughter of Ellis Spaulding, 
of P>erkshire Township, Delaware County, 
and they have two children — Olney James 
and Jay Gordon.. The former is a graduate 
ol the Ohio Wesleyan University, class of 
1900, and is now principal of the High 
School at Newton, Kansas. The second son 
resides at home, assisting his father. He is 
a student in the Delaware High School, class 
of 1908. 

In politics, Mr. Silverwood is a stanch Re- 
publican. He has served three years as town- 
ship assessor and in 1890, was census enumer- 
ator of Troy Township. He is a leading mem- 
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Methodist Episcopal Church, a steward and a 
trustee in the same. Air. Silverwood is largely 
a self-made man. having made his own way 

in the world after being equipped with a g 1 

education. 




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OHN J. MILLER, a representative 
agriculturist of Marlborough Town- 
ship, whose well-cultivated farm of 
2 acres testifies to the intelligent 
given it. is a well-known and 
highly respected resident of this section, lie 
horn January 23, [849, in Marion County, 
Ohio, and is a son of John and Sarah 1 1'atter- 
- m 1 Miller. 

The father of Mr. Miller was horn in Fair- 
field County, Ohio, and the mother in Penn- 
sylvania. The paternal grandfather was Ja- 
cob Miller, a native of Virginia, and an early 
settler in Waldo Township. Marion County, 
where he left a family. John Miller lived 
in Marion County for a long period, lie mar- 
ried Sarah Patterson and five of their children 
still survive, John J. being the only one resid- 
ing in Delaware County. 

John J. Miller was reared in Waldo Town- 
ship, Marion County, and obtained his edu- 
cation in the district schools. He has been a 
farmer ever since earl} - manhood and from 
youth has been accustomed to an agricultural 
life, almost from that time having made his 
own way in the world. Through perseverance 
and industry. Mr. Miller acquired property 
and resided in Troy Township for a number 
of years prior to [885, when he settled on his 
present farm in Marlborough Township. 

On December 25. 1870. Mr. Miller was 
married to Susan Ashhrook. who was horn 
in Delaware County, and is a daughter of 
Solomon Ashhrook. a former prominent resi- 
dent of Troy Township, who died in Septem- 
ber, 1894. Mr. and Mrs. Miller had six chil- 
dren, of whom one is deceased, the five sur- 
vivors being. Charles, residing on the home 
farm: William, a resident of Troy Township: 
Alice, who is the widow of the late Oliver 
Clark, of Marlborough Township, and resides 



in Troy Township; Carrie, who married 1 
ford Sherman, residing in Morrow County; 
and Lulu, residing in Marion Count}. Mr. 
Miller's son Charles married Ida B. Y 
of .Marion County. Both he and hi- father 
are stanch Republicans. Mr. Miller i- a dea- 
con in the Baptist Church and formerly set 
a- < me of it- trustees. 




)BERT R. DAVIS, chairman of the 
hoard of trustees of Radnor Town- 
ship, and a prominent and influential 
citizen of tin's section, resides on his 
valuable farm of 89 acres which he 
has placed under a fine state of cultivation. 
Mr. Davis was born December u. 1854. in 
Radnor Township. Delaware County. Ohio, 
and is a -on of John H. and Maria I )a 

The parent- of Mr. Davis were nativi 
Wales. After marriage they emigrated to 
America and about 1842 settled in Radnor 
Township, Delaware County. Ohio. They 
there passed the remaining years of their lives, 
John H. Davis dying in 1893, having survived 
his wife for some years. He was a de 
in the Calvinistic Methodist Episc 
Church, at Radnor. 

Robert R. Davis grew to manhood in 
Radnor Township, attending the local schools, 
and since youth has been engaged here in 
agricultural pursuits. In addition to cultivat- 
ing his ample farm. Mr. Davis has been en- 
gaged in the threshing business for the past 
quarter of a century, in partnership with H. 
H. Davis, under the firm name of R. R. and 
H. H. Davis. He is considered one of the 
substantial and representative men of his com- 
munity. 

In early manhood. Mr. Davis was married 
to Elizabeth Davis, who was horn in Radnor 
Township and is a daughter of the late lame- 
Davis, formerly a well-known farmer of this 
section. Mr. Davis is affiliated with the Pres- 
byterian Church at Radnor, being a deacon 
in the same. Airs. Davis belongs to the Con- 
gregational Church. 

In his political views, Mr. Davis is a Re- 



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publican. He has been an active member of 
his party and on many. occasions has been sent 
as a delegate to count)- conventions. He has 
dune much to forward the cause of education 
in his township. For nearly eight years he has 
been township trustee and for a considerable 
part of this time has been chairman of the 
board. Mr. Davis belongs to the Odd Fel- 
lows at Radnor, and has passed all the chairs 
of Radnor Lodge, No. 250. 




\'S( ).\ JAMES, a prominent citizen of 
Troy Township, one of her honor- 
able board of trustees, resides on his 
farm of 57 acres, which is situated 
near Troytown. Mr. James was 
born in Union County, Ohio, October 7, 1871, 
and is a son of Lemuel and Sarah A. (Fogle) 
James. 

The parents of Mr. James were born in 
Noble County, Ohio, but they have resided at 
New Dover, Union County, for man)' years. 
Lemuel James has served a number of terms 
as township trustee of Dover Township and 
was a man of local prominence during his 
active years. His surviving children are: 

ill E., who married Frank Montgomery, 
residing at Marysville, Ohio; Mary, who mar- 
ried William Bonnett, residing in Union 
1 nty, Ohio; Lydia, who married William 
Walker, residing in Union County; Rose, who 
married Albert Phillips, residing in Union 
County; Elizabeth, who married George 
Black, residing in Union County; Anson, 
whose name appears at the head of this sketch; 
William, residing in Union County; Sylves- 
ter, residing in Scioto Township, Delaware 

nty; Perry, a resident of Union County; 
Youtha, who married Charles Ligget, resid- 

in Union Count}-; Florence, who married 
R. Benton, residing at Columbus; and Emma, 
who married Percy Freshwater, residing in 
Delaware County. 

\11s011 James was reared on his father's 
farm in Dover Township and attended the lo- 
cal schools through boyhood, afterward en- 

ng in general agriculture. In the fall of 



1897 ne settled on his present farm, which he 
has placed under a good state of tillage, and 
raises hay, corn, wheat, oats and potatoes, 
with some stock. 

Mr. James was married in Delaware 
County, to Louie Robinson, who is a daughter 
of the late John Robinson, of Troy Town- 
ship, and they have one daughter. Brunette. 
Mr. James is a member of the Baptist Church, 
to which his daughter also belongs. Mrs. 
James died January 20, 1908. aged 40 years, 
10 months and 28 days. Mrs. James was also 
a Baptist. 

Politically, Mr. James is a strong Republi- 
can. He is serving both as township trustee 
and as school director of District Xo. 7. and 
takes a great deal of interest in the perform- 
ance of his official duties. 




ACOB A. MILLER, formerly a well- 
known farmer and highly respecte ' 
citizen of Delaware Township, was 
born in this township in 1830, and 
spent his entire life on the home farm 
of 100 acres, on which he died October }. 
1881. 

On September 13, 1864, Mr. Miller was 
married to Josephine Eury, who is a daughter 
of Jesse M. and Mary (Kline) Eury, and a 
granddaughter of Samuel and Sarah Eury, 
who were farming people of Unionville, Mary- 
land. Jesse M. Eury was born near Union- 
ville, Frederick County, Maryland, March 25, 
[813, and died December 21, 1890. He re- 
ceived a common school education, and early 
in life learned the trade of miller, at which 
he became an expert, for many years being a 
Hour inspector at Baltimore. He made his 
way to Delaware. Ohio, on horseback, and 
followed milling here for several years, hut 
finding that it did not agree with his health. 
he embarked in agricultural pursuits, settling 
in [842 on a property about three miles south 
of Delaware. Later he removed to the Co- 
lumbus Pike, hut subsequently sold his prop- 
erty here and located on the Libert) Road, 
where he resided until his death, being en- 




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s g-ecl in farming and stock-raising. He was 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

his political views were those of the Dem- 
ocratic party. On March 28, [839, Mr. Eury 
was married to Mary Kline, who was a daugh- 
ter of Michael Kline, of Berks County, Penn- 
- mia. and they had one child — Josephine. 

Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Mil- 
ler has capably managed the home farm of 
100 acres, about one-half of which is under 
cultivation, and raises large crops of corn, 
wheat and hay, also giving some atten- 
tion to cattle raising. When Mr. and Mrs. 
Miller first located on this property the build- 
ings were in" very had condition, but in 1905 
Mrs. Miller remodelled the house, having pre- 
viously erected new outbuildings which had 
been destroyed by fire. Mrs. Miller is a 

iful member of the German Reformed 
Church. 




ENAS LEONARD WHITE, presi- 
dent and manager of The Z. L. 
White Company, which conducts one 
of the must successful department 
stores of Columbus, Ohio, was tor 
many years a resident and well known business 
man of Delaware. Ohio. 

Mr. White was horn in Brown Township, 
ware County, Ohio, and is a son of 
ge and Elizabeth (Leonard) White. Hi- 
grandfather. Fisher White, whose given name 
was derived from his mother's maiden name. 
was born near ■Baltimore. Maryland, and was 
a farmer throughout life. In [802 he re- 
moved to Washington Count}-. Pennsylvania, 
and there lived until his death. George White 
- horn in Washington County. Pennsyl- 
vania, in 180.2. and lived there until after his 
marriage, then about the year 1825 moved 
with his family to Delaware County. Ohio. 
He located upon a farm in Brown Township 
and lived there until 1 S 5 5 . then sold out and 
moved to Centerburg, Knox County, Ohio. 
The last two years of his life were passed 
in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, where he died in Febru- 
ary, i860. He was a member of Hiram 



Lodge. No. [8, F. & A. M., of Delaware. He 
and his wife were members of the Methodisl 
Episcopal Church, and he assisted in building 
the church at Eden. He married Elizabeth 
Leonard, a daughter of Joseph Leonard, who 
came from Green County, Pennsylvania, at an 
early date and located in Brown Township. 
Seven children were born of this union, of 
whom our subject is the only one now living. 
Four grew to maturity, as follows: Eliza, de- 
ceased wife of Andrew Fry of Brown Town- 
ship; Leah, now deceased, formerly wife of 
James Sackett ; Fisher, deceased ; and Z. L. 
Franklin died when 13 years old. 

Zenas L. Wdiite lived upon the farm until 
he was fourteen years of age. He attended the 
common schools of his home district and 
Centerburg High School two years, after 
which he attended Ohio Wesleyan University. 
He then went to Mt. Vernon and clerked in a 

dry g Is -tore for two years, after which he 

returned to Delaware County, and in partner- 
ship with his brother, Fisher, opened a gen- 
eral store at East Liberty, Porter Township, 
under the firm name of F. & Z. L. Wdiite. 
They began in the fall of 1860 and after a 
time our subject purchased the interest of his 
brother, continuing there fine years. He was 
then located in Cardington five years, and in 
1870 moved his business to Delaware, where 
he continued alone, except for three or four 
years during which time he had a partner, 
until 1884. The success with which he had 
met prompted him to seek a larger field for 
operations, and in that year he removed to 
Columbus, locating at Xo. 102 High Street, 
where he still continues. There he first had as 
partners W. B. Denman and J. W. Stevenson, 
business being conducted under the firm name 
of White. Denman & Co. At the end of the 
first year he purchased the interests of his 
partners, and took into partnership his son. 
Homer E. White, and Mr. J. R. Lane, the 
firm name becoming Z. L. White X Company. 
The firm continued unchanged until the death 
of Mr. Homer F. White in [892, Mr. Lane 
continuing in the business until [897, at which 
time Z. L. White again become sole proprietor. 
In 1903 The Z. L. White Company was in- 



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corporated, with Mr. White as president and 
manager, and has since continued the business 
with uninterrupted success. Mr. White is also 
identified with other business interests, being 
president of the Buffalo Fertilizer Company; 
president of the Pennsylvania Fertilizer Com- 
pany of Scrantoh, Pennsylvania; president ot 
the Columbian Building, Loan and Investment 
Company of Columbus; and vice-president of 
the City National Bank. He founded the 
Homer E. White chair of economics at Ohio 
Wesleyan University shortly after the death 
of his si in. with an endowment of $30,000, 
and in addition he contributes annually to its 
support] lie has ever evinced a deep interest 
in educational matters, contributing liberally 
of time and money to the cause. He has been 
a trustee of Ohio Wesleyan University for a 
period of fourteen years, and served two years 
on the School Board for the city of Columbus, 
one year of thai time presiding over that body. 
He also is a trustee of the Chautauqua Insti- 
tution at Chautauqua, New York; and is 
trustee and treasurer of the Protestant Hos- 
pital at Columbus. 

Mr. White was joined in marriage with 
Helen Blayney, a 1 laughter of George Blayney, 
of Porter Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
and she died 111 1878, leaving two children: 
Homer E., who died in 1892; and Anna W., 
a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, who 
is wile of Edward D. Jones, professor of 
I conomics at the University of Michigan. 
Airs. White was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church. He formed a second mari- 
tal union with Miss Eliza Frey, who was born 
in Porter Township, Delaware County, where 
her father. Rev. James Frey, a Baptist min- 
ister, had a charge for many years. One child 
was born to them and died in infancy. Re- 
ligiously, they are members of the Broad 
Street M. E. Church at Columbus, in which 
Mr. White has filled all the offices save that 
of president of the board of trustees. He is 
at present serving as secretary and treasurer. 
I [e ha> been a ( Christian f ir nn ire than 50 years. 
\t East Liberty he was a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church, was elder three years, and 
was superintendent of the Sabbath School all 



the time he resided there except for a part of 
the first year. Politically, he has always been 
a Republican. 




IERMAX FAIRCHILD, a well- 
known citizen of Westerville, who is 
a retired farmer of Plarlem Town- 
ship, was born in Delaware County. 
Ohio, March 9, 1832. and is a son of 
Benjamin Mosley and Mary Ann (Lydey) 
Fairchild. 

Benjamin Mosley Fairchild was born in 
Bennington County, Vermont, May 24, 1783. 
His father died when he was a child and he 
was reared by an uncle who lived in the Green 
Mountains. In 1808 he came to Granville. 
Ohio, and was in the employ of Benajah Cook 
for one year and then purchased a farm of 
175 acres in Harlem Township, which he 
cleared and somewhat improved, and on which 
he lived until the close 'of his life, his death 
taking place December 27. 1871. He was mar- 
ried in Harlem Township to Polly Bud. who 
was reared in Delaware County, and who died 
after the birth of four daughters and one son. 
lie was married secondly to Mrs. Mary Ann 
(Lydey) Johnson, a widow with four sons 
and two daughters. Three children were horn 
of the second marriage. Mr. Fairchild is the 
eldest of the children and the only survi 
Benjamin M. Fairchild built a saw-mill and a 
grist-mill on Duncan Run and he became a 
man well and favorably known all through 
this section. 

Sherman Fairchild was reared on his 
father's farm and went to school in an old log 
building used for this purpose. On March 
20, 1853, he was married to Phebe Jane Wil- 
liams, who was born in Plain Township, 
Franklin County. ( )hio, January 26. 1836, and 
was a daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Wil- 
liams, of Plain Township, who had come from 
New Jersey and settled there at an early day. 
with their nine children. He traveled over 
600 miles with his family, in a wagon, finally 
settling in Plain Township, where he became a 
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took part in public affairs, serving 14 years as 
a justice of the peace on the Democratic ticket 
and filling other township offices. Two more 
children were horn to him alter coming to 
Ohio, Mrs. Fairchild being one of the two sur- 
vive irs 1 if the family. 

For several years after his marriage. Mr. 
Fairchild rented the home farm and then 
boughl 55 acres in Harlem Township, which 
he subsequently increased to 13c; acres. This 
land he greatly improved, building three resi- 
dences and making it very valuable. He 
carried on general farming, operated a stone 
quarry on his land and raised a large num- 
ber of sheep, which he exhibited at the agri- 
cultural fair in Delaware County. In young 
manhood, Mr. Fairchild was somewhat noted 
for his athletic feats and was a champion 
jumper in the friendly contests engaged in 
by the young men at that time, having a record 
1 if a jump of 21/^ feet. 

Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild had three sons and 
* me daughter, namely: Frances Fredonia, 
who married John Rhodes; Benjamin Sher- 
man; Richard Lee; and James Loved, all of 
whom were horn in Harlem Township. In his 
political views he has always been a Republi- 
can. His father served as a captain in the 
War of 1812. 




general 



BERT P. RODEFER, 

farmer, owning 84^ acres of excel- 
lent land in Troy Township, was 
born in Delaware Count}'. Ohio. No- 
vember 11, 1867, and is a son of 
Silas and Martha (Wallace) Rodefer. 

Silas Rodefer was born in Belmont County, 
Ohio, in 1844, and came to Delaware County 
witli his family in the spring of 1807. settling 
in Troy Township, where lie became a well- 
known and respected citizen. A Republican in 
politics, he has served as trustee and in other 
capacities. For some years past he has resided 
in Lincoln, Nebraska. He married Martha 
Wallace, who died in August, 1896. His sur- 
viving children are: Albert P.; Harry E., 



residing at Columbus: and John W., residing 
at Prospect, ( >hii >. 

Albert P. Rodefer was reared and edu- 
cated in Troy Township, and here his chief 
interests have always been centered. His life 
has been mainly devoted to agricultural pur- 
suits, and he is a successful farmer as well 
as enterprising citizen. He is a Republican 
and has served four years as trustee of Troy 
Township. On June 29. 1898, Mr. Rodefer 
was married to Ella F. Schaaf, who i~ a 
daughter of the late Peter J. and a sister of 
Peter J. Schaaf, of Troy Township. They 
have two surviving children, namely : Ralph 
and Helen. Mr. Rodefer and wife belong to 
the Presbyterian Church. 




OHN P. JOXF.S, a prominent citizen 

of Radnor Township, who is serving 

in the office of township trustee, i- the 

owner of an excellent farm of 134 

acres. He was born February 19, 

[854, in Radnor Township, Delaware Count}'. 

Ohio, and is a son of William W. and Eleanor 

( Evans ) b >nes. 

John P. Jones, grandfather of John P.. 
was a native of Wales who came from that 
country to America in 1818, and settled in 
Radnor Township, Delaware County. Ohio, 
where he died in 1804. His son William W. 
Jones was born in Radnor Township, and mar- 
ried Eleanor Evans, by whom he had six chil- 
dren: Margaret A., the wife of Evan Price, 
of Radnor Township; John P., subject of this 
sketch; Frank C, who resides in Radnor 
Township: Elizabeth, wife of David L. Prich- 
ard of Union County; Charles I 7 ., of Radnor 
Township: and Ella, who is the wife of Perry 
J. Griffith, of Radnor Station, Ohio. William 
W. Jones has served as a trustee of Radnor 
Township, and is rated as one of its oldest 
citizens and stanchest Republicans. 

John P. Jones was educated in the public 
schools of his native locality, and since early 
manhood has been engaged in agricultural 
pursuits, lie owns a line farm of \ ^ \ acres 



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in Radnor Township, which includes the 65- 
acre tract on which he resides, and his opera- 
tions have been most successful. Mr. Jones 
is one of the township's leading Republicans, 
and is now serving in his sixth term as town- 
ship trustee, having been president of the 
board, lie is a member of the Baptist Church 
at Radnor, with which his family is also con- 
nected. Mr. Jones married Sarah Prichard, 
who was born in Radnor Township, and who 
is a daughter of the late William Prichard. Of 
this union there were born five children, of 
whom four survive, namely: William P., 
Mabel E., T. Arthur, and Rossford. 




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ERDINAND J. BURKARD, one of 
the representative men of Delaware 
County, Ohio, whose fine farm of 1 to 
acres is situated in Delaware Town- 
ship, was born on his present prop- 
ulv 25, 1838, and is a son of Adam 
and Elizabeth .Miller ( Wightman ) Burkard. 
Adam Burkard was horn December 8, 
1817, in Baden, Germany, where he served in 
the German army and received his honorable 
discharge. When 27 years old he came to 
America, and for a short time followed the 
trade of cooper, later engaging in wood-cut- 
ting and teaming in New York State. In the 
early fifties Mr. Burkard came to < )hio and set- 
tled first at Columbus, but later removed to 
Delaware Township, where for two years he 
was in the employ of John Owen. He then 
purchased [9 acres of land to which he later 
added 1 _> acres. On this property Mr. Burk- 
ard spent the remainder of his life, his death 
occurring November 14, 10,04. He was mar- 
ried to Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, at Columbus, 
Ohio, who was the daughter of Anthony 
Wightman and widow of Jacob Miller, and 
of this union there were born five children, 
three of whom grew to maturity, as follows: 
Anna, who is the wife of Emil Fritchy of 
Fairfield, Illinois: Ferdinand J.; and Sarah. 
who married John Grotty, of Delaware. Mrs. 
Burkard died in [885, aged 60 years, in the 



faith of the Catholic Church, of which her 
husband was also a member. 

Ferdinand J. Burkard received his educa- 
tion in the common schools of his native local- 
ity, and remained at home until he went to 
Delaware to learn the blacksmith's trade, at 
which he worked for two years and a half. 
He then returned to the home farm, where 
he worked with his father until his 30th year, 
when he purchased the Matthias Smith farm 
of 80 acres. He now owns altogether about 
i 10 acres, of which about 70 acres are under 
cultivation, being devoted to the raising of 
corn, oats, wheat and hay, and he also engages 
in the raising of hogs, sheep, cattle and horses. 

Mr. Burkard was married to Mary M. 
Phillips, who was born in Coshocton County. 
( lino, and is the daughter of Theophilus Phil- 
lips, a native of New York State. Three chil- 
dren have been born to this union: F. Earl, 
who lives at Columbus, Ohio: Dolly L., and 
Raymond Arnold. Mr. Burkard is a Catholic 
while Mrs. Burkard is a member of the Bap- 
tist Church. In political matters Mr. Burkard 
is a Democrat, and he has been much inter- 
ested in the success of his party in his com- 
munity. He is one of Delaware Township's 
enterprising agriculturists, and his many ster- 
ling qualities of character have won the re- 
spect and esteem of his fellow-townsmen. 




OUIS B. JACKSON, a prominent citi- 
zen and representative farmer and 
stock raiser, of Troy Township, where 
he owns a valuable farm of 260 
acres, was born in Delaware County, 
Ohio, January 4, 1853. and is a son of James 
B. and Sarah (Bush) Jackson. 

The late James B. Jackson, whose death 
took place in March. [904, was born in New 
York and was 16 years of age when he accom- 
panied his parents to Delaware County, where 
he lived to the venerable age of 80 years, pass- 
ing away at Delaware. He is survived by his 
widow, who reside- in Delaware and who has 
reached her 81st year. Mr. Jackson was a 



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valued member of the Presbyterian Church. 
He was well and favorably known all through 
Troy Township ami is kindly remembered by 
old friends of man} years standing. 

Louis B. Jackson was reared in Troy 
Township, where he obtained his early educa- 
tion, and he later attended the ( )hio Wesleyan 
University at Delaware. Since completing 
his studies he lias given his attention to agri- 
cultural pursuits. The present farm was for- 
merly the property of his maternal grandfa- 
ther. Hon. David Bush, who was a man of 
large fortune and of political prominence, serv- 
ing in the Ohio State Legislature. He died in 
[867. 

On May 3, 1888, Louis B. Jackson was 
married to Ida Ford, who was horn in Licking 
( ounty, Ohio, and is a daughter of the late 
Thomas Ford, a former resident of Delaware 
County. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have two chil- 
dren — Jennie J. and Walter F. 

In politics. Mr. Jackson supports the can- 
didates of the Republican party and he has 
served as township clerk. He is one of the 
leading members of Troy Chapel Methodist 
Episcopal Church and has served as a trus- 
tee of the same. He takes much interest in 
school advancement and in public improve- 
ments and in all that concerns the best wel- 
fare of his community, at the same time set- 
ting an example along the lines of progressive 
agriculture. 




ENRY I). YATES, a leading business 
citizen of Delaware, who is located 
at No. 50 North Henry Street, where 
he deals in coal and all kinds of ma- 
sons' supplies, retain- also his farm 
of [go acres, located in Delaware and Berlin 
Townships, Delaware County, which he con- 
tinued to operate until 1900. Mr. Yates was 
born in Kno\ County, Illinois, in 1855, and 
-on of Thomas and Margaret (Cunning- 
ham) Yates, Thomas Yates was an extensive 
Farmer and large raiser and dealer in stock. 
He carried on an extensive business for many 
years, buying and shipping to eastern markets. 



He was well know,, for his pronounced prohi- 
bition views. He died in io V _>. and is sur- 
\ ived by his widow. 

Henry I). Yates was reared on his father's 
farm, and after completing his education en- 
gaged in agricultural pursuits and gave much 
attention to raising thorough-bred Holstein 
cattle, an industry in which he continued until 
1900, when he "left the farm and has since 
made his home at Delaware. His ancestor, 
came from Virginia, and his grandfather. 
John Yates, was one of the earliest settlers in 
Delaware County, where the family has ever 
since been one of substance and local promi- 
nence. In [884, Mr. Yates was married to 
Cornelia Thome, of Holmes County, Ohio, 
and they have four children: T. Ray, Edith. 
Zaidee Lois, and Pauline. Mr. Yates'is a Ma- 
son and a Knight of Pythias. 




HOMAS BURNSIDE. formerly a 
representative farmer and stockraiser 
of Genoa Township, where he owned 
240 acres of very valuable land, was 
horn in Ireland in 1836, and was 
quite small when he accompanied his parents 
t' 1 America. 

The parents of Mr. Burnside settled in 
Muskingum County, Ohio, where Thomas 
Burnside was reared and attended the district 
schools. He married Sarah I-:. Clements, who 
was horn in Muskingum County. September 
1. [835, and is a daughter of Andrew and 
Margaret (Collins) Clements. They were 
both born in England hut were reared and 
married in Ireland. They had seven children. 
■ me of whom was horn in Ireland. Andrew- 
Clements acquired 300 acres of land in Mus- 
kingum County and was one of the extensive 
farmers of his section. He took considerable 
interest in public matters and voted with the 
Republican party. He died December 23, 
1884, bis wife having died in the previous 
October. Mrs. Burnside's brother, William 
I "I m Clements, served four years in the Civil 
War. 

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Mr. and Mrs. Burside came to Delaware 
County and located on the present farm. They 
were accompanied by Mr. Burnside's brother, 
who assisted him in making the improvements 
which render this one of the finest farms in 
the township. Mr. Burnside took much com- 
fort in his pleasant home and had great pride 
in his family. He died at the age of 40 years 
and is survived by his widow and one son, 
Thomas Edwin, the latter residing on a part 
of the farm where he also has made many im- 
provements. Mr. Burnside was a member of 
the Episcopal Church, in which faith Mrs. 
Burnside was reared. 




EREDITH MEREDITH, who is 
serving his second term as county 
commissioner of Delaware County, 
resides on his excellent farm 01 
1 21 1 acres, which is situated in 
Radnor Township, where he has carried on 
farming and stock-raising, since 1870. and is 
engaged in the manufacture of Radnor White 
Lime. Mr. Meredith was born in December, 
[846, in South Wales, and is a son of William 
and Anna Meredith, who spent their lives in 
that country. 

Meredith Meredith acquired a fair educa- 
tion as he was growing to man's estate, in his 
native country, where he remained until after 
his marriage and the birth of one child, when 
he came to America, accompanied by his fam- 
ily. Reaching Marion, Ohio, early in 1868, 
he remained there until the following May, 
when he settled in Radnor Township, Dela- 
ware County. Since taking up his residence 
in this county, Mr. Meredith has proved his 
good citizenship; through industry and perse- 
verance he has acquired valuable property, 
and by honesty, intelligence and public spirit, 
has secured the confidence and esteem not only 
of his neighbors, but of the inhabitants of the 
county in general. He has creditably filled a 
number of local offices and his re-election to a 
second term as county commissioner is proof 
that he made a satisfactory record during his 
firsl incumbency of that office. 



Mr. Meredith was married in Wales to 
Gwenny Rees, and they have- had nine chil- 
dren, seven of whom are still living, namely : 
Maria M.; Annie Rachel, who married Wil- 
liam Disbennett, the well-known tile manufac- 
turer, at Radnor Station; Daniel, residing at 
Radnor; Mary, who married William Lug- 
ger, and resides in Delaware; Sadie, and Ed- 
ward. The two deceased are William and 
Elizabeth. Mr. Meredith and family belong 
ti 1 the Congregational Church. He is a mem- 
ber of Radnor Lodge, No. 250, Odd Fellows, 
at Radnor. 



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PERRY WORNSTAFF, a well known 
resident of Ashley, has been a life 
long resident of Oxford Township. 
He has a valuable farm of 298 acres 
about one-half mile west of the vil- 
lage and also operates the public stock scales at 
Ashley. He was born on the old home farm 
which he now owns, May 15, 1856, and lived 
there until 1890, when he purchased his pres- 
ent home and moved to Ashley. He is a son 
of Lewis and Sally Ann (Bartholomew) 
WornstafT, and a grandson of Daniel Worn- 
staff, who about 1827 moved from Ross 
County, Ohio, to Westfield Township, Mor- 
row County, being one of the pioneer settlers 
in this vicinity. 

Lewis WornstafT was born in Ross County, 
Ohio, in 1822 and was about five years of age 
when his parents moved to Westfield Town- 
ship. There he grew to man's estate and early 
in life moved to Oxford Township, purchas- 
ing a small tract of land. To this he added 
from time to time until at his death he had 
about 290 acres. He made most of the im- 
provements on the place, followed farming 
and stock-raising extensively, and met with 
much -success as a stock dealer. He lived in 
Ashley during the last few years of his life. 
He married Sally Ann Bartholomew, who 
was born in Oxford Township. Delaware 
County, September 23, 1827, and is a daugn- 
ter of Milton Bartholomew, one of the pio- 
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his wife from Quebec, Canada. Three 
children were born to Lewis and Sally Ann 
Wornstaff, namely; Chesley, mention of 
whom appears elsewhere in this work; Chaun- 
cey, who died in infancy: and Sperry, the sub- 
ject i f this .-ketch. Mrs. Wornstaff is now 
residing with her & n Sperry. 

ember 13, 1877, Sperrj Wornstaff 
married Mary E. Wiser, who was born in 
Westfield Township, and who tlied January 
28, 11. Lloyd K., of Ash- 

ley. Mr. Wornstaff is a Republican, and was 
formerly quite active in politics. He served 
four years as mayor of the village, five years 

member of the Village Council, and one 
year as land appraiser. He is fraternally a 
member of the Ashley Lodge, F. & A. M. 



who 



SRAEL POTTER, who was promi- 
nently known throughout Delaware 
County, was for many years a resident 
of Leonardsburg, Brown Township. 
He was born September 29, 1806, in 
Chenango County. Xew York, and was a son 
of Asahel and Ann (Benton) Potter. 

Asahel Potter and his wife were both na- 
tives of Connecticut and at an early date 
moved to Chenango County, Xew York, 
where their son Israel was born. In February, 
(817, they emigrated to Ohio in a covered 
wagon, drawn at first by a yoke of oxen and 
one horse. Crossing mountains and streams, 
and over bad roads, their progress was very 
slow and attended with great difficulty. The 
horse gave out and it was necessary to re- 
place him. After 47 days of hardship and 
ition, they reached Fairfield Comity. 
( )hii . with a few household goods and ten 
doll irs in money. After one year they moved 
to Franklin County, and three years later to 
Peru Township, then a part of Delaware 
( 1 nitty, but now Morrow. 

Israel Potter grew to maturity in Morrow 
County, and gave evidence of great energy 
and ability in his youthful days. He had but 
limited educational advantages, but through- 
out his life was a student of economic ques- 



tions and matters of national import. lie 
taught school when he was about _• 1 years of 
age. When matters of public interesl arosi 
he gave public expression to his views, his 
articles appearing in many journals, lie was 
a thinker and a leader, and in the days of 
slavery was an important factor in the under- 
ground railroad. He identified himself with 
the first organization opposing the liquor traf- 
fic, and was an earnest advocate of temper- 
ance. In his early manhood he engaged in 
selling books for a Cincinnati firm, receiving 
as compensation $30 per month and expenses, 
a good salary for those days. He then turned 
his attention to farming and stock dealing, 
and many were the interesting accounts of his 
trips which he recalled in his later years. He 
made sixteen trips with cattle to Michigan, 
and was in the city of Adrian when the first 
train ran through- there in 1841. In 1858 he 
moved from the old place in Peru Township to 
Leonardsburg. where he became possessed of 
large landed interests, and where he resided 
until his death on November 4. 1895. His 
widow survives him and resides with daugh- 
ters at Leonardsburg. 

Mr. Potter was an active member of the 
Wesleyan Methodist Church, and his death 
was a sad loss to the community in which he 
labored so long and faithfully. A broad- 
minded, thinking man, he did much in the way 
of making public improvements and elevating 
the moral tone of the community. 



SCAR A. PETERS, residing on a fine 
farm of 83 acres one mile west of 
the village of Ashley, is a prosperous 
farmer and one of the substantial 
citizens of the community. He was 
born October 23, 1857, in Fairfield County. 
Ohio, and is a son of Abram and Isabel (Kin- 
more) Peters. 

Abram Peters was burn in Fairfield 
County, < Ihio, and was a son of Daniel Peters, 
who came to Fairfield County from Lancaster 
Count}-, Pennsylvania. Abram was a black- 
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he moved to Delaware County in 1859. He 
first located on the \Y. C. Durkee farm in Ox- 
lord Township and afterward purchased a 
tract of fifty acres in the same township. Here 
he lived and farmed until his death. He was 
joined in marriage with Jsaliel Kinmore, who 
was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, and was 
a daughter of Adam Kinmore. a native of 
Ireland, who upon coming to the Cnited 
States located in 1'ickawav County at a very 
early period. This union was blessed with the 
following children: Salema, wife of Dr. J. E. 
Herriott, of Union Count)-, Ohio; Belle R., 
wife of VV. M. Stephens, of Ashley; May S.. 
who died unmarried; Oscar A., subject of this 
sketch; and Charles 1., who died of injuries 
received in a street car accident in Chicago. 

Oscar A. Peters was two years old when 
his parents came to this township, and here he 
has resided continuously since. He attended 
the public schools and lived on the home place 
until [893, when he purchased a tract of 83 
acres west of Ashley, which comprises the 
farm on which he now lives. It was then only 
partly cleared, Mr. Peters clearing fully half 
of it and tilling the entire place. He has made 
all the improvements, erecting a barn and 
other necessary outbuildings and remodeling 
the house. He has followed general farming 
and has been very active in raising sheep, cat- 
tle and hogs. Enterprising and public-spirited, 
he has made a success of his work, and enjoys 
the goodwill and esteem of his fellow-citizens 
ti 1 a marked degree. 

April 1. [883, Mr. Oscar A. Peters was 
joined in marriage with Miss /ana Foust, who 
was born in Westfield Township, Morrow 
County. She is a daughter of Wilson and 
Lucy (Durkee) Foust. and a granddaughter 
of \hraui Foust, who was one of the pioneers 
of Weslield Township, having come from 
Pennsylvania early in the Nineteenth century. 
Wilson Foust has been a life long resident of 
Westfield Township, where he now lives at 
the advanced age of 87 years. His wife is 
past 73 years, and both are active minded and 
in good bodily health. They became parents 
of the following children: Warren, of Chey- 

e, Wyoming; Bruce., who lives near Buf- 



falo. \. V. : Ella ( Barber), of Westfield; Rev. 
O. K. Foust, of Westfield; Zana. now Mrs. 
O. A. Peters; Myra (High), of Westfield; 
and K. K., of Westfield. Air. and Mrs. Peters 
have one daughter, Lola, wife of Arthur 
Boyer, and a granddaughter. Xatella Boyer. 




RCIIIBALD H. RUTHERFORD, a 

leading citizen of Concord Town- 
ship, owns about 512 acres of fine 
Ohio land, 100 of which is situated 
in Morrow County, 262 acres in 
Liberty, and 150 acres in Concord Township, 
Delaware County. Mr. Rutherford was born 
in Fairfield County, Ohio, September 23. 
[833, and is a son of Henry and Ruth ( Van- 
mitre) Rutherford. His paternal grandfather 
was Archibald Rutherford, who settled in 
Fairfield County prior to 1821. Archibald 
served as a soldier in the War of 1812. 

Henry Rutherford was born in Virginia 
in 1S01, and grew to manhood in that State, 
where he married Ruth Vanmitre, who was 
born there in 1804. After removing to Ohio. 
they settled in Fairfield County, where they 
remained for a number of years. Subsequently 
they removed to Delaware County, where he 
spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1892. 
Hi- wife was aged 82 years at her death in 
1890. Their children were: Mary Ann, who 
married Thomas Hess, is deceased; Abraham, 
who is deceased, is survived by his widow; 
Isaac, who married, first, Sarah Webster and, 
secondly, a Miss Merrill; and Archibald H. 

Archibald 11. Rutherford came to Dela- 
ware County about [848 and through boyhood 
and manhood assisted his father to clear the 
pioneer farm. The father, who was a shoe- 
maker by trade, needed the help of bis - 
when the heavy clearing of the land became a 
necessity, and the subject of this sketch re- 
members that he hewed every log that went 
to the building of the first house on the farm. 
The present residence, which succeeded the 
old log one. was built about the close of the 
Civil War. For a few months the subject of 
this sketch attended the district schools. On 




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the death of his father, which occurred in 
(892, Mr. Rutherford inherited One-half of 
the home farm, lie earned his first money by 
raking wheat for his grandfather Rutherford, 
working by the day and month at fifty cents 
per day. and afterwards receiving $10 to $12 
per month until his marriage. He then bought 
50 acres of wild land and set to work to bring 
it into a state of cultivation. His entire time 
since has been spent in farming and stock- 
raising, and as already noted, he has attained 
1 -ratifying success. Each year has seen the 
amount and value of his possessions increased, 
and he is the more to be congratulated in that 
his present prosperity is the result of his own 
persevering industry backed by sound judg- 
ment. 

On September 29. 1858. Mr. Rutherford 
was married in Concord Township, to Eliza 
Jane Glazer, a daughter of William and Ma- 
tilda ( Warner ) Glazer. Her father was born 
in Pennsylvania and her mother in Maryland. 
They settled, at an early day, near Norton 
Center, in Delaware County, and both subse- 
quently died there. Of their children to reach 
mature years: William, now 80 years of age, 
resides at Norton Center; Bennett is deceased; 
Mary Ann is the widow of Lewis Case and 
lives at Cleveland; Marian, wife of James 
Mark, lives in Missouri; and Eliza J. is now 
Mrs. Rutherford. Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford 
have been the parents of the following chil- 
dren : Mary Ann, who married Marion Jones, 
resides in Concord Township and has seven 
children — Martha. Ruth, Henry. John, Mary 
lata, and May and Jay ( twins 1 ; Eugenia, who 
married Edward Kent, resides in Concord 
Township and has two children — Lura and 
Esther; John, who married Mary, daughter 
of James Mattox, resides in Morrow County 
and has four children — Harry, Lloyd. Archi- 
bald and Charles; Martha, who married Wil- 
liam Hall, resides in Liberty Township and 
lias two children — Bessie and William: 
Thomas, who married Edith Blaine, re-ides at 
Hyattsville and has two children — Frederick 
and Paul; Jessie, who married Frederick 1 bar- 
ter, has two children — Dalton and Morris; 
Lee. who married Eva McComber, resides 
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with his father and they have one child — Mar- 
shall ; and Bennett, Peter and Ruth, are all 
deceased. Until after the birth of four chil- 
dren, Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford lived in Lib- 
erty Township. He purchased his farm in 
Concord Township during the Civil War. He 
has continued to buy land, considering it one 
of the safest of invesments. 

In politics. Mr. Rutherford is a Democrat. 
for a time he was connected with the Grange 
lint at present belongs to no fraternal organiz- 
ation. He is a citizen of high standing in 
Concord Township and his judgment is con- 
sulted when matters of importance to the c< im- 
munity are brought forward. 




EPTER STARK, formerly one of 
Delaware County's most substantial 
citizens, and during bis whole life 
identified with the agricultural and 
stock interests of Kingston Town- 
ship, was born in this township, April [3, 
1830, and died April 26, 1907. His parents 
were Oliver and Eliza ( Patrick) Stark, the lat- 
ter of whom was the first white child born in 
Kingston Township. 

Cepter Stark spent his whole life on the 
farm on which he was born, although he owned 
hundreds of acres of land in other parts ,,1 
Delaware County. Plis widow owns in one 
tract 718 acres of farming and grazing land 
in Kingston Township. Mr. Stark was the 
largest landowner and tax payer in the town- 
ship. He was an extensive raiser of horses, 
rattle, boys and sheep, a heavy buyer and 
Shipper, and he also dealt in wool. During the 
progress of the Civil War, Mr. Stark supplied 
many horses and cattle to the Government, 
and in this way laid the foundation of bis 
large fortune. 

Mr. Stark was married, first, to Sylvia 
Benton, who died in January. [882. She was 
the mother of five children, namely: Charles, 
who died in infancy; Grace, who married 
Frederick Keesing, residing in New Sfork: 
I Ilanche. who married David Cupp, residing in 
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married Dr. Harry Van Kirk; and Burt Ben- 
tun, who died in 1902. Mr. Stark was mar- 
ried, secondly, October 11, 1883. to Nina 
R< ss, who was born at Freeport, Illinois, Janu- 
ary 8. 1S59, and who is a daughter of William 
and Ellen (Whitney) Ross. John Ross, the 
grandfather of Air-*. Stark, was one of the 
four original settlers in Delaware Count)-. 
William Ross died in the spring of [880, aged 
49 years, and his remains lie buried at Dela- 
ware. The mother of Mrs. Stark lives on her 
farm in Kingston Township, having reached 
the age of j$ years. Mr. and Airs. Stark had 
two sons — Glenn J., born November 1, 1884; 
and Cepter Ross, born December 5, 1899. 
They reside with their mother on the home 
farm. The handsome residence, completed in 
1905, is of frame construction and equipped 
with all modern conveniences, including a sys- 
tem of hot and cold water, with gas for heat- 
ing and lighting. 

-Mr. Stark was the last survivor of the 
organizers of the Sunbury Bank, and was its 
president at the time of his death, owning one- 
half of the stock of the institution, lie was a 
man of great business capacity. Personally 
he could count as friends almost all who came 
into close relations with him. He was frank, 
generous, open-handed, ready in every emer- 
gency to render practical aid as well as ju- 
dicious advice. His death was not only a 
severe blow to his family, but was a great loss 
to the community at large. 




ILDEX SEYMOUR SCOTT, who is 
a representative of one of the oldest 
and mi 1st prominent families of 
Brown Township, Delaware County, 
Ohio, has been a resident of Eden 
nearly all his life and has been identified at 
different times with various business enter- 
prises, lie was born in Franklin County, 
Ohio. January 6, 1839, and is a son of Sey- 
mour and Louise (Elmer) Scott. 

Seymour Scott was born in Litchfield, 
Connecticut, and was a stone mason by trade. 
He moved from his native place to Delaware 



Count}'. Xew York, where he was subse- 
quently married. He next moved to Florence, 
Erie County, Ohio, where he followed his 
trade, assisting in the erection of the first fur- 
nace at Vermilion. Upon removing to Frank- 
lin County. Ohio, he followed farming until 
April 1, 1839, then located at Lockwin, where 
he conducted a store at a time when there were 
but two buildings in the place. He remained 
there one year and on April 1, 1840, bought 
out a general store at Eden, in Delaware 
County, Ohio, and settled on the property now 
owned by James Leech. He continued to con- 
duct this store until 1863. when he sold and 
moved to Centerburg, where for a period of 
seven years he conducted a general store. In 
1870 he retired from active business and re- 
turned to Eden where he lived at the home of 
his daughter until bis death, in April, 1877. 
He was a large property owner at one time, 
but bad disposed of most of his holdings. He 
married Louise Elmer, who was a daughter of 
Calvin Elmer, who at an early period came 
from .Yew York State to Eden and located 
where Robinson's blacksmith shop now stands. 
Two children were born of this union: Louisa, 
who died in Delaware, July 15, 1877, was the 
wife of John A. Carothers ; and Tilden S. The 
mother of Mrs. Scott died April «j, 184(1. 

Tilden Seymour Scott was reared in Eden 
and attended the local schools and also the 
I lelaware public schools for two terms. He 
worked in the store with his father, but had in 
the meantime learned the trade of a carder and 
cloth dresser. He accpiired a steam grist mill, 
which had been established in 1849, being the 
first one in the county, which he operated, and 
in addition did carding, pressing and dyeing, 
as well as cabinetmaking. When bis father 
left Eden in 1863, .Mr. Scott and his brother- 
in-law purchased the store, but after conduct- 
ing it a short time traded it and the mill for a 
farm in Oxford Township, Butler County. He 
never moved there, however, and after a couple 
of years disposed of it. In the meanwhile he 
engaged in farming half way between Eden 
and Delaware. In 1866-67 be was at Smith's 
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;hed his home in the house in which he 
resides. He engaged temporarily in busi- 
ness at Centerburg in 1869, and in the fol- 
lowing year he and his brother-in-law bought 
the stock and brought it to Eden, where for 
some years the\ conducted a store. Mr. Scott 
had in 1870 traded for a store in Delaware 
which he conducted until 1876, carrying a 
line of boots and shoes, hats and caps and 
gentlemen's furnishings. At the end of that 
time he sold out in Delaware and returned to 
Eden where he continued his store until 1878. 
He then resumed farming in Brown Township 
and continued until the early nineties, when he 
sold out. During the past fifteen years, in 
n, he has traveled about selling engines 
and threshing machinery and fertilizers. On 
November 19, 1863, Mr. Scott was united in 
marriage with Octavia B. Thrall, who was 
born in the house in which she now lives, April 
25, 1841, and is a daughter of William Kil- 
■ie Thrall, who was the first postmaster 
here, the post office being named Kilbourne in 
his honor. He was born in Grandville, Ohio, 
' 1 ber 14, 1809. and was about 20 years old 
when he came here. For many years he oper- 
ated the old water mill which he had con- 
structed in partnership with O. D. Hough, and 
became a man of importance here. He married 
Phoebe Thurston, and of their children, Mrs. 
Scott was the only one to grow to maturity. 
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Scott, namely: Harry Seymour, born April 
7. 1805. married Levetta Bowers and they 
have three children. Hazel. Donald and Graces 
William, born October 8, 1869; and Lillian, 
born October 9, 1873. married Harry H. Hip- 
pie, and they live in Delaware. Politically. 
Mr. Scott is a Republican and at one time 
served as township clerk. 



LLIAM BAZIL CAMPBELL, one 
of Delaware's leading business 
men, who has been identified with 
grocery interests since 1891, was 
born in Delaware Township, Dela- 
ware County. Ohio, January 25, 1857. He is 




a son of Ransome and Henrietta (Lugenbeel) 
Campbell. 

Ransome Campbell was horn in New Jer- 
sey and came to Delaware in early manhood, 
and was employed as a millwright at the paper 
mill at Stratford for a time, later becoming 
a contracting carpenter. He died in 1899 
aged about 71 years. He married a daughter 
of Bazil and Sevilla Lugenbeel, who still sur- 
vives at the age of 68 years. They had two 
children — William Bazil and Alary, the latter 
of whom is now deceased. She was the wife 
of Dr. F. A. Stickney. who is a practitioner 
of medicine at Kilbourne. 

William Bazil Campbell was educated in 
the schools of Delaware Township and at 
Stratford, later taking a business course in a 
commercial college at Delaware. After leav- 
ing school he learned the carpenter's trade, 
working later for fifteen years as a house car- 
penter, and for three years in the shops of the 
Big Four Railroad. In 1891 he embarked in 
a grocery business at his present location in 
Delaware, where his business capacity and en- 
terprise have caused him to prosper. He has 
been an active political factor at Delaware and 
is serving his second term as a member of 
the Board of Public Service, having been elec- 
ted on the Republican ticket. He has served 
six years as a member of the City Council. 

In 1 88 1, Mr. Campbell married Susan C. 
Burroughs, who is a daughter of Daniel and 
Elizabeth Burroughs, of Delaware. They 
have two children — Arthur Ransome and Sa- 
villa. The son is his father's assistant in the 
store. The daughter married Charles Smith 
and they reside at Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. 
Campbell have a pleasant home on the corner 
of Liberty and Eden Streets. He is a member 
of Olentangy Lodge, No. 53. Odd Fellows, at 
Delaware. 



HARLES B. LEE, a well known resi- 
dent of Ashley, Ohio, who is now 
living in retirement from business 
activities, comes of a family long 
prominent in this vicinity. He was 
born at Columbus, Ohio, February 6, 1828, 




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and is a son of Asa and Sarah (Meacham) 
Lee. His family runs back in this countrj to 
the colonial clays, when two brothers crossed 
from London, England, one locating in New 
York and the other in Virginia. 

Asa Lee and his brother Timothy came 
west to Columbus, Ohio, and there followed 
the trade of cloth-dressing. In [828, Ya 
Lee moved with his wife and four children to 
what is now Peru Township, Morrow County, 
at that time, Delaware G mnty. There he 
acquired 84 acres of land in the woods and 
erected a log cabin, in which he lived and 
followed his trade until April, 1833. He then 
returned to Franklin County, dying there in 
August of the same year. 

Charles B. Lee was but three months old 
when his parents first moved to Peru Town- 
ship, and was but ten years old when his 
widowed mother returned with five children 
to that farm in the woods which they still 
owned. There he grew to manhood, helping 
to clear and cultivate the farm. He later pur- 
chased a 50-acre timber tract for himself, but 
as there was no house upon it continued to 
reside on the home place. Selling this piece of 
land, he purchased an old sheep farm of 91 
acres, with a cabin on it, and on this he and 
his young wife lived and labored in pioneer 
fashion. He subsequently disposed of this 
place and went to Iowa, where he bought an 
80-acre farm and erected a dwelling. He soon 
returned to Peru Township and purchased 208 
acres of his brother, and to this added 50 acres. 
Here he successfully carried on operations un- 
til 1882, when he exchanged the property for 
the old Solomon Rosevelt farm of 150 aero 
in Oxford Township, Delaware County, just 

ond the eastern limits of the village of 
Ashley. Upon this place is an old house, which 
in its day was of unexcelled magnificence, fin- 
ished throughout in hard wood, and costing in 
its erection Si 1.000. In [892, Mr. Lee erected 
comfortable home in Ashley, in which he has 
since resided. 

t harles 1'.. Lee was married April 4. [852, 
to Letta Grant, who was horn in Brown Town- 
ship, Delaware County, < >hio, and is a daugh- 
ter of Aaron and Dianna (Whipple) Grant. 



Three children were born to them — Otto, 
Charles Wellington, and Grant. Otto, who 
was born March 29, 1853, lived on the home 
farm in Oxford Township until his death in 
August, 1901. He married Louisa Rudolph 
and had two children. Claude and Maude. 
Claude Lee married Bessa Dennis and they 
have two children. Dorris and Miriam; 
Charles Wellington Lee, second child of the 
subject of this sketch, was born September 15, 
1857. and died at eight years as the result of 
an accident; Grant Lee, born July 19, i86( 
married Mabel Oliver and they had one child, 
Hugh, who is a teacher in the public schools. 
Mr. Grant Lee died in November, 1890. 

Politically, Charles B. Lee has been a Re- 
publican since the organization of the party, 
but has frequently cast his ballot for men on 
the opposing ticket. He served as land ap- 
praiser one year, and was once elected justice 
of the peace by an overwhelming majority, but 
as it was without his consent or desire, he re- 
fused to serve. 




AMES STANDLEY SALMON was 
born on the farm on which he now 
lues. May 15, 1830, and is a son of 
John and Anna (Standley) Salmon. 
His grandfather Salmon came from 
France to Dutchess Count}. New York, at an 
early date. 

John Salmon, father of James S., was born 
in Dutchess County, New York, in 1791. and 
leaving home, a young man in search of work. 
he arrived at the Marietta settlement in < >' 
There he entered the employ of a widow, Mrs. 
Anna Breck, whom he shortly married. Mrs. 
Salmon, whose maiden name was Anna 
Standley, came of one of the earliest families 
of the .Marietta settlement and was herself 
the second white female born there, the date 
of her nativity being January 1, 1791. Of her 
marriage with John Breck there were three 
children — one son and two daughters — as 
lows: John, who died at the age of 14 
Seraph (Alney). who died April 2, [842, in 
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William Elliott, and died in Cleveland at the 
advanced age of 84 years. They continued to 
reside at Marietta until 1824, when they sold 
their tract of 25 acres there and moved to Ge- 
nua Township, Delaware County, Ohio, where 
they rented for one year. They then spent a 
year in Kingston Township, subsequently buy- 
ing 100 acres of land on the State Road in 
Brown Township, for which the}' paid the sum 
of three dollar- per acre. This they began to 
clear and cultivate, and it has since become one 
of the most valuable farms in the township. 
Mr. Salmon died on the home place April 14, 
[864, and his widow survived him three years, 
dying July 23. 18(17. m Indiana, whither she 
had gone to live with a son and daughter. 
Their union was blessed with the following 
children: Mixenda. who married Solomon 
Shoemaker and went to live in Whitely, In- 
diana, where she died in i8<jq; Benjamin who 
died in Indiana, January 13. 1904; Jacob, who 
died in Licking County: Jacob R., who died 
October 2. 184(1; Thomas, who died March 1, 
[847; James S., who is still living at the ad- 
vanced age of 78 years; and Selden, who died 
at the age of six weeks. John Salmon was 

g nally a Whig and later a Republican m 

litics. He served in the War of 1812, and 
tried to enlist during- the Civil War. 

James S. Salmon has always lived in 
Brown Township, and in his youth attended 
the "Id log school house of his district. When 
he rir>t took hold of the home farm there was 
but little of it cleared, and most of the other 
improvements were made by him. He later 
ad' led fifty acres of partially cleared land, and 
then fn mi time to time added 1 >ther tracts 
until he now possesses 2S5 acres, all under 
a high state of cultivation. He has followed 
general farming and stock-raising. 

September 18. 1851. Air. Salmon was 

united in marriage with Sarah A. Randolph, 

vas born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, 

and who is a daughter of Marsh Fritz and 

sandra (Styles) Randolph. Her father 

- born and reared at Staten Island. New 

York, while her mother's people came from 

Virginia. This union resulted in the birth 

1 . ne s«>n. John, who was born July 31. [852, 



and died January 27, 1878. Mr. Salmon is 
a Republican in national politics, but in local 
politics is independent. He served three vears 
as township trustee, but declined to run again 
for the office. 




AMUEL ANDERSON MOORE com- 
mander of Post No. 531, Grand 
Army of the Republic, at Ostrander, 
is one of Concord Township's repre- 
sentative citizens. He was born in 
Harmony Township, Morrow County, Ohio. 
February 16, 1844, and is a son of Samuel 
and Priscena (Thompson) Moore. 

The Moore family is of Scotch-Irish de- 
scent and there is reason to believe, from the 
family history and other evidence, that one of 
its earlier members was the great Irish poet, 
Thomas Moore. Samuel Moore was born in 
Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and was four 
years old when he accompanied his parents, 
William and Amelia Moore to Ohio. 
They settled in Athens County, from which 
section they later moved to the eastern part of 
Delaware County, locating in Peru Township. 
Still later they removed to Hancock County, 
where they died. The Thompson family, to 
which Mr. Moore belongs on the maternal 
side, is of German extraction and the maternal 
grandfather, John Thompson, married a lady 
of Welsh extraction. He was born in 1782 
and died in 1866. coming to Athens County. 
Ohio, in 1808. The Moores and the Thomp- 
sons, as families, had much to do with expel- 
ling the Indians from along the Scioto River 
and the Maumee Valley. 

Samuel Moore, father of Samuel Ander- 
son, was born in 1813 and died in 1886. lie 
married Priscena Thompson, who was born in 
1812 and died in 1896, aged eighty-four years. 
They had nine children, as follows: Martha 
A., who married William H. Cox, residing at 
Delaware: William N., who married Elizabeth 
Rowland, was a member of Company A. One 
Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment. Ohio Vol- 
unteer Infantry, during the Civil War, died in 
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member of Company E, Sixty-sixth Regiment, 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died in prison July 
30, 1862, at Lynchburg, Virginia; Samuel A., 
whose name begins this sketch; Rebecca P., 
deceased, who was the wife of Austin May- 
field; Joseph Vinton, who met an accidental 
death by scalding when four years of age; 
Amelia Ellen, who died aged nine years from 
diptheria; Henry Monroe, residing at Dela- 
ware, who married Lucy Williams; and one 
child died in infancy. 

Samuel Anderson Moore obtained his edu- 
cation in the district schools and was trained 
to agriculture on his father's land. He has 
owned many farms, all of which he has im- 
proved before disposing of them, and has re- 
sided in various sections. When he started 
out for himself he settled for one year in Rad- 
nor Township and then went to Iowa, where 
he "prospected" for a time and then purchased 
a farm. When he returned to Ohio he bought 
a farm of 103 acres in Scioto Township, Dela- 
ware County, and in Leesburg Township, 
Union County, residing there for 18 months. 
After disposing of that farm he returned for 
a year to Radnor Township and then moved 
to Henry County, Ohio, where he lived nine 
mi mths, acquiring 220 acres in that county. 
He again returned to Radnor Township and 
bought a farm on which he lived for five years, 
from which place he moved to a farm of 154 
acres which was situated north of Bellpoint, 
and there he resided for 17 years. After sell- 
ing the farm mentioned, he bought 170 acres 
in Berlin Township which he kept for two 
years when he traded it for 16 town lots at 
Monon, Indiana, and bought 160 acres in 
White County, Indiana, 68 acres in Cass 
County, 480 acres in Hodgeman and Finney 
Counties, Kansas and a square at Lyons, Kan- 
sas. Still later, Mr. Moore bought 100 acres 
south of Bellpoint, Delaware County, which 
he kept for two years. After selling that prop- 
erty, he bought 800 acres in 1 'helps County, 
Missouri. At a later date he sold his Indiana 
land and town lots receiving in exchange 203 
acres in Pike County, Ohio, later trading the 
Pike County farm for a fruit farm in Ross 



County, Ohio. Mr. Moore is too good a judge 
of property to ever fail in making an advan- 
tageous deal. He also owns 80 acres in Arkan- 
sas. In 1887, he purchased 146 acres in Hock- 
ing County and subsequently traded his fruit 
farm for 156 acres in Union County, which 
he sold in 1902, investing in 473/ acres on the 
Plain City Road, in Concord Township, Dela- 
ware County, and also bought 36J/2 acres of 
the Cutter farm in this vicinity. In the spring 
of 1907 he bought an adjoining 37^2 acres. 

In the fall of 1895 he bought three lots 
and a residence, taking possession of them in 
the spring of 1896, and retaining a part of 
that land until the spring of 1904. At that 
time he also purchased his present residence 
with twelve acres attached, and has since made 
many substantial improvements here. Mr. 
Moore has always left every place he ever 
owned in better condition than he four, 
taking pleasure in improving" his property ami 
naturally adding greatly to its selling value. 
He still retains 80 acres in Concord Tow 1 
and 640 acres in Missouri, together with his 
valuable residence property and a stone quarry. 

Mr. Moore was married March 2j. 1869, 
to Agnes Rider, who was born in Ritchie 
County, Virginia, and who is a daughter of 
James and Julia ( Betts ) Rider, who came 
from Virginia and settled in Kingston Town- 
ship, Delaware County. They had the fol- 
lowing children born to them : Thomas Pres- 
ton, born March 1, 1870, married Edith 
Hutchisson, and they reside at Bellpoint and 
have three children — Frank, Lottie and Ray- 
mond; Homer O., township treasurer, i 
August 18, 1 87 1, married Alice Healey. a 
daughter of Ervin J. Healey, and they have 
two children — George and Harold ; Charles 
Monroe, born March 10. 1873, is a farmer, 
married Minnie E. Jones, daughter of Ji >hn 
and Elizabeth Jones and they have two chil- 
dren — Geneva and Clarendon; Myrtle May 
and Eugene Clay, twins, were born June 3. 
1875. the former of whom married Daniel 
Smart and has two children — Russell and Clif- 
ford, and the latter married Sadie Orella Phil- 
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Edna May, who married Nelson Blinn, and 
has two children — Nellie and Mildred. 

1 hiring the early part of the Civil War, 
Mr. Ah lore made five attempts to enter the 
army but always met with refusal, but on May 
2, [864, he was sworn in as a member of Com- 
pany A. One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regi- 
ment. Ohio Infantry, and accompanied the 
command to Arlington Heights for the de- 
fense of the city of Washington. As long as 
the danger of invasion was imminent, the 
troops were kept at Washington, after which 
they returned to Camp Chase and Mr. Moore 
was honorably discharged August 24, 18(14. 
At two different times he offered his services 
after his discharge hut was rejected. He has 
been actively identified with the affairs of the 
Grand Army of the Republic and is the cap- 
able commander of Posl No. 53] at Ostrander, 
On several occasions he has attended the State 
encampments, and has also visited the general 
encampments more than that number of times, 
going as far as San Francisco. In 1905 he 
attended the State encampment at Dayton. 

Mr. Moore is a stanch Republican and has 
been a prominent factor in county politics for 
many years. For six years he served in the 
office of infirmary director and during that 
time, according to the records, he made many 
collections. When he was sworn in the insti- 
tution was $29,000 in debt, and at the end of 
his administration the debt was not only dis- 
charged but there was $3,000 in the treasury. 

Mr. Samuel A. Moore is a 'Republican in 
politics and believes in the honest administra- 
tion of government. He is opposed to rings 
and to graft in any form and is in favor of 
cleansing the party whenever corrupt persons 
get into office, instead of going over to the 
enemy. He discovered and exposed the great 
bounty frauds. He believes in the practice of 
temperance and has never used intoxicating 
liquors or tobacco in his life. He honors the 
"Boys in Blue" of 1861-65 and believes our 
Government and Flag the best and grandest 
of any now existing. Such is Mr. Moore's 
moral and political creed, and in the most im- 
portant respects there will be few to differ 
from him. 




[LLIAM ROSS PORTER, a rep- 
resentative citizen of Brown 
Township, residing mi dlis valu- 
able farm of [87 acres, was born 
April 12, [845, where he now re- 
sides, in a building which then occupied the 
site of his present resilience. He is a son of 
Joseph C. and Margaret (McCurdy) Porter. 
The father of Mr. Porter was born in 
York Count)-, Pennsylvania, in [806, where 
he remained until after his marriage and the 
birth of two children. In the spring of 1840. 
he reached Oxford Township. Delaware 
County, locating one mile north of where he 
finally settled. He purchased a tract of land 
but did not retain it on account of flaws in the 
title. He then came to Brown Township and 
bought 48 acres, on which stood a log barn 
and a small brick building which had been used 
for silk-worm culture. The land was covered 
with mulberry trees. Joseph C. Porter lived 
to the age of 87 years. He was a man of im- 
portance in his community and served botl 
township trustee and as a justice of the peace. 
His death took place March 2<.j, 1894. He 
married Margaret McCurdy, who was born 
September 29. 1813. and died March 25, 
1898. Their family consisted of five sons and 
five daughters, namely: Maria Jane, born 
September 2j, 1835. died March 25, 1852; 
James Alexander, born July 31, 1837. was 
killed at the battle of Chickamauga, during the 
Civil War. a member of Company D. One 
Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment. Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry; John McCurdy. born Oc- 
tober 27, '1840, died February 3, 1885: Mar- 
garet Rebecca, born January 27 ■, 1843. married 
B. F. Longwell, and died October 8. [885; 
William R. ; Martha Elizabeth, horn May 17. 
1847, married James Carlisle, now deceased, 
and her home is at Mt. Gilead; Daniel Clark, 
born September 9, 1840. died August i 1. 1887. 
survived by his widow, formerly Jennie 
Reeves, of Bridgeton, New Jersey: Joseph Ir- 
vin. born April 1. 1852. married Harriet John- 
son, formerly of Delaware, but now they re- 
side in California; Mary Caroline, born July 
22, 1836, residing in Kansas, married Rev. 
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born January 19, i860, married Dr. Stickney 
and they reside at Kilbourne. 

William R. Porter was married June 6, 
1900, to Ella Pettibone Moore, a widow with 
two daughters, Florence and Natalie Moore. 
whose father, John Moore, had been a resident 
of Brown Township. Mrs. Ella Porter is the 
daughter of Hector H. and Mary ( Hunter) 
Pettibone, who came to Delaware from Con- 
necticut in their childhood, and with the ex- 
ception of a few years spent their entire lives 
there. Mr. Porter is a Republican, but has 
accepted no public office except that of school 
director. His farm is one of the most desir- 
able ones within a radius of seven miles of 
Delaware. 




HARLES T. GRANT, a resident of 
Ashley, Oxford Township, who is 
now living in retirement, comes of 
one <>f the pioneer families of this 
vicinity. He was born January 28, 
1823, in Providence. Rhode Island, and was 
about six years of age when brought by his 
parents to Delaware County, Ohio, where he 
has since lived continuously, although in dif- 
ferent townships. 

Charles Tilson Grant is of Revolutionary 
stock on both sides of the house, the Grants 
and Whipples having come to this country 
during colonial days. He is a son of Aaron. 
Jr., and Dianna (Whipple) Grant, a grandson 
of Aaron, and great-grandson of Lbenezer 
Grant. The last named was the first of the 
family to come to America, having come from 
Scotland, where the family was prominent 
hack t" the time of the deadly feuds that ex- 
isted between the Grants and McPhersons. 
Ebenezer Grant came to this country prim- to 
the Revolutionary War. in which two of his 
sons served, John being a drummer and Bryer 
a hfer. Both served under ( leneral Warren 
in the battle of Bunker Hill and were in other 
memorable struggles. Ebenezer was twice 
married, having three sons, Bryer, Jabez and 
John by his first wife, and four l>v Ins second, 
namely: Rhodes. Eliphaz, Aaron and Rufus. 



Aaron Grant, Jr., left Rhode Island in Oc- 
tober, [829, in company with his family and 
his brother-in-law, James Whipple, whose fa- 
ther. Reuben Whipple, had previously moved 
west and located in what is now Peru Town- 
ship. Morrow County, then Delaware County, 
on a farm which is still in the family, it being- 
owned by his grandson, Frank Whipple. Mr. 
Grant, upon arriving at Sandusky City. Ohio, 
employed a wagoner named Morris to haul 
them and their possessions to Delaware Coun- 
ty. They made the journey with a five-horse 
team, and at places was obliged to go ahead 
and cut a way through the timber. It was a 
memorable trip, in which thev met some In- 
dians and killed game in abundance. Jason 
Whipple having a new cap gun, one of the first 
guns of that pattern made. Aaron bought a 
farm of 100 acres of Israel Daggett, but as 
the puncheon had been taken out of the cabin 
on the place, thev rented a double cabin of 
Milton Van Duser, on the opposite side of the 
road. This place had been unused for a time 
and wild turkey filed through it in search of 
corn. The Indians had been on the place the 
previous year, and two camp grounds on the 
farm are still discernible. 

Charles Tilson Grant was reared on his 
father's farm in Brown Townshp, which he 
helped to clear. He attended an old log school, 
taught by Cynthia Finch, two miles distant 
from his home. He followed farming on the 
home place, having bought out the other heirs, 
and lived there until in the nineties, when he 
retired from active business and located in 
Ashley. He sold the farm in 1903. 

February 17. 1861, Mr. Grant married 
Diana Hibbard, who was born January 6, 
1X42. in Morrow County, and was a daughter 
of Lucius Hibbard. She died July [2, 1905. 
leaving two children — Horace Plum and Mary 
Emma. Horace Plum, horn April 8, 1862, 
lives in Ashley. He married May Perfect and 
had a son, I. eon, and formed a second union 
with Daisy Gano ; Mary Emma, second child 
nf Mr. and Airs. Grant, horn July 12. r866 
married Eugene Watters and has a daughter 
Shirley. I'< litically, Mr. Grant is a Dem- 
ocrat and served as infirmary director three 




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year-, being elected in face of overwhelming 
odds, lie was formerly a member of the 1'a- 
- of 1 lusbandry. 




flOHX WASHINGTON NASH, who 
was, for many years, one of Delaware 
County's substantial men and honor- 
able and upright citizens, acquired and 
left intact a valuable farm of 148 
acres, situated in Berkshire Township, and ad- 
joining- the city of Galena, on the west. Mr. 
Nash was a Virginian and was born in the 
capital city of Richmond, September 14. 18,7. 
son of John W. and Martha (Green) Nash. 
His grandparents were natives of England. 

The parents of Mr. Nash both died when 
he was about 10 years of age. but he con- 
tinued for about seven years longer to reside 
at Richmond, and then accompanied a family 
named Shaffer, to Delaware County. For 
some time he continued to live with this 
family, and assisted them in getting settled. 
but later engaged in farm \v< irk throughout 
1 Delaware County. After his marriage, in 
1 84 1. he rented a farm for one year and then 
bought what was known as the Williams farm, 
containing 148 acres. This property he al- 
ways retained and continued to improve it as 
long as he lived. He also acquired other 
farms and became known as a capitalist and 
financier. He owned stock and was a member 
of the Board of Directors of both the Sunbury 
and Westerville banks. During the larger 
part of his life he was engaged in general 
farming and stock-raising. Mr. Nash was a 
man of exemplary life and he was held in the 
highest esteem by all who knew him. At vari- 
ous times and when his fellow citizens de- 
manded it. he accepted the duties of public of- 
fice, and he ever proved a faithful, efficient and 
valuable official. In his political views he was 
a Democrat. 

On September .21, 1841, Mr. Nash was 
married to Sarah Ann Rose, who was born near 
Galena. Ohio. February jo. 1820, and who 
died Jul\ 9, [897, surviving her husband from 
March 30, [893. She was a daughter of 



James and Elizabeth (Slosson) Rose, who 
were natives of New York. Mr. and Mrs. 
Nash had four children, two of whom died 
in infancy. The two daughters who reached 
maturity were Ann Eliza and Mary Oliver. 
The former was born February 27. 1845. and 
married Samuel Fancher. She died August 
21, 1898. and was laid to rest in Grundy 
County, Illinois. 

Miss Mary Oliver Nash was born on the 
old home place, in the old log house. July 25, 
1850. In 1855 her father built the present 
frame residence, a commodious structure of 
ten rooms, and he made all the other improve- 
ments which have served to increase its value. 
Mi-- Nash rents the farm of 148 acres, it be- 
ing her own property. She is interested also 
in several local enterprises, owning stock 
which has proved excellent as an investment. 
Miss Nash was educated at Galena and com- 
pleted the High School course there. She is 
a valued member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Galena, with which she has been 
identified since 1866. 




residing 



ARLES C. COWGILL 
on a well-appointed farm near the 
city ot Delaware, in Brown Town- 
ship, comes of a prominent old 
family of Delaware County. His 
grandfather. Daniel M. Cowgill, Sr.. was born 
in Connecticut and was the first of the family 
to come to Ohio, settling in Delaware County 
in 181 1. His father was of English birth, 
and came to the I nited States with his two 
brothers. He acquired several hundred acres 
of land south of Delaware, in Delaware Town- 
ship, and in the following- year joined the 
American army for service during the War of 
1812. He later sold that farm and located on 
one of j^ acres across the line in Brown Town- 
ship. His wife's maiden name was Finley, 
and she died very young. 

Daniel M. Cowgill. Jr., father of Charles 
C, was born in Delaware Township. Novem- 
ber 7. 1827, and has lived in Delaware County 
all his life, except the pasl twelve winter-. 



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which he has spent in California. While here 
he resides among his children. Upon first 
leaving his father's home lie was for three 
years located on a farm east of Alum Creek in 
Berlin Township, after which lie purchased 
what has since heen his home place, a tract 
of 130 acres on the Sunbury mad. He also 
purchased the farm on which Charles C. Cow- 
gill now lives, the latter having bought it of 
him in 1903. He had other tracts which have 
heen divided among his children. He mar- 
ried Eliza Allgire, who was born near Canal 
Winchester, in Fairfield County, Ohio, and 
they became parents of six children : William 
L.. win) died at the age of 21 years; John M., 
of Delaware; Charles C. ; Alary Louisa, wife 
of David Lackey, residing near Cheshire; 
Celina Cora, was the wife of Frank Ferguson, 
who died in 1907, and lived in Van Wert 
County; and Clara J., wife of Wallace Fergu- 
son, who lives on the old home place. Politi- 
cally. Mr. Cowgill is a Republican. In 1864 
he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty- 
fifth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at 
Delaware, and was in the too-day service. 

Charles C. Cowgill was horn one mile 
south of his present place, in Berlin Township, 
Delaware County, Ohio, March 31. 1856, and 
received his educational training in the district 
schools and at the Delaware high school. He 
remained on the home place until he was 23 
years of age. In [879 he came to his present 
farm which he rented until 1903, when he pur- 
chased it as mentioned above. It contains 1 15 
acres, on which he has erected a comfortable 
residence and made most of the improvements. 
He follows general farming and dairying and 
has always met with satisfactory result-. 

October 28. 1X7(1. Charles C. Cowgill was 
united in marriage with Maggie Darrah. who 
was horn three miles east of Sunbury, in 
Delaware County, and is a daughter of Samuel 
and Elizabeth (Young) Darrah. Three chil- 
dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Cow- 
gill : Herbert R., horn July 3. 1884. who is a 
machinist in Delaware; Homer F... born Feb- 
ruary 15, 1886; and Paul S., horn April 1. 
[889. Mr. Cowgill casts hi- vote for the can- 
didates of the Prohibition party. He is a mem- 



ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Delaware. His fraternal connection is with 
the Patrons of Husbandry. 




E. COWLES. M. D., physician and 

surgeon, residing at Ostrander, was 

^ a born near Bell Point. Delaware 

County, Ohio, August 6, [862, and 

is a son of Homer J. and Julia A. 

(Bean) Cowles. 

During his active years the father of Dr. 
Cowles engaged in farming. He is now a 
resident of Pittsburg. For some fifteen years 
he was clerk of Concord Township and 
served as a justice oi the peace. He is a mem- 
ber of Edinhurg Lodge. Odd Fellows, of Os- 
trander, being past grand of the same. The 
mother of Dr. Cowles was a daughter of Hi- 
ram Bean, a resident of Scioto Township, who 
was a son oC George Bean. The latter was 
born in Virginia and settled in Scioto Town- 
ship in 1 81 7. He founded this pioneer fam- 
ily in this section. The parents of Dr. Cowles 
had nine children, eight of whom grew to ma- 
ture years, as follows: Samuel J., residing at 
Findlay, Ohio; G. E.. residing at Ostrander; 
Olive S.. who is deceased; Orva A., who mar- 
ried X. H. White, residing at Delaware: Fr; nk 
H. residing at White Sulphur, Ohio; Ora V... 
who married J. C. McCrea, residing at Dela- 
ware; Fred H.. residing at Dayton; and Oma 
A., who married William H. Miller. 

Dr. Cowles belongs to a pioneer family of 
Delaware also on the paternal side. His 
grandparents were Samuel J. and Parthenia 
(Ackerman) Cowles. The grandfather was 
born in Xew York and he was brought to the 
Western Reserve by his parents who were 
among the earliest settlers of Concord Town- 
ship. He acquired a part of the old farm and 
lived in Concord Township until his death, 
when almost 01 years of age. His father at 
one time owned the property on which the old 
Mill Creek mill stood. 

Dr. Cowles was educated in the public 
schools of Bell Point. His medical reading 
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Field, a well-known practitioner of Ostrander, 
after which he attended lectures at the Co- 
lumbus Medical College, where he was grad- 
uated in 1889. He located at Ostrander, 
where he enjoys a large and lucrative 
practice. He keeps closely in touch with the 
advance of medical science and is a member 
of both Delaware County and Ohio State 
Medical Societies. He has taken a more or 
less active interest in count}- politics and in 
1907 he was elected township treasurer. For 
three years he served as a member of the 
School Board of Ostrander village. He be- 
longs to Lodge No. 348. Knights of Pythias. 
at Ostrander. 

Dr. Cowles married Hattie, daughter of 
James S. and Rehecca A. Seymour, residents 
of Findlay, Ohio, and they have one son, Dor- 
ence S. Dr. and Mrs. Cowles are members 
of the Baptist Church, of which he is treasurer 
and a trustee. He occupies a leading place 
among the representative citizens of Delaware 
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oridox McAllister, whose 

large and well-kept farm is situated 
in Thompson Township, resides in 
a comfortable home at Pichwood, 
which he has occupied for the past 
six years. He was born near Sunbury, in 
Trenton Township. Delaware County, Ohio, 
November 13. 185 1. and is a son of Jesse N. 
and Emily ( Gildersleeve) McAllister. 

Mr. McAllister is of Irish-Scotch ancestry. 
His grandfather. Abdul McAllister, was horn 
in Pennsylvania and was one of the pioneers 
of Delaware County. Jesse X. McAllister 
was born also in Pennsylvania and was 11 
years old when he accompanied his parents 
to Trenton Township. Delaware County, 
where he was reared and where he subse- 
quently married. When his son Coridon was 
two years old he moved to Thompson Town- 
ship, where he bought a farm of 72 acres, on 
which he lived until within 18 or 20 years of 
his death, when he moved to Claybourne 
T' iwnship, in Union County, wdiere he owned 



two farms. He died August 3, 1901, in his 
81st year. In politics he was a Republican 
and he served as trustee of Thompson Town- 
ship. Of his three children, two grew to 
turity, namely: Coridon and Henrietta, the 
latter of whom married George Hancock 
Richwood. 

From the age of two years until [882, 
Coridon McAllister lived in Thompson Town- 
ship. He then spent one year at Richw 1 

and then moved back on the farm, where he 
remained until 1900, when he moved to Dela- 
ware, for two years, hut later returned I 
Richwood. Mr. McAllister makes a specialty 
of sheep-feeding on his large farm of 450 
acres, 400 of which he has under cultivation. 
He buys in the fall, feeds and sells in the 
spring-, his dealings reaching from 1.200 to 
1300 head. He has a sheep barn with dimen- 
sions of ^2 by 120 feet with 18-foot posts, 
which he built in 1893. and another barn 44 
by 84 with 25-foot posts, and this barn has a 
wing 24 by 48 feet, and he has a 300-ton silo. 
He also feeds some cattle and hogs and gr 
corn, hay and wheat. 

Mr. McAllister married Jennie E. Adams, 
who is a daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth 
Adams, of Richwood. They have a family of 
six children, as follows : [Margaret, who is a 
teacher in the Akron. Ohio, public sch 
John, residing at Richwood ; Frederick, resid- 
ing- at Delaware: Leah, who is a student in the 
Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware: and 
Timothy and Helen, at home. Mrs. McAl- 
lister is a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
to which Mr. McAllister gives liberal sup- 
port. He is a man of public spirit and g 1 

citizenship. 




ARRV W. JEWELL, B. A., senior 

member of the law firm of Jewell & 
Benton, prominent attorneys at Dela- 
ware, was horn in Porter Township. 
Delaware County. Ohio. November 

19, 1872. and is a son of Warren S. and Laura 

A. (Moody) Jewell. 

Mr. Jewell's grandfather, Harrison Jew- 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



ell, was born in New Jersey and came to Ohio 
at an early day. settling at Utica, in Licking 
County, where he acquired farm property and 
became a man of substance. Warren S. Jewell 
was born on this farm, in 1842, completed his 
education in an academy at Granville, Ohio, 
and then engaged in a mercantile business in 
Hilliar Township, Knox County, for a few 
years, but in 1865 purchased and moved on a 
farm of 300 acres in Porter Township. For 
years he has been extensively interested in the 
Delaine sheep growing industry, keeping 300 
head and taking pride in having one of the 
finest flocks in the State. In politics, Warren 
S. Jewell is a Republican and he has served 
in township offices for years, fie is a mem- 
ber of East Liberty Lodge, Knights of Pyth- 
ias. He married Laura M ly, who is a 

daughter of Rev. William Moody, who was 
one of the pioneer preachers of the Christian 
Church in this section. They have had five 
children, namely: Eva, who married Levi 
Blacklidge of Porter Township; Harry W. ; 
Walter M., residing in Knox County; Mary, 
who married Charles Lone, of Licking Coun- 
ty; and Clifford W., residing in Porter Town- 
ship. Mr. and Mrs. Jewell are leading mem- 
bers and generous supporters of the Christian 
Church in Centerburg, Ohio. 

Harry W. Jewell attended the district 
schools of Porter Township until he was four- 
teen years of age and then entered the Cen- 
terburg High School in Knox County and 
went from there to Hiram College, where he 
was graduated in 1895, w ' tn tne degree of B. 
\. lie then entered the law office of McElrov 
& Carpenter, and be was admitted to the Bar 
in [897. Lie practiced alone until March u, 
iqoj. when he formed a partnership with B. 
P. Benton, of Delaware, and the firm has 
forged rapidly to the front, at present occupy- 
ing a leading place in the profession at Dela- 
ware. In politics. Mr. Jewell is a Republican 
and ever since attaining manhood he has taken 
a deep and intelligent interest in public mat- 
ters, lie has been a prominent factor in his 
party, exerts a wide influence, and in [908 was 
put forward by his party as its nominee for 
Congress, lie i- largely identified with busi- 



ness interests in this section, is vice president 
of the Cook Motor Company and is one of 
the directors of the First National Bank. 

Mr. Jewell was married in 1895 to Mamie 
E. McGuire, who is a daughter of John Mc- 
Guire, of Centerburg, Ohio, and they have one 
son, Arthur Raymond, who was born July 7, 
1896. Mr. and Mrs. Jewell are members of 
the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Jewell being a 
member of the board of trustees. He is senior 
warden of Hiram Lodge. No. 18, F. & A. M., 
at I )elaware. 




CARLES H. STALEY. who has 

been a resident of Concord Town- 
ship for the past 45 years, was born 
July 11, 1850, at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
and is a son of Vincent and Isabel 
Staler. 

The parents of Mr. Staley were both born 
in German)'. The mother, while still Miss 
Isabel Smith, came to America and to Pitts- 
burg, Pennsylvania, with her sister, Mrs. 
Hartkorn. The father accompanied bis par- 
ents to Muskingum County. Ohio, and later 
became a clerk in the Gait House, at Cincin- 
nati. He was married in that city and moved 
to Delaware in 1857, and became manager of 
the Wilson Hotel at Sulphur Springs, where 
he remained until his death in 1861. His 
widow subsequently married John Sutley, who 
died some 13 years ago. since which time she 
has resided at Columbus. She is now 87 
years of age, and comes of a long-lived fam- 
ily, her father living to be 90 years old and 
her grandfather, to be 95 years. Vincent 
Staley and wife had three children, two sons 
and one daughter, namely : Charles H. ; Jo- 
sephine, who married Michael Moran, is a 
widow and resides with her mother: and 
Frank, residing at Ostrander, who married 
Elizabeth Chambers. 

Charles II. Staley has given his main at- 
tention through life to agricultural pursuits. 
He has lived 51 years in Delaware County, 
six of these in Liberty and the remainder in 
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In [872, Mr. Staley was married to Mar- 
el Lorvery. They have had seven chil- 
dren, namely: Frank, who married [dajones; 
Mary, who married William Hannah, and re- 
sides at Indianapolis; Harry, who married 
Laura Seller, and resides in .Marion County, 
1 )hio; Minnie, wife of Clarence Smale. resid- 
ing in Delaware County: Eve. who married 
Burton Andrews, and resides in Union Coun- 
ty; Edward, residing at Zanesville, where he 
married Rose Huff (he served in the Span- 
ish-America War and spent three years in 
( ulia 1 : and Josephine, who resides at home. 

Mr. Staley is affiliated with the Democratic 
party and has been active in township and 
county politics. He has served two terms as 
township trustee and two terms as township 
treasurer. He is a representative citizen of 
Concord Township and few are better known. 




ILLIAM H. McWILLIAMS, a 
leading citizen of Berlin Ti iwn- 
ship. resides on his farm of 82 
acres on the Cheshire turnpike 
road, was born in Washington, 
Xew Jersey, and is a son of Marshall and Clar- 
( Smith ) McWilliams. 
The father of Mr. McWilliams was horn 
in Xew Jersey, and when he took possession 
of the land which his son now occupies, in 
[840, it was covered with a dense forest. His 
original purchase was of fifty acres and he 
erected the first board house in this section. He 
added to his land until he owned 1 jo acres. 
Until the issues of 1861, he was a strong Dem- 
ocrat, but after that year he was identified 
with the Republican party until his death, 
which took place in 1N70. at the age of 74 
years. His father. John McWilliams. was 
horn in Ireland and he founded the family in 
Xew Jersey. Marshall McWilliams married 
a daughter of Rev. Jonas Smith, who was a 
minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Mrs. McWilliams was horn and reared in Xew 
Jersey. The children of Marshall McWil- 
nd wife were as follows: Smith, re- 
siding in Berlin Township; Henry. John. Ly- 



dia J., who married Edgar Gregory, residing 

m Berlin Town-hip: William H., Ann. who 
married a Mr. Moore, residing in Michigan; 
Marshall G., residing at Urbana, Ohio; 
one other that died in infancy. 

William II. McWilliams remained at home 
giving assistance to Ins father until he was 
22 years of age, when he enlisted in Company 
G, Forty-fifth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry. In 1862 he was taken prisoner and 
was confined on Relic Isle for 14 months, finally 
being paroled and subsequently exchanged. Ik- 
returned to his regiment and was honorably 
discharged at Camp Harker, East Tennes-ee. 
near Nashville, after three years of military 
life. He then returned home after his mar- 
riage in 1868. and engaged in farming a shorl 
distance from the home place, coming to the 
present farm after his father died, where he 
has resided ever since. 

In 1868. Mr. McWilliams was married to 
Prudence Mcintosh, of Champaign County. 
Ohio, who is a daughter of John Mcintosh, a 
pioneer wagon-maker in Champaign County. 
Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams have three chil- 
dren — John Stanley. William Edward and 
Emma Grace. Mr. McWilliams is a stanch 
Republican and has been active in public mat- 
ters in his township. He has served as town- 
ship treasurer. He is a member and liberal 
supporter of the Presbyterian Church. 



SAAC MARION FREESE, one of Con- 
cord Township's most respected citi- 
zens, residing on his farm of 33 acres, 
has been a resident of this township 
all hi- life with the exception of two 
years. He was born in Delaware County, 
Ohio. July 17. 1844. and is a -on of Isaac 
Hester (Gates) Freese. 

The grandparents. John and Mary Frees, 
came- from Pennsylvania to Ohio at an early 
date, settling first in Pickaway Count}', and 
coming thence to Delaware Count}' about 
1838. John Freese purchased a farm of 
acres on the east hank of the Scioto River, 
one-half mile south of Bellpoint, for which he 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



paid SO. 25 an acre. Isaac Freest-, father of 
Isaac M.. later acquired one-half of this land. 
At that time it was all covered with timber 
and the family endured many pioneer hard- 
ships before their wild surroundings were 
changed. John and .Mary Freese had the fol- 
lowing children: Jacob, who died after set- 
tling in Illinois; Isaac, father of Isaac M.; 
John, who died in Concord Township and left 
four children; Abraham, who died in Concord 
Township, leaving seven suns and two daugh- 
ters: Henry, who died in Concord Township, 
leaving one child; Mary, who married Henry 
Oiler and removed to Illinois; and Annie, who 
married Henry Black, and died in Scioto 
Township. The grandparents lived to old age 
and they now rest in the Oiler cemetery, on 
the banks of the Scioto River. 

Isaac Freese, father of Isaac M., was 
born in 1803 and lived to the age of 88 years. 
On his land he built a comfortable log cabin 
and there all his family were reared, enjoying 
all the necessities of life even if they had but 
few of the luxuries. He was a man of sterl- 
ing character and lived respected and esteemed. 
He married Hester Gates, who died in 1870, 
aged 62 years. She was a daughter of Na- 
thaniel and Nancy (iates. who came to Con- 
cord Township, Delaware County, from Ma- 
rietta, Ohio. There were seven children born 
to Isaac and Hester (Gates) Freese, namely: 
Loretta, Lavinia, Perlina, John, Isaac M., An- 
nie, and Catherine. Loretta. who married 
Ni irmari Collins, moved to Moultrie County, 
Illinois, where both died. They are survived 
by one of their four children — Lewis Collins, 
now of Delaware; Lavinia married J. N. Sa- 
ger, of Liberty Township, and moved to King- 
man, Kansas, where she died, leaving five 
children. Perlina, who married Stephen 
Freshwater, of Concord Township, is sur- 
vived by her husband and four children. John, 
who married Jane Hamilton, died in Moultrie 
County, leaving three children. Annie is the 
wife of Joseph Evans, and resides in Liberty 
Township; she has eight children. Catherine, 
who was married (first) to John Gamble and 
(secondly) to Charles B. Johnson, of Con- 



cord Township, had one child — daughter — by 
her first marriage and seven children by her 
second. 

Isaac M. Freese in his boyhood, attended 
the district schools and was reared on his fa- 
ther's farm. At that time the township and 
even the county was but sparsely settled and 
he enjoyed few of the social advantages 
winch his grandchildren have in abundance. 
lie did much hard work and assisted in im- 
proving the home place until he turned his at- 
tention to other pursuits. He has owned his 
present farm since 1865, on which he has 
made all the improvements, but during the 
greater part of his life he has been engaged in 
a mercantile business, spending two years in 
Illinois. 

Mr. Freese was married (first) in 1863, 
to Susan Watson, who was a daughter of W. 
T. and Jane (Beckley) Watson. The chil- 
dren born of that marriage were : Mary, who 
died aged sixteen months; Lavinia, who mar- 
ried Frank McKinnie, of Delaware, and has 
eight children — Blanche, Rusk, Chester, Eliza- 
beth, Ray. Nona, Ivalon and Clinton; Cora 
Irene, who married William Engard, resides 
in Delaware, and has four children — Peter, 
Marion, Walter and William; Martha Jane, 
who married William Reese, residing at Dela- 
ware, has three children — Marguerite, Frank 
and Marion ; Susan, who married Frank Reese, 
resides at Delaware and they have five living 
children — Arthur. Clifford, Ralph, Lawrence 
and Dorence; and Walter Isaac, residing at 
Delaware, married Augusta Berlett and they 
have four children — Anna Maria, Donald, 
Ruth and Roy. In May, 1880, Mr. Freese 
was married "(secondly) to Mrs. Sarah Jane 
Warren, wdio is a daughter of Nelson R. and 
Eliza (Edleman) Talley. They have two 
children. Iva and William Andrew, the latter 
of whom resides at home. The former mar- 
ried William Webster. Jr., of Concord Town- 
ship, and they have three daughters: Bere- 
nice. Marian and Florence. By her former 
marriage, Mrs. Freese had two children. Fred- 
erick Raymond, who is a prominent citizen of 
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773 



the State Legislature, in 1906; and Frank D., 
who is the wife of George McKetrick, resid- 
( Columbus, Ohio. 
Fur many years, probablj over a half cen- 
Mr. Freese has been a member of the 
United Brethren Church. Formerly he be- 
d ti the Republican party, but in late 
- he has thrown his influence in the direc- 
tion of the Prohibition party. 




OHX H. WARREN formerly treas- 
urer of Delaware County and long- 
identified with the agricultural inter- 
ests of Scioto Township, has been a 
resident of Delaware since 1906. He 
1 in Radnor Township, Delaware 
Count}'. Ohio. October 20. 1833, and is a son 
of William M. and Mary (Jones) Warren. 

Thomas Warren, the grandfather of John 
H.. was one of the hard}' pioneers of Radnor 
T wnship, Delaware County, where he cleared 
land and erected a log house in the wilderness. 
He was born in Pennsylvania and was of 
So itch-Irish extraction. 

William M. Warren, son of Thomas, was 
born in 1802, in Pennsylvania, and died in 
Ohio in 1882. He accompanied his parents to 
Delaware County and grew to manhood on the 
h< mie farm near Radnor. A few years after 
In- marriage, he moved to what was then the 
village of Millville, the name of which was la- 
ter changed to Warrensburg, he being the 
first of the family to locate there; and for 
many years following he was a justice of the 
peace for Scioto Township. He was active 
in public affairs and was frequently sent as .1 
delegate to important part}- councils and was 
the member from Delaware County in the 
Ohio Constitutional Convention. Like many 
other strong men of high character of his day, 
he was prominent in Masonry and belonged to 
Hiram Lodge. Xo. 18, E. & A. M., at' Dela- 
ware. He married Mary Jones, who was 
horn in that part of Radnor Township which 
is now included in Scioto Township. Her fa- 
ther, John Jones, was horn in Wales. Four 
of their -ix children reached maturity, name- 



ly: Robert W. and Benjamin !•'.. both now 
deceased; and John II. and William M.. the 
latter residing at Warrensburg. The parents 
of the above family belonged to the old stone 
Presbyterian Church of South Radnor. 

John H. Warren was about three year-, old 
when his parents moved to Warrensburg. He 
can recall the first school he attended, which 
was held in a log house furnished with slab 
seats. When 18 years old he came to Dela- 
ware and for a few years he worked as a clerk, 
the city being then of so insignificant a size as 
to enable him to know personally every resi- 
dent. After gaining some mercantile experi- 
ence, he returned to Warrensburg, where he 
opened a general store and built a brick store 
building, his brother. William Warren, enter- 
ing into partnership with him. They con- 
tinued the business for eight years, under the 
firm name of J. II. Warren & Company, when 
John H. sold his interest to his partner and 
retired from the firm. Shortly afterward, in 
1876. he was elected county treasurer, a re- 
sponsible office that he filled very efficiently 
for four years, and during this period he re- 
sided at Delaware. Upon the expiration of 
his term of office. Mr. Warren engaged in 
farming in Scioto Township, and he con- 
tinued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits 
until 1906, when he retired to Delaware, mak- 
ing his home in a comfortable residence on the 
northwest corner of Liberty and Griswold 
Streets. During his life on the farm, he was 
also engaged for some years in operating a 
flour mill. His rural industries are continued 
by his sons. 

Mr. Warren married Annie E. Austin. 
who is a daughter of John Austin, a resident 
of Scioto Township, and they have had nine 
children, namely: Harry G., residing in 
Scioto Township; Mary Belle, now deceased, 
who is survived by her husband. William 
Sipes; Nellie, residing at Mt. Gilead. Ohio, 
who married Sherman Jackson: Charles F., a 
resident of Columbus; Eugene A., residing on 
the home farm: Caroline M., residing in 
Scioto Township, who married Ernest Decker: 
Miller M.. residing in Scioto Township; Fan- 
nie, who is now deceased: and Louise, residing 



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in Thompson Township, who married Merlin 
Stults. Mrs. Warren is a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church and a sympathetic worker in 
the field of charity. In politics, Mr. Warren 
has always been a Democrat and he has been 
an influential member of his party in this sec- 
tion. He is a Mason, belonging to Hiram 
Lodge at Delaware. 




[LBERT W. LAIRD, general farmer. 
residing <m his valuable estate of 
§ I 166 acres, which is situated in Scioto 
Township, was born May 17. 1846, 
in Oxford Township, Butler Coun- 
ty, Ohio, and is a son of Henry Wolcott and 
Susanna Martha (Brown) Laird. 

Tracing the Laird family as far back as 
the grandfather of Gilbert \\\. who was Glover 
Laird, it is found that he was born in the city 
of Glasgow, Scotland, where he was probably 
educated well and before he came to America 
learned the trade of shoemaker, a valuable 
one in the section in which he subsequently set- 
tled. He was married (first) to a Miss Wol- 
cott, who was born in Vermont, ami they 
started west as pioneers, he purchasing a farm 
in Michigan, from the government. Glover 
Laird was residing in St. Joseph County when 
the government shipped the Indians from De- 
troit across the river. He built a log cabin 
on his land and lived in it until be was ready to 
build a substantial frame house, lie reared a 
large family by bis firsl marriage, no children 
being burn of bis second union. He was first 
a Whig in politics, and later a Republican, and 
he was connected with the Free Masons, 
which, in those early days, was a very strong 
bond. 

Henry Wolcott Laird was bum in Nota- 
way Township, St. Joseph County, Michigan, 
in 1812. and died October i. [881. He was 
1 If-educated man. like many of the leading 
men of our land, studying at night by the light 
1 the fireplace and working by day as a car- 
penter and house painter. When bis mother 
died he bought tin- home farm and lived there 
through the remainder of his life, liis wife 



Susanna, was a daughter of William Brown, 
who was once a slave-owner in Maryland, 
where she was born, and who subsequently 
gave his slaves their freedom and moved to 
( Ihio. Mrs. Laird lived to lie more than 86 
years old, her death taking place May 11. 
1 003. During her long life she remained a 
true gentle woman, having come from a dis- 
tinguished ancestrv which included the Web- 
ster family of New England. Although con- 
ditions in Michigan, in 1852. after she had ac- 
companied her husband there, prevented the 
habit of lavish hospitality that came to her al- 
nii >st as an inheritance, she made welcome all 
who came to her home and until the close of 
her life turned a ready ear to every one in 
sorrow, distress or need. She became the be- 
loved and honored mother of nine children, 
seven of whom grew to maturity, namely: 
William Henry, residing at Sandusky; George 
C, residing at Menden, Michigan; Gilbert W.. 
a resident of Scioto Township. Delaware 
County. Ohio; James M., residing at Vicks- 
burg, Michigan: John Marion, who resides a.t 
Menden, Michigan; Charles W.. who resides 
at Leesburg. Union County, Ohio; and Caro- 
line, who married William Reinhardt, re 
ing at Sandusky. Ilemw W. Laird was promi- 
nent in Michigan political life, was a great 
campaign speaker, and on one occasion was the 
chosen candidate of his party for the State As- 
sembly. He belonged to the Masonic lodge at 
Centerville, Michigan. 

Gilbert W. Laird was eight years old when 
bis parents moved to Michigan. He attended 
school in St. Joseph County and continued on 
the home farm until 1878. when he purcha 
bis present land. He engages here in general 
farming and stock raising and uses for 
all the grain he grows with the exception of 
wheat. 

On December 12, 1878, Mr. Laird was 
married to Maggie K. Bird, who is a daughter 
of Oliver Terry Bird, a leading citizen of 
Scioto Township. Mr. and Mrs. Laird have 
had four children, namely: Myrtle M.. 
is now deceased; Merle M., who married B. 
\l. Huff, residing at Massillon, Ohio; and 
Maude B. and Claude C, who are twins. Mr- 




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777 




Laird is a member of the Christian Union 
Church ami is active in benevolenl work. In 
politics, Mr. Laird is identified with the Re- 
publican party, but has no political ambition. 
lie performs all the ordinary duties of a good 
citizen, but has always declined to accept pub- 
lic office. 

■» » » 

ETH GARDNER, a prosperous agri- 
culturalist and representative citizen 
ef Troy Township, who has resided 
on his excellent farm of 71 acres, 
since the fall of 190O. was born in 
Berkshire Township, Delaware County. Ohio, 
January 23. 1851, and is a son of Reuben C. 
and Lydia (Rolloson) Gardner. 

Reuben G. Gardner was burn in New Jer- 
sey, but 61 years of his life were passed in 
Delaware County, Ohio, and for 50 years he 
was a prominent farmer of Berlin Township. 
His death took place in Eebruary, 1905. He 
married Lydia Rolloson, who was born in 
Delaware County and who is also deceased. 
Of their children, the following' survive : 
Phebe I., who married William B. Shaw, of 
Berlin Township; John M., residing at Van 
Wert, Ohio: Harriet, who married Nathaniel 
Perhamas, of Van Wert, Ohio; Seth. residing 
in Troy Township; Eunice, who married 
Charles U. Hall, of Berlin Township; Ciers, 
residing at Van Wert; Lemuel J., residing in 
Berlin Township; and Martin L.. residing in 
Nebraska. 

When Seth Gardner was about four years 
old, his parents moved from Berkshire to Ber- 
lin Township, and he resided there until he 
reached manhood, in the meanwhile securing 
a common school education. He then started 
• nn fi >r himself, for in all essentials he is a 
self-made man. After learning the carpenter's 
trade he engaged in work in Delaware, and 
for twenty years was occupied there as a car- 
penter and contractor, remaining in that city 
until he retired to his farm in [906. His land 
is well located and is capable of a high state 
of cultivation. 

On April 13, 1869, Mr. Gardner was mar- 
ried to Susanna B. Davisson, who was born 
44 



near New Madrid. Missouri, and is a daugh- 
ter of Luke ami Anna ( Black) Davisson, both 
natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner have 
had five children, of whom the only survivor 
is a daughter, \daline. who married Arthur 
Dennis. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis have one daugh- 
ter, Lena. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner are mem- 
bers of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal 
Church, at Delaware. Politically, the former 
is a Republican. Fraternally he belongs to 
the Knights of Pythias and to the Improved 
order of Red Men, having passed all the chairs 
in both lodges. 




OHN W. W ATKINS, general agricul- 
turist, owning 131 acres of valuable 
land situated in Radnor Township, 
was born on this farm. June 24. [843,, 
ami is a son of Watkin and Mary 
(Jones) Watkins. 

The paternal grand father was Evan Wat- 
kins, who died in Wales, and bis widow sub- 
sequently emigrated to America with her six 
children. Watkin Watkins was born in Llan- 
ervill, Wales, in [809, and died in 1844. He 
was about 12 years old when his mother came 
to America and settled in Radnor Township, 
Delaware. County, where he attended the early 
schools. He remained on the farm until he 
was approaching manhood, when he went to 
Buffalo and shipped as a fireman on a steamer, 
later becoming an engineer. He continued to 
live at Buffalo but purchased the present farm 
when it was practically all forest. He en- 
gaged in farming for several years before his 
death. Lie married Mary Jones, who died in 
September, 1905, aged 87 years. She was a 
daughter of John P. Jones, who came to Rad- 
nor Township from Wales, in 1820. Later 
Mrs. Watkins contracted a second marriage, 
be coming the wife of Richard Bunford, of 
Radnor Township. To her first marriage were 
born two children. Dates, residing at Wells- 
ville, Kansas; and John W. To her second 
marriage two children were born. Philip and 
Alary A. She was a member of the Congre- 
gational Church. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



|..hn W. Watkins was reared in Radnor 
Township, where he attended the country 
schools and worked on the home farm. In 
[864 lie enlisted in Company A. One Hundred 
and Forty-fifth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry and was honorably discharged in the 
following September. His service was guard- 
ing the defenses of Washington City, He is 
a member of Mounts Post, Grand Army of 
the Republic, at Prospect. After his return 
from the army he remained at home, farming 
during the summers and teaching school dur- 
ing the winters, until 1870. when he married. 
He then purchased the home farm of 86 acres 
and to that has added 45 acres. He devotes 
his land to corn, hay, oats and alfalfa. He 
has 15 head of cattle, 15 of sheep. 60 of hogs, 
12 of horses and raises from two to four 
horses every year. He is a first-class, practi- 
cal farmer and he enjoys the prosperity which 
results from industry and good management. 

.Mr. Watkins married Mary Jones, who is 
a .laughter of Evan Jones, a resident of Scioto 
L vvnship. Of their six children, five survive, 
namely: Watkin. residing in Thompson 
Township; William, residing in Radnor Town- 
ship; Lida, who married Emlin Jones, resid- 
ing in Radnor Township; and Delia and 
lzates (i., both residing at home. The family 
belong to the Congregational Church, in poli- 
tics, Mr. Watkins is a Republican and has 
served as assessor and land appraiser. He was 
his party's candidate on one occasion for 
county treasurer and was defeated by a very 
small majority, lie is a member of the Na- 
tional Union and also of the Odd Fellows 
belonging to Radnor Lodge since 1S67. of 
which he is past grand, lie is a representa- 
tive citizen 1 if this sectii >n. 




[842. 



HEODORE F. BLAKELEY, senior 
member of the general mercantile firm 
of Blakeley & Williams, at Sunbury, 
Ohio, vvas bom in Lincoln Town- 
ship, Morrow County, Ohio, Maj 20, 

llis parent- were Roberl and Hannah 



( Kin-man ) Blakeley. 



The grandfathers of Mr. Blakeley, on both 
sides of the family, came from other points. 
but were early settlers in Ohio. The paternal 
grand lather, Thomas Blakeley, was born in 
Ireland, where he married Rosina Richards. 
They emigrated to America and settled first 
at Reading, Pennsylvania, later coming to 
Ohio. He acquired much land and was con- 
sidered a successful business man. He met 
his death by accidental drowning in Walnut 
Creek, in Franklin County. He had six chil- 
dren. The maternal great-grandfather of 
Mrs. Blakeley, Alexander Kingman, was a 
Revolutionary soldier. Grandfather Joseph 
Kingman was born in Vermont, served in the 
War of 1 81 2 and came to Ohio from Xew 
York. His first wife was Susan Woods and 
his second Sarah Harendine. He was a far- 
mer in Morrow Count}*, where be died. 

Robert Blakeley was born in 1818, in 
Pennsylvania and came to Ohio, in 1820, with 
his parents. He lived in Franklin County un- 
til 1834, and from that time until his death he 
resided in Morrow County. He married Han- 
nab Kingman, who died in 1900, aged 80 
vears. In early life she united with the Meth- 
odist Church, but later became a Presbyterian. 
Robert Blakeley survived his wife until Au- 
gust 28, 1905. He also belonged to the Pres- 
byterian Church. Their family consisted of 
five sons and three daughters. 

Theodore F. Blakeley was reared on the 
home farm in Morrow Count}', and was edu- 
cated in the district schools and the Card'ing- 
ton High School. He was 18 years of age 
when he left home and became clerk in a store 
conducted by James S. Trimble, at Mt. Gilead. 
and he resided in that town for eight years. 
He then moved to Cameron, Missouri, where 
he embarked in business for himself, conduct- 
ing a general store for three years, after which 
lie was in business at Olive Green or Kingston. 
Delaware County. Ohio. In 1873 he came to 
Sunbury and went into partnership with his 
brother, Perry Blakeley. They were associ- 
ated in a general mercantile business until 
[885, when Perry Blakeley sold his interest 
to the firm of Kimball & Williams, the style 
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In [890, Mr. Kimball retired and the present 
firm name of Blakeley & Williams was adopt- 
ed. This firm does a very large business, oc- 
cupying two floors and basement, which are 
well stocked with seasonable goods. The trade 
rating of the firm is very high, and the con- 
fidence inspired by their honest methods of 
dealing extends all through this section. 

( In April J4. 1870. Mr. Blakeley married 
Anna Mosher, who is a daughter of David and 
Phebe (Buck) Mosher. Mrs. Blakeley is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Fraternally. Mr. Blakeley is a 32nd degree 
Mason and belongs to Sparrow Lodge No. 
400. F. & A. M., and Delaware Chapter, and 
to Alt. Vernon Commandery at Columbus. 
He takes no very active part in politics, but 
is identified with the Democratic party. 




E LACY WALDRON, a representa- 
tive and prominent citizen of Brown 
Township, tormerly count) commis- 
sioner of Delaware County, for two 
terms, was born in Kingston Town- 
ship. Delaware County. Ohio. July 25, 1833. 
and 1- a son of William and Mary (Wheeler) 
Waldron. 

William Waldron. the father, was horn in 
New York. 40 miles south of the metropolis. 
January 25, 1804. and he died in Kingston 
Township. Delaware County. Ohio, June 29, 
1883. He married Mary Wheeler, who was 
born April 26, 1808, and died October 10. 
1871. She was horn and reared in Luzerne 
County. Pennsylvania, a daughter of Thomas 
Wheeler, who settled in Berkshire Township. 
In 1816, the paternal grandparents of De 
Lacy Waldron, Cornelius and Nancy Wal- 
dron, came with their children to Kingston 
Township, Delaware County, and the grand- 
father built the log house that stood so long'. 
It was then surrounded by forest, there being 
very few other settlers in the township. The 
children born of the two marriage- of Corne- 
lius Waldron have all passed away. The 
three children born to William and Mary Wal- 
dron were: De Lacv : Maria, who died aged 



six years; and Mary, who married Benjamin 
F. Elliott and who resided two two mile- 
north of Sunbury. until her death. March iN. 
1905. 

De Lacy Waldron was reared on the farm 
on which his grandfather settled in 1816. 
His father added to the original tract, making" 
it over 300 acres, 190 of which the present 
Mr. Waldron owns. He was educated in the 
district schools, at Olive Green, and at West- 
erville College. When he married he settled 
on the home farm and there carried on gen- 
eral farming ami stock raising until 1896, with 
the exception of three years, during which he 
was engaged in a hardware business at Mag- 
netic Springs, and a short period spent at Sun- 
bury. Since 1896 he has been a residence of 
Kilbourne. Lie has witnessed many changes 
during his long residence here and has been 
identified with much of the progress which has 
civilized the country and brought prosperity 
to it. 

Mr, Waldron was married January 1. 
1863. to Angeline Stark, who is a daughter of 
Oliver and Elizabeth (Patrick) Stark, and a 
granddaughter of John Stark, who died in 
Luzerne County. Pennsylvania. Oliver Stark 
came from that locality on horseback, when 
21 years of age. He settled in Kingston 
Township and became a man of wealth and 
prominence, serving six years as county com- 
missioner and lor j^ years as a justice of the 
peace. He died in 1880, aged J J years. His 
wife, Elizabeth, who died aged 85 years, was 
born in Kingston Township, a daughter of 
Joseph and Sarah 1 Taylor) Patrick, who came 
to that town-hip from Pennsylvania, being 
among the very first settlers there. Joseph 
Patrick was one of the leading men of his day 
in this section. It is related that the forest 
was so dense and entirely pathless, when he 
first settled here, that on one occasion he was 
lost within a short distance of his home and 
after much wandering approached it and did 
not recognize it until hi- wife called his name. 
He acquired a large ami unit of land and each 
one of his children were given property. Three 
daughters and two sons were born to Oliver 
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Angel hie and John Joseph. Septer Stark be- 
came the largest land owner in Delaware 
County, at the time of death, owning 3,000 
acres. He was married (first) to Sylvia Ben- 
ton and (second) to Maria Ross. Sarah 
Stark married Samuel Wilcox and died in 
Porter Township. Mary married James Sher- 
man and died in Porter Township. John Jo- 
seph, who resides on the old Stark homestead 
in Kingston Township, married Anna Robin- 
son. 

Mr. and Mrs. Waldron have one son, 
Homer, who was born July 9, 1865. He re- 
sides at Lewis Center, where he is manager 
of a creamen- plant, lie married Emma 
Owen, and they have one daughter, Christovel, 
a beautiful girl of [5 years. In politics, Mr. 
Waldron is a stanch Republican and he has 
held many offices of responsibility. In 1894 
he was first elected county commissioner and 
assumed the duties of this office in September. 
1895, and was re-elected in 1897, his official 
life closing in the fall of 1901. In young 
manhood he united with the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church and he has been very active in for- 
warding its interests, serving in many 1 tfficial 
positions. Mrs. Waldron also is active in 
church work. 




DAM S. SHOEMAKER, of Ashley. 
Delaware Count}-, Ohio, is a minis- 
ter of the Primitive Baptist Church 
and has three charges — at Ashley, 
Pleasant Run in Fairfield County, 
and Rock}- fork, in Marion County. He is 
.1 veteran oi the Civil War. and for many 
years was honored with the office of mayor of 
the village in which he resides. 

Elder Shoemaker was born north of Ash- 
ley, in that part of Morrow County which 
was then Delaware County, .March 9, [832, 
and is a son of Daniel and Harriet (Smith) 
Shoemaker. Daniel was a young man when 
in 1820, he came with his father. Adam Shoe- 
maker, from Somerset County, Pennsylvania. 
They stopped at Zanesville a short time, then 
came to Delaware County, locating a half mile 



north of Ashley. Daniel later left that place 
and bought a farm half a mile east of Ashley, 
in Oxford Township, on which he lived until 
his death in 1842. He married Harriet Smith, 
a daughter of Elijah Smith, who came with 
his family from New York State at about the 
same time that the Shoemakers did. He lo- 
cated one-half mile east of Aside}-. The fol- 
lowing children were born to this union: 
Adam S. : Adelia, now deceased, who was the 
wife of T. M. Seeds; Milton B.. who was 
fi >r man}- years a prominent citizen of Ashley, 
where he erected the first flour mill and was 
identified with important business interests, 
and who died in tyo(>; and Adeline, who died 
of typhoid fever in 1867. Mr. Shoemaker and 
his wife were members of the Primitive Bap- 
tist Church. She died in 1890 at an advanced 
age. 

Adam S. Shoemaker was reared on the 
old home place and attended the schools of 
this vicinity. Ashley was at that time an un- 
cleared timber tract. He remained on the 
home place and farmed until 1859, when he 
sold his interest in the farm and bought a place 
one mile south of Ashley, where he remained 
ten years. He sold out there, then lived in 
Lincoln Township, Morrow County, for seven 
years, after which he moved to Clark County, 
Iowa, where he farmed for five years. He re- 
turned to \shlev in 1SS1 and has lived here 
continuously since. He operated a saw mill 
a few- years, and during the past nine years has 
been writing fire, tornado and lightning insur- 
ance. 

In January, 1865, Mr. Shoemaker enlisted 
in Company G, Eighty-eighth Regiment, O. 
V. I., and served until the war closed, being 
mustered out July 3, 1865. He was located at 
Camp Chase, where they guarded 30,000 pris- 
oners, and he will newer forget the rejoicing 
of those men when news reached them of the 
end of the war and their early return home. 
Elder Shoemaker began preaching in the 
Primitive Baptist Church in 1863 and has 
had care of churches most of the time since. 
His ministerial work has carried him ex- 
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July 21, [853, Mr. Shoemaker married 

Man \nn Smith, who was born in Morrow 
( '. iunt) . ( >ln> 1, and w In 1 w as a daughter oi Ne- 
hemiah and Experience (Carpenter) Smith. 
She died in 1894, having been the mother of 
eight children, namely : Daniel X.. now residing 
in Missouri, who married Lizzie Dixon and 
has two children — Lloyd and Grace ; Welling- 
ton M., who married Lucy Sherwood and has 
three children — Lewis, Blanche and Laura; 
.Millard A., now of Topeka, Kansas, who mar- 
ried Ann Bishop, and has six children — May, 
Walter. Edna. Hazel. Wilma and Zelda: Les- 
ter E., who married Mary Sherwood and lives 
in Ashley; Adeline, wife of Elmore Coomer 
and mother of a daughter — Flossie Marie; 
Harriett, who died in 1890; Emma, wife of 
Orrie G. Benedict, who has a son. Murray, and 
two daughters — Buelah Dawn and Thelma 
Gertrude; and Milton Henry, who is a drug- 
gist in Dayton. Elder Shoemaker formed a 
second marriage April 3. 1898, with Airs. 
Mary J. Ogden. nee Thomas, who died sud- 
denly in November, 1907. Mr. Shoemaker 
is a Republican in politics and cast his first 
presidential vote for John C. Fremont. He 
served on the School Board 13 years and as 
mayor of the village 1 1 years. 




IOMAS MERCER SEEDS, for 
many years a prominent business man 
of Ashley, Delaware County Ohio, is 
now living in retirement. He has re- 
-ided here almost continuously since 
he was 19 years of age and is widely known 
ami mg the people of this vicinity. He was 
horn in Chester County. Pennsylvania. No- 
vember 8, [835, and is a son of Job and Mary 
1 Mercer ) Seeds. 

Job Seeds was born and reared in Ches- 
ter County. Pennsylvania, and during his 
younger days taught in the public schools. Lie 
then followed surveying for some years, and 
then engaged in farming.. He was first lo- 
cated on Brandywine Creek, where the fa- 
mous battle of that name was fought during 
the Revolution, but moved from there to Co- 



lumbiana County, Ohio, where he lived until 
his death. He married Mary Mercer, a native 
of Chester County, and they became parents of 
the following children: Edward, deceased; 
Thomas Mercer; Paschal, who now lives in 
California; Hannah, deceased; Margaret, wife 
of William Brown, deceased, resides in ( o- 
lumbiana County. Ohio; and Mary, deceased. 
Thomas M. Seeds was reared in his native 
count}- and there learned the trade of shoema- 
ker. He was 19 years old when, in 1854. he 
came west alone, and began working at his 
trade in the establishment of Aaron More- 
house, near Ashley. After one year he moved 
to Stantontown and continued his trade for a 
like period, then returned to Ashley. In 1862 
he formed a partnership with M. B. Shoema- 
ker, and under the name and style of Seeds & 
Shoemaker conducted a general store, includ- 
ing hardware and groceries, until 1879. ' n 
the meantime he also engaged extensively in 
buying and shipping grain. Then in partner- 
ship with his son. under the firm name of T. 
M. Seeds & Son. he conducted a general hard- 
ware store, including a stock of farming uten- 
sils, general hardware and builders' supplies. 
In connection with this enterprise they op- 
erated the only lumber yard in the village. 
Finally Mr. Seeds and his son dissolved part- 
nership, when he took the hardware and his 
son the lumber business, and he continued in 
the hardware line until 1896, since which time 
he has lived in retirement. About 1873, be 
erected a modern brick residence on a tract of 
four and a half acres he owns, adjoining the 
village, and resided there until 1904. when 
he moved to his present location. On July 26, 
[856, Mr. Seeds was married (first) to 
Adelia Shoemaker, who was born and reared 
in Delaware County, and was a daughter of 
Daniel Shoemaker. She died October 10, 
1903. having given birth to nine children, the 
record being as follows; Rosa married Rob- 
ert Sherman of Dayton. Tennessee, and have 
the following offspring: Blanche, wife of John 
Reidy, has three children: Dawn, wife of 
Ray Sperry, has three children. Lillian and 
Edwin Sperry. and a daughter, Julia Mc- 
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Belle. Edward Seeds, second child of Mr. 
Seeds, married Lillian Baumbarger and has 
one sun, Cyloneous. Weston, residing at Co- 
lumbus, married Kitty Gilbert and they have 
one son. Gerald. Etta married Melvin Mc- 
Conbrey of Algier, Ohm. and the}' have a son, 
Ray. Myrtie married Frank VVigton, and they 
have a son, Harry Seeds Wigton. 

Mr. Seeds was married (second) Novem- 
ber 23, 1904, to "Mrs. Elizabeth (Laughrey) 
Waugh, who was horn in Knox County, Ohio, 
September 9, 1840, and is a daughter of Sam- 
uel and Julia Ann (Harris) Laughrey. She 
first married Samuel Waugh, by whom sin- 
has four children living: William E., who re- 
sides in California; Samuel Charles, who lives 
in California; Elizabeth Viola, who is the 
wife of Josephine Doty, of Leonardsburg, 
Ohio; and Nancy Rosella, who is the wife ot 
Wilber Wandell oi California. Religiously, 
both Mr. and Mrs. Seeds have been Spiritual- 
ists for nian_\- years. Mr. Seeds served for 
years as township and village treasurer .and is 
a Democrat in politics. 




S. CRUIKSHANK, who is a lead- 
ing general farmer and fruit grower 
of Liberty Township, owns and re- 
sides on a very valuable farm of 22] 
acres, this being a part of the farm 
of 500 acres originally secured by his grand- 
father, George Cruikshank, soon after the 
War of [81 2'. 

George Cruikshank was a native of New 
York and belonged to a family that came to 
America in [760. He married Elizabeth 
Conway, who was born in Ireland, and they 
came to Delaware County from Salem. Wash- 
ington County. New York. The property that 
George Cruikshank secured had been obtained 
from the Government prior to this, by ' reneral 
Stansbury. No improvements had been made. 
but a few of the trees had been slashed to mark 
a pith through the forest. The children of 
George and Elizabeth Cruikshank were: 
Alary, who married John Dutcher; William. 
I (avid ( I., w hi i was b irn in 



who died yi mug 



1808. married Eliza Eaton; Jane C. who 
was born November 2, 1814, married Joseph 
Leonard; William (2), who was born in 1816, 
married Cynthia Fisher: Elizabeth, who was 
horn in 181 9, died in 1820; George H.. who 
was born Apirl 4. 1821, was the father of A. 
S. Cruikshank; and James, who was born in 
1823. married Lucia Kenyon. 

Of his father's estate, (ieorge H. Cruik- 
shank owned 221 acres. He followed agri- 
cultural pursuits until his children were old 
enough to require educational opportunities, 
when he moved to Delaware tp give them the 
benefits of excellent schools and resided there 
for about 2^, years. He died at the home of 
his son. A. S.. on the present farm. January 
10, 1902, aged 81 years. George H. Cruik- 
shank was married. June 5. 1850. to Augusta 

F. Smith, who was a daughter of Alw 1 

Smith. She was born in 1822 and died De- 

• 

cember 25. iSyj. The children of (ieorge H. 
Cruikshank and wife were as follows: Har- 
riett Jane, who was born May 4. 185 1. died 
in 1854; Alwood Smith; George Thompson, 
who was born October 23. 1854, died in Oc- 
tober. 1835; Frederick W, who was born Au- 
gust 10, 185(1. died August 2j. 1856; Mary 
Augusta, who was born June 25, [858, mar- 
ried Rev. Edwin Brown. June 18. 1884. and 
they reside at Lawton. Oklahoma; Martha 
Elizabeth, who was born October [6, [860, 
died April 9, 1875; Peter, who was born July 
22. 1862, died September 2^, 1862; Lucy Joy. 
who was born September 2. 1803. married 
Newton II. Fairbanks and they reside at 
Springfield. Ohio; and Dora, who was born 
February 4, 1866, died July 8, [866. 

Alwood Smith was born December 25, 
1852. He obtained his education in the sch ols 
at Delaware and the Wesleyan University, 
and was about 21 years old when he adopted 
farming as his life work'. After his marriage 
he located on his present farm and here he 
has engaged in general farming and has given 
nsiderable attention to growing tine fruit. 
In [878 he married Viola J. Pollock, who is 
a daughter of S. D. and Mary (Taylor) Pol- 
lock, of Delaware County, but formerly ol 
I.odi, Medina County, Ohio.' Mr. and Mrs. 




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Cruikshank have had four children: Alwood 
Pollock, Mabel Janett, .Mary Augusta and 
George Harvey. The eldest son was born 
January 25, 1880. lie was educated in the 
common and High School at Delaware and 
served in the Spanish-American War in Porto 
Rico, as a member of Company K. Fourth 
Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He is 
now engaged as one of the engineers at the 
Stratford power house, for the C. D. M. Com- 
pany. He married Gertrude Snyder. The 
eldest (laughter, Mabel Janette, was born 
March jo. [885, and died while a student at 
the Wesleyan University, July 15. 1906. The 
passing away .if this daughter was a grevious 
affliction t" the family. Mary Augusta, hum 
1 let iber 28, 1887, is now a student of the ( Ihio 
Wesleyan University, and ( ieorge Harvey. 
born March 6, 1891, is a student in the Dela- 
ware High School. The family residence was 
built stout and strong by the grandfather of 
Mr. Cruikshank. Idle stone house on the 
farm, just south of the residence, was erected 
by the father of Mr. Cruikshank. and in it the 
latter was horn. 

In political views, the Cruikshanks have 
been identified with the Republican party since 
its formation hut in addition to this they have 
1 ecu zealous prohibitionists and to such an 
extent that the late George H. Cruikshank was 
at one time the candidate for the State As- 
sembly on the Prohibition ticket. Like his 
father. Mr. Cruikshank is a member of the 
Presbyterian Church at Delaware, in which he 
is an elder. He has been active in all move- 
ments designed to promote agricultural inter- 
ests ami for a number of 3'ears was a member 
1 if the < iranee. 



APT. J. F. CURREN, whose period 
I of residence at Delaware covers al- 
most half a century, is one of the 
city's reliable business men. as well 
a- a deservedly honored veteran of 
the Civil War. He was born September 10. 
[839, in Delaware County, Ohio, and is a son 
of Stephen Curren. 



Joseph Curren, the grandfather, located in 
Delaware County in [808, coming from Wash- 
ington County, Virginia, and was one of the 
pioneer teachers in this section, lie went on 
horseback to East d'ennessee. where he mar- 
ried, and brought his bride back with him in 
the same way, and settled permanently in 
Delaware County, where his son, Stephen Cur- 
ren, was horn in 18 16. The latter became a 
man of substance and prominence in Delaware 
( ounty, For a number of years he was en- 
gaged in a general mercantile business at Nor- 
ton, Waldo, Leonardsburg and Ashley. 

J. F. Curren was 18 years of age when he 
came to Delaware, and his education was ob- 
tained entirely in the schools of his native 
county. In [861 he enlisted as a private in 
Company D. Twentieth Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, and was mustered into the service at 
Camp Chase, Columbus. He participated in 
the battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Land- 
ing, Shiloh, Bolivar, and luka, and in those 
which occurred daily while the army was get- 
ting in the rear of Vicksburg. The Twentieth 
Infantry on every occasion gave a good ac- 
count of itself. It went to Memphis and then 
to Yazoo Bend, through Louisiana, and took 
pari in the battle at Port Gibson. In the en- 
gagement at Raymond. Tennessee, the regi- 
ment lost heavily and went thence to Jackson, 
Champion Hill and Black River, and came up 
in front of Vicksburg mi May 18, taking part 
in the charge on the city on May _'jd. Cap- 
tain Curren, during all these movements, was 
ever at the post of duty. After the fall of 
\ icksburg he accompanied the regiment to Me- 
chanicsburg, and later back to Vicksburg, and 
on November 10. 1863, he was sent home on 
recruiting service. On the 18th of April, fol- 
lowing, he was made regimental adjutant o( 
the Sixtieth Regiment, ( >. V. I., which was as- 
signed to the Ninth Corps, and on May 5, 1 
part in the memorable battle of the Wil 
ness. Here, with his comrades, he was for 
five hours under fire. At Nye Run they were 
again in battle for five hours, and out of three 
companies of 200. 98 were killed and wounded. 
On May 12th. came the terrible battle of 
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Following that came 36 hours of marching be- 
fore the regiment was halted in front of Peters- 
burg, where, after a rest of -'4 hours, these 
brave men were again called into action, and 
made that fierce charge which opened the siege, 
17th June, [864, and in this Captain Curren 
was wounded and lost his right arm. 

Here it may be mentioned as a curious co- 
incidence that Captain Curren's mother's great- 
grandfather lost his right arm, June 17. 1775. 
at the battle of Bunker Hill. Captain Curren's 
injury necessitated his being taken to a hos- 
pital at Washington, D. C. and he soon went 
Ik ime on furlough. In October, [864, he re- 
joined his regiment in front of Petersburg, and 
was then transferred to the Veteran Reserve 
Corps, .subsequently being sent to the Resen e 
garrison on Galloup's Island, Boston, where 
he remained until the close of the war. llis 
service was of long- duration and filled with 
severe hardships, but he emerged from all 
dangers with but one serious wound and had 
been gradually promoted to high rank. 

Shortly after his return to Delaware, Cap- 
tain Curren became an agent in the Refugee 
Bureau, under General Howard, and served at 
different places in North Carolina, until De- 
cember 31, 1868. Subsequently, he served 
as postmaster at Delaware for twelve 
years and a half, later entering into 
a manufacturing business at Columbus, 
in which he continued for but a short 
time. In 1885 he opened a tire insurance office 
at Delaware, located at j,j> _. North Sandusky 
Street, where he has carried on business ever 
since. In [895 Captain Curren established the 
Citizens hire Insurance Association, of which 
he has been secretary since its organization. 

Captain Curren was married February 1. 
[866, to Mary A. Gavitt, and they have three 
children: Lena O, who married John W. 
Roby, a proniinent attorney residing at Lima. 
Ohio; Arthur J., residing- at Elyria, Ohio, 
where he is manager of the Citizens' Tele- 
phone Company; and Marie, who resides at 
home. Captain Curren is a valued comrade 
in the local post of the Grand Army of the 
Republic, and of the Union Veteran Legion, 
lie is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
( Ihurch. 




ILLIAM HARRIS, A. B., a leading- 
citizen of Ostrander, is cashier of 
the Ostrander Banking Company 
and is identified with cither suc- 
cessful enterprises of this section. 
Mr. Harris was born at Victoria, in Mon- 
mouthshire. Wales, November _>_•, 1870, and 
is a son of Edwin M. and Elizabeth ( Wat- 
kins) Harris. 

Victoria, the birthplace of Mr. Harris, has 
been the family home for generations. The 
grandfather was a sailor and like many others 
who have followed the sea, made one voyage 
from which he never returned. Edwin M. 
Harris was born in 1840 and was a child when 
his father was lost. He learned the trade of 
molder. which he followed in his own country 
until 1880. when he came to America and re- 
sumed work at his trade in Cleveland, Ohio, 
which he has but recently given up. He is a 
member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, 
having joined the order in Wales. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Watkins and they have three 
surviving children : William, residing at Os- 
trander ; Cyrus M., residing at Cleveland; and 
Elizabeth, who married John Mosely, residing 
at Cleveland. The family was reared in the 
Ci ingregational Church. 

William Harris was ten years old when his 
parents came to America. He was educated 
in the public schools of Cleveland and at Hiram 
College, graduating from the latter institution 
in 1897, having taken the theological course. 
In June, 1897, lie was ordained to the ministry 
of the Christian Church. Prior to this he had 
taken charge of the Christian Church on West 
Madison Avenue, Cleveland, where he con- 
tinued for three years, removing from there to 
West Mansfield, Logan County. He remained 
in this charge for two years and his last settled 
pastorate was in Paulding County, where he 
was stationed for two or more years. 

In the spring of 1905, Mr. Harris came 
to Ostrander and entered into business, on the 
first of the following July assuming the duties 
of cashier of the Ostrander Banking Company. 
He has been interested in the organization of 
several telephone companies and is secretary 
and a director of the Crooksville Company. 
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ganized in March. [903, and it does a general 
commercial banking business and has a savings 

department. The bank has proven very popu- 
lar and profitable, its deposits now being some 
Si 1 5.1 Kin. while the total resources of the bank- 
are $150,000. The president of the banking 
company is W. II. Carr, its vice-president is 
I. C. Maugans, while the following capitalists 
make up its board of directors: W. 11. Carr, 
J. C. Maugans, Marion Kirkland, H. \Y. Rit- 
tenhouse and J. 1. Adamson. 

Mr. Harris married Ethel M. Carr, who is 
a daughter of S. T. Carr. a prominent resi- 
dent of Ostrander, and they have two chil- 
dren, namely: Helen Elizabeth and David 
Carr. The family attends the Baptist Church. 

In political sentiment, Mr. Harris is a Re- 
publican and in 1907, he was elected to mem- 
bership on the School Board, although the 
township is strongly Democratic. He is a 
member of both the Masons and Odd Fellows, 
being connected with Ostrander Lodge, No. 
594. F. & A. M., and the Chapter at Delaware, 
in the former fraternity, while in the latter, he 
is a member of Edinburgh Lodge and is past 
grand of White Lodge at West Mansfield and 
belongs to the Encampment at Middleburg. 
Mr. Harris is an esteemed citizen of Ostrander. 
a man who exercises a strong and helpful 
personal influence in the community. 




OHX RICHEY XEWHOUSE, one of 
Scioto Township's most honored citi- 
zens, who has spent almost the whole 
of his long and useful life on his pres- 
ent farm, is a worthy representative 
of two of the pioneers of Delaware County 
and can claim a Revolutionary ancestor in the 
person of his great-grandfather. Mr. New- 
house was born in Union County. Ohio, Au- 
gusl 27, [829. His parents were William and 
Annie (Richey) Newhouse. 

The history of the Newhouse family is 
very interesting. The family is of English 
origin and the first members came to Loudoun 
County, Virginia, prior to 1740, in which year 
the great-grandfather of John Richey was 



born. When be attained manhood, he mar- 
ried a lady who wa^ also of English extrai I 
and they reared the following children: Jona 
than. Isaac. Anthony. Ettra and David. He 
died of camp fewer, when forty years of age, 
having served in the Patriot army from Lou- 
doun County, from 1776 to 1780. 

Anthony Newhouse. the third son of the 
above family, became the grandtather of John 
Richey New house. He was eight years of age 
when his father died in the army, and with bis 
older brothers he was forced to assist his 
widowed mother in providing for the needs of 
the family. He remained closely at home until 
1704. when General Washington called for 
soldiers to assist in suppressing what is known 
to history as the "Whiskey Insurrection." 
Anthony Newhouse responded and remained 
in the service for six months, or until the in- 
surrecti' nists had been subdued, accompanying 
the command of General Lee as far as Fort 
Pitt, where the city of Pittsburg now stands. 
He returned to his home in Virginia and re- 
mained there, following his former pursuits, 
until 1798, when he visited Wheeling for six 
months and went from there to old Red Stone 
Fort, the site of which is now included in 
Fayette County, Pennsylvania. 

At that place. Mr. Newhouse became ac- 
quainted with Nancy Coons, to whom he was 
married. June 28, I7<)<). and through this mar- 
riage the Newhouse family became established 
in Ohio. His father-in-law. John Coons, had 
decided to become a pioneer and settled in the 
rich country offered to those who sought per- 
manent homes, in Pickaway County. Ohio. 
Early in the year 1800, a party consisting of 
John Coons and family, Henry More and 
family and Anthony Newhouse and family, 
started on what was then a long and perilous 
journey, for which they made great prepar- 
ation. They journeyed to Wheeling. Virginia, 
on the Ohio River and there the men put their 
wives aboard an old-fashioned keel-boat which 
plied up and down the river, by which route 
they were to reach the mouth of the Scioto 
River. When their families and possess 
were safely started, the men set out for the 
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Trace," being really the first road in the State 
of Ohio, covering the distance to Chillicothe. 
When the "house-boat" party, as we might 
term it in modern days, reached the mouth 
of the Scioto, it was necessary to take a still 
smaller vessel in order to ascend the narrower 
stream. They boarded what was termed a 
"pirogue," which was the Indian name for a 
primitive boat, sometimes consisting of several 
caimes fastened together and sometimes of a 
kind of flat-boat with a sail, and by this means 
they safely reached Chillicothe and joined their 
husbands. A still further journey had to be 
made up the Scioto Creek until they reached 
some land that had been previously cleared 
ami partially cultivated by the Indians, and 
here they stopped and built log cabins very 
close together, mainly for protection, as the)' 
were daily visited by the Indians and they 
were far from civilization, the nearest settle- 
ment being Chillicothe. thirteen miles away, 
while Lancaster was eighteen miles distant. 
At this time all the land in this vicinity be- 
longed to the Government, the county not hav- 
ing been yet surveyed. Luring the first year, 
the little colony subsisted on corn which was 
brought from .Marietta, either by way of the 
river or on horseback, and on game, there be- 
ing an abundance of deer and wild turkeys, 
while bears were often killed. There was thus 
no danger of hunger, and the wild berries and 
wild honey found in the forest, gave variety to 
the fare. During the residence of the family 
in Pickaway County the following children 
were born; William. Sarah, Elizabeth, John, 
[saac, Margaret and F.ura. 

In [812 Anthony Newhouse had his second 
military experience. He enlisted from I'ick- 
awaj County in John Boggs' company, under 
the command of General Tupper, who was 
sent to Fort Defiance to fight againsl the In- 
dians. Mr. Newhouse was discharged at IT- 
bana, Ohio, but before he reached there, his 
faithful horse had been so disabled b) the 
tomahawk of an Indian, that it was almost 
worthless. In 1N14 Anthony Newhouse sold 
In- farm of [60 acres in Pickaway County 
and bought 200 acres in Scioto Township, 
from Henry Massie, oi Chillicothe, paying 



for it at the rate of two dollars an acre. In 
May of that year he started with his family 
for Delaware County, bringing with him three 
cows and three horses. John R. Newhouse 
has now among his stock, descendants of the 
horses his grandfather brought from Pickaway 
County. 

William Newhouse, father of John R., was 
born March 11. 1800. He was married to 
Annie Richey, January 6. 1823, and they set- 
tled on the bank of the Scioto River, near 
Bellpoint, from which place they removed, in 
[825, to Union County, but in the fall of 1829 
they returned to Scioto Township and settled 
on the farm now owned by John R. New- 
house, who was then six months old. Here 
the father died December 6, 1842. His occu- 
pation was farming but he was possessed of 
so much mechanical skill that he constructed 
a large number of the necessities of the house- 
hold, including furniture, utensils and shoes. 
He built the first wagon that was ever made in 
this section. 

The children born to William Newhouse 
and wife were the following: Mary K., born 
January 2, 1825, married Benjamin T. Benton, 
August 13. 1840. and died January 19. 1901 ; 
David Emery, born August 26, 1826, died 
in Wapello County. Iowa, February 20, 1856; 
Belinda, who was married November 15. 1849. 
to Washington Jones Warren, died at Ash- 
land, [1 wa; John R.; Catherine, born January 
22. 183 1. was married in 1855, t0 Abner John- 
son Bird, and died in [885; Nancy Jane, born 
June 30. [832, was married in 1857 to Levi 
Hart, and died in 1901 ; Adam, born January 
30. 1X34. resides in Scioto Township; Joseph, 
born in 1836. lives in Buffalo, Missouri; Wil- 
liam Lafayette, born June 12. [838, died June 
30. [855; James 11.. born in 1840. died in 
1899; and Isaiah died in infancy. 

John R. Newhouse has engaged in general 
farming and stock-raising and has raised many 
horses. His farm contains 82 acres and be 
has all but 15 under cultivation. lie cast his 
first 1 'residential vote for Zacbary Taylor, 
and all through the period of the Civil War 
he was identified with the Republican party, 
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in the Prohibition party which he is happy to 
see is winning consideration all over the land, 
the people beginning to value its principles and 
aims as he has done for many years. In many 
respects. Mr. Newhouse stands alone, being 
the oldest school-teacher living in the western 
part of Delaware County, having out-lived his 
co-workers and many of his pupils; is the 
oldest member of the old Stone Church of 
Radnor and the oldest Sunday school superin- 
tendent in Delaware County, and- the oldest 
elder in the Presbyterian Church, in point of 
service, in the Marion Presbytery, which in- 
cludes Marion. Delaware. Union and Morrow 
Counties. He is also the oldest justice of the 
peace in the count}'. He has held all the town- 
ship offices and has been at the head of all 
public-spirited movements. Since December 
10. 1853. he has been a Mason, belonging first 
to Fidelity Lodge at Bellpoint, later demitting 
to Hiram Lodge, at Delaware, and is the old- 
est member of the fraternity in the countv. 

On April 6. 1858, Mr. Newhouse was mar- 
ried to Jane A. McClure, a daughter of James 
McClure. She was born April 1. 1831. Of 
their seven children, six reached .maturity.- 
Emma, born February 7. 1859, married D. E. 
Hughes. December 15, [881, and they reside 
at Delaware. They have one daughter, Har- 
riet, who was born November 7. 1884. David 
Emery, born July 26, r86l, died November 
22. 1884. Nellie, born June ] _\ 1865, married 
A. H. Fawcett, June 11, t8go. and they have 
four children: Clyde, born March 31, 1891 ; 
Fern, born February 9, [893; Edgar, born 
November 2j. 1894; and Guy II.. born Oc- 
tober 11. 1905. Annie Olive, born November 
12, 1870, married Harry S. Britton, Septem- 
ber 14. 1890, and died at Chicago, Illinois. 
April 22, 1898, leaving two children: Co- 
rinne, born August 24, 1891 ; and Pauline, 
born September 19. 1893. Mary lata, born 
December 13. 1872. married William Brown, 
February 1. [893, and they have one child, 
Chester Dean, lorn May 20. [897. Chester 
P.. bom November 21. 1N74. married Mary 
K. Oiler, April 21,- [898, and they have one 
child. John R., born February 11. [899 




)N. THOMAS P.. POWELL, for 
many years numbered among Dela- 
ware's most prominent citizens, lias 
been a resident of Columbus, Ohio, 
since 1SS7. A lawyer by profession, 
his successes have been such as to gain for him 
a prestige not only throughout the State of 
Ohio, but in the industrial and financial cen- 
ters of the country as well, and it has been his 
fortune to represent many of the largest cor- 
porate interests of the United States in a legal 
capacitv. He comes of a distinguished family 
of Delaware county, the name of Thomas W. 
Lowell, his father, being inseparably linked 
with the history of the city of Delaware and 
institutions, as its guiding genius during its 
constructive period. 

Thomas L. Lowell was born. February 20. 
1N42. in the old family home located on what 
is now the campus of Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity in Delaware, a building which subse- 
quently served as the residence of the incum- 
bent presidents of the University for many 
vears. He is a son of Thomas Watkins and 
Elizabeth (Gordon) Lowell, and paternally is 
descended from the Ancient Britons, the 
Lowells and Watkins, the latter being the 
family name of his grandmother, tracing their 
lineage back to ancestors who were in the 
Saxon invasion of (ireat Britain, in the Fifth 
Century of the Christian Era. These names 
are contained in the earliest year-books and 
literature of the Saxons, adorning the pages 
of the history of their country and race. 

Thomas Watkins Powell was born near 
Cowbridge, Montgomeryshire, in South Wales, 
in November, 1707. mid was four years of age 
when brought to America by his parents. He 
was reared at Ltica. New York, in the beauti- 
ful Mohawk Valley, where he attended the 
Academy, availing himself of the limited ad- 
vantages at hand for the procurement of an 
education. An insatiable thirst for km wledge 
could not be denied, and through self instruc- 
tion and individual research he in time be- 
came one of the most scholarly of men. Upon 
leaving school lie read l;i\\ al Ltica until [819, 
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aration for the legal profession was continued 
under the preceptorship of Hon. James \Y. 
Lathrop. In 1820 he was admitted to the 
bar at Wooster, Ohio, and duly licensed to 
practice by the Supreme Court of the Circuit. 
He immediately after located at Perrysburg, 
Ohio, where he engaged in practice about 10 
years, and while there served as prosecuting 
attorney, auditor and clerk of courts of Wood 
County, discharging the duties of these various 
offices at the same time. He moved to Dela- 
ware. Ohio, about 1830. and soon after pur- 
chased the land surrounding Sulphur Springs, 
now a part of the Ohio Wesleyan University 
campus, and erected the Mansion House, 
which is now used as Elliott Hall, one of the 
University buildings. He built, also, cottages, 
bath houses and bowling alleys, this being for 
some years a fashionable resort patronized by 
those in search of health and pleasure. Num- 
bered among his guests at different times were 
men who occupied high stations in life, notably 
William Henry Harrison. President of the 
United States. Judge Campbell of the United 
States Court died there in 1832. Air. Powell 
erected a cottage on the ground, in which he 
and his family resided, and in which our sub- 
ject and his wife were both born. He finally 
disposed of this property to the University. 
He was in the active practice of his profession 
in Delaware during this time, and for a period 
of [5 years was Probate Judge of the county. 
1 le refused such offices as were not in line with 
his professional work, and twice refused the 
nomination for Congress, in 1840 and in 
[846, at a time when the nomination of his 
party meant almost certain election, lie was 
originally a Whig, in politics, then a Republi- 
can during the Civil War and until i,X-_>. when 
he withdrew his support from that party be- 
cause of its reconstruction policies. 

• Mr. Powell was ever foremosl in the public 
enterprises of Delaware, lie was influential 
in bringing the first railroads into the city; 
built the 'ild flax-mill, now in use as the chair 
factory; and assisted in establishing the 
foundry on East William Street. A man .if 
intellectual attainments and literary ability, 
with a masterly grasp of the subjects at hand. 



as the author of "Powell's Analysis of Ameri- 
can Law." a work on "Appellate Jurisdiction" 
and "'The History of the Ancient Britons and 
their Descendants," he erected a monument to 
his name which will endure. As to Mr. 
Powell's career, his ability and achievements, 
and the attributes which went to make his 
character, a more comprehensive account is 
given elsewhere in this volume. 

Thomas E. Powell was reared in Delaware 
and attended Ohio Wesleyan University, from 
which he was graduated in 1863. He then 
read law under the direction of his father 
and was admitted to the liar in 1866. Im- 
mediately thereafter he formed a partnership 
with Mr. W. P. Reid, an association of legal 
talent which continued under the firm name 
of Reid & Powell, until the senior partner's 
death in 1879. During this time they had 
erected the Reid & Powell Block, a three- 
story brick building situated on the southwest 
corner of Sandusky Street and Central 
Avenue. Our subject continued in practice in 
Delaware until 1887, a greater part of the 
time as senior member of the firm of Powell, 
< iill & Kauffman, his partners being Judge J. 
S. Gill and Frank Kauffman. The latter sub- 
sequently withdrew from the firm, but Powell 
& dill continued until 1887. At that time 
Mr. Powell moved to Columbus, and the firm 
nf Powell, Owen, Ricketts & Black was 
formed. Hon. S. X. Owen had but recently 
retired as Judge of the Supreme Court, and 
was the first to sever his connection with the 
firm, retiring from practice some eight or ten 
years later. Upon the elevation of Mr. Black- 
to the bench as Probate Judge, the partnership 
was dissolved and Mr. Powell has since con- 
tinued alone in practice. He has had con- 
nection with some of the must important liti- 
gation in the Ohio Courts, a notable case, in 
which he represented the plaintiff, being the 
Deshler Will Case, involving more than a half 
million of dollars. The successful prosecution 
of this case, which was before the courts for 
nearly 12 years, brought him a fee of $60,- 
000. He has been attorney for the American 
Sugar Refining Company of New York, The 
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Coal Company, The National Cash Registei 
Company, and mam other large corporations 
of New York and Ohio. During his practice 
in Columbus, his tecs from New York have 
exceeded those from Ohio, notwithstanding 
the fact he has tried cases in near]}' every 
count} in the State. lie has tried cases in 
nearly one-half the states of the Union, and 
appeared in all the courts, from the Common 
Pleas to the United States Supreme Court. 
Ik- has. without doubt, tried more cases than 
an_\- other lawyer in Ohio now living. The 
extent of his practice bespeaks his ability, his 
comprehensive knowledge of the law. his 
forensic ability, and his rank among the lure- 
most of his pn rfession. 

Mr. Powell was a Republican in politics 
until 1872. since which time lie has been most 
active in the affairs of the Democratic part}', 
being a prominent figure at count}. State and 
national conventions. He served as presi- 
dential elector from his district in 1872, and 
two years later was nominated for Congress 
in that district, which was strongly Republi- 
can. Although he met with defeat there was 
much glory in the fact that he was the first 
Democrat to carry Delaware G unity in a 
Congressional race. In 1873 he was the party 
nominee for attorney-general of Ohio, and in 
1 878 was presidential elector at large for Ohio ; 
in 1887. he was nominated for governor of 
Ohio against Senator Foraker; he was dela- 
gate-at-large to the Chicago convention which 
nominated Cleveland for President, and placed 
in nomination the name of Governor Hbadley. 
Of commanding presence and pleasing voice, 
employing the choicest diction in his speech 
and appealing to the better judgment and rea- 
son of man. he is gifted beyond measure with 
the power to sway an audience, and has many 
times been called upon to place the name of 
a friend before a convention, lie presented 
the name of Allen C. Thurman at the St. 
Louis Convention in 1888: the name of Gen- 
eral Thomas Ewing for governor in [878; 
and the name of Durbin Warren for governor 
in 1885. Fraternally. Mr. Powel] is a mem- 
ber of Hiram Lodge. No. [8, F. & A. M., at 
Delaware. He helped to organize the Dela- 



ware Chair Company in 1N70, and has been 
a director of it ever since. 

Our subject was joined in marriage with 
Miss Eliza Thomson, a daughter of Bishop 
Edward Thomson, first president of Ohio 
Wesleyan University, a sketch of whom ap- 
pears in connection with the history of the 
University. Six children were born of this 
union: Edward T., a graduate of Ohio Wes- 
leyan University and an attorney at law, who 
has offices with his father; Maria, wife of 
Rev. Charles W. Watson, D. D., secretary of 
the Presbyterian Board of Missions of Phila- 
delphia; Cornelia, who lives at home: Ray- 
mond, of Tucson, Arizona: Warren T.. who 
graduated from Ohio State University with 
the class of 1907, spent one year in Japan as 
teacher of English in the University of Tokio; 
and Harold is a member of the class of [.909, 
(Him State University. Religiously. Mr. 
Powell is a member of the Broad Street M. E. 
Church, tn the support of which he has con- 
tributed liberally. 




AY \\". BARTON, a prominent citi- 
zen, large landowner and successful 
farmer of Berkshire Township, was 
born at Columbus, Ohio. March 4. 
1861. and is a son of William and 
Sarah ( Inks ) Barton. 

The parents of Mr. Barton were natives 
of Niagara Count}-, Xew York. The}- were 
married at Columbus, Ohio, in 1850. The fa- 
ther, William Barton, was a prosperous real 
estate dealer at Columbus for a number of 
years and continued to reside there until his 
death, which took place April 7. 1Q05. his 
wife's death having occurred in the preceding 
month! The}- had four children, namely: 
Mar}-, who died aged sixteen years; Helen, 
who married John Braddock, residing at New- 
ark. Ohio; Clay \\. : and Nellie, who died 
aged seventeen years. 

Clay W. Barton was educated in the 
schools of Columbus and prior to going 
the real estate business with his father, was a 
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B. & T. Railroad. Under his father's super- 
vision, Mr. Barton developed into a successful 
business man. and continued his residence at 
Columbus until 1886. He then bought 150 
acres of farming land adjoining Sunbury on 
the south, where he has since carried on gen- 
eral agriculture. In April. 1906. he purchased 
a second farm of 116 acres in Geneva Town- 
ship, which he rents. He is identified with 
many of the leading business concerns of this 
community. He owns considerable stock and 
is a director in the Sunbury Farmers' Bank 
and has other interests. He also owns val- 
uable city realty at Columbus and is inter- 
ested in the Smith Chemical Company, manu- 
facturers of fertilizers in that city. 

In [888 Mr. Barton was married to Anna 
Moore, who was born at Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania, and who died at Sunbury. Ohio. 
April 1. 1895. She left one child. Ethel, born 
in February. 1890, who died October 7. 1902. 
Mr. Barton was married, secondly. May 13, 
[907, to Mrs. Ella (Mains) Ford, widow of 
the late Benton Ford and daughter of John 
Mains. Mrs. Ford had three daughters — 
Catherine. Estella and Ruth, all attending 
school. In politics, Mr. Barton is a Repub- 
lican, and since 1897 he has been a trustee 
of Berkshire Township. He is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church and has 
served on its Board of Trustees. 




1 )X. THOMAS W. POWELL. 1 The 
present article is from a sketch of 
fudge Powell written by Hon. |. R. 
Hubbell.) 

The ancestors of the subject of 
this memoir, both paternal and maternal, lived 
in South Wales, and they trace their lineage 
back among the \ncient Britons, to the Saxon 
invasion of Great Britain, in the Fifth Century 
of the Christian era. The names of Powell 
and Watkins can be found in the earliest vear- 

1 ks and literature of the Welsh people and 

adorn the brightest pages in the history of 
their o nintry and race. 



Tin imas Watkin Powell, lawyer, legislator 
and author, and in his day widely known to his 
brethren of the bar, and literary circles, was 
born in Wales in the latter part of the year 
1797. In the early part of the year 1801, 
his father, Watkin Powell, with his young 
family immigrated to America and settled in 
the upper part of the Mohawk Valley, in the 
State of Xew York. The name of bis maternal 
grandfather was Watkins. 

Utica at that time was a small village, 
compared with its present magnificence and 
grandeur, and the country around it was new, 
the population sparse, and as a matter of 
course, the means for the education of the 
young m en of that day were limited. Young 
Thomas sought and obtained such an education 
as the opportunities afforded. 

During the second war with Great Britain, 
then a mere youth, he drove his father's team 
with the baggage of a regiment, in the spring 
of 1813, to Sackett's Harbor, and entered the 
place at the close of the battle. 

In September, 181 4, he was appointed by 
the military authorities to a post of great 
trust and responsibility — the bearer of dis- 
patches to Plattsburg; and at the close of that 
battle he entered the town with dispatches to 
General McCombes. 

Thirst for knowledge was the ruling pas- 
sion of young Powell's life, and after the War. 
of 1812. for about two years he was favored 
with the privilege of attending an academy in 
Utica. where he studied and mastered such 
branches as are taught at such institution-, 
including the higher branches of mathematics, 
for which he had a taste, and great genius to 
excel. 

It was ever with him a subject of regret, 
that bis opportunities in early life to obtain a 
more thorough education were so limited, lint 
such was the order of Providence. Had he 
been indulged in the natural bent of his mind, 
he would have devoted his life to literature. 
and undoubtedly acquired fame in the Republic 
1 if letters. 

After he left the Academy he entered the 
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as a law student, when about the age of 20. 
Jn the year [819 he came to Ohio, and he 
passed his quarantine as a law student in the 
office of Hon. James \Y. Lathrop at Canton. 
In the year 1820 at Wboster, Ohio, he was 
duly licensed by the Supreme Court' on the 
Circuit, to practice in the several courts of 
record of the State; and he immediately lo- 
cated at Perrysburg, on the Maumee. in the 
practice of the law. But the country being 
new and the business insufficient to occupy his 
time, he accepted both the offices of county 
auditor and prosecuting attorney of Wood 
County. At that time under the law, the 
count}' commissioners appointed the auditor, 
and the Common Pleas Court appointed the 
prosecuting attorney, and Mr. Powell held 
these two offices in Wood County for a period 
of 10 years consecutively. 

In the discharge of his official and pro- 
fessional duties, he was prompt, and noted for 
In- pmbity as well as his ability. 

In the year 1830, the Maumee Valley not 
growing in population and not meeting with 
tlie commercial and business success that was 
anticipated by the first settlers, in order to ob- 
tain a wider held for the practice of his pro- 
fession, he removed to Delaware, where he 
resided for more than 50 years, and until his 
death. He immediately entered upon a lucra- 
tive and extensive practice, and from the very 
outset, his business proved to he commensurate 
with his abilities and integrity. For more 
than 30 years, he was regarded by the bar in 
Delaware, and throughout the counties in 
Central Ohio, as a strong and successful law- 
yer. In special pleading and equity to which 
be devoted special attention he excelled. His 
industry was untiring both in his profession 
and as a student. Law. history and literature 
remained his constant attention, when not oc- 
cupied with the cares and duties "i" his busi- 
ness, ami pn fessional engagements. He was 
noted for his zeal for his clients" interests and 
welfare, in both civil and criminal cases. Po- 
litic and intelligent his society was courted by 
his lirother lawyers at the bar. and in whatever 
circle he entered he was always welcome. 

Probably no lawyer in Ohio in assisting 
young men to. the bar. did more or had more 



students than Mr. Powell. Among the law- 
yers who acquired celebrity in professional or 
political life, or both, we can name among his 
students. Hon. C. Sweetser, who was a suc- 
cessful lawyer and a member of Congress from 
1849 to I 8S3; subsequently Edward Jones, 
Esq., who died young, and who at the time of 
his death was prosecuting attorney of Dela- 
ware County. Mr. Jones had acquired so 
much reputation as a lawyer and public- 
speaker, that it was thought that if he had 
lived, he would have reached the very highest 
round in the ladder of fame. His brother, 
Hon. Thomas C. Jones, scarcely less dis- 
tinguished, was both State Senator and Com- 
mon Pleas and District Judge for 10 years. 
Hon. Royal T. Wheeler, Chief Justice of 
Texas. General J. S. Jones, a member of the 
Forty-fifth Congress, and others making a 1' >ng 
roll, were among the number of his law stu- 
dents. 

The bar in Central Ohio when Mr. Powell 
entered upon the practice in Delaware was 
distinguished for its ability. Gustavus Swan 
and Ovis Parish of Columbus, Ewing and 
Stanbury of Lancaster,' William Sanbury of 
Newark, Delano and Curtis of Mt. Vernon, 
Godman and Bowen of Marion, Stewart and 
Bartlv of Mansfield ami others with whom he 
was frequently associated as co-counsel, or 
pitted against in the trial of causes, were able 
lawyers. In this brilliant array. Mr. Powell 
stood abreast with the foremost as an advo- 
cate and trial lawyer. 

Painstaking and laborious in the prepara- 
tion of his cases, he was never taken by sur- 
prise by his adversary in the trial of a cause. 
His earnest and persuasive style of elocution 
was entertaining and instructive, to both Court 
and jury. Punctilliously honest, he was the 
very soul of honor, and his earnest manner 
impressed the Court and jury with the sin- 
cerity of his convictions. 

To his industry in his profession and let- 
ter^, Mr. Powell added great enterprise in all 
matters of interest to the public. He projected 
and prosecuted to completion the improve- 
ments at the Sulphur Springs, at Delaware. 
known as the "Mansion House," which in its 
early history was a fashionable resort as a 



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watering place; and which subsequently se- 
cured to Delaware, the "Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity." He built the flax-mills at Delaware, 
and thereby secured the extensive chair factory 
upon the same site, now known and patronized 
in every State in the Union; and by his enter- 
prise and patronage, greatly aided in the es- 
tablishment and success of the foundry and 
machine shops of that city, lie had an exqui- 
site taste for horticulture and -the arts — especi- 
ally architecture. His knowledge of the arts 
by study and cultivation, was of a high order. 
All his life he was free from very vice of 
dissipation. To billiards and cards he was a 
stranger. 

Although he took a lively interest in public 
affairs he was never partisan, lie believed 
in the brotherhood of man and sympathized 
with the afflicted, either in mind, body or estate 
— it made no difference to him whether the 
sufferer was white or black, degraded or vir- 
tuous, his hand was ever ready to extend him 
relief. His whole life was signalized with 
acts of charity, and he was never known "to 
turn the poor away unalmsed." 

He was never a place seeker. The offices 
he filled so well were forced upon him. and 
accepted seemingly against his will. He filled 
many offices of trust both before and after he 
came to Delaware — prosecuting attorney, 
representative and Senator in the State Legis- 
lature, lie was a member of the Constitu- 
tional Convention of '73 and for main' years 
in the later part of his life he was count) 
judge. The writer was a law student of Mr. 
Powell, and lor several years occupied Ins 
office and knew him well. On two different 
occasions he could have been elected to Con- 
gress if he had given his consent to run. In 
[840 he could have been elected, and again in 
[846, but be would not consent to give up his 
lucrative professional practice for a seat in 
Congress. lie thought the claims upon him 
of his young family were superior to the 
claims of his country, and at that time men 
seemed to be more honest than they do now, 
and no honest man then sought a seat in Con- 
for the purpose of making a fortune. 

The period of bis legislative service was 



between the years of 1840 and 1847. an d 
among his associates in the Legislature were 
Seabury Ford, of Granger, afterwards gov- 
ernor; William L. Perkins, of Lake; Kelly, -1 
Geauga; Alfred Kelly, of Franklin ; General 
Eckly, of Carrol; General Schouck and Gov- 
ernor Anderson, of Montgomery; Colonel 
Chambers and General Godard, of Muskin- 
gum; Judge I'.. 1 ; . Wade, of Washtabula; 
lion. B. Stanton, of Logan, General Louis H. 
Godman, of Marion; Colonel John Cheny. of 
Fairfield; Judge B. S. Cowen, of Bellemont; 
General Samson Mason and General Charles 
Anthony, of Clark — some of whom had al- 
ready and others subsequently acquired a na- 
tional reputation in the councils of the Nation. 
In point of ability. Air. Powell stood in the 
front rank, by the common consent of all. 

He gave the profession in which he was so 
useful and an ornament, two books which are 
highly prized by the bench and bar, viz. : 
1'owell's "Analysis of American Law" and a 
work on "Appellate Jurisdiction." The latter 
is a book much needed by both bench and bar. 
It is a work not previously embodied in the 
form of a separate treatise ; the author, there- 
fore, was in a great measure obliged to analyze 
the subject for himself and gather his ma- 
terials in a path not previously pursued. It 
presents an important subject, holding an 
intimate relation to every thing connected with 
the trial of litigated cases — thus involving 
every interest in the law, and important prin- 
ciples in practice. It is a work every prac- 
ticing lawyer should have in his library, and 
every student should read. 

Mr. Powell's "Analysis of American Law" 
is a work of one volume, containing 724 pages, 
and has received the highest commendation of 
the ablest jurists of the country, among whom 
the writer begs leave to mention the late 
Thomas Ewing, who was recognized at the 
time of his death as the ablest lawyer in 
America and perhaps in the world. The writer 
has been recently shown an autograph letter 
from Mr. Ewing to Mr. Powell in which he 
says. "I have given your ' Analysis ^\ Ameri- 
can Law' such examination as time would per- 
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indeed a worthy contribution to our noble pro- 
fession. During my professional career I have 
felt esprit de corps strongly, and 1 would at 
any time rather have been the acknowled 
head of the bar than President of the United 
States. Your work encourages high aspira- 
tion-, resting on intellectual culture, and ele- 
vated morality, i thank you for it." 

To the beginner in the study of the law. 
it is a nio-t invaluable work, and cannot fail to 
occupy a most important place, in the course 
of preparation, for the practice of the law. 
Even- student of Blackstone is constantly per- 
plexed with doubts as to how much of it is 
applicable to our institutions, and is recognized 
as law. by our courts. Hence the necessity 
of some work that would bear the same rela- 
tion to the laws of this country, that Black- 
stone's Commentaries do, to the laws of Eng- 
land, has long been felt. This want has been 
practically supplied by the lectures of Chan- 
cellor Kent of New York, Judge Tucker of 
Virginia, and Judge Walker of Ohio. The 
work of Chancellor Kent is too elaborate and 
profound a discussion of the principles of the 
common law. and international law. as well as 
the jurisprudence of the United States to be 
adapted to beginners in the study of law. Of 
all American works, the Analysis best answers 
the demand. 

The author, in arranging this Analysis, 
followed the arrangement of Mr. Justice 
Blackstone, who followed the Analysis of 
Lord Hale, in his preface to Role's Abridg- 
ment. But it must lie admitted that it C an 
improvement over the Commentaries of Black- 
stone. 

The Commentaries are divided into four 
bonks: Rights of Persons, Rights of Things. 
Private Wrongs and Public Wrongs. This 
Analysis divides the whole body of the law 
into these four well known divisions: Public, 
Private, Civil and Criminal Law. which may 
well be considered, to be the division of law 
according to its natural order. The reasons 
for adopting this mode ami division of the 
subject will be apparent to the reader by ref- 
erence to the commencement of the First 
Book of this Analysis, and he will then see 

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how naturally the law will fall into these four- 
fold divisions; and it is that which is the 
easiest to be followed in the study. 

It can be safely affirmed as a book [or 
student, and beginner, and for our schools and 
colleges, it is the best that has been given to 
the legal profession by any American author. 

The Hon. T. C. Jones, who was judv 
the District and Common Pleas Courts for 
io years, said he "had found it the most con- 
venient book for reference, for the proper 
statement of any elemental'}- principle, or es- 
tablished rule of law, and in this respect of 
great utility to the intelligent citizen as well 
as to the law student and practitioner. 

It is said the artful French diplomat Tal- 
leyrand used language to conceal his thoughts 
— such is not the language used by Air. Powell 
in his books. He expresses his thoughts so 
clearly, they are readily understood by the in- 
telligent student; nor is his composition 
freighted, like some old authors, with Nor- 
man, French and Latin quotations, and there- 
by, to be pedantic, made unintelligible to the 
average American student. 

In early life his thoughtful mind was dis- 
ciplined, and his diction formed by reading the 
best elementary authors, on the English com- 
mon law. He was a life-long student in his- 
tory, literature and belles-lettres; and he loved 
the black letter literature of the law. He 
wrote and spoke the language of a cultured 
lawyer, and it is the simplicity of his style 
that makes his books so entertaining to the 
readers. 

Although Mr. Powell for more than 50 
years had been engaged in collecting the ma- 
terial and facts for "The History of the 
\ncient Britons and their Descendants," it 
was only written during the years 1875, 
and 'jj; and that arrangement for its publi- 
cation was not made until 1880. The sight 
of the author at that time had become so im- 
paired he was unable to examine proof sheets 
1 >r make ci irrections of errors, and the pub- 
lishers, in the printing and publication of the 
history, refused to take upon themselves any 
responsibility; the process of publication was 
slow, and the author could only make 



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rections of errors in the proof sheet by hear- 
ing it read by kind friends who volunteered 
tu do so. The writer mentions this fact to 
show under what disadvantageous circum- 
stances the history was published. But it was 
fortunate for him that defective vision was 
his only infirmity, for at that time his memory 
was good and his mind had lost hut little of its 
maximum strength. 

All people both barbarous and civilized in 
proportion to their intelligence entertain a 
sentiment of reverence for their ancestors, and 
this sentiment of veneration for the memory 
of his ancestors, the Ancient Britons, was a 
striking feature in the character of our author. 
Mr. Powell was a thorough Welshman, and as 
a descendant of the Ancient Britons, was 
pr< ud of his race. If. he had not been a be- 
liever in the brotherh 1 of man, he would 

have claimed for Wales, the claim of the 
Established Church, that Christ died for Eng- 
land. 

Hume and other historians commenced 
their history with the Roman Invasion under 
Julius Caesar about 50 years before the Chris- 
tian Era. Mr. Powell in his history goes back 
oi the Roman period, more than five hundred 
years through a long and bewildered track" of 
time. The author, as he said himself, pro- 
duced this history under peculiar circum- 
stances, for he left his native land, and came 
to America So years before its publication, 
and during that long life he lived on the border 
of a new country, and among a border people, 
who were always generous and kind to him: 
and still he never lost his love for his native 
land, nor his regard for the history of his .an- 
cestors. During that time in the midst of cir- 
cumstances adverse to the studv of history, and 
literature, and engaged in the profession of the 
law. with a vim to an active practice, and its 
studj a- a sci< ncc. he did m it neglect 1- 1 di 
what leisure tune he could to the study of 1ns- 
: and especially that of his native land and 
pei 'pie. 

Toward the close of a long life thus de- 

1 in the midst of an arduous profession, 

and more than the ordinal')' struggles, and 



conflicts in the battles of life, he resolved to 
put into the form of history, the ideas and 
knowledge he had collected on the subject, in 
his former hours of leisure and amusement. 

This history contains information not to be 
found in any other one book. The author as- 
sumes for reasons which he makes clear, that 
the human family bad a common origin, and 
that the Creator placed their cradle in some 
delightful place in the border of that great and 
fertile valley in Western Asia, watered by 
those rivers, so well known in connection with 
whatever is most venerable in antiquity — the 
Tigris and the Euphrates; and we may add, 
that aside from the authority of Moses in the 
Ancient Book of Genesis, the world has what 
is called the secular and profane history, to 
ci infirm this belief. 

While the Bible is to be relied upon as a 
sound revelation as to things spiritual and re- 
ligious — as to our knowledge of the true and 
living God, our duty to Him and ourselves, 
and to each other, it was not intended to teach 
tis science, geology or chronology, and other 
things that are strictly secular matters, but 
even in these matters it is as much to be re- 
lied upon as ancient and profane history. We 
learn from Moses and his writings, that the 
inhabitants of the Earth after the flood have 
descended from Xoah and his three sons and 
their families. 

From the cradle of the human family in 
the Tigro-Euphrates Valley in Western Asia. 
Mr. Powell in his history traces the line known 
in history as the Cimri round the north coast 
of the Euxine Sea. into Western Europe, and 
across the British Channel into the Island of 
Creat Britain. This history in its accuracy 
and research shows vast erudition. The curi- 
ous student, anxious for information concern- 
ing the Celtic race, can have his curiosity grati- 
fied by the perusal of the instructive pages of 
this "History of the Ancient Britons, and 
their Descendants." 

In 1830. about the time of his removal to 
Delaware, Mr. Powell was married to Miss 
Elizabeth Gordon, a most estimable lady who 
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plishments. lie survived his wife only a few 
years. By this marriage five children survive 
their parents, two daughters and three suns. 
The oldest daughter is the wife of Dr. Stam- 
baugh, of California. The youngest daugh- 
ter. Mi>s Ilellena Powell, is the proprietress 
and occupant oi the old Powell Homestead in 
I (elaware. 

Of the three sons, ( ieneral Eugene Powell 
was the oldest. lie raised for the Fourth 
Regiment, (J. V. I., a company which was 
one of the very first in the war of the Great 
Rebellion, and rose to the rank and title of 
brigadier-general at the close of the war. An- 
other son is Dr. Llewellen Powell and resides 
in Delaware. The youngest son is Hon. T. 
P. Powell, a leading lawyer and practitioner 
in Columbus, Ohio. 

Another daughter, Miss Annie, married T. 
H. Ricketts, Esq., law partner of his brother- 
in-law, Hon. T. E. Powell, of Columbus, Ohio, 
hut died soon after her marriage. The young- 
est daughter of this family was Alary, a mosl 
beautiful and promising Miss, who died when 
about 12 years of age. 

< >u the 1 2th day of December. A. D., 1882, 
in the 80th year of his age, this venerated sage 
ami patriot, without an enemy in the world, 
seemingly without pain, passed to his final 
rest, greatly lamented by all who knew him. 




)HX BERLETT, who resides 0,1 his 
valuable farm of Go acres, is one of 
the representative men of Delaware 
Township and belongs to an old pio- 
neer family of this county. Mr. Ber- 
lett was born in Scioto Township, Delaware 
1 ounty, Ohio, October 8, 1851, and is a son 
of Peter and Mary Ann | Rupp) Berlett. 

Peter Berlett was born in 1816, in Canton 
Blamonz, Prance, and he accompanied his par- 
ents to America in [833. For some years he 
was handicapped by reason of not understand- 
ing the English language, hut this disad- 
vantage he overcame while assisting his father 
in getting settled in the new country, neces- 



sarily meeting many people and learning in 
the course of business transactions. IK- had 
learned the wagon-making trade in his own 
land, hut mainly followed fanning after com- 
ing to Ohio. Peter Berlett, grandfather of 
John Berlett, settled first in Stark County, 
but five years later came' to Delaware County. 
He was a blacksmith hut engaged in farming 
after coming to America. He was successful 
in his undertakings, being a type of thrifty 
French settler, one whose characteristics were 
inherited by his descendants, all of whom 
proved to he men of character and of good 
citizenship. The venerable grandfather lived 
to within five years of the century mark, dying 
in 1877. Peter Berlett, the father of our sub- 
ject, became possessed of a tract of 200 acres 
of timber land after coming to Delaware 
Count) - , and alter clearing it. raised cattle and 
sheep quite extensively. 

John Berlett remained at home until his 
marriage, when he moved to his present farm, 
011 which he had previously built his comfort- 
able residence. He continued to improve his 
property, and in 1903 he built his present sub- 
stantial barn, a commodious building with di- 
mensions of 50 by 40 feet, with 22-foot posts.' 
He rotates his crops, having 50 acres under 
cultivation, raising corn, oats, wheat and hay. 
He feeds his stock all he grows except his 
wheat. He keeps 10 head of cows, selling his 
milk to a local creamery, has about seven head 
of horses and 25 head of Chester White hogs. 

Mr. Berlett married Annie Eliza McFar- 
land, who is a daughter of William (1. Mc- 
Farland, of Scioto Township, and they have 
had three children, of whom the two survivors 
are: Augusta May. who married Walter 
Freece, residing at Delaware ; and Harry 
Thurston. Mr. and Mrs. Berlett are mem- 
bers of the L'nited Brethren Church, of which 
he has been a trustee. In politics. Mr. Berlett 
lias identified himself with the Republican 
party, and < m numerous occasions he has been 
elected to Township office. For three terms 
he served as township assessor, during tin's 
time working faithfully for the good of the 
community. 



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INFIELD SCOTT MARKS, rep- 
resentative citizen and general far- 
mer residing on his excellent farm 
of ioo acres, which is situated 
three-fourths of a mile east of 
Powell, was born on the Olentangy River, in 
Liberty Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
one mile east of Powell, December 4, 1839. 
His parents were Sheldon and Ann (Knight) 
Marks. 

The paternal grandfather, Edward Marks, 
lived and died in Hartford County. Connecti- 
cut, and from there Sheldon Marks and all 
his children, except Winfield Scott, came to 
Delaware County prior to 1839. Sheldon 
Marks was horn June 4, [792, in Connecticut, 
and died at Powell, Ohio, in [878. He mar- 
ried Ann Knight, who was horn in Pennsyl- 
vania. January 6, 1800. and died in [879. Her 
parents were very early settlers oi Delaware 
County and they lived in the lower house, near 
the river, on the Powell road. Eight children 
were horn to Sheldon Marks and wife, name- 
ly: Lorenda, who died one year after her 
marriage with Sylvester Andrews, residing at 
Bellfontaine ; William Edward married Phebe 
Dedrick ami they resided at Columbus, where 
he died; Sylvester died in childhood; Erastus 
Bryant, residing at Lowland, near Cincin- 
nati, married Lucy Dedrick; Miles Cordon 
died in California; Milow married Mary Bar- 
ber and died in Illinois. Thaddeus Stevens 
married Marcella Stanberry and died at Co- 
lumbus; and Winfield S.. of Liberty Town- 
ship. 

Winfield Scott Marks went to school in 
Libert) Township in his boyhood, taking ad- 
vantage of the rather meager educational op- 
portunities afforded the youth of his day. He 
earl) became acquainted with work on the 
farm and has made agriculture his main oc- 
cupation through hie. When he was young a 
large part of his present well-cultivated prop- 
erty was yel covered with forest trees, and the 
present highway on which so much traffic 
passes his door, was then hut a path through 
the woods. For the past jo years, Mr. and 
Mrs. Marks have lived on the present farm 
and prior to that they lived on the old Marks 
nestead. 



In [859, by marriage, Mr. Marks became 
connected with two of the oldest and most 
prominent families of Liberty Township. His 
bride was Josephine Case, who is a daughter 
ni Augustus Lumis and Cynthia (Tuller) 
Case, and a granddaughter of Augustus and 
Lucinda (Curtis) Case, natives of Pocahon- 
tas Count), West Virginia, who first settled on 
the Scmto River in Concord Township, Dela- 
ware County. The children of the grandpar- 
ents were : Augustus, who was small when 
the family came to Ohio; William Hunter; 
Rufus Timothy; Lewis Enos ; and Ann. who 
married Joseph Wells. The father of Mrs. 
Marks was born in 1816 and died in 1834. 
after moving to Delaware, aged 38 years. He 
married Cynthia Tuller. who was born and 
died at Powell. They had five children : James 
Oscar, Ahhie Josephine. Philander Cicero. 
Dora and Lumis Augustus. James Oscar Case 
served as a member of the Xinety-sixth Regi- 
ment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the 
Civil War. He was married (first) to Mar- 
tha Tone and 1 secondly 1 to Olive Vance. 
Philander Cicero married Emma Collier and 
they reside at Powell. Dora married Charles 
Carlson, a prominent farmer of Liberty Town- 
ship. Lumis Augustus is a conductor on the 
Hocking Valley Railroad. He married Mari- 
etta Case and they reside at Columbus. 

The children horn to Mr. and Mrs. Marks 
were: Milo Sheldon. William Oscar, Clara 
Edna, Edward Cicero, Lilliebelle, Alvin Hal- 
stead. Harry Raymond and Mary Ann. Milo 
Sheldon was employed on the railroad, where 
be was killed, leaving a widow and two chil- 
dren. William and Carl. William < '-car died 
March 24, 1866. Clara Edna married John 
Hall, residing at Arlington Heights, Cincin- 
nati, and they have one daughter, Stella. Ed- 
ward Cicero married Josephine Case, a daugh- 
ter of Levi Case, and they reside at 
Hyattsville. They have three children- 
Luis, Sheldon and Ellsworth. Edward 
C Marks served in the army in the 
Philippine Islands for eighteen months. 
He enlisted for three years as a member of 
Company B, Seventeenth Regiment, < Ihio Vol- 
unteer Infantry and at Port Thomas was 
transferred to the Twenty-third Regiment, 




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< >hio V< lunteer Infantry. He saw service in 
Luzon and at lolo. Lillibelle married Harry 
Wilcox and died at Powell, in [890. Their 
only child is also deceased. Alvin Halstead 
married Charlotta Thomas, a daughter ot 
Charles Thomas, and they reside at Winnipeg. 
Manitoba. Harry Raymond married Myrtle 
Black, a daughter of William Black, and they 
reside on the home farm. Mary was born Oc- 
tober jo. 1883. and died April 14. 1886. 

In politics, Mr. Marks is a Democrat, but 
is liberal in his views on many public ques- 
tions. He is a very highly respected citizen. 



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LBERT HUNTLEY, a retired far- 



mer of Scioto Township, who has 

been a resident of Ostrander since 

1904. is one of the best-known men 

of this section. He was born in 

Delaware Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 

January 25. 1838. and is a son of William 

and Abigail ( Marden ) Huntley. 

The Huntley family is of English extrac- 
tion and it was founded in America by Mr. 
Huntley's great-grandfather, who settled in 
New Hampshire about the same time that 
William I'enn came to Pennsylvania. Lemuel 
Huntley, grandfather of Albert Huntley, was 
born in Coos County, New Hampshire, where 
he engaged in farming. He and wife died at 
the home of their son. William, in 1854, 
aged respectively eighty-eight and eighty-six 
years. 

William Huntlev was born in Coos Coun- 
ty, New Hampshire, in 1799. where he grew 
to manhood. He then went to Vermont, and 
after his marriage came to Ohio, settling at 
Tallmadge Center. Summit County. From 
there he came to Delaware County, in (836, 
and settled on what is now known as the Da- 
vid Bevans farm. He was one of the earliest 
settlers and he had to clear his forty acres of 
land, where he built a log house in which he 
lived for many years. During the War of 
181 2 he served in the militia. The last 
twenty years of his life were spent with his 
son, Albert, and his death took place in 1878. 



He married Abigail Marden and they had six 
children, namely: Lavina, now deceased, who 
married Lyman Tuttle, of Delaware: Anna. 
also deceased', who married, first, Frank Cole. 
and second, Joseph Davis; William, who is 
deceased: Mary Ann. also deceased, who mar- 
ried Valentine Wilson; Albert, subject of this 
sketch: and Oscar, who is no longer living-. 

Albert Huntley was educated in the schools 
of Delaware Township. He then learned the 
trade ol carriage-smith, developing an unsus- 
pected talent for all kinds of blacksmith- 
work. This has led to his invention of a num- 
ber of valuable agricultural implements, some 
of which he has patented. He invented a sin- 
gle wheat drill, the utility of which has been 
very generally recognized and large sales of 
which have been made all over the country. 
He is the inventor also of a corn busker which 
can he operated either by hand or by mechani- 
cal power; and of the Perfection fence post, 
which is made of cement, that composition 
which bids fair to take the place of building 
materials of all kinds, in the near future. Mr. 
Huntley long since recognized its great possi- 
bilities. He followed blacksmith work for 
eleven years before he purchased the home 
farm. In 1887 he bought a farm of 130 acres 
in Scioto Township, situated on the State 
Road, subsequently adding to it until it con- 
tained 165 acres. This he sold in 1904, with 
the exception of forty acres. He formerly 
carried on general farming, making a spe- 
cialty of hay. of which he marketed fifty tons 
■ in an average, and also raised livestock. 

Mr. Huntley has always been a loyal citi- 
zen. During the Civil War he served 100 
days as a member of Company 1). 145th Regi- 
ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Gen- 
eral Alger, who commanded the troops oc 
cupying Forts Whipple, Woodbury, Tilling- 
hast and Albany. After the crisis was 
the 145th Regiment was sent back to Camp 
Chase. Ohio, where it was honorably dis- 
charged. Mr. Huntley is a member of Tan- 
ner Post, I .rand Army .if the Republic. 

Mr. Huntley married Emily [ones, who 
is a daughter of John Jones, of Radnor Town- 
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Ella, both of whom are now deceased. Charles 
Huntley died in December. [907, and is sur- 
vived by his widow, whose maiden name was 
Alice Houtz. Mr. Huntley and wife belong- 
to the Presbyterian Church at Ostrander. In 
his political views the former is a Democrat 
but he has never been an active politician. He 
has always been recognized as a citizen of re- 
liability and one on whom dependence could 
be placed in any public emergency. 




EN. EUGENE POWELL, whose 
death occurred March 17, 1907, at 
Columbus, Ohio, of which city he 
was a resident during the latter years 
of bis life, was a native of Delaware. 
Ohio, and a resident there until his removal 
to Columbus in [888. He is well remembered 
by the people of Delaware County as a man of 
sterling quilities and unimpeachable integrity, 
oik- who was devoted to those things held most 
sacred in life — family, religion and country. 
He was not of that type given to the acquire- 
ment of riches, to the exclusion of the de- 
velopment of the liner qualities of manhood, 
although he was successful in a business way. 
He was charitably inclined, and was ever 
ready to give assistance to the families to 
those patriots who gave their lives in defense 
of the Union, or to those who emerged from 
that terrible struggle in impaired health, unfit 
to cope 111 the business world with those more 
fortunate. He bore an honorable record for 
services, as private and officer, during the Civil 
War. and in after years was frequently called 

a to serve the public in fiduciary capacity. 

\s soldier or public officer, be conscientiously 

gave his best efforts, and the place he held in 

the esteem and confidence of his fellow men is 

one time cannot change. 

Genera] Powell was born in the family 
home on what is now the campus of ( >hj \\ es- 
levan University, November id. [835, and 
was a son of Thomas W'atkin and Elizabeth 
(Gordon) Powell, concerning whom an ex- 
tended account appears on another page of this 
work-. The Powell family traces its lineasre 



back to the Ancient Britons, in the Saxon in- 
vasion of Great Britain, in the Fifth Century 
of the Christian Era. It became established in 
South Wales, where Thomas W. Powell was 
born in November, 1797. He was four years 
of age when brought to America by his par- 
ents, who located at Utica, Xew York, where 
he was reared and educated. As above men- 
tioned an account is elsewhere given of his 
subsequent career at Canton and Perrysburg, 
Ohio, and at Delaware, the scene of bis great- 
est activity, and of his fame as lawyer and 
author. 

Eugene Powell was reared in Delaware, 
attended the public school and Ohio Wesleyan 
University. Upon leaving school he went to 
Conneaut, Pennsylvania, with an uncle. 
David Powell, a well known manufacturer. 
He erected the first water works plant in Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, and after an absence of two years 
returned to Delaware. Ohio. He soon after 
enlisted as a private in the same company with 
Colonel Crawford, 4th Reg. O. V. 1.. for 
service during the Civil War. He was elected 
captain, and later was transferred to the 66th 
Reg. 0. V. I., of which be was made major; 
he was advanced to lieutenant-colonel, acting 
o lonel, in which capacity he served until near 
the close of the war, then became colonel of 
the 193d Reg. 0. A". 1. After the battle of 
Antietam, in which he was wounded in the 
face and neck, he was brevet brigadier-general. 
He was in many of the important engagements 
of the war. among them: Rich Mountain, 
Romney, Winchester. Ft. Republic. Cedar 
Mountain, Winchester, Antietam. Chancellors- 
ville, Dumfries. Gettysburg, Lookout Moun- 
tain. Dug Gap, Resaca, Xew Hope Church. 
Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta. Savannah. Me 
was in the campaign through the Caroli 
ami then came north to Washington. I). C., 
where he was mustered out. He was offered 
the commission of major in the regular army 
of the United States, but declined in order to 
return to peaceful pursuits. His longest ser- 
ice was with the 66th Regiment, in which he 
enjoyed the greatest popularity among officers 
and men. Owing to temporary physical dis- 
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at one time, but General Thomas would not 
have it so, and with the comment that "Powell 
was too -.»k1 an officer to lose," sent him to 
the military hospital at Lookout Mountain. 
He was peculiarly well lined for military ser- 
vice, of commanding presence, being of good 
physique and handsome features, and a natural 
born leader of men. When a boy he had or- 
ganized a military company in Delaware, and 
a brilliant army career was before him had 
he wished to enter the regular army at the 
close of the war. He was modest and un- 
assuming, and was scrupulously neat in his 
persona] appearance, it being noticed that 
when his regiment came in irom a long march. 
tired and eager for rest, he was never too 
weary to first make himself tidy. 

Upon his return from the front, or soon 
after, he was appointed by President Johnson 
as internal revenue collector, an office he filled 
for several years. lie was a Democrat in 
politics, but always reserved the right to vote 
as he pleased, regardless of party affiliations. 
He was elected to the Ohio Stale Legislature 
in 1 87 1 and [873, serving his constituents in 
a most capable manner. He helped organize 
the Delaware Fence Company, which he man- 
aged, and was secretary of the Board of .Man- 
agers of the Ohio Penitential}'. He later 
served as National Bank Examiner for several 
years. He was a member of the committee 
which disburses State funds to families of 
indegent soldiers, under appointment of Gov- 
ernor Nash, and was appointed by the same 
governor to the committee that built Memorial 
1 [all, at Columbus. 

General Powell was joined in marriage 
with Miss Louise Falconer, a daughter of 
Cyrus Falconer, M. D.. of Hamilton, Ohio, 
one of the best known physicians of Southern 
Three children blessed this union: 
Mary Louise, wife of Captain Alexander T. 
Ovenshine, Seventh Regiment, U~. S. A., sta- 

ed at Fort Leavenworth. Kansas; Eliza- 
beth, whose death occurred just six wei 
prior to that of her father, was wife of Cap- 
tain Hjalmar Erickson, Seventh Regiment, C. 
S. A., stationed at Fort Brady, Michigan; and 
Frederick Falconer is a member 1 f the 1 



of [909, Ohio State University. Mr-. Powell 
is a member of the Broad Street Presbyterian 
Church, which her husband also attended and 
supported liberally. She was a member of the 
Ladies' Christian Union of Delaware, serv- 
ing as ward visitor; and was one of the 
original hoard of trustees of the Children's 
Home, of which she served a- secretary sev- 
eral years, also as president. She continued 
active in this work until her removal from 
Delaware, which was looked upon as an irre- 
parable loss to the city. A woman of culture 
and refinement, of true Christian character, 
active in the work of alleviating the sufferings 
of humanity, she had won her way into the 
hearts of the people who much regretted her 
departure. General Powell was fir many 
years an active member of Wells Post. ( i. 
A. R., of Columbus; and of the Loyal 
Legion. 




ERRY VV. WILLEY, M. D., a rising 
young physician, now in Columbus, 
Ohio, is a native of Delaware 
Count)', horn in Troy Township, 
January 20, [873. His parents were 
John and Keziah (Carter) YYilley, and he is 
a grandson of Samuel Willey, who was an 
early settler in Troy Township. This pioneer 
of the family in this section, did not remain 
here to finish his days, but in the late titties 
went west, first to Iowa and thence to Mis- 
souri, where he died. 

John Willey. father of Dr. Willey. was 
lorn in Tro) Township, May "23, 1837, and 
was engaged all his life in agriculture. In 
iqoo he removed to < (range Township, where 
he engaged in farming. During the Civil War 
he was a member of Company C, One Hun- 
dred and Forty-fifth Regiment. O. X. G., and 
served in defence of Washington, being 
charged with his company. Pie was a mem- 
ber of the [.0.0. F. Lodge at Westfield, Mor- 
row County, and held in it the rank of Past 
Grand. In politics he was a Republican and at 
different times served on the township hoard, 
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which i ccurred June 13, 1007. His wife. 
Heziah, was a daughter of Hugh Carter, who 
was one of the first settlers in Trow Township. 
Seven of their children attained maturity, 
namely: Dora, wife of Joel Inskeep, of Troy 
Township; Allie, wife of Charles Weiser, of 
Troy Township; James Willey, of Morrow 
County; Hosea, who is a resident of Manlius, 
Illinois: Nancy, wife of Thomas Singery. of 
Lancaster, Ohio; Perry W., whose name ap- 
pears at the head of this article; Josephine. 
wife of Ernest Rousch, of Columbus, Ohio. 
The mother of the above mentioned family 
resides with her son, the subject of this sketch. 
She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, as was also her husband. 

Perry W. Willey was graduated from the 
Delaware High School in the class of '((4. He 
then entered the Starling Medical College at 
Columbus, from which he was graduated in 
1897. He began the practice of his profes- 
sion' at Lewis Center and there continued it 
successfully for a number of years. In 1004 
he was elected coroner, and was subsequently 
re-elected to that office after serving one year 
of his second term on account of his removal 
to Columbus, January 15, [908. This move 
he resolved on in order to obtain a wider field 
for the exercise of his talents. Here he has a 
fine office with a thoroughly up-to-date equip- 
ment, and it is a safe prophecy, in considera- 
tion of his record up to the present time, that 
he will make his mark in his new field of en- 
deavor. I lis practice is general and he is care- 
fnl to keep in touch with the pro-res- made 
in each branch of his profession. Dr. Willey 
i- a member of the State and County Medical 
Societies, of the American Medical Associa- 
tion, and also of the Mississippi Valley Medi- 
cal Association, lie is a frequent contributor 
of medical papers which he is called on to 
read before one or another of said societies. 
He is a member of Hiram Lodge. No. iS, F. 
& \. M. ; Lewis Center. No. 636, K. of 1'.. 
<»f which ho is Past Chancellor, being now 
representative to the Grand Lodge, in which 
capacity he has served several times before; 
also of the Pythian Sisters, and of the Fra- 
ternal < )rder of Eagles, Acne No. 297, Colum- 
bus. The Doctor belongs to Lewis Center 



M. E. Church, to which his father formerly 
belonged. In politics lie is a Republican, but 
has served in no public office save that of 
coroner, as already mentioned. The location 
of his present office is at Xo. 1385 Summit 
Street. Columbus. 




OBINSON BROS. Sherwin S. 
Robinson, furniture dealer and 
funeral director of Ostrander, Ohio, 
was born in this county on what is 
known as "Three Oaks Farm." three 
miles north of Ostrander. on July 19, 1868. 
He is the eldest son of Rubens W. and Hat- 
tie Watson Robinson, and a grandson of John 
Robinson, the artist and sculptor, who came 
to this country from London. England, in 
[832, and settled in this county in 1833. 

The subject of this sketch spent his hoy- 
hood days on the farm and received his edu- 
cation in the Ostrander public schools. On 
November 20. 1896, he was united in mar- 
riage to Alary E. Bell, a daughter of William 
and Margurette Smart Bell. She was born 
at Macomb, Illinois, June 28, 1869. Mr. and 
Airs. Robinson have two daughters, Elizabeth 
L. ami Winifried. They are members of the 
Presbyterian Church. Politically, Air. Robin- 
son is a Prohibitionist, public-spirited and 
enterprising; fraternally, he is a member of 
( >strander K. of P. Lodge, Xo. 348, and of the 
Woodmen of the World. Delaware Camp. 

(In January 1. [897, Sherwin S. Robin- 
■son, now the senior partner of Robinson Bros., 
succeeded J. H. Afillisou by purchasing his 
furniture and undertaking establishment. In 
the autumn of 1901. Harry W. Robinson, who 
was in Alaska at that time, purchased a half 
interest in the business and thus gave the pub- 
lic the firm of Robinson Bros., who conduct 
one of the leading furniture and undertaking 
establishments of the country. This store has 
the record of furnishing as many homes 
annually as any other furnishing house in this 
and adjoining counties. The firm has had 
the satisfaction of furnishing a good many 
homes outside of this State. 

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'i Brothers, Furniture dealers and funeral 
directors, is the son of Rubens VV. and Hattie 
Watson Robinson, whose biographical sketch 
appeared in the History of Delaware County, 
published in [880, who at that time, were liv- 
ing Mil the home (arm known as "Three ( >aks 
Farm," three and one-half miles north of Os- 
trander. This farm is now owned by Mr. 
Rol insi n's mother, who resides in Ostrander, 
his father having died on the 30th of April, 
[8 97 . 

1 he firm familiarly known as Robinson 
Bros, is located on the corner of Second and 
North Streets. Ostrander, in a large two-story 
frame building, which they purchased in Sep- 
tember. 1901. and remodelled to suit their 
purposes. It is divided into three apartments. 
The first floor, which is 30x75 feet, is given 
up to furniture and is filled with everything 
pertaining to a first-class home furnishing es- 
tablishment; the second floor, 30x50 feet, is 
the carpet, rug and drapery department. A 
large stock of wall paper is also carried. Ad- 
joining these rooms on the first floor, is their 
undertaking parlor, which is modernly finished 
and where the}- carry a complete line of under- 
taking supplies, a line of caskets which is 
seldom found outside of the city undertaking 
parlors, covering a wide range, from the ordin- 
ary caskets to the most beautiful hand-carved 
solid mahogany and quartered oak state 
caskets. This firm especially prides itself in 
its funeral furnishings, having every modern 
convenience pertaining to this line of work. 
which classes them among the leading under- 
takers of the county. Both members of the 
firm are State licensed embalmers and di- 
rectors. 

Harry \Y. Robinson was born on the farm 
in this county. April [9, [872; he is the third 
chilil of a family of three children — Sherwin 
S., Bessie A. and Harry VV. Bessie died No- 
vember 30. 1900. Harry VV. Robinson re- 
ceived his education 'in the public scl Is. and 

al the age of 20 graduated from the X. P. 
A. 11. and Business College at Delaware. 
Alter this he spent some three years in the 
telegraph and express office on the Big Four 
Railway. While at home on a vacation from 



London, Ohio, Madison County, in the sum- 
mer of 1896, he met Miss Gertrude Latham, 
of Delaware, a young lady of nearly 10 sum- 
mers, win, was also visiting at the home of his 
nts, and. as Mr. Robinson explains it, 
"Dan Cupid was there, too." 

In the fall of [896 Harry resigned his po- 
sition and engaged with Prof. Lewis L. Le- 
May in connection with the N. P. A. Ii. & 
Business College at Delaware. Ohio. The fol- 
lowing year, on account of his father's con- 
tinued poor health, he returned home, where 
he remained until after his father's death. 

Late in the fall of 1897. when the first 
reports of the discovery of gold in Alaska were 
made known. Harry Robinson organized a 
party of six to start for the Northern Gold 
Fields, the following February, 1808. The 
party was composed of J. J. Cone, F. J. Leeds. 
J. F. Haas. Fred Travis and Julius Herdegi n. 
Harry Robinson and Mr. Cone left Ostrander 
on the afternoon of February 15th for Chi- 
cago, where the}' met the balance of their party 
at the Tremont Hotel, and here they more 
full}- made their arrangements, taking into 
their part}' two old gentlemen from Mt. 
Pleasant. Michigan — E. W. Ellis and S. D. 
Eldred. who afterward proved of much value 
to the part}- when it came to boat building. 

The party of eight left Chicago 1 n the 17th 
for St. Paul', via the C. M. & St. P. Ry.. ar- 
riving at 7 :3c A. M., the 18th. and leaving 
at 1:30 P. M.. for Seattle, Washington, via 
the Great Northern Railway. After over three 
days' continuous travel across the plains, 
through and over the Rocky and Cascade 
Mountains, they arrived in Seattle at 4 P. M. 
on the 2 1 st. having at times traveled hundreds 
of miles through a seemingly uninhabited 
country except for an occasional rancher's 
cabin, a tribe of Pawnees, or cattle to break 
the majestic solitude. 

The party spent seven days in Seattle, with 
a view to purchasing their outfits, as every 
man going into the Klondike was obliged to 
take with him an outfit of clothing and pro- 
visions that would last one year. The cloth- 
ing, outside of common wearing apparel, con- 
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Indians, usually from moose hides, which are 
made large enough to slip on over from one 
to six pairs of sucks, as the weather some- 
times requires it; snow shoes, ice creepers, 
snow glasses, several pair- of German socks. 
and a Parka, which fits like a gown, covering 
the body from the top of the head to the feet, 
and is very warm. The provisions were as 
condensed as it is possible to make them, in 
the way of beef extracts, milk, cream, sacha- 
rine tablets, for sweetening, etc.; dried 01 
evaporated fruits and vegetables of all kinds 
put up in heavy canvas sacks and canvas- 
covered boxes, as nearly water-proof as it was 
possible to prepare them. In order to save 
paying the heavy duty on all goods taken from 
the United States into the British territory. 
the party decided to go to Vancouver, British 
Columbia, and purchase their outfits. Leav- 
ing Seattle on the 27th for Vancouver, via the 
S. & I. Railway, the)' arrived at their desti- 
nation at 4:30. At Surnas, on the Dominion 
line, the Canadian custom officers boarded the 
train, ami examined all baggage and collected 
duties. 

After staying in Vancouver 11 days pur- 
chasing their outfits, the party sailed for Skag- 
way, Alaska, on the ocean steamer Centennial. 
a large English vessel, built in 1862. There 
were three women and 362 men aboard, des- 
tined to Fort Wrangle, Skagway and Juneau. 
While crossing Queen Charlotte's Sound, they 
were in a severe hail and wind storm, lasting 
for eight hours; every passenger was sick in- 
cluding several of the ship's crew. Upon the 
upper deck were 85 dogs, which the rocking 
of the vessel seemed to effect very much in 
the same way as it did the first-class pas- 
sengers. In narrating the story, Mr. Robin- 
son said they all made noises similar and of- 
fered a liberal di in tlie fish. 

At 12 o'clock noon they passed into Dixon. 
Strait, where the vessel was protected by the 
inland route: many interesting things were 

; at Wrangle, which is a pom and an Indian 
Camp of the Siwash Tribes. Near the wharf 
are a number of "totem poles," the Indians' 
God, that they worship. Some oi the p 
were newly carved with gruesome heads and 



images, while others were decayed and moss- 
covered, which have evidently been standing 
through man_\- summer suns and wintry bliz- 
zards. Some have panels let in, encasing the 
ashes of the dead chiefs. Large game abounds; 
there were 15 fresh-killed deer hanging in 
fnnit and on the sides of one Indian's cabin. 

The party arrived at Skagway. March 
15th, and after a delay of three days, they got 
their papers through the Custom House, 
which was in the United States territory. 
Upon looking over the trail leading from 
Skagway through the Porcupine Canyon to 
the summit of the Rocky Mountains, which 
was over and through the White Pass, it was 
found impossible to draw a sled with a team, 
as the part)- had anticipated doing. The warm 
Chinook winds and warm sunshine had melted 
the snow and exposed the many rocks and 
bowlders that only a few days before had been 
covered with snow, in such a way that only a 
pack train, or man on foot could travel, with 
any degree of safety. So facing these con- 
ditions there was but one thing to do; em- 
ploy a man with a pack train and pay him the 
price of five and one-half cents per pound to 
"pack" the outfits to the summit or boundary 
line between Alaska and the Dominion of 
Canada — a distance of 22 miles, which all the 
way was very dangerous, being through deep 
canons, and over and between great rocks and 
holes in the ice. There were 36 mules and 
burros in the pack train, each carrying from 
two to three hundred pounds on their back', 
one mule following another. Usually the man 
in charge of the mules would ride at the head 
of the pack, the head mule, with a bell .around 
his neck', and the rest following as closely as 
they could walk, single file. There were hun- 
dreds of mules being thus used on the trail; 
horses were of little use for packing in this 
way, as a misstep usually meant a broken leg. 

Reaching the Summit on March 21st with 
their outfits, they found plenty of snow and 
the trail in good condition for sledding. Here 
dogs were put into use for hauling the out- 
fits, usually from two to seven dogs in a team, 
driven tandem fashion and drawing from 400 
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ahead for a mile and see that single file of mov- 
ing feet onward pushing to the promised land; 
first a dog team pulling until their tongues 
were hanging from their mouths; next a man 
witli a rope passing around his body and either 
end attached to a sled, loaded with bacon and 
beans, pulling until their eyes were bulging 
fnnii their sockets; then another man with his 
partner, a good faithful dog. the truest and 
staunchest friend a man ever had in the north 
country — pulling their burden together, each 
knowing it contained their rations, and each 
willing that the other should have his share — 
some men cursing and some in good humor. 
Such were the daily scenes for several weeks. 
CO '1111- the entire trail from the Summit of 
the Rocky Mountains to the head waters of 
Lake Bennett, which is a tine body of water, as 
it lies in one beautiful long stretch between 
the mountains. There are on its shores mag- 
nificent pine forests, which extend away up 
into tlie clouds and in its clear mirror scores 
of snowy peaks are reflected. 

Upon reaching this lake, one begins to 
look fur a favorable and cosy spot, one that 
will make him feel as though he were at home, 
for here he must stay until he has whip-sawed 
enough lumber out of the rough tree to make 
a boat 'i sufficient size to carry from two t<> 
five passenger^ and their outfits. Mr. Robin- 
son and his part}- hand-sledded their outfits 
down Lake Bennett to an island, now known 
a- "Dead Man's Island," as there were three 
men who lost their lives near there, by break- 
ing thn ugh the ice. and who were later buried 
on the island. To the left of this island the 
party made their camp, six of them in the 
party — Travis and Herdegan had dropped out, 
eat many others had done. There, day 
after day, they converted themselves into 
miniature saw -mills. To one who has never 
had any experience in whip-sawing, the work 
is very laborious. On April toth they finished 
cutting lumber for boats. .Mr. Eldred and .Mr. 
Ellis built them — two in number — each large 
enough for three passengers and their outfits. 
As the ice had not left the lake yet. the party 
spent their time in hunting, there being much 
game. The ice froze to a depth of eight feet. 



and when it thaws it becomes honey-combed 
and is very treacherous to travel over. On 
April 12th, near Mr. Robinson's camp, three 
men were seen on the trail and were warned 
that the ice was unsafe. Not taking heed, 
they were soon through the ice and struggling 
for their lives. One of them was rescued by 
the Robinson party and two of them drowned 
— Mr. Burns from Kansas and Mr. Richards 
from Frenchtown, Montana. The bodies were 
recovered and buried on the island in rude 
coffins or boxes made fn m lumber which was 
w hip-sawed. 

( )n May 28th the lake seemed clear 1 
and on this memorable day hundreds of boat- 
on Lakes Bennett, Linderman and Taggish, 
were launched with their precious loads. We 
-ay precious, because after one has packed and 
pulled, carried and rolled a sack of dried apples 
or 1, tans over glaciers, mountain t< ps and 
snow banks for six months lie begins r< ■ feel 
an attachment for it. and this was what the 
parties had been waiting nearly six week's for; 
and now rhe way was opened from Lake Lin- 
derman to the Bering Sea. nearly 3,000 miles. 
and over water as treacherous as a boat ever 
traveled, as wrecks were scattered at nol in- 
frequent intervals all along the n Lite. Some- 
times the boats were broken in equal parts, 
which meant total destruction to the outfit, 
and oftentimes death to its occupants, whose 
final resting place was usually marked by a 
posl squared on all sides, with the name 1 
the unfortunate man written upon one 
with a lead pencil. 

Upon reaching Caribou Crossing, a nar- 
row at the lower end of I a 1 mett, the 
part}' found an ice-jam in the gorge and 
blockading the wa\ for several hours. The 
next morning the channel was cl< 
all boats to pass. When the ice broke \< se 
in the .gorge it swamped and wrecked a 1 
boat —that of a Jew — who was single-handed, 
and who lost his entire outfit, which so dis- 
enheartened him that he took his own life. 

On June 1st the party arrived at Taggish 
Lost, another police headquarters, the business 
of whose occupants it was to inspect all boats 
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being smuggled. While in camp at the mouth 
of White River, on the night of June tst, a 
part\- of Siwash Indians attacked the pros- 
pectors while in their boats five miles up the 
river, shooting one and killing him instantly, 
but only inflicting a flesh wound on the other, 
who made his way to the sin ire and back to the 
mouth of the river, where the other members 
of their part\- were in camp, and related his 
experience. A part} - was formed of a dozen 
prospectors and two police from Taggish Post 
to go in search of the Indians, whom they 
found near the scene of the shooting the even- 
ing before. The Indians, six in number, were 
sitting carond their campfire. The police ere] it 
upon them covering them with their rifles lie- 
fore the Indians discovered them. The entire 
hand were marched ahead to Taggish Post, 
where three of them were convicted of the 
shooting and taken to Dawson City in Jul}'. 
During the following winter one died from the 
close confinement and the other two were 
hanged in March. 

They told a rather grewsome story in re- 
gard to this execution that ma}' sound rather 
improbable, hut which was vouched for by re- 
sponsible parties. It was the first hanging that 
was ever performed at Dawson City and the 
hands of < >ne of the Indians were not securely 
strapped. When the drop was made, he freed 
his hands and reached above his head, grasped 
the rope and drew himself up. Whereupon 
our (if the attendants grasped him around the 
hod\. and hung on until life was extinct. 

(hi June 4th the party arrived at the treach- 
erous and dangerous While Horse Rapids, 
where mam boats were wrecked and lives lost 
and men were driven insane. ( m the after- 
noon of June 3rd three men lost their lives by 
striking a large rock which lies in the middle 
of the canon, about 20 rods above the rapids. 
About ten t"ds below the rapids is another 
rock}' projection where 35 boats were wrecked 
in one week's time. Miles ('anon is just above 
White Horse Rapids, and the river Hows 
through a narrow avenue between perpen- 
dicular granite walls. Through this gorge the 
boats were driven at a terrific speed 



On June 12th. while in camp for the night, 
Mr. Robinson took a pan and panned his first 
pieces of gold from a bar at the mouth of Big 
Salmon River, which specimens he still has. 

The party continued on their journey from 
day to day, with nothing worth}- of special 
mention, except that not a single day passed 
that they did not pan gold from the bars along 
the Kwichpak or Yukon River, hut not in pay- 
ing- quantities ; it was very light, but could be 
fi lund on any bar. 

On July 9th the part}- arrived at Dawson 
City, which was a city of tents with a popula- 
tion of more than 10,000. At that time there 
were very few substantial buildings — a few 
large warerooms owned by the Alaska Com- 
mercial Company and the National Alaska 
Trading Company, three banks in log build- 
ings; the mining recorder's office being a log 
cabin, as was also the penitentiary : and three 
log cabin churches and two hospitals, also 
built of logs cut from spruce trees. This re- 
markable city of mushroom growth is located 
on the bank of the 1- 'ukon River, parti}' border- 
ing on the mouth of the Klondike River in an 
angle formed by the two streams coming to- 
gether. Here was the landing for the thou- 
sands of prospectors who by grit, pluck and 
perseverance had reached their destination, 
but not their fortune, which required a goodly 
portion of the three above essentials before 
a man got it. as this was a new world to every 
one of them, a climate entirely different from 
what they were used to. The ground was 
in izen from the grass roots clear through to 
the other side, except for the three summer 
months commencing with June, during which 
time the ground thaws to the depth of about 
three feet. During these months it is one con- 
tinuous day. the sun shining continually. On 
the 2 1st and 22nd days of June one can see 
the Midnight Sun. its orb not disappearing 
from one's sight during the 48 hours. As the 
summer wanes the sun travels southward, each 
day growing shorter, when in the last days of 
September it disappears entirely from one's 
sight. Then the dark season begins and lasts 
nearly six months. At no time is it brighter 










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than a gray dawn, which occurs between the 
hours of 9 \. M. an.l 3 1'. M.. the balance oi 
the _'4 hours ol each day being darkness. At 
this season it is very cold, the thermometer 
often registering 60 degrees below zero, and 
during the month of January, in [899, it reg- 
istered at one time 80 degrees below zero. 
This was the coldest night on record at Daw 
s< m City up to that time. 

Had it ni t been for the extremely dry at- 
mosphere one could not have endured such ex- 
treme cold. It was not uncommon to hear of 
1 r find some prospector frozen to death. Dur- 
ing the winter of 1899 while Mr. Robinson 
and his party were returning from a prospect- 
ing tour on a tributary of the Klondike River, 
they discovered a tent some distance from 
their trail. Thinking it- was a good chance to 
get warm and cook their dinner, they ap- 
proached the tent and throwing the flaps back, 
were horrified to see the bodies of two men 
frozen in death. One was wrapped in his 
blanket lying on some spruce boughs, while the 
other was on his knees with his head drooping 
forward, his chin resting on his breast. He 
was frozen perfectly rigid. He had endeav- 
ored to start a fire; a few shavings were lying 
in front of him and his knife was still grasped 
in his hand. They were hunters and from ap- 
pearances had been dead for several days. 

Upon arriving at Dawson and spending' a 
few days looking over the situation, four of 
the party. Eldred, Ellis, Leeds and Haas, all 
being men past middle life and their pluck 
pretty well spent, explained to the others that 
they were very much needed at home and that 
they must go at once. This they did, selling 
their outfits, which brought good prices. 
Sugar at that time was selling at $1.00 per 
pound, dried fruits, y^ cents; butter, which 
was put up in pound tins, sold for Si. 50; flour 
at Si 0.00 per sack; and fresh meat at $1.50 
per pound. 

During the winter months of 1898 and 
1899 the subject of our sketch and Mr. Cone 
prospered together. In March Cone located 
and worked a claim on Montecristo Gulch, 
which he operated for several months, cleaning 
up a considerable amount of gold. Selling his 



interest in the claim, he went to Nome, re- 
maining there for some time. He then re- 
turned to his family, who at that time w< • 
living in Kansas. Mr. Robinson continued 
prospering, and in July. 1899. with his part- 
ner, James Drummond, a Scotchman, located 
a claim on upper Bonanza Creek. This they 
continued to work together until in Septem- 
ber, 1901, thawing the dirt in the winter by 
means of wood fires, which was the way the 
mining was operated, hoisting it by means of a 
windlass and dumping the gravel which con- 
tained the gold in a large heap or mound 
which was later sluiced when the gold was 
separated from the dirt and gravel. 

This was the most interesting part of the 
mining when yi u could look in the bottom of 
the sluice box and see the little yellow chunks 
of gold and dust lying between the riffle 
poles. As the mining in the Klondike is all 
placer, there being no gold-bearing quartz, or 
lode-, sometimes the gold which is commonlj 
called "gold dust" was found five feet below 
the top of bed rock, where it had been washed, 
settling between the crevices of the rocks at 
an age when the country had a much warmer 
climate than it has at the present time. It has 
every evidence of at one time having been 
tropical, as the skeletons of the mastodon are 
often taken from the frozen earth at a depth 
of fifteen feet, the bones and tusks being al- 
ways in a good state of preservation. Lava 
beds are greatly in evidence. A few old, well 
defined volcanic cones, which are no longer 
smoking, can be seen from "the Dome." From 
this promontory, which is the divide between 
the Great Stewart River and the Klondike 
River — from this elevation which stands alone 
and is several thousand feet above the sea level 
and unapproachable in its grandeur — one gets 
his first extended view of Alaska. Through 
the blue haze stretching out over fifty miles of 
fool hills, across the great valleys, peak be- 
yond peak rise the snow-capped Rockies [50 
miles away. Any attempt, however graphic, 
would fail to give the reader an adequate con- 
ception of the grandeur of this scenery. 

The subject of this sketch left Daw -on 
City on September 8, 1901, on The Eldorado, 



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a Yukon River steam-boat, and arrived at 
White Horse Rapids on the l6th, Sunday 
evening, where lie took the train overland for 
Skagway, a distance of ioo miles, over the 
same route that the prospectors had traveled 
1)\ foot and with dog teams three years before, 
undergoing many hardships. Now he was able 
to skim over the country in ease and elegance 
in a day. covering the same territory that be- 
fore had taken weeks to do. Yet the former 
trip had had its joys; the traveler filled with 
great expectations had time to enjoy the thou- 
sand and one charming views along the way; 
the fresh, invigorating mountain air gave him 
an appetite that enabled him to do justice to 
his own cooking, and it gave him a much 
clearer conception of the extent of the country. 

Mr. Robinson took very much the same 
route homeward on the ocean as he did when 
going into the country. After reaching the 
States, he visited San Francisco, Sacramento, 
Sa,lt Lake City. Denver, and many other 
points of interest in the West. Arriving home 
late in October, 1901. he at once engaged in 
the business he is now pursuing. 

The following summer he erected a nice 
comfortable home and on October 1, 1902, was 
married to Miss Gertrude E. Latham, of 
Delaware. They have two children, Jeannette 
A. and Eugene L. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson 
are Presbyterians. Politically the former is a 
Republican; fraternally, a member of Eden- 
burgh Lodge, 1. O. (). P.. No. 467. 




RANK ALBERT STICKNEY, M. 
1).. is not only a leading physician at 
Kilbourne, hut is also the oldest medi- 
cal practitioner in this section. He 
was born in Union County, Ohio, 
near Marysville, September 8, [853, and is a 
son hi Hugh and Hannah ( Draper) Stickney. 

The father of I )r. Stickne) died in I 
1 bunty when he was three years old and his 
mother took her three children and moved to 
Delaware Township, Delaware County, where 
he attended school until [3 years old. He 
then went to work in the paper mill of An- 



drews & Perry, at Stratford, Ohio, where he 
remained for five years, going thence in the 
employ of the same company, to Henry, Mar- 
shall Count)', Illinois, for two years. From 
Henry he went to Monroe Falls, Summit 
County. Ohio, where he worked for the 
Cleveland Paper Company for two years and 
a half. Then returning to Delaware, he en- 
tered the office of Dr. E. H. Hyatt, to pur- 
sue medical studies. These studies he con- 
tinued for six years in Delaware, after which 
he entered the Columbus Medical College at 
Columbus, where he was graduated in the 
spring of 1880. He practiced his profession 
for a short period in Delaware, but in 1882 he 
established himself at Kilbourne, then called 
Eden, where he has been continuously en- 
gaged ever since. When he came first to this 
section his practice necessitated riding mam- 
miles over the country, and in April. [907, he 
sustained injury to his right knee, which re- 
sulted in the death of the bones of the knee 
joint and in this way he had the misfortune 
to lose his leg just above the knee, July 7. 
1907. Nevertheless he has taken care of the 
largest practice of any physician in this entire 
section. He is a member of the Delaware 
County Medical Society. 

In December. r88r, Dr. Stickney was mar- 
ried to Mary L. Campbell, who was a (laugh- 
ter of Ransome and Henrietta (Lugenbeel) 
Campbell, the latter of whom is now living. 
Mrs. Stickney died in [895, having been the 
mother of three children, namely: One who 
died in infancy; Ethel May, wdio married 
Henry Stelzer. resides near Sunbury and has 
one child; and Edith F., who married Clar- 
ence F. Myers, residing at Ashley. Dr. Stick- 
ney was married again, November 30, 1899, 
to Olive 1. Porter, who is a daughter of Jo- 
seph and Margaret Porter. Dr. and Mrs. 
Stickney have one son, Robert Porter, an in- 
teresting child of four years. Dr. and Mrs. 
Stickney are members of die Presbyterian 
Church, of which Mrs. Stickney has been or- 
ganist for a number of years. 

Dr. Stickney is a member of Hiram Lodge, 
Xo. [8, F. & A. M.. at Delaware; Big Wal- 
nut Lodge. Xo. 70S. I. O. O. F., at Olive 




MR. and MRS. WAIN HA/.LTON and DAUGHTER 



AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS 



Green, and Williams Lodge, No. 556, Knights 
of Pythias, at Kilbourne. He has passed all 
the chairs in this organization and represented 
hi> lodge at the Grand Lodge at Springfield, 
Ohio. Politically, he is a Republican and has 
been very active in working for his party's 
success. He was elected treasurer of Brown 
Township, November 5, 1907. ami fur u 
years was a director for the Special District 
of Eden on the School Hoard. In [904 he 
built his handsome residence with a convenient 
office attached. He is one of Crown Town- 
ship's representative men. 




AIN HAZLTOX. one of Dela- 
ware's substantial and representa- 
tive business men, is the operator 
of a stone quarry, and for years 
has been engaged in contracting 
and in road and street building. He was born 
in Perry Count)'. Ohio, in 1845, an 'l is a s " n 
of William and Anna ( Rader) Hazlton. Wil- 
liam Hazlton, the father, who was a farmer, 
removed from Perry County to Delaware 
County in 1850, settling in Libert}' Township. 
He and his wife Anna were the parents of two 
sons — David, now a resident of Delaware, and 
Wain, whose name begins this sketch. Mrs. 
William Hazlton's father. David Rader, was 
a pioneer settler in Delaware County. 

When Wain Hazlton was eleven years of 
age Ins father removed from Libert}' to Ox- 
ford Ti wnship, the part in which he settled be- 
ing little more than a wilderness at that time, 
and here the hoy grew to manhood. When 
about twenty-eight years old he came to Dela- 
ware, finding employment in teaming' and lum- 
bering, for four years being engaged in get- 
ting out ties for the H. V. Railroad. He then 
began turnpike contracting, his first work of 
this kind being the building of four miles of 
road in Union County, Ohio, then the "Pan- 
handle" road in Delaware County. Later he 
engaged in street building, his first work in 
this line being the construction of Eaton 
Street. Afterwards he built West Lincoln 
Avenue, the Horseshoe Turnpike, Wesl (iris- 



wold Street, the Cheshire Turnpike, and ( after 
grading Pennsylvania Avenue), the old E 'ton 
Turnpike, which was, perhaps, the most ex- 
tensive piece of work, and then came the west 
end of the Elm Valley Road, lie then built 
a street in the East End, an extension of 
Cheshire Road to William Street, then the 
Berlin Township Road in the East End, then 
Ross Street; he then graded Columbus Ave- 
nue and later Monroe and Oak Hill Avenues, 
then the west end of the Bowtown Road. Ills 
work was now interrupted by trouble with his 
eves, and he was obliged to rest for some six 
years. He then resumed his old work, build- 
ing the east end of Bowtown Road, North 
Franklin Street, Elizabeth Street. Katherine 
Street, the Elm Valley Turnpike, Shannon 
Street, and Oak Street, and lastly the Jen- 
nings Turnpike. All of this work proved very 
satisfactory and Mr. Hazlton's long experi- 
ence has made him an expert in this line of 
construction. 

Mr. Hazlton has two and a half acres of 
land situated in the city, northwest of the H. 
Y. depot, on which is situated the quarries, 
which he has owned and operated for about 
thirteen years. Here during the busy season 
from forty to 100 men are employed, or an 
average of about fifty for the season. Mr. 
Hazlton also owns a fine farm of 1 17^4 acres 
in Delaware Township, close to the city. In 
the latter he has also large real estate inter- 
ests. 

On December 21, 1865, Mr. Hazlton was 
married to Harriet Frost, a daughter of Elias 
Frost of Delaware County, Ohio. He and 
his wife are the parents of six children, all of 
whom reside in Delaware, namely: William. 
George, John. Clarence. Lt'tie. and Bessie, the 
last mentioned of whom married Harry Slack. 

Mr. Hazlton. his wife, and daughter Ef- 
fie started on a journey to Florida, January 6, 

8, arriving at St. Petersburg, that State. 

January 9th. They remained there until Feb- 
ruary 27th. From there they went to Clear 
Water, where they remained till March u. 
thence going to Jacksonville. March 24. They 
then continued their journey to Chattanooga, 
Tennessee, and from there returned to Dela- 



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ware, March 26th. Mr. Hazlton says of this 
trip: "This was the most enjoyable journey 
of my life — many wonderful sights, never to 
be forgotten. We don't know how beautiful 
God has made this great world until we have 
made a tour about it. Then we are led to ex- 
claim: 'How marvelous are thy works, O 
Lord.' God has made everything beautiful 
and supplied all our wants through his son 
Jesus Christ." 

Mr. Hazlton is a member of the United 
Brethren Church at Delaware, and the church 
edifice was erected by him without one cent 
of cost to the organization. It stands as an 
eloquent monument to his philanthropy. 



m 



\LMON MOSES. One of the promi- 
nent < Id families of Delaware County 
was established in Liberty Township 
as early as 1817, by Salmon Moses, 
who came to the Western Reserve 
from Connecticut in that year and secured 
land which has never since been out of his 
family, it now being owned by his grand- 
daughter, who is the wife of James Jewett, a 
prominent citizen of Liberty Township. 

Salmon Moses was born in Connecticut, in 
[793 and died in Delaware County. Ohio, in 
[869, aged 76 years. In early manhood he 
married Ophelia Case, also of Connecticut, 
and they had five children, two of whom were 
born in that State. The four to survive child- 

li 1 were: Flavel, who died in [906, aged 

9] year>. who married Elizabeth Duncan: 
Dorcas, who married Ebenezer Pike, and died 
in Libert\ Township; Flora, unmarried, who 
died in [899, and Russell Bigelow, who was 
the father of Mrs. James Jewett. 

Salmon Moses bought first a tract of [16 
acres, in Libert \ Township, after reaching 
Delaware County, on winch he erected a log- 
cabin, of the pioneer type, and proceeded to 
clear up his land, developing a productive 
farm and adding to its extent. lie lived out 
his life on this farm, taking a part in the 
early township government, and lending his 
influence, and giving his advice in matter- of 
public moment. 



Russell Bigelow Moses was born in Lib- 
erty Township, Delaware County, Ohio, April 
1, IcSjj. and died April 21, 1S88. In 1849 ^ :e 
was married to Aly Gregg, who died in 1 S 7 7 . 
She was a daughter of William and Sarah 
(Withrbw) Gregg. The Greggs came to 
Delaware Count}- in [836, from Washington 
County, Pennsylvania. Their children were: 
Henry, Jane. Eliza, Aly. James. Sampson. 
Israel. Hannah. Sarah. Elmina, William Har- 
rison and Ahygia Newton. Three members 
of the Gregg family still survive. Russell B. 
Moses and wife had but one child — Helen — 
who was married, in 1892, to James Jewett. 
Mrs. Jewett has spent her whole life, with the 
exception of three years, on her present farm. 

Salmon Moses was 1 me of the men who 
organized the first Methodist Episcopal 
Church which formed the nucleus of the Pow- 
ell (hutch. The first building was a log one 
and Mr. Moses often entertained the early 
preachers. I lis son. Russell B., was equally 
active in church affairs and also took a promi- 
nent part in township matters. He was a Re- 
publican in his political views and served in lo- 
cal offices. 




SA ULREY, township clerk of Genoa 
Township, a successful farmer and 
popular school teacher, was born in 
Delaware Count}-, Ohio, March 2 1 . 
1X71), and is a son of George and 
Evelyn ( Johnston ) Ulrey. 

George Ulrey was bom in Licking County, 
Ohio, where he married Evelyn Johnston, a 
native of that county, and they had two chil- 
dren, namely: Rilla and Asa. In 1875, 
G& rge Ulrey came to Delaware County and 
settled in Genoa Township, where he rented 
land for a time anil then purchased 45/4" 
acres, also located in Genoa Township. In 
politics he is a stanch Democrat. He is a lead- 
ing member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Asa L T lrey was educated in the district 
schools, the Westerville High School, and 
Westerville College, and after completing his 
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schools, lie taught two years in Genoa Town- 
ship and one year in Franklin County. At 
the time of his marriage he settled on his pres- 
ent farm which he has operated ever since, 
and has proved his practical ability as an agri- 
culturist. 

On April u, 1906, .Mr. Ulrey was married 
to Caroline Fairchild, who was born in Har- 
lem Township, Delaware Count}-, Ohio, and 
is a daughter of Richard and Alice (Showa'l- 
tei 1 Fairchild. The paternal grandfather of 
Mrs. Ulrey was Sherman Fairchild. who was 
one of the earliest settlers of Harlem Town- 
ship, coming to that section from Pennsylva- 
nia. Mr. Ulrey has been identified with the 
Republican party ever since he reached ma- 
turity. He has taken an active interest in 
ti wnship affairs and is serving at present as 
ti iwnship clerk. 




OX. JOHN" A. CONE, probate judge 
of Delaware Count}-, was born in this 
count}-. January 17. 1836, son of 
John W. and Mary (Williams) 
Cone. He is a grandson <<i Cephas 
Cone, who was of Xew England origin. The 
latter's parents were at one time residents of 
Wyoming, Luzerne Count}', Pennsylvania, 
from which place they came at an early date 
to Delaware Count}-. Ohio, settling in Kings- 
ton Township, where the}- were among the 
first arrivals. Cephas Cone, it is supposed. 
came to an untimely end. lie set out from 
Westlield for Zanesville to buy land, having 
in his possession a considerable sum of money, 
and as he was never more heard from it is 
probable that he met with foul play. 1 lis wife. 
in maidenh 1 Almira Munson, was a daugh- 
ter of Wilmot Munson, whose family mi- 
grated from Xew England to Luzerne Coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania. They were descendants of 
1 aptain .Munson. who came to America from 
England about [637. A genealogy of the 
family has been published in which the line of 
descent can be readily traced. 

John W. Cone, son of Cephas and father 
of the subject of this -ketch, was born in 

46 



what is now Kingston Township. January 6th 
or 7th. [809. When he was very young, his 
people moved to Westfield, then in Delaware 
Count}-, but now in Morrow County. 
reaching the age ot fourteen he came to Dela- 
ware and became an apprentice in the woolen 
mill of King- & Barrett. Before the exp 
tion of his apprenticeship, the mill chat 
hands, becoming the property of Colonel Ben- 
jamin Allen. After completing his appren- 
ticeship, he took a tramp east, stopping at Ha- 
gerstown, Maryland, where he worked for 
several months at his trade. He then re- 
turned to Delaware. In the next season he 
made another trip east, but this time failed 
to find work, and returning- to Ohio, finally 
found employment at Lancaster. About [831 
he took up his residence in Delaware, and 
soon after rented the woolen mill, which he 
carried on for a year or two. He then gave it 
up and bought an unimproved farm in Rad- 
nor Township, which he set about clearing. 
After spending a year or two at this work, he 
removed to the village of Delhi, now Rad 
Village, and entered into mercantile business 
with his wife's brother. Morgan Williams, they 
occupying a frame building on the pre 
site of the postoffice. A year or two later Mr. 
Cone returned to Delaware and again rented 
the woolen mill from Colonel Allen. Tin's 
he now conducted until March. 1838. He then 
bought a saw mill in Thompson Township, 
on the Scioto River, also putting in a car- 
machine, which in the summer time was kept 
running day and night. He was thus occupied 
until 1844, when he and Dr. Joseph Cox 
erected a woolen mill on that site, and under 
the firm name of Cox & Cone did a good busi- 
for a number of years. About 1S50 Mr. 
('one bought out Dr. Cox and subsequently 
conducted the mill in his own name until 1N7 
The business included the manufacture 

woolen dress g 1- of all kinds, and blank 

In addition to his eight sons, whom he 
employed, he had outside help to the extent 
of three or four hands. For some years - 
vious to ibis. Mr. ('one had taken advant 
1 f every opportunity to acquire good farm 
lands, and in order to give his undivided at- 



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tention to farming, he now gave up the milling 
business, the mill being leased by his son, Nel- 
son W.. and John Wiles, who conducted it un- 
til it was destroyed by fire in [873. Mr. Cone 
subsequently continued actively engaged in 
general farming and stuck raising until his 
death, which took place on November 24. 
1891. He was a Democrat in politics and 
served as justice of the peace for one term, de- 
clining re-election. lie was also for some 
time township treasurer, and during his in- 
cumbency of that office, so honest were the in- 
habitants and so quiet and orderly was the 
township, that he found it unnecessary to have 
a lock on the money drawer or to keep the 
office door locked. His wife Alary was a 
daughter of William Williams, and was born 
in Cardiganshire. South Wales, in 1814: she 
died in 1885. She had borne her husband 13 
children, of whom but one failed to reach ma- 
turity, and nine are still living. The follow- 
ing is their record in brief: Allen W. is now 
deceased. Nelson W. was captain of Com- 
pany C, One Hundred and Twenty-first Regi- 
ment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was dis- 
charged for disability. He died in 1886. 
John A. is the direct subject of this article. 
Margaret Almira is the widow of J. F. Smith 
and resides in Delaware. Thomas Benton is 
a resident of Wellsville, Kansas. Livonia is 
the wife of J. F. L'tz. of Delaware. Mary 
Salome, who is now deceased, is survived by 
her husband, Hon. John McClure. of Scioto 
Township. Titus K. resides on the old mill 
property in Thompson Township. William J. 
is ,1 resident of Delaware. Frank Pierce re- 
sides in Thompson Township. Harriet J. is 
the wife of Lester G. I'eet of Richwood. James 
I. 1- a resident of Paola, Kansas. 

John A. Cone, with whom this article is the 
most directly concerned, acquired his elemen- 
tary education in the district school, and aft- 
erwards became a student at the Ohio Wes- 
leyan University, where be spent a couple of 
years — 1858, [859. In the spring of 1861 he 
began the study of law in the office of Reid & 
I aton, but the momentous events that were 
now taking place in connection with the slave- 
rebellion, bad an unsettling influ- 



ence upon all grades of society, especially upon 
the youth of the land, and in the following 
year be enlisted in the three months' service in 
Company C, Eighty-sixth O. V. 1. After his 
return from this service, he resumed his law 
studies, reading during the summers and 
teaching school winters until 1864. He then 
enlisted again, going on the hundred days' 
service, as lieutenant in Company E, One 
Hundred and Forty-fifth O. V. I., the regi- 
ment being ordered to the defence of Wash- 
ington. 

In 1805 Mr. Cone was admitted to the liar, 
and in the following year he began the prac- 
tice of his profession in Delaware, where, in 
the early part of 1867 he became editor of the 
Delaware Herald. This position he resigned 
in the summer of that year, and went to Mor- 
row County, where he remained for a year. 
Returning to Delaware County in the fall oi 
1868, he taught school until 1871, both in the 
village and country by turns. In 1871 he re- 
moved to Radnor Village, where also he taught 
school, and was there until the spring of 1897. 
He was also postmaster there four years, un- 
der Cleveland's first administration, served as 
justice there for 18 years, and was township 
clerk for 16 years, also being engaged more or 
less in the practice of his profession. In T897 
he came to Delaware and opened a law office. 
In the fall of 1905 he was elected probate 
judge, taking office in February of the follow- 
ing year, and he has since capably performed 
the duties of this position. He is a member 
of George B. Thomas Post, No 60, G. A. R., 
of Delaware, of which be is past commander, 
and also belongs to Radnor Lodge, No. 330. 
I. O. O. F, of which he is a past grand. In 
politics he has always been a Democrat. 

Air. Cone married Mary E. George, a 
daughter of Rev. Elias George, of Radnor. 
He and his wife are the parents of one child — 
Stella ( ',., who is a teacher in the Delaware 
public schools and principal of the North 
Building. Mr. Cone's family are members of 
the Baptist Church, and are as well known 
throughout the county as they are highly es- 
teemed and respected. 




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:NRY JOHN JARVIS, infirmary di- 
rector in Delaware County and a 
prominent citizen of Brown Town- 
ship, where he owns a farm of 70 
acre-, was born in Orange Township, 
Delaware County, Ohio. March 6, 1854. and 
- hi of Henry J. and Caroline K. ( Knapp) 

Henry J. Jarvis, father of Henry John, 
was born in England and was 17 years of age 
when he came with his parents to Delaware 
County. The rest of the family, with the ex- 
ception of Henry J., went West shortly after 
coming here. H. J. was the railroad agent and 
justice of the peace of Orange. The Jarvises 
were among the early settlers, as were also 
the Knapps. the latter being identified with the 
affairs of Liberty Township, where many of 
the name may yet be found. In early man- 
hood, Henry J. Jarvis married Caroline K. 
Knapp, who still survives, aged 82 years. 
They had three children: Henry John; 
Grace, who married David Douglas, and died 
at Iberia. Morrow County, Ohio; and a child 
died in infancy. During the Civil War. 
Henry J. Jarvis went into the service as first 
lieutenant of Company < 1. Ninety-sixth Regi- 
ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died soon 
after leaving Delaware County, at Memphis, 
Tennessee. His remains were returned to his 
home and were laid to rest in the Liberty 
Cemetery, in Liberty Township. 

Shortly after the close of the Civil War, 
Henry John Jarvis went to Wisconsin, where 
he remained nine months, but he was mainly 
reared by his mother and attended the district 
schools in Brown and Liberty Townships. 
For the past nine years he has lived on bis 
present farm, devoting the larger part of bis 
attention to raising first-class road horses. He 
does a great deal of training also, both of his 
own colts and those of other raisers of horses 
in this section. 

On November 12. 1884, Mr. Jarvis mar- 
ried to Amanda Moore, who is a daughter of 
the late Levi Moore, of Brown Township. 
Mrs. Moore still survives. Mr. Jarvis is a 
stanch Republican and he has been active in 
politics for many years. For a long period he 
has served as a member of the School Board 



and in the fall of 10.04 was elected an in- 
firmary director and is now serving in his 
fourth year as such. He is a member of Wil- 
liams Lodge, No. 550. Knights of Pythias, at 
Kilbourn. 




EV. PHILIP STEYLE, rector of St. 
Mary's Catholic Church, Delaware, 
was born at Fenetrange, Department 
of the Meurthe-et-Moselle,' in France, 
on the 14th of October, 1848. After 
attending the elementary schools of his native 
town, he studied the classics and philosophy 
in the colleges of Ponta-Mousson and Nancy. 
At the age of nineteen years be came to 
America, and after finishing his theological 
studies in the Provincial Seminary of Troy, 
New York, was there ordained a priest for the 
Diocese of Columbus, in June. 1871. He had 
charge of St. John's Church at Bellaire, Ohio, 
until 1873. Thence he went to Portsmouth, 
Ohio, where he remained until October, 1883, 
since which time he has been stationed in Dela- 
ware. 

Father Steyle's pastorate here has been 
crowded with useful labor, and its results are 
plainly manifest in the greatly improved con- 
dition of the parish and in the high moral and 
Christian tone which prevails generally among 
all those who have come under his influence. 
The material improvement is visible in the 
church, school, parsonage, convent, and ceme- 
tery, all of which institutions are largely his 
work, as before his arrival in Delaware, al- 
though St. Mary's already had a numerous 
congregation, practically nothing had been at- 
tempted in the way of buildings. He suc- 
ceeded in infusing into his parishioners much 
of his own indomitable energy and spirit of 
persevering Christian zeal, with the result of 
bringing the parish into its present flourishing 
condition, with tasteful and adequate build- 
ings, and all the necessary equipment for the 
sacred ministrations and the maintenance of 
religion and Christian education. 

While these and other practical labors con- 
nected with his charge have taken up much of 
Father Steyle's time, they have not prevented 



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him from adding- to his stores of secular knowl- 
edge, in which direction he made an auspicious 
beginning during his university days. He is 
a linguist of rare attainments; in addition to 
French, his native tongue, and the classical 
languages, Greek and Latin, he possesses a 
firm mastery over German, Italian, Spanish, 
and modern Greek, and even has a good knowl- 
edge of Arabic. His English diction is so 
pure and idiomatic that few hearing him 
preach or lecture would suspect him to be other 
than an American. The illusion is borne out 
by his appearance and deportment, in which 
there is little to suggest a Gallic origin; yet by 
descent, birth and education, he is a French- 
man of purest blood. His manners are unas- 
suming and he is retiring and studious in his 
habits. He is also an amateur musician of 
ability, being proficient in both vocal and in- 
strumental music. He is now in his 6otb 
year — at that period of life when, though the 
bodily powers have lost in some degree their 
original force, the mental faculties are often, 
as in Father Steyle's case, at their period oi 
ripest development. Secure in the love and 
devotion of his parishioners, he also has the 
respect and good-will of the members of other 
religious congregations, both Catholic and 
Protestant, and of the people of Delaware gen- 
erally, who recognize in him a faithful and 
efficient pastor, and a scholarly and refined 
i hristian gentleman. 




EORGE F. MILLER, a leading citi- 
zen o G lie 'i d Ti iwnship, wfo > is 
engaged m general fanning and 
t< ck-raising on his valuable estate of 
209 T j aero, was burn October 22. 
[856, in ( a ishocton ( omitv. ( )hio, and is a son 
of George F. and Rhuhamina (Hamersley) 
Miller. 

The parents of Mr. Millei th natives 

1 oshocton Count} and both died early, the 
father in 1803. aged 38 years and the mother 
in 1864, aged 36 years. They had five chil 
dren, of whom the three survivors 



George F., subject of this sketch ; Lydia, who 
resides with her brother; and Catherine, who 
is the widow of a Mr. Baker, and reside- in 
('oshocton County. 

George F. .Miller in his youth attended the 
district school and completed his education in 
the High School, in the vicinity of his home. 
He was reared on the home farm and from 
boyhood has been accustomed to an agricul- 
tural life. After his marriage he moved to 
Delaware County and in the spring of [880, 
he purchased the William Cutler farm, which 
contained 107J2 acres, for which he paid 
about one-half, of his capital of $3,000. To 
this he later added the Zimmer farm and now 
has enough land on which to carry on his ex- 
tensive operations successfully. 

On March 21, 1880, Mr. 'Miller was mar- 
ried to Hannah Fitch, a daughter of John M. 
and Hester Fitch, both of whom are deceased. 
but who were formerly residents of Coshocton 
Ci tinty. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had six 
children, the three survivors being: Oliver 
Perry, residing in Concord Township, who 
married Ethel Morris and has two children — 
Lawrence Ward and Letha May; Ada May. 
who married Elmer Zimmerman and resides 
with her husband on Mr. Miller's farm in 
Concord Township, having one child — Gladys : 
and George Earle. who resides with his father. 
Mr. .Miller is a Democrat but takes no very 
active part in politics. He is a charter mem- 
ber of the Knights of Pythias organization at 
Bellpoint. 




[OMAS CLIVE JONES, president of 
the Delaware Gas Company, is one oi 

the most experienced and best known 

men of the country. Mr. )■ 
was born November 17. [867, on his 
father's farm in Troy Township, Delay 
County, and comes of 1 Id pioneer families 
both sides. His maternal grandfather, Jn 
Hosea Williams, was one of the prominent 
men in the early days of Delaware County. 
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the public schools and later enjoyed the aca- 
demic advantages at Gambier, Ohio, following 
which he took a commercial course at the 
Spencerian Business College, Washington, 
I). C. Returning to Delaware he began his 
business career as a collector for the company 
of which he is mm the head. He was with 
the Columbus Gas Company as teller in 1886- 
1NN7. For the following three years he was 
concerned in a coal and teed business at Dela- 
ware, under the firm style of Baker & Jones, 

then resumed relations with the Delaware 

Company, of which he was elected super- 
intendent in 1891. In this capacity he served 
the company until 1905. when he became its 

lent. In 1 90 1 Mr. Jones purchased a 
third interest in the Coshocton (Ohio) Gas 
G impany. Under his supervision the plant 

entirely remodelled and at a later date he 
equipped it for the use of natural gas. In 
[902 under his direction the plant of the Dela- 
ware Company was reconstructed for the dis- 
tribution of natural gas. It is one of the most 
perfect systems in the State: one year of care- 
ful oversight was necessary to accomplish the 
change, but its operation has fully justified 
the expenditure of talent and money involved. 
Mr. Junes was elected to membership in 
the Ohio Gas Light Association in 1892, the 
Western Gas Association in [895, the Ameri- 
can Gas Light Association in 1898. the Michi- 
gan Gas Association in 1900; he became a 
charter member of the Natural (ias Associa- 

of America in 1906 and a charter mem- 
ber of the American (ias Institute in 1906. 
He was several years a member of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the Ohio Association and 
its secretary from 1898 to 1906, during which 
time he edited and published all of the annual 

■lie- of proceedings for the association. 
He was elected treasurer of the American < ias 
Institute in rgo6. Mr. Jones has contributed 
many papers to the publications of these as- 

itions ami is by gas men everywhere recog- 
nized as one of the influential experts in the 
nee and practical art of gas production, 
manufacture, transmission and distribution. 
II-- printed opinions form a valuable contri- 
bution to the literature of the subject during 
the last 1 ; years. 



In 1889 -Mr. Jones was married to Sue E. 
Baker, who is a daughter of Mr. Henry L. 
Baker, a former mayor of Delaware. They 
have one -on. Thomas Clive, Jr. Mr. and 
Mrs. Jones are members of St. Peter's Episco- 
pal Church, of which Mr. Jones has been 
a vestryman for a number of years. 




OX. PRESTON B. PLUMB, who was 
among the most distinguished of 
Delaware County's sons, was born in 
hj this county. October u, 1837. His 
educational opportunities were lim- 
ited, as were those of most of the youth of 
his dav in this section. Early in life he learned 
the printer's trade and when [9 years of age. 
went to Emporia. Kansas, then a small, strug- 
gling village. Here he established a weekly 
paper, which he called the Nezt's, and at first 
he himself had to perform all the work of the 
various functionaries of a newspaper office, 
from printer's devil to editor. Later, his en- 
terprise proving successful, he was enabled to 
employ help. He soon became prominent 
among the "Free-Soilers" of Kansas and in 
[859 was a member of the Leavenworth Con- 
stitutional Convention, which asked for the ad- 
mission of Kansas into the Union as a free 
state. While editing his paper he studied law 
and was admitted to the bar in 18(11. In 
1862 be was a member of the Kansas Legis- 
lature and soon after became reporter in the 
Supreme Court. In August of that year he 
enlisted as second lieutenant in one of the com- 
panies of the Eleventh Kansas Infantry, and 
was successively captain, major and lieuten- 
ant-colonel, serving throughout the war. 

Mr. Plumb was again in the Legislature in 
1867-68 and during the latter year was speaker 
of the House. He was next elected prosecut- 
ing attorney for Lyon County. Kansas, after 
which he was for a number of years a mem- 
ber of the law firm of Ruggles & Plumb. Ik- 
later gave up his practice to become president 
of the First National Bank of Emporia. It 
was while he was in this position, that he was 
elected, in 1S77. to the United States Senate, 
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March 4, 1877. He was re-elected in 1883 
and 1888. Mr. Plumb's name was frequently 
mentioned in connection with the presidential 
nomination of his party. He was an inde- 
fatigable worker and was accurately informed 
upon all public questions. He was successful 
in Whatever he undertook and acquired con- 
siderable wealth. 

Mr. Plumb was married to Carrie South- 
wick of Ashtabula, Ohio. They were the par- 
ents of two sons and three daughters. Mr. 
Plumb died suddenly on December 20, 1891, 
from apoplexy, induced by overwork. 




]OI IX F. BOUGHER, a prosperous 
young farmer of Liberty Township, 
has been located on his present farm 
of 121 acres, formerly known as the 
Charles Alder place, since 1808. He 
was born July 8, 1874. and is a son of Benja- 
min and Clara (Macabee) Bougher. 

Benjamin Bougher was born in 1849, at 
Rockbridge, Hocking County, Ohio. In 1872 
lie moved to Pickaway County, Ohio, settling 
mx miles south of Circleville, on the Chilli- 
cothe turnpike road, and resided there for 
about twenty-five years, removing then to Co- 
lumbus, where he fills the position of watch- 
man for the McCune Block. His parents were 
Henry and Katie Bougher. To Benjamin 
Bougher and wife the following children were 
born: Louise, who married Dennis Rader. 
residing at Circleville; John Frederick, resid- 
ing in Liberty Township; Leroy, born June 
25, 1878, who is associated with his brother 
John F. in farming, and who married Olive 
Hardin, of which union there are two children 
— Louise and Frank; Clinton, born in 1882, 
who died aged three years; Arthur, residing 
in California; and Edward, who died August 
31, [906, at the age of 17 years. 

John F. Bougher was educated in the 
schools of Pickaway County, and was reared 
to be a fanner. He married Victoria Hardin, 
who is a daughter of K rider and Alice ( Lever- 
ing ) Hardin, and they have two children — 
John II. and Benjamin. Mr. and Mrs. 



Bougher are members of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church at Stratford. In politics, he 
is a Democrat. He is numbered with the sub- 
stantial men and progressive citizens of 
Liberty Township. 




FXRY E. SHARP, who is engaged in 
business as a hardware merchant and 
is a partner in the flour and feed 
mill at Powell, was born in Lawrence 
County, Ohio, September 28. 
and is a son of Peter and Elizabeth 1 \\ ise- 
man) Sharp. 

The parents of Mr. Sharp removed from 
Lawrence to Gallia County, Ohio, and in 1866, 
from Gallia to Delaware County, where the 
mother died, in 1870. and the father, June 25, 
1905, aged /2 years. Their surviving chil- 
dren are: Annie M., residing at Long Beach, 
California, where she is engaged in teaching 
school; Daniel Arthur, residing at Bn 
port, Nebraska; Henry E.. residing at Powell; 
Charles, a resident of Arlington. Colorado; 
R. B.. who resides at Hugo, Colorado, where 
he has been engaged in sheep raising; Julian 
E., residing at Columbus, a traveling salesman 
for the Hanna Paint Company; and George E., 
residing in Powell. 

Henry E. Sharp was reared and educated 
in Powell and with the exception of eight 
years, has made this place his home since he 
was six years old. Having gained some mer- 
cantile experience with his father, who con- 
ducted a general mercantile business at Lowell, 
for a number of years, in 1893. ne embarked 
in business for himself, opening up a well- 
stocked hardware store here, and he has a m- 
tinued in the same business until the present 
time. Having been a resident here for 41 
years, he is known to almost every one. and as 
a business man and as a private citizen, enjoys 
general esteem. 

On June [8, 1897, Mr. Sharp was married 
to Laura Felkner, who is a daughter of J. L. 
and Ellen (Carr) Felkner, of Ostrander. Ohio. 
Nominally, Mr. Sharp is a Democrat, but he 
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six years he served as township treasurer and 
has also filled the offices of assessor and clerk. 
Fraternally, he belongs to the Powell Lodge, 
No. 465, ( >dd Fellows, Powell Lodge, Knights 
of Pythias, and Delaware Lodge of Elks, 
No. 76. 




AMES JEWETT, a leading citizen and 
fanner of Liberty Township, was 
born October 5, 1865, in Clinton 
Township. Franklin County, Ohio, 
and is a son of Elam and Sarepta 
1 Richards 1 Jewett. 

The founder of the Jewett family in 
Franklin County, Ohio, was Elam Jewett. the 
great-grandfather, who came with his family 
from Vermont. lie died in [826, on a farm 
north of Columbus. lie was accompanied by 
his son. Benjamin Franklin, who resided in 
Franklin County, where lie died in 1867. lie 
was twice married and he had the following 
children : Henry, a retired physician, residing 
at Chaceland, a suburb of Columbus, who 
served all through the Civil War: Laura, re- 
siding at North Columbus, wdio is the widow 
of Tillman Guinn ; Elam, father of James 
Jewett; John, a farmer, residing southeast of 
Hillyard; Cyrenas, a farmer, residing at Olen- 
tangy; and Jerod O., now a substantial citi- 
zen of Worthington. The Jewett family 
springs from two brothers who emigrated t" 
Vermont from England. The great-grand- 
father, the grandfather and the father of 
James Jewett, all lie buried in the same ceme- 
tery in Franklin County. Ohio. 

Elam Jewett was born in Franklin County, 
in 1837, where he engaged in farming until 
his death. He married Sarepta Richards, who 
still survives, at the age of 70 years. .Mr. and 
Mrs. Jewett had three children, namely: 
James; William, residing in Liberty Town- 
ship, who married Mary Brobeck : and Henry, 
win 1 resides with his mother in Franklin 
County. Elam Jewett and family assisted in 
the founding of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Powell. Grandfather Jewett owned 
a farm of 150 acres north of Columbus and 



a part of the old farm is still in the p 
of the family, all of whom are peoph 
stance and prominence. 

In [892 James Jewett was married to 
Helen Moses, who i> the only daughter •_>] 
Russell B. and Aly (Gregg) Moses. Mr. 
Jewett and wife own 280 acres of rich farm- 
ing land in Delaware and Franklin Counties. 
For several years Mr. Jewett has also been 
engaged in buying grain at Powell. He is 
one of the enterprising and successful mei 
this section. Mr. and Mrs. Jewett belong to 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



EORGE F. HOGANS, who has 
an instructor in the public sch 
of Berkshire and Genoa Townships 
l g^™ l for a period of more than 25 years. 
comes of an old and respected family 
of Delaware County. He was born in Berk- 
shire Township. January 13. 1861. and is a 
son of John Wesley and Drucilla (< 
Hogans. 

John W. Hogans was born and reared in 
Delaware County, Ohio, whither his father, 
John Beverly Hogans. had come at an early 
date. The father first settled in Ox 
[Township, where he followed farming, then 
moved to Genoa Township, where he rented a 
farm for some years, but at the time of his 
death was living in Franklin County, ( 1 
John W. Hogans was reared on the farm and 
attended the district schools in his younger 
days. Upon leaving the parental roof he 
rented a farm in Genoa Township, and there- 
after rented different farms in various 1 
of Delaware O unity. He died in Delaware 
Township, in 1863. at an early age. He mar- 
ried Drucilla Crane, who was born in Con- 
necticut and was a young girl when her par- 
ents came west to Delaware Count}'. 
they purchasing a farm of 35 acres in Genoa 
Township. There she was reared to maturity 
and educated in the public schools. Three 
children blessed her union with Mr. Hogans. 
namely: George F.. Nellie, and John Wes- 
ley. 



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George F. Hogans, being- but a child when 
his father died, was thereafter reared by his 
grandmother. He completed the prescribed 
course of study in the district schools of Genoa 
Township, after which he attended Otterbein 
College at Westerville two years. In 1880 
he purchased his present farm of 30 acres 
in Genoa Township, and has at the present 
time a finely improved place. He erected the 
house and buildings, and all improvements 
are the result of his own thrift and energy. 
In addition to fanning he has engaged in 
teaching in Genoa and Berkshire Townships 
for more than 25 years, and his work as an 
educator has been most gratifying. He is 
one of the progressive, public-spirited men of 
this section of the county, lending his support 
to ill measures and enterprises tending to 
benefit the community. 

Air. Hogans was united in marriage, De- 
cember 24, 1884. with Miss Susie McMahon, 
who was born in Genoa Township, and is a 
daughter of John and Honorah McMahon. 
Her parents were born in Ireland and came to 
America after their marriage. Genoa Town- 
ship being their home from an early period. 
Three children are the issue of this union : 
Frances, who is also engaged as a 
teacher; Lela Eva; .and Ralph Emerson. They 
were all born in their present home. Mr. 
ns has taken an active interest in political 
affairs, and has been unswerving in his sup- 
port of Democratic principles. He served some 
years as justice of the peace and as town- 
clerk, proving a most capable official. 
Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. 



I' m \S M. COLE was formerly, for 

some [2 year-,, a prominent farmer 

residing m Harlem Township, and 

his death, which occurred on May 

15. iN,X_>. was mourned as a sad loss 

community. I le was born in Licking 

ity, "hio. April 10, [832, and was a son 

[erreen and Sarah 1 Harris 1 Cole. 



Merreen Cole was born in Maryland Sep- 
tember 22, 1800, and was a son of Thomas 
and Rachael Cole. He was reared in his native 
state but was a young man when he moved 
to Ohio, finally settling in Licking County. 
There he lived and farmed some years after 
his marriage, afterwards moving to Delaware 
County. He purchased a tract of 112 acres in 
Trenton Township, to which he subsequently 
added, and thereon erected a frame house. He 
cleared the land and made many improve- 
ments and resided there until his death. He 
was a Democrat in politics. 

Thomas M. Cole was five years of age 
when his -parents came to Delaware County, 
and here he was reared and attended the com- 
mon schools. He resided with his parents un- 
til his marriage, and then for twelve and one- 
lialf years lived on the old Cole homestead 
in Trenton Township. He then moved to In- 
diana, where he purchased a farm, but about 
five months later he sold it and returned to 
Delaware County. In 1870 he purchased the 
farm on which his widow now resides, con- 
sisting of 162 acres, and here carried on 
operations until his death in 1882, as above 
noted. He made many improvements on the 
place, farmed his land successfully, and was 
classed among the progressive and public- 
spirited men of Harlem Township. In addi- 
tion to general farming he dealt quite exten- 
sively in stock. Mr. Cole was united in mar- 
riage, September 25. 1856. with Miss Harriet 
D. Leak, who was born in Trenton Township. 
Delaware County, Ohio, and is a daughter of 
A. C. and Elizabeth ( Ginn ) Leak. Her 
Father was born in New Jersey, August 5, 
[809, and was a young man when he accom- 
panied his father, John Leak, to Trenton 
Township, Delaware County. Ohio. John 
Leak acquired a large farm in Trenton Town- 
ship, which he largely cleared, and became a 
man ol considerable local prominence. A. C. 
Leak was married November 24, [831, tc 
Elizabeth Ginn, who came of a prominent old 
Delaware Count} family, and shortly after- 
ward they began conducting a hotel in con- 
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hotel business throughout the remainder of his 
life and were widely known throughout this 
section of the country. Mr. Leak also operated 
an ashery for many years, marketing his prod- 
uct at Zanesville. 

Mrs. Harriet 1). Cole, nee Leak, was reared 
in Trenton Township, and received as good 
an education as the schools of that period af- 
forded. As a result of her marriage with Mr. 
. the following children were born: Er- 
vin M., October 3, 1857; Ella D.. July 18. 
: William M., April to. 1862; Edson 
P.. .March 6, 1SD4: Milton D.. deceased De- 

ber 24. 1902, horn February 8. 1866; 
Charles E.. born July 2^,, 1808. died Decem- 
ber 20. 1901 ; one who died in infancy; Aha 
M., born May 13, 1877; and Mary E.. born 
July 26. 1881, deceased November 5, [881. 
All of the children were born in Delaware 
1 inty. 




CM DEL P. SHUR, president of the 
Deposit Banking Company, at Dela- 
ware, has rilled this responsible po- 



sitii n fi ir the past 30 years. 



Mr. 



Shur was born in Knox County, 
Ohio, December 18. 1826, and is one of a 
family of 11 children. His parents were Ja- 
tnd Margaret (Porter) Shur. The Shur 
family, which is one of the prominent and 
wealthy one- of Delaware, was also one of 
stance and importance in Knox County, 
where Jacob Shur carried on agricultural pur- 
until his death. 
Samuel P. Shur obtained his education in 
the district schools, and after leaving his 
father's farm, in 1842. he engaged as a clerk- 
in a dr) g Is store in Chesterville, where he 

remained for eight years. He then started in 

business for himself at Cardington, Ohio, and 

there about two and a half year-, after 

which he opened a dry goods store at Cale- 

ia, Marion County. Six months later he 

sold out and went to Marseilles, where he was 

_ ged for eight years in the same business. 

He then came to Delaware and conducted a 

similar business here until 1901. since which 



time he has devoted his whole attention to 
banking. The Deposit Banking Company 
was organized in 1868, and in [890 was in- 
corporated as a State bank. It is a depositary 
of county, city and township funds. It- policy 
has always been conservative, and in this way 
the safety of the funds entrusted to it has been 
guarded. The officers of the bank are: 
Samuel P. Shur. president : C. Riddle, vice- 
president: and R. M. Avery, cashier. Its 
Hoard of Directors is made up of the follow- 
ing substantial citizens: R. C. Lybrand, \Y. 
R. Carpenter. L. |. Healy, George W. Tones, 
C. Riddle, S. P. S'hur, and R. M. Avery. 

Mr. Shur married Emily T. Truesdale. a 
daughter of Stephen Truesdale. He and his 
wife are the parents of two children — Ida May, 
who is the wife of Edward Welch, of Dela- 
ware: and Harry Clyde, who is in the hotel 
business in Brookston, Minnesota. Politically, 
Mr. Shur is a Republican. Since 1847 be 
has been a member of the Masonic Order. 




OHN E. PCGH, a general farmer of 
Radnor Township, where he own- 1 [3 
■ ure- of excellent land, was born in 
Delaware. Ohio. February 21, [860, 
and is a son of George and Ellen 
I Williams 1 Pugh. 

The father of Mr. Pugh was born Januan 
1. 1818, in Wales, where he. lived until 23 
years of age. He then came to America and 
settled in Ohio, securing employment as a 
blacksmith with E. R. Thompson, at Delaware. 
In 1849 he crossed the plains to California and 
spent some time in gold-seeking, but soon 
found that he could make more by working 
steadily at his trade than by mining. He 
found plenty of blacksmith work to do in 
California and remained there until 1853. con- 
ducting a shop of his own. He then returned 
to Delaware and entered into partnership with 
J. J. Davis, under the firm name of Davis 
& Pugh. This partnership was continued for 
six years, but after [859 Mr. Pugh worked, 
alone. About this time he came to Radnor 
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his son John E. now lives, which he cultivated 
lor the rest of his active years. He died 
February _\ 1891. In politics he was a Re- 
publican. At the time of his death he had 
been an Odd Fellow for 45 years, having- been 
initiated in Lodge No. 9. at Columbus. He 
was a member of Olentangy Lodge, of Dela- 
ware, of which he was past grand, and was 
also past chief patriarch of the Encampment. 

George Pugh was twice married, first, No- 
vember 14, 184-'. to Jane Thomas, a daughter 
of William and .Margaret Thomas. They had 
two children. Elizabeth and William T., the 
latter of whom now resides at Oleathe, Kan- 
sas. The former. Elizabeth, married Hum- 
phrey Griffiths, of Radnor, but is now de- 
ceased. Mr. Pugh was married, secondly, 
March 13, 1857. to Mrs. Ellen (Williams) 
Jmies. and of this marriage John E. Pugh, of 
Radnor Township, is the only surviving child. 
Vlrs. Pugh was, born in Wales, in October. 
[828, and .accompanied her parents to America 
in [840. She was married, first, to Thomas 
Jmies, who was born in Wales and resided 
until death at Columbus. Ohio. He left one 
child. Mary A., who married D. I). Williams, 
residing in Troy Township, Delaware County. 
Mrs. Pugh died July 27, (888. 

John E. Pugh was reared in Radnor Town- 
ship and attended the public schools during 

boyhood, beginning to assist his father as - 

as he was old enough, lie succeeded to the 
possession of the homestead farm, and to the 
original acreage has added until he now owns 
113 acres, on which he carries on general 
farming and stock-raising. His main crops 
are wheat and haw I le has been very suc- 
cessful in raising an excellent grade of horses, 
cattle, sheep and hogs. The grounds which 
surround his line home, which stands near the 
village of Radnor, show careful cultivation 
nd an appreciation of the beautiful in nature. 
\ general air of thrift and prosperity marks 
the whole place. 

February 11. 1 81 > 1 . Mr. Pugh married Liz- 
\. Williams, a daughter of \Y. \Y. and 
Eliza \\. Williams, residents of Troy Town- 
ship, lie and his wife are the parents of three 
children, namely: Ellen Williams, bom May 



30, 1894; George Lewis, born January 24, 
1897; and Mar_\' Barre. born October 7. 1904. 
Mrs. Pugh is a member of the Baptist Church 
and Mr. Pugh is a Congregationalist in re- 
ligion. He is in no sense a politician, but is 
identified with the Republican party. Fra- 
ternally, he is an Odd Fellow, belonging to the 
lodge at Radnor, in which he has held "facial 
position. He is known and respecn 
useful and public-spirited citizen. 



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VROX PROUTY, general farmer 

leading citizen of Scioto Township, 
was horn in Troy Township. Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, November 1. 
[857, and is a son of Stephen Merritt 
and Sarah Ella (Peck) Prouty. 

The father of Mr. Prouty was born near 
Oswego, New York. May 14. 1825. and 
March 18. 1906. When 12 years old he ac- 
companied his father, Abel Prouty, to Ohio. 
The Prouty s settled in Delaware County 
among the pioneers of 1837, and Abel Prouty 
was an excellent type of that sturdy bod 
men. He continued to live in this section until 
[859, when he moved still farther west, to 
Wayne County, Michigan, where he died in 
1875, aged 75 vears. His first wife was Sarah 
Dudley, who died when Stephen Merritt was 
four vears old and his one sister. Jerusha, still 
younger. 

Stephen Merritt Prouty was old er 
to he 1 if great assistance to his father on his 
pioneer farm. The family lived one year at 
Marion, Ohio, and then on the Silven 
farm in Troy Township, and Stephen Merritt 
Prouty lived in that township until 1904. In 
that year he bought a farm in Thompson 
Township, on which he lived for one year, 
and in 1905 he purchased the Mooney farm 
in Delaware Township, on which bis widow 
now resides. He married Sarah Ella Peck, 
who was horn in Knox County, Ohio, and 
who was a daughter of Benjamin Peck, a 
native of Cleveland. Ohio. A family of 10 
children were born to Stephen M. Prouty and 
wife, namely: Byron, subject of this sketch: 




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Clifton, residing at Fullerton, Nebraska; 
Emma C, who married VV. C. Diven, residing 
at Delaware; Chauncy, who died in March, 
[899; Harvey, residing in Delaware Town- 
ship; Oren, residing at Summers, Montana; 
Martha S.. deceased, who is survived by her 
husband, Robert L. Evans, of Radnor Town- 
ship; Jessie G., who married James Kyle, re- 
siding in Radnor Township: and two died in 
infancy. The parents were consistent mem- 
bers of the Baptist Church at Radnor. 

On the maternal side. Air. Prouty's an- 
cestors came from Xew England. His great- 
grandfather, Rev. Silas Peck, was a pioneer 
minister of the Methodist Episcopal faith, in 
Michigan, and he traveled over many miles on 
horseback in the early days before any roads 
had been cut through the forests. Benjamin 
Peck, the maternal grandfather, was born at 
Cleveland, Ohio, and he married Mary Albey, 
a daughter of Jesse Albey, of Cleveland. Ben- 
jamin Peck was a carpenter and he followed 
liis trade both at Cleveland and Detroit. Four 
years after the birth of Mrs. Prouty, May 
17. 1838. he settled in Delaware County. 
There were many Indians still wandering- 
through this section, and on one occasion Mrs. 
Peck was greatly alarmed because an old In- 
dian squaw persisted in her attempt at bar- 
gaining for little Sarah Ella, then an attrac- 
tive child of four years. 

Byron Prouty was educated in the country 
schools near his home and remained with his 
father until he was 23 years of age. He then 
visited Monroe County, Michigan, where 
other members of the family had settled. He 
remained in Michigan for nine years, mainly 
engaged in farming. In the summer of 1898 
he returned to Troy Township and shortly 
afterward bought his present farm, a valuable 
tract of 78 acres. 65 of which he has under 
cultivation. He raises cattle, sheep, horses and 
hogs, and grows corn, oats, wheat and hay. 
He has a well-equipped farm, follows practical 
methods and makes use of improved ma- 
chinery. 

Mr. Prouty married Mary 1 'aimer, who is 
a daughter of E. R. Palmer, of Monroe 
County, Michigan. Her grandfather, Henry 



Palmer, came to Michigan as a pioneer, from 
Herkimer County, Xew York. They have 
had four children, namely: Emma C, who 
married Clarence Bell, residing at Ostrander; 
Harry, who died in infancy; Floyd Emerson, 
and Vesta rainier. Mr. and Mrs. Prouty are 
members of the Presbyterian Church at Os- 
trander. In his political views, Mr. Prouty 
is in sympathy with the Republican party. In 
1907 he was elected a member of the School 
Board, the township thus securing the services 
of an intelligent, conscientious citizen, well 
qualified to make a capable official, as his rec- 
ord up to date proves. 




ALVIN C. DUNLAP, a prominent 
business man of Delaware, who has 
been identified with the lumber in- 
terests of this county for the whole 
industrial period of his life, was 
born May 5, 1858. in Delaware Township, 
Delaware County, Ohio, son of James H. and 
Sarah M. (Cowles) Dunlap. . His parents, 
who are now deceased, were early settlers in 
the count}-. They are survived by four of their 
10 children. 

Calvin C. Dunlap was reared in Delaware 
Township and assisted on the home farm dur- 
ing his boyhood. He early became interested 
in timber lands, in which he invested largely, 
and for several years he operated a saw-mill. 
Later he established a retail lumber business 
at Delaware, and also became proprietor of 
a planing-mill, which is situated at the junc- 
tion of West William Street with the H. V. 
Railroad, where he has excellent facilities for 
shipping. He does a large business in sash, 
doors, and blinds, and he adds to the extent of 
his business interests by dealing also in sand. 
cement, plaster, and lime. A man of capital, 
he is concerned in a number of the success- 
ful business enterprises of this locality, being 
a member of the Cook Motor Company. 
Though never prominently active in politics, 
he has been a good citizen in all that the word 
implies, and all matters of public interest re- 
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closely connected with the growth and de- 
velopment of Delaware along many lines. 

In [876 Mr. Dunlap was married to Mary 
S. Converse, and they have had a family of 
six sons and six daughters, the survivors of 
whom, being married, have added 15 grand- 
children to the family roster. The record in 
brief of these children is as follows: Jennie 
E., who is the wife of Rev. Sager Tryon, of 
Newark. Ohio, has five children — Mary, 
Agnes, Margaret. Pauline, and Anna. Ivy G., 
wife of E. Brush Welsh resides in Delaware 
County and her children are Gladys, Mildred, 
Calvin Stanley, and Russell. Raymond B. is 
a minister of the Congregational Church in 
Clovis, California; he married Margie Howi- 
son and has two children — Paul and Dorothy. 
Earl T., who is a farmer of Delaware County, 
married Marie Newhouse and has two chil- 
dren — Edna and Elma. George A., who is 
associated in business with his father, mar- 
ried Effie Anderson. Wealthy L., is the 
wife of Guy Mussard, a farmer of Delaware 
Township, and has had two children — Gwen- 
dolyn and Edward \V. — both oi whom are 
now deceased. The other children were: 
llattie May, Clarence ]•'... Mary Grace, Opha. 
Calvin Joy and Ralph Willard. Hattie May 
and. Ralph Willard both died in infancy. The 
family are all members of the Congregational 
Church. 



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ICTOR B. WELLER, M. I)., physi- 
cian and surgeon at Ostrander and 
health officer of Scioto Township, 
was horn at New Dover, Union 
County, Ohio. July 26, [877, and is 
a son of John B. and Emma (Judy) Weller. 
Edward Weller, the paternal grandfather of 
Dr. Weller. was born in England, where he 
married before coming to America ami settling 
at Watkins. Ohio, where he established a 
ery. lie met with better success after re- 
moving i,, Marysville. where he engaged in 
the manufacture of tile in connect ion with that 
of pottery. He died at Marysville. in [884. 



aged 80 years. Of his six children. John B. 
Was the fourth in order of birth. 

John B. Weller was born near Watkins 
and was reared and educated at Marysville, 
where he learned the pottery business with 
his father, hut after the latter's death he did 
not continue the industry, turning his atten- 
tion instead to farming. He is a highly re- 
spected resident of Xew Dover. He served 
three years in the Civil War as a member 
of the Thirty-fourth Regiment. Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantry, and is a valued member of the 
Grand Army of the Republic post at Marys- 
ville. He belongs also to the Odd Fellows and 
.Masonic bodies at Marysville and to the 
Knights of Pythias at New Dover. He mar- 
ried a daughter of Michael Judy, a well-known 
citizen of Peoria, Ohio, and three of their 
four children survive, namely: Victor B.. 
Ethel and Frederick. John B. Weller and 
wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Dr. Weller was educated in the schools of 
Xew Dover and Marysville and read medicine 
under Dr. W. F. White, of the latter place, 
from whose instruction he entered Starling 
Medical College, where he was graduated in 
1901. He settled at New Lewisburg, Cham- 
paign County, Ohio, where he practiced suc- 
cessfully for three years and then came to 
( Istrander, opening his office here July 7. 
11)04. Dr. Weller was very cordially received 
and is in the enjoyment of a large and lucra- 
tive practice. He also immediately won the 
confidence of the public and in the election fol- 
lowing his settlement here, he was elected 
township physician and township health of- 
ficer. He keeps full}' abreast of the times in 
medical science and is a valued member of 
Delaware County. Ohio State Medical Socie- 
ties and of the American Medical Association. 

Dr. Weller married Lid 1 Loveless, who is 
a daughter of William 11. Loveless, of New 
Dover. Dr. and Mr-. Weller had one son. 
John, who died in infancy. Fraternally, Dr. 
Weller is connected with Ostrander Lodge, 
[•". & A. M., Marysville Chapter, R. A. M.. 
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past chancellor of Ostrander Lodge Knights 
of Pythias. lie retains membership in his 
college society, the Phi Sigma Psi Chapter 
at Columbus. lie is identified in politics with 
die Republican party. 




UGH BOYLE McKAY, a well-known 
resident of Eden and a veteran of the 
Civil War, was burn in Greene 
County, Pennsylvania, December 18. 
1840. and is a son of Alexander and 
Maria 1 I '« tyle I McKay. 

The parents of Mr. McKay came to Dela- 
ware County. Ohio, from Washington County. 
Pennsylvania, and settled at Eden, in [852. 
The father was born in Greene County, Penn- 
sylvania, and died in Ohio. June 26, 1878. 
For 25 years he was the postmaster at Eden. 
In 1829 he was married to Maria Boyle, who 
was horn at Alexandria, Virginia, April 3, 
E803. She lived to the unusual age of 96 
years. 45 of which had been spent in Eden. 
She was an honored member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church at this place, having brought 
her letter of admission from the church to 
which she belonged in her former home. Five 
sons and three daughters were born to Alex- 
ander McKay and wife, but two of which 
children now survive — Hugh Boyle and Mrs. 
Mary Dutton. The five sons served in the 
Civil War. two of them meeting a soldier's 
death, namely: John, who died from wounds 
received in battle at Bolivar, Tennessee, and 
Alexander, who was instantly killed at the 
battle of Grand Coteau, Louisiana. The 
others were: Samuel Parker and James P., 
both of whom died in Chicago; Keziah. who 
married Jacob Pettit, and died near Eden; and 
Elizabeth Calista, who died in infancy, in 
Pennsylvania. 

Hugh Boyle McKay was [3 years of age 
when he accompanied his parents to Dela- 
ware County, and he continued to live in 
Brown Township until he first enlisted for 
service in the Civil War. He entered Com- 
pany C, Twelfth Regiment, Illinois Volun- 



teer Infantry, and after completing his first 
term of three months, he re-enlisted in the 
same company, at Gain., [llinois, on the same 
day that he was mustered out. lie took part 
in many of the notable battles of the war. 
was at the capture of Forts Henry and Donel- 
son and fought also at Pittsburg Landing. 
On the second day of the last mentioned bat- 
tle, April 7, 1862, Mr. McKay was shot 
through the hand. Although his injury was 
a serious one. he continued in the service until 
the close of the war, becoming a member 
the Veteran Corps and acting as a proi 
marshal guard. He was honorably dis- 
charged, in 1865, at Gamp Chase, Columbus. 
He then went to the West, making the long 
trip across the plains, and shortly afterward 
began freighting from Leavenworth to New 
Mexico. For 14 years Mr. McKay led almost 
as dangerous and adventurous a life as during 
the war, after which he returned to Ohio and 
settled down at Eden, acquiring the home 
place. 

After his return to Eden from the West. 
Mr. McKay married Mrs. Millie Covner. on 
November 29, 1888. Mrs. McKay was L 
widow- and is a daughter of Ralph and Betsey 
Longwell. who came here as pioneers and 
took up Government land at an early day. Air. 
and Mrs. McKay had one son. Lloyd, who 
died at the age of two years. By her former 
marriage, Mrs. McKay had four children — 
Harry, Maud, Edward and Archie. Mr. Mc- 
Kay is a stanch Republican in politics. He 
is a member of the Grand Army Lost at 
Delaware and of the Knights of Pythias 
Lodge at Eden. 




U'ni! KRONINGER.a representative 

citizen of Delaware Township, where 

he is engaged in general farming and 

truck gardening on his 30-acre farm. 

was born in Delaware Township. 

Delaware County, Ohio, April 20, [856, and 

is a son of John and Elizabeth (Swarrz) 

l\r< minsrer. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



John Kroninger was born in Pennsylvania 
in 1812, ami there learned the trade of black- 
smith. On attaining his majority, he came to 
Delaware Township, and engaged in the 
blacksmith business north of the city of Dela- 
ware, but subsequently removed to Stratford, 
where he also carried on blacksmithing. His 
later years were spent in farming on the east 
side of the river, near Stratford, where his 
death occurred September 24, 1894. By his 
first marriage Mr. Kxoninger had two sons, 
Peter and Hosea, and not long after his first 
wife's death he was married (second) to 
Elizabeth Swartz, by whom he had seven chil- 
dren, six oi whom grew to maturity: James, 

Shelby County, [llinois; George, who re- 
sides at Shepard ; Alvesta, the widow of 
Milo 'Graham; James and Daniel, who live in 
Shell iv County, Illinois; and [Catherine, the 
wife of Charles Grogan, of Delaware, Ohio. 
Mr. Kroninger's third marriage was to Mrs. 
Hannah Stickney, who was the widow of 
Hugh Stickney of Union County. The family 
were members of St. Mark's Lutheran Church 
at Delaware. 

Jacob Kroninger remained on the home 
farm until eleven years of age, and when 
[8 years old returned thereto and managed it 
until his father's death. Since that time Mr. 
Kroninger has owned the farm, which con- 
sists of 30 acres, four or five acres of which 
he devotes to truck. He has over 400 apple 
trees. 100 peach trees. 25 pear trees, and also 
gives much attention to the raising of goose- 
berries, currants, strawberries and quinces. He 
raises from 200 to 300 chickens annually, and 
has been very successful in this industry. 

On May i<X, 1898, Mr. Kroninger was 
married to Mrs. Agnes Brahm. who is the 
widow of Jacob Brahm, and daughter of 
Thomas Luke, of Delaware Township. Three 
children have been horn to them: Robert, 
Raymond and Carrie. By her former mar- 
riage Mrs. Kroninger had three children: 
George, Ethel and Lottie Brahm. Mr. and 
Mrs. Kroninger are members of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church at Stratford. In poli- 
tics, he is a Prohibitionist, but has never cared 
to hold public office. 



AMES A. H. HARTER, a representa- 
tive agriculturist of Delaware County, 
Ohio, who cultivates a fine tract of 
50 acres in Delaware Township, was 
horn on Sugar Run, Delaware Town 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio, October 21, 
[843, and is a son of Henry and Catherine A. 
M. B. (McCutcheon) Darter. 

Andrew Harter, the paternal grandfathei 
of the subject of this sketch, came from 
Northumberland Count)', Pennsylvania, and 
was of Pennsylvania-Dutch stock. On arriv- 
ing in Delaware County he bought the farm 
which is now known as the Peter Weiser farm 
in Delaware Township. Failing to get a good 
deed for it, he lost his property, and then pur- 
chased what is known as the Otho Williams 
farm, where he lived and where his death took 
place in 1846, when he was ripe with years. 
He was the father of two children, James A. 
II. and Mary M. X., the latter of whom makes 
her home with her brother. About tS months 
after her husband's death. Mrs. Harter settled 
on the farm on which James A. H. Harter now 
lives, on which the only building at that time 
was a log cabin. The second year after com- 
ing here. Mrs. Harter erected the present resi- 
dence, and made many other improvements, 
including the building of fences and the plant- 
ing of fruit trees, and here her death occurred 
March 1, 1888. 

fames A. H. Harter secured his education 
in the common schools of Delaware Township, 
and was reared on the farm on which he has 
always lived. The property consists as above 
stated, of 50 acres. 40 of which are under 
cultivation, and Mr. Harter raises large crops 
of corn, oats, wheat and hay, feeding every- 
thing hut wheat. He keeps from six to eight 
head of cattle and eight or ten of hogs. He is 
considered one of the good, practical farmers 
of Delaware Township, and as a man and a 
citizen is held in the highest esteem. In 1865 
or Ah Mr. Harter began running a threshing 
machine, and ran it for about 34 years, without 
missing a season. 

April 16, 1880, Mr. Harter was married to 
Rebecca Ann Fegley, who is the daughter oi 
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Harter attend the Presbyterian Church, which 
liberally. The former's political 
i is with the Republican party, hut he 
r been a politician. 




IOSEPH WILLIAMS SMART was 
long i >ne i if Scii 't' i T iwnship's nn st 
respected citizens, where he owned 
much property and lived a long and 
exemplary lite. lie was born in 
township, Delaware County. Ohio. 
Augusl 17. 1N42. and is a son of Isaac and 
Eliza 1 Williams ) Smart. Lie died November 
1. 1884. Isaac Smart was born on the site 
e present city of Columbus and was a 
pioneer in Scioto Township, where he ac- 
quired a farm in what is called the North 
Wcx 1. lie built there a log house, wisely 
choosing a location near a spring of water, 
and engaged in fanning all his subsequent life. 
He reared a large family. 

ph. Williams Smart was reared on his 
father's farm. When the Civil War was de- 
clared, he enlisted in 1861, entering Company 
K. Sixty-sixth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, and remained in the service three years 
and nine months. He was a brave and capable 
soldier, firmly enduring the many hardships 
and facing the dangers incident to active mili- 
tary life. On two occasions he was wounded, 
first at Cedar Mountain, when s, nne of his 
teeth were shot out, and second at Leach Tree 
Creek, when he received a wound in the hip. 
In [874 Mr. Smart was married to Mary 
Richey. who was born October 11. 1837, and 
who -till survives, in perfect mental and 
physical health. She is a daughter of James 
Richey. a former teacher and a justice of the 
■ ■ f Scioto Township. There were six 
children horn to Mr. and Mrs. Smart, four of 
whom grew to mature years, namely: • Wil- 
liam P.; Edith, who married Edward Slocum; 
James Richey. and Joseph Clay, all residing in 
Scioto Township. The late Joseph Williams 
Smart was a worthy member of the old Stone 
Presbyterian Church at South Radnor, and 
was one of its trustees. Mrs. Smart belongs 
to the Presbyterian Church at Ostrander. 



Mr. Smart bought his first farm after his 
marriage and during his lifetime owned 1 
different farm, buying a large one at each 
change. He carried on general farming and 
raised stock. In his early years of manhood, 
he voted with the Democratic party hut in late; 
years he became a Prohibitionist. He was a 
kind and affectionate husband, a careful father 
and on honorable member of his community. 




M. A\ ERY, until recently cashier of 
the Deposit Banking Company, at 
Delaware, which position he resigned 
April 1. [908, belongs to one of the 
old pioneer families 1 f Delaware 
< bunty. He was born at Delaware. Delaware 
County, Ohio, in 1871, and is a son of the 
late Jasper Avery. Judge Frederick Avery, 
the grandfather of R. M. Avery, was one of 
the earliest settlers of Delaware County, where 
he became a man of great prominence. He 
served as judge on the Common Pleas bench 
and was one of the political factors of his 
day. Lor man)- years he was an active pro- 
moter of the "underground railway," making 
his home a secret station for fugitive slaves. 
Jasper Avery, father of the subject of this 
sketch, was engaged in farming- through his 
earlier life, but for a long period preceding 
his death was associated with the V. T. Hills 
Company. 

R. M. Avery was graduated from the Dela- 
ware High School in 1888, and in the fall of 
the same year he entered the employ of the 
Deposit Banking Company, as a messenger. 
His fidelity and efficiency were rewarded by 
consecutive promotions until in 180,8 he was 
elected cashier. His recent resignatii m from 
this position has been mentioned above. He is 
a member of the Board of Directors and a 
stockholder in the institution. In 1899, R. 
.M. Avery was married to Daisy Seegar. who 
is a daughter of Dr. Seegar. of Logan County, 
Ohio. They have one child. Florence. Mr. 
and Mrs. Avery are members of the William 
Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. 
Avery being church treasurer. Fraternally, he 
is connected with the Knights of Pythias and 
the Elks. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 




LLEX V. GILLET, general farmer 
and representative citizen of Marl- 
borough Township, where he owns 

an excellent farm of 175 acres, which 
is well adapted to the growing of all 
the grains of this climate, is a native of Marl- 
borough Township, Delaware Comity, Ohio, 
where he was -born February 6, 1857. He is 
a son of Harvey and Elizabeth ( Baker) Gillet. 
The late Harvey Gillet was one of Marl- 
borough's most prominent and esteemed citi- 
zens. He was born in Ohio, while his parents 
were making the journe) from Connecticut. 
His father. Joseph Gillet, was a pioneer set- 
tler in .Marlborough Town-hip, locating in this 
section before the native forest had been 
cleared off. Harvey Gillet was reared in the 
log cabin home and the few educational ad- 
vantages he had in boyhood, were obtained in 
the district schools. llis whole active life 
was passed in this township, which he served 
in many offices of responsibility, being a 
trustee and member of the School Hoard. He 
was also a liberal supporter of the church and 
was ever willing to further plans made for the 
public welfare. He was identified with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Norton and 
served as the superintendent of its Sunday 
school tor a long period. His kindness and 
charity were known far and wide and there are 
many today who still can recall his helpfulness 
when they needed assistance. He was a mem- 
ber of the lodge of Odd bellows at Westfield, 
Ohio. He married Elizabeth Baker, who was 
born in Ohio and who died April 9, [895. 

Mien V. (iillet was reared on bis father's 
farm in Marlborough Township and he ob- 
tained liis education in the common schools. 
I le lias resided on his present farm since 1904, 
although his whole life, with the exception of 
a short period passed 111 Waldo Township, has 
been spent in Marlborough Township. Like 
his father and also his brother. Harlos Gi 
let, who is a large farmer ami stock-raiser at 
Xorton Station, Allen Y. Gillet is a stanch 
Republican, having supported the candid 
-if that party since coming to manhood. 

On February <>. [882, Mr. (iillet was mar- 
ried to Eva II. Smith, who is a daughtei 
the late Calvin Smith, of Oxford Township, 



and they have two children: Fay and Cloice 
A. For the past 20 years, Mr. Gillet has been 
a member of Lenape Lodge. No. 29, Knights 
of Pythias, at Delaware. 



IS. EMMA 
GRIFFITH, 

magnificent 



CHAMBFRLA1X- 
residing on her 
farm of over 500 
acres, situated in Delaware T wn- 
ship, is one of the best-known and 
v esteemed residents of this section. 
Mrs. Griffith was born in Rome Township. 




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Lawrence County, Ohio, October 



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and is a daughter of John O. and Sarah Naomi 
(Coulter) Miller. 

Mrs. Griffith remained at home with her 
parents until her marriage, attending the town- 
ship schools and becoming skilled in all house- 
wifely arts. On July 21, 1887, she was mar- 
ried (first) to John Henry Chamberlain, who 
was born in Delaware County, in June. [839, 
and who died March 7, 1896. He was a son 
of William and Mary (Gardner) Chamber- 
lain, and a grandson of Justus Chamberlain, 
who was a captain in the War of t8l2. In 
the same year, William Chamberlain was born 
in Xew England and was seven years of age 
when he accompanied his parents to Delaware 
County. The family settled on the farm that 
Mrs. Griffith now owns. It originally con- 
tained 135 acres, to which a quantity of land 
has been added through wise . investments. 
John 1 1. Chamberlain was the only child of his 
parents and inherited the home property, which 
lie increased to ^y^ acres. He was an edu- 
cated, well-read men. having been a student 
at the Ohio Western University. He left 
two children: William Miller, wdio was born 
November 29, 1888. He was a student in 
Delaware High School, but bad to give up 
school when within two months of gradu; 
on account of his eyes giving out: and M; 
born December 11. iS<)i, a student in the 
Delaware High School, class of [909 

Mr. Chamberlain took a keen practical 
interest in agriculture, and was very success- 
ful, always giving much credit to his capable 
wife for her good judgment and executive 




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ability. He was a member of the William 
Street Methodist Episcopal Church at Dela- 
ware. 

( )n March 31, [897, Mrs. Chamberlain was 
married to Thomas E. Griffith. Mr. Griffith 
was horn in South Wale-. August 7. 1867, 
and was educated in Llandovery College. His 
father. Thomas Evan Griffith, was a Welsh 
Esquire, who owned an estate of 2,700 acres. 
on which he raised sheep, and Thomas grew 
up 111 the sheep and cattle business. Prior to 
[892, when he came to America, he had been 
superintendent of his father'-- estate. After 
visiting the great Columbian Exposition, at 
Chicago. Mr. Griffith engaged in farming in 
Delaware Township, and in [897, after his 
marriage with Mrs. Chamberlain, took charge 
of her many farm and stock interests. The 
acreage has been increased and 200 acres are 
given to pasturage, while 300 acres are culti- 
vated. No products of the farm are sold, ex- 
cept stock and cattle, milk and wheat. Mr. 
and Mrs. Griffith keep j^ head of cattle. 
among them being a number of full-blood Ter- 
se} s, milk about 50 cows and sell to the cream- 
ery. They have three registered stallions and 
raise both draft and trotting horses, keeping 
jo head on hand all the time. Many Berk- 
shire bogs are also raised. Only persons of 
thorough knowledge and much experience 
could successfully manage so large a stock and 
dairy farm as this, making it what it is — one 
of the most successful enterprises of Delaware 
Township. Both Mr. and Mrs. Griffith are 
members of the William Street Methodist 
Episcopal Church. In politics. Mr. Griffith 
is a Republican, but he takes no very active 
interest in public matters. 




APT. ELIAS COLE, who was for 

many years one of the best known 

and most highly respected citizens 

of Ashley, Delaware County. Ohio, 

was born in Troy Township, this 

county. September 4. 1834. His parents were 

Hugh and Mary (Main) Cole, bf.ch natives 

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of Delaware County. His paternal grand- 
father was Joseph Cole, a native of Virginia, 
w h 1 fi night against Great Britain in the War 
of 1812. 

Elias Cole was reared to man's estate in 
Delaware County. Ohio, acquiring his literary 
education in the public schools of Marlborough 
Township, and at the same time receiving his 
industrial training on his father's farm. He 
was married in [856, and engaged in agricul- 
ture, gradually turning his attention, however, 
chiefly to the breeding of merino sheep, the 
raising of Plymouth Rock poultry, and to bee 
culture, soon becoming one of the best known 
apiarists in the county. 

The even tenor of his life was. however, 
interrupted by the Civil War. Feeling his 
country's call to be paramount to any con- 
siderations of self-interest, he enlisted, in 
April, 1861. in Company C, Twenty-sixth 
Regiment. ( ). V. I., in which he served for 
over three years, being honorably discharged 
in July. 1804. with the rank of captain. Dur- 
ing his service in the army he kept a journal 
in which he recorded from day to day all 
interesting events, and which was subsequently 
printed. From it we find that he left Ashley, 
April 22. 1861, for three months' service, was 
detained at Delaware with the other recruits, 
where the work of drilling commenced. On 
the 24th. word being received that the requi- 
sition for three months' men was filled, the 
company disbanded, and immediately reor- 
ganized as a company of minutemen, the dril- 
ling being continued while awaiting orders 
from the Governor. Xews of the acceptance 
of the company was received, and on June 15. 
after bidding farewell to their assembled 
friends, they set out for Camp Chase, near 
Columbus. Here they elected officers and the 
work of drilling was continued. On the 29th 
Mr. Cole was visited in camp by his wife and 
some friends, with whom, having obtained 
leave of absence, he spent the rest of that clay 
and part of Sunday, the 30th. The interval 
between this date and August 1 st was spent 
mainly in camp, in drilling and doing guard 
duty. On August 1. the regiment, under com- 
mand of Colonel E. R. Fyffe, took train for 



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Cincinnati, where late that night they were 
transferred to the steamer J. 11. Done, bound 
up the river for Point Pleasant, Virginia, ami 
soon found themselves in rebel territory. 

On August 10, while on a march from 
Charleston. Virginia, to Summerville, James 
Cole, a brother of the subject of this sketch, 
lost his life by the accidental discharge of a 
gun. August 28th the force to which the 
regiment was attached was attacked by the 
enemy and several guards were killed. < hi 
September 3, another slight brush occurred 
with the enemy on which occasion, however, 
the latter were the sufferers. From this time 
on there were plenty of alarms and skirmishes, 
and the regiment sustained some slight losses. 
In the latter part oi September the regiment 
became attached to General Rosecrans' com- 
mand. About a month later Mr. Cole was 
taken sick and came under the doctor's care. 
December 24, Mr. Cole, in company with an- 
other soldier. John Black, was detailed to go 
to Ohio on recruiting duty, and accordingly 
started next morning, going by way of Cin- 
cinnati and Columbus and reaching home De- 
cember 29. Some time was spent in visiting- 
friends and attending parties, and on Januarj 
16 the men set out to rejoin their regiment, 
which had been ordered to Louisville. Ken- 
tucky. On March 8, they marched for Nash- 
ville, where they arrived on the 12th. On the 
29th they left that place, and on April 4. 
while en route to Savannah, were attacked, 
with the 17th Indiana by a body of 800 rebel 
cavalry, whom they routed, taking seven pris- 
oners, On the 8th they arrived at Savannah, 
where they saw plenty of evidences of the re- 
cent battle 1 of Shiloh ), the ground being cov- 
ered with dead rebels. 

Mr. Cole's journal gives a lively and de- 
tailed account of each day's experiences — the 
duties performed, the movements of the regi- 
ment, with numerous incidents illustrating the 
fatigues, hardships, occupations, disappoint- 
ments, and successes of a soldier's Hie in war 
time. Here and there is a bit of homely but 
faithful description of a line sunset or a pic- 
turesque landscape, showing in the writer a 
keen appreciation on' the beauties of nature, 



even when seen under adverse conditions. It 
would be impossible in the space here available, 
to do more than briefly refer to the more im- 
portant incidents of Mr. Cole's three years of 
service. He seems to have attracted the notice 
of his officers for his capacity and faithful per- 
formance of duty, for on December 17th he 
was appointed regimental postmaster. The 
Twenty-sixth was highly commended by 
Brigadier-General Wood for its efficiency in 
marching and manoeuvering and his gallantry 
in action. It took part in the fighting at Mur- 
freesboro, during which time, however, Mr. 
Cole was absent in Nashville on postal busi- 
ness. 

From time to time we read of his forward- 
ing money home, of company, brigade, and di- 
vision drills, of reviews by General Rosecrans. 
On July 7 and S salutes were fired in honor 
of the Union victories at Gettysburg and 
Vicksburg. On August 12, we find Mr. Cole, 
who is still regimental postmaster, writing a 
letter to the Delaware Gazette. After si >me 
long marches and the crossing of the Cumber- 
land Mountains, in the ascent of which the 
men had to help in pulling - up teams and half- 
loaded wagons, we find the note: "After 
crossing the Cumberland Mountains I conclude 
not to dispute the fact that Bonaparte did 
cross the Alps, but am well satisfied he never 
crossed the Cumberland." 

On September 9th they were at Chatta- 
nooga, where they saw some rebels, and a few 
days later they lost several men in a skirmish. 
On the 19th the regiment took part in the 
bloody battle of Chickamauga, in which it 
was much cut up. losing over 60 per cent, of 
the men in killed and wounded. Sergeant 
Cole received a gun-shot wound in the right 
shoulder. On October 22. he was granted a 
furlough and started for home. After a pleas- 
ant month spent in visiting his friends and in 
recuperating his health, during which time. 
however, he lost the opportunity of participat- 
ing with the regiment in the famous assault 
1 n Mission Ridge, he set out to rejoin his 
regiment. Before doing so he visited the bat- 
tlefields of Mission Ridge and Lookout Moun- 
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the Twenty-sixth, as a part of Thomas's com- 
mand, set out with Sherman on the famous 
march to Atlanta. Previous to this, however, 
most of the men had been mustered out and 
had re-enlisted as veteran's. Mr. Cole, with a 
numbei 01 others, had not re-enlisted, but 
the) were hot yet dismissed, and accordingly 
started on the Atlanta campaign. They ac- 
companied the regiment to Resaca, Georgia, 
and thence to Adairsville. New Hope Church, 
l'icketts Mills, Ackworth, Lust Mountain, 
Mti'l'h Creek. Kenesaw . and Marietta. 
Georgia" which they reached July 3d, soon after 
coming in sight of Atlanta. On the I2th the 

i r for the return of the non-veterans to the 
rear, to he mustered out of the service, was 
received, and on the next day they left the 
cam]), hound for home. On the 25th they 
were mustered out of the service at Chatta- 
nooga, and five days later Mr. Cole found 
himself once more in the bosom of his family, 
his service in the war for the Union having 
la-ted three years, two months, and twenty- 
five days. Events now pointed to the ap- 
proaching dissolution of the Confederacy, ami 
Mr. Cole no longer deemed it his duty to en- 
gage in further military service. He resumed 
agricultural pursuits, gradually turning his at- 
tention more and more to sheep raising, and to 
bee and poultry culture, as already noted else- 
where in this article. He gained a wide repu- 
tation for the excellence of his merino sheep 
and his Plymouth fowls. He continued suc- 
cessfully engaged in these occupations up to 
the time of his death, which occurred October 
8. i8 93; 

In his demise the county lost one of its 
most progressive and respected citizens — one 
who had always had the best interests of the 
community at heart. He was for some years 
one of Marlborough Township's most useful 
and popular officials, serving at different times 
as justice of the peace, assessor and town treas- 
urer, h politics he was a Republican. He 
was a prominent member of the Masonic order 
in this \icinity. being made a Mason in Lodge 
407. al Ashley, August 18, [869. Of this 

•■ he was a charter member. Passing 
through the intervening- degree-, he became a 



Royal Arch Mason in March. [871. At dif- 
ferent times he was Master of Ashlev Lodge. 
He kept in touch with his old time military 
comrades as a member of the Union Veteran 
Legion of Delaware, and of the Regimental 
Association, of which he was elected president 
in August, 1893. In [890 Captain Cole was 
elected count}' treasurer, and after serving one 
term, was re-elected. His death took place 
shortly before the close of his second term in 
this office. For many years Captain Cole was 
an earnest and consistent member of Marl- 
borough Baptist Church. The Ohio Soldier 
of June • 30.- 1897. said of him: "Comrade 
Cole was in some respects a remarkable man, 
quiet and unassuming, hut possessed many ac- 
complishments. He was a good soldier and a 
true Christian gentleman. He completed his 
three years" service, not by inherent strength of 
body, but by quiet determination to do so, 
and by carefully abstaining from all excesses, 
saving his strength for supreme moments of 
fatigue and exposure. A more careless man, 
or. one addicted to excesses, would have been 
compelled to yield, or more likely would have 
d.ied before the expiration of his term of ser- 
vice." 

For the purposes of reference we append a 
table of the distances travelled by the Twenty* 
sixth Regiment. O. V. L; also Captain Cole's 
Masonic Record : 

DISTANCES TRAVELLED BY THE TWEXTY-SIXTH 
REGIMEXT, O. V. I. 

Miles. 
Camp Chase to Cincinnati (by rail) .... 1 10 
Cincinnati to Charleston. \Y. Va. (Wa- 
ter) -. 270 

Charleston to Sewall Mountain 77 

Sewall Mountain to Fayetteville 55 

Fayetteville to Loop Creek 22 

Loo]) Creek- to Louisville, ECy. 1 water). 440 

Louisville to Bardstown 39 

Bardstown to Glenbrook 43 

Glenbrook to Munfordsville 10 

Munfordsville to Howling Green 42 

Bowling Green to Tennessee line 2~ 

Tennessee line to Nashville 39 

Nashville to Columbia, Tenn (.0 



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Columbia to Savannah, Tenn '80 

Savannah to Pittsburg Landing ( water) 10 

Pittsburg Landing to Corinth, Miss. . . . 28 

Corinth to Alabama line 30 

Alabama line to Florence 30 

Florence to Huntsville 79 

Huntsville to Shelbyville, Tenn 57 

Shelbyville to Dechard 35 

Dechard to Fayetteville and back jj 

Dechard to top of Cumberland Mts. ... jt, 

Cumberland Alts, to Murfreesboro 55 

Murfreesboro to Nashville 30 

Nashville to Bowling Green, via Gal- 
latin 73 

Bowling Green to Munfordsville 42 

Munfordsville to Louisville, via West 

Point 76 

Louisville to Bardstown, via Fairfield.. 43 

Bardstown to near Camp Dick Robinson 51 

Camp Dick Robinson to Wild Cat 46 

Wild Cat to Silver Spring, Tenn., via 

Crab Orchard 196 

Silver Spring to Nash\ ille 20 

Nashville to Murfreesboro 30 

Murfreesboro to foot of Cumberland 

Mountains, via Manchester 53 

Foot to foot of Cumberland Mountains, 

via Tracy 36 

Foot of Cumberland Mountains to Chat- 
tanooga, via Shellmound 53 

Chattanooga to Chickamauga, Ga -'3 

( hickamauga to Chattanooga, via Ross- 

ville 14 

Chattanooga to Knoxville and Straw- 
berry Plains and return 357 

Chattanooga to Columbus, ( )hio, and re- 
turn to Charleston, Tenn. ( rail ) . . . . 1310 

Charleston to Kingston, Ga 95 

Kingston to Kenesaw, via Xew Hope, 

etc 66 

Kenesaw to (amp south of Chattahoo- 
chee River 20 

Chattahoochee River to Marietta 11 

Marietta to Chattanooga ( rail ) [18 

Chattanooga to Columbus and Ashley. 

Ohio ( rail ) 659 

T ital 5202 






SUMMARY. 

Marched 22j$ 

B) rail 2203 

1 >y water 726 

Total 5202 

The above is exclusive of all scouts, forag- 
ing expeditions, etc., of the Twenty-sixth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry in its three years' service. 
Trips by rail were made in freight and cattle 
cars, and by water were deck passage. 

CAPTAIN COLE'S MASONIC RECORD. 

Aug. [8, [869 — Was this day made a Ma- 
son in the E. A. M. degree in Lodge No. 407. 
Ashley, Ohio; J. F. Doty, acting W. Mas- 
ter. 

Sept. 29, [869 — Was this day passed to 
Fellow Ira ft degree ; Brother J. F. Dotv. act- 
ing W. M. 

Nov. 3, [869 — This day raised to the sub- 
lime degree of Master Mason, with Brother 
Worshipful Master Sidney Moore in the East. 

Feb. 3, 1871 — Promoted to the more hon- 
orable degree of Mark Master, and passed to 
the degree of Pasl Master. Brother Sidney 
Mo, .re. Most Excellent High Priest. 

March 3, 1871 — Admitted to the degree of 
.Most Excellent Master; Brother Sidney 
Mi ore, Most Excellent High Priest. 

March 14, 1871 — Exalted to the sublime 
and honorable degree of a Royal Arch Mason. 
Comrade Sidney Moore, Most Excellent High 
Priest. 

Mr. Cole was married January 31. [856, 
to Catherine Black, who was born in Marl- 
borough Township, "Delaware County. Ohio, 
June 4. 1835. a daughter of Christian and 
Phebe ( Elliott) Black. Mrs. Cole's father was 
a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother of 
Delaware County, Ohio. Mr. ami Mrs. Cole 
were the parents of nine children, of whom 
there are six now living. They are as fol- 
li >ws : 

Charles, who is a resident of Novinger, 
Missouri; Milo, residing at Queen City, that 



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: Burton, who is a resident of Marl- 
borough Township; Luis, wife of Eugene 
Nash, of Delaware, Ohio; Katie, wife of Wil- 
liam 1 per, residing al Marion, Ohio; Elias 
).. who is a resident of Alton. Kansas. The 
three deceased are Fred, Mary and Velorus. 
Mrs. Elias Cole -till survives her husband 
and resides in Marlborough Township, where 
-In- owns over 70 acres of excellent land. She 
is a member of Marlborough Baptist Church, 
to which her husband belonged and has taken 
an active part in its works of charity and Chris- 
tian usefulness. The mother of a worthy 
family, all the members of which show the re- 
sults of her careful training", she has well 
performed her part in the most sacred relations 
of life, and now lives honored and respected 
as she is widely known in the community 
where she has so long had her home. 




RAY H. CARR, president of the Os- 
strander Banking Company, and 
a prominent citizen of Ostrander, 
U was horn on the old Carr home- 
stead in Scioto Township, Dela- 
ware County. Ohio, September .20, i860, and 
is a son of Gideon S. and Elizabeth ( Ander- 
son) Carr. 

The paternal grandfather was Solomon 
Carr. 1 orn in 1775. who came to Scioto Town- 
ship in [817, and in company with James Lig- 
gett and George Bean, also from Hardy 
County. Virginia, now West Virginia, in- 
vested in 600 acres of wild land. The first 
night after completing this purchase the 
friends spent with a fourth friend named Hin- 
ton, who suggested that he be appointed to 
apportion the land, and. the plan was accepted 
and the land was divided by him into four 
part-. Solomon Carr received 150 acres, and 
that part of Ostrander lying north of North 
Street stands on a portion of the original Carr 
place. Solomon Carr died in 1847. He mar- 
ried a sister of George Bean and they reared a 
number of children and through marriage and 
inter-marriage, the Carr family is connected 
with many of the leading ones in this section. 



Solomon Carr was born in 1775 and died in 
[847. Priscilla Carr was horn in 1783 and 
died in [862. 

Gideon S. Carr was born on the farm 
which hi- father settled, in [821, and died 
on the same place in [898. lie followed an 
agricultural life. Most of the improving was 
done during his possession of the property, 
nearly all of the substantial buildings having 
been planned and erected by him. lie mar- 
ried Elizabeth Anderson and thev had four 
children, namely: Emma, who married J. ( . 
Faulkner; S. T., residing at Ostrander; Wray 
H. ; ami Homer, who died in infancy. Gideon 
S. Carr and wife were members of the Baptist 
Church and were active in all its helpful 
nicies. 

Wray H. Carr supplemented the education 
he received in the public schools of Ostrander 
with a business course at a commercial college 
at Delaware. He continued to operate the 
home farm in Scioto Township, which became 
his own property, until 10,06, carrying on ex- 
tensive operations. Since January, 1904. he 
has been president of The Ostrander Banking 
Company, of which he was one of the organ- 
izers. This institution is in a prosperous con- 
dition, at the present time (1908) having re- 
sources of $50,000, with savings deposits of 
about $75,000. The business has always been 
conducted along conservative lines and flurries 
in Wall Street or in other financial centers have 
no power to disturb its usual quiet and sale 
business course. 

Mr. Carr was married (first) to Lillie 
Crayton, who was a daughter of J. A. Cray- 
ton, of Westerville. She is survived by two 
children: Howard, residing at Columbus, and 
Lillie. at home. Mr. Carr was married (sec- 
ond) to Elizabeth Crayton. also a daughter 
of J. A. Crayton. Mr. and Mrs. Carr are 
members of the United Brethren Church at 
Ostrander. in which he is a trustee. 

Mr. Carr is a stanch Republican and has 
been a trustee of Scioto Township for the past 
seven year-. lie belong- to Ostrander Lodge, 
No. 594, F. & A. M., and of Edinburg L 
No. 4(17. Odd Fellows, of which he i- past 
grand. 



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HARLES M. SHIVELY. a general 
fanner and stock-raise? of Delaware 
County, Ohio, who has been promi- 
nently identified with the agricul- 
tural and public interests of Dela- 
ware Township, was born August 4, 1865, in 
Delaware, Ohio, and is a son of John and 
Eliza B. (Cooke) Shively. 

John Shively was horn in Fairfield County, 
Ohio, January 12. 1824. and in his native place 
followed the trade of carpenter until coming 
to Delaware, Ohio, over half a century ago. 
at which time there were hut twelve houses 
here. He engaged in the coopering business 
in a small way, and it so increased in volume 
that he was forced to employ from seven to 
ten hand-, and his barrels were shipped all 
over the State of Ohio. The last 25 years of 
his life were spent on the farm now occupied 
by his son, Charles M., and here he erected 
the comfortable brick residence. He was a 
veteran of the 145th Regiment, Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantry, and was connected with the 
Grand Army of the Republic. Prior to the 
war. Air. Shively was a Democrat, hut after 
its termination he became a Republican. Mr. 
Shively was married to Eliza B. Cooke, who 
was a daughter of Isaac Cooke, and to them 
11 children were born. 10 of whom grew to 
maturity, namely: Mrs. Alary Barry, now 
deceased; Edward \\\. who resides in Spo- 
kane, Washington; John \Y., who is deceased; 
Silas ('., who lives in Radnor Township; Al- 
fred, oi Kingston Township; Franklin B., a 
resident of Delaware; Anna May, who mar- 
James Grubb, of Delaware: Charles Al.; and 
William and Lewis X.. both of Delaware. 
Airs. Shively died September 28, [896, aged 
65 years. She and her husband were both 
members of the United Brethren Church, but 
there being no church of that denomination 
in their locality. Air. Shively attended the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Stratford, 
where he acted in the capacity of Sunday 
scho '1 teacher and class [eadei 

Charles AI. Shively was reared in the city 
of Delaware, and there attended the public 
schools, lie has always lived on the farm of 
his father since its purchase by the latter, with 



the exception of a period of seven years, dur- 
ing which it was carried on by his brother 
William. The property, which consists of 62 
acres, does not suffice for his extensive opera- 
tions and consequently he rents the James R. 
Lvtle farm and several other tracts, devoting 
about 50 acres to corn, 70 acres to hay. 25 
acres to oats and 25 acres to wheat. He has 
given much attention to the breeding of regis- 
tered Poland China and Jersey Red hogs, of 
which he raises about 100 annually, and he 
also has 12 Jersey dairy cows, selling his milk 
ti ' a creamer)'. In addition he raises French 
draft horses, and about 150 sheep. In addition 
to his fine residence. Air. Shively has two ex- 
cellent barns, one 40x50 feet with 14-foot 
posts and sheds, and the other 45x22 feet 
with 22-foot posts. He is a good practical 
agriculturist and excellent business man. and 
is held in high esteem by all who know him. 
Air. Shively was united in marriage with 
Mary P.. Miller, who is the daughter of Henry 
and Eliza (Frye) Aliller, and to this union 
there have been born four suns, namely : 
Ernest A P. horn February 1. 1.889; Chauncey 
P.. born March 17, 1890; Bert AP. born Au- 
gust iv [892; and Charles R.. born October 
10. 1898. 

Airs. Shively has been a member of the 
Presbyterian Church for 25 years, and Air. 
Shively's religious connections are also with 
this body, but formerly he was a member of 
the C. li. Church. 




OHN C. WALLACE, a representative 

agriculturist of Troy Township and a 
well-known breeder of Short I lorn 
cattle and American Delaine and Me- 
rino sheep, registered stock, is one oi 
the township's most enterprising and prog 
sive men. lie was born December 14. 1 
in Troy Township, Delaware County, Ohio, 
ami is a son of Richard and Jane (Calloway) 
Wallace. 

The father of Air. Wallace was born in 
Belmont County, Ohio, in 1833, being a son 
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from Scotland. Richard Wallace was nine 
years old when the family settled in the north- 
ern-part of Troy Township, where John Wal- 
lace and wile died. Richard Wallace married 
Jane Galloway, who was horn in Scotland. 
lie \\a^ residing with his son, John C, at the 
time of his death. March 1. 1908. During- his 
active years he served as township trustee and 
for many years as justice of the peace. His 
surviving children are: Elizabeth J., who 
married William E. Gallant, residing in Dela- 
ware Township; John C. ; James E.. residing 
at Trinidad. Colorado: and Robert A., resid- 
ing at Cumberland City, Tennessee, where he 
is postmaster. 

John C. Wallace was reared in Tro} 
Township and completed his education at the 
Ohio Business College, Delaware, where he 
was graduated in 1880. For about 20 years 
be was engaged in manufacturing drain tile, 
and (in addition to farming) operated a saw- 
mill, but both the above mentioned industries 
he has abandoned. He has two valuable 
farms in Troy Township, aggregating 22J 
acres, and he devotes the greater part of his 
attention to raising fine sheep, and also, since 
[897, to raising registered Short Horn cattle. 

Mr. Wallace was married, December 29, 
[886, to Emma Anson, who was born at Cleve- 
land, and is a daughter of Edmund Anson, 
a native of England, who is now residing in 
Delaware Township. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace 
have three children — Galen A.. Florence (I. 
and Mary K. 

For five years Mr. Wallace served as a 
member of Company K. Fourteenth Regiment. 
Ohio National Guards. He takes an active 
part in township affairs and served four years 
as treasurer of Troy Township and several 
years as township clerk. He and his wife 
are members oi the Presbyterian Church. 



W < )!'■ IK (WALD, a well-known citi- 
zen of Marlborough Township, 
ware Count}". Ohio, owns an excellent 
propert) of i7-''_> acres, on which he 
has resided, with the exception of a 
short time, since 1850. Mr. Howald was born 




July 25, 1838. in Canton Berne, Switzerland, 
and is a son of Andrew and Fannie (Lantz) 
I h>wald. 

.Mr. 1 low aid lived in bis native country 
until reaching the age of ten years, when with 
his parents he came to America, the family 
living tor two years in Licking County, < (hi >. 
whence they subsequently came to Delaware 
County, locating in a log cabin in the woods 
of Marlborough Township. Young Howald 
received bis education in the district schools, 
after which he engaged in agriculture, in 
which occupation he has continued up to the 
present time, being the owner of a line trad of 
1 72 'A acres of fertile land. In partnership 
with his son. John C. Howald, he is exten- 
sively engaged in breeding the famous De- 
laine sheep, and is one 1 f the best known men 
in this line of industry in the township. 

Jacob Howald was married to Nancy May- 
field, who is a daughter of the late James May- 
field of Marlborough Township, and there 
were six children born of this union, namely: 
Frank E., a well-known medical practitioner 
of Atlanta, Georgia; John C. ; and James A., 
who lives in Marlborough township, and is 
engaged in farming: and three others who 
died in infancy. 

Mr. 1 |o\\ aid i< a stanch Republican in poli- 
tics, and for some years served as trustee of 
Marlborough Township. He is a faithful 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
of Norton. Ohio, of which he has served for a 
number of years as trustee. Progressive and 
public-spirited in a high degree. Mr. Howald 
is an industrious and useful citizen, and justly 
deserves the high esteem in which he is held 
by his fellow -townsmen. 

John C. Howald, son of Jacob, was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Marlborough 
Township and at Michael's Commerc 
lege at Delaware. < »hio. I le owns a gi od farm 
of 131 acres, carries on general farming, and 
is extensively engaged in sheep raising. Like 
his father be is a stanch adherent 1 f the prin- 
ciples of the Republican party, and is 
serving his first term as township trustei 
Marlborough Township, which he has also 
represented at a unity o ;i\ entii 
[893 to [897 Mr. Howald resided at Atlanta. 



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Georgia, where he was a charter member and 
secretary of the first white Republican Mc- 
Kinley Club to be organized in the State. He 
is a member ol the Methodist Episcopal 
Church at Norton, Ohii 1. 



\RRY J. JAMISON, a well-known 
citizen and leading horse breeder of 
Delaware Township, was horn No- 
vember 22, 1865, in Delaware Town- 
ship, Delaware County. Ohio, and is 
a son of George W. and Mary (Nye) Jami- 

Si 'It. 

Robert Jamison, the great-grandfather of 
Harry J., was a native of Pennsylvania, who 
came to Delaware Township, Delaware Coun- 
ty. Ohio, in 1811, and settled in the wilder- 
ness as a pioneer. He was here engaged in 
farming until the outbreak of the War of 
[812, when he enlisted therein and served 
faithfully. His death occurred on the old 
homestead, which was built by him on the east 
side of the river, and which is still standing, 
in [840, aged 72 years. He married Esther 
Baird, who was a native of Virginia, and she 
died in [852, aged 82 years. 

James M. Jamison, grandfather of Harry J., 
was born in the "Pan-Handle" district, in Vir- 
ginia, March 4, 1808. and came with his par- 
ents to Delaware Township, remaining on the 
old home farm until [866. In that year he re- 
moved to Delaware, where his death occurred. 
In [835 he was married to Elizabeth High, 
who was born in Berks County. Pennsylva- 
nia, 111 [816, and was a daughter of Benjamin 
High, who came to Delaware County in 1832 
and settled two miles m tiIi 1 >f 1 )elaware, where 
he died 111 [834. Mr. and Mrs. Jamison had a 
family of eight children, two of whom died in 
infancy. By hard work and many sacrifices. 
three daughters — Angeline, Esther and Mil- 
lie — qualified as teachers, .-mil each had taught 
school about five years when they married. 
Angeline married George Martz; Esther mar- 
ried Jacob Marl/ of Darke County, Ohio; and 
Millie became the wife 1 1" William McGugin, 
one of the proprietors of the Olive Furnace, in 



Lawrence County. ( >f the other children. An- 
nie Eliza died in 1876, and George W and 
Robert 1'.. graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan 
University in 1870- 

George W. Jamison, father of Harry J., 
was born January 18, 1841, in Delaware 
Township, Delaware Count}-, Ohio, and until 
13 years of age was employed on the home 
farm. At this time he removed to Darke 
County, Ohio, and was employed in the Court 
I louse at Greenville, as a clerk in the treas- 
urer's and clerk's offices, for about six years. 
At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted 
at Greenville in the Eleventh Regiment, Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, serving his term of three 
months. In the same year he enlisted from 
Delaware County, in Company E, Sixty-sixth 
Regiment, Ohio A r olunteer Infantry, as a pri- 
vate, but was made sergeant on the organiza- 
tion of the regiment. He participated in all 
the movements of his regiment until Novem- 
ber, 1862, when with about 800 other sick and 
wounded soldiers he was taken to Fairfax 
Seminar)-, Virginia, where his mother came to 
nurse him, and where he remained about two 
weeks. He was then transferred to Bellevue 
Hospital, New York, and remained there un- 
der Mrs. Jamison's care about four weeks, 
when he received an hororable discharge and 
returned home. Soon thereafter he went out 
with the Fifty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry as sutler, and remained about eight 
months, and on his return went to Greenville, 
wdiere he filled the position of agent for the 
t olumbus & Indianapolis Central Railroad for 
about [8 ni' nths. At the end of this time Mr. 
Jamison came to Delaware County, where he 
was occupied in [arming and stock raising un- 
til his death, May [9, 1902. In [864 he was 
married to Mary J. Nye, who was a daughter 
of William Nye, who came to Delaware 
County in [832, and two children were born 
to them — Harry John and Mary Nye. Mary 
Nye married James Duckworth of Orange 
Township, Delaware Count}-, in 1890. and to 
them was born one daughter, Darline, who is 
now living with her uncle, Harry J., and at- 
tending High school, her mother having died 
in icj<>4, at the age of 33 years. 







MR. wi, MRS. DAVID BUSH 



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Harry J. Jamison was roared in the home 
farm, and remained at home until 1895, when 
he removed to Ins present stock farm, where 
lie raises stock, road horses being his favor- 
ite. From his boyhood Air. Jamison has been 
fond dI' horses ami engaged extensively in 
breeding them. I lis first colt, "Belle (asset." 
was bred by his father, and was taken by 
Harry J. Jamison when she was one year old, 
in [889. She retired with a record of 1 3/<4- 
Mr. Jamison now owns the trotting stallion 
"Hesperus 34379," and a number of cults by 
him — the fastest horse ewer brought into this 
section of the State, with a record of 2:09^, 
bought by .Mr. Jamison when a yearling and 
developed by him. Hesperus is the sire of a 
number of fast horses. Mr. Jamison is ac- 
knowledged to he one of the best judges of 
Horse flesh in the county, and his advice is 
often sought in this line. Fraternally he is 
connected with the Elks, Delaware Lodge, No. 
76, and politically he is independent, voting 
rather for the man than for the party. 

.Mr. Jamison was married to Nellie Fur- 
man, who is the daughter of Perry Furman of 
Scioto Township, and this union has been 
blessed by the birth of a son, Walter P. Mrs. 
Jamison is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. 



CSTIX B. WILSON, a highly re- 
spected resident of Troy Township, 
who has resided in Delaware County, 
!l Ohio, for over a half century, and 



who owns 360 acres of land in Marl- 
borough Township, in two farms, which are 
adjudged the most valuable ones between Dela- 
ware and Marion, Ohio, comes of an old Xew 
England family. He was horn in Hillsboro 
County, Xew Hampshire, January 3. [832, 
and is a son of Alexander and Elizabeth ( Fair- 
banks) Wilson. 

James Wilson, the grandfather, was a sol- 
dier in the Revolutionary War. Alexander 
Wilson was horn in Xew Hampshire and his 
wife in Massachusetts, and they reared their 
family in Hillsboro County. There Austin I'.. 



Wilson grew up and obtained an excellent 
education for his time, enjoying academic ad- 
vantages at Francestown, New Hampshire, 
for several terms, and supplementing this by 
the practical experience of after life. In [854 
he came to Delaware County and at first en- 
gaged in a livery and omnibus business at 
Delaware, after which he went to Marion 
Countw llinois. and there followed farming 
for several years. In 1866 he returned to 
Delaware County and settled in Marlborough 
Township, where he continued in agricultural 
pursuits until 1898. In that year he came 
to Troy Township, where he has since re- 
sided. 

On May 8, 1865, Mr. Wilson was married 
to Mary Bush, who was horn in Troy Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio. April 25, 1834, 
and is a daughter of Hon.. David and Eliza- 
beth (Wilson) Bush, the former of whom 
was a native of Orange County. Xew York, 
and the latter of Hillsboro County, New 
Hampshire. Hon. David Bush came with his 
parents, Isaac and Sarah Bush, from Xew 
York to Delaware County, when he was twelve 
years of age. He became a prominent citizen 
of this county and was elected a member of 
the State Legislature. One of his sons. Louis 
Bush, of Troy Township, served two terms as 
county commissioner oi Delaware County. 
The mother of Mrs. Wilson was eighteen years 
of aire when she came to Delaware County. 
Of the children of David Bush and wife, four 
survive, namely: Sarah M., who is the widow 
of the late James B. Jackson, and resides at 
Delaware; Elizabeth, who lives in Troy Town- 
ship: Mary; and Ellen, who married Thomas 
II. Jones, who resides in Radnor Township). 
David Bush left 1,600 acres of land at the 
time <>f his death, located in Delaware and 
Marion Counties. 

Mr. and Mis. Wilson have had four chil- 
dren, namely: Austin A., residing in Marl- 
borough Township; David A., residing in Troy 
Township; Harry I'... residing in Marlborough 
Township; and Minnie, who is deceased. For 
a number of years prior to her marriage. Mrs. 
Wilson taught school in Delaware County. 
Politically, Mr. Wilson is a Republican. 



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HOMAS J( INES, for many years one 
of the best known, and at the time of 
his death, February iS, 1908, one of 
the oldest residents in Delaware 
County, Ohio, resided on the Alder- 
brook farm in Delaware Township. He was 
born July 29, [823, in Breconshire, Wales, and 
is a son of William and Gwen (Williams) 
Junes, 

William Jones was also a native of Brecon- 
shire, Wales, from which country he came to 
America with his wife and live children in 
[832, settling at Columbus. Mere Thomas 
Junes resided until 17 or [8 years of age, at 
which time he learned the saddler and harness- 
maker's trade, and then went to Worthing- 
ton, where he remained for a few years. Mr. 
[ones then entered into business lor himself 
on the Darby Plains, but aftei 



here he engaged in 



his marriage 



and 



sheep and Percheron horses, being the pio- 
neer in this industry in the State. In 1879 he 
located on his present farm, which he had 
purchased several years previously, ami here 
he continued to operate until [899, when he 
retired from active pursuits, the responsibility 
oi management being undertaken by his 
daughter, Miss Winifred. The farm, a tract 
of 70 acres, about jo of which are under culti- 
vation, is one of the finest of its size in the 
township, and on it a large barn was erected 
in 1904. About 1884 .Mr. Jones imported 
some Welsh ponies to America, and he has 
since continued to breed tins stock, usually 
having about 14 on hand, lie has also bred 
Shetland ponies and Percheron horses, and 
has given much attention to cattle and sheep 
raising. 

Mi'. Joiu-s was married to Alarum Xew- 
ton, who was horn near Plain City, Ohio, 
daughter of Albert Newton, who removed 
from Xew York State, where he was a far- 
mer, to Darby Plains, < >hio. lie married Har- 
riet McCloud, a native of Connecticut and sis- 
ter of Dr. McCloud, a member of the Legisla- 
ture and Constitutional Convention of Ohio. 
Mrs. Mariam Jones died in April. 1903, aged 
ncarh j< ) year-, m the faith oi the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, having been the mother of 



six children, of whom five grew to maturity. 
These were as follows: Harriet, now de- 
ceased, who was the wife of J. 1). Jones. M. 
D., of Cleveland; Charles M., who conducts 
the old homestead at Plain City; Albert X.. 
who also resides at Plain City; Ellsworth E., 
of Los Angeles, Cal. ; and Winifred, who re- 
sides with her father and conducts the home 
farm. 

Mr. Jones was formerly a Whig, and is 
now connected with the Democratic party, 
Although not a politician, he served as trustee 
of Darby. From his youth up Mr. Jones was 
a member of the M. E. Church. He was made 
1 Free Mason at Plain City. During his long 
and useiul life he has seen man}- changes come 
over this section. At the time he first located 
in Columbus, it was such a small place that he 
was personally acquainted with every one that 
lived there, and often as a lad he played ball 
where the State House now stands. He is 
a man of much energy and many progressive 
ideas, and deserves the esteem in which he is 
held bv his fellow-townsmen. 




EORGE COYNER, the eighth son of 
David H. and Eliza C. Coyner, was 
born at Lexington. Richland County, 
Ohio, on June 5. 1858. His early 
childhood was spent in Virginia, the 
native State of his parents. During the Civil 
War, at the death of his mother, he with the 
1 est of the family, except four brothers who 
were in the Union army, returned to the home 
State of his father and mother. They were 
only permitted to remain there a short time, 
owing to the father's sympathy with the 
North, where they were compelled to flee to. 
coming to Columbus, Ohio, where the father 
enlisted as chaplain of the Eighty-eighth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, located at Camp Chase. 
After the close of the war the father located 
at Eden, Delaware County, where he engaged 
in the ministry for a number of years, he being 
a graduate of Washington and Lee's College 
of Virginia, and of the Princeton Theological 
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attainments, he devoted special attention to the 
cthirat i. •!) of his son George, who alter com- 
pleting his course in the public schools, was 
placed under the special instruction of private 
tutor-. He then completed his course at the 
University of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1879. 

He was married to Eunice A. Hippie. 
daughter of (1. W. and Ann Hippie, of Eden. 
Of this marriage three sons were born, only 
one of whom is now living, he being a resi- 
dent of Delaware. 

The first political preferment that was be- 
stowed upon Judge Coyner was his election 
to the office of township clerk in Brown Town- 
ship, in r88o, for five consecutive years there- 
after. He was then appointed superintendent 
of the County Infirmary, which position he 
filled from 1889 to 1892. For a number of 
years Judge Coyner had spent his spare time 
in reading law. and at the expiration of his 
term as superintendent, he attended the Cin- 
cinnati Law College, from which institution he 
was graduated at the head of his class in 1893. 
and entered upon the practice of his profes- 
sion at Delaware. In 1895 ne was elected to 
the office of pn secuting attorney and was re- 
elected to the same office in three years. In 
1902 he was elected to the office of Common 
pleas judge in the First Subdivision of the 
Sixth Judicial District of Ohio, which pi si- 
tion he filled for five years! So unswerving 
was Judge Coyner's devotion to the trust re- 

• 1 in him that during his entire political 
career covering a period of 20 years, his rec- 
ord is without a scar or blemish. 




OHX VELEY, residing on his farm of 
140 acres, which is situated in a de- 
sirable section of Troy Township, 
has devoted himself for many years to 
general farming and dairying, finding 
in it both pleasure and profit, lie was horn in 
:■ County, Ohio. January 14. [836, 
and is a son ol Peter and Margaret (M; 
Veley. 

The father of Mr. Veley was horn in New 
York and the mother in Virginia, the latter in 



[813. She was three years old when her par- 
ents lirought her to Delaware County, settling 
in Troy Township. They were John and 
Mary Main, who became well-known farmers 
in this section. Peter Veley, father of John, 
made his first visit to Tro) Township when 
he brought a lady to this neighborhood, with a 
two-horse team, but he returned to New York 
after a short stay, and it was si me years later 
before he came to remain permanently, buy- 
ing lands, a part of which his son John -till 
owns. When he settled here his neighbors 
were Indians and the uncleared forest covered 
a large part of the land which is now in so 
fine a state of cultivation. He died in Octo- 
ber. 1838. Of his children two still survive — 
John and Harriet, the latter of whom is the 
widow of Francis Ashwill. Mrs. Ashwill 
lives near Cincinnati. Ohio. 

John Veley was deprived of his father's 
care and protection when in his third year. 
He remained with his mother until he attained 
his majority, in the meanwhile securing his 
education in the district schools. On March 
10, 1859. he was married to Charlotte Surles, 
who was born in Berlin Township, Delaware 
Count\. November 15. 1836, and is a daughter 
of Charles and Esther (Bockoven) Surles. 
The father of Mrs. Veley was born in Con- 
necticut, and be died when she was in her 
fourth year. On the maternal side, her grand- 
parents came from New Jersey and they were 
earl_\- settlers in Berlin Township. To John 
Veley and wife were born nine children, seven 
of whom survive, namely: Carrie, who mar- 
ried Edgar Main, residing in Delaware Coun- 
ty: Milo, also a resident of Delaware County; 
Esther, wdio married E. \V. Pittman, residing 
in Troy Township; John A., residing in fro}' 
Township; Peter If. residing in Marion, Ohio; 
James, a resident >>i Troj Township; and 
Lester II.. also residing' in Troy Township. 
Emma and Mitchell are deceased. 

Mr. Veley has ever been a loyal and pub- 
lic-spirited citizen. In 18(14 he enlisted in 
Company C, One Hundred and Forty-fifth 
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infarttry, which 
left Delaware on May [Oth, for Lamp CI 
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served 100 days, the period of enlistment. Mr. 
Veley then returned to his farm and has been 
engaged in agricultural pursuits here ever 
since. He operates a large milk business, in- 
cluding a daily route to Delaware, under the 
name of the Horse-shoe Dairy. 




ON. HOSEA WILLIAMS was one of 
Delaware's prominent and useful 
men. who through a lung and honor- 
able" life contributed to the develop- 
ment and upbuilding of the industries 
and enterprises which have made the city as 
stable and prosperous as it is today. Judge 
Williams was horn in Berkshire Count} - , Mas- 
sachusetts Migust 3. [792, and was a son of 
Abraham and Anna (Chamberlain) Wil- 
liams. 

As the name partly indicates, the Williams 
family originated in Wales and family records 
disclose that it was founded in America by 
several brothers who emigrated to New Eng- 
land in the latter part of the 17th century. 
Charles Williams, the immediate ancestor of 
the branch of the family to which Hon. Hosea 
Williams belonged, died at Colchester, Con- 
necticut. April 14, 1740. aged 94 years. He 
was survived by six sons, one of whom. Na- 
than Williams, was married September 16. 
1 7-'5- to Elizabeth Lewis, also <u Welsh ex- 
traction, and they reared a family of four sons 
and five daughters. Abraham Williams, the 
eldest of these sons, born Jul}' _' 1 . ij-'d. mar- 
ried Vesta I hint and they were the grandpar- 
ents 1 if Judge Williams. 

Abraham Williams, son of Abraham and 
lather of Judge Williams, was bom Septem- 
ber id. [765, and married Anna Chamber- 
lain. They resided in Berkshire County, Mas- 
sachusetts, until after the marriage of their 
only child. Hosea, in [817. The family then 
started for the still undeveloped region known 
as the Scioto Valley, Ohio, stopping at the 
little village of Delaware, and renting quarters 
there until a comfortable home could be pro- 
vided on the farm of 300 acres which had been 
purchased and which lay two miles west of the 



hamlet. Abraham Williams and wife, after 
seeing the young couple comfortably settled, 
returned to Massachusetts, where they re- 
mained until 1825, when they rejoined Judge 
Williams and family and removal was made 
to Delaware, where both Abraham Williams 
and wife died. 

Hosea Williams was 25 years of age when 
he came to Delaware Count}-. His education 
had been that usually afforded the sons of 
well-to-do parents, in Berkshire County, and 
for a short time he had been engaged in clerk- 
ing at 1'ittslield. On May 29, 1817, he was 
married to Charlotte Elizabeth Avery, who 
was a half-sister of the late Governor Morgan. 
of New York, and was a sister of the late 
Judge Frederick Avery, of Delaware. The 
Avery and the Morgan families can trace their 
genealogies far back and there have been 
many intermarriages, the first of these in New- 
England having been that of Deacon William 
Morgan, son of Glamorganshire James Mor- 
gan, to Margaret Avery, daughter of Captain 
James Avery, of Groton, Massachusetts. July 
17, 1696. Mrs. Williams died February 23, 
1839, having been the mother of five daugh- 
ters and one son, the latter of whom died in 
infancy. The daughters were: Anna, who 
married Rev. John W. White; Harriet, who 
married Judge Thomas C. Jones ; Margaret, 
who married Chauncy Hills; Caroline, who 
married Dr. John A. Little, and Charlotte. 
Judge Williams was married (secondly) in 
October. 1N41, to Mrs. Clarinda D. Starling. 
who died in August, 1876, following the 
death of Judge Williams, which occurred Feb- 
ruary 12, 1876. 

Upon the return of his parents from New 
England, in [825, Mr. Williams moved from 
the farm, on which, in [823 he had built a 
commodius frame residence, to Delaware, 
where he embarked in a general mercantile 
business, which he continued for many years. 
He was a man of character and enterprise 
and was an active promoter of the various 
agencies which go to the upbuilding of a com- 
munity. When he came to Delaware there 
was much to he done in the way of erecting 
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ing the highways, in introducing various utili- 
ties to contribute to the health and comfort ol 
the residents of the growing town, and also 1 in 
making and regulating laws for its honest gov- 
ernment Judge Williams was just the man to 
recognize all these demands and as one of the 
capitalists and public-spirited men, he became 
a leader in main of the must important move- 
ments. 

While still residing- on his farm, Mr. Wil- 
liams had been elected county commissioner, 
afterward became a village official and still la- 
ter judge of the Court of Common Pleas. In 
1845 ne was elected the first president of the 
Delaware County branch of the State Bank of 
Ohio, and until the expiration of its charter, 
was a member of the State Board of Control 
of this institution. When the Delaware bank 
was reorganized and became the Delaware 
County National Bank, Air.. Williams -was 
elected president, a position he filled continu- 
1 nbly until his death. 

Judge Williams was chosen a member of 
the first Board of Directors of the Cleveland, 
Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad, serving 
for many years as such. In association with 
Judge Howard, in 1838. he erected a paper 
mill in what is now known as the village of 
Stratford. Subsequently this mill was de- 
stroyed by fire, but was rebuilt and became a 
valued industry of this section. The death of 
Judge Williams marked the passing of one of 
the old-time men of capacity, sterling honesty 
and honorable ideals. 




1AKLES STAXBERY, a leading 
and representative citizen of Liberty 
Township, was born at Columbus, 
Ohio, July 18. 1S44. and is a son of 
Charles and Alary (Smith) Stan- 
bery. 

Air. Stanbery attended the district schools 
during his boyhood, as lie was mainly reared 
pn a farm, and completed his education in the 
schools of Cincinnati and Zanesville. Air. 
Stanbery has devoted his attention to agricul- 
tural interests and resides on his valuable farm 



of 150 acres, which is situated in Liberty 
Township, this being the old homestead farm 
on which his lather settled in [856. Ills land 
is well cultivated and his practical methods 
have resulted in large agricultural returns, lie 
is one of the few survivors of one of the finest 
old families of Delaware County, and one that 
has been identified for over a half century 
with the progress of Liberty Township. Hav- 
ing lived for fifty years on this farm and in the 
same house, no citizen of the township is bet- 
ter or more favorably known than he. Mr. 
Stanberj has never married, tie was reared 
politically in the Democratic party but is in- 
clined to be independent and think for himself. 
He has always taken an interest in having wise 
and liberal laws enforced. He belongs to the 
Knights of Pythias at Powell. 



AIOT1IY C. STONE, a representa- 
tive citizen of Concord Township, re- 
siding on a valuable farm of 240 
acres, which he devotes to farming 
and stock raising, was born in Dela- 
ware County, Ohio, November 3. 1853. and is 
a son of Leander and Rachel (Coe) Stone. 

Leander Stone was born in 1809, in \~er- 
mont, and was brought to Ohio by his parents, 
when he was four years of age. His father. 
William Stone, settled near Amity, Madison 
Ci unity, where he passed the remainder of his 
life. Leander Stone grew to manhood in 
Madison County, and prior to coming to Dela- 
ware County, he was married to Rachel Coe. 
In 1838 he settled on the farm which his son, 
Timothy C, now owns, and he acquired 300 
acres. Here he died July jo. [869, at the age 
of 60 years. The maternal grandparents of 
Air. Stone were Ransome and Elizabeth Coe, 
natives of Pennsylvania, who were early set- 
tlers in Franklin County. Ohio. Air. Stone's 
mother survived until May 1 _\ [897. Leander 
Stone and wife had four children, the three 
in addition to the subject of ibis sketch being : 
Samuel Ransome, residing in Franklin Coun- 
ty, who married Alary Chapman and owns val- 
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died at Memphis, Tennessee, of an attack ol 
measles, while serving" in the Civil War as a 
member of Company E, Ninety-sixth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry; and Krastus, who is en- 
gaged in farming in Scioto Township, Dela- 
ware County, and who married Hester Gates. 
Leander Stone cleared the larger part of his 
land and made many improvements, including 
the building of the present comfortable resi- 
dence, which took the place of the log- cabin, 
in which his children were born. In politics, 
he was affiliated with the Democratic part)-. 

Timothy C_. Stone attended the district 
schools and through youth assisted Ins lather 
on the farm. In 1886, he was married to 
Eunice Black, who is a daughter of Robert and 
Mary Black, of Union County, Ohio. Mr. 
and Mrs. Stone have four children — Maudie 
Louise, Harold. Nellie Duckworth and Rob- 
ert Thurston. With the exception of a brief 
period, Mr. Stone has pass L -d his whole life 
on the present farm, where his interests have 
been largely of an agricultural nature during 
all this time. Although he did not build the 
present house, he has made man)- improvements 
ami has erected substantial farm buildings of 
all kinds on the place. 

lie 1- a strong supporter of Democratic 
principles. Mr, Stone enjoys the confidence of 
his fellow citizens of Concord Township, to 
a very large extent and they have frequently 
shown their estimate of his character and ca- 
pacity by electing him to office, lie has served 
lor five years as township treasurer. He is a 
member of Lodge No. 525, Knights of Pyth- 
ias, at Bellpoint. 




\COI', KINNEL, one of Delaware 
Township's highly esteemed citizens. 
w hi 1, after a long and useful period of 
activity is now living retired, is the 
owner of a line farm of 48 acres. .Mr. 
Kinnel was born June 4, [838, in Heine. Gei 

ly, and is a son of Jacob and Caroline 
1 ( lir:-1niai] ) Kinnel. 

Jacob Kinnel. the grandfather of Jacob, 
was a native of Germany, and came to Amer- 



ily. with the exception of his son, Jacob, who 
remained in Germany. The grandfather set- 
tled in Columbus, Ohio, where he followed his 
trade all of his life. Jacob Kinnel, father of 
Jacob, was a shoemaker of Berne, Germain*, 
where he died in 1850, at the age of 42 years. 
He married Caroline Christman. who was a 
daughter of Daniel Christman. 

Jacob Kinnel received a common school 
education in his native country and then 
learned the trade of shoemaker, which he fol- 
lowed until attaining his majority. He then 
entered the German arm) - , in which he served 
six years. At the expiration of his term of 
service, he came to America, and from [865 
to 1868 worked at his trade in New York City, 
coming in the latter year to Columbus, Ohio, 
where he continued at shoemaking until 1874. 
He then removed to Washington Township, 
Franklin County, where he cultivated a rented 
farm for nine years, subsequently removing to 
Delaware County. Here he operated a rented 
farm until 1894, and in this year he purchased 
his present farm then a tract of but nine acres. 
To this he added from time to time, raising all 
kinds of garden truck, and he attributes ins 
success to carefullv watching the market and 
giving special attention to the public demand.- 
lie also raised corn, oats and hay. and kept 
about 150 chickens. In politics Mr. Kinnel is 
a Republican, and while in Columbus he was 
connected fraternally with the order of Red 
Men. 

Mr. Kinnel was married (first) to Kather- 
ine W'esterville, of Columbus, Ohio, who died 
in 1874, in the faith of the German Lutheran 
Church, and to them one child was born — 
Jacob, who resides at Larimer, Pennsylvania. 
In [875 Mr. Kinnel was married (secondly) 
t- Vtrs. Magdalena Frye, widow of David 
Frye and daughter of Conrad Gast, of Colum- 
bus, a stone cutter by trade. Mrs. Kinnel was 
born November 17, [836, in I Iessen-Cassel. 
Germany, and came to America in iXOd. two 
years after her first husband. David Frye, who 
was born in Unternausbaeh, Germany-, am! 
who died in [872, aged 45 years. By her first 
marriage Mrs. Kinnel had four children: An- 




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hie, who is the wife of A. J. Topping of Dela- 
ware: Clara, the wife of Thomas Davis oi 
Radnor Township; one who died in infancy; 

and John, who is at home, and with his half- 
brother is engaged in the trucking business on 
the home farm, which he conducts in the same 
intelligent and successful way that his father 
did. To Mr. and Mrs. Kinnel two children 
have been hum. namely: Edward, who mar- 
ried Elizabeth Knowlton, has two children — 
William and Marie: ami Caroline, who is the 
wife of Marimi Pendelton of Delaware. The 
family are members of the English Lutheran 
Church. 




ILAS J. MANN, whose death mi De- 
cember i, 1900, was mourned by the 
citizens of Harlem Township as a 
sad and irreparable loss to the com- 
munity, was a veteran of the Civil 
War, in which he served with honor and credit. 
and was one of the leading agriculturists in 
Delaware County which had been his home 
throughout nearly the entire of his life. He 
was born in Harlem Township. Delaware 
O unty. Ohio, December 31, 1838, was a son 
of Abijah and Betsey (Adams) Mann, and 
grandson of Shuah and Nancy (Oldham) 
Mann. 

Shuah Mann, the grandfather, was a na- 
tive of New Jersey, where he lived and fol- 
lowed farming lor many years. He finally 
moved to Franklin County. Ohio, where he 
was elected justice of the peace and served 
continuously in that capacity _>i years, and al- 
though he had attended school hut 11 days 
in his life, he discharged the duties of his 
office so intelligently and conscientiously that 
not a single one of the many cases decided by 
him was reversed on appeal. lie married 
Nancy Oldham, who was also horn in New 
Jersey. Her father was a captain in the Revo- 
lutionary War. and during hi s lifetime served 
nine year- as constable, five years as justice 
of the peace, and three years as sheriff of his 
county. To this union were borrl 1 _> chil- 
dren. Mr. Mann died in August, [865, and 



was survived by his widow. Religiously, 
they were (if the Methodist faith and a 
church workers. 

Abijah Mann was born near Paterson, 
New Jersey, July 22. 1813, and was there 
reared until eighteen years of age, attending 
the common schools and then hem- engaged 
in charcoal burning and cutting hoop-poles. 
At that age, with a brother, he ran off with 
a man who was engaged in buying stock and 
came West. In 1835 he landed in Licking 
County, Ohio, where he commenced working 
out by the month, hut in a short time his 
father came out to take the hoys hack home. 
Abijah would consent to return only on con- 
dition that his father would dispose of his 
property in New Jersey and move to Ohio, 
and the latter after an investigation into the 
character of the land and the prospects in this 
new country finally acquiesced. Returning to 
his old home, Abijah Mann served as ap- 
prentice at masonry until the following year 
when the family moved to Franklin County, 
I >hio. There he lived until his marriage, after 
which he went to Chicago. Illinois, and 
worked at his trade, helping build the first 
brick house erected there. He was offered 
forty acres of land if he would locate in that 
now great city, wdiose future greatness he lit- 
tle realized, and he declined the offer. He 
returned to Ohio, locating in Harlem Town- 
ship, Delaware County, where he set up house- 
keeping, making most of the furniture they 
used, himself. He continued farming and 
worked at his trade until [852, then went west 
to [owa, where he purchased 250 acres of land. 
He continued his j< urney west to California, 
wdiere in the gold fields he made the money 
to pay for his purchase. Upon his return to 
Iowa in 1854, he found his land had trebled 
in value, and sold out. He again came back to 
Delaware County, Ohio, and purchased 1 10 
acres lying a quarter of a mile west of Center-^ 
ville. on which he thereafter resided until his 
death, 'January H>, 1S74. His wife, wl 
maiden name was Betsy Adams, died here in 
t866. I'hey were parents of 10 children, as 
follow-,; \hijah : Silas J., our subject; Lucy 
A. ( Swickard I ; Newton : I >r. 1 [enry L. ; 



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dary D. ; Nathan A. ; Isadora Ann (Edwards I ; 
Norman X., deceased; Nancy E. Abijah, the 
eldest of the family, was born in 1836 and 
died in 1838. The remainder, except Nor- 



man X., grew to maturity. 



Lucy A., the eldest daughter of Abijah 
and lletsv Mann, was born in Harlem Town- 
ship, Delaware County, Ohio, July 4, 1 841. 
After her marriage in September, [859, t> > 
Davis W. Swickard, the) moved to Pike 
County, Ohio, and later to Colony, Kansas. 

Newton .Mann, son of \bijah and Betsy 
Mann, was born March 19, 1844. and when 
17 years of age entered Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, teaching and attending school for five 
years. After graduation he spent one season 
in lecturing, appearing in many of the cities 
of the State. In t866 he went west to Leaven- 
worth, Kansas, where he taught school and 
read law under the preceptorship of judge 
Gardner. He was admitted to the Bar in 
[868 and embarked in practice. He located 
at Toiiganoxie, Kansas, where he served sonic 
years as police judge, and in 1876 was elected 
judge of the Leavenworth County Court, again 
moving to the county seat. There he resided 
until his death, being one of the most promi- 
nent residents of that city, lie was a mem- 
ber of the Christian Church. In [871, Judge 
Mann married Elizabeth Wambaugh, by 
whom he had three children. 

Henrj L. Mann, fifth child horn to Abijah 
and Betsy Mann, was horn June 7. 1S47. and 
;il the age of iS years left home, going to 
I lardin County, where he clerked in a store for 
a time. He then returned to Delaware County 
and engaged in teaching in the public schi «>N. at 
the same time attending- school himself. He 
read medicine under the direction of Dr. An- 
drews, of Westerville, and in February, [875, 
graduated with the second highesl honors from 
Starling Medical College of Columbus. The 
same year he embarked in practice at Wapa- 
koneta, < ihio, where he rose to high standing 
in his pn cession. Muring President Gar- 
field's administration he was appointed medi- 
cal examiner in the United State- Pension 
Office. June 6, [877, he was united iii mar- 
riage with Mi-- Frances [ngerham, a daugh- 
ter of Dr. [ngerham. of Coshocton, Ohio. 



Madary D. Mann, son of Abijah and 
Betsy Mann, was horn October 15, 1850, and 
received a superior educational training. He 
attended school at Reynoldsburg, and subse- 
quently pursued a course of study in Otterbein 
University at Westerville. In 1S75 ne went 
to Kansas and engaged in teaching school for 
nine months, at the end of which time he en- 
tered the law department of the University of 
Michigan at Ann Arbor. After graduation 
from that institution in March, 1877. he lo- 
cated at Paulding, Ohio, and the following 
year was elected prosecuting attorney of 
Paulding County. October 10, 1878, he was 
joined in marriage with Alice McMillen of 
Paulding. They are consistent members of 
the Presbyterian Church. 

Nathan A. Mann, the next in order of 
birth, was horn August 24. 1852, and at the 
age of 20 years engaged in the sale of sew ing 
machines and organs. After one year at that 
work he entered Otterbein University at Wes- 
terville, and in 1875 entered the law depart- 
ment of the University of Michigan, in the 
same class as his elder brother. After gradu- 
ation in March. 1877. he went west to Leaven- 
worth, Kansas, to engage in practice with his 
brother. Judge Mann, under the firm name of 
Mann & Mann. 

Isadora Ann (Mann) Edwards was horn 
February 11, 1856, and after completing a 
common school education attended Otterbein 
University at Westerville. She later taught 
in the public schools and also served as superin- 
tendent of the Sabbath school of the M. E. 
Church at Centerville. She was married to 
Mr. L. S. Edwards and now resides in Los 
( iatos, California. 

Nancy E. Mann, the youngest of the 
famih of \lu jah Mann and his faithful wife, 
was horn August 18. [861, and attended the 
schools at Westerville, Ohio. In 1877 she 
went west to Leavenworth. Kansas, where her 
brothers were located, and there completed a 
course in music, becoming an accomplished 
musician. She also is a devout member of the 
Methodist Episcopal ( duirch. 

Silas J. Mann, the direct subject of this 
sketch, was reared in Harlem Township, and 
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common schools. He remained on his father's 
farm until the war lire ike out, then on August 
8, [862, responded to his country's call by 
enlisting in Company G, Forty-fifth regiment, 
( ). Y. I. He participated in numerous im- 
portant engagements and on July 4, [863, ac- 
companied his regiment in the memorable pur- 
suit of the Morgan raiders, in which they 
were on the inarch constantly for 28 days. 
During that time they passed through the 
State> of Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, a dis- 
tance of fourteen hundred miles, making an 
average of 50 miles per day. a truly remark- 
able accomplishment. This long tramp proved 
too much for many of the soldiers, among 
them being Mr. Mann, who was incapacitated 
for some time. On November 23, [864, he 
was transferred to the Eighth Veteran Re- 
serve Corps, stationed at Camp Douglas, Chi- 
cago, and while in the service there became 
a member of the Post band. This band 
played for twenty days at the North- 
west Sanitary Fair, and established an 
enviable reputation. July 4. 1865, at the 
close of the war, Mr. Mann was honorably 
discharged and at once returned to his home in 
Delaware County, Ohio. He was married in 
the fall of the same year and set up house- 
keeping in Centerville, where he remained un- 
til he located on the farm in Harlem Town- 
ship, where he died. He owned 150 acres of 
land, upon which he made extensive improve- 
ments, erecting a large modern home, a sub- 
stantial barn and outbuildings. He farmed ac- 
cording to up-to-date methods and was ever 
classed with the progressive element of the 
people, among whom he stood foremost. 

September _' 1 . [865, Silas J. Mann was 
joined in marriage with Miss Julia A. Stan- 
sell, who was sixth of a family of nine chil- 
dren born to George Stansell and his wife. 
her natal day being October 1. [841. Her 
lather was born in Palmyra, New York, in 
[798, died September 10. 1855, ;m '' was sur " 
vived fourteen years by his widow. Mr. and 
Mrs. Silas J. Mann became the parents of two 
sons, namely: Arthur C. born August 14. 
tX-o: and Jasper 1)., born February 5, [876. 
Both are men of educational attainments. 

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The)' attended the district schools in the vi- 
cinity of their home, alter which they engaged 
in teaching for a number of years, then sup 
meriting their education by a course of study 
in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. 
They reside on the home place and are suc- 
cessfully engaged in farming, although the) 
have frequently, in the past, taken mam- 
pleasure trips to different parts of this country. 
visiting points of historical interest and scenic 
beauty. They are broad minded men and have 
always evinced an earnest interest in the de- 
velopment and improvement of their home 
community. Mr. and Mrs. Mann also reared 
an orphan girl. Miss Daisy 1'. Cochran, who 
was born August jo, 1875. and is a daughter 
of Thomas ami Emma Cochran. 

Silas J. Mann took a deep interest in the 
public affairs of his township and count}', and 
not infrequently was called upon to serve in 
official capacity. He was an active Republican 
in politics, and was elected on the ticket of that 
party as township trustee, serving seven years, 
and as a member of the Board of Education of 
Harlem Township. He was elected county 
commissioner in November, 1888, and re- 
elected in November. 1891. serving two full 
terms. That he discharged the duties of his 
office in an efficient and satisfactory manner is 
attested by the fact that in 1895 he was ap- 
pointed to fill an unexpired term of nine 
months in the same capacity. He served as 
president of the Delaware Agricultural Society 
two years, and was director of that body three 
wars. Fraternally, he held membership with 
Galena Lodge, No. 404. I. O. O. F. ; Center- 
ville Lodge No. 645. K. I\ : and Charles SI 
Post, No. 59, G. A. R.. at Galena. He was a 
faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, to which his family also belong - . 




lott I 



AMb'.S CLARK WHIPPLE, a success- 
ful farmer of Brown Township, was 
bom in Peru Township, Morrow 
County. Ohio. January _>N. 1N50. audi 
is a son of Noah and Margaret (El- 

Whipple. 



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The paternal grandparents of Mr. Whip- 
ple were Reuben and Sarah (Cooper) Whip- 
ple and they settled in Morrow County in 
t8l8. The land they -elected was covered 
with a natural growth of timber and they made 
the first improvement. The second log cabin 
which they erected is still standing on the 
place. They had live sons, namely: Barton. 
[ason, Noah, Lewis and James, all of win mi 
have passed away. Noah Whipple was born 
in 1S11. at Providence. Rhode Island, and he 
accompanied his parents to Ohio and was 
reared in Morrow County. After his mar- 
riage to Margaret Elliott, he began farming 
■ hi tlic home place. She was hum in 1813, in 
Virginia, and she accompanied her parents 
to Brown Township, Delaware County, when 

they made the overland trip in her childh 1. 

They were the first settlers mi Mr. Whipple's 
present farm, where they made the first im- 
provements. Noah Whipple remained mi the 

e farm for a time and then purchased a 
-mill place near the present home of James 

: . Whipple, in Brown Township, but la- 
ter returned to Morrow County, and in [885 
he retired and moved to Ashley, where he 
died in 1900, aged 88 years. His wife (lied in 
[895. They had eight children, namely: 

111. who died 111 [906, at Ashley, married 
Marv ■ Chadwick ; Rachel, deceased, who mar- 
ried George W. White, of Kingston Town- 
ship, Delaware County; Phebe, who married 
Charles Kohler, residing at Ashley; Mary El- 
len, residing at Ashley, is the widow of John 
I'.. Wallace: Albert, who died in childhood; 
James Clark; Frank E., who is engaged in a 
banking business at Ashley, married Xettie 
Slack: and Josephine, who married Wilbur 
Benedict, residing at Massillon, Stark County, 

Ohio. 

lames Clark Whipple secured his educa- 
tion in the district schools of Morrow County 
and was reared to agricultural pursuits on Ins 
father's farm. In the fall of iXjj. he was 
married to Alary Dodge, who is a daughter of 
George W. and Janette (Mickle) Dodge, 
George W. Dodge accompanied his parents 
from New York to Holmes County, Ohio, 
when quite young, where they died. The 



mother of Mrs. Whipple was born in Scot- 
land and was five years old when her father, 
Alexander Mickle. brought the family to 
.America, settling lor a time in Canada, but 
subsequently coming to Delaware Count}-. At 
this time there was but one building on the 
east side of the river, and that was a cabin. 
Mr. Mickle died in Delaware County and his 
widow in Nebraska. 

Mr. and Mrs. Whipple have had four 
children: Ernest. Bertha, Winifred and 
(■race. Ernest is a resident of Oak Park. Illi- 
nois. He married Hattie Green, a resident 
of Chicago, and they have two children, Fran- 
cis and Grace. He was formerly in the em- 
ploy of the late Marshall Field. Bertha mar- 
ried Orrin Reed and they reside in Brown 
Township. Winifred died April 11. 1904. 
She was the wife of Jacob Raines and left one 
child. Winifred, who resides with her grand- 
parents. Grace married Jacob Raines and 
they reside in Brown Township. 

Mr. Whipple purchased his farm of 197^ 
acres on which he resides, in April, 1874. 
renting a house until he could erect the present 
commodious residence. He has made all the 
improvements here and engages in profitable 
farming and stock feeding. He is a Republi- 
can and has occasionally consented to serve 
in township offices. He is one of the repre- 
sentative men of his community. 



RLIN C. DE GOOD, who enjoys the 
distinction of being the oldest school 
teacher, with respect to years of 
sen-ice. in Delaware County, is a 
highly esteemed resident and leading- 
citizen of Scioto Township. He was born at 
Sparta. Morrow County, Ohio, July 17, 1849. 
and is is a son of Joseph O. and Nancy (Vin- 
ing) De Good. 

The De Good family can be traced back to 
1770. when the great-great-grandfather of the 
present generation crossed the Atlantic ocean 
from France and settled at Hagerstown, Mary- 
land. He fell a victim of the British in the 
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then an infant, who never could recall any- 

o of the family. Left an orphan at an early 

lie was reared by strangers, and died in 

\ County, Ohio. He married a widow. 

Mrs. Taylor, who was a sister of the great 

British naval commander. Admiral Nelson. 

He lived with his wife and five children at 

Hagerstown, Maryland, until the youngest 

- six year- of age. hi 1812 he crossed the 

tains and settled in Washington County, 
Pennsylvania, at a village called Ten Mile 
Creek, later removing to Knox County. Ohio. 
Joseph O. De Good, father of Orlin C, was 
born in Pennsylvania, but he was reared in 
Ohio. He was a man of quick intelligence. 
but without educational advantages in his 
youth, and after his marriage he was taught, 
as was one of the Presidents of the United 
States, to read and write by his wife. He 
worked at the cooper's trade until 1856, when 
he bought a farm in Bennington Township, 
Morrow County, consisting of 50 acres, on 
which he built a shop and combined cooper- 
ing with farming until his death, in 1858, at 
the early age of $j years. He was one of his 
township's most popular citizens and had filled 
many official positions, and at the time of his 
death he was the Republican party's candidate 
for sheriff' of Morrow Count}'. He married a 
most estimable lady, one who had much to do 
with shaping his career. She was a daughter 
of Calvin Vining, of Morrow County, and 
was a school teacher at the time of her mar- 
She died in 1854. when but 29 years 
of age. leaving two children: Armine. who 
is the widow of Elias Good, of Danville. Illi- 

- ; and Orlin C. Both parents were mem- 

1 if the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Orlin C. De Good was bereaved of both 
parents in childhood. He spent several years 
member of the family of Thomas H. Mad- 
den and during that period attended the coun- 
try schools. When he was 14 years old he 
went to Nashville. Tennessee, where he se- 
cured a position in the Quartermaster's De- 
partment, hut within six months he became 
sick and returned to Ohio, going to live with 
an aunt in Scioto Township, whose husband 
was in the army. In 1807. Mr. De Good be- 
gan to teach school, in which occupation he 



continued in this section until [906, a period 
covering 39 years. He has seen class after 
class go out from under his instruction to take 
their places in life and often his interest has 
followed their careers for years. Few men in 
this section are better known or more highly 
esteemed than Mr. De Good. 

In 1870 he purchased a farm of 40 acres, 
on which he now resides, having added to it 
from time to time until it has reached the ex- 
tent of 100 acres. It was all wild land when 
he came here and he has not only cleared it 
all. but has put up all of the substantial build- 
ings. He rai-e- from 40 to 50 sheep and about 
100 hogs of the Jersey Red variety. He makes 
a specialty of growing the Golden Mammoth 
corn, some of the ears of which are 15 inches 
in length and have other desirable qualities. 
Mr. De Good introduced it into Ohio from 
Illinois, where it was originated. 

Mr. De Good married Gertrude Robinson, 
who was born in Scioto Township. They 
had five children and two grew to maturity, 
namely: Robinson and Claude O. Mrs. De 
Good is a member of the Christian Union 
Church, while Mr. De Good is a Quaker. He 
was identified with the Republican party until 
[896, since which time he has voted independ- 
ently, taking no active interest in politics. He 
is an Odd Fellow and belongs to Edinburg 
Lodge, at Ostrander. and was connected with 
the Cood Templar organization as long as it 
was in existence. 




H. KELLOGG, a well-known busi- 
ness man and progressive and enter- 
prising citizen of Delaware, which 
city has been his home for a 
number of years, has been connected 
with the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance 
Company since 1880. Mr. Kellogg was born at 
Erie. Pennsylvania, and is a son of Dr. S. R. 
and Lucy (Church) Kellogg. 

On both -ides Mr. Kellogg comes from old 
Colonial families whose names have been con- 
nected with New England history for genera- 
tions. Dr. S. R. Kellogg was born at Shef- 
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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Kellogg. The latter, with four brothers, served 
m the Revolutionary War and prior to that, 
Lieut. Joseph Kellogg, of Deerneld, Massa- 
chusetts, was a noted Indian fighter and the 

old Kellogg homestead, on which land st 1 

the block house, at Sheffield, was once the 
scene of many savage conflicts. This land has 
never gone out of the family nor has the old 
Indian title been changed. 

R. 11. Kellogg completed his High school 
education at Hartford, Connecticut, and then 
studied pharmacy, hut before he had an oppor- 
tunity to practice his profession to any great 
degree, the Civil War came upon the country. 
and in [862 he enlisted as a private in the Six- 
teenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, 
made up at Hartford. This regiment became 
a part of General Burnside's corps, and saw 
service in Virginia and the Carolinas, princi- 
pally. Mr. Kellogg participated in the battles 
of Antietam, Fredericksburg. Suffolk and 
the siege of Plymouth. At that point the 
whole regiment (excepting one company) was 
captured by the Confederate- ami he remained 
a prisoner of war for nearly eight months, con- 
lined mainly at Andersonville. lie was finally 
paroled and exchanged and subsequently was 
mustered out of the service in June. [865, 
having been in the army three years, lacking a 
few days. I lis rank was then that of ser- 
geant-major, following promotion from pri- 
vate and sergeant. 

\fter the close of the w 



followed the drug business foi 



Mr. Kellogg 
>out one year 
and then became interested in life insurance, 
and with the exception of seven years, during 
which he was engaged in the manufacture of 
paper, in Connecticut, he has been in insur- 
ance. After his appointment as general agent 
lie worked as such for the Connecticut Mu- 
tual until 1883, when he came to t incinnati 
a-- general agent of ( )hio, and in [886 hi- pi 
ers wire further extended, he being made dis- 
trict superintendent of agencies lor Ohio, In- 
diana and West Virginia, a position be still 
fills. 

Iii [868, Mr. Kellogg was married to 
Amelia C. Gallup, and they have four children. 
namely: Florence; Emily, who married 
Charles W. Riddle, residing at Delaware; 



Anna F., who is a teacher in the Delaware 
public schools; and Rossiter, residing at To- 
ronto, Canada, where he is in a machinery busi- 
ness. Mr. Kellogg and uamily belong to the 
Presbyterian Church and he is a member of 
the board of trustees. His fraternal relati 
include the Royal Arch Masons and he belong- 
also to the Grand Army of the Republic, the 
New England Society, and the Army and 
Navv Club of Connecticut. His business of- 
fices are at No. 56/^ North Sandusky Street. 




LBERT INGHAM MOSES, presi- 
dent of the Board of Education of 
Troy Towatship. is a prominent citi- 
zen of this section and resides 1 m a 
valuable farm of 35 acres, which is 
situated on the Pan-Handle Turnpike, wdiere 
he has lived since 1873. Mr. Mose- was born 
in Delaware County, Ohio. August 8, 1839. 
and is a son of John. Jr.. and Dorcas (Clem- 
ens ) Moses. 

Jacob Moses, the great-grandfather of Al- 
bert I., was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
War and served five years as a ranger on the 
border and through him his descendants are 
eligible to membership in the various horn >r- 
able organizations which have for their object 
the perpetuation of the fame of Revolutionary- 
ancestors. The certificate of his service read-. 
as follows : 

"Harrisburg, Pa.. 
April 15, 1901. 
To Whom it May Concern; 

I hereby certify to the following Revolu- 
tionary service of Jacob Moses: 

Jacob Moses was a private soldier in the 
War of the Revolution, a ranger on the Fron- 
tier, 1778-1783. For this reference see Perm- 



Vol. 23. 



Page -'03. 



svivama Archives. 
Series. 

\ ery Truly Yours, 

Geo. Edward Reed, 

Stale Librarian and Ed. 1'enn. Archive-. 

John Moses, son of the above mentioned 
Jacob, was born in Bedford County, Pennsyl- 
vania, and followed the peaceful pursuits of 



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agriculture. Accompanied by his sun, John 
Moses, Jr., he came to Ohio in 1808. and set- 
tled in Perry County. In young manhood, the 
younger John Moses came to Delaware County 

and planted one crop, in Troy Township, re- 
siding during this period, with David Dix. 
who was an old settler. Later he accompanied 
his father and family to Marion County, 
where he resided for some years. Subse- 
quently lie returned to Delaware County and 
became a contractor and builder. He died 
aged 7') years. He married Dorcas Clemens 
and two of their children survive: Allien 
Ingham and John P.. the latter of whom re- 
sides in Rush County, Indiana. 

Alhert Ingham Moses was mainly edu- 
cated in what was known as the Central 
School, at Delaware, and he remained at home 
until he was about twenty years of age. In 
[859, Mr. Moses went to Leavenworth, Kan- 
- s. where he joined three acquaintances from 
Delaware County, and the four started for the 
regions of Colorado, with a wagon and 
ox-team. Alter 52 day- of travel they reached 
their destination and subsequently prospected 
at Central City and worked in the mines in 
various sections, gaining a large amount of 
experience. Mr. Moses at length returned to 
the East, locating at Elkhart Grove, Logan 
County, Illinois, where he became manager 
for a party who was engaged in buying "and 
shipping grain, and he remained there until 
he enlisted for service in the Civil War. on 
April 17, [861. 

.Mr. Moses then became a private in Com- 
pany E. Seventh Regiment. Illinois Volunteer 
Infantry, which subsequently became a part 
of the army under the direct command of 
Gen. I". S. Grant. Private Muses performed 
-Idler'- duty at various points in Illinois. 
during the term of In- first enlistment, and 
after it had expired lie re-enlisted, "ii August 
9. [861, entering Company K. Twenty-eighth 
Regiment. Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which 
became a part of the Army of Tennes-ee. He 
remained in the service until November 23, 
rS 5, when ill health induced his Resignation. 
At that time he was acting assistant quarter- 
master of brigade. During hi- long period of 
army life. Mr. Moses saw much hard service 



and participated in many of the ni"M notable 
battles of the great war. He was in action at 
Belmont. Pittsburg Landing. Big Hatchee 
River, Port Henry, Siege of Vickshurg, Sec- 
ond battle of Jackson. Spanish Fort and 
Blakely. the taking of Mobile, and numerous 
minor engagements, skirmishes and weary 
marches. That he was a brave and capable 
soldier is proved by his numerous promotions. 
At the battle of Pittsburg Landing he received 
his commission as second lieutenant and later 
was commissioned first lieutenant, captain 
and major. 

After this long absence. Mr. Moses re- 
turned to Delaware County, and fur some 
years was obliged to nurse himself back to 
health, residing at Delaware. During a part 
of this time he served as clerk in the county 
recorder's office and in the office of the pro- 
bate judge. He then engaged at work as .1 
carpenter and builder and for a number of 
years after settling in Troy Township, gave at- 
tention to the growing of small fruits. For a 
considerable period he has lived retired from 
active effort. 

Mr. Moses married Sarah Gross, a daugh- 
ter of Michael and Elizabeth Gross, of Troy 
Township, who came to Ohio from Berk- 
County, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Mi 
have two sons: Walter H.. residing at Car- 
lisle. Warren County. Ohio: and Albert G., 
residing in Liberty Township, Delaware 
Count}-. 

For many years, Mr. Moses has been iden- 
tified with school interests in Troy Township 
and is serving as president of the School 
Board, making a capable and useful officer. 
He belongs to George B. Torrence Post. Grand 
Army of the Republic, at Delaware, and al- 
to the Union Veteran Legion, No. 7. at Dela- 
ware. 



m-OX. THOMAS C. JONES, whose 
name is enrolled as one of Delaware's 
mi -t distinguished citizens, was born 
February 9, t8i6, in the pa 
of My fi id, Montgomeryshire, North 
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lie accompanied his parents to America. 

Early in the autumn of [822, Robert Junes, 
father of Thomas C, with his brother, David, 
and other members of the family, reached the 
little frontier village of Delaware, after a long 
period of peril and hardship on sea and land. 
As early as 1820, David Jones had purchased 
a farm near Delaware, where other Welsh 
families had settled, but Robert decided to lo- 
cate ■.nine miles further eastward. Here 
Thomas C. Jones was reared to the age of [8 
years, attending the district school as opportun- 
ity was afforded, and working in the meanwhile 
in]- his father and neighboring farmers. He 
then learned the carpenter's trade, at which he 
subsequently worked in both Cincinnati and 
St. Louis, but he had already decided that he 
would follow the example of his brother, and 
by diligent study, prepare himself for the pro- 
fession <>f law. Hence, in the fall of 1836 he 
entered the law office of his brother Ed wan 1, 
lnit the death of the latter in 1838. disar 
ranged his plans and placed the responsibility 
on him of making a trip to England to look 
after an estate in which his father had an en- 
tailed interest. 

During Ins absence of iX months, he suc- 
cessfully settled up the necessary business in 
England, and. wherever he had the opportun- 
ity, attended sessions of court and kept up 
with his law studies. In the spring of 1841 
he passed an examination before the Supreme 
Court of Ohio then holding its sessions at 
Gallipolis, was licensed to practice and chose 
Delaware as the field of future practice. His 
ability was immediately recognized l>v one of 
the most noted jurists of the State, the late 
jwlv;^ Sherman Finch, who invited .Mr. Jones 
to partnership and this legal connection con- 
tinued for live years, much to the advantage 
1 >i both partners. 

In [843, Air. Jones moved to Circleville, 
Pickaway County, where he continued in ac- 
tive practice tor 1 • years, winning public ap- 
proval by Ins able handling of many import- 
ant cases ,,f litigation, and then returned to 
Delaware County, where he purchased a farm 
ami became much interested in breeding tine 
stock. In [856 he entered into a law partner- 



ship with the late H. M. Carper, of Delaware, 
and later entered into politics more actively 
than formerly. In 1859, Mr. Jones was elected 
to the State Senate, on the Republican ticket, 
in which he served two terms, during this time 
being chairman of the Commitee on Public 
Works and a member 01 the finance and ju- 
diciary committees. 

In the fall of 1861, Senator Jones was 
elected judge of the first sub-division of the 
Sixth Judicial District, and was re-elected in 
1866, thus serving ten years on the bench with 
an efficiency seldom equaled, those being- 
times of great public strain and stress. By 
this time Judge Jones had become a man of 
great prominence in his district and well 
known all over the State of Ohio, and in [868 
he was made chairman of the Ohio delega- 
tion at Chicago, which nominated the ticket 
of Grant and Colfax. Again, in 1876, he 
served in the Republican National convention 
and took pleasure in supporting his old friend 
and school-mate, Rutherford B. Hayes, fi <r 
the presidency. Although he had never since 
held political office, on many occasions he had 
been honored with appointments to those of 
great responsibility. 

As early as 1859, Judge Jones was elected 
a member of the State Board of Agriculture, 
serving one year as president and one year as 
acting president. As trustee of the Ohio Agri- 
cultural College and an official member of the 
board, he was deeply interested in all its work 
and in every possible way promoted its ef- 
ficiency. In 1876 he was one of the jury se- 
lected to award the honors m the cattle depart- 
ment of live stock, at the Centennial Exhibi- 
tion, at Philadeplhia, and was chosen chair- 
man of the same. In 1881 he was appoii 
on a commission under a special act of * n- 
gress to examine and rep >rt on the agricul- 
tural needs and resources of the Pacific States, 
in association with Professor llilgard. of the 
University of California, and ex-Governor 
Robert Furnas, of Nebraska. As a writer he 
had a national reputation, on agricultural and 
associate topics. He was elected the first 
president of the Ohio Association of Breeders 
of Short Horn Cattle. Judge Jones became 




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eminent in every line to which he devoted at- 
tention and maintained his hold on public in- 
terests long after many of his contemporaries 

in years had passed away. 

In 1842, Judge Jones was married to 
Harriet Williams, who was a daughter of the 
late Judge Hosea and Charlotte Elizabeth 
( Avery ) Williams, and four children were 
born of this marriage, namely: Rev. Hosea 
Williams, Dean of the Theological School of 
Kenyon College; .Arthur Hamilton, residing in 
Upper Sandusky, who was long interested 
with his father in breeding and dealing in 
live-stock near Delaware; Charlotte Martha, 
who married Archibald L'ybrand, residing at 
Delaw are ; and Thomas Clive, who is engaged 
in business at Delaware. 

Judge Jones and family were always de- 
voted members of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church. For many years be served as a trus- 
tee of Kenyon College and the Protestant 
Episcopal Seminary at Gambier. His death, 
which occurred August 12, 1892, removed one 
of the most useful and distinguished of Dela- 
ware County's adopted sons, and it will be 
long ere bis services are forgotten by those 
who have the best interests of ibis section at 
heart. 




/ed 



lORGE W. BAXTER, formerly a 
well-known citizen of Radnor Town- 
§ I ship, where he owned a valuable 
farm of almost 150 acres, died at bis 
home. August 12. [899, and is sur- 
his widow and four children. Mr. 
Baxter was born in Franklin County. Pennsyl- 
vania, June id. [836, and was a son of John 
D. and Elizabeth Baxter, natives of Germany. 
After the parents of Mr. Baxter emigrated to 
America, they settled in Pennsylvania, where 
they resided until their son, George W„ was 
nineteen years of a.^e, when they moved to 
Kansas. Later, George W. Baxter came to 
Ohio, settling in Marion County, where he 
lived lor some years, and prior to bis marriage 
he followed the carpenter's trade. After mar- 
rying he settled down to farming in the north- 



ern part of Radnor Township, Delaware 
( ounty. He was careful and industrious and 
prospered, carrying on extensive farming and 
stock-raising and remaining thus occupied un- 
til near the end of his useful life. 

On October 3. [872, Mr. Baxter was mar- 
ried to Alsina A. Coleman, who was born No- 
vember 17. [843, in Marion County. Ohio, 
and who is a daughter of Henry and Sarah 
( Schultz) Coleman. Her parents were na- 
tives of York County, Pennsylvania, and when 
she was nine years old they removed from 
Marion to Delaware County, settling in ( ix- 
ford Township, where she was reared and 
was married. Her mother died in her eighty- 
filth year and her father in his eighty-eighth 
year. Their family consisted of seven chil- 
dren, namely: Alsina A.; Absalom B., resid- 
ing in Morrow Count)'; Theresa M., who mar- 
ried Edward Houseworth, residing in Oxford 
Township; James E.. residing in Morrow 
County: Lucinda J., who married Samuel 
Strine, residing in Oxford Township; Sarah 
A., who married John Waddel. and resides ' m 
Oxford Township; and Eva A., who married 
Clyde Smith, and resides in Trumbull County, 
Ohio. 

The late George W. Baxter was a man of 
sterling character, a good and worthy citizen 
in every relation in life. When his country 
was in danger of disruption he responded. 
early in 1862. to the call for troops, and for 
three years risked life and health in the Fed- 
eral army, as a member of Company II. Sixty- 
third Regiment. Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 
He took part in the famous march to the sea 
under Sherman; and at various times faced 
the enemy on the battlefield. He was for- 
tunate enough to escape injury, and was hon- 
orably discharged and returned safely to his 
home. In politics he was a Democrat. For 
many years be was a worthy member of and 
liberal contributor to the Lutheran Church. 
He was widely known and bore the reputation 
of being a man of honest purpose and ex- 
emplary life. 

Mr. and Mrs. Baxter bad four children. 
namely: Arthur A., a farmer residing in Troy 
Township; Walter M.. residing in Radnor 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Township on the home farm; Henry C, also 
residing in Radnor Township; and Corda M., 
residing at home with her mother. Mrs. Bax- 
ter manages the home farm sinee the death of 
her husband and is ably assisted by her son. 
who takes all the care from her shoulders. She 
is a highly esteemed lady and is a valued mem- 
ber of the Lutheran Church at Prospect. 




HARLES OTIS LITTLE, whose 
death occurred January 21, 1898, 
was fur many years a prominent and 
important figure in the financial cir- 
cles centering at Delaware. Ohio. 
sessed of the highest attributes of man- 
I, he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of 
his fellow-citizens to a marked degree, and al- 
though his death was not unexpected, it came 
as a -ad shock to the community in which he 
had lived so many years. 

.Mr. Little was horn in Delaware. Ohio. 
February [8, 1839, and was a son of William. 
Sr., and Catharine VV. (Wood) Little. The 
father was horn in Columbia, Connecticut, 
December 24, 1770. and died in Delaware. 
Ohio, November 30, 184s. His wife was a 
daughter of George and Elizabeth Wood. In 
in 8, William Little, Sr., came to Delaware. 
1 ' 1, from Worthington, to which village he 
had emigrated from Connecticut. I lis trade 
was that of saddler, hut it is doubtful if he 
ever followed it after coming here, as a mer- 
cantile life offered greater inducements. He 
one of the earliest and most successful 
merchants of this city, lie first purchased a 
small stock of goods that had been sent up 
from Worthington as a branch business, and 
tin- h e later moved into the small brick build- 
ing which still is standing, on the southwest 
corner of Winter and Sandusky Streets. He 
made annual trips in Philadelphia to purchase 
Is, wagoning his goods home, frequently 
at the excessive rate of $18.75 P er [ °° lbs., 
these trips consumed from six weeks to 
two months of time. Mis invoices included 
velvets, satins, silks, cassimeres and com- 
moner cloths, as well as sh«,es. crockery, hard- 



ware, medicines and groceries. In 18 17, a 
hank was started in Delaware, in which it is 
said he was the largest stockholder. The 
brief history of this bank and Mr. Little's 
amusing method of closing it up. are related 
in the chapter on Banks and Banking. He 
was a charter member of St. Peter"s Episcopal 
Church in 181 7, and was a vestryman from 
the beginning. In 1827, he and his wife 
helped to organize the first Sunday school in 
Delaware. He gave the lot on which the 
Episcopal Church was built, it being a part of 
a large tract of land owned by him, which in- 
cluded that now occupied by Monnett Hall, 
that being where his residence was located, 
Campbell's Stone Quarry, and the Mineral 
Springs property on West Central Avenue. 
The beautiful stone residence, now owned by 
Ohio Wesleyan University and known as Art 
Hall, was the familiar residence of Mrs. Geo. 
W. Campbell, daughter of Wm. Little, Sr. 
William Little. Sr., was the first treasurer of 
the Delaware County Agricultural Society, or- 
ganized in 1833. He was a charter member 
of Hiram Lodge, No. 18, F. & A. M.. of which 
he also was first senior deacon. 

Charles ( His Little was educated at Ken- 
yon College and bad as a classmate and friend. 
Colonel James Ixilbourn, of Columbus, who 
belonged to the same fraternity, Delta Kappa 
Epsilon. He studied law and was admitted to 
the bar of Delaware County, but never prac- 
ticed his profession. He was for many years 
a director and cashier of the Delaware Sav- 
ings Bank. He was secretary and treasurer 
of one of the early building and loan associa- 
tions which was successful and paid out. He 
also was cashier of the Delaware Savings 
Bank for a vear or two from its organization, 
but resigned on account of ill health and spent 
the last eight years of his life in various parts 
of the country, seeking such relief as changes 
in climate and environment would bring him. 

Mr. Little enlisted, January id. [863, as 
a private in Company H, Ninety-fifth Regu- 
lars, ( ). V. I.; was promoted to sergeant. 
March 5, [864; on July 22, 1865, was trans- 
ferred to Company E, Seventy-second Regu- 
lars, ( ). V. L, and was mustered out August 



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[6, 1865. He was never injured, though on 

occasion a shell hurst at his feet, killing .1 

t near by. He was a fine penman and of 
superior education, and this fact was taken 
advantage of by Colonel William L. McMil- 
len. whose dissipated habits were well known. 
After doing a private's duty all day. Little was 
kept in the headquarters figuring and writ- 
ing •• until the small hours of the morning. 
Though of trail constitution and anything 
but rugged, hebore the imposition without a 
murmur, losing sleep at night and doing .1 
soldier's work every day. This proved too 
much for his comrades' sense of justice and 
they started a movement which resulted in his 
being detailed to duty at Washington. He 
was a member oi George B. Torrence Post, (!. 
A. R.. at Delaware. 

( >ctober 23, 1879. Mr. Little was united in 
marriage with Miss Julia Griswold Howard, 
who comes of pioneer Delaware County 
families on both sides of the house. She is a 
daughter of Henry Howard and Catherine 
(Thomson) Howard, and a granddaughter of 
Caleb and Electa (Griswold) Howard. Caleb 
Howard, the grandfather, came from New 
England and settled at Worthington, Ohio, at 
an early date. In [823 he and Anthony Wal- 
ker formed a partnership and engaged in the 
mercantile business, but continued only a short 
time. It was he. who. with Judge Hosea Wil- 
liams, in the spring of [838, purchased the 

flouring mill and water-power privileges at 
Stratford. They built a tine stone dam and 
on October 1. 1839. began operating a paper 
mill. In the fall of 1844. he sold out to Hiram 
< "1. Andrews. He was a member of Hiram 

ge, No. 18, F. & A. M.. and in 1S54 he- 
came a charter member of Delaware Chapter. 
No. 54. R. A. M.. of which he was first excel- 
lent scribe. Caleb Howard was joined in 
marriage with Electa Griswold. a daughter of 
Ezra Griswold. 

Ezra Griswold, maternal great-grandfather 

of Mrs. Little, was horn in Connecticut and 

accompanied his father's family to Worthing- 

1 Hiio. in 1S03. He died in 1863. at the 

age of 71 years. At an early date he estab- 

■ 1 a paper at Worthington, which he later 



removed to Columbus, and the present Ohio 
State Journal is the outgrowth of this paper. 
He sold this publication and in partnership 
with Judge Smith established The Monitor; 
he soon sold out to his partner, hut being a 
practical printer continued to work at the case 
in the same office tor some time. We next find 
him hack in Worthington where he estab- 
lished the Columbian Advocate and Franklin 
Chronicle, the first issue of which appeared 
January 7, 1820. After the issue of Septem- 
ber 24. 1821. he removed the paper to Dela- 
ware, where the next issue was dated October 
10. 1821, under the name of the Delaware 
Patron and Franklin Chronicle. In an edi- 
torial Air. Griswold says: "The reasons 
which have induced us to move are many: 
but the most important one is the fact that our 
business in this place has been so small that 
we do not realize money enough to purchase 
the paper on which we print, and have been 
compelled to draw from other sources a con- 
siderable portion of the expenses of the es- 
tablishment. We expect, by blending it with 
other business, to proceed with less embarass- 
ment in Delaware." He had the same year 
purchased of Colonel Byxbe what became the 
famous old Griswold Inn, which was located 
on Sandusky Street, the present site of the 
Donovan Hotel. He carried on the business 
of publishing his paper in the hotel until 1N22. 
then moved across the street, and in April, 
1824, moved into a building on the southwest 
corner of Sandusky Street and West Central 
Avenue, which had been erected for a hi tel 
and was ttsed for that purpose for many years 
by Mr. Griswold. Later the name of the pa- 
per was changed to the Delaware Patron and 
Sandusky Advertiser, and appeared under this 
title until May 13, 1830, when it was changed 
to the Ohio State Gazette and Delaware 
County Journal. The following January, Mr. 
Griswold sold the paper to Wm. Milliken & Co. 
who changed the name of the paper to the 
Delaware Journal, but he continued as its edi- 
tor. Evidently the sale was not finally consum- 
mated, as Mr. Griswold remained with the 
paper and on December jj. 1834. sold it to 
G. W. Sharpe. retiring at that time from the 



870 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



field of journalism. He was elected associate 
judge of the Common Pleas Court of Dela- 
ware County by the Legislature in [832, and 
filled the office until 1842. In 1846 Judge 
Griswold made an addition to Delaware of 
26 lots, located between Franklin and Liberty 
Streets, through the center of which (iris- 
wold Street passes. Fraternally, he was a 
member of Hiram Lodge. No. 18, F. & A. M.; 
and in 1853 was a charter member of Dela- 
ware Chapter. No. 54. R. A. M.. of which he 
was the first most excellent high priest. 

Henry Howard, father oi Mrs. Little, was 
born in the old Griswold Inn. at VVorthington, 
Ohio, and died < (ctober 2 1 . [807, at Cuyahoga 
Falls. Ohio, aged 85 years. In his youthful 
days he attended the common schools and later 
Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio. He went 
to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and engaged in the 
manufacture of paper until the nijills there 
were destroyed by lire, after which he went 
on the road as a traveling salesman. He mar- 
ried Catherine Thomson, a daughter of Wil- 
liam Thomson, of Delaware. The genealog) 
of the Thomson family is traceable hack to 
"lie oi the ancient clans of Scotland. Seven 
children bless this union, six of whom grew 
to maturity, namely: Mary, of Cuyahoga 
halls; Catherine, now deceased, formerly wife 
of J. H. Smith, a hardware merchant of Co- 
lumbus; Julia Griswold f Little 1 ; Fannie, wife 
of Charles Howland, of Cuyahoga Falls; 
Elizabeth, who became the second wife of J. 
II Smith; Jessie, who died in infancy; and 
Charles Henry, who resides at the old home 
in Cuyahoga halls. Religiously, all were mem- 
bers of the Episcopal Church at Cuyahoga 
halls. When Mrs. Little's father enlisted in 
the Civil War, he left a wife ami seven chil- 
dren behind him. I [is wife, a woman of faith, 
plucky and very capable, and withal a woman 
"i very attractive appearance, upon learning .if 
her husband's determination to go to the front, 
remarked: "All right; if it is the Lord's will. 
it must he so." I [ e sent home all his pay, 
and during his absence she nol onlj provided 
for the young and growing family, but saved 
money enough to buy a house and lol on 
Broad Street, one of the most beautiful resi- 



dence streets in Cuyahoga Falls. After liv- 
ing in this In line ior 40 years, they had the 
misfortune of being burned out, but the L 
was immediately rebuilt. 

Charles Otis and Julia G. (Howard) Lit- 
tle became parents of three sons, as follows: 
John Howard, now a resident of Columbus; 
Charles Stanley, a member of the Class of 
1910. in Ohio Weslevan University; and Wil- 
liam Henry, a student in the Class of 1912. 
Religiously, our subject was a devout member 
nf St. Peter's Episcopal Church, of which he 
was junior warden for a period of 2$ years. 
A man oi the highest Christian character he 
observed the strictest interpretation of the 
word "honest}" in his business dealing-, and 
he was not only held in highest esteem, but 
we may safely say he was without an enemy 
in the world. Mrs. Little, a woman of culture 
and charming personality, resides in a beauti- 
ful home on West Winter Street. 




EARLY FRANKLYN POP- 

I'LLTOX. in whose death, which 
occurred May <>. 1899, Delaware lost 
mie of the most distinguished men 
who ever claimed that city as home, 
was a man of exceptional ability as a lawyer 
and statesman. He had a very extensive prac- 
tice during the 38 years of his professional 
career in that city, and was called upon to rep- 
resent the people in the Ohio State Senate, and 
later in the halls of Congress. 

Mr. Poppleton was born at Belleville, 
Richland County. Ohio, September 29, [834, 
and was a son of Samuel and Julia A. ( Smith ) 
Poppleton. He came of a prominent Xew 



England family 



ot English extraction, the 



history of which is traceable back to Sir Wil- 
liam Poppleton, who fought at Marston Moor. 
There is also a town near York, named Pop- 
pleton. Samuel Poppleton, great grandfather 
of our subject, came from the North of Eng- 
land to America some time during the colonial 
days. He was a soldier in the Revolution- 
ary War and was standard bearer with 
Ethan Allen at the taking of Ticonde- 



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871 



roga. He was in the battles oi Crown 
I '"int and Quebec, and at the surrender of 
Cornwallis. Eight times he went out as a 
minute man and participated in eight of the 
battles of the war. lie was buried at Belle- 
ville, Ohio. Daniel Poppleton, grandfather of 
our subject, came from Vermont to Richland 
County, Ohio, where he was among the early 
settlers. He was a farmer by occupation. He 
and three brothers were soldiers in the Conti- 
nental Army during the Revolution. 

Samuel Poppleton. father of Hon. H. F. 
Poppleton, was born in Vermont, July 7, 1793, 
and made the most of a farm boy's educational 
opportunities. In his younger days he united 
with the Methodist Church, in which he was 
subsequently ordained a minister. He enlisted 
fur service during the War of i8r_\ and at its 
close moved to New York State. There he 
was united in marriage with Parthenia Stein- 
beck, who died early in life. He later came 
to Ohio, locating in Richland County, where 
his father had settled; he served as local 
preacher in the M. E. Church and also traveled 
about considerably. In 1839 or l &4°> he em- 
barked in the mercantile business with his 
son-in-law, F. W. Strong, at Mansfield, Ohio, 
and for many years was identified with the 
business interests of that city. Then, in order 
to give his children superior educational ad- 
vantages, he removed to Delaware. Ohio, 
where his death occurred on September 23, 
1864. His second marriage was with Miss 
Julia A. Smith. February 3. 1828, she being 
a native of Canada, where she was born 
February 1. 1808. of New- York parents. Six 
children were born of their union: Emery, who 
for a period of 25 years was secretary of the 
Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad; Cora, wife 
of Judge Lake, of the Supreme Court of Ne- 
braska; Zaida (Linnell), who died at Elyria; 
I 'arthenia. deceased wife of Judge Stevenson 
Burke, of Cleveland; H. H. Poppleton. a 
prominent lawyer of Cleveland, and fur years 
general attorney for the Big Four Railroad 
System : and Early Franklyn. 

Early Franklyn Poppleton received a pre- 
liminary educational training in the schools 
of Belleville and Mansfield. Ohio, supple- 



mented by a course in Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity at Delaware, lie read law under the pre- 
ceptorship of Judge Burke, of Elyria, and was 
admitted to the bar there, in September. [858. 
In 1 801. he came to Delaware and opened an 
office for practice, and for many years there- 
after was identified, either as attorney for the 
plaintiff or defense, with most of the import- 
ant litigation tried in the courts of Delaware 
County. Possessed 'if a keen, perceptive mind, 
a logical reasoner and eloquent speaker, he 
was quick to discern a salient point in an op- 
ponent's case and in forcible language drive 
home a telling blow. He was accredited with 
having the greatest native ability of any law- 
yer who ever practiced at the bar of this 
county. His brilliancy in professional work 
brought public recognition and he was fre- 
quently called upon to serve in official capacity. 
He was fur six years a member of the I 
Council of Delaware, most of that time as 
president of that body. In 1870 he was elected 
tn the Ohio State Senate, and in 1874 to the 
L'nited States Congress, his work in both 
bodies evidencing the highest order of states- 
manship. He was highly esteemed as a man 
of true worth, and his rugged honesty and 
genial nature made him popular with all 
classes. 

Mr. Poppleton, in early life, was married 
tii Miss Adaline Chase, of Detroit, who died 
in 1868, Mr. Frank Chase Poppleton. of Pros- 
pect, being their eldest son. He was married 
the second time to Mary R. Miller, of Dela- 
ware. They have two sons — William Miller 
and Early Samuel. 




LLIAM LITTLE, president of the 
West Side Dime Savings Bank of 
Columbus. Ohio, is well remem- 
bered by the citizens of Delaware. 
Ohio, as a resident of that city, 
where he was prominently identified with the 
banking interests for a period of thirty year-. 
He was born in Columbus, July 5. 185 t . and is 
a son of Dr. John A. and Caroline V. 1 Wil- 
liams ) Little. 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



Dr. John A. Little was bom in Delaware. 
Ohio, December 7, [825, and came of a 
prominent old family of that city, the early 
history of which is given in another part oi 
this work. He was educated in the common 
schools and at Kenyon College, after which he 
read medicine under the directions of Dr. 
Jones, of Columbus. He attended lectures in 
the Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and subse- 
quently at the Louisville Medical College. He 
began practice at Sandusky, Ohio, where he 
continued a few years', then moved to Colum- 
bus. He practiced in that city until April, 
[865, at which time he again took up his resi- 
dence in Delaware. He enjoyed a large and 
remunerative practice and continued to reside 
there until his death, which occurred January 
'.v 1<v v7- I'"-' was a member of the Order of 
Odd Fellows at Columbus, lie was joined in 
marriage with Caroline M. Williams, a daugh- 
ter of Judge Eiosea Williams, and they were 
parents of six children, four of whom grew to 
maturity, as follows: William; Carrie, wife 
of 1 harles Converse of San Francisco; Anna, 
wife of Fred II. Avery, of Xew Lexington, 
Ohio; and Alary, wife of W. Linton Pettibone, 

Cleveland. Religiously, Mrs. Little was a 
member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in 
I lelaware. 

William Little attended the public schools 
in Columbus, and after the removal of his 
parents to Delaware attended Ohio Wesleyan 
University. lie entered Delaware County 
National Bank March 1. [870, beginning at 
the lowest round of the ladder in the bank 
business; but by close application to business 
he mastered the details of banking and rose 
step by step until January [3, 1883, he was 
made cashier of this institution. Courteous 
and accommodating, but withal a conservative 
and practical man. his success in that position 
was assured and hi rilled it with credit to him- 
self and the institution until August, 1900. In 
the latter year he returned to Columbus and 
assisted in organizing the West Side Dime 
Savings Bank, of which he became cashier and 
a director. It was eminently desirable that a 
man of his great experience be at the helm in 



the launching of this new venture, and the 
success of the institution from the first was 
a justification of his selection. He served as 
cashier until March 7, 1906, since which time 
he has filled the office of president. During his 
long career in business he has been identified 
with numerous enterprises, and is at the pres- 
ent time a director of the Sun Manufacturing 
Company, a thriving business enterprise en- 
gaged in the manufacture of novelty goods, 
show cases, cofifee mills and lawn furniture, 
among other things. 

Mr. Little was united in marriage. March 
9. 1882, with Miss Rose Olds, a daughter of 
Joseph H. Olds. M. D., of Circleville. Ohio. 
They have two children — Bessie and William. 
Religiously, Mr. Little and his family belong 
to the Trinity Episcopal Church of Columbus. 
In politics he is a Republican but has never 
sought political preferment. 




County. 



IOMAS WEIANT, justice of the 
peace, residing on his valuable farm 
of 58 acres, in Kingston Township, 
is a leading citizen of this section. 
He was born in Northampton 
, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1835, and is a 
son of Henry and Mary (Sigenfoose) Wei- 
ant. The father of Mr. Weiant was born 
in Prussia-Germany, and the mother was born 
in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. They were 
farming people in comfortable circumstances. 
Their family consisted of three sons and four 
daughters. 

Thomas Weiant is a self-made man. He 
had no school advantages whatever. The 
fifth member of his parents' family, he re- 
mained on the home farm until he was 19 
years of age, when he and his brother William 
decided to strike out for themselves. They 
had n<> capital and it is doubtful if they had 
the approval of their parents, but the}' were 
young, brave and hopeful, and started on the 
long tramp to Licking County, Ohio, with 
tew possessions except their guns. The 
youths were i«; days on the road and reached 
Jacksontown, Licking- County, December 31. 




\ \K( i\ S G< >i ©RICH 




MRS. SARAH II Gl M IDRICH 



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875 



[854. For three years 



Thomas Weiant re- 



mained with his brother, engaged in farm 
\v«»rk. and then hired out to a fanner near 
L'tica, ( Ihio, where he remained until his mar- 
i iage, August 25, 1S70. 

This first marriage was to Mary McKin- 
ley, who was born in Trumbull County, Ohio. 
At death she left three children, namely: 
Robert, residing- in Kingston Township; Alice, 
who married William Dwinnell, residing in 
Kingston Township; and Ida, who married 
Eugene Williams, also residing in Kingston 
Township. Mr. Weiant was married secondly, 
in [872, to Rebecca McKinley, his sister-in- 
law, who was born in Williams County, < )hio. 
There was no issue to this marriage and Mrs. 
Weiant died March 10, 1907. Her burial was 
in the old Eden cemetery at Green Mound. 
Mr. Weiant subsequently contracted a third 
marriage with Catherine I Brewer I Campbell. 
a daughter of Richard Brewer of Erie County. 
Ohio, who originally came from New York 
State, where he was engaged in farming. He 
died May 6, 1890. at the remarkable age of 
108 years. The mother was 87 years old at 
the time of her death. Mrs. Weiant and 
James Brewer, of Erie County, are the only 
survivors of 12 children. 

When first married, Mr. Weiant purchased 
one acre of land, on which he lived until 1865, 
when he bought 15 acres in Radnor Township, 
Delaware County. Here he lived until he 
moved to Bowling Green Township. Marion 
( ounty, where he purchased 50 acres of unim- 
proved land, as an investment, which proved 
a wise 1 me. as in four years he sold out. mak- 
ing Si. 000 on the deal. He then purchased 
Si acre-, in the vicinity, for which he paid $18 
an acre, and this, too, proved a good bargain. 
as eight years later he sold the property for 
$43 an acre. Mr. Weiant then came to Kings- 
ton Township and purchased the farm on 
which he has lived ever since. Although Mr. 
Weiant had no advantages m his youth equal 
to thc^e In- has given his own children, lie is 
a well-informed man. alert in business and in- 
fluential in his neighborh 1. In politics he 

is a Democrat and mi that ticket was elected 
justice of the peace, an office he has filled to 



the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens. He is 
a member of Olive Green Lodge, No 708 
Odd Fellows. 




,LISON EBENEZER GOODRICH, 

a prosperous agriculturist, and one 
"I the leading citizens of Liberty 
Township, Delaware County, was 
horn on his present farm, August 17. 
1851, son of Aaron S. and Sarah (Hardin) 
Goodrich. He is a grandson, on the paternal 
side, of Ebenezer Goodrich, horn in Farming- 
ton, Connecticut, in 1780. who married, in 
1813, Elizabeth Dixon, a daughter of Abel 
Dixon. 

Ebenezer Goodrich came to Worthington, 
Ohio, in 1803, with Col. James Kilbourn, 
grandfather of the present Col. James Kil- 
bourn, (if Columbus, and in 1S05 he settled on 
the present Goodrich farm, situated ten and a 
half miles south of Delaware, in the southeast 
corner of Liberty Township, and on the Olen- 
tangy River. This section was at that time an 
unbroken wilderness, inhabited only by wan- 
dering Indians. Mr. Goodrich built a log cabin 
and set to work to clear a tract of land. He 
suffered the usual hardships and inconven- 
iences of pioneer life, but being industrious, 
brave and persevering, he stuck to his task, 
and in course of time was repaid b) seeing his 
tract of wild land gradually begin to assume 
the appearance of a homestead. The log house 
was replaced by a more comfortable frame 
residence, and this in turn sjave nlace to the 
fine and commodious residence now occupied 
by his grandson, which was erected in [867. 
Ebenezer Goodrich was a prominent man 
among the early settlers. lie served against 
Great Britain in the War of iNi_>. and 
after his return home was elected or appointed 
a justice of the peace. About this time he 
married, as above noted. He died < >ctober 15. 
[846, at the age of sixty-six years.' lie anil 
his wife were the parents of eight children- 
four sons and four daughters — all of whom 
were horn on the farm now occupied by Mr. 
Allison E. Goodrich. The sons were: Aaron 



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daughters 



Edward, William, and Highland; the 
Adeline, who married Hiram 
Payne, and died in Morrow County, Ohio; 
Orvilla, who married Minor P. Tone, and dud 
in Liberty Township; Minerva, who was the 
wife of Samuel Menthorn and lived and died 
on the Goodrich farm, and Sarah, who died 
when young. 

Aaron S. ( ioodrich. son of Ebenezer and 
Elizabeth (Dixon) Goodrich, was bom on the 
parental homestead, October S. 1814. Such 
literary education as he possessed was ob- 
tained in the district school, but though the 
seed was -canty, it fell upon good soil, for he 
was naturally endowed with a high share of 
intelligence, and bad both the will and capac- 
ity tii make the best of his opportunities. The 
knowledge Ik- obtained in the old log school- 
house was supplemented in later years by read- 
ing, for to the end of his life he kept in touch 
with current events, and he had an abundant 
share oi that more practical knowledge which 
comes from mingling with one's fellowmen in 
the daily walks of life, the interchange of ideas 
and individual opinions, and from the faithful 
performance of life's practical duties. More- 
over, be had not only this superior knowledge; 
he hail also what was of much more import- 
ance — character. Jn all that pertained to the 
moral nature, he was a man of high ideals 
based upon the principles of the Christian re- 
ligion, and bis virtues as a neighbor and citi- 
zen caused him to be widely esteemed through- 
out tin township, lie died February 21, 1896, 
when in his eighty-second year, on the farm 
on which he was born, and to the cultivation 
and improvement of which he had devoted his 
active life, lie was a member of Liberty 
I 'resbyterian Church, 

\aron S. Goodrich was married December 
27, [849, to Sarah Hardin, who was born in 
Liberty Township, December 10. [827, a 
daughter of John arid Sarah (Carpenter) Har- 
din. Her father, who was a native of Mari- 
etta. ( )hio, came to Delaware County in 1806, 
and settled in Liberty Township. He was ,, 
on of Isaac Hardin (buried in Liberty ceme- 
i'b.0 was of the old 1 lardin stock of 
Kentucky, and a veteran of the French and 



Indian War. in which he served under Brad- 
dock, and also of the Revolution. In the for- 
mer of these wars he had received a severe 
wound in the head which necessitated the in- 
sertion of a silver plate, and this memento of 
his campaign be was obliged to wear to the end 
of his life. He was the father of a good old- 
fashioned family of nine children, whose names 
were respectively (including the marriage 
names of the daughters): James Hardin, 
Mary Patton, Isaac Hardin, Mahala Conway. 
Nancy Cronkleton, John Hardin. Lydia Rich- 
mond, Sarah Friend and Samuel Hardin. 

Mrs. Sarah (Crpenter) Hardin, mater- 
nal grandmother of Mr. Goodrich, was a 
daughter of Captain Nathan Carpenter, who 
settled in Liberty Township, Delaware Count)-, 
on May 1, 1S01. He was born at Rehoboth, 
Massachusetts, in 1757, and took an active 
part in the Revolutionary War, fighting for 
the independence of the colonies. He served 
at Bunker Hill, where he was wounded, and 
where his brother was killed; also at Saratoga 
and Monmouth. After the battle of Mon- 
mouth he returned home and married Miss 
Irene Reid. He subsequently rejoined the 
army under Washington and fought to the 
close of the struggle. After coming to Dela- 
ware County, he and his wife went through 
the usual pioneer experiences, including 'an 
occasional adventure with Indians. Their 
family in time numbered ten children, who as 
they grew up), became mutually helpful, and 
as other settlers kept coming and the popula- 
tion increased, they were in time placed within 
reach of most of the comforts and conven- 
iences of civilized life. Capt. Carpenter died in 
1814, at the age of fifty-six years, his death 
being the result of an accident. While re- 
turning from Delaware one night on horse- 
back, by the river road, he was swept from his 
horse by the over-hanging branch of a tree and 
fell on the rocks below, sustaining fatal in- 
juries. He was highly esteemed and bis un- 
timely demise was regarded as a great loss to 
the community. 

The children of John and Sarah ( Carpen- 
ter) Hardin were: Solomon, John, Isaac, 
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1, and Laura Hardin, all of whom are now 
' deceased. 

Aaron S. and Sarah (Hardin) Goodrich 
had a family of three children, namely: Alli- 
son Ehenezer (whose name appear- at the 
this article, George Blucher, and Wil- 
liam Hiland. Of the two latter, the follow - 

is a brief record: George Blucher, born 
December 22, 1852, acquired his education at 
Wi rthington and at the Ohio Wesleyan I 
versity, at Delaware. He removed to Okla- 
homa, where for some year- he was engaged 
in the cattle business, lie now resides in 
- -hard, that State, wdiere'he follows the oc- 
cupation of a merchant. He married Fritzie 

h Wright, daughter of Hon. James I 
Wright, of Worthington, Ohio, and has two 
children — George and Margaret. 

William Hiland Goodrich was horn April 
7. 1854, and passed his school days at Worth- 
ing!' n. He went to Kansas, where he en- 
ed successfully in the cattle business in 
Pratt and Barber Counties. He met with an 
accidental death at the early age of twenty- 
nine years. On Thursday. November jo, 
[885, he had accompanied his employes on a 
wolf hunt, and was returning, when his horse 
stepped into a buffalo wallow and fell heavily, 
throwing Mr. Goodrich and falling upon him 
with its entire weight, the saddle striking him 
in the back. He lingered until the following 
Sunday night, when he expired. He was a 
man of fine physique, tall and well formed, and 
his character was such as to make him be- 
loved, both by his employes and by all with 
whom he came into close contact. His death 
brought heartfelt sorrow to a wide circle of 
friends and caused the most poignant grief to 
his parents and the other members of the home 

ily. His remains were brought home and 
now rest in Oak Grove Cemetery. Delaware. 

The distressing death of Mr. William H. 
Goodrich was followed a little over three 
years later by that of his mother. Mrs. Sarah 

drich, who passed away on Sunday. De- 
cember 23. 1888. at the age of sixty years. She 
was a woman of beautiful Christian charac- 
ter — a devoted wife and mother, and as a 
friend and neighbor, one whose departure cast 



a gloom over the entire community. 



She an- 
swered the final call with unshrinking forti- 
tude and a faith that took hold on thing- above, 
looking forward to a happy reunion with her 
ed ones in the presence of her Redeemer. 
Her son. George Blucher, who was hurrying 
home from the \\ est to spend Christmas with 
his mother, arrived too late to behold her alive. 
For her. and such as her, were the words of 
the Master spoken — "Well done, good and 
faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy 
Lord." 



Alii 



I . G01 drich. the remaining member 



of the family, the date of whose birth has 
been already given, acquired his elementary 
education in the district schools, and later en- 
tered the Obi' ) Wesleyan University, from 
which, after a course lasting six years, he was 
graduated in [873, with the degrees of A. B. 
and A. M. For a while after leaving college. 
Mr. Goodrich combined the occupations of 
teaching- school and farming. He is the pres- 
ent president of the School Board of Liberty 
Township, having been a member of it for the 
last twelve years. The major part of ljis time 
has been devoted to improving the old Good- 
rich homestead, of which he is now the owner, 
in which work he has been very successful. He 
was married, in March, 1880. to Miss Jessie 
Youmans, a daughter of William C. and Mary 
(Synder) Youmans, of Liberty Township. 
Mrs. Goodrich's father came to Ohio from 
Xew Jersey in [835, settling first in Licking 
County, whence he came subsequently to Lib- 
ertv Township, Delaware County, his advent 
here being soon after the close of the Civil 
War. Both he and his wife are now deceased. 
his death occurring in [896, when he had at- 
tained the advanced age of eighty-five years. 
Mrs. Youmans. who was born in 1816. died 
December JJ. ig02, at the age of eighty-six. 

Both Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich take a natural 
pride in the beautiful old home of the Good- 
rich family, in which they reside, and where 
they dispense, upon suitable occasions, a gen- 
uine and old-fashioned hospitality. They 
keep up the custom, established more than one 
hundred years ago, and which has since been 
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door to every reputable stranger. Mr. Good- 
rich was for a short time in former years en- 
gaged in mercantile business, but since then Ins 
time has been taken up with the duties pertain- 
ing to the care of the homestead, and those 
connected with public affairs, in which he lias 
taken some part, having served lor some ten 
years as an active member of the Republican 
County Central Committee, in addition to his 
work in connection with the School Board. 
He and his wife are earnest and useful mem- 
bers of the Presbyterian Church, and there are 
few, if any people, more highly esteemed in 
Liberty Township. 




LINTON E. SHARP, a representa- 
tive farmer and stockraiser of Genoa 
Township, where he owns a valu- 
able and well-improved farm, was 
born in Genoa Township, Delaware 
County, Ohio, June 12, 1X46. His parents 
were Stephen and Hester Ann (Oldham) 
Sharp. 

The Sharp family came from New York 
to Ohio, and Garrett Sharp, accompanied by 
his family, settled in Franklin Comity in 
1810. He bought 400 acres of land, the 
greater part of which was situated in Dela- 
ware Count}', and much of this he cleared, 
erecting buildings on several parts of it. He 
lived to the age of 84 years and was the 
father of 14 children. His wile was Anna 
( ii iodspeed. 

Stephen Sharp was born in New York, 
April 23, 1S07, and was a child of three years 
when his father moved to Franklin County. 
He attended the old subscription schools and 
later, for many years, taught school. In child- 
hood he was accidentally injured by fire which 
caused him to partially lose the use of one 
hand. He -was, nevertheless, active in farm 
work and with the assistance of his sons 
cleared up a farm of 117 acres, on which he 
resided until bis death, in his eightieth year. 
He was a man of legal learning and of great 
force ot character and be served so long and 
so efficiently as a justice of the peace that he 



was known all over Delaware County. He 
also assisted in helping the southern slaves to 
escape bv operating one of the stations of the 
Underground Railroad. In politics he was an 
old-line Whig, a Know-nothing, and later 
identified himself with the Republican party. 
In religious belief and observance he was a 
Methodist. Stephen Sharp was married 
(first), February 7, 1833, to Julia Dixon, of 
a pioneer family of Delaware County. At 
death she left one daughter, Emily Ann. In 
1839 Stephen Sharp married (secondly) 
blester Ann Oldham, who was born in New 
Jersey, November 6, 1819. She was seven 
years of age when she accompanied her par- 
ents to Delaware County, where her father, 
Thomas Oldham, cleared up a farm. The chil- 
dren born of Stephen Sharp's second marriage 
were: Andrew Jackson, one who died in in- 
fancy, Clinton E.. William Isaac, Anna C, 
Stephen Alfred. John Wesley (deceased in in- 
fancy 1 and Louis Franklin. All were born 
on the old homestead and all are now deceased 
except the eldest and Clinton E. 

Clinton E. Sharp attended the district 
schools and from boyhood was trained in the 
hard work that falls to the lot of farmer boys. 
For 19 years after marriage. Mr. and Mrs. 
Sharp lived on their farm in Genoa Township. 
In i.XJSN he moved on his present place on 
which he has made all the excellent improve- 
ments. He carries on a general farming line 
and raises considerable stock. Mr. Sharp is 
a charter member of the [as. Price Post of the 
Grand Army of the Republic, and has held all 
the offices. He saw some very hard service in 
the Civil War. On February 20. 1864, he en- 
listed for the three years' service, 111 Company 
A, Sixtieth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel McElroy and 
served until the close of the war as sergeant, 
participating in the following battles : The 
Wilderness, Nye River, Spottsylvania Court 
Mouse, North Ann Harbor. Bethesda Church, 
Shady drove. Cold Harbor, Gaines' Mill, the 
two days' battle and the siege of Petersburg 
aiid the capture of the same. He also wa- 
in the battle of Stedman. He was woun 
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the left fore arm and elbow. He was dis- 
abled for a while but returned to duty in 
tune tn participate in the siege of Petersburg, 
and was mustered out in July, [865. His 
military record shows that he was a brave, 
efficient soldier and is entitled to the esteem in 
which he is held as such. 

Several years after his return from the 
army, on October 21, iN<>8, Mr. Sharp was 
married to Martha A. Hutches, who was born 
in Mifflin Township; Franklin County, Ohio, 
February 24. [846, and is a daughter of Na- 
•than and Mary A. (Williar) Hutches. He 
and his wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and he is a Republican in 
politics. Mrs. Sharp is a charter member of 
Jas. Trice Woman's Relief Corps, X". 80. 

Her father. Nathan Hutches, was h<>ni in 
Muskingum County, Ohio, February 3. 1817, 
where lie was married to Mary A. Williar, who 
was a daughter of John and Rachel Williar, 
and was born in Frederick' County, Maryland, 
May 7. I1S17. and died when 87 years old. 
She came by stage coach to (thin in 1837. 
(Abigail Pretsman, paternal grandmother of 
Ali^. Sharp, died at the remarkable age of 
108 years, and the maternal great-grand- 
mother. Mary Decker, died aged 99. ) In 
[840 they moved to Franklin County and lo- 
cated in Mifflin Township, moving later to 
Blendon Township, where he followed the 
carpenter's trade for some years and then 
cleared up an 80-acre farm and engaged in 
agricultural pursuits, moving to Genoa Town- 
ship, where he bought [go acres, lie cleared 
a part of this land also and was one of the 
most progressive men of his neighborhood, lie 
was the first one to recognize the value of 
tiling and he was a pioneer in raising tine 
stock. He died at Westerville in his eighty- 
third year. His family consisted of eight 
daughters and three sons, namely: I'riscilla, 
Amanda. Jasper X., Samantha. Martha A.. 
Nathan S., Medora and David, twins; Mary 
Luella, Cloa J. and Evelyn, all born in Frank- 
lin County. Jasper served in the One Hundred 
and Thirty-third. < ). V. I., and died in service. 
Mr. Hutches was a Republican and Know- 
nothing in his political views, and was a 
Methodist in his religious belief. 
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QRTLO HILL, a leading citizen of 
Concord Township, belongs to 
old pioneer families which have 
been .identified with the develop- 
ment of this section of Delaware 
County almost from its first days of settle- 
ment. Mr. Hill was born in Concord Town- 
ship, Delaware County. Ohio, on a farm one- 
quarter of a mile distant from his present 
home, April 22, [862, and is a son of Solomon 
and Mary (Jackson) Hill. 

He is a great-great-grandson of Joseph 
Hill, who originally resided in the vicinity of 
Wurtemburg. Germany. At one time this Jo- 
seph became mixed up in a quarrel and dur- 
ing the heat of it struck the other man ami 
thought he had killed him. His friends, being 
of the same belief, advised him to enlist in the 
army. He did so, entering the service in 
Hungary and serving seven years. He subse- 
quently heard from home that the other man 
had recovered, and. in company with 1 _> other 
men. none of whom wanted to spend their 
lives in the Hungarian service, made his 
escape. Providing themselves with cavalry 
horses, they rode to the coast, where they 
swam their horses to a small island about 
half a mile from the coast, from which they 
knew a boat would sail for America. They 
were pursued and fired at. but escaped injury. 
They traded their horses and personal be- 
longings for a passage to this country, and 
after landing in America they went to Penn- 
sylvania. Mr. Hill married in this country. 
He served under Braddock in the French and 
Indian War. and during the rout which fol- 
lowed that rash general's disastrous defeat, 
while driving an amunition wagon, picked up 
a flint-lock rifle, which interesting relic is now 
owned by his great-great-grandson. Murtlo 
11,11. 

The first member of the Hill family to 
come to Ohio from Pennsylvania was Stephen 
Hill, the great-grandfather of Murtlo. lie 
brought his family with him into the wilder- 
ness, reaching Concord Township by means ,,[ 
a row boat on the Scioto River. Here he 
took up 1.300 acres of Government land, and 
it may be well to remark that the subject of 
this sketch is the only one of the Hill name 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



now living on the original tract. He chose 
for his permanent location a spot that re- 
sembled his <ild home in Rostraver Township, 
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where 
the land lav high and dry above a swift cur- 
rent, and he lived to see the wisdom of his 
civ ice. his large family thriving in this health- 
ful place. He married Marium Martin, and 
they had the following children: Rachel, who 
married Joel Marsh, an early settler and 
prominent man of Delaware County; Betsey, 
who married Christopher Freshwater, and re- 
in I oncord ITownship; Sally, Benjamin 
foshua, all unmarried, who resided in the 
sti ne house situated on the west side of the 

to River and were locally known as her- 
mits. Joshua and Sallie never having left their 
home for 40 years. /Mam. who was married 
(first) to Hester Marsh and (second) to 
Mary (Modem and David, Joseph, Stephen, 
Mary and George. At that time Westerville 
Worthington were the nearest markets. 
Hills raised, many hogs and drove them 
back to Pennsylvania to sell, the family mainly 
subsisting on game, which was plentiful, dur- 
ing the early years. The Hill log cabin was 
of the first built in Concord Township, 
and the second Stephen Hill built the first 
1 b ig hi iuse. 

Stephen Hill (2d), grandfather of Murtlo 
Hill, was born in Pennsylvania in [796. He 

impanied his parents to Ohio and died in 
Concord Township in 1N71, aged 7^ years. 
He married Susan Lukenbill, who was horn in 
[805 and died in 1S77, aged 72 years. She 
was a daughter of David Lukenbill whose wife 
was a Croninger, They had nine children — 
Dolly, Kate, Susan. Polly, Margaret. Lydia. 
John, Peter and Henry. 

Stephen Hill (2d) had four children — one 
son and. three daughters, namely: Solomon; 
Sarah Ann. who married John Crawford, is 
now his widow and lives on a part of her 
father's farm; Cynthia, who is the widow oi 
James Craw lord, and resides in the city of 
Delaware; and Elizabeth, who married Henry 
Cole, and resides in Michigan. 

Solomon Mill, father of Murtlo Hill, was 
bom May 28, [825, on the farm in Concord 



Township, on which his father settled and 
where he grew to manhood. The Hills, as 
indicated above, originally owned a large body 
of land in Concord Township, and the Girls' 
Industrial Home now stands on a part of the 
original Hill estate. All of the bricks used in 
the construction of these buildings, with the 
exception of the pressed brick, were made on 
the place. Solomon Hill was clerk at the 
Mansion House, which was the leading hotel 
at White Sulphur Springs, for a number of 
years and for nine years he was postmaster 
and 15 years storekeeper at Rathbone, Ohio. 
and was mainly instrumental in securing an 
overland stage route from Delaware to this 
station. 

Solomon Hill was married (first) to 
Rachel Kilbury (now deceased), and there 
were two children born of that marriage — 
Asa and Melvina, both of whom are deceased. 
In i860 Mr. Hill was married (second) to 
Mar}- Jackson, who was a daughter of William 
and Catherine (McKitrick) Jackson. William 
Jackson was horn January 27, [813, in Stark 
County, ( )lho. and was ii years of age when 
his parents, Francis and Fanny (Diltz) Jack- 
son, came to Licking County, Ohio. The lat- 
ter, who was unable to speak English, had 
been chosen by lottery by her husband, who 
could not speak Dutch, from a ship load of 
maidens, g 1 and virtuous girls, who. accord- 
ing to a common and reputable custom of the 
day had come from a port in Holland for the 
purpose of marrying and accompanying set- 
tlers into the wilderness. She proved a most 

mable woman, one who was helpful to her 
husband in every way and one to whom her 
descendants can refer with feelings of the 
highest respect and deep affection. 

When William Jackson was fifteen years 
old his father died and about a year later he 
secured work on public buildings of various 
kinds, which kept him employed until he was 
_'_' years old. He assisted in building the 
National turnpike road in Licking County, 
which runs but a few feet distant from the 
grave of his father, who was buried on his 
own farm, stepping off the distance for his 
grave before the highway was constructed. 




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In [839 he moved to Jerome Township, Union 
Count}', where he lived until [864. lie then 
removed to Concord Township, Delaware 
( ounty, where he acquired a farm of 236 
acres, on which he died in [894. lie married 
Catherine McKitrick, who died in [890, aged 
71 years. She was a daughter of James and 
Alary 1 Smith ) McKitrick. Her father, who 
was of Scotch-Irish extraction, resided first 
in Licking County, Ohio, and died at the age 
o 97 years, while en route to Oregon after 
having lived in Scioto Township. He was 
twice married and his children were: John, 
James, George, Eliza, Emily, Ann. Susan. 
Harvey and Freeman. James McKitrick 
served as a soldier in the War of 1812. and 
held land warrants from the Government for 
that service. 

To William and Catherine Jackson were 
horn twelve children, five of whom still sur- 
vive, namely: Mar)-, who is the widow of 
Solomon Hill; Elizabeth, who married Harvey 
Turner, and resiJ.es in Licking (/ounty; Susan, 
who married (first) Tillman Seiner, (sec- 
ondlj ) Henry Zimmer, and is now deceased: 
lame-, who married Annie Fox, resides in 
Concord Township; William Hobbs, who was 
a brave soldier in the Civil War. and died in 
the service; Lewis, who newer married, and is 
now deceased: Marcella. who married Stephen 
Xestley. and resides in Licking County; 
Arthur, who married Susan Held, died in 
Concord Township, in September, 1907; 
Emily, who died in infancy; Smith Atwood, 
who died aged 18 months; and Emma, who 
jvas married (first) to Daniel Corbin, (see' 
"iid 1 to Lincoln Diven. and (third) to Albert 
Marctim, resides in West Virginia, and Har- 
vey, who married Anna Zimmers. 

The children of Solomon and Mary ( Jack- 
son 1 Hill were: Ruth, who married Dunbar 
C. Kilhury. resides at Hewitt. Arkansas, and 
has three si .11s — Alarley Cyrus. Frank Richard 
and Robert Murtlo; Murtlo; and Susan, who 
was horn February 10. [872, and died in in- 
fanc\ . 

Murtlo Hill was reared on the old home- 
1 farm and attended school in the neigh- 
borhood, in what was then District No. c, 



but in township changes has become District 
No. 4. after which he went into partnership 
with his father in a mercantile business which 
he continued for 24 years. Failing health 
caused him to sell his store and to turn his 
attention to a more active life, which he finds 
in managing his farm ot 50 acres and in at- 
tending to a farm-implement, buggy and 
wagon business, in which he is in partnership 
with his brother-in-law, D. C. Kilbury. Mr. 
Hill owns other property and is interested in 
other enterprises. He possesses the entire out- 
fit of The Moyer Medical Company, which he 
purchased from Air. Moyer's heirs. 

In 1892 Air. Hill was married to Mollie 
E. Sheen, who was horn at Zanesville, Ohio. 
She is a daughter of Patrick Sheen, of that 
city, where her ancestors were very earl}- set- 
tlers. Air. and Airs. Hill have two children: 
Ruth, who was horn December 10, 181)4, ail( l 
Mary Harland, who was horn March 5. 1897. 
Both daughters attend the same school in 
which their father was educated. 

In National politics, Air. Hill is a Re- 
publican, hut m local matters he makes an inde- 
pendent choice. He is a member of Hiram 
Lodge. No. 18. F. & A. AL. at Delaware, of 
the Red Alen and of the Elks, Tribe Xo. 112, 
at Hyattsville. He belongs also to the Lake- 
side Club, of the latter place. 



having 



IKXKY C. MADDOX, a representative 
agriculturist and leading- citizen of 
Liberty Township, residing on his 
valuable farm of 300 acres, is one of 
the older residents of this section, 
owned this property since 1865. He 
was born December 15. 1832. in Warren 
County. Virginia, and is a son of Bennett Disi .11 
and Mary Ann (Horn) Maddox. 

Both the Maddox and Horn families were 
of Virginia ancestry for generations. The 
paternal grandfather was J. Xotley Maddox, 
who reared his family in Rappahannock 
Count}', where he was a large planter. He 
was a man of military prowess, having served 
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ish. in the War of [812, and in the Whiskey 
Insurrection. The maternal grandfather. John 
Horn, was born in Virginia, but came to Ohio 
in 1830 and lived during- the rest of his life in 
Licking- County, where he gained a local repu- 
tation as a skilled millwright. Bennett Dison 
Maddox, father of Henry C. Maddox, was 
borri December 5, 1804, in Rappahannock 
County, Virginia, and died in Virginia from a 
stroke of paralysis, Ma\ 28, 1874. lie re- 
moved in early manhood, to Warren County, 
where he acquired much property and there 
reared his large Family of thirteen children, 
five sons and five daughters reaching maturity. 
< If these. Henry C. was the eldest. Three 
children died in infancy and the following sur- 
vived to take an active pari in life's struggle: 
John X.. residing on the old homestead in 
Warren County, Virginia; Elizabeth, de- 
ceased; William B., deceased; Martha. Lucy, 
Hester, and Herselia, all widows, residing in 
Virginia; Bennett, who served in the Con fed 
erate army, and died from wounds received 
when raiding with Colonel Mosby; Travis S.. 
residing in Augusta County, Virginia; and 
Duncan, formerly a resident of ( )hio, who died 
at Lexington. Kentucky. 

Henry C. Maddox was reared on his fa- 
ther- plantation in Virginia and attended the 
subscription schools in his boyhood. In [857 
he came to Ohio, and on April 22. 1858. he- 
was married at Delaware to a young lady 
who was a student at the time in the Delaware 
Female Seminary, now the Wesleyan. She 
was Elizabeth A. Frederick, a daughter of 
John and Catherine Frederick. They came at 
an early day to Ohio from Virginia and set- 
tled first in Licking County, moving thence to 
Granville. Later. Mr. Frederick built a mill 
on the Scioto River in Delaware County that 
was long known by his name. Loth Mr. and 
Mrs. Frederick spent their last years at the 
home of Mr. Maddox. A son died 111 Illinois. 
Mrs. Maddox being the only survivor of her 
family. 

In his younger years, Mr. Maddox worked 
as a carpenter and assisted in the building of 
the Girls' Industrial Home, of Delaware' 

inty. After turning his attention to farm- 



ing, he rented land for four years, making 
his first purchase in 1865 of 140 acres of his 
present farm. To this he continued to add un- 
til he now owns 300 acres of some of the 
finest soil of Delaware County. He found 
here a primitive log house and log barn. In 
[879 he started the erection of his present 
commodious brick house, which was speedily 
completed, and finished with the care that his 
knowledge of building insisted 011. He has 
made main- other improvements and owns a 
property of which he has every reason to he 
pri aid. 

Air. and Mrs. Maddox have had eight chil- 
dren, namely: Olive, Frederick L.. Harry, 
Ralph B., John W*.. Catherine. Floy and Ruth. 
Olive I- the widow of James B. Andrews, who 
died in 1904. Their one son. Henry Simon, 
died m [901. Frederick T. married Cora Wil- 
lis, a daughter of Brainard Willis, and for the 
past ten years they have resided in Chicago, 
Illinois. Harry, who owns a large farm in 
Delaware County, married Alchea Hamilton. 
daughter of Robert Hamilton, of Delaware. 
He has two sons. Robert ami Charles. Ralph 
B. married Addie Glick, daughter of Cass and 
Susan (Hick, and owns a larm in Delaware 
County. John W. married Clara Grumley, 
daughter of Sebastian Grumley, of Libert) 
Township, and they have two daughters. Mary 
and Garnett. They own a farm in Delaware 
County. Catherine married Charles Gooding. 
a son of Frank Gooding, of ( (range Township. 
and thee have one son, Frank, and they also 
own a farm in Delaware County. Floy mar- 
ried Harry Gooding and they have two s, ms. 
Bennett and Harold, and own a farm in Dela- 
ware County. Ruth married John (). Good- 
ing, of Orange Township, and they have one 
daughter. Ada. Mr. Gooding deals in hay 
and gram, at Lewis Center. 

Mr. Maddox has always been identified 
with the Democratic nartv. but he has never 
sought political preferment. During the Civil 
War, four of his brothers served in the Con- 
federate army, lie was then living in Ohio 
and received a commission as lieutenant, but 
never saw service. For forty-two years he has 
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long period has lived at peace with his neigh- 
bors, has assisted in upholding the laws of the 
land, has worked with his fellow-citizens for 
the general welfare and each year has widened 
his circle of friends and well-wishers. lie is 
an honest, upright man in business, a liberal 
contributor to charitable objects, and a man 
whose judgment is consulted and whose ad- 
vice is taken on all matters of local importance. 




OL. GEORGE B. DONAVIN, a dis- 
tinguished citizen and business man 
of Columbus, Ohio, was for many 
years prominently identified with 
the business interests of the city of 
Delaware. He was founder and is president 
i if the various George B. Donavin enterprises 
of Columbus, which include: The George B. 
Donavin Co., dealing in uniforms and mili- 
tary merchandise, of which he is also manager. 
Mr. S. ( i. Smith being secretary and treasurer; 
The Capitol Clothing Company, makers of the 
Capitol Hand Made Clothing, of which Mr. 
J. A. Metcalf i^ secretary and manager; and 
the Quad Stove Manufacturing Company, of 
which Mr. J. M. Armstrong is secretary and 
manager. 

Colonel Donavin was horn in Mt. Vernon, 
Ohio, August 27. 1858. and is a son of John 
Wesley and Catherine (Trone) Donavin. His 
great-grandfather. John Donavin, was the first 
of the family to locate on American soil, com- 
ing at an early day from the North of Ire- 
land. He was originally a weaver by trade 
and upon shipping, signed his name Donovan 
and gave his trade as that of a weaver. He 
was taken from the vessel by the King's 
Guard because tradesmen were not allowed 
to leave the country, and for this reason he 
renounced his trade. He then signed as Dona- 
vin. changing the spelling of his name, and 
gave his occupation as that of laborer. Hav- 
ing renounced his trade for the purpose of 
emigrating, his conscience forbid him return- 
ing to it. and he worked as a laborer and 
farmer the remainder of his days. He died 
in [864. at a very advanced age. He located 



near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, where his 
son. Levi Kirkwood Donavin, grandfather of 
our subject, was horn. The latter, in [869, 
moved to Ohio, where he died in May. 1887. 
at the age of 81 yen-., lie married Mary l\. 
McConnell, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 
who was horn in [800 and died in [894 

John Wesley Donavin was born in Ship- 
pensburg. Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 
February id. 1833. and there received his 
educational training in the common schools. 
He learned the trade of a cigar maker, and 
followed it in his native place and at Mt. 
Vernon, Ohio, whither he moved in 1853. He 
continued his trade at the latter place about 
four years, then entered the employ of George 
B. Potwin, a wholesale grocer. In 1864 he 
came to Delaware, Ohio, and established a re- 
tail grocery and produce business, in partner- 
ship with his former employer, under the firm 
name of Donavin & Potwin. This con- 
tinued until the death of Mr. Potwin three 
years later, when his interest was purchased 
by John Stough, a brother-in-law of Mr. 
Donavin. The firm of Donavin & Stough con- 
tinued until 1870, after which Mr. Donavin 
carried on the business alone until 1873. '* 
being located where the Candy Kitchen now 
is. He then sold out to organize, instruct and 
manage the Original Tennesseeans. an organi- 
zation of singers under the authority of the 
Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, which attained fame through- 
out this country. It was the most successful 
venture of the kind ever undertaken, the or- 
ganization continuing for a period of 13 years, 
and under the capable management of Mr. 
Donavin was a distinct financial success. They 
sang plantation melodies and appeared in 
nearly everv state in the Union, and we may 
safely say no man did more to bring the name 
of Delaware prominently before the people 
than did Mr. Donavin. He made friends by 
the thousands in all parts of the country, and 
was particularly well known to the Metho- 
dists, from the highest dignitaries t«> the sex- 
tons of the church. He was endowed with 
unusual natural ability as a choral director. 
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E. Church choir from [864 until 1873, and 
was director of the Harmonic Society, a 
chorus of go voices. In (868 lie organized a 
political glee club, composed of girls whose 
ages ranged from [2 to 18 years, which sang 
political songs and became famed throughout 
the district. From that time until his death he 
was depended upon by the Republican cam- 
paign managers to furnish the music. In 
1883 Mr. Donavin and his sons, Levi K. and 
George B., purchased the American House in 
Delaware, which they remodelled in 1885, and 
the hotel ha-- since been operated under the 
name of The Hotel Donavin. John W. Dona- 
vin retired from the amusement business in 
1886, and thereafter conducted the hotel until 
his death. June 28, [893. 1 le was a man much 
loved and respected, and his death was 
mourned as an irreparable loss to the com- 
munity in which he had lived so many wears, 
lie was united in marriage with Catherine, 
a daughter of Charles Trone, of Shippens- 
burg, Pennsylvania, and they had three chil- 
dren, as follows; I.. Kirkwood, of Colum- 
bus; Colonel George B. ; ami Marie, a pro- 
fessional concert singer of New York City, 
whose musical training was had under Madame 
Marchesi of Paris. Religiously, he ami his 
wife were both active members of the Wil- 
liam Street M. E. Church. Next to religion 
came politics with him, and although he was 
always an active worker for Republican suc- 
cess, be was never an office seeker. He was 
honored b) Ins party with the nomination for 
State Senator at, one time, but as the district 
was then overwhelmingly Democratic, the 
odds againsl him were too heavy and he was 
I le joined 1 brain I ,odge, No. t8, 
b. & A. M., in the earl) sixties; and Delaware 
Lodge, K. I'., in [888. 

ge !'>. Donavin attended the public 
schools of Delaware, and Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, after which he entered upon his busi- 
career. lie was firsl clerk an- T. C. 
O'Kane when be opened. Ins bookstore, on 
September i. [873, ami o ntinued in that em- 
ployment for two years. lie then learned the 
trade .if a printer with the Delaware Herald, 
and in 1878 joined his father as advance 



agent for The Tennesseeans. He remained 
with that organization until August. 1885, 
when I Intel Donavin was opened with him as 
manager, lie continued in that capacity until 
October, 1889. then was with the Delaware 
Electric Light Company one year as manager. 
At the end of that time he purchased a one- 
third interest in the clothing business of R. S. 
Stern & Co., now known as the Standard 
Clothing Company. In 1893 ne purchased the 
Steiai interest and changed the name of the 
firm to George B. Donavin & Co. In June. 
[895, a branch store was established in Co- 
lumbus under the name of the Capitol Clothing 
I o.. with John A. Metcalf as half owner and 
manager. The business was incorporated in 
April, 1902, with Air. Donavin as president. 
and is one of the largest and most successful 
clothing houses in the city. January 1. [898, 
the Delaware store was moved to Columbus 
and consolidated with the Capitol. In con- 
junction with Mr. Joseph A. H. Myers, he, in 
1897, invented the army cooking stove, and 
April. [898, Mr. Metcalf succeeded to Mr. 
Myers interest. For three vears these port- 
able cooking ranges were sold to the United 
States Government under the firm name of 
George B. Donavin & Co., and sub-contracts 
let to stove manufacturers. The business grew 
with such rapidity that it was derided to or- 
ganize a new company to engage in their 
manufacture, and in April, 1901, the Quad 
Stove Manufacturing Company was incor- 
porated, with Mr. Donavin as president and 
John M. Armstrong, formerly of Pumphrey 
& Armstrong of Delaware, as secretary and 
general manager. In 1907 the company 
erected a two-story brick building on First 
Avenue, east of High, where they have since 
conducted a thriving business. The George 
B. Donavin Company was a part of the busi- 
ness in Delaware as early as 1X1)4. making 
uniforms and military merchandise. It was 
moved to Columbus and was maintained as a 
departmenl of the Capitol Clothing Company, 
until January. 1007. Its growth made it 
necessary to seek larger quarters and separate 
incorporation, with the result that the George 
B. Donavin Company was incorporated and 




HENRY C. VOUNG 




MRS. EMMA II YOUNG 



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installed at Nos. 9-17 South High Street. 
Mr. Donavin is a director in the Security 
Savings Bank Company, and has other busi- 
ness interests. 

Colonel Donavin became a member "i 
Hiram Lodge, No. [8, F. & A. M., at Dela- 
ware, and now holds membership in Magnolia 
Lodge. No. ji\ at Columbus; lie is a mem- 
ber of ( )lentangy Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Dela- 
ware, and assisted in the organization of Dela- 
ware Lodge, No. 76, B. P. O. E., of which 
he was secretary four years and is past exalted 
ruler. He was one of the members of the 
original Lodge, I. 0. R. M. He has been 
especially prominent in the work of the 
Knights of Pythias. He joined Lenape 
Lodge. No. 29, in July, 1882, of which he is 
past chancellor and for 12 years has served as 
grand master of exchequer of the State of 
Ohio; he also was Sir Kinght in Delaware 
Division. No. 14. I'. R. K. I'., beginning in 
1882. He was elected lieutenant and then 
became quartermaster of the First Regiment, 
and was appointed colonel and assistant com- 
missary general of the Ohio Brigade. I'. R. 
K. P., now serving as colonel on the retired 
list. He became a member of Company K, 
of Delaware. Fourth Regular 0. X. G. and 
was detailed as assistant to the quartermaster 
of the regiment. In 1893 he was commissioned 
captain and quartermaster of the regiment, 
and as such was mustered into the service of 
the Lnited States in 1898. serving under Gen- 
erals Miles. Brookes and Grant in the Porto 
Rican campaign. In January, urn. he was 
appointed colonel and assistant quartermaster- 
general bj Governor Nash, and served ioui 
years in that office, then being placed on the 
retired list with the rank of colonel. 

Colonel Donavin was united in marriage 
with Edith S. Jones, a daughter of David S. 
and Lenore Joins. ,,f Marion. Ohio, and they 
have three children, namely: Lieutenant 
Charles S., Twenty-seventh United States In- 
fantry, was graduated from West Point in 
1905. and served in Cuba during [906-1907. 
April 30. 1908. he was detailed as instructor 
in the United States Military Academy, 



where he will he stationed for four years, lie 
was horn May 1 _'. [882; Kirkwood H., horn 
June [6, t886, is a member of the Class of 
[908 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, 
Maryland, and has been assigned duty on the 
battleship Kentucky, with the fleet now g 
abound the world; Mary Lenora, horn >< 
tolier id, [890, is receiving her educati 
training at (iunston Hall, Washington. I). ('. 
Religiously, Colonel Donavin and his family 
are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church 
at Columbus. lie is an unswerving Re 
publican in politics, and while a resident of 
Delaware took an active part in the affairs of 
his party. He served four years as treasurer 
of Delaware Township. He is a man repre- 
sentative of the highest type of citizenship, 
has made a success of everything he has under- 
taken, and enjoys the confidence and esteei 
the people to a marked degree. 




ENRV CLAY YOUNG, for three 
years a justice of the peace ami one 
of the prominent citizens of Genoa 
Township, resides on his valuable 
farm of 250 acres, which he devotes 
to farming and stock-raising. Pie was horn in 
Noble County, Ohio, January 30, [856, and 
is a son of Henry James and Mar) A. ( Da- 
vidson ) Young. 

Henry James Young was born near P 
dence, Rhode Island, in 1819, and was six 
years old when his parents came to ( )hio and 
settled in Noble County. Their condil 
were such that it became necessary for them to 
permit their son, Henry James, to 1 
out until he was sixteen years of age. when he 
started ou! for himself, with al 
capital, and from that time on made his 
way in the world. That he was industi 
and that he possessed unusual jr. 
shown by the fact that by the I 
fort}' years old he was worth 1, having 

made it all by farming and raising tob 
He owned 2,500 acres of land in \ 
lit v. For some forty vears he was a local 



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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



preacher in the Methodist Church. Politically, 
he was a Republican. He married Mary A. 
Davidson, who was born in Virginia ami was 
brought l>v wagon to Noble County in her 
childhood. They were the parents of four 
sons and three daughters. Henry James 
Young died in Noble County in 1890. 

Henry Clay Young was reared in Noble 
Comity, where he attended school through 
boyhood. He later taught school for about 
thirteen years and also assisted on his lather's 
farm. In 1890 he left Noble County and' 
moved to Columbus, where he worked for the 
streel railway company ami was a conductor 
on their lines for twelve years.. In 1901 he 
came to Delaware County and settled on his 
present farm, which lie had bought two years 
previously. He has made many tine improve- 
ments here, including the laying of eight miles 
of tiling, lie carries on general fanning and 
stock-raising and has paid particular attention 
to sheep breeding. 

Mr. Young was married in Guernsey 
County, in 1880, to Emma 1. Houseman, who 
was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, and who 
is a daughter of William and Elizabeth 
1 rhompson) Houseman. William Houseman 
was a man of large means, a general merchant 
for man) years at the village of Senecaville. 
lie died from the effects of an accident Oc- 
tober 10. [871. Mrs. Young's grandfather, 
William Thompson, donated the land on which 
the town was built. He died in 1831 during a 
cholera epidemic. He was judge of the Com- 
mon I 'leas Court. Mrs. Young was liberally 
educated and taught school and also instru- 
mental music, possessing decided musical tal- 
ent. Air. and .Mrs. Young have one son, 
Carl Houseman, who was born in Noble 
County, \ngust 17. [881, ami is now a prac- 
ticing attornex al < < ilumbus. 

Mr. Young has been a very active mem- 
ber ol the Republican party in this section for 
many years and for six years has served as a 
delegate to the county conventions. At present 
be is serving as a member of the township 
School Board, and is justly considered a thor 
oughly representative citizen. 




IOMAS W. DISBENNETT.* an en- 
terprising young business man -of 
Radnor. Ohio, who has been promi- 
nently identified with the various 
interests of the village for some 
years, was born October 16, 1873. ' n Union 
County, Ohio, and is a son of Noah and 
.Mary C. ( Hodge) Disbennett. Noah Dis- 
bennett was born in Hocking County, Ohio. 
and his wife in Union Count}-, and they are 
now well-known residents of Raymond, in the 
latter county. 

Thomas W. Disbennett received bis edu- 
cation in the schools of bis native locality, and 
in 1892 came to Delaware County, where for 
si ime years he was engaged as a o >oper in 
the employ of M. Meredith, proprietor of the 
Meredith Lime Kilns. In 1904 he engaged 
in the manufacture of drain tile, and his busi- 
ness has grown to large proportions, his pres- 
ent plant being well equipped for the manu- 
facture of all kinds of drain tile, from three 
to eighteen inches in diameter. In connection 
with this he operates a saw-mill and cider- 
press, and with his brother, J. R. Disbennett, 
engages in threshing, under the firm name of 
Disbennett Brothers, having a large patronage 
among the farmers of Delaware County. Mr. 
Disbennett gives his business his personal at- 
tention and watches his output so that the 
standard is kept up to the point which first 
attracted attention and caused continued 
growth. He is progressive, wide-awake and 
thoroughly modern in his ideas and puts upon 
the market goods which cannot be duplicated 
at a less price. He is substitute mail carrier 
011 Rural Free Deliver}- Route No. 2. 

On December 12, 1895. Mr. Disbennett 
was married to Rachel Meredith, who is a 
daughter of Al. Meredith, count}- commis- 
sioner of Delaware Count}-, and a well-known 
business man of Radnor Township. Three 
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Dis- 
bennett : Howard M.. Thomas A. and Bessie 
C. In political matters. Mr. Disbennett is a 
Democrat. He is fraternally connected with 
Radnor Lodge. No. 250, of Odd Fellows, and 
with the Masonic order at Prospect, Ohio. 



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1 me < if the fi nuul- 



if tlie leading families of Genoa 



leading member of the Methodist 



MANUEL ALKIRE,* 
ers 

Township and for many years an 

hi inured citizen and successful farmer 

of Delaware County, was born in 

Franklin County, Ohio, February 23, [847, 

and died August .20, 1902. His parents were 

William and Mary (Riser) Alkire. 

The Alkire family is of German extraction. 
William Alkire was born in Lewis County, 
West Virginia, and accompanied his parents to 
Franklin County in [827, settling on what 
was called Big Run near the Scioto River. 
His father. John Alkire. had served in the 
War of the Revolution. From Franklin 
County William Alkire came to Delaware and 
In tight a farm of [20 acres on which he lived 
until his death. He was a life-long Republi- 
can in his political views. For main years 
he 
Episcopal Church. 

Emanuel Alkire was reared in Franklin 
County and was married August jo. 1873. to 
Sarah J. Rammelsburg, who is a daughter of 
the late William Rammelsburg. who was horn 
in Hanover, Germany. He came to America 
with his parents when he was three years old 
and he was left an orphan, his parents dying 
of cholera at Columbus. Near that city Wil- 
liam Rammelsburg married Henrietta Clau- 
-011, also of German descent, and they had two 
sons and four daughters. He bought a farm 
oj 120 acres in Genoa Township which he 
improved and lived on until his death. In 
politics be was a Democrat: in religious faith. 
a Universalist. 

After marriage Emanuel Alkire moved on 
the place still occupied by his widow, having 
fallen heir to 30 acre- of valuable land, to 
which he added 10 acres, putting the whole 
under fine cultivation, and making also all 
the substantia] improvements. Mr. and Mr-. 
Alkire had the following children born to 
them: Mary. William. Florence, Emma and 
Jacks, in, the only survivor being the youngesl 
-on. Mr. Alkire always took an intelligent 
interest in public matters and was ever ready 
to promote progress and good feeling in his 



own community. lie was a Republican in 
politics. 

In [906 the Alkire family, a numerous one 
in tin- section of Ohio, held a notable family 
reunion and representatives were present from 
many other States. This widely known family 
has always been noted for its many sterling 
characteristics, and those who bear the name 
at present are walking worthil) in the foot- 
steps of their forebears. 




ill.X H. CARTER.* a representative 
agriculturist of Marlborough Town- 
ship. Delaware County. Ohio. who. 
with his brother William, owns 
and operates the Carter Brothers' 
farm, a tract of 640 acres of excellent land, 
was born May -'3. 1830. in Belmont County. 
( )hio. and is a son of Hugh and Nancy ( Cash) 
Carter. 

Hugh Carter was born in Washington 
County, Pennsylvania, in 1N07. and as a boy 
came to Ohio with his parents, settling in Bel- 
mont County, where he was reared to man- 
hood. In 1837, after his marriage, he re- 
moved to Troy Township. Delaware County, 
where he became an early settler, and there 
the remainder ot his life was spent, his death 
occurring December 25, 1888. Hugh Carter 
was a hard-working and industrious farmer, 
and his passing away lost to Troy Town-hip 
one of its representative men. 

fohn H. Carter was about nine months of 
age when taken by his parents from Belmont 
County to Delaware County, and here he was 
reared and received his education. Since at- 
taining his majority he has been engaged in 
farming and stock-raising, and with bis 
brother William operates the well known 
Carter Brothers' farm of (40 acres, one of the 
most valuable in Marlborough Township. In 
political matters Mr. Carter is a Republican. 
With his wife he attends the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church at Norton, Ohio. 

On October 14. [866, Mr. Carter was mar- 
ried to Elizabeth Mayfield, who was a daugh- 



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ter of James and Jane Mayfielcl (both now- 
deceased ). who were former residents of Marl- 
borough Township. There were four children 
horn to Mr. and Mrs. Carter, two of whom 
survive — Mary, who is the wife of Watson 
Shaw, resides at Butte, Colorado: and Wil- 
liam C. 




OHX J. COOK,* a prosperous farmer, 
owning two hundred acres of land in 
Harlem Township. Delaware County, 
^J < Ihio, comes of one of the oldest fami- 
lies of tlie county. Ik- was born in 
this township December 14, [868, is a son of 
John, Sr., and Helen (Tompkins) Cook, and 
a grandson of Benjamin Cook. 

Benjamin Cook, the grandfather, was born 
in New Jersey, and was one of the pioneers 
of Delaware Count), Ohio, where he located 
about the year of [800. 1 [e at that time made 
the first purchase of land recorded in Harlem 
Township, buying of a nian named Duncan 
nearly 4,000 acres of tiniherland. There he 
led a home, made a clearing and followed 
fanning the remainder of his life. He was 
married before coming to this country and his 
large estate was divided among his six chil- 
dren, much of it being still owned hv his de- 
scendants. 

John Cook, Sr.. was born on the old home- 
stead in Harlem Township, and was educated 
in the primitive schools of that period. He 
came into possession of e s of the old 

1 00k farm, which he cleared ami improved, 
ting a home and good substantial farm 
buildings. He was a prosperous man and was 
highly regarded by hi- fellow-citizens. He 
lived to a ripe old age, dying in his 82nd year. 
I [e married Helen Tompkins, who was born in 
New York State and was a young girl when 
her parents came west to 1 >hii . I [er father 
conducted the first mercantile establishment in 
the town of Harlem, where he lived until the 
latter years of his life when lie moved to the 
West. Air. and Airs. Cook became parents of 
six children, two sons and four daughters. 



John J. Cook was reared on the old home 
place in Harlem Township and attended the 
public schools of the home district. Earlv in 
life he began farming and this has been his life 
work. When married he mined to his present 
farm of two hundred acres, made many im- 
provements, and now has one of the most val- 
uable farm properties in this section of the 
county. Energetic and of undoubted ability 
he has made a success of his work and takes 
rank among the substantial citizens of Har- 
lem. 

John J. Cook was married November 23. 
[892, t.i Miss Millie Gorsuch, who was horn 
in Harlem Township and is a daughter of Da- 
vid Gorsuch, who also was a native of that 
township. Her grandfather came here from 
the East early in the Nineteenth century. Four 
children were born of this union: Forrest J.; 
Harry Dean; Byron, deceased; and Eunice F. 
( lur subject has been a life long Republican and 
has taken an earnest interest in the success of 
that party. Fraternally, he belongs to the 
Knights of Pvthias. 




B. MATTHEWS,* chief of police, 
of Delaware, of which city he has 
been a resident for 18 years, was 
born in 1869, in Gallia County. 
Ohio, and came to Delaware 
Count) in [889. 

i laving his own way to make in this world. 
Air. Matthews. In earl)- manhood, worked first 
on a farm and then engaged in draying for a 
time, subsequently embarking in a grocer)' 
business, which he conducted for two years. 
He then became a member of the Delaware 
ce force and after serving four years, was 
made city marshal and served in that position 
fi r two years, when he was re-elected for two 
\ears nmre. carrying the city by the largest 
vote polled. After serving one year, the now 
code was adopted and be was then appointed 
chief of police, a position he has held until 
the present, a period of 11 years, and his ef- 
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time he has never been called before the Mayor 
or the- Board of Safety to explain any of his 
acts or orders. Aside from his official busi- 
ness, he has engaged in considerable real es- 
tate dealing, buying, selling' and building. 

In March. [880, Chief Matthews was 
married to Alice R. Goddard, who was born 
and reared in Delaware County and is a 
daughter of 11. C. Goddard. They have three 
children, namely: Pearl, Hazel and Eleanor. 
With his family, Mr. Matthews belongs to the 
Presbyterian Church. He is a charter mem- 
ber of the Ohio Police Association and has 
served as secretary of the same and belongs 
also to the International Association ol * hiefs 
of Police. He belongs also to the Masonic 
fraternity. 




NRY U. KISTLER, M. D.,* a suc- 
cessful physician and surgeon lo- 
cated at Sunbury, Delaware County, 
Ohio, and one of the town's leading 
and representative citizens, was horn 
March 25, [879, at Lancaster, Ohio, and is a 
son of Samuel A. and Florida (Lindley) 
Kistler. 

Samuel Kistler, the Doctor's grandfather. 
was a native of Berks County, Pennsylvania, 
and an early settler in the vicinity of Carroll, 
Ohio, where he died aged about 80 years, hav- 
ing -pent his life in agricultural pursuits. His 
wife, who was horn in Fairfield County, ( Ihio, 
was accidentally killed in middle life. They 
had [2 or 13 children. On the maternal 
Dr. Kistler'- grandfather was Ziba Lindley, 
a tanner, who was horn in Athens County. 
Ohio. His wife was Mary Bartlett, and they 
were the parents of a large family. 

Samuel A. Kistler. who was an attorney 
aw, practiced at 1 er, Ohio, for fifty- 

years, and there his death occurred February 
1. 1899, his wife passing awaj December 9th 
oi the same year. In religions belief she was 
a Cumberland Presbyterian, while Mr. Kistler 
was a member of the German Reformed 
Church. They were the parents of 11 chil- 
dren, as follows: Dr. Samuel L., residing ai 



l.o- Angeles. California; Charles li.. who is 
engaged in farming- near Pickering. Ohio; 
.Mar\- K., who is tin- wife of Dr. Park of Los- 
well, Ohio; Dr. George I'... residing at New- 
comerstown, Ohio: John !■".. who is engaged 
in contracting- at Lancaster, ( Ihio; Florida M.. 
who is the wife of Dr. \\ . V. Sprague of 
Chauncey, Ohio; Daisy l;., who is a teacher of 
elocution at Columbia, South Carolina: Dr. 
Henry B.. whose name begins this article: 
Homer K., who is engaged in civil engineer- 
ing; and two who died in infancy. 

Dr. Henry P>. Kistler was reared in Lan- 
caster. Ohio, where he attended the public 
schools, and in 1898 he entered Sterling Medi- 
cal College,' from which he was graduated in 
[902. In February, 1903. he began practicing 
in Sunbury. where he has since continued with 
much success. His profession connects him 
with the county. State and National medical 
societies, and he also belongs to Sparrow 
Lodge. No. 4(10, of Masons, Sunbury Lodge, 
Knights df Pythias, and Lodge No. 70 of 
Elks of Delaware. Politically he is a Social- 
ist, and he is now serving- as a member of the 
Hoard of Health, and as secretary of that body. 
On April 8. 1903, Dr. Kistler was married to 
Edith Dell McLaughlin, who is a daughter of 
Joseph and Eliza (Danford) McLaughlin. 
One daughter has been born to this union — 
Florida Dell. 

John McLaughlin, the paternal grandfa- 
ther of Mrs. Kistler, was a native of Ireland, 
from which country he came to America and 
settled on a farm in Noble Count}-. 
where he died aged 87 years. lie married 
Man- Taylor, who died at the age of 73 years, 
and the_\- were the parents of nine children. 
On the maternal side. Mrs. Kistler's grandfa- 
ther was Robert Danford, who >rn in 
Noble Count}- and spenl most of his life in that 
section, where be died aged 62 years. 1 It- 
was a soldier during the Civil War. lie mar- 
ried .\Iar_\- A. Groves, who bore him four chil- 
dren and died aged 78 years. 

Joseph McLaughlin, father of Mrs. Kist- 
ler. was a native of < >hio, and was engaged in 
stock dealing at Caldwell. Noble County, 



8g6 



HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY 



where he now lives retired. He served in the 
Union army during- the Civil War. .Mrs. Mc- 
Laughlin, who was also a native of Ohio, died 
December 24, [890, aged 37 years, having - 
been the mother of six children, namely: Ed- 
ward E., who resides at Murphysboro, Illinois; 
Robert B.. a resident of Mount Liberty, Ohio; 
Adda I., who married Wayne Young, of Sul- 
phur, Indian Territory : Ocy < ).. a resident of 
Caldwell. Ohio; Edith Dell, who married Dr. 
Kistler; and Mary E. Dr. and Mrs. Kistler 
are members of the Methodist Church. 




1LLIAM M. BRICKER,* general 
farmer in Kingston Township, re- 
siding on his well-cultivated farm 
of iod acres, was born in Dela- 
ware Comity. Ohio, April 5. [855, 
and is a -on of Christopher C. and Eliza ( El- 
liott 1 Bricker. 

The grandparents of William M. Bricker 
were David and India (Cox) Bricker, natives 
oi Pennsylvania, who came to Licking Coun- 
ty, Ohio, at a very early day. Both parents 
oi Mr. Bricker were born in Licking County, 
and after marriage they drove to Champaign 
County, where they owned a farm and lived 
for a time. This land they subsequently -old 
and came in their wagons to Delaware Coun- 
ty, where Christopher C. Bricker acquired 350 



acres of land situated in Kingston and Berk- 
shire Townships. His death preceded that of 
his wife and when she was left a widow she 
went to live with a daughter, where she died 
in 1880. They were most worthy people and 
were respected and esteemed by those who 
knew them. Four of their children still sur- 
vive. William M. being the youngest of the 
quartet. 

Until he reached his 23d year. William M. 
Bricker resided under the parental roof, as- 
sisting in the management of the home farm 
and attending the local schools during boy- 
hood. In 1S7S he purchased his present farm, 
which bad previously been placed under culti- 
vation. It is excellent land and well adapted 
to a general line of agriculture and to dairy- 
ing. Mrs. Bricker produces very fine butter 
which finds a ready market. 

On April 23. 1895, Mr. Bricker was mar- 
ried to Maryette Johnson, who was born in 
Morrow County. Ohio, February 2, 1S54. and 
is a daughter of Morgan and Eliza (Potter) 
Johnson. Morgan Johnson was born in Vir- 
ginia and died in Ohio, in 1900, aged 76 
years. His widow was born in 1835, in 
Kingston Township, and she resides on her 
farm in that part of Delaware County. Mr. 
Bricker has continued to improve his property 
ever since settling on it. and some years since 
built his comfortable frame house of eight 
rooms. 


















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